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Tokyo Bay Fest (Rehearsals)
Shuichi sat under a big umbrella backstage warming up his vocals, earplugs on. Hiro sat relaxed next to him, just playing along some chords on his acoustic guitar and Suguru was plugged to his laptop arranging the new songs, not paying much attention to his surroundings.
Right behind the stage setup area, there were trailers and a lot of tables and umbrellas outdoors for the bands.
Not far from the Bad Luck boys and straight ahead from Hiro's sight there was another group of musicians. Two guys were leaning against a trailer, cracking jokes and other three members relaxed by a table next to them. One paying attention to the jokers, one was copying Suguru with his laptop, but without the earplugs, and the last one was too playing a guitar with its back to our red head.
Hiro wasn't paying attention to that back specially. He was focused on how the fingers moved and pressed elegantly along the guitar pole, how absorbed the player looked…
"Hey, Shuichi…"He said while snapping his fingers on the singer's face
"Hmm. What's up?"
"Do you know her?" Nakano nodded at the other group with his head
Shuichi blinked, giggled and wiggled his eyes at his friend. "Abstinence getting to ya?"
Hiro had been willingly out of dates (sex) for 3 weeks… and counting
"No…" Hiro's eyebrow twitched in annoyance "Who is she?"
"He" Shuichi observed
"No, not him" Hiro said adverting his eyes from one very feminine joker with long blond hair and a navy blue turtle neck dress to the chair ahead of him. "Her"
"Him" His friend insisted determined, looking smug
The guitarist rolled his eyes, but seeing his friend didn't change his stance he check his sight and to his dismay, realized he was indeed looking at a man. Who, along with the guy in the dress, were looking right back at him.
He snapped his head at Shuichi, as red as him though suppressing a laugh.
"Please tell me I'm dreaming?"
Suguru lifted his head from the screen, eyebrow raised at his recomposing band mates, and beyond them, he met a pair of hard red eyes at first, and then other three bemused pairs.
"Why…" his voice scolding "…are those guys looking funny at us? And why is one of them coming this way?"
Hiro spun fast, Shuichi stretched while releasing his giggle and winked at him
"Guess I'll leave you know…" he provoked, taking off.
Their keyboardist glared, grumbled and slumped before closing his laptop with a shake of his head and leaving the table too, ignoring Nakano´s eyed plea not to.
So there he was, alone, and now sitting next to a guy he had been checking on just minutes ago.
"Hello" the deep purple long haired man offered, slightly snotty, but his bright black and sharp eyes gave a hint of amusement and empathy for the situation
Hiro sighed, gaining a little laugh from his company who leaned into the chair confidently
"Am I that bad?" he joked, raising an eyebrow and opening his arms to show himself.
Nakano looked over, dazed.
Slim, long hair, stylish, and his facial features just as elegant. The tint of violet in his eyes looked as amethysts, making them all the more piercing.
He sighed again laughing inwardly at his own antics. "Guess not…" he managed to pull a little smile and stretched a hand out. "Hello to you too. I'm Hiro"
"I know" the other guitarist smiled kindly "My name is Katashi"
Hiroshi shook his hand and the other guitarist smiled back, wider.
"Smiles suit you too, y´know"
Bad Luck's guitarist stiffed a bit. Katashi caught it and laughed. "Ok" He chuckled "Guess I'll have to be less forward with you then?"
Nakano relaxed, feeling the urge to bang his head against the table (repeatedly and to get a big bump on his forehead if possible) but decided to shake it, sniggering, and rest his arms over it.
"I can't believe I'm seriously flirting with a guy"
Suguru pushed himself against a trailer with a hard "thump" and reached for the cigarettes in his coat.
He pulled one out of the package irritated, lit it, took a slow calming drag out of it, only to smash the cigarette angrily against the trailer and put it out with his foot on the floor.
"What are you spleening over?"
"Spleen?" Suguru snapped to the unfamiliar voice
One of Katashi´s band mates leaned suggestively against the same trailer just a few feet away, the same red eyed guy his eyes were fixed on when he decided to leave his band behind.
Fire red head, half an inch taller than him, he wore a sort of kung fu crossed white shirt open at the neck, with holes on the shoulders.
"I work with a pair of idiots" Grumbled the keyboardist "And, I can't smoke anything to calm down because it'll smell and then it'll be more hell!"
Suguru shifted and side glanced as the guy nodded. "That's what I'm spleening over"
"I won't offer a smoke for relax then…" The x guy stood straight and walked towards Fujisaki
"But since you are resting against one of our trailers" He pointed at the trunk "I have something where smoke won't be a problem" He purred opening the door next to them. "Wanna come in?"
Suguru climbed two steps behind the stranger and into the room
To Fuisaki´s left. the trailer had two black couches for two and three people on each side of a small table and a large white puff in the far corner. To the right a small toilet and a bar/kitchen.
Suguru dropped himself in the larger and closest couch and stared at the dark and light purple walls while the red haired guy headed for the bar. He sneered as his eyes looked at the panther print carpet.
"Who the hll picked up the decoration for this?"
"Probably Emi" The other mumbled while moving bottles and glasses inside a cabinet
"And you are?"
"AHA!" the guy squealed in victory. He got up as he placed a tiny box over the counter grinning and holding two glasses with his other hand. "I'm Atsu. What would you like to drink?"
"Alcohol" Suguru said plainly "as long as you don't get me drunk, I won't appreciate having K on my heels if I do"
"I wouldn't mix alcohol with these" Atsu smirked shaking the little box he had on the counter as Fujisaki shot up and leaned foward expectantly. "How long until it's your turn to sound test?"
"Shuichi was late and we were delayed..." the keyboardist sighed exasperated and raised an eyebrow "An hour or two maybe" He licked his lips "What are those?"
After a confident silence settled and a loopsided grin made its way on his lips, Atsu answered...
I´m an awfully lazy writer and I HAVE let this story behind for too long again... but my ideas are coming back I´ll make my time to udate a tad sooner sigh
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When I try to play warcraft under windows95 in the setup screens before the game ie single player or multiplayer after a few minutes the mouse just freezes and I have to reboot under dos sometimes I get a dos/4gw error such as:
DOS/4GW Professional error (2001): exception 0Eh (page fault) at 268:100DCFFR
ss 270 DS 270 ES 270FS 06S 20
GGDOS/4GW Professional error (2000) : deinitializing twice
DOS/4GW Professional error (2000): deinitializing twice
What's wrong? The game once worked fine on my computer but after I reformatted my harddrive and reinstalled everything including warcraft, these things started happening.
Zepers answer is correct, but I'll be a bit more helpfull with my answer... You need to make sure you have the DOS mouse driver, sound driver, and video driver loaded FROM DOS, as in the config.sys and
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Released on the 7th of September this real time strategy game sets a new bar for any real time strategy game. R.U.S.E. is a game made by Eugen Systems and published by Ubisoft and released for the PC, Playstation 3 and the Xbox 360.
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This Micro Tutorial will teach you how to censor certain areas of your screen. The example in this video will show a little boy's face being blurred.
This will be demonstrated using Adobe Premiere Pro CS6.
This Micro Tutorial hows how you can integrate Mac OSX to a Windows Active Directory Domain. Apple has made it easy to allow users to bind their macs to a windows domain with relative ease.
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Uppsala Reports editor
When refugees' medical information goes missing, patients are less likely to receive the care they need and more likely to be prescribed the wrong treatments. Thankfully, the International Society of Pharmacovigilance Egypt Chapter and the Palestine Red Crescent Society are taking on this problem, to reduce medication errors and improve reporting practices.
The latest episode of Drug Safety Matters is part of the Uppsala Reports Long Reads series – the most topical stories from UMC’s pharmacovigilance magazine, brought to you in audio format. Find the original article here.
After the read, host Federica Santoro speaks to Mohamed Elhawary and Hadir Rostom, who co-authored the article, to learn more about their work and the overall challenge of ensuring medicines safety in vulnerable communities.
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After reading the article, I gained an in-depth knowledge of how culture shock can affect people. Intercultural communication can be challenging whenever one moves to an entirely new place where they experience a language barrier. The article has also helped me considerably understand how cultural shock can affect people emotionally and think and act. Culture shock can easily lead to anxiety and disorientation. The author clearly explains behavioral and cognitive concepts, which refer to behavior confusion and the inability to interpret the new environment. Generally, the article has served a great purpose in explaining how to cope with culture shock and the personality attributes that can help one get along with people in the new environment.
Being a traveler rather than a tourist can reduce cultural awkwardness. The writer explains that, as opposed to tourists who exploit one place, the traveler explores the whole place to know how the people in a specific region live and learn about their culture. The author further indicates that tourists treat culture as a commodity that I believe to be valid to some extent. Nevertheless, tourism promotes the countries’ economies receiving the tourists and the travelers.
Studying abroad causes culture shock, too, according to the writer, especially to students who study abroad independently. The author believes that working in groups will help alienate the awkwardness of cultural differences. Interacting with people who already understand the culture will significantly help one get used to the culture quickly. The University of Washington outlines the factors that cause culture shock as; social roles, language, climate, values, and relationship stress (University of Washington, n.d.). All the elements can contribute to culture shock, but language is the major one.
Finally, the author different ways and tips to manage culture shock, which I find helpful. Accepting that culture shock exists and striving more to learn about the new country helps significantly deal with culture shock. Having friends and also normalizing ambiguity also helps, according to the writer. The writer gives excellent tips, and they can be helpful to people dealing with culture shock.
The article has given me an understanding of how culture shock can affect a person psychologically. It has also given me an idea of efficiently dealing with culture shock and learning how to live in a new environment. The author studies the topic in-depth and provides the reader with a chance to get a clear picture of the subject.
University of Washington. (n.d.). International students and cultural shock. Counseling Center. Web.

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Muppets Most Wanted (2014)
Disney’s “Muppets Most Wanted” takes the entire Muppets gang: A dangerous villain has escaped from prison, and he is very much like important someone. Constantine is the most dangerous frog and he is very similar to Kermit the frog. The villain leverages its resemblance to him and sets fake mole on Kermit’s cheek, thus all people confused him with the thief. Constantine manages to fool everyone including friends from Kermit. It is the perfect plan for his villainy! Now, Kermit is a prisoner and Constantine perfects his techniques as a thief. Someone must bring order to chaos and Interpol must act to discover the truth.
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HE’S the man who gave the world American Pie, but Don McLean says he can’t wait to tuck into a nice pan of scouse.
“I’ve heard about this scouse dish and it sounds just what I’d like,” says Don, 65. “I’ll wash it down with a nice pint of Cains.”
After countless visits to the city over the years, Don says he’s planning to continue his love affair with Liverpool when he plays at the Philharmonic Hall next month.
“I always look forward to playing in Liverpool,” says Don, originally from New York. “I’ve played there a lot of times over the years, from the early 70s onwards. There was a gap in the 90s when I had small children so didn’t go far from home, but I’m back and it’s going to be fantastic.
“Whenever I do a tour it always includes Liverpool. It helps that I’m a gigantic fan of The Beatles and I always have a good time in the city, seeing all the sights.
“The Philharmonic is the perfect place for me. It’s full of lovely acoustics, there’s a rich wooden sound, music reflects well.”
Don’s career spans more than 40 years, but it began almost by chance when he won a folk contest.
He performed as a troubadour on behalf of Pete Seeger’s campaign to clean up the nearby Hudson River by sailing on ships and playing from town to town.
He was inspired to write – penning an album in the midst of the California student riots – but it was turned down by every label, not because of his quality of songs, but because of his insistence on retaining his own publishing rights.
Eventually, his music was picked up. His first album was a minor success, but it was his second that catapulted him to fame.
It spawned two number one hits – American Pie and Vincent (Starry, Starry Night). The album was still in the charts more than two years after its initial release.
“American Pie changed my life,” he admits. “I went from being poor and playing college halls to being a millionaire overnight.”
In the years that followed, his songs were covered by everyone from Fred Astaire to Elvis, Perry Como and Madonna.
He’s played for fellow music legends and for world leaders (he notably wound up the 20th century performing American Pie at the White House) and travelled around the globe.
“I’ve been very lucky,” says Don. “I think someone has been looking out for me along the way. I’ve been around the world, met so many wonderful people.”
But what can we look forward to when he comes to Hope Street?
“You can look forward to everything being different and everything being the same. There are some special things I’m not going to be playing anywhere else.”
Will we hear American Pie and Vincent at the Phil?
“The hits must be played – that’s the rules,” he chuckles. “American Pie is what I call an ‘end of the day’ song. I always hear it at the end of the day on the radio. I guess I am an ‘end of the day’ type of singer.
“That song and Vincent are special. They play Vincent at the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam and it’s also in a time capsule there – isn’t that something?
“They are some of the best things I ever wrote. It would be pretty disappointing to have to play your worst songs night after night. But thankfully, I get to enjoy singing the hits every single time.”
Don McLean plays the Philharmonic Hall on June 23. Tickets £27.50, £33.50, £38.50 from 0151-709 3789 and www.liverpoolphil.com

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CHICAGO (CBS) — Chicago teachers are making it clear they want to start the school year on time but not on campus.
The Chicago Teachers Union wants to start with remote learning and as much “heads up” as Chicago Public Schools can spare as time so teachers can prepare to make working remotely work smoothly.READ MORE: Chicago Police Officer Shot, Wounded In Calumet Heights; One Suspect Also Shot
The health and education balancing act has never been trickier.
“I don’t think that our kids should go back yet,” said CPS parent Jasmine Williams. “I feel like we should wait a little bit.”
Williams has five children. Remote learning will make the fall trickier at home, but healthier in the long run, she says.
“Quite frankly we can’t take our kids’ lives at risk to do try trial and error,” said Myrna Salgado Roman, who works at Namaste Charter School.
COVID-19 protocols for summer school, when four out of five seats sit empty, threw a massive wrench in the daily routine.
“It takes us 30 minutes to an hour to screen our kids in the morning,” she said. “And we’re not medical professionals. We’re educators.”
“Betsy Devos and Donald Trump calling any shot in July of 2020 and people listen to them, they need to have their heads checked,” said Stacy Davis Gates with CTU.READ MORE: Chicago Weather: Partly Cloudy And Breezy Overnight
The teachers union Thursday touched on the risks for students and the options for teachers.
“No one can require our members to report to work in person to work if CPS fails to provide them a safe work environment,” said CTU member Robert Bloch.
Joseph Williams said ultimately his values will outweigh that of district leadership.
“I would not send my children back even if they said they can go back,” said the CPS father.
Playground runs may replace gym class in the fall. But right now teachers eager to lesson plan say an early decision from bosses will prevent those hiccups felt last spring.
“We were not set up for success with remote learning. When you set teachers up for success and when you give them a chance to plan in advance they will make it happen and they will make it successful,” said Salgado Roman.
One teacher told CTU leaders they find it hard to believe in-school learning is even on the table. In her words if one child dies because of COVID-19 caught at school, that will be something the CPS will never shake.MORE NEWS: View Live Radar
CPS told CTU they should expect to have some fall guidance this week.

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Since this writer has been away for the past two weeks, several events have struck the cord in Israel’s world affairs. First, and foremost, the much anticipated speech delivered by Barack Hussein Obama, the President of the U.S. to the Islamic world. In parallel to his recent greeting of the King of Saudi Arabia with a full bow in April, 2009, he again duplicated this bow through placating words to extremist Islamists of the world by offering a display of absurd apologies. In his clearly anti-Israel discourse, Barak Hussein Obama put the onus of the Middle East conflict on Israel’s unabated building of settlements in Judea and Samaria, discounting the road map which justly demands that the Palestinian authority disband terrorism on its turf and eliminate incitement and hatred of the Jewish state, something they have never bothered doing. Although proclaiming himself a Christian, he confessed his father’s and ancestors’ Islamic roots and his Islamic education in Indonesia. Under Islamic law, Barack Hussein Obama should be well aware that if his father is of Islamic faith, he is automatically of this very faith. It was obvious for all to see and hear in his speech in Cairo, where his mind and soul stand for, especially vis-à-vis the fate of Israel. In addition, by proclaiming that the U.S. will never be at war with the Islamic world, he, in essence, gave free reigns to extreme Islamists to continue their theocratic annihilistic warfare against the West.
The other significant news pertains to the speech delivered by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in response to Barack Hussein Obama’s Cairo rhetoric. To somehow soothe U.S. pressure on Israel, this Prime Minister, although politely allowing the notion of a Palestinian State, albeit demilitarized, stood firm on the settlement issue by not “obeying” U.S.’s directive to stop building for natural growth. Another important and overdue clarification to Obama’s false assertion that Israel’s existence was merely due to Holocaust guilt, in fact ignoring the indisputable Israel’s historic roots going back over 3,000 years, Prime Minister Netanyahu asserted to the world that Israel preceded any other religion in the Land of Israel by recalling the ancient kingdoms of David and Salomon and its undeniable legitimacy as the State of the Jewish people.
It is clear that this President Obama is bent on carving an Islamic Palestinian state in the heart of Israel in order to placate the Islamic world, wrongly surmising that it will bring peace. President Hussein Obama should fare well by rather concentrating on the poor state of the U.S. economy, the turmoil taking place in Afghanistan, the nuclear intentions of N. Korea and Iran, and the famine in the world rather than demanding that Israel stop building extra bathrooms or bedrooms to accommodate for natural growth. However, we hope that this new Netanyahu administration will be wise enough to dismiss the U.S.’s pressure and look to its own interest as a sovereign nation in order to safeguard the safety of its citizens rather than serve as a U.S. vassal and a sacrificial lamb to the world.

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Underwater Radio Communication
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In subsea applications, there is a growing demand for high-speed wireless communication links for transmitting data between different equipment. Radio communication is constrained by the high attenuation in seawater. Only a very short range is achievable, even at low frequencies. In this thesis an independent, battery-driven radio frequency transmitter is developed and tested to investigate the properties of, and prove the concept of underwater radio communication. The transmitter is made on the basis of a cNODE Research Midi system from Kongsberg Maritime. A software-defined radio receiver is used to measure and store the received signal for post-processing. BPSK modulated data is transmitted through seawater with a 5 MHz carrier with several data rates from 237 bps to 46.598 kbps. Two tests with approximately 50 m and 11 m depths in Trondheimsfjorden have been conducted. Maximum range was measured to be close to 5 m at 9 m depth with 1 W (+30 dBm) output power. Although, this is believed to be in an area where there might be a lot of freshwater mixed in the seawater, which would in theory improve the range compared to for pure seawater. Data from the software-defined radio has been successfully demodulated with a custom made MATLAB program for all data rates, hence proven the underwater radio communication concept.


Angel Colon and Luis Javier Ruiz survived the 2016 mass shooting at the gay nightclub Pulse in Orlando, Florida, where 49 patrons died. Now the two men, who no longer identify as gay, are organizing a “Freedom March” that encourages attendees to embrace Jesus and overcome their homosexuality and transgender identity.
The rally is scheduled for Sept. 14 at Orlando’s Lake Eloa Park, just a five-minute drive from where the shell of the former nightclub still stands.
Colon, 29, and Ruiz, 36, were among the 53 people injured after what was at the time the deadliest mass shooting in the United States. Colon, a dancer, was shot six times and was unable to walk for two months. Ruiz, an Army veteran, was trampled upon while trying to exit the club and sustained multiple injuries.
Nearly two years ago, the pair founded Fearless Identity Inc., an organization that seeks to “bring hope” and “biblical understanding to those seeking to change,” Ruiz told NBC News.
Colon, who posed on the cover of LGBTQ magazine The Advocate for its 2016 People of the Year issue, said the mission of Fearless Identity has been misunderstood. While neither he nor Ruiz still identify as gay, he said the organization’s goal is not to change people’s sexual orientation and gender identity against their will.
“We’re trying to equip churches, even if they’re not gay-affirming churches, with the resources they need and teach them not to judge the LGBTQ community,” Colon explained. “We’re trying to share our stories through ministry and share the testimonies of people who’ve come out of the homosexual lifestyle.”
Despite the men’s insistence otherwise, not everyone views the Freedom March as an opportunity to unite the church and LGBTQ people, with some from Orlando’s lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer community expressing outrage that a city still in mourning would be the site of such an event.
Christopher Cuevas, the executive director of QLatinx, an Orlando-based Latino LGBTQ advocacy group, called the march an “attempt to wash the community in a thicket of hate and bigotry.”
“While we honor the freedom for expressions of faith, and hold the beauty of religiosity in our community, we cannot condone the gross misuse of religious text and faith to exploit LGBTQ+ people or support conversion therapy,” Cuevas wrote in an email. “The expressions of our queer and transgender identities are the embodiment of divinity and grace, because we are living our most radical truth by celebrating and centering our LGBTQ+ identity.”
Both Ruiz and Colon grew up in religious communities and dealt with the church’s suggestion to “pray the gay away.” Ruiz, however, stressed that neither he nor Colon support so-called conversion therapy, a contentious practice of trying to change a person’s sexual orientation or gender identity that has been condemned by nearly every major health association.
“We are not all all advocates for conversion therapy or shock therapy,” Ruiz said. “We stand with the gay community, and our main message is about falling in love with Jesus, but if an LGBTQ person wanted to talk to a pastor or counselor, that’s a whole different story.”
Colon and Ruiz said the Pulse massacre inspired them to turn back to religion and denounce their former sexual identities. Now, the two men identify as “children of God” versus straight or gay.
“My life was all over the place, and I never blamed it on being gay. I was a drug addict, an alcoholic,” Colon said. “I missed worshiping God, so when Pulse happened, I took the situation as a big turning point in my life.”
Next month’s event will be the second Freedom March the two men have organized. Their inaugural march was held last May in Washington. While the event “seeks to bring hope of deliverance to the LGBTQ community and point them toward Christ,” per its mission statement, Colon and Ruiz said they believe in accepting people as they are.
“People have the option to change, to choose their own path and their own journey,” Ruiz said. “If there’s a drag queen doing a storytelling hour at a school, we’re not going to say, ‘Kick the drag queen out.’ We’re going to say, ‘Let’s also read the Bible to these kids.’”
“We come in love,” Ruiz added. “I’m so thankful that I get to live and that I’m breathing now.”


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The state Opposition is set to introduce a raft of amendments that would take more power from the hands of Independent Commissioner Against Corruption Bruce Lander, including a thorough parliamentary audit of the Act governing his office’s operations by mid-next year.
Amending the ICAC Act to allow public hearings for maladministration cases – at the discretion of the Commissioner – was a Liberal election pledge, but the legislation has proved problematic.
A first draft of the Bill was stymied when Labor refused to back it unless it went before parliament’s Crime and Public Integrity Policy Committee for review. That review saw the Bill redrafted and reintroduced to parliament late last year, with new safeguards for people under investigation, including the right to appeal the process to the Supreme Court.
But Lander has savaged the new Bill, telling Attorney-General Vickie Chapman in correspondence made public last November that the proposed amendments “give rise to a number of practical difficulties such that if the Commissioner were to order a public inquiry there would be a real risk that both the effectiveness of the investigation will be compromised and that the investigation would be beset by substantial delays”.
In such circumstances, he wrote, “it would be expected that the Commissioner would rarely commit to holding a public inquiry”.
“If the Bill was to pass in its present form the proposed power to conduct an investigation by way of a public inquiry… will, in practical terms, be largely devoid of utility and largely if not completely symbolic,” he wrote.
But Labor is poised to further water down the original Bill with a host of new amendments, designed to apply “many of the same provisions that apply to a trial” to the public hearings.
The proposed legislation states that “if allegations of potential misconduct or maladministration in public administration are made against a person and an investigation is to be conducted under this Act in relation to the matter” then that person “is entitled to refuse to participate in the investigation”.
It’s part of a suite of changes designed to ensure “procedural fairness and rules of evidence apply to hearings”, which also include giving the subjects of inquiries the right to call or cross-examine witnesses and make submissions.
They must also be formally informed if allegations of misconduct or maladministration have been made against them prior to appearing before the inquiry.
Shadow Attorney-General Kyam Maher told InDaily Labor “supports the Bill that’s before parliament to allow open hearings of ICAC in certain circumstances” – despite Labor rejecting such a move in government.
“We support that principle,” he says now.
“When you’re in Opposition you have time to reflect – there are a number of things we’ve looked at and decided to do differently [and] this is one area where we understand what the general consensus is and we’re not opposed to open hearings.”
However, he said, “we want to make sure there’s fairness to people” called before such hearings.
“This is the second bill [the Marshall Government] has introduced after recommendations from the Crime and Public Integrity Policy Committee – it’s an improvement, but there were other things that the committee recommended and submissions from the Law Society, the Bar Association and others… that we think are worth putting into this Bill.”
Maher said a public hearing “is a lot like a public trial”.
“Over centuries things have been put in place to ensure people [on trial] are treated fairly… what we’re trying to do is look at those sorts of processes and procedures that apply to open court processes at a trial, and have some of them in this legislation,” he said.
“We want the same sort of protection that’s afforded to anyone now who appears in a court case… anyone being investigated or anyone on trial in a court hearing can elect not to take the stand.”
The amendments would also trigger a fresh review by the committee of the amended ICAC Act, including its impact on “the functions, operations and effectiveness of state law enforcement and integrity agencies”.
The inquiry must report by July next year.
Maher said he had “no specific concerns” about the Act’s effectiveness, but noted the committee had heard “evidence about interactions with other integrity agencies”.
“If the legislation passes, we think it’s a good idea to have a look at how it’s operating [and] to have a look more generally at how the Act is working,” he said.
“I wouldn’t want to foreshadow what the committee might do [but] we want to make sure this Act – and how it interacts with other agencies – is operating as well as it possibly can.”
The proposed changes are unlikely to win the support of Lander, who has already detailed his views on the recommendations of the committee, although he noted in his correspondence to Chapman that the matters relating to procedural fairness would have “no substantive effect on the operation of the Bill”.
The ICAC ended the year mired in controversy, with Magistrate David McLeod considering whether to throw out a corruption case against a former Department of Transport bureaucrat, Michael William King, after Lander used a parliamentary hearing and a subsequent radio interview to question the court’s decision to rule warrants he had issued directly invalid.
In late December, McLeod declined to grant an application for a permanent stay of proceedings, however he noted in his ruling: “It is unfortunate and indeed regrettable that the comments were made on each occasion in a way and in circumstances where it became possible to adversely interpret them.”
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Besides, being born in lahore pakistan, she is greatly inspired by urdu and punjabi language and her art reveals it. Bapsi sidhwa is an internationally acclaimed author residing in houston, texas. The following entry presents an overview of sidhwas career through 2000. Bapsi sidhwa was born in 1938 in karachi into an eminent family. The partition forced all nonmuslim people to migrate to other cities or to convert to.
Born in karachi, pakistan and raised in lahore, bapsi sidhwa has been lauded as pakistans finest englishlanguage novelist. A novel water by bapsi sidhwa by krishna patel on prezi. Pdf a critical analysis of bapsi sidhwa s major works. She has written five novels ice candy man, the pakistani bride, the crow eaters, an american brat, and water which have been translated and published in several languages. Critics have mostly focused on the oppression of women in cracking india and other partition literature. A feministic reading of bapsi sidhwas the pakistani bride imran ahmad lecturer in english directorate of school education kashmir india one of the most striking features of the contemporary literature in english from the indian subcontinent has been the sprouting of feminist fiction feminist in the sense. Pdf the pakistani bride by bapsi sidhwawomen as beasts of. I am choosy about the films i watch and only very few times have i been c ompletely enthralled by a film. Bio internationally acclaimed bapsi sidhwa is an award winning pakistani novelist striving above all to bring womens issues of the indian subcontinent into public discussion. Sidwa now lives in houston, texas, united states she is best known for her novels, the crow eaters 1978, the bride 1982, cracking india 1991, an american brat 1993 and water. Raised in lahore, pakistan, she now lives in houston, texas. Dec 03, 2011 water by bapsi sidhwa 4 editions first published in 2006 download daisy.
She graduated from kinnaird college for women, lahore. A novel water by bapsi sidhwa themes inequality between men and women. The renowned author bapsi sidhwa and the equally renowned filmmaker deepa. Sidhwas previous novels have told other stories set in the subcontinent from the crow eaters set in the early 1900 in the days of the raj british rule in india to the partition of india and pakistan in 1947 with cracking india also titled the ice candy man. The present study intended to investigate the portrayal of politics and ideologies in her novels, which led to partition and its portrayal in them. Unlike india, from which pakistan was carved, the country had no established literary tradition in english. Water is a novel by author bapsi sidhwa that was published in 2006 plot summary.
Then in 988 came cracking india, which won critical success for combining comedy with historical drama. In particular i refer to the partition of india as it is narrated in bapsi sidhwa s novel. Water by bapsi sidhwa 4 editions first published in 2006 download daisy. This thesis examines deepa mehtas trilogywater, earth, fireand the. Bapsi sidhwas novel icecandy man deals with the partition of india and its aftermaths.
Our book group learned so much from reading cracking india that we invited the author bapsi sidhwa to discuss it with us. Mehtas film, water, was later published by sidhwa as the 2006 novel, water. Migratory experiences in bapsi sidhwas novels an american. Bapsi sidhwa is pakistans leading diasporic writer. Pdf the novel icecandyman by bapsi sidhwa is remarkable for giving voice to the. Sidhwa s novels have been critiqued by a number of critics, from different angles, but still there is a scope and place for a fresh reading of her novels. Pakistan is the location of sidhwas first three novels, and in each there is a strong sense of place and community which she uses to examine the postcolonial pakistani identity. Representing the partition of india from bapsi sidhwa to. Bapsi sidhwa is an internationally acclaimed author. She has produced four novels in english that reflect her personal experience of the indian subcontinents partition, abuse against women, immigration to the us, and membership in the parsizoroastrian community.
Karachi, pakistan often called pakistans leading englishlanguage novelist, sidwa moved to the united states in 1983. Water is set in 1938, when india was still under the colonial rule of the british, and when the marriage of children to older men was commonplace. When bapsi sidhwa set her 1983 debut novel the pakistani bride here, she could have never foreseen the region would come into prominence twenty years lateras a suspected hideout for al qaeda militants. Bapsi sidhwa sihdwuh invented englishlanguage fiction in pakistan. She was born in lahore, pakistan, in the prepartition area, and has many vivid memories of the troubled period before, during, and after the partitionmemories that often served as inspiration for her novels. Mehta adapted sidhwas novel cracking india for her brilliant film earth, and here, sidhwa adapts mehtas controversial film water to the printed page. Her novels, which include the crow eaters 1983, the bride 1983 and icecandyman 1989 released as cracking india in the u. Pdf hyphenated perspectives on the cracking of india.
Bapsi sidhwas novel is written in english, and although she wrote the screenplay in english as well, mehta decided to make the film in hindi titled earth. About the author important characters would i recommend it. Abstract this thesis sets out to do close readings of the pakistani author bapsi sidhwas novels the pakistani bride and cracking india. The bride, crow eaters, an american brat, and cracking india icecandyman, which was a new york times notable book, nominated by the american library association as notable book, and won the liberature prize in germany in. She has edited the anthology city of sin and splendour.
Oct 12, 2014 water by bapsi sidhwa is a poignant and often times very funny book about a child widow in 1930s british india. Situated on the pakistanafghanistan border, the mountainous region of kohistan is one of the most remote outposts of the world. Water by bapsi sidhwa is a poignant and often times very funny book about a child widow in 1930s british india. Young lenny sethi is kept out of school because she suffers from polio. Oct, 2008 situated on the pakistanafghanistan border, the mountainous region of kohistan is one of the most remote outposts of the world. What starts out as a peaceful loving community in lahore falls completely apart when great britain pulls out of india. Bapsi sidhwa, a parsee, pakistani female writer has also portrayed the partition in her novels. Sidhwa wrote both the 1991 novel ice candy man which served as the. Travel and rootedness which cruise endlessly on the fluidity of conditions.
When bapsi sidhwa set her 1983 debut novel the pakistani bride here, she could have never foreseen the region would come into prominence twenty years lateras a suspected hideout for al qaeda militants qasim is a kohistani tribal who loves the hills of his homeland. Set in 1938, against the backdrop of gandhis rise to power, water follows the life of eightyearold chuyia, abandoned. Kleist, argues that the female characters in sidhwas text are outwardly disempowered religious, economic, and social life could all be classified as male domains, with men serving as both the principal authorities and agents of changebut she asserts that these women are also, in. Bapsi sidhwa 1938 also rendered as bapsy sidhwa pakistaniborn american novelist. This is thefirst novel by a woman novelist from pakistan in which she describes about the fate of people in lahore. Following hindu tradition, when a man died, his widow would be forced to spend the rest of her life in a widows ashram, an institution for widows to make amends for. But for zaitoon, giving up the civilized city life she remembers to become the bride of this hard, inscrutable husband proves traumatic to the point where she decides to run away, though she knows that by the tribal code the punishment for such an act is death. Bapsi sidhwa has written a great historical fiction book. The object of the thesis is to explore the characteristics of borders and analyse how. Cosmopolitan partnerships in bapsi sidhwas water article pdf available november 2011 with 1,494 reads how we measure reads. She is best known for her collaborative work with indocanadian filmmaker deepa mehta.
An analysis of feminism in bapsi sidhwas the pakistani bride. Feroza desires to be an immigrant and refuses to return to pakistan after living four years in. Amudha during the period 2009 20 of her research in the department of english, at. Bapsi sidhwa simple english wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Phallocentric ideologies in bapsi sidhwas the pakistani. Also, when i read a book, i dont wish to see it as a film no matter how much i enjoy it in fact, a lot of times, when a book ive loved is adapted into a film, i end up not watching it at. In tradition men are given more importance and the life is considered more valuable than a womans life. Also, how widows are not allowed to remarry but, widowers are. The pakistani bride by bapsi sidhwawomen as beasts of burden and instruments for enjoyment article pdf available march 2016 with 10,825 reads how we measure reads. Most of the characters in earth are working class people and the thought of them speaking english in 1947 felt ludicrous, though some relevant scenes remain in english. Bapsi sidhwa, the pakistaniparsipunjabi novelist presently settled in houston. Her parents peshotan and tehmina bhandara belonged to the parsee community which she has described with such warmth and humour in her novels the crow eaters, london, jonathan cape, 1980 ice candy man london, william heinemann, 1988. The novel opens with the verse of iqbal from his poem complaint to god, with this, the childnarratorlenny is introduced.
Set in 1938, against the backdrop of gandhis rise to power, water follows the life of eightyearold chuyia. It sheds light on the ways in which the image of the female body is used in the two novels and in what ways this image represents the novels feminist message. Sidhwas previous novels have told other stories set in the subcontinent from the crow eaters set in the early 1900 in the days of the raj british rule in india to the partition. Bapsi sidhwa, water, struggle to establish identity, transformation of the native.
Bapsi sidhwas cracking india is a novel set in the context of the partition of india in 1947, specifically in lahore, a city of punjab that suffered many riots and violence among muslims, hindus, and sikhs, and that finally became part of pakistan. The focus of my paper is a historical moment looked at from more than a single perspective. She was born in 1938 in karachi, pakistan then part of india, but her family migrated shortly thereafter to lahore. Bapsi sidhwa ebooks epub and pdf format bapsi sidhwa ebooks. Borders and boundaries in the novels of bapsi sidhwa. Water is a novel by author bapsi sidhwa that was published in 2006. In her touching and sometimes hilarious novels pakistanborn houstonian bapsi sidhwa has chronicled indias history from the days of the raj. The renowned author bapsi sidhwa and the equally renowned filmmaker deepa mehta share a unique artistic relationship. Bapsi sidhwa ebooks epub and pdf downloads ebookmall. Postcolonial perspectives in bapsi sidhwas water key words.
Bapsi sidhwas the ice candy man and the crow eaters deal with ethnicity and. Phallocentric ideologies in bapsi sidhwa s the pakistani bride and water 280 independence aroused controversy among writers due to its being centered heavily on the negative events related to the indiapakistan partition. With the publication of her third novel, icecandyman or cracking india, bapsi sidhwa established herself as pakistans leading englishlanguage novelist. In fact, it is the merging together of these contentious. Bapsi sidhwa s water is based on realistic portrayal of womens position specifically the widows plight in subcontinent in 1930s.
The association of women with the private domain reinforces the merging of the. Bapsi sidhwa is an award winning pakistani novelist striving above all to bring womens issues of the indian subcontinent into public discussion. Cracking india, the pakistani bride, the crow eaters, an american brat, and. Following hindu tradition, when a man died, his widow would be forced to spend the rest of her life in a widows. An american brat and icecandyman 254 american brat sidhwas an american brat deals with the metamorphosis of an expatriate. Internationally acclaimed author bapsi sidhwa has has taught at columbia u. Growing up, she was tutored at home in english and read british literature which encouraged her to become a write kalyani chuyia narayan short summary follower of ghandhi madhumai this. The study, borders and boundaries in the novels of bapsi sidhwa, attempts to analyze the various borders and boundaries traversed by people, elucidating struggle and the strategies adopted for survival amidst odds and discriminations.1259 108 668 1086 1155 725 165 497 1319 297 1515 1146 875 1421 1055 724 267 1431 1557 877 1017 653 397 766 1246 297 1255 50 1198 1043 1112 501 1015 821


STANFORD, Calif. -- Six Stanford players have been invited to U.S. youth national team camps, from Dec. 14-21 in Sunrise, Fla.
Both squads include 24 players. However, the U-20 roster will be whittled to 20 after camp and that group will represent the U.S. at the CONCACAF U-20 championship tournament Jan. 9-19 in George Town, Cayman Islands.
The U-20 and U-23 camps run concurrently and the sides will scrimmage each other throughout the week.
All six players started for Stanford's team that finished 15-6-1 and advanced to the third round of the NCAA tournament before losing to eventual national champion UCLA, 2-0. Stanford returns nine starters next year, including all six U.S. representatives.
Bauer and Verloo were named to the NSCAA All-Pacific Region first team, and they joined Ubogagu in receiving All-Pac-12 recognition.


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Here are the six cute little critters we have spent so much time with in our studio. This is a quick shot of them taken on the table saw, without studio lighting. 'Glamor shots' of them were done yesterday at our photographers studio. We get those files back today!!! Here you'll see one set with braces and one without.
Currently working on the sea creatures and feeling like that managerie will be the most popular. When we began ArtfulSmiles in Jan 2005, our first trade show was for pediatric dentists in Orlando. It was there we learned that the offices of these toothy professionals were very much designed to themes and fish were a major request! When we realized we could add braces to our designs and take them further, we attended an orthdontic convention in Las Vegas two years ago. Again, aquatic requests!
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Well, the moments with Captain Ginyu were some of my favorite in all of DBZ. Y'know, body-switching shenanigans? I dabble with that in some of my RPG ideas...
It is a great idea, if you can pull it off. Switching bodies should alter the game-world in some way, enable you to accomplish different things. If it's just changing the actor graphic, then it's pointless. That's my opinion anyway.
@Probotector 200X: We seriously need a like button!
@Cain E Wulfric: Mmm, it's an idea for my new project I'm planning. It's story related mind you >:3
Hmmm...that reminds me, have you ever played Chrono Cross? I'd go into detail, but it's spoilery for sure!
Chances for something to go wrong..99%! Just imagine waking up in the wrong body!
A similar mechanic was used in an old game named Omikron the Nomad Soul. When you died, you took over a new body. If you can pull it off it can be very fun, and very interesting.
I originally got the thought from a combination of Phantasy Star Portable 2 and Silicon Valley on the N64 (A fun and great game, I still play it now :3)~
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Contractor files complaint in HC against State govt
SHILLONG: A contractor has filed a case in the High Court of Meghalaya against the State government after a complaint was lodged against him by West Garo Hills Deputy Commissioner Pravin Bakshi on the direction of Chief Minister Mukul Sangma in connection with a road construction project in NH 51 on the Tura-Dalu stretch.
Though the issue dates back to 2014, the contractor filed the case only in February this year.
According to the petitioner Tinker R. Marak, a first class contractor, the action of the deputy commissioner was following his complaint lodged with the Director General (R&D), Ministry of Road Transport and Highways regarding his unhappiness over the nature of allotment of contract work under PWD (Road) division.
Marak said though he had quoted the lowest rate, he was not allotted the work by the government prompting him to lodge a complaint with the concerned Union ministry which took action against the State government.
However, the Engineer PWD (Road) wing was upset over the contractor writing to the Centre regarding the road project.
The lawyer dealing with the case on behalf of the contractor said that according to the petitioner, the direction given by the chief minister to the deputy commissioner on filing FIR with the SP was to victimize him for registering a complaint to the concerned Union ministry regarding the allotment of work.
The FIR lodged by the deputy commissioner with the West Garo Hills SP said that the chief minister directed him to take stern action against the contractor engaged in work allotted on NH 51 from Tura to Dalu stretch for which sub substandard and poor construction material has been found lying on the side of the road, “which is reflective of the intent of the contractor to cheat the government authorities and construct a road which shall be of poor quality, hazardous to commuters and prone to natural disasters”.
Following this criminal case, he was black listed and some bills were withheld.
However, according to the petitioner, no other contractor who was entrusted with the work was implicated and filing of the criminal case against him was only meant to harass him.
He also pointed out the irony that the same rejected stones which were considered substandard by the government are being used by the contractor selected by the government to carry out the work.
It was after the petitioner was black listed that he decided to file a petition in the High Court, challenging the order of the department.
The case came up for hearing in March, but the government was given four week’s time to file reply. The next date for hearing is on May 11.


“Any 5.56 round” is “a challenge for officer safety,” he said. Jones asked lawmakers to help in a review of a 1986 bill written to protect police from so-called “cop killer” rounds that largely exempted rifle ammo like the 5.56 because it has been used by target shooters, not criminals.
New worries. Oh Boy.
Preaching to the choir of course, as none of them read this site certainly – but a ban on M855/5.56, becomes precedent to ban any center-fire carteridge. Bet on it. Bet the farm on it. That is what is going to come if they rule-make in this fashion.
So, what to do. Well, I donno. You can comment – see other links for that and certainly do. You can write your representatives – but with rare exception, they do little. Both options, in this fight, are what must be done nonetheless. But what else. Again, I don’t know.
I do know doing something is better than doing nothing. That, is why I say if you have any accessibility to your local political fixtures, senators, representatives, commissioners, mayors, and on and on: start a discussion. They are interested. They will listen to you. Well, at least here in the panhandle of Florida.
Engage with your representatives.


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East African carrier, Kenya Airways has suspended its domestic flight operations to comply with President Uhuru Kenyatta directive in order curb the spread of the coronavirus pandemic in the country.
Kenya Airways, according to a tweeted statement, halted domestic flights between Nairobi Jomo Kenyatta and Mombasa, and Nairobi and Kisumu, from 1200L (0900Z) on March 29, 2021. International flights remained unaffected, but passengers were required to present negative COVID-19 tests.
President Kenyatta on March 26 announced travel restrictions by road, rail, and air in and out of the capital and four surrounding counties – Kajiado, Machakos, Kiambu, and Nakuru – to slow surging COVID-19 infections. The Kenya Civil Aviation Authority on March 27 announced all domestic flights would be suspended from noon on March 29.
Jambojet, in a statement, confirmed it had suspended operations from Nairobi to Mombasa, Kisumu, Eldoret, Malindi, and Diani at noon on March 29 until further notice. It advised passengers that their flights would be rescheduled to a later date at no extra cost.
Low-fare airline Fly540 which also operates domestically out of Jomo Kenyatta, made no announcement. Chief Executive Officer Don Smith did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Safarilink Aviation which also operates out of Wilson, in a statement said it was able to continue domestic flights for international tourists, but all international arrivals would have to adhere to strict COVID-19 protocols including having to present a COVID-19 certificate acquired no more than 96 hours prior to arrival in Kenya. The airline said it would honour all existing bookings by international tourists and welcomed any new bookings.
Kenya’s COVID-19 infections jumped from 2% to 22% between January and March, with Nairobi accounting for nearly 60% of all cases. Hospital admissions increased by 52% in the past two weeks with seven deaths recorded daily.
Other new measures include a longer nightly curfew, an alcohol ban, the suspension of face-to-face teaching after schools only reopened in January after having been closed for 10 months, and a ban on sporting events.

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AFTER a nun visited her school to give a talk to pupils, founder of The Hope Foundation, Maureen Forrest, knew that she would never be a nun — yet she wasn’t to know or ever imagine that she would go on to reach 2.8 million people through her work as a volunteer with GOAL and then as founder of The Hope Foundation.
“I was inspired by the talk that the nun gave us,” recalls Maureen, from Deerpark, Mogeely, east Cork.
How did it all begin?
“I was a fundraiser for GOAL for many years,” says Maureen, neé Browne.
“I fundraised for my sister, Ber, who is a nurse, who volunteered with the organisation. This was the first time, in the early ’80s, when famine was brought into our sitting rooms on television.
“In 1999 I set up The Hope Foundation because I wanted to focus on all my work with the street kids of Calcutta.”
Maureen, a farmer’s wife, continued her dream of making a difference. She had a vision. And she had a mission.
“A world where it should never hurt to be a child,” she says. “That’s the heart of all our work.”
The mission of The Hope Foundation is clear.
“Restoring childhoods to children and sustainability to individuals and communities; our mission is to improve the quality of life for the most marginalised people, primarily in India,” says Maureen.
“Ensuring their basic rights and enhancing their dignity of life through protection, health, education and economic development in a sustainable life cycle approach. HOPE achieves this mission through fundraising activities and initiatives.”
The Hope Foundation has partnered with children, families, civil society organisations, consortium or networks, fighting for the rights of children for the last 20 years.
“I had an idea in my head of funding a protection home for 25 street children and I thought, if I could do that well, I will be happy,” she explained.
But 20 years later, HOPE has almost 500 staff working in India and a wide range of projects helping street and slum children, not just to survive, but to have a sustainable future — ensuring through education that they were breaking the cycle of poverty for generations to come.
“I have been lucky with people’s generosity and blessed by the staff I have working with me in India and here in Ireland,” says Maureen.
“Our sustainability programmes and protection homes and hospital are run by fully qualified Indian people, teachers, doctors, nurses, social workers.
“Everyone is very passionate, dedicated and committed. It is important to have a purpose in life. We can do anything if we work together and really try.”
Because Maureen was always going to spread her wings, she moved to London, working in a bank before joining Aer Lingus as ground staff in Shannon Airport. She didn’t venture far from home to meet her husband of almost 50 years, Dick Forrest. He sadly passed away in March last year.
“Dick unexpectedly passed away, which was very difficult for our family, we miss Dick every day. His loss leaves a huge void in my life,” says Maureen.
“When I travelled regularly to Calcutta, he missed me, being at home alone, but he always supported my work with HOPE. He knew how worthwhile it was and I will always be grateful to him for his understanding and love.”
Maureen’s humanitarian journey goes back a long way. Living in rural East Cork, raising three children, Louise, Robin and Ricky, her interest in Global Development continued. John O’Shea, then GOAL Director, asked her to go to Somalia, and she left the safety of the homestead and went to the war-torn region for six weeks.
“I worked in the refugee camps there,” says Maureen. “It was a horrendous place to be. You were dealing with gunfire every minute of the day.”
She took her life in her hands on a daily basis.
“Our camp was shot at and I remember lying on the ground thinking, I don’t want to die here.”
Maureen, not a lady to rest on her laurels, went on to work in the emergency relief camps in Goma after the genocide in Rwanda in late 1994.
“It was absolute horror,” she says. “With 350,000 people and cholera in the camps. I was there for five weeks.
“When I came home, talking to other volunteers helped my rehabilitation after witnessing the horror. Talking in schools, telling the stories, brought more awareness to people about the horrendous results of war and the need for emergency relief.”
Visiting refugee camps in Swaziland also had a profound effect on Maureen, who now knew where her purpose was headed.
“In development work, you can see a child progress,” says Maureen.
Over the years, Calcutta was always on her mind.
“I greatly admired the work of Mother Teresa”.
Then, in the early 1990s, Maureen first visited Calcutta and wasn’t prepared for the abject poverty that she encountered there.
“I was horrified by the scale of poverty there and the obvious injustice all around. Nothing could prepare you if you’ve never lived in that situation,” says Maureen.
“Many of the slum dwellers were displaced by partition and the creation of Bangladesh. The issues there were horrific; the trafficking of children, child labour, child marriage and thousands of missing children. No child in the world should have to suffer like this.”
Maureen had found her purpose in life.
“I first decided to go to Calcutta for six weeks to volunteer with GOAL, who funded local partner organisations, like the Child in Need Institute.”
Maureen met an Indian lady with the same purpose, supporting the rights of children to be healthy, educated, protected and valued by their own family and society. Her name was Geeta, she too supported children to access these rights, helping them build their skills and knowledge as they grow so that they can break the cycle of poverty.
“Geeta, now a life-long friend, joined HOPE and today she is the Indian Director of HOPE in Kolkata,” says Maureen.
“Together, we set up many projects, creches in slums, involving the mothers in the education process.
“My daughter, Louise and I, spent a lot of time in Calcutta with Geeta, starting up the organisation and tackling the enormous legalities involved.”
Maureen spends an average of four months every year in Calcutta, working with Geeta and the staff, pursuing a mission close to everyone’s hearts.
“My neighbours would always ask ‘Are you off out foreign again?’ The initial goal was to run a home for 25 children and raise 25,000 pounds a year to run it. It snowballed into the massive charity it is today, taking in over €2 million a year.
“Getting the organisation built up took a lot of planning; in the beginning it was just in my head,” says Maureen.
“Good, qualified, people got on board, maintaining standards over the years. I am helped hugely by my sister, Jenny Browne, who is Overseas Director and who spends most of each year in Kolkata.”
Jenny, like many others, was inspired by Maureen to help make a difference to thousands of lives.
“Jenny is a Mercy nun who taught Home Economics in Waterford. Now she has a different job! Her qualification in Social Science also informs the work she does with HOPE.”
HOPE has changed the lives of tens of thousands of children in Kolkata; in créches, coaching centres, training units, clinics and hospitals.
“Education is the only way to achieve long term success,” says Maureen.
And her dream to see a child develop and progress is now a reality every day, but there are still so many people needing help. The work continues and the needs are still great.
“To see the journey of a child, especially the older ones now, who have a future to look forward to, is just wonderful and a testament to all the amazing people in Ireland who have donated to HOPE over the years,” says Maureen.
Is she going to hang up her boots and clip the wings that took her so far from her home in East Cork?
“I was thinking of retiring at 70, but I feel young at heart, happy and privileged to continue with this great work for another few years!” says Maureen.
Her successor will have to be someone special.
“There are many, many special people who work with HOPE,” says Maureen. “To continue this wonderful work and to honour the promise made to protect the children in HOPE’s care who have no one else, they still desperately need your support.
“Without your support we could not have achieved all we have and we cannot continue. We found the children abandoned, hungry, without any hope. There are still so many children living in dire circumstances, their childhoods denied.”
If you would like to support Maureen’s work and HOPE please call the office in Cork 021 4292990 or visit www.hopefoundation.ie
HOPE’S MAJOR ACHIEVEMENTS
2.7 million individuals across Kolkata now have access to healthcare services through HOPE interventions in 35 slum communities, including over 97,000 who have been treated in HOPE Hospital.
More than 55,000 children have received educational support through HOPE’s crèches, Nabo Asha centres, educational sponsorship and our Holistic Education Programme.
More than 8,800 children have been protected from abuse and neglect by HOPE’s Protection Homes, Child Watch and Anti-Trafficking Programmes.
More than 7,200 young women and men have engaged in HOPE’s vocational training skills enhancement and income generation programmes to provide sustainable pathways out of poverty.
The Hope Foundation Limited. Head Office, Silverdale Grove Ballinlough, Cork.
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Combine the tomato, avocado, coriander, onion, lime juice, Tabasco sauce and a pinch of salt in a medium bowl. Cover and refrigerate while you prepare the crab cakes.
Combine the bread and milk in a medium bowl. Add the crab and mayonnaise, stirring to combine. Shape into 8 cakes and dredge in the breadcrumbs.
Preheat the oven to 200°C. Heat the oil in a large nonstick frying pan over moderate heat. Fry the crab cakes for 2 minutes on each side or until golden brown. Transfer to a baking tray and bake for 5 minutes or until heated through. Serve the cakes with the relish.

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Ok, I'm posting a new chapter but I have to explain something first. When I wrote chapters 7-9 back in October or November, I had really bad writer's block, so these next ones might not be so good (though I've tried to fix the mistakes) but I promise
it will get more exciting later on, and will have more of a plot by chapters 11-12, so please bear with me. ^^;
The Path of Destiny
Chapter 7- Another "Little" Adventure
A light breeze drifted over the grassy plains toward the group as they emerged from the last of the forest’s fringes of trees and onto the sweet-smelling grass of a large field in the early morning. Flowers were everywhere, and there were tall cliffs, though not as tall as the ones Snowcrystal was used to, close by near the forest they had just traveled through. Flowers dotted the sides of these cliffs, giving them a tranquil and calming look. The place seemed so peaceful, Snowcrystal could almost believe they were safe. But they had plenty to worry about. Out of their group of five, four were injured. None of them had had adequate food in the past few days. Spark and Snowcrystal had eaten some berries, but that was all, and Rosie and Stormblade had only had a few rawst berries. That, and who knew if there could be danger lurking hidden in this seemingly peaceful place?
Despite all this, Snowcrystal felt like she could relax here, and so she and the others decided to rest. Snowcrystal lay down among a small bed of wildflowers, while Spark did likewise, his paw still causing him pain. Rosie, however, obviously wasn’t all that weary, as she was constantly running around, tearing up flowers and plant stems as she bolted through the tall grass, happy to be away from the forest. Knowing that the vulpix was having fun, Snowcrystal didn’t bother her. It would probably take her mind off the fire stone incident anyway.
Thunder wasn’t very concerned with taking a rest either. She was busy exploring the area around them, not paying any heed to the others. Stormblade had practically collapsed the moment Snowcrystal and Spark had announced that they’d be stopping.
After a while, Rosie became bored with running through the grass and flowers, and urged the rest of the group to move on.
Snowcrystal decided that it would be better to travel by the high cliffs that towered overhead, which would provide shade once it got hotter. They had just reached the foot of the cliffs, when Snowcrystal spotted a group of strange pokémon ahead. They were odd-shaped yellow bee-like pokémon that looked somewhat like honeycomb. “What are they?” Snowcrystal asked, watching a large group flying towards a large field of wildflowers some ways ahead.
“Oh, those are combee,” Spark replied, not sounding very interested. Obviously he had seen them before on his travels.
“Did you and Stormblade pass this way when you came to the forest?” Snowcrystal asked.
Spark shook his head. “No, we entered the forest by a different way. We’ve never been here before. But I’ve seen combee in other places…when I still had a trainer.”
Rosie suddenly gave a loud shriek as one of the combee flew by, interrupting Spark and Snowcrystal’s conversation. “A BUG!” the vulpix cried, running over to Stormblade and clinging to his leg. Stormblade gave her a weird look. “What?” she growled, glaring back at him, “I don’t like bugs…they’re scary…” She looked at the combee again and shuddered.
Stormblade just stared.
“Bugs aren’t scary, Rosie,” Snowcrystal said cheerfully, “Look, the combee aren’t even bothering us. Just leave them alone and they’ll leave you alone.” As Snowcrystal was talking, Stormblade looked past her to see Thunder charging toward a combee who had apparently got too close to her, swiping at it with both her scythes. The combee managed to get away as Thunder’s chain snagged on a bush, causing her to fall over.
“Leave the combee alone…” Stormblade called to her, “They won’t bother you and they aren’t good for prey either.”
Rosie stepped away from Stormblade, sticking her tongue out at another combee as it passed. “I’m…I’m not afraid of you anymore!” she called after it, trying to sound brave.
“Wow…” mused Spark, “These things are everywhere…hey look!” He leaped up and pointed with his paw to a large crevice in the side of a nearby cliff. A few combee were coming in and out of the opening. “Those combee must have a hive up there,” Spark told Snowcrystal, “And hive means honey. Are you thinking what I’m thinking?”
Snowcrystal looked blank. “Uh…what?”
Spark sighed impatiently. “Don’t tell me you don’t know what honey is…well, you won’t know how good it is until you taste it!”
“You mean there’s food in that cave up there?” Snowcrystal whispered, “Do you think they’d give us some?” She glanced toward the large groups of combee flying over the fields.
“No, they won’t,” Spark told her simply, “But they have plenty of food and I’m starving, let’s go!” He started to run toward the rocky side of the cliff, leaving Snowcrystal still looking confused.
Stormblade suddenly stamped down on the jolteon’s spiky tail, preventing him from running any further. “Stop! Don’t you think the combee will be angry if you steal from their hive?” he growled.
Spark turned his head toward the scyther and smirked. Suddenly the hairs of his pelt stuck up straight with a twanging noise, turning into sharp needle-like spines. Stormblade jumped back with a cry of pain, allowing Spark to stand up. Roaring with laughter, the electric pokémon raced off in the direction of the hive.
Snowcrystal sighed. “I guess we better follow him,” she told the others, “And maybe…maybe if we just get a little of this…honey and leave it’ll be all right. I’m sure those combee won’t mind. Besides, we’re all hungry, right?”
Stormblade looked up from where he was sitting against a small tree. Having no paws or claws on his forearms, he was forced to try and pull the spines out of his leg with his teeth. He spat a few out, muttering, “Fine! You go in there…as for me, I’m staying out here…”
“Okay, then you can starve!” Spark called back from where he was still running up ahead.
Snowcrystal sighed. “All right then, stay here Stormblade. The rest of us will go…” Rosie nodded and Thunder merely shrugged, and the two of them followed Snowcrystal as she ran after the jolteon. “Hey, wait up Spark!”
The others caught up with Spark as he reached the foot of the cliff, directly below the cave. Snowcrystal glanced upward, still slightly feeling as if this was a bad idea. However, seeing how peaceful the combee were, there didn’t seem to be much danger, and she was beginning to think this would be for the best. After all, they would need their strength for the journey, and this seemed to be the only place to find food in the area, as they probably wouldn’t have the strength to hunt for a while. Snowcrystal sighed, not knowing if she’d ever be able to hunt in these kinds of places when her white coat was so easy to spot.
Spark was grinning as he outlined his plan to the others. “Ok, we need to someone to distract the combee flying toward the entrance. Then the rest of us will climb up those rocks on the less steep side and reach the cave. We meet up, go through the cave and find the hive, get some honey and then leave…simple!”
“Isn’t that stealing?” Rosie asked with a glance at Spark.
“It’s not stealing, Rosie, it’s survival!” Spark muttered, “We have to find food somewhere.”
“Oh…” Rosie replied, “Yep, it’s stealing. Sounds fun!” She gave Spark a mischievous grin.
“Okay,” Spark whispered, leaning closer to the others, “Let’s get started. Thunder, you’ll create the distraction…”
Blazefang was having a strange feeling again. As the pack trekked through the dark forest, the houndour leader somehow felt that something was amiss. But as to what that was, he had no clue. His pack was constantly on the alert, following the trail of the growlithe and her companions. They had not run into danger since Wildflame had fought the stantler.
But Blazefang felt tired. His stone amulet almost seemed to weigh him down. He could not shake off the feeling that something was somehow…wrong.
Blazefang nearly jumped out of his fur when Wildflame suddenly appeared beside him. “What’s up?” the houndoom questioned, “You look like you’re worried about something. Is anyone following us?
“No…” Blazefang replied hastily, “I jus’…I jus’ don’t like this place…that’s all. Let’s keep moving so we can get out of here. The growlithe was here recently…”
After a while of trekking through the woods, Blazefang had become so paranoid that he told the pack to take a short break. Walking away from them, Blazefang sought a place where he could be alone with his thoughts. Finally finding a nice area away from the other houndour, Blazefang sat down and tried to think. Not knowing why, he found his mind drifting back to the incident in the wasteland near the forest, when the ghost pokémon attacked. It had been strange…the way they had chased them after Blazefang had retrieved the stone. Had there been a reason that they’d been guarding it?
Almost without realizing it, Blazefang lifted a single claw to the center of the stone. Suddenly a blinding jolt of what felt like electricity surged through the houndour’s body. He tried to scream, but found to his horror that he couldn’t make a sound. Just before he lost consciousness, he heard what sounded like a voice inside his own head echo around his mind…
Spark, being careful of his injured paw, slowly hoisted himself up on the ledge in front of the cave’s entrance. He then helped Snowcrystal and Rosie in turn as they too clambered up on the rock ledge. Thunder was already waiting for them, having scared off quite a few of the combee. The scyther watched the others slowly enter the cave before turning and following them. “I can hardly see anything…” whispered Snowcrystal, “Wait…” Using ember, she blew a small flame into the air, illuminating the area around them. Struggling to keep the flame lit up, she led the way through the rocky tunnel.
Luckily, she didn’t have to keep it up for long, as they soon emerged into a large cavern, with massive glowing crystals embedded in the walls, giving off plenty of light. Snowcrystal was reminded fondly of her own home, only these crystals were a pale blue, not red, and some of them were far larger than any she had ever seen.
Rosie and Spark were also glancing around in silent awe, but Thunder only seemed mildly curious, giving the cavern a brief glance all around before starting to walk through it toward the other side. Snowcrystal followed her, gazing at the immense columns of stone that reached from the ceiling to the stone floor, and all the strange and unusual formations of rock that surrounded her in every direction.
“Wow…” Spark whispered, awed, as he walked up to a group of thin stalactites that reached almost down to the floor, “These spiky things are everywhere! Look at those big ones way up there…I bet they could fall and cut you in half!”
“That’s lovely, Spark,” Snowcrystal muttered, “Let’s find the hive before the combee know we’re in here.”
“Aw…it could be in any one of these tunnels,” Rosie whispered, glancing around, “How are we gonna find it?”
“Why did these combee have to build their hive in a cave?” Spark muttered irritably.
“So it would be protected, hard to locate, so other pokémon won’t steal their honey…
” Snowcrystal added with a glance at Spark and Rosie.
“Well, let’s just look around…” Spark suggested, “If we can’t find it, we’ll go back…” He padded up to the base of an immense limestone column. The water that had been trickling down the rock pillar for thousands of years had created smooth and intricate patterns in the natural stone. “You have to admit though, this is a pretty cool cave…much prettier than those ones my trainer and I had to travel through. I always hated those caves. Full of geodudes…zubats…If I ever have to fight one again…”
“Spark, look!” Snowcrystal whispered, looking ahead. Spark stopped talking and followed Snowcrystal’s gaze. Through a tunnel slightly to their right and above a few odd-looking stalagmites on a rock ledge, the growlithe was sure she had seen the flicker of wings. “I think I saw one of the combee in there,” she whispered.
The four pokémon crept toward the tunnel, climbing carefully onto the ledge. The chain around Thunder’s arm caught on a small stalagmite, causing her to stumble. Turning around angrily, Thunder swiped her blade at the stalagmite, breaking the tiny stone formation easily. Turning away from it with a growl, Thunder caught up with the rest of the group.
Snowcrystal edged her way around some thick stone stalagmites before climbing onto the ledge and peering into the tunnel. Rosie found that she couldn’t make the climb and had to be lifted up by Spark.
As they walked through the tunnel that got darker and darker as they progressed, Snowcrystal’s sharp hearing picked up the sound of many pokémon, combee. Excited, she and the others raced forward to find themselves standing on a ledge looking over a cavern even bigger than the one they had just left.
Like the other cavern, this one was lit by luminous crystals, though these looked golden. Down below and up above, combee flew everywhere, some in large groups and others by themselves, all headed to and away from what looked like a massive golden cave formation. To Snowcrystal’s shock, there seemed to be what looked like pools of golden liquid on rock ledges all around the combee’s massive structure. The goldish stuff looked to be flowing into the pools from ledges higher up. “What is that?” Snowcrystal asked Spark as she covered her stone amulet with her paws, trying to keep to the shadows where the crystals’ glow wouldn’t reach. She did not want to be noticed by the combee flying through the cavern.
“That must be part of the combees’ honey storage,” Spark answered her. Several combee were fluttering to the pools, but Snowcrystal noticed a small honey pool in a different tunnel that seemed to be ignored, and out of sight of most of the combee. She nodded toward it and the four pokémon carefully crept down the ledge toward it, careful to stay hidden against the wall where it was darkest, away from the crystals. Snowcrystal knew one thing for sure-she didn’t want to be caught in that large cavern, however peaceful and harmless the combee seemed…
Blazefang slowly felt his senses returning. He opened his eyes slowly, looking around. How long had he been unconscious? He thought for a moment. If it had been a long time, the pack would have come looking for him and found him. No, he’d probably only passed out for a few minutes. He stood up, surprised to find that not only did he no longer feel weak, but he felt stronger…the sort of strong he felt when he won a friendly battle with one of his fellow houndour, or when he learned a new attack.
Then he remembered…the jolting pain he had felt when he had touched the center of the purple stone. Carefully he reached out a paw and touched it again. Nothing happened, and he felt no different. Suddenly he recalled the word he’d heard just before he’d passed out…Shadowflare
. “Shadowflare…” Blazefang mused aloud, “What the heck is a Shadowflare?” Then a thought struck him-what if this stone had given him a new power or attack? He’d heard of human-made devices that could teach pokémon attacks, and he began to wonder if this stone, whatever it really was, might be the same sort of thing.
He felt stronger now, very much as if he had
learned a new attack or ability. That, and he could practically sense that some strange power now lie within him, a power that hadn’t been there before. Oddly enough, he didn’t feel afraid. He felt…pleased. Smirking, he stood up and headed back to the others. Whatever this ‘Shadowflare’ was, he’d find out soon enough, but for now he’d keep this a secret from the rest of the pack.
“This is what a combee hive looks like?” Rosie asked as Snowcrystal led the way through a tunnel.
“Yeah,” Spark told her, “These combee decided to live in this cave, and it looks like they store most of their honey in that cavern back there. Luckily for us there weren’t that many around.”
“Yeah…” Snowcrystal agreed, “I don’t like the thought of them attacking us…I’ll just be glad when we get out of here.”
“Well most of them are outside,” Rosie whispered, “But you’re right…I don’t want to be too close to those combee…they’re creepy…”
“Beedrill are worse,” Spark whispered back, “Just be glad these are combee. Hey look!” He ran forward, to the pool of honey Snowcrystal had spotted before.
“This is honey?” Snowcrystal asked Spark uncertainly, not liking the look of the golden liquid.
“Yep!” Spark answered, walking over to the honey pool and softly licking at its shiny surface.
Snowcrystal glanced at Rosie, unsure if she really wanted to taste the honey. She had to admit, it didn’t look very appetizing, but once Rosie started to lick some from the pool as well, Snowcrystal gave in. To her surprise, the honey was sweet-tasting, and she found that she liked it. Spark seemed to like it a lot, as he was happily licking away at the honey, his muzzle covered in the sticky substance. At seeing how much Spark seemed to enjoy it, Rosie made a snide comment about him being part heracross.
Thunder seemed to be thinking the same thing as Snowcrystal had been before. The scyther carefully smelled the honey but did not try any. “Come on,” Rosie cried, noticing Thunder’s reluctance, “It tastes good
!” Thunder decided to try some after that, but although she didn’t dislike it, she didn’t seem to really like it all that much either.
Snowcrystal looked up when she heard the flutter of wings. “I think some of the combee are coming this way…” she whispered, “Let’s go.” Spark nodded and he and the others dashed around the stored honey and into a smaller tunnel…
…Unaware of the combee workers who had just seen Rosie’s fluffy tails vanish into the gloom of the passage…
To be continued...
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