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According to the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA), the number of domestic air passengers in August this year was 28.32 lakh. It has been 76 percent less than in August 2019. Civil aviation sector regulator DGCA said on Wednesday that IndiGo passengers with a market share of 59.4 per cent were 16.82 lakh, while SpiceJet with 13.8 per cent share flew 3.91 lakh passengers.
After this, the number of passengers of Air India, AirAsia India, Vistaar and GoAir were 2.78 lakh, 1.92 lakh, 1.42 lakh and 1.33 lakh respectively. Last month, DGCA released data on domestic air travel of 21.07 lakh passengers in July. DGCA said on Wednesday that the rate of filling of seats for five of the six major airlines in August was 58 to 69 percent. At the same time, the rate of filling of seats of SpiceJet was 76 percent.
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DGCA said, "After the lockdown opens in August, the rate of filling of seats by airlines has improved." Similarly, the rate of filling of seats of Vistaar, IndiGo, AirAsia India, GoAir and Air India was 68.3 percent, respectively. 65.6 percent, 64.4 percent, 61 percent and 58.6 percent.
IndiGo outperformed in August when it took time to fly at major airports like Bangalore, Delhi, Hyderabad and Mumbai. 98.5 percent of the company's flights operated on schedule. At the same time, AirAsia India and Vistaar were second and third respectively in this case by operating 97.6 percent and 95.9 percent flights on time.
The lockdown was done from March 24 to prevent the spread of Kovid-19 in the country. Due to this, there was a ban on the operation of domestic and international flights in the country. Domestic flights were resumed from May 25 after nearly two months. At the same time, international flights are also operating under special agreements and Vanda Bharat Mission.
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(This news has not been edited by the NewsBust team. It is published directly from the Syndicate feed.)

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Shaheen Bagh, the predominantly Muslim southeast Delhi neighbourhood, captured public imagination last winter after it emerged as the focal point of the nationwide protests against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA).
The protests, which lasted between December 15 and March 24, were at the centre of the political discourse in the capital as it went to Assembly polls. The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) swept the elections, roaring back to power with a majority of 62 in the 70-member House.
While the BJP ran a sharply polarising campaign, casting aspersions on the motives of the Shaheen Bagh protesters, the AAP studiously refrained from entering the debate, and instead remained focussed on its record of governance of the previous five years. Its silence was widely criticised as being opportunistic and acquiescent of communal Hindutva politics.
But the party sprang a surprise this week by unexpectedly wading into the debate, alleging that Shaheen Bagh was a BJP “brainchild” that was “scripted” by its top leadership for electoral benefits — an accusation that immediately drew sharp reactions from across the political spectrum. But it was the BJP that had made the first move.
After having fallen off the news cycle as the pandemic swept in, why is Shaheen Bagh back in discussions?
The BJP’s Delhi unit started it. On Monday, it announced that a sizable number of Muslims, including “over 50 from Shaheen Bagh”, were joining the party. The BJP’s Delhi unit chief Adesh Gupta publicly welcomed the group, which included one Shahzad Ali, who was described by the party as a “Shaheen Bagh activist”.
And what happened after that?
On Tuesday, the chief spokesperson of the AAP, Saurabh Bharadwaj, called a press conference, during which he asserted that the fact that “key organisers” of the Shaheen Bagh protests had joined the BJP was clear evidence that the protests were also engineered at the party’s behest.
A day later, he repeated the accusation, adding that the BJP had vitiated the minds of the Muslims at Shaheen Bagh, while Hindus were incited elsewhere, eventually leading to the North-East Delhi communal riots.
But were those who joined the BJP indeed the “key organisers” of the Shaheen Bagh protests?
There is no evidence to establish that claim. The road blockade, started by a group of women and activists on December 15, 2019, was essentially a response to the police action inside the campus of Jamia Millia Islamia university. Many women who were part of the initial group were mothers whose sons or daughters were at the receiving end of the police assault.
Then, as news of the blockade spread, local Muslim residents, activists, students, and prominent civil society faces joined in, and it took the shape of a movement against the proposed National Register of Citizens (NRC) and the CAA.
While the protests were amorphous, without a clear hierarchy of leaders at the top, hundreds of volunteers actively arranged logistics and kept the wheels moving.
Those who joined the BJP were not among the prominent volunteers, let alone being the “key organisers”, of the protest, several among those who had coordinated the sit-in, told The Indian Express.
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So is there any basis to the AAP claim that the Shaheen Bagh protests helped the BJP?
There is no doubt that the BJP centred its Assembly poll campaign around Shaheen Bagh. From the Prime Minister to the Home Minister, Shaheen Bagh found a mention in speeches made by the party’s top leadership in the run-up to the polls. The protests were projected as a “threat” to the city’s, as well as the country’s, integrity.
When the results came in, the BJP won only eight, just five more than in 2015. However, a booth-level analysis of the results showed that the party had won at 35.1 per cent of polling booths, up from 23.2 per cent in 2015.
However, this rise cannot be attributed to any one factor. The AAP, in fact, won the Okhla seat, under which Shaheen Bagh falls, by a handsome margin of 70,000 votes. But the party believes that it lost as many as five seats in North-East Delhi and East Delhi purely due to the polarisation created by the “bogey” of Shaheen Bagh.
But was this how the AAP viewed the Shaheen Bagh protest from the beginning?
The party is convinced that Shaheen Bagh created a sharp polarisation which affected the results of the polls, a cross-section of leaders with whom The Indian Express spoke, indicated.
“During campaigning, we were meeting people from all walks of life. We saw people falling for the BJP narrative that a new Shaheen Bagh could come up at their doorstep. People who never travelled between Noida and Delhi were claiming they were troubled by the inconvenience caused to lakhs of commuters. They were saying, ‘today it is Shaheen Bagh, tomorrow it will be G.K. or Saket?’ For them the city was plunging into lawlessness,” a senior AAP leader said.
Another AAP leader said that a feeling that was gaining ground among the public was that “one community” was disrupting law and order.
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Did the AAP reach out to the Shaheen Bagh protesters?
No. The AAP stayed away from the protest throughout.
In an interview ahead of the February 8 voting, Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal told The Indian Express, “Why do you want to send me to Shaheen Bagh? A few days ago, I saw a few TV reporters there. Everyone there had one thing to say, that Amit Shah come here and talk to us. They (protesters) are more smart. Journalists ask me why I didn’t go. I have no role there. Even they (protesters) know whose role it is.”
However, the party voted against the CAA in Parliament, and also opposed the proposals of the NRC and National Population Register (NPR). But it based its stand on the economic dimensions of the proposals.
Party insiders, however, claim that they did initiate backchannel talks with a section of the Shaheen Bagh protest organisers after “it became clear that the protests were benefiting the BJP”.
“The city’s political atmosphere was highly polarised… People who were connected to us spoke to a section of them. But they were adamant, despite the fact that it was helping the BJP. The way police were allowing the protest was also a clear indication,” an AAP leader said.
A week before the polls, the AAP’s Rajya Sabha MP Sanjay Singh had publicly appealed to the organisers to explore the possibility of temporarily withdrawing the protests.
OK, but what does AAP gain by raising the issue now?
Since there are no elections in the near future, the party is not looking at any immediate gains. However, it does want to resist falling into the trap of being seen as “appeasing” minorities. “Our opponents have attacked us over Tahir Hussain… They say we don’t give money to Hindu priests but rather to imams,” said a leader, underlining that these issues needed to be addressed.
Tahir Hussain is a suspended AAP councillor who has been chargesheeted in the murder of Intelligence Bureau staffer Ankit Sharma during the North-East Delhi riots of February this year. A Delhi court took cognizance of the chargesheet this week, and observed that Hussain had “provoked and instigated his community against the other community with a view to promote enmity between Hindus and Muslims”.
But does this not run the risk of alienating the AAP’s Muslim voters?
According to one party leader, the AAP believes that Muslims, who comprise around 12% of Delhi’s population and impact around 14-15 Assembly seats, will stand by it as long as it remains the principal challenger to the BJP in the city.
“Muslims supported the Congress in the Lok Sabha polls but as a result BJP gained. They backed us wholeheartedly in the Assembly polls, as is evident from our wins in seats such as Okhla, Seelampur, and Mustafabad. And they know why we are saying what we are saying. Some say, those who joined the BJP were not key organisers. But then why did the BJP claim that they were? If the BJP committed a tactical mistake, let them suffer the consequences,” the leader said.

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Psychopharmacology and Mental Health
Observing biomarkers is a new type of diagnostic procedure that can be a very useful tool for healthcare practitioners. As noted above, biomarkers are very complex—since there is not just one abnormality that contributes to severe mental illness, but a combination of various abnormalities. Interestingly, certain electrophysiological biomarkers can show the failure of connectivity among neurons and abnormal neuronal processing (Nenadic, 2015), and are found by using a quantitative electroencephalography (qEEG), or a brain map, which is a precise tool in locating brain dysregulation. Biomarkers commonly found in schizophrenics are characterized by frontal lobe deficits, or hyperfrontality. A qEEG processes recorded EEG activity from a multi-electrode recording using a computer with specialized software. Finally, many types of brain imaging techniques can be used to view these abnormalities in brain activity. These can be detected using a functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) (Nenadic, 2015). An fMRI uses a fast chain of MRI images to monitor blood flow in the brain detecting areas of activity.
Another brain imaging technique is called Single Photon Emission Computed Tomography (SPECT imaging), and is a procedure widely used to study brain issues. It uses a radioactive substance and a special camera to look at 3D images of the brain and measure cerebral blood flow. A common functional abnormality found in a patient who exhibits signs of psychosis is less of an increase in blood flow to the prefrontal cortex (PFC) while performing cognitive tasks that require executive functioning (Nenadic, 2015). Functional imaging data of schizophrenics suggests that there is decreased activation in the PFC when trying to preform cognitive tasks. Another biomarker for individuals who have been diagnosed with schizophrenia is abnormal eye movements. This abnormality is known as smooth-pursuit eye movements and is known as a biomarker of hypofrontality (Meyer, 2019). In individuals with schizophrenia, their eyes tend to dart and then attempt to readjust when tracking an object. This shows that there are obvious deficits in controlling eye movements. Furthermore, this finding suggests that there must be some dysregulation in the frontal eye fields (FEFs), which are located in the PFC (Meyer, 2019).
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The Healthy People initiative — a national effort that sets goals and objectives to improve the health and wellbeing of those in the United States — defines social determinants of health (SDOH) as follows: "SDOH are the conditions in the environments where people are born, live, learn, work, play, worship, and age that affect a wide range of health, functioning, and quality-of-life outcomes and risks." One area we see SDOH impacting in a significant way is medication adherence. Healthcare organizations looking to improve their patients' medication adherence must consider the potential effects of SDOH and take steps to help reduce or eliminate barriers that contribute to nonadherence.
Let's look at five ways social determinants of health can negatively affect medication adherence.
1. Economic instability forces difficult decisions
Patients can't adhere to a medication regimen without their medications. Unfortunately, millions of Americans do not fill their prescriptions due to costs. A recent study from Gallup and West Health revealed that an estimated 2.3 million seniors and 15.5 million adults — or about 7% of all Americans — were unable to pay for at least one doctor-prescribed medication in their household.
Other alarming results from the survey:
- 10% of participants reported skipping dosages in the prior 12 months as a way of saving medicine and money.
- Among respondents in households earning less than $48,000 annually, 18% report that they or someone in their household had skipped a pill.
- Among respondents with three or more chronic conditions, or eight or more prescriptions, reports of being unable to pay for a prescribed drug in the household reach 11% and 18%, respectively.
As we noted in our medication adherence guide, "With higher costs in medication becoming all too common, some patients are faced with the difficult choice of paying their bills or paying for medications. This often results in patients choosing not to pick up medications or rationing what they do have, thus not taking the medication as prescribed."
It's not surprising that food insecurity is also associated with medication nonadherence. After all, when individuals are forced to choose between paying for food and paying for medications, the former is likely to almost always win out.
2. Housing insecurity introduces a slew of challenges
Uncertainty about housing affects medication adherence in many ways. Cost, as we just discussed, is one of the most significant. As Harvard University's "State of the Nation’s Housing 2020 report" notes, the COVID-19 pandemic came as the United States was already facing crisis-level housing affordability issues. In 2019, more than 37 million households were "housing cost burdened," spending 30% or more of their income on housing. Meanwhile, 1 in 7 households were "severely cost burdened," spending half or more of their income on housing.
Furthermore, cost burdens were greatest among lower-income households. For those households earning less than $30,000, 81% of renters and 64% of homeowners were cost burdened. As the United Way notes, "Paying for shelter should always be the first priority, so you continue to have a roof over your head."
Now let's consider what happens to medication management and adherence when someone is forced to move. This can disrupt:
- a patient's medication regimen routine;
- where the patient is receiving healthcare services and prescriptions;
- who is assisting with medication management;
- where the patient is filling and refilling prescriptions;
- whether the patient can get where they need to in order to fill and refill prescriptions; and
- delivery of medications.
These issues and others can contribute to prescriptions not being filled and refilled, changes to a regimen, lost or misplaced drugs, and more problems that can contribute to medication nonadherence.
3. Lack of transportation is a highly effective medication adherence deterrent
A patient's ability to get where they need to so they can meet with a prescriber and/or fill and refill prescriptions can directly affect medication adherence. In fact, transportation is an SDOH that we identified as one of the challenges with medication adherence in this blog post. In the piece, we noted, "Many lower income, elderly, and disabled patients do not own a car and may not have easy access to bus or subway transportation either. This isn’t limited to rural patients; many urban residents live in non-serviceable areas, or their mobility issues limit them from taking certain forms of public transport. And the cost of a taxi is usually not in their budget."
An analysis of literature on the prevalence of transportation barriers to healthcare access, published in the Journal of Community Health, found the following:
- One study showed that following hospital discharge, patients reporting difficulty visiting the pharmacy had lower prescription fill rates than those not reporting difficulty (20% vs. 55% respectively). Additionally, 65% of patients felt transportation assistance would improve medication use after discharge.
- Another study examining the causes for diabetic ketoacidosis admissions at Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta found that about two-thirds of admissions were related to stopping insulin and half of those patients cited either lack of money for insulin or for transportation to get their medicine.
- An online survey study of the relationship between transportation barriers and anti-epileptic use found that 45% of respondents who could not drive said they would miss fewer doses of their medications if transportation was not a problem.
- A cohort study of nearly 47,000 Medicaid patients found that restriction of Medicaid payments for transportation resulted in decreased medication refills.
Fortunately, transportation is not as significant of a contributor to medication adherence shortcomings as it used to be since patients can now turn to a variety of helpful options. These include patient transportation services like Ride Health, prescription delivery services, free shipping by pharmacies, and the increasing availability of 90-day prescriptions that helps reduce the number of trips.
4. Job insecurity brings health insurance challenges
As Fortune reported, research by Alexander Bick of Arizona State University and Adam Blandin of Virginia Commonwealth University revealed that among workers who had a job in February 2020, almost 37% were no longer with their employer a year later. Almost 26% had a different employer, and the remaining 11% were out of a job.
Job insecurity affects the issues we've already highlighted: economic, food, transportation, and housing stability. It also affects health insurance coverage. Job changes involve changes or loss in job-based insurance and job losses mean eventual loss of such insurance. While those who lose jobs still have options for securing coverage (e.g., buying a plan through the Health Insurance Marketplace, signing up for COBRA), this can be a time-consuming process and one that may lead to increased costs, lapses in coverage, reductions or other changes in coverage, and patient concern about how insurance changes will affect coverage and costs.
All these factors can lead to a decrease in the usage of healthcare services, including those that lead to and support the prescribing, filling, and proper usage of medications. As a study published in the American Journal of Public Health notes, "Job loss was significantly associated with the increased risk of unmet healthcare needs," and McKesson reports that uninsured people are nearly three times as likely to not take their medication as prescribed as a way to help reduce costs.
5. Literacy skills can make medication adherence even more of an uphill battle
Health literacy, as defined by the Health Resources & Services Administration (HRAS), is the "degree to which individuals have the capacity to obtain, process, and understand basic health information needed to make appropriate health decisions." Low health literacy, HRSA notes, is more prevalent among older adults, minority populations, those who have low socioeconomic status, and medically underserved people.
Low health literacy has also been shown to negatively affect medication adherence. In fact, HRSA includes "understanding directions on medicine" as one of the instances when patients with low health literacy may have difficulty. The CDC has a page dedicated to medications as a health literacy topic, which states, "Evidence suggests that health literacy plays a significant role in determining how well patients interpret medication labels and take nonprescription and prescription drugs safely and appropriately."
A column in the Journal of Health Communication discusses the role of health literacy as a contributor to the concept of "unintentional medication nonadherence." The authors note that a greater appreciation for the complexity of demands placed on patients by the healthcare system has helped shift the focus from viewing the root cause of nonadherence problems being the patient and their lack of desire or interest in maintaining adherence to the quality and navigability of health systems and the way health information is provided to patients.
Social Determinants of Health: A Substantial Contributor to Medication Nonadherence
The five ways that we highlight in this piece are far from the only ways that social determinants of health are directly or indirectly leading to medication adherence challenges and shortfalls. Consider access to nutritious foods, which is an SDOH noted on the Healthy People website. Poor access can raise the risk of health conditions and chronic diseases. These can lead to patients needing to take more medications, and we know taking more medications creates more adherence challenges.
Even something like polluted air, another Healthy People SDOH example, can contribute to medication adherence struggles. Research shows that air pollution can worsen asthma symptoms. If someone experiences or worries about experiencing worsening symptoms when they leave their home to fill a prescription or pick up a refill, they may choose to postpone their trip. Such a delay can lead to a patient starting a prescription later than intended or causing a lapse in medication therapy.
The key takeaway: Social determinants of health can have profound effects on medication adherence. Organizations working to improve adherence for their patient population must engage in discussions with patients around SDOH and work to identify the issues most likely to create obstacles to successful adherence. Organizations must also be prepared to provide support, guidance, and resources to help their patients overcome these barriers to adherence. For assistance with such efforts, consider downloading our white paper, "Medication Management Challenges and Opportunities for Payers and Providers."

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May 1, 2015, 9 a.m. by Catie Leary
Living in a big city certainly has its charms, but light pollution isn't one of them!
April 30, 2015, 5:20 p.m. by Matt Hickman
Deadlier than Glen Close with a kitchen knife, light's 'fatal attraction' kills millions of birds each year.
January 28, 2015, 9 a.m. by Catie Leary
Photographer's exploration of the beauty of man-made illumination around the world reflects humankind's dominance over the planet.
June 20, 2014, 9:16 a.m. by Russell McLendon
Michigan photographer Vincent Brady offers a stirring time-lapse tribute to the unpolluted night sky — all 360 degrees of it.
April 23, 2013, 7:50 a.m. by Miriam Kramer, Space.com
Thierry Cohen's artwork reveals the cosmic wonders hidden beneath the light pollution that masks the world's biggest cities.
February 20, 2013, 5 p.m. by Andrea Thompson, OurAmazingPlanet
The park is far enough away from light-polluted cities that its views of the night sky offer a glimpse of what could be seen before such cities were erected.
December 1, 2011, 11:53 a.m. by SPACE.com
The community seeks to raise awareness of other negative effects of light pollution, including energy, health and ecological concerns.


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At first glance, the central question of Randy Barnett's book, Our Republican Constitution: Securing the Liberty and Sovereignty of We the People is so fundamental to American politics, it hardly seems worth asking. What did the founding fathers mean when they wrote, 'We the People'?
As it's usually taught in grade school, 'We the People' means governing through majority rule. The Constitution provides for popular sovereignty through democratically chosen representatives who themselves represent the majority will of the electorate.
But on closer examination, Barnett looks at The Declaration of Independence to arrive at a different interpretation of the first three words of the Constitution's preamble. Of the Declaration, Barnett tells Reason TV,
[I]t's not so much that We the People govern. That's not what popular sovereignty means. Popular sovereignty means that it's the rights of the individual person that needs to be protected by government and then the people control or they limit government, but government is not the same as us. They're a small subset of us. They're the governors and the reason we have a Constitution is to provide the law that governs them.
Watch the video for a detailed discussion of the first principles behind the libertarian legal movement, of which Georgetown University law professor Barnett is a leading theorist.

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ProducerLoops has released Middle Eastern Instruments, a collection of traditional Ney, Setar and Tar recordings. The Producer Loops team recorded these unique instruments on location in the Middle East, capturing every nuance of each instrument and utilising the talents of three skilled traditional musicians.
The Setar is a stringed instrument used in Folk and Classical music throughout Iran. The drone string on the Setar adds an almost hypnotic quality to the sounds produced by this traditional instrument from the lute family.
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never seen awful statues?? I think u are forgetting all of Michelangelo’s attempts at sculpting women, the big queer
Damn, how could I forget?
Dented oranges are my favorite type of breast
Michel-I’ve never seen a naked woman-angelo
he literally just sculpted a man’s pectorals and put lumpy lemons on them
This is the piece that makes me believe it stayed platonic with Vittoria Colonna.
Recently Kaige told us he wishes he could be both a boy and a girl because he likes playing princesses as much as ninjas and he doesn’t want to get made fun of. So we bought him a tutu and gave him a makeover. Meet the new and improved Kaige. If you have a problem with it please keep it to yourself and kindly stay out of his life. Which would be a shame because as you can see he’s freakin’ awesome! #letmebeme #mumblr #stopbullying
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Okay, okay, I’m going to tell you what Hermione sees in Ron.
A trio is a balancing act, right? They’re equalizers of each other. Harry’s like the action, Hermione’s the brains, Ron’s the heart. Hermione has been assassinated in these movies, and I mean that genuinely—by giving her every single positive character trait that Ron has, they have assassinated her character in the movies. She’s been harmed by being made to be less human, because everything good Ron has, she’s been given.
So, for instance: “If you want to kill Harry, you’re going to have to kill me too”—RON, leg is broken, he’s in pain, gets up and stands in front of Harry and says this. Who gets that line in the movie? Hermione.
“Fear of a name increases the fear of the thing itself.” Hermione doesn’t say Voldemort’s name until well into the books—that’s Dumbledore’s line. When does Hermione say it in the movies? Beginning of Movie 2.
When the Devil’s Snare is curling itself around everybody, Hermione panics, and Ron is the one who keeps his head and says “Are you a witch or not?” In the movie, everybody else panics and Hermione keeps her head and does the biggest, brightest flare of sunlight spell there ever was.
So, Hermione—all her flaws were shaved away in the films. And that sounds like you’re making a kick-ass, amazing character, and what you’re doing is dehumanizing her. And it pisses me off. It really does.
In the books, they balance each other out, because where Hermione gets frazzled and maybe her rationality overtakes some of her instinct, Ron has that to back it up; Ron has a kind of emotional grounding that can keep Hermione’s hyper-rationalness in check. Sometimes Hermione’s super-logical nature grates Harry and bothers him, and isn’t the thing he needs even if it’s the right thing, like when she says “You have a saving people thing.” That is the thing that Harry needed to hear, she’s a hundred percent right, but the way she does it is wrong. That’s the classic “she’s super logical, she’s super brilliant, but she doesn’t know how to handle people emotionally,” at least Harry.
So in the books they are this balanced group, and in the movies, in the movies—hell, not even Harry is good enough for Hermione in the movies. No one’s good enough for Hermione in the movies—God isn’t good enough for Hermione in the movies! Hermione is everybody’s everything in the movies.
Harry’s idea to jump on the dragon in the books, who gets it in the movies? Hermione, who hates to fly. Hermione, who overcomes her withering fear of flying to take over Harry’s big idea to get out of the—like, why does Hermione get all these moments?
[John: Because we need to market the movie to girls.]
I think girls like the books, period. And like the Hermione in the books, and like the Hermione in the books just fine before Hollywood made her idealized and perfect. And if they would have trusted that, they would have been just fine.
Would the movies have been bad if she was as awesome as she was in the books, and as human as she was in the books? Would the movies get worse?
She IS a strong girl character. This is the thing that pisses me off. They are equating “strong” with superhuman. To me, the Hermione in the book is twelve times stronger than the completely unreachable ideal of Hermione in the movies. Give me the Hermione in the book who’s human and has flaws any single day of the week.
Here’s a classic example: When Snape in the first book yells at Hermione for being an insufferable know-it-all, do you want to know what Ron says in the book? “Well, you’re asking the questions, and she has to answer. Why ask if you don’t want to be told?” What does he say in the movie? “He’s got a point, you know.” Ron? Would never do that. Would NEVER do that, even before he liked Hermione. Ron would never do that.
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CDH Golf Invitational Raises Record Funds for Cancer Center
WINFIELD, Ill., August 27, 2010 – More than 250 golfers, joined by PGA Professionals Curt Byrum, Todd Dempsey and Chris Smith, tested their skills at the well-known Medinah Country Club to raise record funds for the CDH Foundation. In total, more than $380,000 was netted from the day’s event and activities.
“We were extremely pleased to have 75 event sponsors this year,” said event organizer Holly Kulikowski of the CDH Foundation. “People were drawn to support the new CDH Cancer Center in Warrenville. Cancer touches everyone, and this was one way to make a small difference.”
The post-golf dinner program featured celebrity emcee, Dan McNeil, from the Danny Mac Show on AM670 “The Score” and included a raffle, silent and live auction including a signature offering: a golf trip for three to Sand Hills Golf Club, in Mullen, Nebraska, via private jet.
Additional funds were raised to support nursing scholarships in memory of beloved late board chair Judy Whinfrey. Judy’s husband, Pete Whinfrey, gave a moving speech about Judy, her dedication to CDH and her passion for the nursing profession.
CDH Foundation’s mission is to seek philanthropic gifts to advance excellent healthcare for the people in the communities served by CDH and its affiliates. Established in 2000, the Foundation partners with generous and caring people, businesses, organizations and foundations throughout the community to support medical programs and services available at CDH.
CDH Foundation is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, and gifts to the Foundation are tax-deductible. The Foundation serves Central DuPage Hospital and its affiliates, including CNS Home Health & Hospice and HomeCare Physicians (a program of Central DuPage Physician Group).
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Central DuPage Hospital (CDH) is a nationally recognized 313-bed facility located in Winfield, Ill., a suburb west of Chicago. CDH is a leading center for medical technology and one of the busiest surgical hospitals in Illinois.
For the last four consecutive years, Thomson Reuters has listed CDH as a 100 Top Hospital in the U.S. CDH has affiliated with other healthcare leaders, including regionally known Children’s Memorial Hospital for specialty pediatric care and, most recently, nationally known Cleveland Clinic for cardiac surgery.
The hospital is part of an interdependent network of healthcare organizations and services, including convenient care centers, occupational health services, home health and hospice care. For more information or to find a doctor on the medical staff of CDH, visit www.cdh.org or call 630-933-4234/ TTY 630-933-4833 for the hearing impaired.


This trailer for DmC is the third (and final) of its kind, showing us a secret area Dante can gain access to using portals throughout his journey.
I've long been a fan of floating, decayed worlds, which the game seems to deliver on. If absolutely nothing else, Ninja Theory sure can create a stunning environment (see: Enslaved). As for the combat -- yeah, I'll never be able to pull that off.
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Tulsi Gabbard Breaks Barriers
The first Hindu American in Congress may well be the best ambassador for Hindus in America.
Thirty-one-year-old Iraq war veteran Tulsi Gabbard created history by being the first Hindu American in Congress. She will take her oath on the Bhagavad Gita.
Gabbard signifies the kind of change that is coming to Congress willy-nilly. There could be some resistance from a Congress that is married to tradition. In fact, the last time a Hindu prayer was attempted in Congress, fanatics from Operation Save America/Operation Rescue loudly interrupted it.
Gabbard defeated K. Crowley of the Republican Party with a solid margin in Hawaii’s second Congressional district. And Crowley was mean-spirited enough to fume that Gabbard’s religion “was incompatible with the Constitution.”
The US military is obviously a lot more diverse than Congress and Gabbard retorted to Crowley via The Huffington Post, declaring: “It is stunning that some people in Congress would so arrogantly thumb their nose at the Bill of Rights. When I volunteered to put my life on the line in defense of our country, no one asked me what my religion was.”
Undoubtedly, India has far more religious diversity in Parliament than does the US Congress. ABC News applauded Tulsi Gabbard’s march to Congress while putting the electoral victory of the first Hindu American Congresswoman in context. “For a country whose founding principles include religious freedom, the American government has a history of being almost homogenous with respect to religion. For most federal representatives, the question isn’t whether or not you’re Christian but what Christian denomination you follow,” said ABC News.
“But just as leaders have broken racial and gender barriers over the years, so, too, are non-Christian candidates moving forward,” it added.
Proud of her Hindu religion, Gabbard is not Indian. She was born in American Samoa to a Catholic father (Hawaii State Senator Mike Gabbard) and a Hindu mother. She moved to Hawaii when she was two and embraced Hinduism as a teenager and is well-versed in the scriptures.
Gabbard says her faith will be an asset in Congress, where she hopes to work on war veterans’ affairs, environmental issues, and cultivating a closer relationship between US and India.
“It is clear that there needs to be a closer working relationship between the United States and India. How can we have a close relationship if decision-makers in Washington know very little, if anything, about the religious beliefs, values, and practices of India’s 800 million Hindus?” Gabbard told The Huffington Post.
“Hopefully the presence in Congress of an American who happens to be Hindu will increase America’s understanding of India as well as India’s understanding of America.”
In a statement released after her victory, Gabbard acknowledged that her election would be an inspiration to Hindus across America who feel diffident about having a different religion. “On my last trip to the mainland, I met a man who told me that his teenage daughter felt embarrassed about her faith, but after meeting me, she’s no longer feeling that way,” Gabbard said.
“He was so happy that my being elected to Congress would give hope to hundreds and thousands of young Hindus in America, that they can be open about their faith and even run for office, without fear of being discriminated against or attacked because of their religion.”
It is hardly a secret that non-Christian candidates find it difficult to move forward in US politics. For whatever reason, the two highest-profile Indian-American politicians are both Republicans and converts to Christianity: Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal was raised Hindu, while South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley was raised Sikh.
“If we are uneasy with Bobby Jindal, it is not because we’re a nation of racists, it’s because we are observing a man who seems to be uneasy with his own race,” wrote The Daily Beast’s Keshni Kashyap. “While it hasn’t stopped him from taking campaign money from South Asians—I attended an Indian-sponsored fund-raiser in Los Angeles some years ago when he was running for governor for the first time—Jindal has downplayed his ethnic background throughout his political life. He changed his Indian name during childhood and, against his father’s wishes, he converted from Hinduism to Christianity. When the New Orleans Times-Picayune tried to go to India to cover his Punjabi roots, his family did not cooperate,” she added.
What is admirable about the 2012 elections is that it brings a multitude of interesting firsts for women in Congress. At least 20 women will serve in the Senate and at least 76 in the House. We will see the first Asian-American woman in the Senate, and the first Hindu-American in Congress.
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Eight of my handmade Nugget beads with a base of Dark Red & decorated with Raku.
These Nuggets measure 15mm across.
Lots of great design possibilities in this set! They are great in Earrings as well as necklaces & bracelets.
They were made on a 1/16" mandrel. The spacers shown are included as well.
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Please note that I ship promptly but I am located in Canada & international parcels can take a few week or more to arrive at their destination. I prefer paypal.
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Va Tech women headed to 1st Final Four after topping Ohio St
Elizabeth Kitley scored 25 points and grabbed 12 rebounds, Georgia Amoore added 24 points and top-seeded Virginia Tech advanced to the Final Four for the first time in school history with an 84-74 win over No. 3 seed Ohio State in the Seattle 3 Regional final.
Country star Eric Church announces free show for ticketholders of concert he canceled to watch Final Four
Country music star Eric Church announced a free show for ticketholders of the concert he canceled to attend the Final Four game between UNC and Duke — what he calls a “sports enthusiast’s dream.”
Stanford rallies to beat Louisville 78-63, reach Final Four
Lexie Hull had 21 points, Ashten Prechtel scored each of her 16 in the second half and Stanford reached the Final Four by rallying for a 78-63 victory over Louisville on Tuesday night. “To play a second half and beat them by 27 really says a lot about how hard people were playing,” VanDerveer said. Stanford dropped that one 62-53, ending its previous appearance in the Final Four. Stanford (29-2) trailed by 12 midway through the third quarter before scoring 13 consecutive points to take its first lead since early in the game. We weren’t aggressive enough.”AdThe Cardinal got going in the second half and made six of their final eight 3-point attempts.
Gonzaga's bid for a perfect season moves on to Final Four
Gonzaga (30-0) has been an offensive juggernaut rarely seen in college basketball. Ad“Everyone wants us to keep moving forward, but that’s not how we roll,” Gonzaga coach Mark Few said. That doesn’t lessen our desire to win this game, the next game or win two more games.”The next one won't be easy. The Bears were embroiled in one of the darkest scandals in college basketball history, when Patrick Dennehy was murdered by teammate Carlton Dotson in 2003. They played in the Final Four.”___More AP college basketball: https://apnews.com/hub/College-basketball and http://www.twitter.com/AP_Top25
Quite a show: Zags stay undefeated with 85-66 win over USC
On Saturday in the national semifinals, the Zags will face 11th-seeded UCLA, which beat Michigan 51-49 in a later Elite Eight game. All-American Corey Kispert had 18 points and eight boards on an “off” night — only 6 for 19 from the floor. “We just tried to stay moving,” Suggs said about attacking the USC zone, which had been shutting down teams all month in Indy. “It was a little surprising," USC coach Andy Enfield said, “because we'd been playing great basketball.”The Zags have a way about doing that to people. ALL-WEST TEAMThe All-region team included both Mobley brothers, Suggs, Kispert and Timme, who was named the West's most outstanding player.
Baylor coach calls for end of COVID-19 testing for Final Four, implies players should participate if they test positive
As of Saturday, there had been two confirmed positive tests at the women’s tournament with over 15,400 administered. The last positive result among the players, coaches and others working at the tournament was reported on March 22 from daily antigen testing. Six conference teams qualified for the women’s tournament: Stanford, Oregon, Oregon State, Arizona, Washington State and UCLA. Night in and night out in the Pac-12, we’re playing teams like Stanford, UCLA, great teams, Oregon State, Oregon. FINAL FOUR MEMORIESTara VanDerveer remembers very well the feeling of finally coaching Stanford to the Cardinal’s first Final Four berth.
Houston tops Oregon State, reaches 1st Final Four since '84
Yes, Houston is going back to the Final Four for the first time since the famed “Phi Slama Jama” era after Monday night's 67-61 win against Oregon State. And Houston knocked down enough free throws late while holding Oregon State without a basket during a critical 3 1/2 minutes. Fittingly, it was DeJon Jarreau — the American Athletic Conference's defensive player of the year who led the effort that stymied Oregon State star Ethan Thompson — who was named the most outstanding player of the Midwest Region. “It was right there within our grasp with the effort we showed in the second half,” Oregon State coach Wayne Tinkle said. They held the Beavers to 35% shooting in the first half before Oregon State found some openings.
What To Watch: Remaining Final Four spots up for grabs
… Gonzaga is seeking to become the first team to make it to the Final Four unbeaten since Kentucky in 2015. 11 seed UCLA (21-9), East Region final, Lucas Oil Stadium, Indianapolis. … UCLA is back in a regional final for the first time since earning three straight Final Four berths from 2006-08. 6 seed Texas (21-9), Hemisfair Region final, Alamodome, San Antonio. … Texas is in a regional final for the first time since 2016 and seeking its first Final Four appearance since 2003.
Thousands of volunteers needed to properly staff Women’s NCAA Tournament in San Antonio
SAN ANTONIO – The entire NCAA Women’s Basketball Tournament will be held in the greater San Antonio area this year, and in order to properly staff the event, San Antonio Sports Vice President and Chief Operating Officer Jenny Carnes says that they need nearly 1,500 volunteers, 3,000 volunteer shifts. If you would like to volunteer your services, please visit wffsantonio.com/volunteer.
NCAA women’s basketball tournament wants to allow limited fan attendance in San Antonio region
SAN ANTONIO – The NCAA wants to allow a limited number of fans at the 2021 Division I Women’s Basketball Championship being held in the San Antonio region, with a capacity of up to 17% from the Sweet Sixteen through the Women’s Final Four. Sweet Sixteen games will be played March 27-28, Elite Eight games held March 29-30 and the Women’s Final Four conducted April 2 and 4. AdThe NCAA announced championship game times and broadcast networks for all six rounds and 63 games of the 2021 Division I Women’s Basketball Championship being held in the San Antonio region. “ESPN’s coverage of women’s basketball has always been driven by our passion for the sport, its players and its coaches. We’re proud to continue our commitment with the addition of ABC to our network lineup for this year’s NCAA Division I Women’s Basketball Championship,” added Carol Stiff, ESPN vice president, women’s sports programming and acquisitions.
Men's March Madness will be played entirely in Indiana
INDIANAPOLIS – The NCAA announced Monday that all 67 men's basketball tournament games including the Final Four will be played entirely in Indiana in a bid to keep the marquee event from being called off for a second consecutive year because of the coronavirus pandemic. The pandemic has already canceled scores of college basketball games this season, with postponements and COVID-19 issues nearly a daily occurance. Ball State, Butler, Indiana, IUPUI and Purdue will serve as host schools and the Horizon League will host games played at Lucas Oil Stadium, just a short distance away from NCAA headquarters. Gavitt said most of the Division I games will be played in the Indianapolis area, though some first-round games will be played at Indiana and Purdue. “Since 1940, our city has been the backdrop for 97 NCAA men’s tournament games, putting us at No.
COVID-19 protocols a priority at next week’s Valero Alamo Bowl, city officials say
SAN ANTONIO – The NCAA will carefully scrutinize next week’s Valero Alamo Bowl as it decides whether to stage two major Women’s Final Four events at the Alamodome next year. The NCAA is in talks with the city of San Antonio and others about bringing the entire women’s basketball tournament to the Alamodome in March and April. Mayor Ron Nirenberg said the Valero Alamo Bowl would be “essentially hosted by Metro Health” because of the pandemic. “The Alamodome has hosted six UTSA football games in very similar situations this year with no negative impacts,” Oliver said. They love San Antonio.”
March Madness in one place? NCAA looking at Indianapolis
INDIANAPOLIS – The University of Maryland-Baltimore County pulled off one of the greatest upsets in American sports history at the 2018 NCAA Tournament, knocking off Virginia to become the first No. 4 seeds during an opening weekend that epitomized the beloved spectacle the NCAA Tournament has become. Multiple basketball programs are currently on pause due to COVID-19 and the Ivy League announced last week the cancellation of winter sports, including men’s and women’s basketball. Gavitt said there is no plan to change the start date and the NCAA Tournament is expected to be played in March and April as scheduled. A one-site NCAA Tournament will cause a financial hit to the cities scheduled to host early-round and regional games.
College basketball bubbles brewing with season on horizon
FILE - In this March 12, 2020, file photo, the seating area at Bankers Life Fieldhouse is viewed in Indianapolis after the Big Ten Conference announced that remainder of the men's NCAA college basketball games tournament was canceled. Indianapolis city leaders want the college basketball world to know it is open for business. (AP Photo/Michael Conroy, File)INDIANAPOLIS – With the coronavirus pandemic already forcing changes for college basketball, a bubble may be brewing in Indianapolis. Indiana Sports Corp. released a 16-page proposal Friday that calls for turning the city convention center's exhibition halls and meeting rooms into basketball courts and locker rooms. ___For more AP college basketball coverage: https://apnews.com/Collegebasketball and http://twitter.com/AP_Top25

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Kuroda to miss next start
LOS ANGELES -- Although right-hander Hiroki Kuroda will miss his next scheduled start for the Los Angeles Dodgers while recovering from a mild concussion, the club is encouraged by his early progress on the way back to the mound.
Dodgers manager Joe Torre and trainer Stan Conte seemed quite optimistic about Kuroda's prospects for a quick, full recovery just two days after Rusty Ryal's line drive hit him in the head during the sixth inning of a game in Arizona. The 34-year-old Japanese ...
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DUBAI (Reuters) – Iran said on Thursday a letter from three European powers to the U.N. Security Council accusing Tehran of having nuclear-capable ballistic missiles showed their “miserable incompetence” in fulfilling their commitments to a 2015 nuclear deal.
“Latest E3 letter to UNSG on missiles is a desperate falsehood to cover up their miserable incompetence in fulfilling bare minimum of their own #JCPOA obligations,” Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif tweeted, referring to the deal by its formal acronym. He urged Britain, France and Germany not to bow to “U.S. bullying”.
The British, German and French ambassadors, in a letter circulated on Wednesday, called on U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres to inform the Security Council in his next report that Iran’s missile programme was “inconsistent” with a U.N. resolution that had endorsed the nuclear deal reached between Iran and six world powers.
The letter surfaced at a time of heightened friction between Iran and the West, with Tehran rolling back its commitments under the deal step by step in response to Washington’s pullout from the pact last year and reimposition of sanctions on Iran that has crippled its economy.
Britain, France and Germany have sought to salvage the pact, under which Iran undertook to curtail its disputed uranium enrichment programme in return for relief from sanctions. But Tehran has criticised the three European powers for failing to shield Iran’s economy from the U.S. penalties.
The United States, Iran’s arch foe, and its Arab allies views Tehran’s ballistic missile programme as a Middle East security threat. Tehran says its missile development activity is solely defensive in nature.
(Writing by Parisa Hafezi; Editing by Mark Heinrich)


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“This was an incredibly difficult decision for me, my team and the Polaris Board of Directors,” said Polaris Industries Chairman and CEO Scott Wine in a news release announcing the change. “Over the past 18 years, we have invested not only resources, but our hearts and souls, into forging the Victory Motorcycles brand, and we are exceptionally proud of what our team has accomplished.”
The news release stated that the company sees greater potential and strength with the Indian brand it acquired. “This decision will improve the profitability of Polaris and our global motorcycle business, and will materially improve our competitive stance in the industry,” said Wine.
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India Hydro Plans: The Jammu and Kashmir Power Development Corporation said 45 hydro power projects in the state to be implemented will take the combined capacity generation to 8,000 MW over the next 10 years.
Taiwan Cell Makers Report Mixed Revenue: Rush orders from Europe before the old incentives expire helped Taiwan-based solar firms to report good May revenues.
PV Outsourcing Is a Secret No More: Outsourcing is an open secret in the PV industry. It is specific to the crystalline sector, practiced by most (if not all) manufacturers and widely denied by everyone. The rush to sell more, grow larger, and be recognized as shipping or producing the most technology has led to a high degree of secrecy as to who actually made what, writes Navigant’s Paula Mints.
Program Brings Solar to Rural India: A new initiative by SunEdison will see the installation of distributed solar power plants around India, bringing electricity to areas that have never had it before. Through the program, called Eradication of Darkness, SunEdison will design, install and manage the solar power systems in remote villages across the country.
India Looks at New Biofuel: As consumers struggle to cope with rising petrol prices, India is looking at a new generation of biofuels derived from agricultural waste to revive an ambitious program for blending ethanol with gasoline.
Indonesia’s Geothermal Potential: According to a GEA report, Indonesia’s crucial location along the “Ring of Fire” means it has 27,510 MW of untapped power. The country plans to have 5,000 MW online by 2025.
Japan’s Coming FIT: Over the next few months, news rules are expected to reduce the cost, burden and delays associated with installing systems over 2 MW. These changes as well as the new Energy Master Plan calling for 20 to 35 percent of energy generated by renewables is expected to accelerate Japan’s solar market.
DOC Imposes Tariffs on Chinese Wind Towers: The United States Department of Commerce has once again ruled in favor of American companies who say Chinese manufacturers are receiving unfair government subsidies.
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