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India's Mars Orbiter Mission, the country's first interplanetary foray, blasts off from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota, India. India launched its first spacecraft 'Mangalyaan' to Mars on Tuesday (November 2), a test of the emerging Asian nation's low-cost technology that could help it join a small club of space agencies to have explored the red planet. The 4.5 billion-rupee (USD 73 million) Mars Orbiter Mission blasted off from the southeastern coast on Tuesday afternoon. If successful, the satellite will take about 300 days to reach Mars and will search for methane in the Martian atmosphere. Only the United States, Europe, and Russia have so far successfully sent probes that have orbited or landed on Mars.


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Maria Floyd, wife of Hall of Fame golfer Raymond Floyd for 38 years, died on Friday at the couple's home in Southampton, N.Y. She was 69.
Maria Floyd had been battling bladder cancer, but at one time had been declared cancer-free.
According to Golf Channel contributor and Golf World/Golf Digest senior writer Tim Rosaforte, a private service will be held Sept. 15 in New York, followed by another private celebration of her life at Shinnecock Hills, where Floyds are members.
At age 43 in 1986, Raymond Floyd won the U.S. Open at Shinnecock, becoming at the time the oldest U.S. Open champion (Hale Irwin, then 45, broke Floyd's record four years later).
Raymond Floyd famously credited his wife for his U.S. Open victory. He had shot 77 and blown the 54-hole lead the previous week in the Westchester Classic, and on the ride out to Shinnecock, she insisted he explain why it had happened and figure out how not to let it happen again.
'I said, 'It was just one of those things,'' Raymond Floyd told Edgar Thompson of the Palm Beach Post in 2011. 'I hit a bad shot or two, and the engine blew.' She said, 'That's not good enough.''
'We had a pretty heated ride over there for three hours,' Floyd said. 'That was a soul-searcher.'
“She was really strong,' Raymond Floyd told Rosaforte in 2011, 'and has been all her life.”

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Package Detailed Itinerary
Day 1: Fly to New Delhi from Birmingham, UK
Fly to New Delhi from Birmingham, UK.
Day 2: Arrival at New Delhi
On the day of arrival at IGI International Airport in New Delhi, Alkof Holidays representative will welcome you at the airport and transfer to the hotel for 2 nights stay. Rest of the day at leisure.Includes: Breakfast, Accommodation, Transfers
Day 3: At Delhi
After breakfast at the hotel, start your sightseeing tour from New Delhi, visit Rashtrapati Bhavan, India Gate, Laxmi Narayan Temple, Humayun’s Tomb, Lotus Temple (Bahai’s Temple) and Qutub Minar.
later in the afternoon, drive to Old Delhi to visit Raj Ghat, Jama Masjid and Red Fort, also take a short rickshaw ride at Chandni Chowk (Spice market and a huge market for clothes). Overnight stay at the hotel.Includes: Breakfast, Accommodation, Transfers, Sightseeing
Day 4: Drive to Agra (220 Km/3.30 Hours)
After breakfast, check-out from the hotel and drive to Agra “The City of Taj Mahal”. Upon arrival at Agra, check-in at the hotel. Rest and relax at the hotel, and later visit Agra Fort, Itmad-Ud-Daulah's Tomb, Akbar's Tomb, Jama Masjid, Moti Masjid, Octagonal Tower, Jahangir's Palace, Chini ka Rauza, and Sikandra Fort. In the evening, enjoy the light and sound “Mohabbat-the-Taj - the saga of love”. Overnight stay at the hotel.Includes: Breakfast, Accommodation, Transfers, Sightseeing
Day 5: Agra - Fatehpur Sikri - Jaipur (240 Km/5 Hours)
Early morning before sunrise visits the world’s most popular and beautiful monument Taj Mahal along with Mehtab Bagh. After finishing your guided tour of Taj Mahal, return to your hotel for breakfast. Later check-out from the hotel and drive to Fatehpur Sikri, the oldest deserted town built by Mughal Kingdom in 1571 and built by red stone in honor of Saint Salim Chisti also visit Diwane-e-Khas, Punch Mahal, the Tomb of Salim Chisti, and the Buland Darwaza, one of the largest and tallest gateways in the world. Later continue your drive to Jaipur for 2 nights stay.Includes: Breakfast, Accommodation, Transfers, Sightseeing
Day 6: At Jaipur
Today morning after breakfast, proceed for a full day escorted tour of Jaipur. Visit Amber Fort - enjoy an elephant ride at Amber, also visit Nahargarh Fort, Jaigarh Fort, Jal Mahal, Hawa Mahal (Palace of Winds), City Palace, Jantar Mantar, Birla Temple, Central Museum and Laxmi Narayan Temple. Overnight stay at the hotel.Includes: Breakfast, Accommodation, Transfers, Sightseeing
Day 7: Drive to New Delhi (275 Km/5.30 Hours) and Departure
After breakfast at the hotel, our representative will transfer you to the IGI International Airport in New Delhi to board the flight to your home or onward destination.Includes: Breakfast, Transfers

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Developers and or builders seller looking for offers on 3 lot package listed for $485000. Can buy existing house on lot 1 for $499,900. Water and sewer needs are being run to lots- not yet installed. Common driveway being installed. New prices coming after common driveway is installed. Forest retention plan and approved subdivision plat in MLS Docs. Washington Grove a town within a Forest! Lot 4 of 3 lots for sale- 13,300 sq ft lot. Great opportunity for builder/developer or build your dream home here! Washington Grove is a community that offers 200 acres of forest, parks, walking paths, swimming lake with beach, dock and diving board, tennis court, soccer fields, baseball fields, dog park, walk to metro, conservation Meadow Park and more! The Washington Post called it a place for preservation. Population is less than 700 residence- be the lucky one to call it home!
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This halter top is always a good choice. I have two of the crop length and one of the full length and I always find a time to wear them. I really like dressing this up or down, athletic or casual.
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Many times we get the chance to check out new graphics cards and technology before they are released at trade shows like the Consumer Electronics show. It is often that many of these products do not make it to market for one reason or another. Here we have compiled a list of 10 Rare and Unreleased graphics cards.
ASUS has finally announced its R9 280X, R9 270X, R7 260X DirectCU II Graphics Cards based on their latest design of the DirectCU II. These new models will are equipped with better cooling systems and an enhanced PCB design. An event held in Australia revealed a few pictures of some of these models in which some other Radeon R9 and Radeon R7 GPU lineups were also pictured and now Asus has finally announced them.
Sapphire’s entire Radeon R9 and R7 lineup has been leaked by VideoCardz. This lineup includes 13 graphics cards! Some of the more interesting cards are the Vapor-X, Dual-X and Toxic series cards. The R9 and R7 series cards will hit retail shelves this week and most reviews will go live tomorrow.
We already know that most of AMD’s R9 and R7 series cards will be available October 8th so it is no surprise that we are going to start seeing non-reference cards pop up from AMD’s AIB partners. MSI posted this a few days ago on their Facebook page, “AMD has just announced their new GPU architecture, MSI is ready, are you? Follow the link to watch the AMD GPU’14 conference: http://goo.gl/tBe9XA”. With the following image:
We have heard for some time now that NVIDIA would not be releasing any new graphics cards in 2013 after the launch of the GeForce GTX 760. Well our friends at VideoCardz have some exclusive details pointing to the fact that this may not be the case.
We all know that AMD will be announcing the next generation Volcanic Islands family in Hawaii on September 25th. VR-Zone has obtained some interesting information that other than the Hawaii GPU-based cards the other cards in the Volcanic Islands family will be largely based off the current GCN architecture.
It looks like we finally we know the codenames for the upcoming generation of AMD’s Radeon series including the desktop Volcanic Islands, Pirate Islands and the mobile Crystal series. This information has been leaked by 3DCenter.
We have heard reports that the first chip to debut in the Volcanic Islands series will be the Hawaii GPU which will be the flagship. Sweclockers is reporting that while the Hawaii GPU will be the flagship card, it may not arrive first, but instead would makes its debut with AMD’s FirePro Professional cards.
Sapphire has announced two new models to the HD 7700 series of graphics cards which will deliver an even more affordable choice of graphics cards based off the Graphics Core Next architecture from AMD. Both models are HD 7730′s built on AMD’s 28nm process, but one model will feature 2GB of GDDR5 memory and the other model will feature only 1GB.
It was the last year’s news; NVIDIA was making a latest G2K08 core to power their upcoming graphics card. Many rumors were in the air regarding the new card that whether they would influence the high end or low end lineup of next generation cards and it seems the G2K08 was just a low end chip with high end compute capabilities of the GK110 core that would closed down to the new GT 640 and GT 630 graphics cards.
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A 22-year-old male, of Phillipsburg, N.J. and his 22-year-old passenger, also of New Jersey, escaped injury in an accident along Chestnut Street, Upper Milford Township, 4:23 p.m. Oct. 25.
According to Pennsylvania State Police Fogelsville, the truck was northbound in the 6100 block of Chestnut Street. The operator of the truck told police he had the vehicle on cruise control at approximately 45 mph when he felt the steering wheel lock and the vehicle drifted to the right and off the...
Cmdr. Scott A. Wastak, formerly of Allentown, assumed command of Carrier Airborne Early Warning Squadron One Two Zero (VAW-120) relieving Cmdr. Michael D. France as commanding officer in a ceremony at Norfolk Naval Station, Chambers Field recently.
France, a Navy pilot from Memphis, Tenn., has commanded the Greyhawks since April 2017. His next assignment is Deputy Commander, Airborne Command, Control, and Logistics Wing.
Wastak, a flight officer, most recently...
Basket social 7 p.m. at Jerusalem Evangelical Lutheran Church of Eastern Salisbury, 1707 Church Road, Allentown. Doors open 5 p.m. For tickets, call 610-866-1611.
Holiday bazaar 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Cedarbrook Fountain Hill, 724 Delaware Ave. Event includes crafts, raffles, door prizes, book and CD sale. Baked goods and lunch will be available for purchase. For more information, call 610-691-6700.
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Members of the Alburtis Borough Council met Oct. 29 where Mayor Kathleen Palmer reported receiving an email from resident Lori Miller questioning the accuracy of the garbage rate of $47.09 reported in the Oct. 17 edition of The East Penn Press.
“We are still under contract. What was stated in the paper was correct,” Council President Ron DeIaco said.
Palmer also received an anonymous letter with no return address, about the 200 block of Main Street not being zoned commercial...
The Macungie Historical Society will hold a Veterans Day Service 2 to 3:30 p.m. Nov. 11 at Lower Macungie Township Community Center. The guest speaker will be Tom Applebach, director of the Lehigh County Office of Veterans Affairs.
Grace Lutheran Church, 28 W. Main St., Macungie, will hold a Veterans Recognition Service 8 a.m. and 10:30 a.m. Nov. 11.
Global Impactors Group will present “GREETINGS!” 7:30 p.m. Nov. 9 and 10 and 2 p.m. Nov. 11 at the Macungie Institute. For...
The East Penn School District Education Foundation recently awarded 14 grants to educators in East Penn School District schools.
Many East Penn educators submitted detailed grant proposals outlining STEAM ideas for their classrooms. Grant proposals were evaluated in areas of innovation, impact, sustainability, and overall alignment with the foundation’s STEAM focus.
Fourteen grants totaling $14,500 will be funded.
Winners of the 2018-2019 East Penn School District...
In recognition of National Veterans Small Business Week, Rep. Ryan Mackenzie, R-134th, has updated information on his Pennsylvania Startups for Soldiers program to help veteran and reservist entrepreneurs.
The Startups for Soldiers program, created by legislation written by Mackenzie, waives state business startup fees for those transitioning to the civilian workforce from the United States military. Those serving in reserve units and the National Guard also are...
Kevin Ge, of Lower Macungie Township, is among students named a 2019 National Merit Scholarship Semi-Finalist.
Ge is in 12th grade at Emmaus High School.
He is president of the academic team and vice president of the Pennsylvania Math League at EHS.
A varsity tennis player, Ge also coaches tennis, studies piano and teaches Chinese martial arts.
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Her son’s diagnosis was a double blow. Just a week earlier, Brown had learned she was pregnant. “I was completely terrified. There’s such a strong genetic component,” she says.
When Brown, who is an occupational therapist, found out about a study for the “baby sibs” of children with autism, she was eager to sign up.
Her youngest daughter, Anna Claire, was 6 months old when she joined the eye-tracking study at Marcus. “She was baby number one in the Atlanta study,” she says.
Thankfully, there were no red flags for Anna Claire. But Brown says the study provided great peace of mind.
“It was exciting to me to know that if something were wrong, if we were heading down the autism path again, we could jump on it as soon as possible,” she says.
Because 85% of the nerve cells in a baby’s brain are set by age 2, it’s important to start treatment from birth to 2 years old, says Jennifer Stapel-Wax, PsyD, director of infant and toddler clinical research operations at the Marcus Center.
Yet kids with autism typically don’t get a diagnosis until age 4 or 5. Minority children lag even a year or 2 behind that.
“If we intervene that late, we’re dealing with the behaviors associated with autism. We’re not actually dealing with autism,” she says. “Those children are already behind in language, they’ve already got pretty pronounced stereotypic behaviors that interrupt their productive learning of other things,” Stapel-Wax says.
And because they have trouble expressing themselves, many have developed what she calls “challenging” behaviors -- temper tantrums, biting, and self-harm -- that become crude ways to communicate. Those habits then become the focus of treatment.
Still, children with autism can almost always be helped, no matter how old they were when they were diagnosed.
The stakes are high. Surveys of young adults with autism suggest that only about half have ever held a job in the decade after they graduated high school. And even when they can get work, it’s often for menial pay. They’re also less likely than kids with other kinds of disabilities to leave home and live on their own.


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Official Spokesperson, Shri Raveesh Kumar:
Good afternoon friends and welcome to this special briefing by the Foreign Secretary on Prime Minister’s visit to Maldives and Sri Lanka. After Foreign Secretary’s initial remarks we will open the floor to questions and answers. Sir, the floor is yours.
Foreign Secretary, Shri Vijay Gokhale: Thank you Raveesh. Good afternoon ladies and gentlemen. I will do the briefing today for Prime Minister’s visit to Maldives and Sri Lanka on 8-9 June.
These are the first foreign visits that the Prime Minister is undertaking after the general elections and the choice of two neighboring countries, Maldives and Sri Lanka, underlines the continued emphasis that the government lays on the Neighborhood First policy.
He is going to be given a State Visit to the Maldives. This is usually reserved only for the Heads of States and therefore it is a mark of respect to India and to the Prime Minister that he is going to be given the treatment and welcome that is normal given
to a Head of State.
This is the first visit of our Prime Minister to the Maldives since 2011. The last visit was by Dr. Manmohan Singh in 2011 that was for the SAARC Summit followed by a bilateral meeting and before that it was Prime Minister Vajpayee in 2002. So we have Prime
Minister visiting Maldives after more than 8 years.
The Prime Minister’s visit continues the tradition of regular top level exchanges and I want to recall that after the election of current government in Maldives we have had a visit by the Foreign Minister Abdullah Shahid in November 2018, we had the visit of
President Solih in 2018, we have had the visit of the Defence Minister Mariya Didi in January 2019, we have had the visit of the formal External Affairs Minister in March 2019 and now the forthcoming visit of the Prime Minister. So in the course of about 8
months we have had intensive exchanges at the highest level and at the ministerial level.
I just want to dwell on some of the program elements. Obviously after the welcome ceremony there will be a meeting with President Solih, the two leaders will jointly inaugurate remotely two of the completed projects that we have done and I will come to it a
little later. There will be meetings with the Vice President Mr. Naseem, the Speaker Mr. Nasheed and leaders of the some of the political parties and as you know Prime Minister has been invited by the Majlis to address the Majlis which he will also be doing
on June 8.
Ladies & gentlemen, there has been a significant progress in the bilateral relationship since President Solih was elected in November 2018 and I Just wanted to touch upon some of the positive developments that have taken place since then.
We have signed a visa facilitation agreement which has come into force in March which is important because it addresses a number of issues which the government of Maldives had in terms of visas particularly for their students and for those who come for their
medical treatments and from our perspectives it has given us a number of benefits particularly for Indian businessmen traveling to the Maldives.
We pledged budgetary support to the Government of the Maldives of close to US$200 million. US$50 million has been given as a cash support for budgetary purposes and the rest of it will be in terms of Treasury Bills, an ongoing process, as and when their Central
Bank issues these treasury bills. We are in the process of finalizing the currency swap agreement which is under SAARC. They have requested for an enhancement of the amount as well as extension of the roll over period and that is close to finalization.
As I mentioned the Prime Minister and President will jointly inaugurate two projects remotely. One is the Coastal Surveillance Radar System and the other is the Composite Training Center of the Maldives National Defence Forces. These are two important projects,
total value is approximately Rs. 180 crores and these will be remotely inaugurated by the two leaders.
We also had offered the Maldives a Line of Credit of about US$800 million and I am happy to inform you that three important project have already been identified and the project report preparation is underway. One is water supply and sewerage for 36 of the islands
which are inhabited. Another one is the Addu urban development center. Addu is an important town in the southern part of the Maldives chain and the third project is an SME development financing project. So these three projects, we have already received the
initial proposal and we are preparing a project report. Of course there are other projects in the pipe line but these are still being examined.
We have started the work on high impact community development projects. If you recall when the former External Affairs Minister had visited the Maldives in March we had announced that we would support this initiative of India by giving a grant of Rs. 50 crore.
14 projects have now been identified in various areas including connectivity between islands, drug rehabilitation centers and so on and so forth.
We have already begun the process of disbursing of 1000 ITEC scholarships that we will be giving Maldives over the next five years.
Some agreements will be signed during the visit. During this stage I would not go into the details but we certainly expect that among them are agreements relating to customs, to white shipping and also on training of civil servants. One of the focus areas is
the P2P relations areas, strengthening people to people relationship.
If you recall in April we had invited President Solih who is a very keen cricketer to come and watch the IPL match in Bengaluru and subsequent to that he had expressed an interest in developing a cricket team in the Maldives and seeking India’s assistance in
training this team and bringing them up to the requisite standards.
So among his requests which are under positive consideration our cricket stadium which we also expect to build under the Line of Credit that we will give and we are also working with the BCCI. A team from the BCCI had earlier visited the Maldives in May for
training of Maldivian cricketers, coaching programs, supply of kits and so on.
In addition to that we are looking at upgradation of important cultural sites and a team from the Archaeological Survey of India led by the Culture Secretary had also visited the Maldives, that report is under submission and we expect that there will be a number
of projects there.
Earlier this year we had also supported the Climate Change initiative of the Maldives by gifting 2 lakh LED lights for the street lighting of Male city. So these are some of the initiatives we have undertaken in this regard.
To sum up I think Prime Minister’s visit is essentially focused on three objectives. Firstly, it is to maintain contacts at the highest level between close neighbors. Secondly, we want to assist the Maldives as a development partner in the revival and development
of their economy and thirdly is to strengthen the people to people relations that we have with the Maldives.
On the 9th of June, Prime Minister will also make a short but very packed visit to Sri Lanka. This, I might remind you, is the first visit by a foreign leader to Sri Lanka after the tragic events of 21st April when several bomb blasts resulted in huge casualties
is Sri Lanka. It is a very special gesture and it is a very clear message of solidarity that the people and government of India stand firmly with the people and government of Sri Lanka at this tragic time.
We of course have a traditional friendship with Sri Lanka, this has been significantly strengthened in the first term of the Prime Minister and Prime Minister’s visit so early on in his second term is intended to very clearly signal that we intend to not only
continue this engagement but enhance our commitment in terms of the relationship with Sri Lanka.
Despite the very short visit he will be given the full honors including an official welcome ceremony. He will have talks with President Sirisena, with Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe. He will meet the leader of the opposition Mahinda Rajapaksa and he will
also have meeting with Mr. Sampanthan who heads the TNA, the Tamil parties.
Obviously although the visit will be short there will be review of the relationship and identification of how we move ahead. Once again I just want to highlight that since the last visit of the Prime Minister which was in May 2017, roughly two years ago, I
just want to highlight some of the areas in which we have made progress on the ground.
Prime Minister had announced at that time that we would be giving 14 thousand houses to up country Tamils i.e. the Indian origins Tamils up-country. The first tranche of houses, about 1500 were handed over in August 2018 and we are in the process of actually
completing the rest of the housing which will be handed over later this year and in the first half of next year.
We have also handed over the Ruhuna University Auditorium, this is the largest auditorium which we have built in any university in Sri Lanka in October 2018. Several high impact community development projects roughly valued at about 250 crores are in various
stages of implementation. This includes hospital equipment for Vavuniya hospital, the engineering and architectural facilities at Jaffna University and the livelihood project at Hambantota.
One of the big achievements and certainly one which has caught popular imagination is the free emergency ambulance services. This is an initiative of India to provide over 280 ambulances which will respond nationwide, island wide to any emergencies and it is
now operative in 8 out of 9 provinces and it is very deeply appreciated not just by the government but by the public as well.
We have already commenced delivery of railway rolling stock under an earlier Line of Credit of about Rs. 2800 crores. These supplies include diesel engines, it includes other rolling stock from December 2018, this started going to Sri Lanka and there is of
course a new Line of Credit in the railway sector also which we are currently examining and which in under discussion inter-ministerially.
I want to draw your attention to two trilateral MoUs which we have signed. India, Japan and Sri Lanka. One in April which is for the LNG Terminal, one just earlier this month which was for the development of the East Container Terminal. These are important
and we have also completed Exim Bank’s buyer’s credit of about $60 million in water supply project in Greater Dambulla.
So on a number of commitments that Prime Minister made when he went in May 17, we have seen significant progress and we hope that when the Prime Minister goes this time, not only we will review those but we will actually look at some new projects.
Certainly therefore I would sum up this visit to Sri Lanka as firstly, showing solidarity with the people and the government in the wake of the tragic events of the 21st April and expressing our confidence in the government of Sri Lanka in overcoming this national
tragedy. Secondly Prime Minister will very clearly signal his commitment and the intention of the government at the highest level to build a strong relationship based on mutual trust and mutual sensitivity to each other’s concern in the coming five years.
And thirdly of course to discuss ways to enhance development partnership.
I will stop here and I will take a few questions. Thank you.
Official Spokesperson, Shri Raveesh Kumar: Thank you sir. We now open the floor to questions. Please introduce yourselves, your name and your organization when you ask the question.
Question from CNBC: Today Mr. Jaishankar outlined his vision for India’s foreign policy for the next few years. Then he focused on connectivity in South Asia and economic integration as well. So on both these fronts when
it comes to connectivity and furthering closer economic ties with the Maldives what are we expecting in the talks and what could be the takeaway?
Question from Wion: The question is on the two projects which will be remotely launched, can you just give us a brief about both the projects i.e. the coastal surveillance and the other project?
Question from News Nation: Jaisa ki aapne kaha ki Sri Lanka visit solidarity ke liye bhi hai aur khas taur par sambandhon ko behtar banaane ke liye hai. Main ye jaanana chaahta hoon aatankwad ke mudde par khas taur par
kya koi baatcheet hone wali hai, kya aatankwaad se jo peedit Sri Lanka hai usko lekar hum koi assistance dene wale hain, khas taur par agar hum information sharing ki baat karein ya technical sharing ki baat karein, to kya kuch aisa bhi hone wala hai?
(As you said that the visit to Sri Lanka is both for expressing our solidarity and to improve our bilateral relations also. I would like to know if there are any talks planned on the issue of terrorism, are we going to offer any assistance to Sri Lanka which
is a victim of terrorism especially with regards to sharing of information or technical things?)
Foreign Secretary, Shri Vijay Gokhale: Thank you. As far as connectivity is concerned this of course is a priority with all our neighbors and with Maldives in any case we already have a number of such projects both in terms
of connecting India to the Maldives as well as in terms of connecting Maldives, the island themselves. Now one of the areas which we are exploring and we hope to have a concrete outcome is actually the commencement of a ferry service from Kochi to the Maldives.
This is still something which is very much under examination but we believe this will significantly enhance connectivity between the two countries. As far as inter-island connectivity is concerned, as I said, one of the project we are looking at, the high impact
community development projects is in fact island connectivity providing speedboats, particularly to students, to move from one island to another. So this is certainly an area which we would like to develop further with the government of the Maldives and for
that matter the government of Sri Lanka, as I mentioned several of the LoCs actually deal with railway projects and for us that is also important.
These two projects have been committed by government earlier. The composite training center is the center for training the Maldives national Defence Forces and this is a center which was requested by the government of the Maldives to provide a central training
facility. This facility is now complete we have done both the building itself and the so called software. So it is going to be an official launch of that center and this is something which will enhance the capabilities of the Maldives National Defence Forces.
The Coastal Surveillance Radar System is a system that we have shared with a number of other countries in our region as well. The idea is to monitor white shipping and to help that country to preserve its sovereignty in its EEZ (Exclusive Economic Zone) and
this is in addition to Maldives a number of other nations have also been given the coastal surveillance radar system. So that also will be inaugurated remotely when the two leaders meet.
As far as terrorism is concerned, as you know the government of India is ready to assist any country in whatever manner we can to combat terrorism. This is a common scourge and we are ready to help develop capacity, share information, share intelligence, there
are certain mechanism that we already have. Obviously I cannot go into the details of that but suffice to say that when we stand with the people and government of Sri Lanka, we also stand ready to assist them in any manner that they wish and we will respond
to whatever they will desire in terms of dealing with this problem.
Question: Is India speaking with Sri Lanka about not letting in aggressive military vessels like submarines into their harbors?
Question from ABP News: Since Prime Minister invited BIMSTEC leaders in his swearing in ceremony and therefore two countries he chose for his first bilateral visits are a member of BIMSTEC. Is India planning to build a
consensus among these BIMSTEC countries to have a more counter-terrorism architecture because he is going to Sri Lanka to express the solidarity on security issues, is there any idea to build a consensus on a regional counter-terrorism or security sharing
mechanism under the umbrella of BIMSTEC?
Question: Last year Sri Lanka had offered one of its airport near Hambantota to India for operating the airport. So, is India interested in managing that airport, what is the status now?
Foreign Secretary, Shri Vijay Gokhale: With a number of countries we discuss a number of areas of mutual interests. I would not like to go into details of what we discuss with those countries.
Further, I will not answer questions on BIMSTEC as this briefing is exclusively on the visit of Prime Minister to Maldives and Sri Lanka, I do want to point out that Maldives is not a member of BIMSTEC but the visit to Maldives is important because it is neighbor
and the Prime Minister is making a point that Neighborhood First remains a priority in his second term as well.
As far as this airport in Hambantota is concerned, there are a number of projects in which we are interested and which we are talking to the Sri Lankan side. As you recall an MoU was signed for economic development cooperation in 2017. As and when those projects
mature, if there is a bilateral understanding we will be informing the public about it. As of now on a number of projects discussions are underway.
Question from News24: World cup chal raha hai aur aise mein aap khabar de rahe hain ki Bharat Maldives ko ek cricket team banaane mein madad karega. Kis tarah ki ye madad hogi, kya hum kisi player vishesh ko wahan bhej
rahe hain aur kya BCCI hi sab kuch karega, kis tarah ki aur jaankaari hai jo aap hamse share karna chaahengen?
(Cricket World Cup is under way right now and during this time you have informed that India will be helping Maldives in setting up a cricket team. What kind of help it would be, is there any particular player which will be sent there and is BCCI going to do
everything there, what kind of information you would like to share with us on this?)
Question from The Print: If you can say something on if there will be any discussion on the action plan for Defence Cooperation between India and Maldives and also there are reports that India is building the Colombo port
along with Japan, if you shed some light on that please?
Question SNI: Now the Prime Minister is going to two countries, Sri Lanka and Maldives, where the influence of ISIS is growing. How is India looking at the situation in both the countries?
Foreign Secretary, Shri Vijay Gokhale: As far as cricket cooperation is concerned, as I explained, a team from BCCI visited the Maldives earlier this month. There are a whole range of ways in which we can assist as I said
one of them is to build a cricket stadium under a Line of Credit or some other means of financial assistance which we are ready to do. They have requested for some coaching programs in India of young Maldivian players that includes both men and women and we
are again ready to look at that possibility and assist the Maldives in that. They would like us to do some training programs in the Maldives which we are also willing to do and we have actually already given them some cricket kits and training kits, these
have been actually given by the government of India not by the BCCI but we would hope that the BCCI takes on additional responsibilities in this regard.
Again they want to have training in coaches, in umpires, scorers, match referees, so across the board to the extent we can assist the government of the Maldives to build up a national cricket team or to bring cricket to a national level, government of India
is ready and willing to assist them. We see this as an important people to people relationship building exercise in the same way that we did for Afghanistan, if you recall, a few years ago.
So far as the action plan on Defence Cooperation is concerned, as you know there are a few issues which we have already resolved which is, if you recall, there were some issues which we had with the previous regime to ALH that we have stationed for search and
rescue operations, that matter has been resolved to mutual satisfaction. By the way the Coastal Surveillance Radar System and the CTC are also under this action plan on Defence Cooperation. We have recently refurbished one of their coastguard vessels, the
Maldives ship Huravi and that has been refitted and returned back to the government of the Maldives and we will also continue to maintain that for them. So a number of action points are already ongoing. One some other which are bigger projects, obviously bilateral
discussions will continue and as and when they mature we will let you know.
As far as ISIS influence is concerned, of course this is a matter of concern for us. We have seen reports of alleged activity in many parts of South Asia. As I said we are ready to cooperate with those governments and any other government which wishes to cooperate.
Naturally the demand and the kind of cooperation that they desire has to come from them and on receipt of that information, as I said, our government will be happy to cooperate with them on that.
Further, you know this is a trilateral arrangement that India, Japan and Sri Lanka will do in the East container terminal of the Colombo port. So we have reached an initial agreement what is called a Memorandum of Intent for a trilateral arrangement under which
the Sri Lankan Port Authority which is the PSU under the government of Sri Lanka will hold the majority share and the remaining share will be held between entities of Japan and India.
The exact shareholding pattern and so on still has to be worked out but the intention now is that with the memorandum of intent having been signed, and that is a significant achievement, we will now go into discussion about the scope of the port, the manner
of the financing, the time line and so on. So we are in the start of a process but for us this is an important achievement and the fact that we are partnering with Japan is also, in a sense, not something just of bilateral significance but also shows that
we are willing to partner with other countries in developing infrastructure in our region.
Question from Zee News: Aapne kaha ki Maldives ke pichhale regime ke kuch mudde solve ho gaye hain. Pichhale regime ke waqt ye bhi aa raha tha ki jo wahan par Bharatiya rah rahe hain unko muskilein ho rahi thi, unke mudde
they, to kya wo sab solve ho gaye hain ya is yatra ke dauran wo masale uthengen?
(You said that some of the issue of previous regime have been solved. During the last regime it was seen that Indians living in Maldives are facing certain issues, so have they been solved now and are those issues expected to be brought in this visit?)
Question from The Tribune: Once upon a time we were very high up on energy security with Sri Lanka, there was talk of Cauvery basin, Mannar basin exploration, Trincomalee farm tonks, are those still in discussions?
Question from Reuters: Is this a strategy of India to partner with Japan to counter the rising influence of China in Sri Lanka or maybe are we going to our neighborhood to address that issue with Maldives as well?
Foreign Secretary, Shri Vijay Gokhale: As far as first question is concerned, this is an important subject and this is something which we have taken up both with the previous government and the current government. I am
happy to inform you we have very positive information on this from the current government. A number of work permit related issues which were held up, if you remember, a number of Indians who had to renew their work permits were unable to renew during the previous
Our understanding is that this has been wholly or almost wholly addressed. We are also in discussion in ensuring that the future work permit process is smoothened out. So this is certainly a priority for us and we are in constant discussion with them. It may
not necessarily figure at the highest level because we have a good working understanding between the foreign ministries of the two countries on this issue.
On the issue of energy security, I would have to revert to you. This is an area which I do not think we will be discussing when the Prime Minister goes but allow me to revert to you on this.
As far as the last question is concerned, I don’t think we should see our cooperation with any country in our region as necessarily having some ulterior motive or being directed against another country or being part of some grand strategy. I think our objective
is that infrastructure development in our region benefits our economy and the economy of that country. We recognize that we have limited capabilities, within those capabilities we are making all efforts bilaterally but when major foreign investors like Japan
are also willing to join projects which are of our national interest, we have no objection in doing it with them. This is a model I can say you will see not just in Sri Lanka but in the coming days in a couple of other neighboring countries as well.
Official Spokesperson, Shri Raveesh Kumar:
Thank you sir. With this we conclude this special briefing on Prime Minister’s visit to Maldives and Sri Lanka. Thank you all for joining.

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MUMBAI, India — A pre-dawn stampede killed 18 people Saturday as tens of thousands of people gathered to mourn the death of a Muslim spiritual leader in India's financial capital, police said.
At least 40 other people were injured in the stampede when mourners thronged the home of Syedna Mohammed Burhanuddin, the head of the Dawoodi Bohra Muslim community, Mumbai Police Commissioner Satya Pal Singh said.
Burhanuddin died Friday at the age of 102.
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Volume 38 Issue 3 September 2013 pp 583-592 Articles
Senescence is a highly regulated process accompanied by changes in gene expression. While the mRNA levels of most genes decline, the mRNA levels of specific genes (senescence associated genes, SAGs) increase during senescence. Arabidopsis SAG12 (AtSAG12) gene codes for papain-like cysteine protease. The promoter of AtSAG12 is SA-responsive and reported to be useful to delay senescence by expressing cytokinin biosynthesis gene isopentenyltransferase specifically during senescence in several plants including Arabidopsis, lettuce and rice. The physiological role of AtSAG12 is not known; the homozygous atsag12 mutant neither fails to develop senescence-associated vacuoles nor shows any morphological phenotype. Through BLAST search using AtSAG12 amino acid sequences as query, we identified a few putative homologues from rice genome (OsSAGs; Oryza sativa SAGs). OsSAG12-1 is the closest homologue of AtSAG12 with 64% similar amino acid composition. Expression of OsSAG12-1 is induced during senescence and pathogen-induced cell death. To evaluate the possible role of OsSAG12-1 we generated RNAi transgenic lines in Japonica rice cultivar TP309. The transgenic lines developed early senescence at varying levels and showed enhanced cell death when inoculated with bacterial pathogen Xanthomonas oryzae pv.oryzae. Our results suggest that OsSAG12-1 is a negative regulator of cell death in rice.
Volume 39 Issue 1 March 2014 pp 119-126 Articles
A plant that is in part infected by a pathogen is more resistant throughout its whole body to subsequent infections – a phenomenon known as systemic acquired resistance (SAR). Mobile signals are synthesized at the site of infection and distributed throughout the plant through vascular tissues. Mechanism of SAR development subsequent to reaching the mobile signal in the distal tissue is largely unknown. Recently we showed that FLOWERING LOCUS D (FLD) gene of Arabidopsis thaliana is required in the distal tissue to activate SAR. FLD codes for a homologue of human-lysine-specific histone demethylase. Here we show that FLD function is required for priming (SAR induced elevated expression during challenge inoculation) of WRKY29 and WRKY6 genes. FLD also differentially influences basal and SAR-induced expression of WRKY38, WRKY65 and WRKY53 genes. In addition, we also show that FLD partly localizes in nucleus and influences histone modifications at the promoters of WRKY29 and WRKY6 genes. The results altogether indicate to the possibility of FLD’s involvement in epigenetic regulation of SAR.
Volume 40 Issue 1 March 2015 pp 137-146 Articles
A sustainable balance between defence and growth is essential for optimal fitness under pathogen stress. Plants activate immune response at the cost of normal metabolic requirements. Thus, plants that constitutively activate defence are deprived of growth. Arabidopsis thaliana mutant constitutive defence without defect in growth and development1 (cdd1) is an exception. The cdd1 mutant is constitutive for salicylic acid accumulation, signalling, and defence against biotrophic and hemibiotrophic pathogens, without having much impact on growth. Thus, cdd1 offers an ideal genetic background to identify novel regulators of plant defence. Here we report the differential gene expression profile between cdd1 and wild-type plants as obtained by microarray hybridization. Expression of several defence-related genes also supports constitutive activation of defence in cdd1. We screened T-DNA insertion mutant lines of selected genes, for resistance against virulent bacterial pathogen Pseudomonas syringae pv. tomato DC3000 (Pst DC3000). Through bacterial resistance, callose deposition and pathogenesis-associated expression analyses, we identified four novel regulators of plant defence. Resistance levels in the mutants suggest that At2g19810 and [rom] At5g05790 are positive regulators, whereas At1g61370 and At3g42790 are negative regulators of plant defence against bacterial pathogens.
Volume 41 Issue 3 September 2016 pp 445-453
Senescence is the final stage of plant development. Although expression of most of the genes is suppressed duringsenescence, a set of genes referred as senescence-associated genes (SAGs) is induced.
Volume 42 Issue 3 September 2017 pp 501-508 Article
Arabidopsis MYC2 (AtMYC2) is a bHLH class transcription factor that mediates light-dependent seedling development,disease defence, JA and ABA signalling. AtMYC2 gene modulates hypocotyl elongation and expression of chlorophyll A/Bbinding protein 1 (CAB1) and rubisco small subunit protein1 (RBCS1) under blue light. The atmyc2 mutants are resistantagainst virulent bacterial pathogens. MYC2 orthologues from several crop plants have been characterized. The rice geneOs10g42430 has been referred earlier as OsMYC2 and has been shown to promote expression of JA-inducible genes.However, the role of OsMYC2 in seedling development under ABA, dark or light of specific wavelengths was not known.It was also not known whether OsMYC2 complements AtMYC2 function in Arabidopsis. We show here that expression ofOsMYC2 in the atmyc2 mutant of Arabidopsis complements the blue-light-mediated defects in hypocotyl elongation andexpression of CAB1 and RBCS1. We generated multiple transgenic rice lines for over-expression and RNAi-mediatedsuppression of OsMYC2. In agreement with AtMYC2 function, OsMYC2 over-expression and RNAi lines showedenhanced and suppressed seedling growth compared to WT plants respectively under blue light, and showed little effectunder white light or dark. In agreement with the negative regulatory role of AtMYC2 in disease defence, the RNAi linesshowed enhanced resistance against bacterial pathogen Xanthomonas oryzae pv oryzae. However, in contrast to AtMYC2function, OsMYC2 influences seedling development under red light and show no effect in ABA-mediated seed germination.Thus, the results suggest evolutionarily conserved as well as the distinct role of OsMYC2 in comparison with AtMYC2.
Volume 24 Issue 4 December 1999 pp 445-452 Articles

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Dr. Kiyoshi Ito receives Gauss Prize
Kyoto University professor emeritus and former director of the Kyoto University Research Institute for Mathematical Sciences Dr. Kiyoshi Ito was awarded the newly created Carl Friedrich Gauss Prize for applications of mathematics at the International Congress of Mathematicians held in Madrid on August 22, 2006, and on September 14, 2006, International Mathematics Union (IMU) President Sir J. Ball personally presented the medal to Dr. Ito at a special ceremony held in Kyoto.
Gauss Prize was created in 2002 by the worldwide organization for mathematics, the International Mathematics Union, to promote awareness of the influence of mathematics “as a key technology a driving force behind many modern technologies.” The prize is given to honor scientists whose mathematical research has contributed to the technological development of society and the enhancement of people’s everyday lives, and is the highest honor conferred for applications of mathematics.
The selection of Kiyoshi Ito for the first laureate reflects the achievements in the field of stochastic analysis, starting with his invention of the stochastic differential equation, which have had a significant impact on our society.
Sir John Ball presenting the medal and saying the words, “Congratulations,” to a smiling Dr. Ito, who responds, “Thank you very much.”


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24. Cook your potatoes in milk when making mashed potatoes.
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This internationally acclaimed children’s choir has impressed audiences with the best of choral music, both sacred and secular, since its founding in 1991 by Grammy Award winning composer and keyboardist Paul Halley.
Board of Directors
Chair/Treasurer: Stephen Ivain
Vice Chair: Allison Holst-Grubbe
Chairperson Emeritus: Rebecca Bottari
Secretary: Heather Thomson
Behind the Voices
Dr. Gabriel Löfvall
GABRIEL LÖFVALL, Artistic Director, is a conductor, pianist and tenor who grew up listening to the sounds of the tango in his native Argentina. Born in the city of Mendoza, he graduated from the National University of Cuyo and sang with the Boys’ Choir there, as a youth, under Marcelo Coltro. He studied piano with Dora De Marinis.
Gabriel moved to the U.S. in 1997, where he attended the Hartt School of Music at the University of Hartford, and received a Masters of Music in piano performance under Luiz de Moura Castro, and later, a Masters and Doctorate in Choral Conducting, under Dr. Edward Bolkovac. Gabriel has taken his music to many different corners of the world: Argentina, Chile, Brazil, Canada, Mexico, England, Portugal, Spain, Hungary, and the U.S. With flutist Gonzalo Cortes, he formed Duo del Sur, a chamber music ensemble mostly devoted to the research and dissemination of South American contemporary music. He co-directs the vocal ensemble Vallis Musicae, a community chorus that meets regularly for seasonal performances and international tours.
Gabriel was the assistant conductor for The Main Street Singers of New Britain. He currently serves as the Director of Music for St. Patrick-St. Anthony Church in downtown Hartford, and recently obtained a Doctorate in Musical Arts from the Hartt School of Music at the University of Hartford with Dr. Edward Bolkovac.
Junior Choir Director, Director of Technology
ANDREW SKINNER grew up in Erie, Pennsylvania, the son of a church musician and a teacher. Andrew majored in music education at Gordon College in Wenham, MA, where he studied French horn as his primary instrument. He was admitted to the Boston Conservatory thereafter for a master’s degree in horn performance, but decided to pursue teaching rather than return as a student. He still teaches horn lessons privately, and plays whenever he can.
After college, Andrew taught middle school for five years in Chelsea, MA, growing a regionally successful choral program from the ground up before moving to Connecticut in 2017. Andrew now directs the choral program at Torrington Middle School in addition to roles as music director for musical theater productions in Torrington and neighboring communities.
Mr. Skinner is currently working toward the completion of a master’s degree in performance technology from Southern Utah University. He and his wife are new parents, and are expecting their second child in January 2021.
Angels in Training Director
KAREN SOVAK is a native of Schenectady, New York, and comes from a family of musicians - instrumentalists, choral, band and orchestra conductors, and church organists. Karen majored in Music Education at SUNY Potsdam and pursued further musical studies with many choral and instrumental ensembles. Karen also indulged her love of the visual arts, with classes at SUNY Albany and then at the Corcoran Art School in Washington, D.C. where she also began her career teaching young children at the Rudolf Steiner School in Falls Church, VA.
Beginning in 1988, The Children's Discovery Center in Winsted, CT became the happy recipient of Karen's considerable creative, teaching, and organizational talents. As Head Teacher and Director, Karen expanded this arts and language-based program for pre-school children, winning National Accreditation for the school's innovative, experiential curriculum. Karen has been singing in Gaudeamus since the ensemble's founding in 1991 and worked with Paul Halley at his recording and music publishing company Pelagos, as General Manager from 1998- 2003. She was the Executive Director of Joyful Noise from 2003-2006.
Karen continues as Director of the Chorus Angelicus Angels in Training as well as the Berkshire Children's Chorus Junior Choir Director, helping very young people to explore and rejoice in their emerging musical potential.
Bethany J. Lee
Bethany is currently running the Chorus Angelicus office from home. She manages the billing, payments, tuition, payroll, donations, advertising, website, phone calls and emails. She is also a homeschooling mother to a Junior Chorister who has come up through the ranks and is in her 7th year in the Chorus Angelicus Choir. She is perseverant, passionate about music and art, mother earth, her daughter, and her chickens. If you need something from the office, you will inevitably be in communication with Bethany. She is happy to help you and hopes her laughter will brighten your day.
Elizabeth recently retired from forty years of service in the public-school system and is pleased to be associated once again with Chorus Angelicus. She is the Minster of Music for the Church of Christ Congregational (UCC), Norfolk, having followed Gabriel's tenure there. She worked for many years with the late Ruth Lansche, in her private voice studio and at The Hotchkiss School. She is honored to be serving as accompanist, with Gabriel, for the senior choir. These young voices and their devotion to our choirs are an important beacon of hope and beauty in today's society.
Kyong-Han Kim has been teaching piano in her private studio and has taught at universities in Korea. Her students have won local, state and national level competitions, as well as performed at Carnegie Hall. She has served as an adjudicator for the National Guild Piano Audition since 2007 and has been invited to judge local and state competitions and auditions in Ohio, Massachusetts and Connecticut. She has performed in numerous concerts and music festivals throughout the US, Canada, Austria, Japan and Korea as a soloist, chamber musician and accompanist including the Bowdoin Music Festival in Maine, Banff Music Festival in Canada, Kiwanis Chamber Music Festival in Edmonton, Canada and Wien Klavier Meisterkurse in Vienna, Austria. Mrs. Kim graduated from Seoul High School of Music & Art and holds BM from Ewha Womans University (Seoul, Korea) and MM from Musashino Music Academy (Tokyo, Japan). She also studied at University of Alberta for Professional Studies (Edmonton, Canada) and attended The Ohio State University for DMA for a year (Columbus, Ohio). Her most influential teachers include Helmut Brauss (University of Alberta), Alexander Satz (Moscow Conservatory) and Martin Canin (The Juilliard School). Currently, she is a member of MTNA, CSMTA and NGPT.
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Skip to comments.Levi Johnston and Fat Girlfriend Arrive in St. Paul (PDS & NY Mag Vitriol)
Posted on 09/08/2008 9:04:58 AM PDT by Zechariah_8_13
Oh FINE. Shes not fat, shes just pregnant. Whatever, were just jealous. The Palin family most importantly, let's face it, Bristol Palin and her baby Daddy Levi Johnson recently arrived at the airport in St. Paul, where they were greeted by John and Cindy "Crazy Hair" McCain, etc. Levi was casually dressed in a sweater and pants that, while baggy, did little to disguise the splendor of his muscular teenage jailbait frame. Alas, ladies and gents, this one is, obviously, taken. The McCain campaign earlier announced that Levi and Bristol were planning on getting married, and the eagle-eyed biddies over at the Times Caucus blog have spotted a rock on young Bristol's porky (KIDDING!) pregnant finger!
And make sure to read the disgusting comments.
Never heard of this rag but will look for it in the newsstands and turn it upside down/backwards. Or maybe hide them altogether.
Why should this outrage anyone?
OK from now on I WILL NOT feel guilty using the name “Obamarama and his baby mama”
“Levi was casually dressed in a sweater and pants that, while baggy, did little to disguise the splendor of his muscular teenage jailbait frame”
Since when are boys jailbait? Women want men with money and status, not muscles.
If I’m not mistaken, this was not penned by ‘unknown’ but by some venomous broad named ‘Jessica Pressler’.
It’s garbage, unfit for bird cage liner.
“Oh FINE. Shes not fat, shes just pregnant”
Is it just me, or are fat pregnant women sexy? Aren’t we supposed to find fertility attractive? I thought Darwin created us to like women who can reproduce.
I would have guessed a male homosexual!
You’ve obviously never had a teenage daughter....
Why do you think all these teenage male heart-throbs now have personal trainers and 6-packs like a prizefighter?
Good heavens. Apparently New York Magazine can only get teeny boppers to write for them now.
The Democrats are just digging this hole deeper and deeper. I, for one, suggest we lend them some heavy equipment!
“Please get this out to every decent American you know.”
Do these people have a clue that their snide remarks only p*ss off people & gain the Palin’s sympathy? Keep it up, guys. You only hurt your own side.
lol - jealousy looks so ugly on people
No - let them be. Let them fire away on all the trival and petty stuff - that way the candidates can get the real work done. Even Slick is still lovable (to his base) through all those lecherous jokes.
Stay classy, liberals!
You're an idiot and an ignorant idiot. You don't understand the term "baby mama." It means the UNMARRIED woman bearing children.
I am appalled when our side is so stupid.
Do adults really pay to read such commentary? Who is the target demographic? 8th graders?
Sick. Keep it up MSM and you will get Sarah P. and John McCain elected. Your Liberal bias is showing big time. Liberals are left over hippies who learned how to do Marx and take a bath. They still glory over how they ended the Viet Nam War (in Defeat).
You know who also like teenage boys with big muscles?
Gay New York magazine writers.
I can only imagine what this Jessica Pressler looks like-most lib women are butt ugly and full of hate. Can you imagine if boggers wrote about their messiah Obama?!! Calling his Michelle his cleaning lady or something?! And they are the tolerant party!!
“Since when are boys jailbait? Women want men with money and status, not muscles.”
Young attractive women want men with power and money.
Old, bitter reporters with gin on their breath look at children and ache, sexually.
You remember, of course, that Michelle famously referred to Obama as “her baby daddy”.
“Youve obviously never had a teenage daughter....”
The point of the term “jailbait” is that adults (people who could go to jail for violating age of consent laws) are attracted to them. The reason that nearly all statutory rapists are men is because women, unlike men, are chiefly desired for their looks. If adult women cannot control themselves around six-packs, they can at least go to the nearest college campus.
I think that this writer also hangs out on Usenet pro football discussion groups. I recognize the style.
“You don’t understand the term ‘baby mama.’ It means the UNMARRIED woman bearing children”
That may be the usual context, but literally, Michelle is a baby mama. A bastard is a bastard, even if it’s adopted.
Alas, ladies and gents, this one is, obviously, taken.”
I don’t know that the author is only addressing women. Just more sickness from the left.
Well, it's a good thing 'our side' has someone as enlightened as you to defend us then.
Liberals playing on the Freeway again.
Democrats know they are in moral decline and have no other repartee’ except the politics of personal destruction.
They have nothing of substance to offer, so they sink below the bottom of the barrel resorting to salacious attacks.
I am appalled when our side is so stupid.
Having a bad day, Pollyanna?
Good luck, ZerO.
This is a prime example of a big problem in this country that people don’t want to talk about. We don’t have what Rush likes to call the “CHICKIFICATION” of America, the new makers of cultural opinion are GAY MEN. I call it, the GAYIFICATION of America. And that’s what so much as turned nasty. Gay men are bitches. They admit it. All the emphasis on looks and DESIGNER clothes and fashion are a byproduct of gay men controlling the popular culture media. The gossip (which is out of control), the emphasis on body image. NOW, yes, there’s always been an element of that...but nothing like it is now. If you don’t believe me, go to the biggest gossip websites (perezhilton.com,tmz.com) and see the outright cruelty displayed. I have my own opinion as to all of this... but this is what is happening. Your children are taking their pop culture cues from gay men...It’s very dangerous.
“I dont know that the author is only addressing women. Just more sickness from the left.”
I suppose it’s possible that “jailbait” was in reference to chickenhawks. That makes infinitely more sense.
Law of unexpected consequences ... they will probably strike the natural gas they are so full of.
(I know, don't end with a preposition.)
They were revolting. I've never seen such viciousness in so many places : online, in magazines, in newspapers - everywhere. Palin threatens everything the left-wingers hold dear.
Everytime I read an article like this, and the nasty comments with it, I'm more convinced than ever that these people need to be defeated, and defeated convincingly.
Then I placed another book on top, burying the eight stacks of copies. Fixed.
You’re right. It’s about time we talked about it.
Since Bristol’s baby will be born to unmarried parents (they’re getting married after the baby is born) will that baby be a bastard according to your definition?
“You’re an idiot and an ignorant idiot. You don’t understand the term “baby mama.” It means the UNMARRIED woman bearing children.
I am appalled when our side is so stupid.”
Call me an idiot and stupid too because I didn’t know what it meant. In fact, I would hold someone in a higher regard for not knowing all this gang slang. Do you like rap too?
Actually,some women want one of each type of man.
“For several years, Jessica Pressler was the author of ‘Pressler’s Miscellany’ in the Philadelphia Weekly, an irreverent column in which she made fun of Philadelphia celebrities and carried on an unhealthy obsession with Neil Stein”
To paraphrase Jacques Barzun, does it profit a woman to be irreverent in a culture that no longer reveres anything?
Funny, I got hit with those same terms just last week so I had to remind myself it’s just a reflection of the person who wrote them. Name-calling is so middle school.
ping for my new tagline
“Since Bristols baby will be born to unmarried parents (theyre getting married after the baby is born) will that baby be a bastard according to your definition?”
Yes. I didn’t bring up the analogy to prove this point, but the word was invented to shame people who have babies out of wedlock. No that I care one way or another about Bristol, because she has nothing to do with my life.
Walgreen’s magazine rack had a number of Barry/Michelle covers turned backwards and I finished off the rest. Including Oprah’s rag.
This only pisses off women.
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