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Fake IPS Officer Arrested
Hyderabad, May 16 (Maxim News): A fake IPS officer posting himself as NIA Additional SP was arrested by Commissioner’s Task Force personnel today.
Disclosing this to mediapersons here, City Police Commissioner Anjani Kumar, IPS, said the accused identified as Guru Vinod of Giddalur of Prakasam district of Andhra Pradesh has been posing as IPS officer holding the post of Additional Superintendent of Police of NIA and threatening the people, especially his friends and relatives.
The CP said the police seized one dummy pistol, a laptop, some fake rubber stamps in the name of NIA and six cell phones. The CP said the accused had gone to jail earlier for threatening people with fake rubber stamps. After release from the jail, the accused resumed his illegal activities and fell in the hands of Task Force personnel. (Maxim News)

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(CINCINNATI, April 25, 2005) Harris Corporation (NYSE: HRS) today announced that TV Azteca, S.A. de C.V., one of the two largest producers of Spanish language television programming in the world, has signed a purchase agreement with Harris Corporation's Broadcast Communications Division for digital television transmitters, and high-definition encoding equipment for HDTV. The equipment will bring HDTV to nine cities in México and will be launched in two phases through mid-2006.
The new equipment places TV Azteca at the forefront of digital transmission capabilities in Latin America and will allow for HDTV transmission in México City, Guadalajara and Monterrey by the third quarter of this year. The services are in accordance with a rollout plan detailed by TV Azteca in August 2004. Phase Two of the national rollout will bring HDTV services to six additional cities (Matamoros, Reynosa, Nuevo Laredo, Ciudad Juarez, Mexicali and Tijuana) through the first half of 2006.
"This is another example of how TV Azteca sets technology standards to benefit viewers throughout Latin America," said Mario San Román, CEO of TV Azteca. "This announcement also implies that our first stations will be on the air at least 15 months ahead of the digital upgrade commitments confirmed with Mexican authorities."
According to Román Gomez, TV Azteca Director of Engineering and Technology Development, Harris was selected as the vendor of choice following a careful and thorough analysis of Harris and competitive suppliers. "The technology, air signal, reliability, price and our long-term relationship with Harris were key factors in our selection," said Gómez. "We have a 12-year track record with Harris transmitters."
The initial TV Azteca order includes six Harris DiamondCD(R) DHD8P1 transmitters operating at 1.8 kW. DiamondCD transmitters have been among the most popular transmitters employed for the U.S. digital TV rollout, with more than 300 deployed in the U.S. at power levels from 1.8 kW to 35 kW. TV Azteca can readily expand the DHD8P1 for additional power output by adding power amplifiers and power supplies. The DiamondCD DHD8P1 transmitter includes the Apex(TM) advanced digital TV exciter, with over 400 installations since its introduction in 2002.
"Harris Corporation is pleased to continue its strategic relationship with TV Azteca as it starts deployment of digital television. Harris has established a broad base of content delivery solutions from its leadership position in U.S. digital television, and we are honored to be selected to extend these market-proven solutions to México as TV Azteca commences its commercial deployment of digital television," said Dale Mowry, vice president and general manager of Television Broadcast Systems for Harris Broadcast Communications.
"This project is consistent with our efforts throughout the region to guide customers to a fast and economical conversion to digital throughout their broadcast operations," said Nahuel Villegas, Harris Broadcast Communications' regional sales director for Latin America and the Caribbean.
Harris' turnkey solution will allow viewers with HDTV sets to receive picture resolution six times sharper than standard definition analog sets. TV Azteca viewers without HDTV sets will continue to receive their television programming through analog transmission approaches.
About TV Azteca
TV Azteca is one of the two largest producers of Spanish language television programming in the world, operating two national television networks in México, Azteca 13 and Azteca 7, through more than 300 owned and operated stations across the country. TV Azteca affiliates include Azteca America Network, a new broadcast television network focused on the rapidly growing U.S. Hispanic market, and Todito.com, an Internet portal for North American Spanish speakers.
About Harris Broadcast Communications Division
Harris Broadcast Communications Division is one of four divisions within Harris Corporation, an international communications equipment company focused on providing assured communications(TM) products, systems and services for government and commercial customers in more than 150 countries. One of the world's leading suppliers of broadcast technology, Harris Broadcast Communications Division offers a full range of solutions that support the digital delivery, automation and management of audio, video and data. For more information, visit www.broadcast.harris.com.
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Australian bushwalking tracks featured on new stamps: Linn's Buzz
By Joe O'Donnell
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A new Australia Post stamp issue is focused on the country's famous bushwalking trails, including National Pass, New South Wales; Cape to Cape Track, Western Australia; Larapinta Trail, Northern Territory; and Overland Track, Tasmania.
"Australians have a love of the great outdoors and bushwalking continues to be a popular activity for many Australians," Australia Post Philatelic Manager Michael Zsolt said. "We hope these stamps will appeal to everyone and especially to bushwalkers and avid hikers who like to get out and about."
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Julian Mayor is an artist and designer whose work can be found in Europe’s more conceptual design galleries. On graduating from the Royal College of Art in 2000 he worked in California for IDEO design. He returned to London in 2002 to work for Pentagram, whilst exhibiting his own work. He currently teaches 3-D environments at the London College of Communication, exploring computers and sculptural form.
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Julian Mayor’s work can be found at Fat Galerie in Paris.
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The 9th International Anti-Corruption Conference
Confronting Police Corruption: Protecting Individuals from Malicious
Mr. Chairman, your Excellencies, colleagues and friends,
I am honoured to have been asked to address this plenary session of the 9th Annual International Anti-Corruption Conference. Moreover, I am genuinely humbled to follow as speaker Peter Eigen who has through his vision, energy and the power of his will helped put the issue of corruption on the world's agenda.
I also know about the many others connected with Transparency International and organisations like Transparency International who have risked your lives, personal freedom and careers to expose corruption. The world's fight against corruption would be not be where it is today without your sacrifice and we are deeply thankful to you all.
Finally, I recognise the South African Government, Kevin Ford, TI's various boards and chapters and the extraordinarily well qualified people behind the scenes at TI's General Secretariat such as Gillian Dell, for making this conference an outstanding success.
This is the fourth consecutive and intense day that we will have discussed the complexities of fighting corruption on a world-wide basis. The quality of the speakers who have gone before make the task of adding anything new very difficult indeed. However, I wish to introduce a perspective that addresses two subjects, which although separate, are closely interrelated.
The first are my thoughts on the challenge confronting the police on the issue of corruption. While it is a year away before Interpol's General Assembly of 177 nations will consider my nomination to replace Ray Kendall as Secretary General, the important role of police in our society deserves our attention in this plenary meeting.
My second point centres on the difficult challenge of balancing our efforts to battle corruption while avoiding making public, false, anonymous allegations of corruption or wrongdoing against individuals and societies.
Corruption and the Police
Let me begin with the policing aspect. The police must play a critically important role in our efforts to address corruption and they must be part of the solution and not just part of the problem. Scholars and police officials have designed a number of models to determine what elements of police institutions pose the greatest risk to corruption. While these models differ in some aspects, they all recognise that the nature of policing and the culture of police present a great risk for corruption - unless proper preventive and remedial measures are taken.
In my view, three major elements must exist for an institution to be vulnerable to corruption. I refer to this as the Triangle of Vulnerability, a different triangle from the one on the logo behind me, which focuses on the Triangle for success against corruption!
A public agency that will be the primary breeding ground for corruption must have Power, it must have Discretion and it must have Secrecy. Police agencies possess all three of these elements. Indeed, given the nature of their duties they MUST have all three to do their job while protecting the privacy rights of citizens. With limited resources available in many of the countries gathered here, where should our focus be? It is unlikely that power and discretion can be meaningfully reduced given the nature and importance of the police function in all societies. Instead, it seems to me that the preventive and remedial measures need to bring more transparency and less secrecy into the equation of what police do and how they do it -- if Police are to achieve public trust and avoid systemic corruption.
Let me stop for a moment and ask whether there are any heads of police agencies or customs services in the audience?
Would the Head of Zimbabwe's National Police Force, Commissioner Augustin Chihuri please stand and be recognised?
Commissioner Chihuri is a member of Interpol's Executive Committee, and a person who has committed himself to fighting corruption. By his presence at this conference, he is taking an important step to holding himself, his agency and his officers accountable. If you have a problem with corruption in Zimbabwe or with the Zimbabwean National Police Force, there's the person to see.
Are there any other heads of police agencies in attendance? In my humble opinion, this must change.
Transparency International and those committed to fighting corruption have a strong interest in having the heads of police services at these conferences. Police agencies cannot be kept outside the tent in which these important issues are being discussed. Similarly, police agencies have a strong interest in meeting face-to-face with the private sector, civil society and other public officials discussing the importance of and ways to tackle corruption. They should not fear coming inside the tent.
As Chief Justice Kamal from Bangladesh so eloquently stated yesterday, participation in this conference helps to sensitise those in critical positions to the benefits of attacking corruption and the dangers of letting it go unchecked. In the future perhaps the heads of governments or relevant ministries could come to these conferences with their police commissioners like Zimbabwe's Minister of Home Affairs, the Honourable D. Dabengwa, has done. And, perhaps we can have a plenary session where Heads of Police Agencies hear from you directly, and you directly from them.
As I said earlier, police officers operate in an environment that if left unattended can become a breeding ground for corruption. I believe that most police officers choose policing as a commitment to service, not because of the potential for personal wealth, although of course some do.
Why do I feel this way? Because when I was at the US Department of Treasury, I knew that all of the federal agents under me risked their lives to serve the public. During my tenure, 17 of my agents were killed in the line of duty. One of my agents, who was the subject of an investigation for having exercised poor judgement in the performance of his duty, committed suicide. He listed his having been criticised in that investigation as one of the reasons for his suicide.
You can see why I have great respect for the policing profession.
Not all people have had the same experience or have the same opinion of police officers that I do. After this week I understand even better why. Police officials must bear part of the responsibility for this lack of trust. The public believes that police officers will go to almost any lengths to protect their own - even corrupt officers.
In addition, Police Leaders who are afraid of being called disloyal or criticised by their superiors often look the other way and thus feed the negative impression some have.
This is wrong!
Police Leaders can and must take important steps to reduce the risk of and fight corruption in their ranks. The Police can learn from the private sector and Transparency International in this regard. They can articulate anti-corruption principles like Robert Wilson of Rio Tinto; they can communicate those principles to all police officers, employees and the public like FBI Director Louis Freeh and the Head of New Scotland Yard, Sir Paul Condon, have done. They can stand behind those principles by following the rules themselves and by enforcing them... but sensibly!
Anti-corruption principles do not have to be complicated and taken to absurd limits. My colleague at the New York University School of Law, Jim Jacobs, has written about the dangers of extreme integrity rules in a book entitled, The Absolute Pursuit of Integrity.
Let me give you a personal example: We had a rule at the U.S. Treasury Department that did not permit us accepting speaking engagements where meals exceeded U.S. $25. In theory the rule made sense. We don't want regulated businesses wining and dining the regulators. We want to avoid even the slightest appearance of impropriety. As my good friend and colleague Stan Morris can attest, I rarely eat a meal that costs in excess of $25. In fact, I love sharing secret tips on inexpensive places to eat. So, I had absolutely no problem with Treasury's rule.., until one day.
I was invited to give a luncheon address to a regulated industry, but failed to get prior clearance from Treasury. When I realised that I had failed to get clearance, I called one of Treasury's ethics officers from the luncheon. His question: What are they serving? My answer: a Steak and Lobster combination plate.
Put yourself in the place of the ethic's officer, what would your advice to me have been about the propriety of eating the offered meal?
His advice to keep me from being brought up on corruption charges for violating ethical rules WAS: (PAUSE)
"Ron," he said, "choose either the steak or lobster, but by all means do not eat both."
Clearly our anti-corruption policies cannot descend to being the subject of jokes. Therefore police agencies have to adopt policies that make sense and work in practice.
One way to make them work is that Police Leaders should include civil society in their fight against corruption. But, police officers are used to conducting investigations in secrecy. Police officers have to worry about not undermining either the sensitive criminal investigations or the privacy interests of the subjects of their investigations. Moreover, the Police often do not trust the public or the public's motivation for investigating them. Therefore, to them, my suggestion might sound like heresy.., in the short run.
In the long run, the Police and the Public will greatly benefit if Police Leaders actively include non-police in overseeing their activities. The quality of our police forces will improve and the public's confidence in its police and the rule of law will grow. More importantly, through constant interaction with people outside their forces, the culture of us against them can be changed.
One final step could be considered. An International data base accessible on the internet could be established, perhaps by TI in co- operation with Interpol or the U.N. Such a data base could permit any citizen of any country to review any particular police forces articulated anti-corruption principles; statistics on enforcement of these principles and ways that allegations of corruption could be brought to the attention of the appropriate authorities in each country. The Internet permits a transparency unimaginable but a few years ago, and we should make sure we make every effort to use it.
Care in naming names in the anti-corruption campaign
Before I close, let me leave you with one admonition. Despite my background as a prosecutor of public corruption cases and as a Law Enforcement Official who disciplined corrupt officers, I say go slow before you call someone corrupt or a criminal.
My concern that allegations of wrongdoing not be casually or lightly levelled stems from my experience as a young child, witnessing my father, who worked as a janitor, be wrongly accused of stealing money from the stores we cleaned, wrongly accused of stealing liquor from the bars we cleaned and wrongly accused of stealing office supplies from the law offices that we cleaned. Until my father cleaned an office for years and established himself as being honest, he was the first accused of wrongdoing. The pre-existing bias against him made it easy for people to falsely accuse him and those of us who worked with him.
Certain categories of people are often the first suspected of wrongdoing. In murder mysteries, it's usually the butler who is accused of having committed the murder. In thefts, it's usually the lowest ranking and lowest paid employees who are the first accused. I remember and will never forget that behind allegations of wrongdoing, there is a person with a reputation, family and feelings to be considered.
For all of us in attendance, the lesson about being careful before making allegations of wrongdoing was reinforced during the first day of this conference. U.N. Under Secretary Arlacchi candidly stated that he does not give much credence to anonymous allegations of wrongdoing because of the unfair damage unsupported and reckless allegations of wrongdoing cause innocent people.
If we had any doubt about how sensitive we should be about publicising anonymous allegations of corruption in a public forum, we need go no further in our memories than to that same first plenary session. Fortunately for us, a minister from Malawi was in attendance when World Bank President Jim Wolfenson quoted an anonymous citizen from Malawi who said something to the effect that "all ministers in Malawi have boats."
The tension between these two competing goals could not have been made clearer.
On the one hand, there is great value in knowing the public's opinion about the honesty of their elected officials, ministers, public servants, police and customs officials. Transparency International's reason for existence is based on this principle.
On the other hand, let me join the voices of those who wish to emphasise equally the importance of remembering that the closer the anonymous allegations of corruption move to identifying a specific person, the more carefully we must debate the question of whether we publicise the allegation; how we publicise it; and what opportunity will we present the accused to respond.
Name-calling has become an all too familiar component of the political process. Every incumbent party is attacked as corrupt by every party seeking to oust it. And, the cycle never seems to end.
At the conclusion of this conference, let us adopt as one of our principles the example set by the World Bank President and the Minister from Malawi. Where possible, let us not publicly accuse a person of being corrupt in a forum in which they are not represented. And, if one hears a false or reckless allegation of corruption, challenge the speaker and give him or her the opportunity to amend or clarify the offending remarks in the same forum.
Together, in attacking corruption, we have set ourselves on a course that is essential for achieving human rights, democracy and economic freedom. It is a very difficult course indeed. For my small part, I pledge my best efforts and those of my police colleagues in joining you to meet this challenge.


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Our Fateful Final Hour
It's expected that within the hour the British Columbia government of Christy Clark will lose a confidence vote. Clark has shown, as if anyone needs more proof, that she has zero integrity with her throne speech lifted largely from the platforms of the opposition New Democrats and Green party. She promised to do everything that her own party has steadfastly ridiculed right up until the last votes were counted.
Now she's vowing to take her churlishness to another level. Maybe another election is what we need to toss out these swine for good.
Well it's over. Clark's government went down on a 44-42 vote. Now let's see what chicanery she has in store for the people of British Columbia.


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May 24, 2022
Director's Executive Administrative Assistant
Department of General Services
1100 Bank Street
Richmond, VA 23219
Via Electronic Filing at https://townhall.virginia.gov/
RE: Regulations for Capitol Square [1 VAC 30 ? 100]
Dear Ms. Bishton:
The Susan B. Anthony List (SBA List) appreciates the opportunity to comment on the Department of General Services’ final stage of proposed changes to the Regulations for Capitol Square [1 VAC 30-100] to request the reopening the proposed stage of the rulemaking process in order to further protect individuals’ and organizations in exercising freedom of speech and assembly under the Virginia constitution.
About Susan B. Anthony List:
SBA List is a family of organizations devoted to ending abortion by electing national leaders and advocating for laws that save lives, with a special calling to promote pro-life women leaders. Our efforts include policy advocacy and voter education projects in a variety of states including the Commonwealth of Virginia. We have participated in peaceful public events on the Capitol Grounds in Richmond on several occasions.
Reopening of Proposed Stage of Regulations for Capitol Square [1 VAC 30 ? 100] Rulemaking
Under the current proposed amendments to the Regulations for Capitol Square Section 1VAC30-100-50. Permit Process, subsection E, states: “Permitted events may last a maximum of one hour, with an additional 30 minutes to set up the event and 30 minutes to take it down.” It is in the interest of individuals and organizations in the Commonwealth of Virginia, wishing to practice their first amendment right to free speech and peaceful assembly in the U.S. Constitution, that the regulation is amended to include at least 1 hour of set-up time, 1.5 hours of the permitted event time, and to keep the additional 45 minutes of time to take down the event set-up at the end of the permitted event. We request that the Department of General Services reopen the proposed stage to comment for this reasonable amendment to the Regulations for Capitol Square [1 VAC 30 ? 100] Rulemaking.
It has come to our attention that the time allotted for set-up and a rally event is simply not enough to establish baseline quality audio and visual equipment for a permitted event. It is our desire to follow the rules and regulations of using the grounds on Capitol Square that are enforced by the Department of General Services. However, vendors that provide basic audio and visual needs have expressed that they need at least an hour to set up equipment. We believe a modest expansion of time for these purposes is reasonable and consonant with government goals for orderly access to the Capitol Grounds.
In other states’ capitol grounds’ permitted event regulations, more time is given to event organizers to set up, execute the event, and breakdown equipment thereafter. In states such as California, Pennsylvania, and Connecticut, organizers have been able to set up at least 2 hours before an event begins. After an approximately hour-long event concludes, the amount of time to break down equipment typically lasts between 45 minutes – 1 hour depending on the level of production in that particular event.
In order to successfully protect the right to free speech via a permitted event on the Capitol Grounds in Richmond, it is imperative that the Department of General Services reopen the proposed stage of the Regulations for Capitol Square [1 VAC 30 ? 100] rulemaking so that these proposed changes to the time allowed for set up, execution, and break down of a permitted event may be made. It is in the interest of protecting every Virginian’s first amendment rights, irrespective of issue or party.
Thank you for this opportunity to comment on the amendment to the Regulations for Capitol Square in its final stage. Please do not hesitate to reach out with any questions.
Executive Vice President
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Rhubarb Rouge returns to Te Manawa, bringing with her a fabulous array of performers for a night of fun, frivolity, glamour and of course drag!
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The stage lights up at 8pm, but the doors will be open at 7. There will be a prize for best-dressed! Cash bar available.
Tickets are $32, available online, or from our front desk. Please note, this event is suitable for adults only.


Society of Poetry and Indian Music
11. Sense and Sensibility by Asian Culture Vulture: Sailesh Ram
World poetry and classical music combine in unique offering…
IT STARTED a little more than a year ago and as no more than an idea to combine poetry and classical music on the same bill.
On Saturday (September 14), Saudha, Society of Poetry and Indian Music, celebrates just over a year in existence with their second major poetry and concert evening in Leeds.
Their first, in the same town, was a success and gave them the confidence to continue their unique offering, which has now developed into a platform for world poetry, alongside classical Indian music.
Now, some eight concerts and with a schools programme under their belt, they return with a two-day programme which shows their growing popularity and developing confidence.
Among those playing over the weekend are Shabaz Hussain on tabla and Kamalbir Nandra on violin, while Sumana Basu performs ghazals, Dipanjan Guha plays sitar, and cello player Gemma Irving is also on the bill.
“We were not sure in the beginning,” confessed Chandra Chakraborty to www.asianculturevulture.com . “But it seemed like a good idea, the people who tend to like classical music, also like poetry.”
An accomplished singer, she has performed internationally and is well known in India as a classical chanteuse, and is one of the two driving forces behind Saudha.
For the other, Saudha director, Ahmed Kaysher (pictured), a Bengali poet, it has borne out his own instincts to bring these two disciplines together.
He told ACV: “We thought it will attract the audiences for both art forms and thus we can create a new audience from a diverse background.”
And so it has proved, Saudha’s event in Leeds will bring together poets from different countries, languages and traditions – there are English, Bengali, Urdu, Persian and even Somali ones reading on the night with translations too.
“They are young poets in their 20s and it all helps to bring people together. They contacted us and wanted to work with us,” explained Chakraborty.
The evenings start with the poetry and it often opens up into debate and explores philosophy and aesthetics and looks to encourage a space for ideas and thought.
The poetry helps to set up the mood music for the evening – and it is important for Saudha to engage young people and introduce them to an art form they feel can be somewhat neglected.
For Chakraborty, Saudha is filling a definitive gap – that between the populist and the more broadly classical, where crowds are more difficult to attract.
“Bollywood concerts are always popular, but with classical music it is harder and young people do not come,” said Chakraborty.
“We would like to see our concerts attracting more and new diverse audiences from different cultures and the verses play a vital role in providing a spiritual remedy in this age of alienation,” said Kaysher, who has a penchant for deconstruction and the work of the 20th century French philosopher, Jacques Derrida.
Saudha’s concerts in Leeds are only £5 and the low price is designed to attract young people and others curious about the concept.
“This is to make it accessible. We have more of us now – we are very happy that the first trial was so successful and people who came for the first concert are coming back and everyone likes the quality – we never compromise on the quality. The musicians want to play with us – because the know we have high standards. Shabaz has performed internationally and so have I.”
Saudha relies heavily on ticket sales to stage these events, but its growing popularity has seen it receive further invitations and don’t be surprised it comes to a town near you.
12. Saudha by BBC Radio - Leeds
'Saudha - one of the fast becoming leading Indian classical music promoters'
13. Preview: Poetry & Indian Classical Music Festival, Leeds by Yorkshire Evening Post: Neil Hudson
An event aims to marry Indian classical music with Western poetry and dance is set to take place this weekend in Leeds.
The World Poetry and Indian Classical Music Festival will take place at Seven Arts cafe, Chapel Allerton, having already performed to great acclaim at the Purcell Room in London’s South Bank.
Ahmed Kaysler, 38, a librarian in Leeds and one of the festival organisers, spoke to WOW24/7 about the concept behind the festival.
Described by Ahmed as “experimental and highly subtle form of experimental art” which is “set to create new audience of classical music through seamlessly intertwining Indian classical music with other form of subtle arts, like Western poetry... to decode and interpret the mood of music.”
He went on: “What we aim to do is to intertwine Indian classical music with other forms of music and poetry from around the world, with the emphasis being on the interpreting the underlying meaning in classical music.
“So, for example, if you were to listen to some of the raggas (Indian music), when you listen to them, you cannot fail to be moved either externally or internally.
“It’s about expressing the pain of the suffered soul and the experience can be quite uplifting and transcendental.
“We want to find new audiences and popularise Indian classical music.”
The two-day festival will fuse ostensibly divergent pieces of art, from Schubert and the poetry of Sylvia Plath to Indian maestros like Chandra Chakraborty, who was considered a child prodigy in India.
It is being presented by Saudha, Society of Poetry and Indian Music and will put Indian classical music featuring Saudha’s hypnotic concerts of classical (Kheyal) and semi-classical music (Thumri, Dadra, Ghazal) blending haunting verses of traditional world poetry (Hafiz, Tagore, Khyam, Keats, Lorca, Ghalib, Neruda etc) and spectacular Kathak dance to communicate and visualize the images of music.
Ahmed added: “We are in a campaign of creating new audience of classical music mainly Indian but Western in some extent, too. Indian classical music does have a therapeutic impact on the human mind apart from the its beauty as a subtle art form.
“Through this campaign we worked with leading classical musicians in order to present the purity of the art form and because ordinary audience takes classical music as an obscure form of art, we seamlessly intertwined classical music with haunting verses of poetry around the world of many different languages so that it can decode the mood of the music at least, it can at least put some images for audience to focus on when different ragas are being played through instruments or sung by vocalists.
“We have achieved a lot in terms of connecting new audience in the West.
“Once they come to the concert they ask when the next one is going to happen.
“The main admirers of these shows are the audience from Western background and many Western audience even know more about Indian classical music that Asian probably because of Ravi Shankar.
“The vision of those performance is purely to produce quality form of art through experiments and fusion without compromising with the purity as well as through engaging ordinary audience.
“I am a poet, I am a big fan of classical music both Western and Indian. I read about serious music, too.
“People will firstly enjoy the magic of an intertwined art form and get rid of wearies of repetitive reproduction of the same things.
“In the future we would like to experiment with all relevant serious art forms engaging leading musicians and audiences and see us performing regularly in big venues like the Royal Albert Hall
The festival was counted as one of the top-ten events in Leeds last year and will start at 6pm each day and finish at 9pm. For more information, visit the website: www.sevenleeds.co.uk
14. Soul Fusion -Saudha, rich past, abundant future by Asian Culture Vulture - Sailesh Ram
It started as an idea but is gathering force and has a momentum that is quickening…
POETRY, dance and music come together for one night as they did when the Indian classical arts were as one.
Today (August 29) sees Saudha, society of poetry and Indian music, take over the Nehru Centre in central London.
Billed as the “Sound of Soul“, tonight’s event will feature Indian classical vocals, world poetry and Kathak dancing.
The evening is the brainchild of Saudha, the group dedicated to bringing music and poetry and other classical Indian arts closer together.
Now some three years old, Saudha has organised more than a dozen events and the “Sound of Soul” represents another leap – as it introduces dance into the mix of poetry and music.
“We are on a mission,” said Saudha’s co-founder and director Ahmed Kaysher. “We want to find new audiences and popularise Indian classical music.”
The problem is that for many – Indian classical music can be seen as quite stiff, austere and in the end, almost soul-sappingly boring.
Of course in the hands of a Ravi Shankar or Ali Akbar Khan, such charges are very wide of the mark and they have both been instrumental in popularising Indian classical music and introducing it to the West.
But boundaries have been built and the conversation that used to occur between the arts in courtly India and the subcontinent (pre-Partition) has been virtually extinguished.
Saudha want to revive that spirit of exchange and learning and enable audiences to participate in the process too.
“It is a kind of fusion,” described Kaysher.
“By mixing poetry, classical vocals and Kathak, we’re hoping to create new bonds and a greater appreciation of the classical arts,” explained Kaysher.
The Nehru Centre concert represents the first of these ambitious exercises with three separate performances of classical singing, poetry and Kathak.
“Both the vocals and the Kathak are derived from Thumri – (a style that revels in the tales of Lord Krishna),” said Chandra Chakraborty, co-founder of Saudha and a classical chanteuse who will be performing at “Sound of Soul”.
Indeed the connections are rich and yet the vocals have gone one way, and Kathak another, but really they are inspired from the same sources.
A disciple (if there can be such a term for a follower) of the controversial late 20th century French philosopher, Jacques Derrida and his method of ‘Deconstruction’, Kaysher sees Saudha on a journey.
Derrida’s close textual analysis, ‘ deconstruction’ of classical philosophical texts, in short, uncovered their hidden biases and dubious rhetorical devices.
While Saudha does not have such a radical agenda, it desires a certain sensibility and scrutiny that looks to the very heart of things and their practice and wants to ‘deconstruct’ the boundaries that have built up between the various classical art forms.
Next year, Saudha hopes to stage a ‘Classical Bollywood’ – in perhaps the most ambitious rendering yet of its philosophy.
“The event will demonstrate different classically constructed songs and the full length raga that these popular Bollywood songs are based on,” explained Kaysher.
But for now, there are three events to look out from Saudha.
While the first is the “Sound of Soul” at the Nehru Centre, it will present its annual (now third) two-day festival of world poetry and music from Sunday, September 13, at sevenleeds.co.uk, an arts space in Leeds. The festival has grown each year and was selected as one of top-ten arts events in the town last year.
The society will also help assist the first ever near day-long celebration of Bengali music, with the Bangla Music Festival at the Rich Mix in Shoreditch, east London at the end of this month.
Picture: Chandra Chakraborty (left and middle), Ahmed Kaysher
- “Sound of Soul” – Free entry, 6pm-9pm Friday, August 29 At the Nehru Centre, 8 South Audley Street London W1K 1HF – Classical Indian vocals from Chandra Chakraborty, with tabla player Sanju Sahai, keyboard Sunil Jadhav, percussionist Renu Hossain, Tagore singer, Imtiaz Ahmed. Kathak dancers Jaymini Sahai and Showmi Das. Spoken word and poetry, Leesa Gazi, Towhid Shakeel, Siobhan Mac Mahon, David Morgan, Thiago Alexandre Tonussi and Ahmed Kaysher. More HERE
- World Poetry and Indian Classical Music Festival from 5.30pm, Saturday, September 13-14 at Seven Artspace, 31(a) Harrogate Road, Chapel Allerton, Leeds, LS7 3PD Tickets, prices and performance details
- Bangla Music Festival, Sunday, September 28, 12pm-. For further details, click here
*Chandra Chakraborty will be appearing at Darbar, the biggest festival of Indian classical music in the UK, from September 17-21. A full preview will appear shortly on www.asianculturevulture.com
15. Chris Nickson(chrisnickson.co.uk) on Saudha by Chris Nickson
We call them ‘the arts’ as if they were separate things. But together music, words, dance and images all affect the senses. They can fire or calm, give moments of tranquillity and insight. They’re part of us, and have been as long as there have been people in the world.
Music is poetry without words, and poetry is the music of the images in the head. Dance is the flow and grace of rhythm, sound as movement. They all connect in the senses.
Classical Indian music in an ancient form. The Carnatic music of Southern India is steeped in a refined tradition so different from our experience in the West. Different pieces are intended to evoke different moods, and there’s also room for improvisation, an alaap, as it’s known. There’s balance between the art of the composer and the virtuosity of the artist.
There’s balance, too, in dance. Not in the obvious physical way, but in the act of interpretation, of following the steps. Ballet we know. There’s just as much technique in the depth of Indian dance as there is in the music.
There’s that same balance in the semi-classical music of India, the love songs known as ghazals. A balance between voice and instruments and between words and music.
The words in ghazals are often love poems, poems to the spirit of love. But in so many cultures, poetry and music have naturally gone together. In the Middle East, for instance, the words of Rumi have been to set music many times.
It’s something we see less in the West, but even so words and music do complement each other. They set and develop moods and create images. A poem can illuminate the entire world in a few lines.
Poetry, music dance – all the arts – transcend cultures and countries. The words of the West can highlight the music of the East, and vice versa. That’s what Saudha shows in its performances. That we’re one world, and we can speak to each other in many different ways.
16. Lyrics of Love by Saudha, Society Of Poetry and Indian Music by Fabian Hamilton, the Labour MP for Leeds North East
Fabian Hamilton, the Labour MP for Leeds North East attended a performance of Indian music by Chandra Chankraborty at Leeds Carriage Works on 1st September 2012. Recalling the event afterwards, Fabian described the profound spiritual impact on him that the music had provoked. “Chandra is a superb singer and performer. Her music is ethereal; it lifted my consciousness into a wholly different dimension. I was taken effortlessly from my limited experience of western musical expression into a wholly new rich musical culture inspired in part by the writings of Rabindranath Tagore, the Indian poet who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913. The way that Chandra’s performance blended the flute, guitar, violin and human voice made the concert truly unforgettable”.
17. Review of Chandra Chakraborty's semi classical vocal album by Fita Weyra
Background profile Growing up, Chandra’s classical talents were recognized early on by the local Indian Classic Music community. She graduated from two of the most prestigious Indian Classic Music schools (Sangeet Prabhakar and Sangeet Visharad) at age 12 and began performing regularly at the All India Radio and Television. Jump a few years and she was selected by ICCR and moved to Johannesburg as the teacher of Indian music at the Indian Consulate. At this time, Chandra expanded her performance widely in such major cities as Durban, Cape Town, Port Elizabeth, the Sun City Superbowl and even further African villages in Mozambique and Zimbabwe. After an intensive few years as a lecturer of music in history and society, she founded three music schools in Johannesburg where students to this day learn under some of Chandra’s advanced students. Chandra treated Nelson Mandela with an impressive performance by her students in a career highlighting moment. Chandra’s Classic Music album “ Thumri Dadra” Sealed under Chandra’s album “Chandra- Thumri Dadra”, is a classic treasure that will softly lead you soul and heart first in an oasis unlike any that wetted your interior appetites. Track 1 opens its gates with echoes of monolithic heights atop operatic sorrow, a foreign tongue between its glimmering composition cries of Shakespearean magnitude in its weight of emotions; unsentimental in its daring gaze down your memory lane. You will remember so much, re-evaluate those pains for their wisdom bearing gifts. Chandra’s voice, full of patience, the kindness of a musician who locked eyes with the abyss and brought its soul back. Her voice, that instrument of healing. Long drawn out notes perfectly timed into a jigsaw of brave rhythms that tough you so deep in the heart, deep in the body, and miles into your attentive being floating to the drum beats of subtle intricate powers. The second track paces itself like the pattern of a comforting conversation with an old friend. Whispers of secrets held in the hearts for decades draw themselves out in your bones as you listen to Chandra’s command of composition, showcasing impeccable mastery in the art of reminding your mind to chew one bite of forgotten realization at a time. Casting the listener to the past, swinging sensually to the present and blowing the worry off the future with the skill of a mythical magician. With a total of five tracks, “Thumri Dadra” is an album by a master of her field.
18. Working with Saudha by Marianne Zeck, Actor, Poet
I have known Chandra Chakraborty for about seven Years and have always been impressed with her as both the Head of Raynes Park and now Wimbledon Library. As an international performer with tremendous talent and discipline and also her commitment to creating warm community events through the library service and her performing arts activities. It has been a privilege to be asked to perform twice with Saudha at events in December and January. The first performance at Morden Assembly Hall brought together diverse musicians, poets and people with learning disabilities in a spellbinding evening of recitals woven through the music. The second performance at Raynes Park Library offered the Write Afresh group ( a group of people with learning disabilities) opportunities to read poems that had been written for Saudha's theme of `Lyrics of Solitude` and drew in the local community. The audiences at both performances and workshops consisted of local people and groups such as the Merton Poets, Write Afresh Raynes Park Library group, Wimbledon Library staff, Beyond Words Group, School children, volunteers and members as well as diverse others from different parts of London and the UK. My own experience in performing with Saudha has been uplifting and heart warming as this company included me as if I was already a family member. The music and poetry offered beauty and healing through absorbing words and images. With deep thanks to Chandra, Ahmed and all the lovely members of Saudha.
19. Saudha’s music festival hits the top ten events by Asian Echo: Anjum Mir
World poetry and Indian classical music festival at Seven Arts in Leeds was one of the top 10 events in Leeds of this year, according to some regular festival goers and online event review websites.
The festival attracted significant numbers of western audience including a lot of new audience of Indian classical music from Asian and African heritage.
The festival combined treasure of both words and music of five languages (English, Urdu, Bengali, Hindi and Persian) through very artistic amalgamation for all diverse audience to communicate with.
Shabaz Hussain (Tabla) and Royal Albert Hall performer, highly acclaimed violinist Kamalbir Nandra, musicologist Siddartha Kargupta (Harmoniuam) accompanied Chandra while Schubert vocalist and actor Erik Schelander and Leesa Gazi recited from Tagore, Ghalib, Keats, Hafiz, Jibananda to explain the mood of music in between Alap and Tan
Festival reached to its pinnacle on Sunday the second day of the event. Popular Urdu poets Ishtiaque Mir and Mahjabeen Ghazal Ansari recited their poems in tune with English translation.
Contemporary Bengali poet Delower Hussain Monzu read his short poem in Bengali, then poet Robert Smith, poet Scott Farquharson and award winning poet Siobhan MacMahon recited their lyrical verses with beautiful Cello accompaniment by former member of regional youth orchestra of Northern Sinfonia and ex-performer of Oxford University Orchestra, Gemma Irving. Concert started with very powerful semi-classical singer Sumana Basu’s Ghazal.
Sumana sang some heart-felt renditions of Ghalib (Urdu) and Kazi Nazrul Islam (Bengali) with beautiful input of translated verses by Erik Schelander while she was accompanied by Shahbaz Hussain in Tabla.
Former gold medalist in vocal music Kamalbir Nandra added a new strength in festival singing another touchy version of Ghazal. After very engaging sessions of solo Tabla and solo violin, Chandra Chakraborty appeared on the stage with her usual team, Kamalbir Nandra (Violin), Shahbaz Hussain (Tabla), Siddartha Kargupta (Harmonium) and Erik Schelander (Recitation).
She was glowing with her divine voice while singing kheyal on Raga Chandrakush, Chayanat and beautiful version of Thumri one after another. The house-full hall turned into pin-drop silence while subtle notes were sung by her with an extreme dexterity.
The mesmerized audience broke silence with constant clapping at the end of every session and most of audience did standing ovation in the end after Chandra’s very last Thumri.
‘One of my memorable experiences of attending any live classical music concert’ said Adrian . David Hoghton-Carter, programme director of Minerva Pathway said ‘one of best engaging and engrossing classical music concerts I have ever gone to.
Verses of poetry suit perfect with the music and communicate better although this hypnotic form of music itself has its own communication’. Mother of the celebrated Tabla player and a regular South Bank performer Shahbaz Hussain told that she had attended Indian classical music concerts happened in Leeds before that included the concerts by Pandit Ajoy Chakraborty and her daughter Kausheki Chakraborty too.
But that was the one she had liked all the way through because it had so many engaging elements on top of the technicalities of music. Lighting and sound were just perfect. ‘And Chandra’ she added ‘ is just incomparable; the one who directly blessed by Swaraswati, the goddess of music’.
The event was coordinated and moderated by the director of Saudha T M Ahmed Kaysher.
Audience came in both days hugely praised the concerts as something very soothing, transforming and redemptive.
BBC Radio Leeds, Yorkshire Evening Post covered the festival as the major event of the city.
Saudha, Society of Poetry and Indian Music, an emerging promoter of Indian classical music across the country organized the festival on last 14 and 15 September.
Leading musicians of Indian classical music both vocal and instrumental performed while prominent poets of Leeds also read their poems with some beautiful Cello compositions.
Poet Amina Weston, Poet Rob Smith, poet T M Ahmed Kaysher (Bengali with English translation), poet Noyolee Munim recited their own poems on the opening day of the festival.
Mr Amal Podder, Cllr Muhammed Iqbal and Kiranjit Virdee spoke on the issues of connectivity of Indian classical music to world-wide audience. Concert started with Dipanjan Guha’s solo sitar with the very celebrated musician of North Shahbaz Hussain in Tabla, writer and actor Leesa Gazi in reciting from great Bengali poet Jibanananda Das in a phase of the introduction (alap, Jur) of rag Yemen .
Dipan, the young but very promising sitarist performed with an impeccable speed and tempo through the ascending and descending notation of Raga Yemen and managed to disseminate the mood of raga across the whole audience of the hall.
Leesa’s voice and delivery was just perfect with the music which was aptly harmonized with the sensitivity and subtlety of the mood of the raga. First day’s concert ended with festival’s main attraction, one of the leading Indian classical vocalists Chandra Chakraborty’s Kheyal (Rag Malkush) and Dadra.
20. A taste of Indian: Music explained through poetry by Yorkshire Evening Post
The sound of Indian classical music will be explained through poetry in a unique event this weekend. The world poetry and Indian classical music festival at Seven Arts in Chapel Allerton, will use poetry to reflect the mood of classical music, performed live by leading musicians.
Ahmed Kaysher, the director of Saudha, Society of Poetry and Indain Music, said 'we are trying to connect people with Indian classical music -through poetry. We have chosen haunting verses of poets such as Keats to reflect the mood of clasical music we are playing.'
The two-day festival also features local poets performing their own work. Musicians include Chandra Chakraborty and Kamalbir Nandra.


text: REVIEW ARTICLESOxytocin, cortisol and 3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine: neurohormonal aspects of recreational ‘ecstasy’Parrott, Andrew C.a,b Author Information aDepartment of Psychology, Swansea University, Swansea, Wales, UK bCentre for Human Psychopharmacology, Swinburne University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Correspondence to Andrew C. Parrott, PhD, Department of Psychology, Swansea University, Swansea SA2 8PP, Wales, UK Tel: +44 1792 295 271; fax: +44 1792 295687; e-mail: [email protected] Behavioural Pharmacology 27(8):p 649-658, December 2016. | DOI: 10.1097/FBP.0000000000000262 Buy Metrics Abstract Most research into 3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA) has debated its psychobiological effects in relation to neurotransmission. This article debates the contributory roles of the neurohormones oxytocin and cortisol for their psychobiological effects in humans. The empirical literature on these neurohormones is reviewed and suggestions for future research outlined. Acute MDMA or ‘ecstasy’ can generate increased levels of oxytocin and cortisol, and these neurohormonal changes may be important for its mood-enhancing and energy-activation effects in humans. However, an initial finding of enhanced sociability correlating with oxytocin levels has not been replicated. Potential reasons are debated. There may be dynamic interactions between the two neurohormones, with greater activation under cortisol, facilitating stronger positive feelings under oxytocin. Chronic regular use of MDMA can adversely affect cortisol in several ways. Regular users show increased cortisol in 3-month hair samples, changes to the cortisol awakening response, and indications of greater daily stress. Furthermore, these cortisol findings suggest changes to the hypothalamic–pituitary–adrenal axis. The effects of chronic MDMA usage on oxytocin still need to be investigated. It is concluded that the neurohormones oxytocin and cortisol contribute in various ways to the psychobiological effects of recreational ecstasy/MDMA. Copyright © 2016 Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc. All rights reserved.

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Carrots are one of the most popular vegetables to grow among gardeners of all experience levels. Not only are they packed full of beneficial nutrients, but they also taste great in many different dishes. If you are planning to grow them in your garden, you will want to know carrot seed germination time.
In order for a successful harvest, it is important to know how correctly grow carrots. It is important that you have the right conditions in order to let them grow. You want to take careful consideration when growing any vegetable.
Planting Carrots From Seed
Once you get the hang of it, carrots are a relatively easy plant to grow. They are biennials, meaning they use the energy they get from the sun to build up big, starchy roots during the winter.
Carrot seeds do best when they are planted in loose, sandy soil. It is best to plant them in the cooler seasons of the growing season, whether spring or fall. Depending on the variety, they take anywhere from two to four months to grow.
Before planting your garden, till your soil is at least 12 inches down, make sure there are no rocks or clumps of soil that could impede on growth. Opt to use coffee grounds as a fertilizer instead of nitrogen-rich manure or fertilizer, as they will cause carrots to fork as they grow.
In some cases, your best option may be to plant carrots in a raised garden bed. This is a good choice if you have soil that is rocky or heavy clay.
Carrots do best when planted in full sunlight. However, if need be, they will likely do alright in partial sun. When planting your seeds, sow them 1/4 inch deep, 2-3 inches apart in rows that are one foot apart.
Keep the soil moist by frequently watering your carrots. They can be harvested as immature as baby roots, where they will be sweeter and crunchier. You can also let your carrots grow to be several inches long. Generally, you want them to be bright orange in color and at least 1/2 inch wide.
How Long Do Carrots Take To Germinate?
In general, carrots will take six to 10 days to germinate if given optimal conditions. However, it may take two to three weeks for them to germinate. Though uncommon, there is the chance that it can take up to seven weeks for the process to happen.
Ideal Conditions f¡For Germination: How Long For Carrots To Sprout?
For ideal carrot germination, you will need proper soil temperature, air circulation, and humidity. For best results, the soil should be somewhere from 65-85 degrees Fahrenheit. A humidity dome can also help speed up the process.
The soil should be kept wet, but not soggy. There should be proper aeration in the soil, which you can achieve by tilling. It is best to use new, fresh seeds as older seeds will take longer to germinate.
The colder your soil is, the longer it will likely take to germinate. When the temperature is in the 50s, you can likely expect the seeds to take 10 to 17 days to germinate. If the weather is in the 40s or below, it can take up to seven weeks to germinate, if it does at all.
Not only will germination take less time when it is between 65-85 degrees Fahrenheit, but there will also be a much higher germination rate. Generally, the best time to plant carrot seeds is in spring, though you can also plant them in the fall as well.
Germinating Carrots With A Paper Towel
If need be, you can germinate your carrot seeds in a paper towel. First, spray a paper towel so it is damp but not soaking wet. Place your carrot seeds spaced apart so they are not touching and then place the paper towel in a plastic bag to trap in the moisture.
To help the process, place the seeds somewhere warm. Once they are germinated, you can carefully place them in your gardens. Though this is not the ideal way to germinate your seeds, it will generally work.
How Much Should You Water Carrots?
In general, carrots will need one inch of water a week. You should keep the soil damp, but it should not be soaked. You don’t want the soil to get hard on top.
If carrots get too much water they can end up forming weird shapes and having a bitter taste. Too little water and they will likely not grow. In warmer weather, you will need to water your garden more often to ensure they will grow.
Be sure to also regularly weed your carrot garden, though be careful to not accidentally uproot your carrot plants. You don’t want any weeds or plants blocking the sunlight from your carrot plants. In order to strive, your carrots will need plenty of sunlight.
Carrot Seed Germination Time: Know Before You Grow
In general, you can expect your carrots to germinate within six to 10 days. However, it is not uncommon for them to take two to three weeks for germination to happen. In some cases, they may take up to seven weeks to complete the process.
For the quickest germination time, plant new, healthy carrot seeds in spring. Plant them in soil that is well aerated, with loose, sandy soil being the best option. Make sure to keep the soil wet but not soaked and that they are receiving plenty of sunlight.
The ideal temperature for germination is between 65-85 degrees. Carrots will also be able to germinate when temperatures are in the 50s. In some cases, they may also germinate in the 40s, but that will not always happen.
You can also germinate them in damp paper towels that are placed in a plastic bag in a warm environment. Though this may not work as well as planting the seeds in the soil, it is still a reliable option overall.
Do you have any questions regarding carrot seed germination time? If so, please ask your germination questions or any questions regarding growing carrots in the comment section down below.

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Screening for intimate partner violence (IPV) may help connect women to support services, which may in turn reduce the risk of death related to IPV.
Research should continue to explore the effect of physical and sexual IPV on women and children's health outcomes.
Seven million women each year experience physical, sexual or psychological abuse by an intimate partner and approximately 16% of children are exposed to IPV (also known as domestic violence) during their lifetime.1 ,2 Women who experience IPV report more mental health symptoms (eg, depression, anxiety, post-traumatic stress) and physical health conditions (eg, chronic pain). Children who have been exposed to IPV are more likely to experience internalising and externalising behavioural problems.
The purpose of this study was to examine whether physical and sexual abuse were related to maternal mental health, risk of lethality, chronic pain and children's behavioural functioning.
Researchers used baseline data from a 7-year prospective study examining treatment efficacy of domestic violence shelters and justice services. Three hundred women were recruited from either the district attorney's office or from domestic violence shelters. The age range of the women was 18–52 years old and they were primarily of ethnic minority background. Children's ages ranged from 1.5 to 16.5 years. Women reported frequency of physical and sexual intimate partner abuse, danger for lethality, mental health functioning (post-traumatic stress, depression, anxiety, somatisation), chronic pain and their child's behavioural problems (internalising, externalising). Pearson's product–moment correlation and multiple linear regression analyses were conducted.
Physical abuse was positively correlated (r=0.36) to sexual abuse, meaning that those women who reported more physical abuse also tend to report more sexual abuse. Sexual abuse was related to mother's higher risk of lethality, somatisation, post-traumatic stress disorder symptoms, and children's internalising and total behavioural problems. Physical abuse was related to mother's higher risk of lethality and anxiety.
This study identifies important effects of intimate partner physical abuse and sexual abuse on mother's mental health and corresponding children's behavioural problems. Interestingly, the type of violence experienced by the mother influenced different domains of mental health functioning, with sexual abuse being related to increased somatisation and post-traumatic stress disorder symptoms and physical abuse being related to increased anxiety. Both types of abuse significantly predicted risk of lethality, which is important to consider when women present for healthcare. Screening for such abuse may connect women to support services, which may in turn reduce the risk of death related to IPV.
This study also offers preliminary evidence that sexual abuse experienced by the mother may affect the child's behavioural functioning, including internalising behavioural problems. These problems include somatic symptoms, being anxious/depressed and withdrawn behaviour. Although the researchers suggested child behavioural interventions based on maternal mental health modification, such conclusions are beyond the scope of their research. Moderation analyses are needed to support whether the effect of IPV on child behavioural functioning varies as a function of maternal mental health.
Caution must be taken when considering the generalisability of this research. The sample included only those mothers who were residing in domestic violence shelters or receiving justice services. It is possible that these women had experienced more severe forms of violence that prompted utilisation of such services. More research is needed in this area. It is also important to consider the variation that is explained by each of the models. With the exception of risk of lethality, all other models accounted for less than 4% of the variability, meaning 96% or more of the differences in participant outcomes can be accounted for by other factors. Although some of the variation may have been explained by demographic variables, the researchers did not include such variables in the models.
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If you think Toriyama isn’t hailed as one of the best mangakas of all time, with the entire world mourning for his loss, and the theme park being built, then this following piece of information will certainly come across as a surprise because I was too!
Osamu Tezuka, the creator of Astro Boy, is regarded as the founding father of Shonen manga. He’s so legendary that he even has an award named after him dubbed “The Tezuka Award” presented to aspiring manga artists by Shueisha!
And that legendary mangaka name-dropped Akira Toriyama when he was alive, calling him “almost too good,”.
But the biggest compliment Toriyama could ever receive out of all is Tezuka calling him “heir apparent,” basically calling him his successor, carrying forward his will to show the beauty of shonen manga to the world.
I'm oldtaku enough to remember Osamu Tezuka's death in 1989. I see echoes of it in the response to Akira Toriyama's passing. Tezuka called Toriyama "almost too good," and his "heir apparent." Toriyama wrote, "without Tezuka's work, I don't think I'd have become the artist I am." pic.twitter.com/rZmUN4IRMu
— Matt Alt (@Matt_Alt) March 8, 2024
This is huge for Toriyama, considering Astro Boy greatly influenced him and his work. In fact, he confirms that Goku’s ICONIC spiky hair was a direct reference to Astro Boy’s horn-like hair.
Moreover, this has never happened before in the history of the industry. You never see manga authors calling another their successors casually, especially if they’re working for the same magazine.
About Dragon Ball:
Dragon Ball is a manga series by Akira Toriyama. It first began its serialization in Shueisha’s Weekly Shonen Jump magazine in 1984.
The manga was later adapted into a multitude of animated series, movies, and games.
The franchise consists of five different anime series, about 21 animated movies, and around 10 games spanning various platforms, from Famicon to Playstation and Xbox.
Synopsis of the Dragon Ball anime:
Goku Son is a young boy who lives in the woods all alone—that is, until a girl named Bulma runs into him in her search for a set of magical objects called the “Dragon Balls.”
Since the artefacts are said to grant one wish to whoever collects all seven, Bulma hopes to gather them and wish for a perfect boyfriend.
Goku happens to be in possession of a dragon ball, but unfortunately for Bulma, he refuses to part ways with it, so she makes him a deal: he can tag along on her journey if he lets her borrow the dragon ball’s power.
With that, the two set off on the journey of a lifetime.

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The NY Times reports:
The national telephone survey, which was conducted from June 12 to 16, found that 72 percent of those questioned supported a government-administered insurance plan — something like Medicare for those under 65 — that would compete for customers with private insurers. Twenty percent said they were opposed.Let's see. . . . The Democrats control the presidency and the House of Representatives, have a filibuster-proof majority in the Senate, and they have 72 percent of the American public behind them on the issue.
If Obama cannot get Congressional Democrats to pass the kind of health care reform that Americans want, anyone can appreciate that Obama's authority is likely be greatly diminished -- for the duration of his (one-term) presidency.
There is a lot of talk in the US media about what a "tough fight" health system reform will be for Obama. I think this kind of talk is a load of hooey -- encouraged by the Democrats themselves.
Because Obama and the majority of Democrats in Congress have more than sufficient political capital to accomplish meaningful reform. They could ostracize, shame, or even threaten to suspend from their party members who try to block reform. And these members' careers would be finished. But it would never come to this, because if soft-spoken Obama carried this kind of big stick, recalcitrant Democrats would have "the excuse" they needed to fall in line with the party. No, talk about the "difficulty of reform" is just a way out should Obama and the Democrats choose to put coporate interests first.
But there is no way out.
Photo, by Jotman, shows a sign outside an ancient temple in Cambodia. Don't miss the follow-up to this post: What needs reform even more than health care?

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Prada's F/W 2012 Campaign With Gary Oldman and Willem Dafoe
ARTICLE BYMila Pantovich
POSTED ON June 13, 2012
Prada is well known enough without having to enlist the help of iconic actors but with their 2012 F/W campaign, the brand decided to use the actors anyway. The striking photos feature Gary Oldman, Willem Dafoe, Jamie Bell, and Garrett Hedlund in front of a deep red backdrop.


A North Carolina family is upset over jokes that they think “poke fun” at their adopted child.
Neal Stapel and his 10-year-old adopted daughter were happily solving puzzles and screwing with physics in Portal 2 when it happened. Out of the blue, the sentient computers in the game began belittling the protagonist for being fat, stupid, and adopted. Stapel told his local news channel, WBTV, that this was “literally the worst thing I could have probably heard.”
Stapel said that while he and his wife had never hidden from his Chinese daughter Zoey the fact that she was adopted, it had never come up, and they were waiting for her to be ready to talk about it. Having the subject aired out in the open by a videogame was jarring, to say the least. “It throws the question, the most ultimate question that that child is ever gonna have for you and it just throws it right in your living room,” he said. “It says it’s rated ‘E’ for everybody and I’m thinking maybe it’s rated ‘E’ for everybody except for orphans.”
The actual joke that upset the family was a moment in the game when a character tells the protagonist, “Alright, fatty. Adopted fatty. Fatty, fatty no parents.” Taken out of context, the joke could seem offensive to both the obese and the parentally-challenged, but against the backdrop of an insane and childish robot actively trying to make the main character feel bad, you would think that some of the sting would be taken out of the remark. Especially when the character who slung the insult says seconds later that there really isn’t anything wrong with being adopted.
Stapel is aware that it isn’t really going to rile up most people who play the game, saying “If you’re not an adoptive parent it’s probably not that big a deal to you.” He also said that he and his daughter actually really liked the game and will continue playing it, making sure to avoid the part they take offense to.
WBTV claims to have attempted to contact Valve for a statement, but the company has not yet said anything on the matter.


Invicti detected that the application is vulnerable to the Log4j (version 2) remote code execution vulnerability (CVE-2021-44228) by capturing a DNS A request, which occurs when input data is interpreted by the vulnerable log4j library.
This is a highly critical issue and should be addressed as soon as possible.
Apache Log4j is an open source logging library used widely in the Java ecosystem. It features enhanced logging capability with JNDI and system property lookups. Improper input sanitization can cause JNDI lookups to load arbitrary Java classes from remote servers and can lead to remote code executions, sensitive information leakage and denial of service.
Three main CVE’s are published in regard to this vulnerability:
CVE-2021-44228: In Apache Log4j2, the JNDI features used in configuration, log messages and parameters do not protect against code being loaded from attacker controlled LDAP servers and other JNDI related endpoints. An attacker who can control log messages or log message parameters can execute arbitrary code loaded from LDAP servers.
CVE-2021-45046: It was found that the fix Apache implemented in version 2.15.0 was incomplete in certain non-default configurations resulting in information leak, remote code execution and denial of service.
CVE-2021-45104: It was found that Apache Log4j versions through 2.16.0 did not prevent uncontrolled recursion from self-referential lookups.
Apache has published patches for this vulnerability. Due to incomplete patches 2.15.0 and 2.16.0, upgrading to 2.17.0 is recommended.
Alternatively, this infinite recursion issue can be mitigated in configuration:


It was also just delivered to the dealership. As is appropriate for a car of such impact, a crowd was on hand to take it all in.
The dealership’s Facebook page, via DuPont Registry, shows us yet more of the car, offers a gallery of photos further documenting the car’s arrival, delivery, and staging, plus some details of the car itself.
Sadly, the bark of the 740-horsepower, 6.5-liter V-12 mounted just behind the occupants doesn't make an appearance.
For the full details on the Veneno, including the coupe, click here.


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Hello. I am an Englishman (well, Cornishman actually!) currently living in Spain. Being gay myself, and coming from a small (minded) community, I decided that the only way to expiate the demons that seemed to have taken up residence in my head, was to write it out of me. Hence, ‘Mr Lucky’ was born, over a 3 year period and published online, to moderate success. It most certainly did ME good! For 25 years, before coming here, I was a Primary teacher/Deputy head, until I left Education, and went to teach English in Hungary, then in Germany before returning to the UK where I was unable to get a job! So, then came more retraining, as a website designer this time, from which I met my future husband, online, looking for a website. Fate? We then in 2007, eloped to France, where we lived for 12 years before coming to Spain, where, as I sit writing this, it is currently 42C…
It’s 1980 and Martin, is aged twenty four and is engaged to be married, or so he thinks! Julie, his unsuspecting and naturally angry fiancee, duffs him up when he stays out all night for the first time and with another man, and chucks him out.
Who is there to pick up the pieces? None other than Chris, a gay friend, who quickly becomes Martin’s gay guardian angel and also his little imp. Chris has recently returned to the Big City, and taken Martin in and has already started to lead him astray by introducing him to London’s Gay Clubs and Bars. These two ‘best’ friends go on a hilarious romp about town, both experiencing improbable and unbelievably high-spirited adventures.
Martin still feels full of remorse, and in turn is lost and desperate for love. He starts to embark upon several disastrous relationships, until finally, the man he loves the most, or so he thinks, leaves him. He is now alone, but definitely Out and Proud, thanks to Chris.
Martin and Chris’s lives develop in different ways, but still they remain the very best of friends until just seven years later, the story reaches it’s tragic end.