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by Carrie Jurney DVM DACVIM (Neuro)
I have a confession: I am a Disney nerd.
There, I said it. There is no twelve step program for this, I wish for no cure.
I came by this obsession honestly. I married in to it really. My husband and his family LOVE Disney. By the time we were married Chris had been 20 times. I let him plan our honeymoon solo, and guess where we went- yup, Disney.
At first this was something I merely tolerated, but eventually, likely out of self preservation, I found my happiness.
You see, I love costuming. Love it. Halloween is my favorite holiday. I live in a place where there is a costumed event weekly (God Bless San Francisco), and I have a room full of costumes. Literally a room. I started to enjoy Disney when I started getting different ears to wear every day... but then, I struck gold.
Adults are not allowed to wear costumes at Disney parks. This is understandable. You can't have some random stranger confusing children. If you are a guest, and you show up in a ballgown and start signing autographs they will rightfully throw you out.
However, there are many of us who have found a work around. It's called Disneybounding.
Bounders wear street clothes that are inspired by their favorite characters. If you know we're there, you can spot lots of us in the park. And the best part is the cast members (aka the employees of Disney World and Land) play along. They'll speak to you and treat you as if you are in character. We were on a backstage tour, and I was dressed as Elsa. Look at how the cast member wrote my nametag:
Really, when as an adult are you ever encouraged to be this silly!? To pretend? To goof around.
It is immensely fun. I don't think I laugh as hard all year. So I hope for all of you something in your life that allows you to play, to be silly, to just have fun for fun's sake. I'll leave you with a few pictures from our last trip.
8/12/2017 08:52:05 am
Thanks for such a hilarious read! I enjoyed this post! Sometimes we need to do something that allows us to play, to be silly, and to just have fun for fun's sake.
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A Meta-Analysis of the Effect of Therapist Experience on Outcome for Clients with Internalizing Disorders
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Despite having the most prevalent group of psychiatric disorders, many people with internalizing disorders do not receive treatment. One factor related to lack of treatment is a shortage of qualified mental health therapists. Task shifting may be one solution to this shortage, but has been relatively unused due to the idea that less experienced therapists may not be able to attain commiserate client outcomes as more experienced therapists. However, a relationship between therapist experience and client internalizing outcomes has never been found, a critical first step in determining if task shifting is a viable option to getting millions of people in the United States treatment. Through the meta-analysis of 16 articles representing 31 distinct studies, this study provides an updated and more thorough understanding of the relationship between therapist experience and internalizing client outcome. Although a modest relationship between experience and outcomes was found, the clinical significance of this finding is limited. Further investigation of task-shifting as a potential solution to provider shortages is recommended, as well as a call for renewed research in this area using longitudinal within-therapist designs.
internalizing; anxiety; therapist experience; depression
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Especially relevant now that the world is focusing on biodiversity with the COP 10 conference in Nagoya, the Kew Royal Botanic Gardens has identified Paris japonica as having the world's longest genome sequence, fifty times greater than the human genome.
Scientific American reports that plants with more DNA take longer to grow and to reproduce, making them especially endangered. This sub-alpine canopy plant has only seven known habitats in the world. More details in the September 2010 issue of the Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society.
I wonder if my United States readers know that our country is the only one of 193 countries that did not sign the 1993 Rio de Janeiro Convention on Biodiversity, and has only observer rather than voting status at this month's Nagoya COP 10 conference.
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As the first installment of our new series, this post is from JI's good friend Christopher Blythe. Chris is a graduate of Utah State University, and is now a PhD candidate in religious studies at Florida State University. He has published broadly on the divergent Mormon traditions, and currently serves on the Board of Directors for the John Whitmer Historical Association.
In 2008, while a Master?s student at Utah State University, Philip Barlow invited me to be his assistant for a course entitled, ?Mormonisms.? This was Barlow?s first time teaching the course and his third Mormon Studies course at USU. He had some general ideas of what he wanted accomplish in the course, but I was fortunate to be able to help flesh out the curriculum, assignments, and schedule for the course. This was my first teaching experience in which I lectured roughly every fourth class period. I think it?s a fun exercise to imagine teaching the course once again. Six years later, how would I reimagine this class?
Course objective
The objective of this course was and would continue to be to problematize the standard telling of Mormon history and Mormon thought. Rather than examining Mormonism through the teachings and history of one Church, we would see that Mormon thought was always diverse and in contest. This is crucial for understanding the development of Mormonism (i.e. the current face of any one institution of Mormonism is not inevitable but based on historical events and personalities), but also to emphasize the point (first made by Jan Shipps) that Mormonism is not one new religious movement, but an entirely new religious tradition with its own branches and schools of thought.
Primary Sources
In 2008, students were assigned into small groups that would become experts on a particular Restoration movement or church. They were pointed to primary sources depending on their movement of choice. I would probably not do this in the future. Instead, I would include a collection of primary sources particularly focusing on sources that demonstrating boundary maintenance between groups (i.e. conflict). This would definitely include the first issue of Strang?s Gospel Herald, in which he curses the Saints in Nauvoo, the minutes of Sidney Rigdon?s excommunication trial, the Lorin Woolley Story as recorded by Joseph Musser, Joseph Wood?s ?History of the Reorganization? as serialized in the RLDS periodical the Messenger, and so forth. I would also make sure students were able to get a taste of non-LDS Mormon scripture such as the Book of the Law (Strang), the Book of Enoch (Charles Thompson), and the Ninth Book of Esdras (James Collin Brewster). I would likely allow each student to select one volume of scripture as the subject of a short paper due towards the last third of the course.
Secondary Sources
In 2008, the secondary sources included Newel Bringhurst and John Hamer?s Scattering of the Saints, Ronald Walker?s Wayward Saints, and Paul M. Edwards, Our Legacy of Faith: A Brief History of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. I think these were great choices. I would likely cover the material from Edwards in lectures and assign a different text on RLDS foundations. Instead, I would include Roger Launius? Joseph Smith III: Pragmatic Prophet (Illinois, 1995), which remains the best full text on the early RLDS Church. I would definitely keep Wayward Saints, allowing the class to get an on-the-ground look at dissent in Utah. I would add Martha Bradley?s excellent Kidnapped from that Land: Government Raids on the Short Creek Polygamists (which we would juxtapose to current media representations since 2008). Finally, I would likely scrap Scattering in favor of selected articles. There really is just so much material that could work for a class like this. Of course, I would also recommend Steve Shields? Divergent Paths of the Restoration as a handy source to capture the real diversity of the Restoration.
Unique activities
One of the possible problems with such a class is that even as we attempt to demonstrate diversity within the Restoration, we still end up spending much of our time discussing institutions and prophets, rather than average believers. For this reason, in 2008, I organized an extensive oral history project for the class to participate in. We set up interviews at the homes of a variety of non-LDS Mormons throughout Utah. This included visits with a Swedenborgian-Mormon in Salt Lake City, believers in a revelation received by a young girl in Sanpete County, a spokeswoman from Principle Voices (Mormon Fundamentalist activist group,) a spokeswoman from Tapestry Against Polygamy (an Anti-Mormon Fundamentalist activist group), followers of Christopher Nemelka, members of the Apostolic United Brethren, Fred Larsen (the prophet of the Remnant Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints), and so forth. Students were able to pick which of these interviews they wanted to participate in and became familiar with all of the related methodologies of ethnographic research and oral history. If the course was in the Mormon Corridor or the Midwest, I would keep this as a standard activity. If not, I would definitely like the students to have the opportunity to attend a Community of Christ service, which one can usually find fairly close.


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In spite of icy temperatures the trade show's attendance figure was even higher than at last year's already successful event (11,000 visitors): According to the official records around 12,000 trade visitors attended the RemaDays Warsaw, which is open to both distributors and end customers. However, the visitors were identified as being either resellers or users using respective lanyards. Many of the exhibitors praised the high level of contacts.
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Judge Kopf Causes a Stir With Blog Post About Female Lawyers
When U.S. District Judge Richard Kopf of Nebraska quit blogging in January, he explained that he had nothing left to say. Some of his readers are now wishing that were really the case.
Judge Kopf, who revived his personal blog "Hercules and the Umpire" this month, put up a post Tuesday so strange and bawdy that some wondered whether his site had been hacked.
The title of it, "On being a dirty old man and how young women lawyers dress," captures what follows. In the post, Judge Kopf urges female lawyers to wear less revealing clothes, while confessing his conflicted feelings over his sexual attraction to a young female lawyer in her late 20s who comes to court in skimpy outfits.


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Topic Page: Massachusetts
1 a state of the northeastern US, on the Atlantic: a centre of resistance to English colonial policy during the War of American Independence; consists of a coastal plain rising to mountains in the west. Capital: Boston. Pop: 6 433 422 (2003 est). Area: 20 269 sq km (7826 sq miles) Abbreviation: Mass or with zip code MA
State of northeastern USA, a New England state and the sixth smallest state in the nation; bounded by the Atlantic Ocean on the east and southeast, Rhode Island and Connecticut to the south, New York to the west, and Vermont and New Hampshire to the north; area 20,306 sq km/7,8407,840 sq mi; population (2010) 6,547,629; capital and largest city Boston. It is nicknamed Bay State because of the early settlement on Cape Cod Bay, and Old Colony State due to its historical significance. The state includes part of the Taconic Mountains, the valley of the Housatonic River, the Berkshire Massif, known as the Berkshires, and the northeasternmost section of the Atlantic Coastal Plain, including the Cape Cod peninsula. The Massachusetts economy is based on the service sector, and high-tech and electrical industries are also significant. Agricultural products include cranberries, apples, and dairy goods. Towns include Worcester, Springfield, Lowell, Cambridge, Brockton, New Bedford, Fall River, Lynn, and Quincy. One of the Thirteen Colonies, the state is a region of great significance to US history, being the point of disembarkation for the Mayflower Pilgrims, as well as the site of key conflicts in the American Revolution. Massachusetts entered the Union in 1788 as the 6th of the original 13 states.
Physical Massachusetts can be divided into six main land regions: the Taconic section, the Berkshire Massif, the New England Upland, the Connecticut Valley lowland, the Coastal Lowland, and the Atlantic Coastal Plain. Almost the entire land area of the state was at one time glaciated. The Taconic Hills or Range in western Massachusetts consists of rugged mountains rising to the highest peak in the state, Mount Greylock, at 1,065 m/3,495 ft near Adams. The Berkshires are heavily forested highlands. The adjoining New England Upland slopes downwards towards the coast and intersects with the Connecticut Valley lowland. Here the land becomes level plains with rich alluvial soils.
The swampy Coastal Plain covers most of eastern-central Massachusetts and features glaciated small hills known as drumlins, of which Breed's Hill and Bunker Hill are the most famous. The Atlantic Coastal Plain is a region of deep bays and marshy inlets and features Cape Cod, the islands of Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket, the Elizabeth Islands, and other smaller islands.
Massachusetts has generally cold winters, a high degree of precipitation, and warm summers.
The Connecticut River is the largest in the state and the Merrimack River, flowing through the northeast, is the second largest. Other important rivers include the Charles River and the Mystic River, the Concord, the Housatonic, Blackstone, Nashua, Ipswich, and Taunton. Massachusetts has many lakes, of which the largest natural lake is Assawompsett Pond, covering about 10 sq km/4 sq mi. Central Massachusetts is dominated by the Quabbin Reservoir, covering 101 sq km/39 sq mi.
The state's largest bays are Massachusetts Bay, north of Boston, Cape Cod Bay, and Buzzards Bay, an inlet west of Cape Cod. Boston Harbor, the innermost part of Boston Bay, is the largest harbour and there are smaller harbours at New Bedford, Fall River, Provincetown, Salem, Gloucester, and Plymouth.
In common with much of New England, Massachusetts has mainly deciduous forests of beech, birch, maple, cherry, and hickory. Red cedar and oak are also found, and coniferous trees such as white pine and spruce are more common in the higher parts of the state. Fauna and flora range from marsh grasses, marigolds, and violets on the coastal dunes to ferns and flowering shrubs, such as dogwood, azalea, mountain laurel, wild cherry, and trailing arbutus, or mayflower (the state flower), in the forested areas.
There is a wide range of birds, from coastal birds, including gulls, loons, and petrels, to freshwater ducks and resident Canada geese, and, in the interior and western woods and mountains, song birds, hawks, and owls. Wildlife includes beavers, otters, cottontail rabbits, moles and shrews, chipmunks, woodchuck and flying squirrels, martens, weasels, and mink, as well as harbour and grey seals on the coast. The minke whale and the humpback whale can also be spotted in Massachusetts coastal waters. Inland fish include pike, sunfish, bass, trout, perch, and salmon, and in coastal waters cod, haddock, summer flounder, black sea bass, and squid.
Features Massachusetts's long, complex history is reflected in its numerous sites of historic interest, most importantly at Plymouth Plantation, Salem, Concord, Lexington, and in the city of Boston.
On Massachusetts's South Shore, Plymouth Plantation is one of the most famous landmarks in the USA and the site of Plymouth Rock. It features living history exhibits, including a reconstructed 1627 pilgrim village and Hobbamock's home site and the Mayflower II, a full-scale reproduction of the 17th-century vessel. The 1749 Court House Museum is in the oldest wooden courthouse in the country.
Plymouth is also home to several historic houses, including Richard Sparrow House (1640), Jabez Howland House (1667), Harlow Old Fort House (1677), Spooner House (1749), the Mayflower Society Museum (1754), and Hedge House (1809). Hingham, also on the South Shore, is home to the Old Ship Church, the oldest continuously operating wooden church in the USA, built in 1681, and the Hingham Historical Society Museum, built as the Old Ordinary in 1680. The Adams National Historical Park also lies in the South Shore region and features memorials to the USA's original presidential dynasty, the Adams family.
On the North Shore, Salem is perhaps Massachusetts's most famous historic site, with its McIntire Historic District featuring Chestnut Street, considered one of the most architecturally beautiful streets in the USA. Also in Salem are Hamilton Hall, a National Historic Landmark; Nathaniel Bowditch House; the New England Pirate Museum; the Peabody Essex Museum; Pickering Wharf; Salem Maritime National Historic Site, including Custom House and Derby House; the Old Burying Point, a cemetery dating from 1637; and the House of the Seven Gables, built in 1688 and made famous in a novel by Nathaniel Hawthorne. The Salem Witch Museum and Salem Witch Village present the story of the witch hysteria that took hold of the region in 1692 (see Salem witch trials).
Located 35 km/22 mi outside Boston, within the towns of Lexington, Lincoln, and Concord, Massachusetts's Minuteman National Historical Park marks the site of the first shot fired in the American Revolution and preserves the site of the first battle, as well as other Revolutionary period landmarks. Also at this site are the former homes of three of the USA's most famous writers, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Louisa May Alcott. Walden Pond, in Concord, is where Henry David Thoreau conceived his transcendentalist work Walden, or Life in the Woods.
Boston is Massachusetts's largest city and one of the most important financial, commercial, educational, and cultural centres of the USA. The Boston National Historical Site includes the Old State House, Faneuil Hall, and the Bunker Hill Monument. Famous historic areas in the city area include Charlestown Navy Yard, one of the first naval shipyards in the nation; Beacon Hill; Back Bay; Brookline; Cambridge; Jamaica Plain; and North End. Colonial features in the city include Paul Revere House, Old Corner Bookstore, Old North Church, Old South Meeting House, and King's Chapel. Federal period sites include the Massachusetts State House, Quincy Market, Harrison Gray Otis' Mansion, Charles St Meeting House, and Sears House.
Boston is rich in Victorian architecture, as can be seen at Trinity Church, Boston Public Library, Old Boston City Hall, the Custom House, Brattle Square Congregational Church, New Old South Church, Chadwick Lead Works, 10 Liberty Square, the International Trust Company, and the Flour and Grain Exchange. Examples of contemporary architecture include the New Boston City Hall, the John Hancock Tower, Rowe's Wharf, and the Prudential Center. Other important places in Boston include Fenway Park, the oldest baseball stadium in operation in the USA and home to the Red Sox; the New England Aquarium; and Franklin Park Zoo.
Boston's numerous museums include the Bostonian Historical Society and Museum at the State House, the USS Constitution Museum, the JFK Library and Museum, the Boston African-American National Historic Site, the Commonwealth Museum, the Museum of Afro-American History, the Museum of Science, and the Paul Revere House. The Harvard Museum of Natural History and the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology are in Cambridge.
Boston is a major centre of higher education in the USA and the Boston public (free) school system is the oldest in the USA. Over a hundred colleges, universities, and teaching hospitals are located in Massachusetts, including an extensive network of state colleges. Its largest universities are Boston University (1869) and Northeastern University (1898). In nearby Cambridge, Harvard University (1636) and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT; 1861) are internationally renowned. The chief state-supported university is the University of Massachusetts, with branches at Amherst, Boston, Dartmouth, Lowell, and Worcester.
Lexington, northwest of Boston, has important historical sites, including the Buckman Tavern, the Hancock-Clarke House, and the Munroe Tavern. On the coast, north of Boston, is Cape Ann, with the picturesque fishing and summer vacation resorts of Essex, Rockport, Gloucester, and Manchester-by-the-Sea. Lowell, on the Merrimack River, is home to the American Textile Museum and the Lowell National Historic Park, featuring a working textile mill, canals, and museums detailing 19th-century industry and life. New Bedford is an old whaling town, featured in Herman Melville's novel, Moby Dick, and home to the New Bedford Whaling Museum, as well as being one of the USA's largest and oldest Portuguese communities.
After Boston, the two largest cities in Massachusetts are Worcester and Springfield. Worcester is home to the Higgins Armory Museum, housed in a Gothic castle. Springfield features the Springfield Armory National Historic Site, the Springfield Science Museum, and the Connecticut Valley Historical Museum which reflects mainly 19th-century regional history.
Central Massachusetts is famous for its apple orchards and antiques, and features the Blackstone River Valley National Heritage Corridor; Old Sturbridge Village, the largest history museum in the northeast; and the Fruitlands Museum in Harvard, a museum of the New England landscape. Western Massachusetts and the Berkshires are popular tourist destinations. Historic towns in the region include Egremont, Adams, Clarksburg, Great Barrington, Housatonic, Lenox, Monterey, and Williamstown. Amherst is home to the Robert Frost Trail and Emily Dickinson House. Amherst College, in Amherst, and Williams College, in Williamstown, are among the top US liberal arts colleges. Deerfield, in the Connecticut River Valley, was the site of an American Indian raid during Queen Anne's War in the early 18th century. Hancock Shaker Village in Pittsfield is an 18th- and 19th-century living history Shaker village. Also in western Massachusetts is the small town of Shelburne Falls, with its Bridge of Flowers and historic Mohawk Trail.
The Cape Cod area is especially rich in historical sites, including the Heritage Plantation of Sandwich and, in Barnstable, the oldest public library in the USA (1644), the Olde Colonial Courthouse (1772), the Trayser Museum Complex with maritime and Indian artefacts, and a jail dating from 1690. The French Cable Station Museum marks the place where, during the 19th century, transatlantic cable connected North America to Europe by telephone. There are also numerous old mills, small historical museums, historic houses and gardens, old schoolhouses, and windmills. The Cape Cod National Seashore is a 145 km-/90 mi-long federally protected stretch of coast, stretching from Chatham to Provincetown.
Near Cape Cod are the islands of Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket, also popular summer holiday destinations. In Martha's Vineyard the town of Edgartown has the Martha's Vineyard Museum and Historical Society, with whaling artefacts, antique furniture, and the Fresnel lens, installed in the Gay Head Lighthouse in 1856. Nantucket is home to the Historical Association's Whaling Museum and Historic Sites. Other points of interest include the African Meeting House, an 1827 church that later served as a school for African children, and Jethro Coffin House.
Culture Massachusetts, and particularly Boston, is famous historically for its Irish-American and white Anglo-Saxon Protestant culture. Contemporary Boston, however, is the most cosmopolitan and ethnically diverse city in the state, with old Irish, Italian, Jewish, and black American neighbourhoods, and a famous Chinatown district. Other ethnic groups in the city include Armenian, Caribbean, Hawaiian, Hispanic, Korean, Polish, and Russian. Boston also has a large number of cultural resources and attractions. Cambridge is famous for its progressive, student-orientated neighbourhoods, associated with Harvard University. Massachusetts is primarily a Democrat-sympathetic state, home to the Kennedys, and its 'Yankee' culture is known nationally for liberalism and a tendency to intellectualism.
One of the most important museums in Massachusetts is the Peabody Essex in Salem, with one of the world's largest and most important collections of Asian arts and the most comprehensive and renowned maritime art and history collection in the USA. Also included in the permanent collection are works reflecting the arts and cultures of American Indians, Oceania, and Africa.
In Cambridge, the Harvard University art museums house world-famous collections. The Fogg Art Museum covers Western art from the Middle Ages to the present and features one of the most important Renaissance collections in the USA. The Busch-Reisinger Museum reflects the cultures of central and northern Europe and features German expressionism, Vienna Secession art, 1920s abstraction, and works by German sculptor Joseph Beuys. The Arthur M Sackler Museum houses superb collections of ancient Asian and Islamic art.
Boston has several fine art resources. The Museum of Fine Arts is well known for its Asian collection and for its European and US painting. The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum has famous collections of Western art, furniture, decorative arts, and textiles throughout history. The Institute of Contemporary Art is mainly an exhibition centre.
Worcester and Springfield have fine art museums and there are many other museums in the state, of which the Museum of Contemporary Art in North Adams, housed in a former factory, is a more recent addition. Others include the Addison Gallery of American Art in Andover; the Cahoon Museum of American Art, featuring US primitive painting; the Clark Institute in Williamstown; the Fuller Museum in Brockton; the Heritage Plantation Art Museum in Sandwich; the McCullen Museum of Art at Boston College in Chestnut Hill; the Amherst History Museum, with 18th- and 19th-century art and furniture; the Museum of the National Center of Afro-American Artists in Roxbury; the Flynt Center of Early New England Life at Deerfield, with decorative art treasures; the Franklin Waters Museum in Ipswich, containing a collection of antique furniture from China and colonial America; Smith College Museum of Art in Northampton; Whistler House Museum of Art in Lowell, housed in the birthplace of artist James McNeill Whistler; the DeCordova Museum of Contemporary Art in Lincoln; and, also in Lincoln, Gropius House, featuring Bauhaus furnishings and pieces of modern art.
Massachusetts has many famous literary sites, including the Longfellow National Historic Site; a study used by Ralph Waldo Emerson, preserved at Concord; a house designed and built by novelist Edith Wharton in Lenox; Emily Dickinson's house in Amherst; and the former homes of Louisa May Alcott, Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Henry David Thoreau, in Concord and Salem. Herman Melville lived in Pittsfield.
The state has a rich musical life, with many symphony orchestras and classical music ensembles. The Boston Symphony Orchestra, founded in 1881, ranks as one of the most esteemed orchestras of the world. Tanglewood in Lenox in the Berkshires has become famous as one of the world's leading music festivals. Sevenars Music Festival, also in Western Massachusetts, is increasingly significant, and the Berkshires Summer Art Festival is also important. Other events include the Cambridge River Festival, the New England Folk Festival in Boston, and the Boston Blues Festival. Lowell has an annual Folk Festival.
There are also numerous theatre, dance, and performance companies, mainly based in Boston. Boston is important, too, for television production, particularly of news, arts, and documentaries.
Massachusetts is a traditional state and prides itself on its fishing heritage and fine seafood. Boston is popularly known as Bean Town, because of its fondness for baked beans, and many famous US beers are brewed there. Festivals and events include craft fairs, arts fairs, garden shows, antiques fairs, apple blossom festivals, flower festivals, chowder festivals, scallop and lobster festivals, and numerous harvest festivals. Boston Harborfest is held every July and the Arts Festival of Boston every September. New Bedford has an annual Whaling City Festival and a Summerfest. Gloucester has an annual seafood festival and Plymouth an annual summer waterfront festival.
Sports in Massachusetts are a major preoccupation and important national teams include the Boston Celtics (basketball), New England Patriots (American football), the Boston Red Sox (baseball), and the Boston Bruins (hockey). Boston also holds an annual marathon each April and the annual Head of the Charles Regatta rowing race each October. Hiking, boating, and fishing in Massachusetts are also popular activities.
GovernmentMassachusetts's state constitution The constitution of Massachusetts is the oldest written constitution in the world still in effect, ratified in 1780.
Structure of state government The legislature, known as the General Court, has a Senate of 40 members and a House of Representatives with 160 members, all of whom serve two-year terms. The Senate is one of the oldest in the world. Massachusetts sends nine representatives and two senators to the US Congress and has 11 electoral votes in presidential elections.
The governor of Massachusetts is elected for a four-year term. Democrat Deval Patrick took the governorship in January 2007. The governor's executive council consists of the lieutenant governor and eight elected councillors. Its function is to give its consent to judicial appointments made by the governor and it also considers pardons for criminals. The Democratic Party dominates state politics, but moderate Republicans held the governor's office 1991–2007.
The state's court system consists of the Supreme Judicial Court (the highest court, with a chief justice and six associate justices), appeals court, and seven trial court departments.
Massachusetts has 14 counties, some of which are governed by county governments, while others are governed by state and local or regional agencies. Counties cannot levy taxes. There are 351 incorporated cities and towns.
Economy Massachusetts has one of the highest per capita incomes among the US states. It has a service-industry-led economy, in which healthcare, tourism, education, finance, and insurance play significant roles, but high-tech industries are also important. Biotechnology, biomedicine, artificial intelligence, marine sciences, renewable energy, and polymer technology have all been encouraged and developed. Manufactures include electrical and electronic equipment, industrial equipment, technical instruments, plastics, machinery, tools, and metal and rubber products. Other important industries include jewellery, paper and publishing, and shipping. Agricultural products include cranberries, greenhouse and nursery items, apples, and dairy goods. Fishing has declined in importance in recent years.
HistoryIndigenous people Early inhabitants of the Massachusetts region included the Nauset Algonquian Indian tribe who lived on Cape Cod; the Massachusett, a North American Indian tribe; the Wampanoag, a powerful Algonquian Indian tribe; the Pennacook; the Mohican (Stockbridge); the Pocumtuck; and the Nipmuck. Early European travellers introduced new diseases to which the American Indians had no natural immunity, with devastating effects on native populations.
Exploration and early settlements The first Europeans to visit the Massachusetts area were probably Norse explorers, fishing for cod. The voyages of Giovanni Caboto in 1497 and 1498 established England's claim to the New England region. John Smith'sA Description of New England made the prospect of settlement there seem attractive and Pilgrims seeking religious freedom sailed from England on the Mayflower, anchoring off the tip of Cape Cod in late 1620. Almost half the Pilgrims died, but Plymouth Plantation eventually became the first permanent European settlement in southern New England. Relations with American Indians were friendly, and in 1621 a peaceful first Thanksgiving was observed. Fishing and trading posts quickly grew up around the area and more settlers arrived in 1628, when English Puritans led by John Endicott arrived in Salem.
Colonial days In 1629 the Massachusetts Bay Company was granted a royal charter and began forming a local government at the Massachusetts Bay Colony. More Puritans, led by John Winthrop, arrived in 1630, bringing with them a much-desired charter, assuring self-governance as a self-contained English colony. Settlements grew up in the Charlestown and Boston areas and colonization spread rapidly along the coast. A style of government particular to New England was established, in which the town meeting played a central role. In western Massachusetts lucrative fur trading was established around Springfield, Northampton, Hadley, and Deerfield; small-scale farming and villages featuring the characteristic central green were more typical, however. In 1637 the Pequot War led to an alliance between the Massachusetts and Connecticut Puritans, with an attack on the Pequot people at Mystic. American Indians were eventually forced to retreat westward into the Berkshires.
Royal province In 1603 the Stuarts acceded to the English throne and initiated more stringent control of the colony. After losing its royal charter, the Massachusetts Bay Colony fell to the control of Edmund Andros. In 1691 it became a royal province under a governor appointed by the Crown. Restrictions that sprang up subsequently led to a build-up of anti-English feeling, but Massachusetts remained largely peaceful and played a significant role as a maritime trading power, owing to profitable trade with Caribbean ports. Boston by this time had become an important intellectual centre, known for Harvard College and its cultural institutions.
The American Revolution The Sugar Act (1764) and the Stamp Act (1765) provoked rioting and boycotts in the Massachusetts area. Although the Sugar Act was repealed in 1766, other repressive measures followed and the people of Massachusetts became increasingly rebellious. The Boston Massacre took place on 5 March 1770, followed by the Boston Tea Party, in which politician Samuel Adams directed the dumping of the cargoes of three East India Company ships into Boston Harbor. A Continental Congress ordered a general boycott of English goods. On the night of 18 April 1775 Paul Revere and William Dawes made their famous rides to warn of the arrival of British troops, and American rebels engaged the British at Lexington and Concord. The siege of Boston followed, including the 'glorious defeat' at the Battle of Bunker Hill, and on 17 March 1776 the British evacuated their troops from the area.
Independence and Civil War John Adams, among others, drafted a Constitutional Convention that was ratified by the people on 15 June 1780. A federal constitution followed, under the presidency of George Washington.
After a period of post-war depression, Massachusetts once again flourished as a trading region, expanding her foreign commerce to include China. The Embargo Act, which was passed in 1807 and closed US ports to export shipping, caused a setback to this growing prosperity, however, and the War of 1812 precluded maritime trade altogether until 1815. The embargo and War of 1812 also forced the region to develop its own manufacturing industries, however, and an 1816 protective tariff served to promote US goods by blocking foreign imports.
Progressive social movements, new theories, and women's rights were hotly debated in Massachusetts towns and cities. Colonies of idealists and communists sprang up, and the Constitutional Convention of 1820 reflected the new mood by giving the people a greater voice.
In 1831, William Lloyd Garrison founded the abolitionist paper The Liberator, and in 1832 the New England Anti-Slavery Society was formed in Boston and began organizing the Underground Railroad in an effort to free slaves. After the Civil War erupted, Massachusetts, a staunchly Unionist and abolitionist state, provided many troops to the Union side, including the first black American regiments.
Industrialization With plentiful water power and abundant raw materials, by the early 19th century Massachusetts had became a leading manufacturing region. The cities of Lawrence, Lowell, Fall River, and New Bedford quickly transformed into major textiles centres, with further textiles and footwear factories at Lynn, Brockton, Haverhill, Marlborough, and Worcester.
After the opening of the Erie Canal in 1825, which increased agricultural competition, urbanization occurred in Massachusetts as farmers and farm workers moved to the towns. New immigrants also arrived to work in the factories, including Finns, Latvians, Lithuanians, Turks, Scots, Irish, French, Italians, Poles, Portuguese, Germans, and Slavs.
Massachusetts fostered its public schools system and was able to develop a highly skilled labour force. A spirit of entrepreneurialism characterized industry in the state and considerable diversification took place. Progressive laws, combined with an advanced bill of civil rights, created the now-legendary east coast Democrat liberal ideology. The suffragist movement meanwhile became a more coherent political force.
20th century During the Great Depression, Massachusetts suffered and manufacturing declined, particularly the shoes and textile industries, which were unable to compete with low-wage competition from the South. The state's economy had recovered by World War II and the state profited from wartime industries. The Korean War further stimulated industry. Military and aerospace industries developed rapidly and allowed new technologies to be adopted. Electronic components and other high-technology industries received research funding. From the 1970s, the Route 128 corridor around Boston saw rapid economic growth, based around high-tech industries. Massachusetts's wealth is concentrated in Boston, which has been undergoing intensive redevelopment.
Politically, the Democratic Party has dominated state politics. The most prominent Democrat family has been the Kennedy's. They provided the US's charismatic president, John F Kennedy, 1961–63, attorney-general Robert Kennedy, and state's senator Edward Kennedy, 1962–2009.
Famous peoplethe arts John Singleton Copley (1738–1815), painter; William Cullen Bryant (1794–1878), poet and editor; Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882), philosopher and poet; Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804–1864), author; John Greenleaf Whittier (1807–1892), poet; Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809–1894), writer; Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849), writer and poet; Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862), author; Emily Dickinson (1830–1886), poet; Helen Hunt Jackson (1830–1885), writer; James McNeill Whistler (1834–1903), painter; Winslow Homer (1836–1910), painter; Louis Henry Sullivan (1856–1924), architect; Amy Lowell (1874–1925), poet; Cecil B de Mille (1881–1959), film director and producer; E E Cummings (1894–1962), poet; Theodor Seuss Giesel, Dr Seuss (1904–1991), author and illustrator; Robert Lowell (1917–1977), poet; Leonard Bernstein (1918–1990), conductor and composer; Bette Davis (1918–1989), actor
science Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790), political figure and scientist; Eli Whitney (1765–1825), inventor of the cotton gin; John Chapman, 'Johnny Appleseed' (1774–1845), pioneer and folk hero; William D Coolidge (1873–1975), inventor; Robert Goddard (1882–1945), rocket pioneer; Rachel Fuller Brown (1898–1980), inventor
society and education Horace Mann (1796–1859), political leader and educator; Susan B Anthony (1820–1906), suffragist and reformer
politics and law John Winthrop (1588–1649), English-born colonial leader; John Endecott (1589–1665), English-born colonial leader; John Eliot (1640–1690), religious missionary to the American Indians; Samuel Adams (1722–1803), patriot and politician; John Adams (1735–1826), 2nd president of the USA; Paul Revere (1735–1818), American Revolutionary; John Quincy Adams (1767–1848), 6th president of the USA; Tip O'Neill (1912–1994), Democratic politician and Speaker of the House of Representatives; John F Kennedy (1917–1963), 35th president of the USA; George H W Bush (1924– ), 41st president of the USA; Michael Dukakis (1933– ), Democrat governor; John Kerry (1943– ), US senator.
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Here's to the crazy ones…in the iPhone 5 line: Meet Rachel, and find out why she's spending $200
As you'd expect, there's been quite a bit of excitement over Apple's newly released iPhone 5, but even as a user of Apple products, I'm not willing to camp out on the streets for days or burn a whole in my wallet for no reason.
Hopefully, the record-breaking number of people who have already purchased the latest iDevice did so with a bit of purpose — to take advantage of the larger screen, 4G capabilities or even the slightly improved camera — and not because, well, they just aren't that bright.
Thanks to Sam Roberts and 9to5Mac, we're now able to meet Rachel and find out exactly why she's determined to get her hands on the Apple 5. Enjoy:
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Happy Friday everyone! Welcome to the Things I Know linkup. If you want to tell me what you know this week link up below and don't forget to link back to me.
Things I know this week-
-I am a guest blogger over at the fabulous Childhood 101! Read my post about making the decision to homeschool HERE
-the excitement of my big girls at seeing a real princess (duchess, whatever) get married was almost eclipsed by their disappointment that the queen was much less Disney that they imagined.
-If your child has a dry night nappy all night for 2 weeks the first night out of nappies will be the night they wet the bed. Twice.
-when you do the above for an hour and a half over getting into pajamas your Mama will want to lie down and join in.
-if you plan an evening of "marital relations" for after the kids are in bed the kids will not go to bed until AFTER you libido has
-changing any song lyric to "poo" is guaranteed a laugh
-I'm committed to Things I Know because I set an alarm to get up early and do this before going to the much anticipated Bloggers Brunch!
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5 comments:
- Deborah said...
Oh dear, we have the same getting into pyjamas problem too! Let the irrationality begin! ;)
- May 6, 2011 at 6:40 AM
- Leah said...
LOL @ your poor libido going to sleep before the kids. Lucky we peak in our 30's right, imagine it was a ebb not a flow hahahaha! Celibacy ftw!
- May 6, 2011 at 8:56 AM
- MultipleMum said...
I have been doing these posts for awhile but didn't know you had a linky! Such fun!
- May 6, 2011 at 7:59 PM
- Jane Blogs said...
Libido? What's that?
Maybe Leah is peaking in her 30's, but I have to tell you I'm definitely not so lucky.
btw, how can I join in next time?
- May 10, 2011 at 12:15 PM
- shae said...
Jane Blogs-
Come and link up any Friday!
- May 12, 2011 at 5:17 PM
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Just made this pot for my sister. I'll fill it up with Ferrero Rochers and give it to her for Xmas 🙂
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Game of Thrones present
Ages ago (over one year ago) I asked my brother on his bday "What would you like as a present? Money, or one of my pots, but with a GoT theme?" "POT!!" He immediately answered. I was happy with the answer, but then hehe, I never got around to it, until now.
I have a problem with this pot. I like what I have done so far, but it feels kind of naked. The pot is pretty big, so I'd like to have more area painted than this. Both my boyfriend and sister told me to leave it as it is, but I still have my doubts.
I'll be giving it as a Xmas presie, and I guess that if I fill it up with cookies or chocolates, it will look better hehe 🙂
Any opinions will be greatly appreciated 🙂
Finally done with the latest pot. It was probably the most intricate one I have done so far, and the most difficult one, but I had fun painting it 🙂 Mom's bday is coming up so I might give it to her unless I make something nicer. I have to make a Stark sigil one for my brother, who also has a passion for all things Game of Thrones… Probably not the next one, but certainly coming soon 🙂
Here it is!
Ok, I am working on this one now. Spent about two hours outlining the whole thing. By the end of the night my wrist was calling me names! It looks nice as it is, even without coloring in, but I'll fill it in anyways. I kept the design on paper and can do it again.
Can't wait to get my hands busy painting it, but saddly, work comes first ;). This is the first design I have made using inspiration from works I saw on the net. A few changes here and there, but I really love it. Hope it looks nice in the end.
Here's how it looks after the outlining:
All done!
Working on a new project!
Ok so now it is time to try light bulbs! The acrylic paint I bought works really well on glass, which is weird because a lot of people on the Internet say it doesn't work well. I am making a Christmas ornament. So far so good, I haven't had time to do much and I only started last night.
I can't wait until I get back home to do some more painting. It takes quite a bit of time since I am making such tiny drawings on it, but it has a therapeutic effect on me lol 🙂
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Last post I said I was going to try to paint during my holidays, but I didn't. I didn't paint them during my holidays because ('yay' ) my boyfriend's boss told him she needed him the day before we were meant to head out to our road trip. So instead I painted my little pots and bottle during the weekend.
We were actually quite lucky that our hols got canceled, or rather, postponed, because the weather sucked that week, and we went the week after, and the weather was AWESOME!!!!!
I know I still haven't posted all about my first hols, but I guess I'll just add stuff as I feel like it. heck, it's my blog and I'll blog how I want to.
Here are some rather sucky quality photos of my latest creations. They look much nicer in person, but saddly my house isn't as well lit as my mom's hehe. I'll replace the photo with better ones if I ever get around to it. I used the usual paints and also tried some new acrylic paints for fun, and I like them!
That's right, I'm slacking.
Glass painting
Today I passed by my mother's house to leave her some corn silk tea for an issue she has, kidney stones. I know she'd never bother making it herself, so I left her shitloads in her fridge lol 🙂
I was waiting for the water to boil when I noticed she had my Xmas gift to her from two years ago in her living room. I painted it myself, and filled it with yummy chocolates. Cheapest gift ever, but I think it was pretty cool. I took some photos of it to put here. Here it is!
Been thinking about making more, on weekends, and then when I had loads, I could either give them to friends or sell them. I made more, I made one for my dad, one for a brother and one for my sister. If I ever come across them again I'll photograph them and put them here 🙂


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What you're hearing now is a voice from the past and future of the New Orleans music scene, legendary R&B musician Allen Toussaint. We first spoke with him shortly after he evacuated the city. When we reached him recently in New York, he was seated at the piano. I asked him if there was a song that has given him special comfort since the hurricane and his fingers started flying.
Mr. ALLEN TOUSSAINT (Musician): When it's just an instrumental, it's called "Tipitina and Me." And I find that very comforting because it has so much of the spirit of New Orleans in it as far as I'm concerned.
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ELLIOTT: Toussaint's been busy these last few months. He and Elvis Costello recorded an album in New Orleans. Costello added lyrics to this tune and it became "Ascension Day." And Toussaint has been traveling a lot between New York and the Big Easy.
Mr. TOUSSAINT: Of course, in the back of my mind is always getting back to New Orleans, the Garden where I have my roots, and they're still there.
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ELLIOTT: From his balcony in New Orleans, Toussaint used to be able to sit and listen to the jazz festival his city is famous for. In this new year, he says he'll repair that flooded home and replace his beloved Steinway.
Mr. TOUSSAINT: However, I'm going to put it on the second floor this time. We won't be flirting with water anymore.
ELLIOTT: And as for New Year's itself?
Mr. TOUSSAINT: I plan to usher this new year in in New Orleans, God willing, and it's the first New Year's after our uninvited guest, Katrina; may you return never again. I would like to be there to say, `Here we are looking forward optimistically towards a new year like never before.' And it's sort of maybe shaking a fist at Katrina in a way.
ELLIOTT: Where will you go? Where will you be?
Mr. TOUSSAINT: Well, I will probably be with my family, my daughter and my son. He is in Houston, Texas, right now. He may come down, but I will be with my daughter and grandkids I'm feeling...
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Mr. TOUSSAINT: ...and looking forward eagerly.
ELLIOTT: Well, thank you so much for speaking with us, Allen Toussaint, and we wish you a very happy New Year.
Mr. TOUSSAINT: And a happy New Year to you and to all.
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ELLIOTT: Over the course of this hour, we have heard from Khalil Bashir, Mayan Yadai(ph), John Hope Franklin, Gregory Bright, Mary Anderson Pickard and Allen Toussaint. To hear more from them, as well as other memorable moments from 2005, go to our Web site, npr.org.
From all of us, we wish you a happy New Year.
That's ALL THINGS CONSIDERED from NPR News. I'm Debbie Elliott.
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|Shoolin-Lord shiva painting- Shiva series
Monday, October 3
I have Recently found a serious interest in lord Shiva. Looking at the pictures, reading the shlokas, listening to songs that talk about Shiva , brings in an unexplained calmness and a rush to do more and to learn more.
So i thought of doing a Shiva series where i can bring life to the cosmic power in the form of art.
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Using the storytelling technique in business communication appears to be the new cool kid on the block. But, there's a secret about this storytelling business. It's not a big secret, but people seem to want to discount it because it seems too simple. The truth is, there is one basic story pattern that humans around the world accept as a story (versus an anecdote, message or just a series of events). It is called the Hero's Journey.
I did not make up the Hero's Journey. Joseph Campbell, the great philosopher and writer from the 1930s and 1940s is widely credited for examining it thoroughly and explaining why we are so drawn to this pattern. His book, The Hero With a Thousand Faces, explores this monomyth, as he called it.
For business, the good news is you don't have to follow all 17 – yes, 17! – steps of the Hero's Journey to have effective business storytelling. The difference between classic storytelling and applying storytelling techniques to business communications often comes down to this: Storytelling in business does not require a full saga. You don't have to take people through a narrative epic. There isn't time for that anyway. Just one wrinkle can be enough to elevate an anecdote to story. But, it does have to be follow some basics.
First, know your purpose. You want to tell a story that is going to drive people to a place. What is the message you are trying to get across? What is the meaning of your story? Once you know that you are ready for your Hero's Journey tale.
Over the next few days, I will explore the four necessary parts of the Hero's Journey that a business or organization should use when using storytelling. (I will now apologize in advance that I am about to ruin your ability to watch a movie without running the steps in your head to see if the director knew what he was doing.)
The basic pattern goes like this: A hero is called to leave his common everyday life to explore the wonders of the world. Mystical forces are there encountered and a conclusive victory over an adversary is won. The hero returns from this mysterious adventure – forever changed and more powerful – and with this new power, understanding and wisdom, can (and does) bestow benefits and gifts upon his fellow man and the Universe is now a safer place. The End.
Sound familiar? What does this have to do with business and how on earth do you break that down into a communication that makes a positive change in your organization or business?
Tune in tomorrow and we'll begin to break down the four main parts. And, you'll see there are heroes all around us.


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Reservation has always been a politically hypersensitive issue in India with few daring to burn their fingers in this volatile matter. In such circumstances, the RSS's argument on reservation needs to be debated on merits. The organisation should be complimented for having courage to deliberate upon this socially and politically sensitive issue at length in their three-day long All India Pratinidhi Sabha meet. The meet discussed threadbare whether the current reservation policy is in sync with the spirit of the Constitution and ideas of framers of the Constitution or if it violates the same.
No government or even any political party, national or regional, (even if one might privately agree) has the guts to say that the present quota policy needs a review, or even suggest that there was a need to make a fresh assessment whether the benefits of positive discrimination were reaching the intended beneficiaries or were being cornered by the affluent sections in OBCs, SCs and STs.
After all, for them the political cost of anti-reservation perception is too high.
The BJP has learnt that hard ways in Bihar elections. Lalu Prasad and Nitish Kumar used RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat's statement to paint the BJP anti-OBC, anti-dalit and anti-reservation. No matter how hard the BJP and Modi government at the Centre tried to clarify or disassociate with Bhagwat's remarks on quota, that proved to be the turning point in way electioneer progressed in Bihar Assembly polls last year and in the final outcome, as we all know, the BJP badly lost the polls to RJD-JD(U).
A casteist riot and wilful damage of official property unleashed by Jats in Haryana saw the BJP government in the state yield to their demand and promise quota in government jobs and educational institutions to this most caste. It didn't matter that this caste was socially dominant, economically well off and politically influential. Same had happened with Gujjars in Rajasthan.
The brainstorming by the RSS on the reservation issue assumes much significance as BJP president Amit Shah also spoke at the meet on the concluding day.
The RSS has said nothing wrong. In fact it has rightly highlighted the malaise, which has over the decades crept in the official quota policy. Let's see the two statements made by RSS general secretary Baiyaji Joshi and earlier statement made by RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat in an interview to Organiser and Panchjanya.
In a veiled reference to violent Jat agitation for reservation, Joshi said: "It is felt that this thinking (demand by affluent class) is not in the right direction. People of such (affluent) class should give up their rights and should help the weaker section of the society. But instead of that, they are demanding reservation for themselves which is not a thinking in the right direction." He also referred to BR Ambedkar's thoughts in this regard and constitutional provisions thereto. "Baba Ambedkar gave the provision of reservation. It was for social justice. Today, the level of education of dalit class has improved......There are many backward castes today. It should be studied and discussed whether the deserving castes are getting reservation benefits. This issue should be studied," he said, adding "it is also a matter of detailed discussion whether or not creamy layer system should be there in all categories," the NDTV reported.
The issue was promptly lapped up by the Samajwadi Party and Bahujan Samaj Party in Parliament. But the government was equally swift in clarifying that it had no intentions to review the existing quota policy. In Rajya Sabha, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said "it is the stated policy of Government that present arrangement of reservation will be maintained." He added that RSS had not said what was being attributed to it (scrap existing quota policy).
In Sept 2015, Bhagwat had said almost same thing but given the political heat of Bihar elections, it had become hugely controversial.
According to NDTV, in response to a question on "integrity and honesty" as the main parameters and does he "see any such policy initiative, undertaken or suggestive, which is in tune with Integral Humanism", Bhagwat had said: "Reservation for socially backward classes is the right example in this regard. If we would have implemented this policy as envisaged by the Constitution makers instead of doing politics over it, then present situation would not have arrived. Since inception it has been politicised. We believe, form a committee of people genuinely concerned for the interest of the whole nation and committed for social equality, including some representatives from the society, they should decide which categories require reservation and for how long. The non-political committee, like autonomous commissions, should be the implementation authority; political authorities should supervise them for honesty and integrity."
Again nothing wrong in that. At some point in time the government of the day has to show courage and certain conviction to re-assess the reservation policy, if not to scrap it but to see whether it was serving the purpose the framers of constitution had envisaged.
Former prime minister VP Singh brought out Mandal Committee recommendations from cold storage and implement it for his survival and use it as a political counter to an aggressive challenge from Devi Lal. An Arjun Singh as HRD minister brought out a defunct proposal to give reservation to OBCs in educational institution to counter his marginalisation in UPA 1 regime. An aggressive duo of Lalu Prasad and Sharad Yadav would make Manmohan Singh government agree to hold caste based census and open a Pandora's box, a sitting time bomb so to say.
The RSS at least has dared to say something, which a large section of political class believes is right, but would never say so.
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The Big Bay Boom Firework Show in San Diego for 2012 was a "Big Bay Bust". There was a technical problem and ALL of the fireworks went off within 30 seconds. The original Big Bay Boom was set to last about 15 minutes.
"Approximately 5 minutes before the show was to start, a signal was sent to the barges that would set the timing for the rest of the show after the introduction. There were a number of preliminary test signals sent hours and minutes leading up to the show. All these signals tested properly according to Garden State Fireworks, the fireworks company that provides the show."
"The Garden State Fireworks team will be working throughout the night to determine what technical problem caused the entire show to be launched in about 15 seconds. We apologize for the brevity of the show and the technical difficulties. More information when available will be posted on this website."


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Topic Page: Shatt al Arab
(shät äl ä'räb), tidal river, 120 mi (193 km) long, formed by the confluence of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, flowing SE to the Persian Gulf, forming part of the Iraq-Iran border; the Karun is its chief tributary. The Shatt al Arab flowed through a broad, swampy delta, but the marshlands in Iraq were drained in the early 1990s in order to increase government control over the Arab Shiites (Marsh Arabs) who lived there. Restoration of the marshlands began in 2003, following the invasion of Iraq by Anglo-American forces, but only about 75% of the area was restored, and some marshland has since been lost. The river supplies fresh water to S Iraq and Kuwait but the construction of dams and the demand for water upstream has led to a greatly increased salt content. The Shatt al Arab is navigable for oceangoing vessels as far as Basra, Iraq's chief port.
Iraq and Iran have disputed navigation rights on the Shatt al Arab since 1935, when an international commission gave Iraq total control of the Shatt al Arab, leaving Iran with control only of the approaches to Abadan and Khorramshahr, its chief ports, and unable to develop new port facilities in the delta. To preclude Iraqi political pressure and interference with its oil and freight shipments on the Shatt al Arab, Iran built ports on the Persian Gulf to handle foreign trade. Iran and Iraq negotiated territorial agreements over the Shatt al Arab waterway in 1975, but by the end of the decade skirmishes in the area became prevalent. Full-scale war between the two countries broke out in Sept., 1980, leading to eight years of attacks on coastal areas (see Iran-Iraq War). The Shatt al Arab remains a source of conflict, as limited water access and unresolved maritime boundaries in the region persist.
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Kate Hardy is the best-selling author behind books such as Good Girl or Gold Digger?; Hotly Bedded, Conveniently Wedded; and Seeing Stars. In Playboy Boss, Pregnancy of Passion, workaholic tycoon Luke Holloway wants nothing to do with family, romance, or children. But when he falls for and beds his new personal assistant Sara Fleet, his world is thrown into tumult. Things only get more complicated after she reveals to him that she is pregnant with their child. Now this busy rogue is going to have to seriously reevaluate his life and priorities.


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You'll never be a worse guitar player for "wasting time" ripping through your favorite licks. Music is about having fun, so feeling like you have to whip out the metronome and run scales whenever you pick up your ax isn't healthy for a guitar player, beginner or advanced.
There's a way you can optimize these inevitable moments of non-practice, too. All you need is some kind of time-keeping device at the ready, no matter what you're playing. This doesn't have to be a metronome, either. In fact, I'd use a metronome only when you're trying to clean up certain techniques or master a lick.
Otherwise, I like my practice sessions to be musical, or else I can't get excited about what I'm playing. This means using a loop pedal or backing track as the canvas for whatever mayhem you're about to inflict on your guitar. These types of time-keeping tools will not only enhance the music you're making; they'll also improve your playing, because you're motivated to stay in time with whatever music is happening behind you.
A loop pedal is my Number 1 preference, because it encourages composition and builds your rhythm chops, all in one stomp of the foot. Once you have an idea rolling, you're free to noodle any way you want, just as you would if you hadn't had any accompaniment. This time, though, you'll be benefiting from a nice groove that can help you reign in your ideas and refine your skills as a guitar player without that monotonous, dreaded metronome click.
Tyler Larson is the founder of the guitar-centric website Music is Win. His entertaining guitar-related content receives hundreds of thousands of video views on Facebook per month, and his online guitar courses tout more than 1,500 students with a cumulative 4.7 rating on Udemy. Get in touch with Tyler on Facebook, watch more of his guitar lessons and vlogs on YouTube, and follow him on Twitter and Instagram.