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Wednesday, 19 March 2008
Portraits of Artists, Tate Modern Starr Auditorium, 7 March 2008
The Illiac Passion, Tate Modern Starr Auditorium, 8 March 2008
In 1967, after becoming a prominent figure of New American Cinema, Gregory J. Markopoulos took his films out of distribution and moved from New York to Europe. There he completed more than 100 individual films, editing them into the 80 hour silent film cycle Eniaios. Since the film-maker's death in 1992, his partner Robert Beavers, overseeing the printing of this longer work, has also been introducing selective screenings at galleries and cinemas, as preludes to outdoor screenings at The Temenos, an outdoor projection space they constructed in the Greek countryside. This month saw two programmes at Tate Modern. Beavers himself introduced and discussed the films, placing their reception in a rich context of friendship and relationship.
Friday's programme comprised eleven portrait films which either stood as individual films, were grouped together as numbered parts of the Eniaios project, or were extracted from a larger collection of Political Portraits. Most followed a shared formal pattern: silent, with each having a rhythm whereby images of the sitters were juxtaposed with black – and more occasionally white – screens. Beavers pointed out that some of these were edited in camera, by rolling back the film mechanically to create layers and superimpositions, but that Markopoulos had come to feel that superimposition was not enough and had edited other films on the editing table, where frames could be compared and less immediate combinations and superimpositions created. Indeed, the focus on frame – as opposed to the single frame lost in the 24fps flow – was central to these films. As Markopoulos wrote in The Intuition Space, an essay distributed at the screening:
What we are dealing with is the use of the image, a single frame, as a measured element in the construction of films. Just as we cannot imagine the meaning of the universe, so, too, in viewing on a table a single film frame or groups of film frames, we cannot imagine what they actually contain. We see the single frame. We hold it this way and that way; upside down, right side up, reversed. All sides seen and unseen. From these we begin to construct the life course, the filmic form of the work at hand…
Who can dare to imagine what a single frame might contain? What future process could activate a single frame? What action could void its singular flatness and cause the necessary Collision? Could cause that collusion which would animate the very contents of each, individual single frame?
Beavers highlighted each portrait as coming from out of a network of friendship, although with some – such as Gilbert and George – the relationship consisted largely of the meeting in Paris during which the film was made. Gilbert and George were the only sitters I was able to recoginise, thus the only ones where I found myself guessing how their identities informed the film's rhythm. Markopoulos seemed to have responded to Gilbert and Georges constructed persona by focussing on parts of their famous suits, layering and building them up, moving gradually up the body, and tentatively revealing the whole. Space other than the body was provisional, with Gilbert and George's posturing maniacally determined to define it thropugh its own gestures and poses.
In perhaps the most accessible of the films, Through A Lens Brightly: Mark Turbyfill (1967) Markopoulos was working in what, for him, was closer to a more conventional documentary: weaving the artists body over and above objects of art, and images of family and childhood. What differentiated Markopoulos' film from traditional documentary was the bringing back of films linearity towards simultaneity. Again the film had a punctuation of black spaces. Beavers said he could not describe the black, but that for Markopoulos, amongst other elements, it stood for Chaos in Classical Greek thought. I sometimes felt the black frames to be gaps or intermissions, but when I could shift and see them as active elements, I found the whole film was dynamised. As for the images they interrupted: sometimes they had a duration in which the contents could be carefully observed. Often the shot was reduced to a flash, becoming akin as much to explosion and disappearance as to appearance. The films are measured not shot, said Beavers.
On the Saturday night there was a screening of The Illiac Passion (1967), a feature-length exploration of the myth of Prometheus, filmed using a cast of friends and acquaintances from the avant garde film scene, including Andy Warhol, Taylor Mead, Jack Smith, and Gerard Malanga, accompanied by a voice over comprising Thoreau's translation of Aeschylus' Prometheus Bound but which, subject to repetition and permutation, sounded like a mythically inclined John Giorno. The film adopted many of the stylistic preocuupations of the shorts: use of black screens, for example, and a focus on the body in space. But the balance was different, with little use of tiny fragments of image and a greater emphasis on images that could be perused in varying detail. There was also a variety of people within the scenes, and a greater interest in the sculptural and abstract possibilities of the specifically erotic body.
Beavers was again present to talk about the film: highlighting a sense of possibility that experimental film makers briefly felt in the period between a lifting of censorship laws – due to court cases over Jack Smith's Flaming Creatures and Kenneth Anger's Scorpio Rising - but before the erotic body had become an exploited staple of commercial cinema. He also returned to the balance of improvisation and measure in Markolpoulos's films. In The Illiac Passion, Taylor Mead – whose idiosyncratic, funny but often highly irritating improvisations play out to the full extent of the reel in many Warhol films, were broken, by black screens and other performers, into tiny sections keeping his extrapolations at the level of the inconic gesture rather than his own personality and momentum. For Beavers in the Q&A this was related to how each participant in The Illiac Passion was an aspect of the myth, and one of the functions of the editing and the black screens was to allow a level of gesture and communication between and across bodies and landscapes.
Watching both these films I made no notes, and left it to the next day to see what I remembered and absorbed. Whilst images remain, there is a tendency for such films to be remembered as structures and concepts, which will always be unsatisfying to a sensual filmmaker like Markopoulos. For example, I remember a sense of friends bodies as attaining monolithic presence through simple gestures, rather than the gestures themselves. Which is why the Eniaios cycle and The Temenos screenings exist: attempts to include each viewer, too, in the process - identified by Markopoulos in his essay The Adamantine Bridge - of becoming "but the molecules of the nude protagonist, gyrating and struggling, all in love, bound and unbound, from situation to situation in the vast sea of emotion which becomes the film-maker's proudest endeavour."
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Seven months too late, President Clinton has offered a semi-honest account of his relationship with Monica S. Lewinsky in a desperate bid to hold onto his office and avoid legal charges that could lead to impeachment.
He said in that brief and tight-lipped speech on Monday night that it was time to put this behind us and move on to the serious work of the nation. He also said, "It's nobody's business but ours," meaning himself and his family.
Would that it were so. But he made it our business -- the nation's burden -- first by showing utter disrespect for the office he holds and second by refusing all this time to do what he alone could do: clear up the matter.
Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, who reported the Watergate story for the Washington Post, have been arguing for months for "a sense of proportion." Consensual sex between adults, they rightly point out, is not the same thing as organizing a secret police operation in the White House and involving the FBI and the CIA in the coverup of officially sanctioned crimes.
But in one respect, what Clinton has done is every bit as bad as what Richard Nixon did.
Like Nixon, who knew from the moment the Watergate break-in occurred what had really happened, Clinton knew from the first moment he was questioned about the White House intern what had been going on between them.
Instead of owning up and taking "complete responsibility," as he said Monday night he was finally willing to do, he lied. He not only lied to Paula Jones' lawyers, he lied to the public and to his closest associates and implicated the leaders of his party and his government in the deception.
The selfishness of that act is staggering. Two men who had served him loyally and well -- former chief of staff Leon Panetta and former counselor George Stephanopoulos -- were among the first to call on him last January to make a clean breast of whatever he knew. Both of them had served on Capitol Hill -- Panetta as a member of the House, Stephanopoulos as a staffer -- and they recognized instantly the peril to their party if Clinton thought only of saving his own skin.
Others still in government were equally heartsick, but less outspoken. A member of the Cabinet who heard Clinton deny the charges to the assembled department heads said privately at the time, "He sat there and lied to us, and no one said a word."
Vice President Gore, who must have had his private doubts, publicly and repeatedly proclaimed his faith in his leader, doing incalculable damage to his own chances of being elected president.
After the speech, White House spokesmen said the president "felt as if a burden had been lifted from his shoulders." It is light, compared to the burden of falsehood he placed on others who put their trust in him.
In all those respects, Clinton's behavior is truly Nixonian. And it is worse in one way. Nixon's actions, however neurotic and criminal, were motivated by and connected to the exercise of presidential power. He knew the place he occupied, and he was determined not to give it up to those he regarded as "enemies." Clinton acted -- and still, even in his supposed mea culpa, acts -- as if he does not recognize what it means to be president of the United States. This office he sought all his life, for what? To hit on an intern about the age of his own daughter, an act for which any business executive or military officer would be fired immediately?
The issue of his marriage vows truly is between him and Hillary Rodham Clinton. But the Oval Office, where he conducted his meetings with Lewinsky, belongs to the nation.
When he told the American people, "I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky," he was speaking at an official ceremony held in the White House, our White House. Betty Currie, the secretary whom he tried to involve in the coverup, is on the public payroll. So are the White House lawyers and aides and the Secret Service agents whose successors will be much less useful to future presidents because of the futile legal fight Clinton conducted to shield their testimony.
Like Nixon, he has done things of importance for the country. But in every important way, he has diminished the stature and reduced the authority of the presidency. He may hold on, but when he said of the investigation of his activities, "This has gone on too long," his words could equally well have applied to his own tenure.
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(A Lithuanian daily looks into security officer's "mysterious" death–
Excerpt from report by Lithuanian newspaper Kauno Diena; article by Raimundas Celencevicius and Lauryna Vireliunaite: "Prosecutors Did Not Even Consider the Version of Pociunas's Death That Is Becoming the Most Important Version")
During early morning hours of 23 August 2006 in the Belarusian city of Brest, Vytautas Pociunas, a senior State Security Department [VSD] officer, fell from the ninth-floor hotel window. He died instantly. On 30 November 2006, the Prosecutor General's Office closed the case on Pociunas's death after determining that it was an accident.
On 26 June, Pociunas's widow, Liudvika Pociuniene, demanded the reopening of the investigation because she has a reasonable suspicion that her husband was murdered. It turned out that prosecutors did not even consider this version: Pociunas might have been killed by a group that is trying to assume control of Lithuania.
Pociunas's death had a snowball effect: It tore up the VSD, forced VSD Director Arvydas Pocius out of office, and revealed that Lithuanian special services and state leaders may be mere puppets and that, in reality, the country is ruled by players who remain in the shadows and who are closely tied to Russia's business and political elite.
All Versions Ruled Out
Pociunas's death received a lot of attention at the end of last summer. The Conservatives [Homeland Union; TS], with whom Pociunas was closely linked during the last years of his life, devoted the biggest amount of attention to this incident. Euro MP Vytautas Landsbergis, a former leader of the Conservatives, openly said Pociunas's death was premeditated.
Landsbergis said the theory that labelled Pociunas's death as completely unconvincing. Thus, the only alternative left — murder. "And of course, it was a political murder," the Euro MP said openly, implying that the Belarusian special services might have been involved in this crime.
The theory that Pociunas was killed by Belarusian special services, which was debated by the Lithuania media for some time, was quickly forgotten, because there was no evidence to support it.
Pociunas, who occupied a senior post in the VSD, had a much more humble post in Belarus – he was responsible for protecting information at the Lithuanian consulate in Hrodna. The officer used to complain to his close friends that he was often performing simple maintenance duties. It is very unlikely that the Lithuanian officer who was involved in such activities might have angered the Belarusian special services to the point that they decided to kill him.
Most Important Theory Not Even Considered
After ruling out all of the above theories and not finding any signs of struggle in Pociunas's hotel room, prosecutors decided that Pociunas's death was an accident. Yet, to many it is still hard to understand why a mature, educated man would lean so far over the window ledge that he fell out, despite the fact that he was a little intoxicated.
Newly discovered facts allow one to think that the officer's death might have been useful to some of his colleagues and certain Lithuanian politicians and businessmen tied to those colleagues. There is a frightening coincidence: These days it has become known that on 30 March of this year, the VSD gave a Second Degree Merit Cross to Justas Laucius, the prosecutor who determined that Pociunas's death was an accident. VSD Press Secretary Vytautas Makauskas tried to convince the media that Laucius was honoured for prosecuting Vilius Karalius, the so-called king of contraband, and three court chairmen connected to him. This explanation raises many suspicions, because those cases reached the court in 2004, and Laucius was given the award only now, after he ruled that Pociunas's death was an accident, not murder.
On 29 June, Kauno Diena found out that the Prosecutor General's Office did not even consider the version that Pociunas might have been murdered, because even after having been exiled to Hrodna, he had continued to collect information about a certain group that was trying assume control of Lithuania and had been planning to reveal that information. This theory is now becoming the most important explanation of his death.
On 29 June, Deputy Prosecutor General Gintaras Jasaitis told Kauno Diena that the main task of the investigation was to find out whether a crime was committed. "Various circumstances of the death were investigated. The Seimas [parliament] committee asked us whether we intend to investigate the circumstances surrounding Pociunas's transfer. We answered that it was not an objective of our investigation. Of course, if we had received any signs that the transfer was unlawful, criminal, we would have investigated it. Yet, we were unable to investigate that, because there were no signs of criminal activity," Jasaitis said.
The Seimas National Security and Defence Committee, which was investigating the VSD activities for several months, established that Albinas Januska, current aide to Prime Minister Gediminas Kirkilas and former national security adviser to President Valdas Adamkus, had a huge influence on the VSD leadership. It was also established that Januska had very close ties to the energy company Dujotekana [Gazprom intermediary] and company president Rimandas Stonys, whose wide connections extend to Russia's business and political elite. VSD officers testified they had collected plenty of information proving that by generously financing political parties and the media, Dujotekana was exercising huge unlawful influence on the country's political and economic life and that Januska and Stonys discussed appointments of senior political officials. VSD officers testified they were ready to declare Dujotekana a cover company for the Russian special services, but the VSD leaders blocked their plans.
Deadly Candidness
This week during the Lithuanian National Radio show "Between East and West," Pociunas's former friend and co-worker Kestutis Masiulis, leader of the Conservatives Party's Vilnius branch, announced that two years ago his friend told him about the things that were recently revealed by the National Security and Defence Committee, which investigated the VSD activities.
Masiulis said that in August 2005, Pociunas told him that the VSD leadership was planning to fire him. According to Masiulis, already back then his friend said he had stumbled across a large network of people who work against Lithuania and who had influence over the VSD leadership. According to Masiulis, this is why Pociunas became an unwanted troublemaker who had to be transferred somewhere far away. "His words were very hard to believe. The things were so frightening that at first I did not think they were serious and real," Masiulis recalled.
Darius Kuolys, the show's host, quoted two of Pociunas's phone messages that were sent two years ago. On 10 September 2005, Pociunas wrote: "I am being made a scapegoat; I will be buried." On 27 October 2005, he wrote: "I am not crazy. I will try to prove that I did not lose, and I think others will understand."
Masiulis and Pociunas also met during the summer of 2006. "We left our phones, went out into a garden, sat down, and for two hours he told me about horrible things, about control over our state. I realized he was determined enough to stop those things. He was determined, but he looked like a person who was under a lot of pressure and who was pushed into a corner. Even back then, it was difficult for me to accept all that information. It was wide – it touched Itera Lietuva, Stella Vitae – the natural gas companies that were working before Dujotekana. It was about their networks, their influence on the media and politicians. I was surprised by the VSD's total apathy. He spoke about Dujotekana's ties to state officials, the media, and politicians. He spoke about a spider web that entangled Lithuania, that was choking it, and that was trying to destroy it. He did not trust his superiors or the President's Office. He spoke to me as if speaking to a priest during a confession. He was looking for people whom he still trusted and was trying to figure out what to do. He was no longer able to trust his workplace, the most important politicians, while the state was being conquered. What was he to do? What was the officer, who saw such horrible processes and knew that his superiors and perhaps even state leaders were involved, supposed to do? The only possible solution was probably the media. He went to his closest friends, looking for approval. A week went by after our conversation. I went to Germany, and I heard about his death," Masiulis recalled.
His former colleagues and friends testified before the Seimas committee that Pociunas was planning to reveal the information about the web of corrupt politicians, businessmen, and officers that entangled Lithuania in the fall. Pociunas did not live to see the fall. Yet, symbolically, the probe into the VSD activities was launched that autumn, and during that probe the information that was collected about the entanglement of the state began to be revealed to society.
What Was VSD Leadership Afraid Of?
If the things that Masiulis and Pociunas's former colleagues are saying are true, his transfer to Hrodna becomes logical, and a key to solving his mysterious death appears. The fact that two years ago Pociunas uncovered shadowy ties between the VSD leadership, senior politicians, and influential businessmen who are tied to Russia seems to be more a convincing reason why Pociunas was transferred from the VSD to the foreign country than the idea being pushed by the VSD leadership, that Pociunas decided to leave due to personal conflicts with his colleagues. Moreover, after Pociunas's transfer, the division that he had headed was shut down, and the leaders of the counterintelligence division who continued his investigations were expelled.
The VSD leadership's attempts to kill the investigation into Pociunas's death become understandable, too. After losing his composure, Darius Jurgelevicius, a deputy VSD director, told the media and politicians to "stop digging among the bones," because very unpleasant things might be uncovered. VSD Director Pocius, directly and through intermediaries, pressured the Conservatives not to initiate the probe into Pociunas's death and was trying to force the VSD counterintelligence directors not to testify before the Seimas committee. After the attempts to extinguish the probe failed, the VSD used media loyal to the department to spread compromising information about Pociunas. Society was told that Pociunas allegedly was drunk and fell out the window while trying to urinate. It was also said that Pociunas, who until that moment was considered an almost ideal family man, had a mistress – a journalist who was constantly visiting him in Hrodna – and allegedly Pociunas's wife had a relationship with her co-worker.
Source: Kauno Diena, Kaunas, in Lithuanian 30 Jun 07
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JUDGMENT Jagannadhas, J.
1. This is an appeal by special leave. The appellant was a Police Jamadar working in the Local Investigation Branch, Mandvi, in the State of Kutch. The prosecution case against him is that he visited a place called Rampur within the Mandvi Taluka on the 16th April, 1950, and checked the pass-ports of a number of persons who had gone to Africa and returned. It is alleged that in the course of the check which he carried out, he collected the pass-port of one Ananda Ratna of the village and demanded a sum of Rs. 800/-for its return which was accordingly paid on the 18th April, 1950, and that thereby he committed an offence of extortion under Section 384, I. P. C.
The prosecution against the appellant appears to have been the result of information filed by this very appellant on or about the 18th April, 1950, at the police station Mandvi that he was robbed of a sum of Rs. 870/- by some of the inhabitants of the village Rampur and that in course of the robbery he was assaulted and received injuries. That information was registered as Cr. Case No. 51 of 1950 and P. W. 1, Sub-Inspector of Mandvi Police Station investigated the same. It is said that in the course of that investigation P. W. 1 came to know of the extortion committed by the appellant from the fact that some of the residents of Rampur on that very day produced before the police a sum of Rs. 840/- as having been taken back from the appellant when it was found that it had been collected from the other villagers by means of extortion.
The Sub-Inspector accordingly filed a complaint in the Court of the First Class Magistrate, Mandvi, against the appellant setting out these facts. Eight witnesses were examined to substantiate the prosecution case. The defence of the appellant was that the money was his own and that when he found, during his check, that a number of persons had false pass-ports he took the statements from them and that they, in order to snatch away their statements, beat him and robbed him of his own money which was with him. In support of his case he has examined eight witnesses. All the three courts below have accepted the evidence for the prosecution and disbelieved the defence version. The appellant was accordingly convicted of an offence under Section 384, I. P. C. and sentenced to R. I. for 12 months and a fine of Rs. 100/-. This was confirmed by the Sessions Judge on appeal and upheld on revision by the Judicial Commissioner, Kutch.
2. Learned counsel in addition to making an attempt to canvass the facts found, raised certain legal arguments. So far as the findings of fact based on an appreciation of the evidence were concerned, we could not allow him to reopen them in this appeal on special leave. The legal arguments are as follows : (1) The trial Magistrate had no power to take cognizance of the proceedings and the proceedings are, therefore, void. (2) The statements of the witnesses examined during the course of investigation were not furnished and hence the trial is illegal. (3) The facts proved do not make out that the money was paid under any fear of injury and therefore, the offence of extortion was not committed.
So far as the first point is concerned, the facts on which the contention is based are set out in the judgment of the Judicial Commissioner as follows :
"Mr. Kansara (the trial Magistrate) was appointed Magistrate, First Class, during the regime of the Kutch State. The law of Kutch State did not contain provision similar to the provision contained in Section 190, Clauses (a) and (b) of the Cr. P. C. (Act V of 1898). As the Magistrate First Class in Kutch State, Mr. Kansara used to take cognizance of offences. With the application of laws to the Merged States of Kutch, Cr. P. C. was applied and it appears that by a notification issued by the Chief Commissioner on 14-11-49, Taluka Magistrates were appointed Sub-Divisional Magistrates under Section 13 of the Code. Later on, Deputy Collectors with powers of Sub-Divisional Magistrates were appointed with the result that under Section 13 of the Code, the powers of a Sub-Divisional Magistrate conferred on Taluka Magistrates were withdrawn by a notification dated 19-8-50 published in the local Gazetted dated 1-9-50."
It may be recalled that the complaint in this case was in fact filed on the 26th August, 1950. The powers of Shri Kansara to take cognizance as Sub-Divisional Magistrate ceased from' the 19th August, 1950 and it does not appear that in his capacity as an ordinary First Class Magistrate any fresh powers were conferred on him under Section 190(2), Cr. P. C. at any period of time relevant for this case. It follows, therefore, that Shri Kansara had no power to take cognizance of this case under Section 190 (a) and (b). The learned Judicial Commissioner, however, was inclined to think that though Shri Kansara may have lost his powers to take cognizance as a Sub-Divisional Magistrate, he continued to have the power of taking cognizance which he originally had as a First Class Magistrate during the pre-merger regime.
For this view, he relied on the wording of the notification dated the 19th August, 1950. We have been furnished with a copy of that notification and we are unable to agree with this view of the wording therein. We think it clear that without a fresh order under Section 190(2), Cr. P. C. Shri Kansara had no power to take cognizance subsequent to the 19th August, 1950. Notwithstanding this conclusion, we are of the opinion that the defect is cured by Section 529, Cr. P. C. It is admitted that Shri Kansara had no knowledge at all of the notification dated the 19th August, 1950, by the date he took cognizance of the case on the filing of the complaint on the 26th August, 1950. His taking cognizance of this case was therefore 'bona fide' and no prejudice has been shown.
It is pointed out, however, that after Shri Kansara took cognizance and before evidence was recorded, the defect was pointedly urged before him by means of an application and that in spite of it, he continued to try the case and that accordingly the trial was vitiated. It was urged that the taking of cognizance was a continuous act and that though the defect in the initial taking of cognizance may be cured by Section 529, Cr. P. C. the continuance of the cognizance even after the defect was pointed out cannot be said to be 'bona fide' and that, therefore, Section 529, Cr. P. C. cannot be invoked to cure the defect.
It appears, however, that when the objection was taken, Shri Kansara considered the same and came to a judicial decision that he had the power to take cognizance. Whether this was right or wrong is not relevant. The question is whether that decision was 'bona fide'. But we are not in a position to pronounce about it without seeing the actual decision of Shri Kansara on the objection and this has not been placed before us. We are not able, therefore, to hold that the defect was not cured by a 'bona fide' decision given by Shri Kansara as to the existence of the power when objection thereto was taken, even assuming without deciding that "the taking of cognizance" was then continuing.
3. The second legal objection advanced is that the statements of the prosecution witnesses recorded by the police during investigation were not furnished under Section 162, Cr. P. C. and that, therefore, there was a serious illegality which vitiated the trial. It would appear that on the 15th April, 1951, when the principal prosecution witness was under examination, the defence applied to the trial court to be supplied with a certified copy of his statement during investigation to enable the defence to cross-examine the witness but that it was refused. This was on the ground that the prosecution was in respect of a non-cognisable offence for which there was no investigation and that no witness was examined in respect of this offence under Section 161, Cr. P. C.
The learned counsel for the appellant relies upon the fact that admittedly there was investigation of the complaint filed by this very appellant relating to the alleged robbery of his money which was registered as Cr. Case No. 51 of 1950 and that it is, as a result of the information obtained during that investigation, that the present prosecution has been launched. He accordingly puts his argument in two ways. (1) In order to be entitled to the statements under Section 162, Cr. P. C. it is enough if the investigation is under Chapter XIV of the Code and the witnesses gave statements in respect of the matters relevant to the offence under prosecution, though in fact this particular offence was not being then investigated. (2) The investigation in Cr. Case No. 51 of 1950 was in fact and in substance an investigation 'also' for the offence for which the appellant has been prosecuted.
4. We do not think that, having regard to the terms of Section 162, Cr. P. C., the first of these arguments can be sustained. The statutory right of the accused to be furnished with statements appears clearly to relate to a trial in respect of the very offence which was investigated and does not apply to a trial for a non-cognizable offence in respect of which there has been in fact no investigation. The proviso to Section 162(1) which gives the right to obtain copies relates to "'such' inquiry or trial" i.e., to "enquiry or trial of any offence under investigation (under this chapter) at the time when the statement was made".
Learned counsel relied on a Full Bench decision of the Allahabad High Court in -- 'Shyamlal Sharma v. Emperor' . But that was a case where there was in fact an investigation though without the authority of the Magistrate and it may well be, as stated by the learned Judges at page 490, that the illegality committed by the investigator, in not obtaining authority and yet proceeding to investigate, cannot be taken to deprive the accused of his statutory right.
With reference to the alternative argument under this head, the learned counsel for the appellant contends that in the present case and on the facts, such investigation as has taken place on the complaint of the very appellant himself was in fact and in substance an investigation with reference to the very offence of extortion for which the appellant is under prosecution and that, therefore, on a principle analogous to that recognised in -- 'Shyamlal Sharma v. Emperor' (A), above cited, the appellant was entitled to the protection afforded by Section 162, Cr. P. C There can be no doubt that the right which the accused has got of obtaining copies of the statements made by witnesses during investigation is a very valuable right and that the wholesale refusal to grant the same will be a serious irregularity which would vitiate the entire trial as held by the Privy Council in -- 'Kotayya v. Emperor', AIR 1947 PC 67 at p. 69 (B). We might accordingly have been inclined to examine the validity of the argument advanced as above stated, if in fact and in substance that investigation can be held to be an investigation 'also' for the offence for which the accused is put on trial. It is, however, unnecessary to go into that legal proposition since the necessary foundation of fact is not made out in this case.
What the learned counsel has relied upon as the foundation for this argument is that as a fact, by the time the offence of robbery based on the complaint of this very appellant on or about the 18th April, 1950, was under investigation, the police had also information of the commission of the offence of extortion by this appellant himself as appears from the two Panchanamas, Exs. B and A, dated the 18th and 19th April, 1950, respectively, which related to the recovery of the amount of Rs. 840/- by the villagers of Rampur from this appellant and the handing over thereof to the police with a report. It is urged that these documents taken together and with the report which is indicated therein, constitute information to the police under Section 155, Cr. P. C. and that, therefore, the investigation from that date must be taken to be investigation in respect of both the offences.
There is difficulty in accepting this view on the facts of this case. It is in evidence that the report indicated in Exs. A and B was sent to the Gadhsisa police station, while the report and investigation in respect of the information of robbery given by the appellant relate to the Mandvi police station. It is not made out in the evidence that the information lodged in respect of this case with the Gadhsisa police station was placed before the officer investigating the information relating to the robbery case.
But even apart from this, there is a more substantial difficulty, viz., that the information as contained in Ex. B was not of the offence of extortion as regards any specified individuals and that the report itself does not appear to have made a complaint of the offence of extortion (see P. Ws. 1 and 2) and indeed neither Ex. A nor Ex. B gives any indication that the information was furnished with a view to bring the offender to book. In these circumstances there is no foundation laid in the evidence for the larger question that has been raised in this case, viz., as to whether or not the statutory right under Section 162, Cr. P. C. can be held to apply to a case where there was in fact and in substance an investigation also in respect of a non-cognisable offence though the investigation purported to be confined to the cognisable offence.
5. Learned counsel for the appellant has also relied upon Section 145 of the Indian Evidence Act. But this section does not help him to obtain copies of the statements, though it would enable him to make use of the statements if he happened to be in possession of them.
6. The next and the last argument advanced by the learned counsel for the appellant is that on the evidence in this case no fear of injury has been made out in order to support a conviction for extortion under Section 384, I. P. C. Learned counsel drew our attention to the somewhat apparent inconsistency as regards the statement of facts on which the learned Judicial Commissioner and the learned Sessions Judge came to their respective conclusions negativing this argument. He points out that while the learned Judicial Commissioner held that the injury consisted in the threat of criminal accusation that the pass was a concoction, the learned Sessions Judge appears to have proceeded on the footing that the fear of injury consisted in wrongful withholding of the emergency certificate and in refusing to hand it back.
A careful scrutiny of the evidence, however, does not show that the basic facts upon which the two Courts relied are inconsistent. It would appear from the evidence that the appellant in the course of his check of the passports had suspicion that some of the passports were not genuine. It may, therefore, well be, as the learned Judicial Commissioner thinks, that there was an implied threat for prosecution in respect of the same and a withholding of the pass-port on that threat and a return thereof on payment of money. But whether the withholding and the return of the pass-port was in respect of the pass-port suspected to be a forgery or in respect of a genuine pass-port wrongfully withheld, the fear of injury would equally be there.
Learned counsel sought to make out a distinction between a pass-port and an emergency certificate and tried to argue that in respect of detention of emergency certificate there can be no question of fear of injury. The distinction sought to be made out, however, is not so clear on the evidence and we cannot allow this point to be canvassed before us at this stage.
7. In the result, therefore, all the contentions raised before us by the learned counsel for the appellant fail and we see no reason to interfere either with the conviction or with the sentence. This appeal is accordingly dismissed.


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Master's study program in Hospital Management
Who can Register in the Program:
Individuals who have at least BA or BSc. in Medicine, Pharmacy, Science, Mathematics, English, Psychology, Business Administration or Economics are eligible to register in and study this program in Hospital Management.
Study Period of the Program:
The total period for the study of the program is two academic years with four consecutive sessions.
Language of Instruction:
Students of the program are expected to be highly proficient in both Arabic and English. Reading, writing, listening, and speaking are essential skills in this regard.
Graduate degrees of the Program:
Students who complete successfully the courses specified in 1st and 2nd Semesters and Summer training session will be provided upon request, with a Higher Education Diploma: Hospital Assistant Manager Diploma (HAMD). Moreover, Students who study successfully the required 13 courses, the Summer training session, and accomplish the research project will be endowed the Master's degree in Hospital Management (MAHM).
What Graduates of the Program Can Do:
Graduates fill many roles from staff analysts to middle management and main executive positions. Healthcare management professionals use their knowledge and skills to deliver the most positive encounters possible for consumer and staff alike. They have the opportunities to make significant contributions to improving the health of the communities their organizations serve.
Hospital Managers work as administrators, executives, planners, including planning and coordinating departmental activities, program evaluations, developing policies and procedures for various medical treatment and preventative activities, quality assurance, patient services, and public relations activities such as active participation in fund-raising and community health planning. Hospital managers also direct the recruitment, hiring, and training of personnel, budget planning, accounting, and rate-setting for health services, development and expansion of programs and services for scientific Research, preventive medicine, and medical and vocational rehabilitation.
With growing diversity in the healthcare systems, Hospital managers are needed in many settings, including:
· large corporate and public sector hospitals.
· International and national healthcare organizations.
· Health insurance companies.
· Healthcare Portals.
· Pharmaceuticals and Hospital Supply Firms.
· Medical Software Companies.
· Outpatient clinics.
· Hospices.
· Drug-abuse treatment centers.
Program's Study Requirements
A- Core courses
1st Semester ( 5 courses, with 3 credit hrs each) : 1. Principles & Essential Elements of Hospital Management- 3 credit hrs2. Quantitative Techniques for hospital Management - 3 credit hrs 3. Organizational behavior and human resource Management - 3 credit hrs4. Community Health, Demography & Biostatistics- 3 credit hrs
5. Marketing Strategies in Hospital Management - 3 credit hrs
2nd Semester ( 5 courses, with 3 credit hrs each): 6. Hospital Research, Quality Assurance & Risk Management - 3 credit hrs 7. Ethical issues in healthcare and Hospital Management-3 credit hrs 8. Accounts and finance for Hospital Management - 3 credit hrs9. Hospital Patient Clinics Management -3 credit hrs
10. Hospital Management Entry & Records Systems- 3 credit hrs
Field internship (3 credit hrs): With the consent of study advisor, Students are expected to train at Summer for 6 - 8 weeks in a hospital, healthcare center, governmental or private health facility/ department. At the end of this training session, each trainee is required to provide a field research report adhering to the instructions of the advisor.
B- Elective courses & the Graduate Project (3rd & 4th Semesters):
Select three courses out of the following ( 9 credit hrs):
1- Hospital Management Support Facility Systems- Pharmacy, General Store & Inventory, and Laboratory- 3 credit hrs
2- Hospital Management Alternative Medical Systems- Radiology, Nuclear Medicine, Physiotherapy, and Dental Services- 3 credit hrs
3- Hospital Management Communication Systems- User Manager, Emailing, Phones, and Online Contact Form- 3credit hrs
4- Monitoring Hospital Operations & Customers' Satisfaction- 3 credit hrs
Graduate Research Project (6 credit hrs)- Thesis, or a Translation of a Resource / Reference Book into Arabic. *****


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Thanking those who have served on Veterans Day is an American tradition that stretches back nearly a century, to World War I's final chapter.
Over the decades, we've taken this important day, November 11, as an opportunity to show gratitude to members of the military. The thousands of observances through the years have included ceremonies, speeches, films, parades, and numerous other ways to display honor and history.
If you're taking part or all of the day to commemorate the hallowed occasion, look to those places around Southern California, and beyond, which are spotlight something special for veterans and their friends and family.
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America's Parade LA: The West LA Veterans Affair Campus event will include "veterans, active duty military personnel, high school and college bands, and supporters of our veterans community." Eleven in the morning is the start time on Nov. 11. Be sure to look for the NBC4 booth, which will be the place for free coffee during the event.
Veterans Day Deals Around Town: A number of businesses and chains will say thank you via complimentary meals and other discounts on Friday, Nov. 11. Plan on dining at Denny's, Boston Market, or another place on the lengthy roster? Make sure you note any special times and what exactly the meal or treat will be.
Parades and Ceremonies: While Veterans Day commemorations began the weekend before Nov. 11, several will dot the Nov. 11 calendar across the region. The San Fernando Valley Veterans Day Parade and the City of Orange Veterans Day Ceremony are just two of the area's events honoring those who have served.
Veterans Day in the National Parks: Our beautiful natural spots and historic sites and battlefields and monuments only see waived admission on a few important days a year. Friday, Nov. 11 is one of those days, the final one on the calendar, and while the majority of parks are free all year long, some 127 places will welcome everyone, no admission required, over the entire day.


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Watch Holly Herndon's Sweaty, Writhing, Body-Centric Video for "Movement"
Electronic experimentalist Holly Herndon has shared the video for the title track from Movement. The clip, directed by Mat Dryhurst with help from Tolleson, takes an intimate view of the human body.
Here's Dryhurst's explanation of the inspiration behind the video:
We conceived the video for "Movement" with China in mind. Parallel to the kinetic, circular movement of the track, we considered latent movements and how China is often evoked in conversation as some invisible threat.
It often reads like a horror story; jobs are "stolen" from American communities, Chinese manufactured products look exactly like domestically produced products, yet like insurgent entities are often discussed with an air of suspicion and dread.
In opposition to that suspect mindset, we set forth to produce a moving image in intimate hi-fidelity, inspired by the grace and power of Chinese Olympic legend Guo Jingjing, master filmmaker Jia Zhangke, and the elegance and futurity of Joyetech e- cigarettes.
We were so fortunate to work with two future humans in their own right: Pei Ling Kao, a decorated Taiwanese contemporary dancer and choreographer, and Nathan Ng, a model and MMA fighter. The video is very much a product of San Francisco and we are proud of that."
Read our "Rising" interview with Herndon here. And don't forget that Herndon performs at the Hurricane Sandy benefit show presented by Pitchfork and MoMA PS1 this Sunday, December 2 at PS1. (Oneohtrix Point Never and Ducktails will also DJ.) Tickets are available here.


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We are pleased to announce that this Autumn will see the return of the Academy's SKI TECHNIQUE LAB TOUR in partnership with MDV SPORTS.
Formulated over 20 years by working with thousands of skiers, the Warren Smith Ski Academy team brings GAIT analysis to Skiing Technique enabling the learner to develop their level even before a ski lesson. This pre ski formula makes the skier biomechanically sound. Overall less risk of injury and faster performance development.
Now in its 4th year, these workshops present a lecture and explain the 3 Way Lineage (Ski Technique/Ski Biomechanics/Ski Equipment Precision) and why it's vital for ski technique development and unlocking classic blocks in skier movement patterns.
The '6 Way Foundation' tests will give you a chance to be assessed by the team and identify your specific movement ranges and what you need to do to either balance out differences between the right and left side of the body or to generally improve range. You'll have enough information to build your own technique development program off the snow and dramatically change your skiing before the winter season starts.
By taking a measurement of how far each person's ankle allows them to flex, we can tell early on if the simple mechanics of the sport will work or not. The ideal range for safe skiing on the drop test is between 15cm and 20cm with the same flex range on the right and left ankle. Our previous findings showed the national average was 11cm, with the lowest score being 4cm. Most importantly over 95% of people showed a clear difference between left and right ankle flex.
Symmetry describes how skiers manage their width of stance from the feet up to their hips and maintain a consistently symmetrical position. To test this range, we used our simple 10 second test, where attendees try to pull their feet together on a slippery surface in a slow controlled movement without the knees dropping in. Previous findings showed that over 70% of people had to take 3 attempts to make it last 10 seconds or more. Muscle fatigue was also evident.
The ability to steer the legs independently from the hips is one of the most fundamental movements in skiing. This is the ball rotating inside the socket joint of the hip. We measured the range the outside leg is able to rotate inwardly (i.e. left leg steering inwardly towards the right) without the hips following. The average inward rotation range on our last tour was 45 degrees. 90% of people showed over 20 degrees difference between left and right and only 5% of people tested showed a clear range of 70 degrees in each direction.
Learning how to move laterally and create angles in the body. This is a key factor in skiing and a movement range that many people struggle with especially on one side of the body. Our exercise will help identify and improve the range.
Learning the correct action and understanding how to activate the outside leg to achieve edge grip and pressure during your turns. We'll show a great exercise to try at home or in the gym.
Becoming aware of core strength and how to keep it activated whilst skiing. This helps deal with the pressure that skiing puts through the middle of your body. We'll give you some practical ski-specific exercises to try.
The simple fact remains, that for skiing, specific movement ranges are required. Our findings demonstrate that the majority of skiers go to the mountains without these required ranges. If the range isn't there off the snow, it won't be there when you get to the snow. DRY LAND TRAINING gets you to these desired ranges on average within 3 weeks.
At the Ski Technique Lab we hope to educate people to go away and build these ranges but also encourage people to log the scores and keep in touch with the Academy so we can monitor your progress!
For this year's tour, we will be covering even more venues across the country at a variety of different stores. The cost of the '3 Way Lineage' lecture and '6 Way Foundation' testing system, where you'll be provided with the tools to build your own development program, is £10 per person for the evening. Each evening will run for approximately 2 hours and begin at 7pm.
Concluding with an open Q&A session, this evening lecture allows keen skiers to hit the ground running ahead of the fast approaching winter season!
We hope you can make it to Ellis Brigham, Covent Garden on October 15th at 7pm.


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Review of think huge investments – forex managed account
Well lesson learned there! Do not judge a book by its cover, so to speak. I already hated the name before I even started my review of think huge investments. What can I say? Be cruel to be kind and give them 1* for the name alone! Fortunately with my reviews, I am not that cruel and I do delve deeper.
You will probably want to have a look at this ASIC regulated managed forex account that has produced in excess of 800% in less than 3 years – Equitimax.
I have to admit I was pleasantly surprised when I clicked on the think huge investments website. Much as I think the name is ridiculous, their website looks very professional and I noticed straight away that they are aligned with Axitrader.
My first stop as it almost always is was to the contact us page where I noticed there is a UK telephone number and an Australian telephone number. They offer to call me back if I entered my details, but I always think this is a bit of a trick, because then they have got me!
I am not inclined to offer myself up so freely. Also there is the option for me to have an online chat, by clicking on the live help button. Sadly there was no office address or location listed on the contact us page, in case I wanted to pop in and see real people sitting in a real office, with uniforms and everything, but they do say that they have staff located in Sydney and London.
Regulated in London or Australia – its unclear?
My next scroll was straight down to the bottom of the page. My second favourite discovery is when I find a company is authorised and regulated by all the appropriate bodies. Lovely! Let's move on. Well not quite so fast. They are ASIC regulated and think huge investments is a Corporate Authorised Representative (CAR) of HLK group which holds an Australian Financial Services License.
OK, so far, so good. I do find this a little confusing though. I suppose it means that the HLK group have done their due diligence on think huge investments or they are not going to be associated with them. Does that mean that the actual traders or the strategies are authorised and they have to act within regulatory guidelines? What they do say is that 3rd party auditing allows the performance of the traders to be tracked and monitored in real-time. This must be myfxbook, and their traders have all been trading for 5+ years.
Ooh! Another lovely thing to get excited about, they have actual client reviews on the website. Of course a company probably wouldn't put anything but positive reviews on their website, so it is always a good idea to see what I can find elsewhere.
Maximum Draw down of 40% – Ouch
I suppose the negative is that I don't have $10,000 to invest and this is their minimum investment level. 30% performance fee seems about standard for all the reviews I have done so far. The other thing that feels negative but they are clearly stating it in their investment mandate is this; 40% peak to trough maximum drawdown. Perhaps they all do that, but think huge investments actually lay claim to it. Does this mean I could be the unlucky one?
I cannot always go and knock on the door of these companies because they may be anywhere in the world, but I like to know that I could if I wanted to…. Or at least, somebody could! So step one is the internet search, step two is going through the website with a fine tooth comb, looking for regulation and how professional they are, what they are offering, and their performance results. Step 3, if they have made the shortlist, is then to contact them.
They certainly appear to be who they say they are, and I didn't find any bad press. Unfortunately they have not made my shortlist based on the fact that I do not have $10,000, and I couldn't sleep at night with a 40% drawdown. I would like to have given them a 3 if I was just looking at the other two strategies, but with that peak to trough drawdown on the viper strategy which I found as part of my research, it simply has to be a 2 out of 5 score from me.
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Southern Investments is the first professionally managed builder in the South. Beginning in 1968,when Si began its first project – Montieth Court in Madras – nobody believed flats would sell. But history proved that notion wrong! Today Si has completed projects in the cities of Chennai, Kochi, Thiruvananthapuram, Kozhikode, Thrissur and Bengaluru. The Company has gained the distinction of having pioneered residential high-rise construction in South India. Si stands for over five million square feet of great, liveable homes, offices and shops.
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- Gift giving. It is important to decide whether or not you will be exchanging gifts. Is your relationship at a point where gifts should be exchanged? If so, how much do you both want to spend? What does your budget allow for? How do you feel about homemade gifts? Be honest. Talk about these things in order to spare yourself inevitable anxiety.
- Check in. There is a higher chance that you may be apart from your partner, because it is early in the relationship. It is important to remain checked in with each other while away. You don't need to be in contact 24/7, but you should at least be in touch enough to keep the momentum of the relationship going.
- No invite? When you are in the beginning stages of your relationship, It is not uncommon to not be invited to office parties or family gatherings. Do not automatically assume the worst. The holiday season is typically hectic, and it is understandable if your partner does not want to involve your new relationship in the chaos. It is ok to wait until your relationship is more stable before enduring high pressure situations. If there is any tension over the lack invite, make sure you both have a discussion before you let the ill feelings fester.
- Create your own celebration. Set aside some "us" time during the holiday Get away from everyone and create memories that will last. Go to dinner, participate in a festive activity, or just stay in. Bask in each other's presence. Togetherness is a great way to close out the holiday season.
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According to a popular saying, Shanghai not only never sleeps but is also the cultural sea into which all rivers run.
Keizoku wa chikara nari.
(Continuance is power.)
"Do you know why dust doesn't stick to our black Madonna di Oropa?"
"...the imagination is unleashed by constraints. You break out of the box by stepping into shackles."
― Jonah Lehrer, Imagine: How Creativity Works
How plugging into the flow of the island, from the traffic jams to the waves, teaches to let go and just roll with the changing tides.
"Life in the Middle East is quite different from other places."
– Zaha Hadid
Remains of a glorious past and Russian elegance in the midst of the Great Eurasian Steppe.
Southern Kazakhstan. Central Asia. Coordinates 43°21'1.16"N 79°4'49.28"E.
Entering Charyn Canyon. Iftaḥ yā simsim.
New country. New city. Touchdown Almaty.


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Virtually everyone I speak with who is interested in meditation wants to enjoy deeper meditations… and they want to enjoy them consistently.
Understanding how to do this, though, is very rare.
When you understand and practice what you are going to learn in this article, you will experience consistent, deep, enjoyable meditations every time.
You will begin to feel more of the power from your meditation in your daily life.
You will begin to see the health benefits of meditation more clearly. When this practice becomes habitual, you will notice people treat you differently. More and more you will be recognized as a person with an unexplainable charisma… regardless of how you look.
This is the power of properly applied, consistent, deep meditation.
If you don't learn how to meditate deeply, then your results will continue to be inconsistent. You will keep wondering if there is something important that you're missing. The people that would have noticed that mysterious charisma will be much less likely to notice anything different about you at all.
So how do you really reap the benefits of deep meditation?
It's all about how you get started.
And the way most meditations start is with relaxation. And that is the main problem. Virtually no one knows how to properly relax. And even worse, most people think they do know how, and that they are already relaxed most of the time.
In addition to this, most of the descriptions I've heard of 'deep meditation' sound like little more than deep relaxation. There's nothing wrong with this… but it is much easier to consistently get into a mind-body state if you are clear about what the state is and how to get there, which we'll cover in a moment.
There are a wide variety of methods for relaxation. I'm going to share the techniques I've found to be the most useful.
3 Simple Secrets of Deep Meditation
1 – Countdown
The countdown is a classic procedure from hypnosis and guided meditation. Simply counting down and pouring all your focus into the count has a very natural relaxing effect. The Silva Method (one of my favorite systems of meditation) teaches a 3-2-1 countdown process. But you can do 5 to 1, 10 to 1, 100 to 1, etc. Play with this. There is no rush. Just watch the numbers descend one by one as you sink more and more deeply into relaxation.
2 – Slowing the Breath
Much focus is placed on breathing deeply. This is very beneficial, but when you learn to slow down your breathing you will vastly improve your results. Slow breathing is a direct message to the oldest parts of your brain. When these parts go into a stress response (the fight or flight response), they try to force you to do everything quickly. External tasks must be done quickly to keep you alive. Breathing must be done quickly to prepare your body for combat or running to safety. But when you consciously breathe more and more slowly, it serves as proof in the moment that you are safe. And when the oldest parts of your brain feel safe… they open the doors to being centered, peaceful, and present.
3 – Awareness
The most powerful tool I have ever found for profoundly deep meditation is moment to moment awareness of the physical body. When you learn to pay attention to the physical sensations in your body, you tend to be more relaxed to begin with. It seems that you are focusing on what is 'more real' in this moment. The stress that keeps us from more deeply relaxing is based on internal images of things we want and are afraid we can't get, or things we don't want and are afraid we can't avoid. This tends to unconsciously increase tension. When we reduce this focus, and switch it to the sensations in the body, we become less likely to get tense or stressed in the first place. And if some tension does arise, it is easily detected and handled. This is a simple and powerful way to increase awareness. Increased awareness is another fast doorway into deep meditations.
Exercise: Let's try it all together now
1. Take a deep, slow breath, and as you let it go, visualize and say the number 3.
2. Take a deep, slow breath, and as you let it go, visualize and say the number 2.
3. Take a deep, slow breath, and as you let it go, visualize and say the number 1.
4. Notice the sensations arising in your body. Notice them in specific areas, and notice them globally… in the context of the whole body. Just maintain this gentle awareness.
5. Just before you finish your meditation, say to yourself on the inside: "I have learned to increase my awareness. I will take a little of this with me throughout the day… so I am more aware of physical sensations in my body moment by moment". (Feel free to adjust the wording so the meaning is clear to you.)
6. Do your best to carry some of this increased relaxation and awareness with you through the rest of your day.
Play with this drill. Make it your own. Spice it up however you like. Look into different relaxation methods. Some other tools I enjoy are: progressive relaxation, brainwave entrainment, and visualization.
Absorb as much as you can on relaxation. Make it part of your daily life. Make it part of your moment-to-moment life. Enjoy it! Enjoy exploring new methods and enjoy your increased relaxation throughout the day. Enjoyment is a critical element for consistent practice. So if you don't want to be one of the millions of meditation 'washouts' out there, find a way to enjoy your relaxation/meditation practice.
Moving forward, I encourage you to spend the first few minutes (at least 2) of your meditation following a relaxation process. When you get to the meditation, you will have the peaceful focus that you need to have real insights and breakthroughs. If you like, you can spend the whole meditation session just playing with relaxation. The more you relax, the better you will feel… the more healthy you will be… the more you will enjoy deep meditations… the more others will recognize you as one of the rare people who has found some level of inner peace.


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Published: May 30, 2017
If you are enrolled in one of the County of Sonoma's health care plans, June 1 is the beginning of the new plan year. If there has been a change to your plan's cost, this will be reflected in your May 31, 2017 pension payment. As always, you pay for your share of the monthly
health care premium in advance.
If you don't know if there was a change in your health care cost, please review the Annual Enrollment Retiree
Benefits Guide that was mailed to you by the County of Sonoma Human Resources Department.
If you have any questions, please find the County's contact information on the
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Lights On: The Bible and Interpretation
Several years ago one of my favorite websites to frequent was Bible and Interpretation. I appreciated the news updates as well as the articles, which came from a variety of perspectives. For lack of funding, the site went dark. Today the site is back with a new design and the promise of regular updates and essays. I'm delighted to see its return and am sure that it will be worth checking in on. If you find it valuable over time, consider sending a contribution.
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Our story begins in 2005, when a business named 'Tiger Cub Stationery' was created by Laura. Tiger Cub Stationery was genuinely one of the pioneers in the online trade of stationery items to the public. Our business started with just one person, and as our product selection grew, so did our customer base, our premises, our team and everything else!
We are an online business but we love to get to know our customers and members. We pride ourselves on being friendly and helpful and we learn a lot from our amazing customers. Some of our local customers pop into see us in the West Midlands which is great, we are an online business but the business is run by humans. We look forward to hearing from you all so please get in touch!
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Guest Speaker Program
Students studying transportation and logistics management at UW-Superior have opportunities for learning in the classroom that includes the use of textbooks, special readings, and case studies. It is also essential that they hear from practicing professionals in the field about a variety of topics. The incorporation of guest speakers with expertise in transportation and logistics management provides students with invaluable opportunities to learn about numerous aspects of the profession.
As such, we invite transportation professionals into our classes to speak on selected topics throughout the semester.
If you are interested in speaking to a group of students, please contact us with your area of interest. In addition, we may contact you to schedule a presentation.
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Transportation Specific Courses in the Program:
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Mechanism behind compound's effects on skin inflammation and cancer progression
Charles J. Dimitroff, MS, PhD and colleagues in the Dimitroff Lab at Brigham and Women's Hospital, have developed a fluorinated analog of glucosamine, which, in a recent study, has been shown to block the synthesis of key carbohydrate structures linked to skin inflammation and cancer progression. These findings appear in the April 14, 2011, issue of the Journal of Biological Chemistry.
Dr. Dimitroff and colleagues show for the first time that the fluorinated glucosamine therapeutic works not through direct incorporation into growing sugar chains as previously believed but instead blocks the synthesis of a key sugar, UDP-GlcNAc, inside immune cells characteristically involved inflammation and anti-tumor immunity
Accordingly, this report underscores a novel and previously unknown mechanism by which fluorinated glucosamine analogs could shape and reduce inflammation intensity, while boosting anti-tumor immune responses. Such knowledge could prove valuable in the design of new and more potent glucosamine mimetics against disease as well as in treatment strategies to utilize existing glucosamine mimetics more efficiently.
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There's something bubbling away in Champagne
Derbyshire will soon celebrate its first proper sparkling wine, grown and produced in the county. So our reporter Nick Charity thought it was time to educate himself on the stuff. And what better place than Champagne?
But Champagne is also following in our footsteps. The region has recently been given UNESCO World Heritage status for its ancient ruins, medieval cellars and rich culture of winemaking that goes back centuries.
In that respect they join the likes of the Pyramids of Giza, the Taj Mahal and… the Derwent Valley Mills.
And as the region opens up to a very different kind of tourism to what its accustomed (the area is mostly frequented by rich Belgians and Japanese clients shopping to stock up their cellars) the locals are keen to show off what else makes Champagne special.
South of the main centre of the region, Reims, we find an absolute gem of a medieval city in Troyes. The city is littered with half-timbered buildings – it actually boomed in the 12th Century but was largely destroyed in a fire in 1524, but architects rebuilt it keeping the old style, so it stands today as a renaissance city with a medieval façade. This makes for an interesting energy, as the slanted houses and encroaching streets are now home to an incredibly vibrant and lively hub for shopping, dining and socialising.
You can stumble out the door of a trendy café and down the historic Rue de Chat, so named because the roofs towering over are so close cats could jump across them, and into one of the many fantastic restaurants for a bit of haute cuisine. But I would warn you to muster some courage before sampling the local delicacy, Androillette, a very… fragrant sausage made from pig's intestine.
The old town within the city walls is an epicentre of gastronomy, with numerous restaurants found down quaint passages. L'Essential on Rue Général de Gaulle, is fantastic.
Troyes's premier wine merchant, Cellier Saint Pierre, in the shadow the grand Cathédrale Saint-Pierre-et-Saint-Paul, is the place to go if you want an antique bottle. We were taken down into the cellar to snoop around and discovered this is also a last bastion for one of Troyes's unique pleasures. The merchant's apprentice, Alban, is the last of a once thriving industry producing a plum liquor called Prunelle, which is now something of a rarity as he makes a small batch of the spicy concoction each year in a back room, using 150-year-old alembics. Now that's history you can taste.
They say that Troyes is shaped like a champagne cork – and quite aptly, there is quite a lot compressed into such a small city.
But there's no denying that we come to Champagne for the booze, so our next stop is one of the great champagne houses in the area, Drappier, who for some reason takes issue with the myth of Dom Pérignon's accidental discovery of sparkling wine.
Of course, as we know in Blighty, Champagne (or sparkling wine, technically) was actually invented by an Englishman.
Scientist Christopher Merret discovered the process of adding sugar to wine for a second fermentation and delivered it to the Royal Society in 1662, documenting the addition of sugar to a finished wine to create a second fermentation, 40 years before the famed monk claimed to invent it.
Michel, the current caretaker of the estate, says his family have been making champagne for over 200 years, but actually his legacy started long before. His vineyards are Roman, and his cellars in Urville were built by the Franciscan monk, St Bernard de Clairvaux in 1152. The jury is still out on when Champagne was first made here, though.
"We don't know who put the bubbles in first," says Michel after he greets us for lunch and a cellar tour. "There is a good story about Dom Pérignon – but we don't know."
In fact it's the 900th anniversary of when St Bernard moved to champagne, in 1115.
He started making red wine here when the King of France, Louis VI, famously refused to drink Bordeaux because it was held by… you guessed it, the English. So Champagne was originally a red wine making region supplying the church and the aristocrats in Paris. Later when the French conquered Bordeaux, drinking the wine of the new province became a symbol of power so the industry in Champagne dried up almost entirely.
There is also something particular about the vineyards in Champagne. The heavily calcareous limestone meant the grapes couldn't compete with the complexity you find in Bordeaux, says Michel.
In fact the main feature of champagne isn't its depth, but balancing the sweetness and acidity, aiming for a lightness with the bubbles and then at the final moment adding a drop of 40-year-aged grape liquor, or dosage. This is where the sweet taste comes from in a Brut, but if you want something smoother, Drappier makes a dosage-free wine for purists, the Brut Nature.
Drappier is one of the larger producers in Aube but it's still considered only 'boutique' compared to the likes of Moët and Taittinger.
But the smaller players have an edge that the big boys can't manage, as viniculturist Olivier Horiot tells us on our next stop to the town of Les Riceys.
"You don't want to be too big, because you want to control everything yourself. The growing, the terroir, the production, it is all so important, you can't guarantee the quality if you have to buy grapes from other growers or use other people's production," he says.
Also with a long legacy behind him, Olivier is one of the special few producers in Les Riceys who can put their name to a unique kind of wine. It's a very fine Rose – which you might say is almost an oxymoron. But in Riceys, the Rosé is special. It's one of only a few that can be aged, because it's made properly.
Olivier kindly takes us for a drive through his vineyards – Champagne countryside is like no other. Its particular sloping hills and soil are unique – once a seabed, the land was once under 300 metres of water and is enriched by crushed oyster shells, so champagne vineyards 'take its food from the ocean', say the viniculturists.
This, as well as the climate and exposure, is what feeds into the 'terroir' – that particular balance of factors that determine the outcome of your grapes, and which make Champagne real estate worth €1 million per acre
So even you only go for the wine it's well worth it – standing in a cellar and drinking champagne with the man who made it tipping the bottle honestly does make it taste better.
But Champagne is soaked in so much more cultural and historical beauty – and just like good bubbly, its flavours are crisp and delicate.
Nick's trip was arranged by Aube en Champagne Tourism, for more local information visit: www.aube-champagne.com


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You've saved the timeways! (At least for now.) Time to head back for your richly-deserved reward.
Objectives Edit
Return to the child, Andormu, at the Caverns of Time in the Tanaris desert.
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Return to the child, Andormu, <name>. He awaits you outside this pocket of time, in the master's lair.
I hear flutterings. The Scale of Sands has shown interest in your abilities. Perhaps they too would like to speak with you.
Reward Edit
Upon completion of this quest you will gain:
- 1250 experience (or a 75 compensation at level 70)
- 8000 reputation with Keepers of Time
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Once more you have secured the present and the future of this world, <name>. Please accept these items as reward for your accomplishments.
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- [66] To The Master's Lair
- [68] The Caverns of Time
- [68] Old Hillsbrad
- [68] Taretha's Diversion
- [68] Escape from Durnholde
- [68] Return to Andormu
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Photo: David Teo (left) & Bill Conway, Principal
David Teo found that life in retirement can offer hidden blessings when his wife encouraged him to respond to an ad in the local paper. David, 61, spent his career as a Maintenance Engineer for Ansett and Qantas. It was a demanding profession with great responsibility to verify that planes were safe to fly, so after 36 years David was ready to retire when the opportunity came up.
He had barely hung up his work boots when his wife spotted an ad for a maintenance person one day a week by a local school, Montessori East Primary & Pre School in Bondi. It was the perfect fit for a retired engineer who loves fixing things. David could utilise his skills and work in the local community.
David got the job and for the past two years he's become very much a part of the school. David says "I love the work but what has surprised me most is how appreciated I feel. I didn't expect to feel so wanted or part of the school community. It's been very enjoyable."
Montessori East Principal, Bill Conway says that a sense of community is central to the school's culture, "We're a close knit community and David has fit right in. He particularly enjoys coming to any staff social events."
With children ranging in age from 3 to 12 years at Montessori East, David's presence creates a lot of interest from the children. The youngest are curious about his tools and have lots of questions about what he's doing. While David's engineering background has proved valuable as a resident expert for science based questions for the older children. Recently, a group of seven year old children were doing a project on aircraft and David was invited into the classroom to answer their many technical questions, something they all enjoyed.
Such encounters add to the fabric of the school says Bill Conway, "It's important that the children see our school as a reflection of society and that we demonstrate values such as respect and gratitude. David has life experience and valuable skills that he brings to the community."
When asked if he has a particular story to tell of his time so far at the school, David says that more than anything, the acknowledgement that he receives is what stands out. "The children always call out hello to me and the staff and children always thank me for fixing things. It's very touching."
When David isn't working at the school, or planning his next holiday with his wife, he's the volunteer handyman at St Matthew's and St Andrew's churches in Bondi. He also became a grandfather recently, adding a new chapter to his life's book.
Montessori East, situated in Bondi in Sydney's eastern suburbs offers a Montessori education for pre-primary (3-6 year olds) and primary aged children (6-12 year olds).
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Institute for Legislative and Governmental Affairs Hosts Springfield City Council Candidate Debate
On Wednesday, October 18, 2017 at 6:30 p.m., the Western New England University School of Law's Institute for Legislative and Governmental Affairs hosts The League of Women Voters, Springfield City Council Candidates Forum. There will be a debate with the 10 candidates for at-large Council seats, with moderated questions developed from the public. The questions will be posed by veteran League moderator JoAnn Berry of Acton, MA. Reservations for the event may be made by emailing firstname.lastname@example.com or calling or texting 413-655-1837.Click Here to read more