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the first, was born in the year 788 A..D. at Kaladi
in Kerala. The day was the fifth day in Shukla
Paksha in the month of Vaishakh and the time was
noon as
per the Hindu Calendar. Shankaracharya hailed
from a family from Malabar. His family was a
Nambudripad Brahmin family, who led a simple
living style, but believed in high thinking and
had a tradition of being quite learned and
Nampudri and his wife Aryamba after many long
years of their married life did not have any
issues and being desirous to have one, they
started a penance for the blessings of Lord
Shiva. Lord Shiva was pleased with their penance
and came in their dreams and gave them a boon
that Aryamba would soon bear a son, who will be
brilliant, intelligent but who would be short
lived and ephemeral. The auspicious new born had
the following emblems on his body the wheel
symbol on his head -an eyelike symbol on his
forehead, a trident mark on his shoulders,
Looking all these, the astrologers declared
unanimously that the new born was nothing short
of an incarnation of Lord Shiva and they all
said that he would be called by Shankar as his
name. This Shankar (as he was called then) was
gifted with unparalleled brilliance and when he
was merely three, he started taking lessons,
through faculty of speech, from his father.
Shankara became
proficient and adept in many sciences with
explanatory critical analysis of the same. As a
result of such a deep study, ascetic tendencies
were aroused in him. He had in his heart, an
intense desire for the well being of one and
At the age of
five he entered the institution of his Guru at
Trichure. Within a span of three years, he
mastered the three disciplines of yoga. He also
attained the accomplishments of eight types of
divine powers. (These accomplishments arc called
Ashtasiddhis). These arc faculty of remote
listening, remote visualizing, power to enter
other bodies moving at the speed of light etc.
He went to his spiritual guide Swami Govind
Bhavatpad in central province, now known as
Madhya Pradesh and carried out the important and
vital mission of rejuvenating the ancient vedic
tradition of Aryan religion. Shankaracharya who
was well versed in all four vedas, had an
excellent command over Sanskrit and meters and
technique of poetry. He authored many hymns and
canticles praising Gods and Goddesses and many
poems and criticisms. He successfully-debated
with people who followed different schools of
thought and after winning over them, established
four centres of knowledge at the far-flung
corners in India. He thereby, so to say, sowed
the seeds, which would result into cultural and
spiritual integration. He organized the working
of the four centres, wliich he established, so
that each centre had one of the vedas as the
main theme of their functioning. Therefore each
of the four centres had its distinct identity as
to the system of working and propagation of its
central theme. Shankaracharya appointed the
following Principals i.e. Acharyas at different
centres, (a) Shrungeri -Surcshwaracharya (b)
Jyotirmath at Badrikcdar - Totakacharya (c)
Sharda Math at Dwarka -Hasmalkacharya (d)
Govardhan math at JagannathPuri -Hastamalakacharya.
In due course of time the fifth centre (Math) at
Kanchi was established. Shankaracharya, then
went to the city of Mahishmati which was
situated on the banks of river Narmada. There he
defeated Mandanmishra, an erudite in a debate
and made him his dcsciple. Ubhayabharati, the
wife of Mandanmishra, posed Shankaracharya, with
a questionnaire, asking for details, procedures,
rituals in the science of sex. Shankaracharya,
though he was a strict celibate since birth,
outwitted her by entering into the body of Amruk,
the ruler of Kashi (now known as Bcnaras or
Varanasi) and obtained the necessary details and
then giving satisfactory answers to the queries
raised by Ubhayabharati.
propogates that Let the urighlcous become
riteous, let the wicked be benign let the
righteous attain tranquility and peace, let
those attaining peace emancipate themselves from
the worldly ties and those who have attained
emancipation, preach others to follow suite.
Shankaracharya, by dint of his intense and
glaring intellect, won over many erudites in
debates and guided them to the real path of
knowledge. Shankaracharya and his Acharyas
proved and established their intellectual
supremacy all over India. With a view to
preserve and protect the divine knowledge stored
in Vedas, he organized the ascetics in seven
forums. These groups are Ahwan, Mahanirvani,
Niranjani, Atul Anand, Agni and Bhairav.
Shankaracharya was an accomplished organizer and
a great philosopher.
Once it so
happened that Shankaracharyas mentor, Guru
Govind, entered a cave and started his
meditation. The cave was near the banks of river
Narmada. The river was in full spate and the
water started gushing into the cave.
Shankaracharaya kept a big earthen pot at the
entrance of the cave and surprisingly, the flood
waters were emptied into the pot and could not
reach the cave.
When Govind yati
finished his meditation, he was surprised of
what Shankaracharaya achieved. He realized the
capabilities of Shankaracharaya and suggested to
him to write a criticism on the Brahmasutra.
Thereafter, Shankaracharaya, the erudite of the
tender age of twelve, started preaching the
Vcdanta philosophy on the Ghats of river Ganges
at Benaras. While at Benaras, the Lord Shankar (Kashi
Vishweshwara) Himself, presented before
Shankaracharya, in the disguise of a vile and
tested his wits and wisdom, through which
Shankaracharaya came out with flying colours.
Lord Vishwanatha
told Shankaracharaya to write an exhaustive
criticism on Brahma Sutra. The Lord also told
him to profess monism and uniqueness of Brahma
(Universe). Shankaracharya chose to traverse to
Badari Khetra with an inherent desire to
draw-inspiration from the great anchorite Vyasa
and his blessings. On way to Badari Khetra, he
abrogated the prevalent tradition of human
sacrifice. He lived near Vyasa Tirth and wrote
excellent criticisms on Brahama-Sutra,
Upnishadas and Bhagwatgceta. One fine morning,
Vyasa Maharshi, came to Shankaracharaya in the
form of a Brahmin and tested him and he
was satisfied with
Shankaracharayas wisdom; and blessed him. Even
though Shankaracharaya was destined to live for
only sixteen years, Vyasa gave a further lease
of sixteen more years to his life. After
Mandanmishra became a disciple of
Shankaracharaya, all the erudites, with their
scholarlincss and eruidition got fully geared up
for convening the philosophy of monism in the
whole of Northern India.
then travelled down to South along with his
disciples. There he canvassed monism at various
places like shaila, Gokarna. After the demise of
his mother, Shankaracharaya began his
pilgrimages. At the end of his entourage, he
went to Kashmir and established the Sarvadnya
Peetham and took charge of the same. All the
Kashmiri Brahmins got dazzled by the
intellectual acumen and wisdom of
Shankaracharaya. Shankaracharaya, then went to
Nepal. There he established a proposed standard
code of Vcdic rituals and observance thereof.
Since qualified and eligible priests capable of
performing correct, true and exact vedic rites
and rituals were not available Shankaracharaya
invited some Namputiri Brahmin priests from
Kerala for keeping the ancient Vcdic traditions
alive. His great work or mission encompassed the
following activities: a) Criticism of various
Suktas in an elucidative style, b) canvassing
his philosophy of monism; (c) Conquring debates
on all four sides and establishing centres (Mathas).
This gigantic mission he accomplished within a
short span of 31 years. He chose the pious land
of the Kedar Kshetra for his final departure
from his earthly incarnation and did leave this
world to have unisom with eternity on the 11th
day of the Shukla Paksh (first fortnight) in the
month of vaishakha at the age of 32 year as was
predicted earlier.
The research
scholars have unanimously arrived at the
conclusion that all those canticles are composed
by, Shankaracharaya only. These canticles are
Anand Lahari Dakshina-moorty stotra CharpatPanjari,
Shivabhujang Prayat & the Saundarya Lahri to
mention a few. For expounding the philosophy of
Vedanta Shankaracharaya authored several
volumes. Out of these, Advaita Panchratna and
Vivekachudamani are particularly wellknown and
famous. The basic and fundamentally key concept
of the doctrine of Monism, propogated by Shri.
Shankaracharaya can be stated in a nutshell as
under i) The ultimate truth is Brahma 2) The
world we see is false and a mere illusion. 3)
Soul is nothing but Brahma only & 4) Soul and
Brahma are inseparable.
The Bharatiya
Sanskriti Kosha (Indian Cultural Encyclopedia)
Vol No 1 Page 184 gives the following legend in
connection with Goddess Sharada. It reads as
During the
previous birth, she was the wife of Lord
Brahmadeva and was known as Saraswati. She had
to take a new birth on account of a curse or
malediction by an ascetic called Durvasa She,
during this birth (incarnation) was, in course
of time, married to Mandanmishra an erudite,
when she could have glimpses of Shankaracharaya
(who himself, was an incarnation of Lord Shiva).
She got emancipation from the ill effects of the
curse. She set out for her original place, where
she belonged to. Shankaracharaya, at that
juncture appealed to her that she should stay at
Shringeri only and permit her worshippers to
serve her. Saraswati acceded to
Shankaracharayas request and went to the River
Tunga and resorted to Jal Samadhi (Jal means
water and Samadhi means transcending limits of
earthly identities). Her soul reached
Satyaloka but her mortal remains stayed there
only in the form of a rock. Shankaracharaya got
a wheel carved out on that rock and got a
sandlewood idol made, of Goddess Sharada and
installed it near that place. The Goddess, is
called Sharadamba. The Goddess is the
venerable deity at the Shringeri (Math). In due
course, Shri. Viddyaranyaa swami got a beautiful
temple erected and installed a golden image
(idol) of Sharadamba. The Shringeri Math is
situated on the banks of river Tungbhadra at
Koppa (Dist Kadur) in South India.
This is one of the sites in Karnataka worth
seeing. It has an expanse of 8 miles x 6 miles.
In the Dharma Kosha (encyclopedia of religion)
authored by Mr. James (Ref. Page 11-16) it is
stated that in order to convince the local
people more effectively, Shankaracharaya had to
master the local languages of that region.
Shri. C. G.
Karve has written an article in the issue of the
Marathi Magazine Prasad of 1961. In that
article, Shri Karve says The reason as to why
the centre (Matha) was established at Shringeri
is equally queer and strongly
supernatural. Shankaracharaya saw a cobra,
protecting a pregnant she-frog from the
torturing heat by-covering it with the help of
the shadow- of its fangs. This was very
exceptional. This incidence had a very deep
impact on him and it is exactly why he chose
this very spot for establishing his Math
(Monastery). Another reason why the Math was
given the name Shringeri Math was that the
hillock on which the hermitage of the famous
ascetic Rushyashrung existed is at a distance
of mere 9 miles from this spot.
The King Harihar
and his five brothers bestowed upon the
authorities of this Math the right to collect
the revenue accrued from the nine villages,
nearby. There have been 35 Acharayas (Head) of
this Matha hereinsofar (Rcf. Ayyer Pp 118) How,
the King of Vijaynagar made a permanent
provision of assured income for the Math, has
already been detailed hereinabove. This empire
was founded by king Harihar the first in Shaka
1258. The city of Kishkindha was the capital
city of this empire. Sayan and Madhav were both
ministers in this Kingdom. Both of them resorted
to spiritualism and rose to fame by the new
names such as Sayannacharya and Vidyaranya
Swami. They have authored 150 volumes in
Sanskrit and the Devyaparadha Stotra (Canticle)
is very famous. Sayannacharya has written many
criticisms or interpretationary expoundings of
many famous literary works.
Apart from and
besides the idol of Goddess Sharada, the idols
of Venugopal and Shriniwasa in other temples are
worth seeing and attract attention of all. A
figure of Nandi carved out on a pearl (Vehicle
of Lord Shiva) is exhibited here and is
considered to be one of the finest sculptures.
The temple
Navagrahas here (NinePlannets) is also worth
seeing. This temple has twelve sculpted pillars.
On top of each pillar there is a figure of Lion
and a person mounting on it. In the Jaws of the
Lions, bright and sparkling spheres, made out of
superior quality rock are so placed so as to
rotate within the jaws without slipping out from
the jaws. These 12 sculpted pillars symbolize
the 12 signs of zodiac and according to or in
unison with the time, the rays of the Sun
falling on the pillars get reflected from the
spheres. The symbolic figures of planetary
bodies such as Saturn, Jupitor, Venus, Moon etc
are fitted and the combined effect of all this
gives one a fairly accurate idea as to how solar
family as a whole moves around the Sun. This
setup is really intelligently devised (Ref:
Ayyer PP. 360-362)
the Devikosha (encyclopedia of Goddesses)
on page no. 339 volume -1st, the following
details are given. There arc several
copperplates and inscriptions in the Matha.
They all indicate the Peshwa rulers of Pune held
the Acharyas of this Matha in high esteem and
the Acharyas were given the highest honours by
giving them the first prestigious position in
worshipping the deities. Not only that but the
Muslim rulers too, had the feeling of reverence
in their minds towards the Heads of the Math.
The Nawab of Mysore, HyderAli Khan presented the
then Head of the Matha, elephants and horses and
felicitated him and paid him respects. He (HyderAli
Khan) sanctioned a sum often thousand rupees
towards the expenses to be incurred for taking
the Acharya of the Matha from Shringeri to the
capital (Mysore). The Tipu Sultan, the son of
HyderAli Khan continued carry cany the
inheritance of his father with the same ferver
and faith. Once a gang of robbers, plundered the
Matha and in a letter written by him to the
authorities of the Matha by way of consolations,
he wrote those who have committed this heinous
act with a sense of pleasure, will weep when
they repay for their actions.
Tipu Sultan was
a great admirer of Shringeri Math, besides being
a patron to it. He often requested the religious
Heads to pray to God for prevalence of peaceful
conditions in the state, general welfare of the
public and for bcingvictorious in any ensuring
battles. Once he even went to the extent of
asking the Brahmins to perform Sahastra Chandi
sacrifice and fed them with sumptuous meals for
40 days continuously and made liberal offerings
to them -This is mentioned in the chronicals -
(Ref.: Report of the Archaeological Department -
-Govt, of Mysore -year 1916 PP 74/75).
*(The author is a noted
Archeologist, based in Pune)
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I like the way this framework is designed, very nice and easy to read and see what is going on.
The only thing that concerns me is the serialization/de-serialization of events from the event store, currently it seems like the system is aimed at the event remaining the same forever which leads to things like; IDog then IDog2, etc, which to me isn't
a very nice [1][2].
For an example, say we currently store a customer's name as forename, surname. Later we decide this doesn't work well so choose to combine them into a single name field the events might look something like:
public class CustomerNameChangedEvent : DomainEvent
public string Forename { get; set; }
public string Surname { get; set; }
After the change it would look like:
public class CustomerNameChangedEvent : DomainEvent
public string Name { get; set; }
This will be a problem when loading the old events from the event store. The best solution that I see is you need to be able to de-serialize events to an untyped property bag [3] which
can then be manipulated by a series of converters before being handed over to an object de-serializer that can convert the property bag to the actual event.
For this to work each event needs to hold 3 pieces of information, the event type, event version and the serialized data. Event type and version is then used to look up the de-serializer and converters required to construct the event object.
As an optimisation, if the event version is the latest, it would be possible to de-serialize directly to the event object and skip the property bag step.
[1]: http://www.udidahan.com/2007/11/09/podcast-versioning-and-soa-there-is-no-idog2/
[2]: http://elegantcode.com/2010/02/09/cqrs-event-versioning/
To investigate this I've created a small stub project to emulate an application that has been first re-factored into a new name-space, and later had the event altered to allow investigation into how versioning of events can be handled.
The project stub can be found at http://github.com/chilversc/ncqrs-versioning
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'Tis the season of dear-teacher letters. (fa-lalalala-lalalala)
Last week I wrote Patch's Art teacher (who, btw, has not responded. Ugh. Talk about communication, or the lack of it).
Earlier this week, I saw some mommies in school going around and asking parents to sign a letter. Being the curious human being that I am, I asked what it was all about. They said it was a letter addressed to the Principal, about how our Grade 1 kids were having so much difficulty with the Chinese subject.
True! I agreed with them. My kids (esp. VGood) abhor learning Chinese already, simply because the subject has to be made extra-difficult.
One of the complaints is that coverage of tests is not specified. So the kids end up studying a very wide scope. Since last week, my daughter has been studying sixty-two – 62!! – characters for the test on Friday (has it been moved to Tuesday?). By "studying", I mean: writing (with correct strokes), sight-reading, and proper pronunciation. She's just a kid, yet her brain is expected to work with the memory of a super computer!
The test will only be about 20 or 25 items. That means only half of the characters need to be studied. Why can't she, the teacher, give us 31 characters for now, the rest for next week? Why?
Why? Because then that would be toooo easy for the kids, 'no! School should be hard.
After reading the letter, I affixed my signature as well.
Wanting to be pro-active, I approached several other parents and told them about the concern. All of the parents I approached agreed: Teacher, we have a problem. But only 1 of the five parents I talked to actually signed the letter. Their reasons for not signing:
- Baka pag tripan yung anak ko.
- Okay naman grades ng anak ko eh.
- Nakaka-cope pa naman kami.
- Eh, ano, kwan… *kamot-ulo* *iiling-iling* *sweet smile*
I understand fear no. 1. This particular Chinese teacher is known to be strict, mataray, THE terrorista! It really is scary to face off with her (literally and figuratively).
But, really, I'm thinking of it now. How selfish naman of the parents who did not want to "get involved". If something good comes out of this effort, won't their kids benefit too? So what were they thinking? Kami Ang mga anak na lang ng mga pumirma ang mapahamak at kagalitan, kung sakali?
I respect their stand – they are entitled to it.
But what I cannot stand is the apathy.
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I have a database of sales and I want to be able to see what has sold during a particular time frame over the years i.e. see what sold most in the last 10 years between July 1 and July 15. Problem is that not all the items were sold every year, and I need to be able to get the average sold. I was able to count distinct years in MySQL but after migrating to Access I can't figure out how to count distinct while still grouping by the individual product.
Relevant fields are StockID (the items' unique id) and TransDate (a datetime that I pull the year from) I've tried things similar to
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These are startling statistics. But in a society in which 'the people rule' this situation - one would predict - should be quickly changed. Plain 'self-interest' should see to that. After all with so many poor people in such a majority, it would seem to be just a case of simple mathematics to right the wrong. One election is all it should take. Yet what has happened? In fact the opposite has occurred. Despite some 40 years of parliamentary democracy and 'universal suffrage', India's inequality has remained impervious to change for the better. In the last decade or so, the gap has actually been growing again.
The reasons why are not difficult to discover - nor are they particularly Indian in content. Indian politics has been dominated almost since independence by the Congress party, a political movement that is seen by many, interestingly, to be on the left and to even have 'socialist' ideas. The other significant party is the BJP. Besides the BJP there is a host of smaller parties (some on the left, others on the right). However none of these ever dent the arena of national politics so the practical choice is between only two parties - Congress and the BJP.
Asked to clarify the differences between these two political parties in 1993, an Indian business journalist 80 saw none in practice. Both parties, he concluded, were 'travelling down the one road.' The only point of difference between the BJP and Congress, he pointed out, was the 'speed' of the journey and the 'side of the road they [the parties] were travelling on'. So while the electorate in India does have a choice at election time, both parties on the roster have - in effect - the same overall policies. What are these?
Politics in India has been dominated since its foundation by the broad idea of 'reform'. More recently however, these 'reforms' have had a more focused target. According to the Indian Prime-Minister, PV Rao of the Congress Party, they 'had to do with changes in the companies act ... capital acquisition tax and the financial sector reformsÉ' and also 'introducing value added tax' 81 . Noting the effect of these 'reforms', the Economist recorded a familiar picture. It reported that 'Among unskilled Indians, real wages dropped in the first 18 months of economic reforms.' Not that this was the entire picture - far from it. Though grain production in India was enlarging under the new reforms ('not many people know it but India is sitting on a mountain of 30 million tonnes of grain'), the Economist went on to point out that 'the poor could no longer afford to buy'.82 Indeed even Prime-Mister Rao, the architect of the reforms, was appalled at this. And lashed out that it was 'scandalous that grain should be exported when so many Indians still go hungry'. Though in a speech to the Federation of the Indian Chambers of Commerce, two years earlier, in a more sober mood, he had said (about the reforms) 'the difficult part lies ahead. We have a long way to go. The journey is bound to be long and difficult'. 83 And returning to that all important question, that of speed, he said 'the pace of reform would be governed by the ability of the system to absorb changes 'without collapsing.' Such are the realities of 'the largest democracy' in the world.
Providing no effective choice to the electorate amid the colour, pomp and drama of 'General Election Fever' is the stuff of parliamentary democracy. In this game the media play a valuable and vital role. The 1993 parliamentary election in Australia being a case in point.
It was described by the one of the main national papers as 'The most important election since WW2.' Yet when asked to point out the differences between the two options being 'offered' to the electorate, four different financial commentators saw no 'real differences' that mattered in the long run. Why this was so is quite easy to see. The Australian Labor Party had been in power throughout the '80s in Australia and had presided over a 'historic drop in wages' 84 and a variety of 'labour market reforms' that had 'borne fruit' 85 . Challenging the ALP were the traditional parties of big business and big farmers - an alliance of the Liberal and the Country Party (whose central election policy was the introduction of VAT - a tax that invariably effects the poor more than the well off!).
The ALP eventually won the election after issuing a slew of promises (quickly forgotten - see above). Though when he addressed a large 'group of business leaders' shortly afterwards, the ALP leader, Paul Keating, was less forgetful. In his speech Keating 'foreshadowed a historic deregulation of the labour market' though he stressed (being a man who had not 'forgotten his roots') that 'economic reform should be moderated by a concern for the disadvantaged.' Not that this 'should put the Government and business at odds,' he added, 'The success of economic policy depends on the success of business' 86
We can look anywhere else in the globe and see a similar process. The Presidential elections in Honduras in 1989 were hailed 'as a milestone' though the effective choice between the two candidates left a lot to be desired: 'The elections were effectively restricted to two candidates, one from a family of wealthy industrialists, the other from a family of large landowners.' Even top advisors to both camps acknowledged that 'there is little substantive difference between the two and the policies they would follow as president.'. Not that a lacklustre campaign resulted. The candidates, noted Central America Report, 'relied on insults and accusations to entertain the crowds at campaign rallies and political functions'. As US president Bush pointed out about the victor, Rafael Callejas: He is 'an inspiring example of the democratic promise that is spreading throughout the Americas.' 87
In Eastern Europe the experience of parliamentary democracy is somewhat new, but it is not that much different. 'Painful shock therapy' was used on many of the countries in this region after the fall of State Capitalism and Soviet Power. This 'free-market madness' provoked a backlash in the population (are we surprised?) with the result that 'reformed communists have come back into power on waves of discontentÉ' (the Economist noted) 88 . In Poland this saw a victory for the Democratic Left Alliance (DLA) in 1993 (in the Parliamentary election) and again in 1995 (in the Presidential election). 'The once despised ex-communists gained votes by acknowledging the suffering of ordinary peopleÉ' 89
What did this sensitivity translate into? The Economist (no friend of the DLA's) pointed out that the situation was 'not as bad as it looked'. The DLA, it went on, is led by 'young urbane politicians who claim to be social democrats and preach free-market reforms and privatisation.' Assessing the impact of the election, they concluded 'It is possible that the new Government can be a little kinder to those in need without seriously jeopardising the reform programme.' 90 Which seems to be quite accurate, in hindsight. The gap between the rich and the poor is continuing to sky-rocket in Poland and throughout most of the former Eastern Europe. As one piece of astute Polish graffiti pointed out: 'We wanted democracy, but we ended up with the bond market'. 91
Providing no effective choice is the reality in the vast majority of parliamentary democracies. Parties vie for power at election time - the campaigns are often 'hard-fought' and 'tough' but the only difference lies in the faces that make up the next parliament, not in the policies. To all intents and purposes these policies continue as before, unabated.
This is the case in the majority of countries that are called parliamentary democracies. But it is not the case in all, and this most be borne in mind. Indeed parliamentary democracy is often most successful as a form of political control (as opposed to a form of democracy) because of its apparent 'openness' and because of the fact that 'popular constituencies' are often encouraged to participate in it. Many like to believe that 'if we got elected, we would be different' - despite the mounting evidence to the contrary.
The history of parliamentary democracy is littered with examples of this: parties and individuals who 'become identified with the masses' and carry for them 'their hopes and dreams'. As was noted earlier with the examples of parliamentary socialism, the anger of the poor is often channelled into parliament and away from the workplace and the street where it can be particularly powerful. Once in Parliament it gradually gets 'lost and forgotten about'.
A recent example of this dynamic is the case of Brazil's Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva (known as Lula), the former 'lathe operator turned politician'. Indeed Lula's popularity is legendary with the poor of Brazil. And well it might be. In Brazil the power of business and the wealthy is only matched by the brutality of the military and the large land-owners who have come to dominate. Though phenomenally wealthy, Brazil has been steadily getting worse in terms of the gap between the rich and the poor - a fact that has played no small part in Lula's rise to fame. Brazil is a country where, in that timeworn phrase, 'the poor appear to have no voice.' As chairman of the Workers Party of Brazil, Lula quickly became such a voice, and in fact he very nearly won the 1989 Presidential election, so large was the genuine affection that was felt for him and his 'anti-poverty' policies.
Lula narrowly lost the 1989 Presidential election. Why is still a subject for debate. What is clear however is that Lula ran a very 'radical campaign' in 1989 - in particular he refused to compromise on his economic views. As a result he maximised his vote with the very numerous poor of Brazil.
Defeat however led to reassessment with the result that the Lula who ran again in 1994 was 'importantly different'. As the Economist noted, Lula 'may still rail against capitalism. But at round tables and in the auditorium, he takes care to turn down the volume'. Indeed the politician who boasted 'I'd never wear a coat and tie' went out of his way to present a different impression in 1994. 'In Washington ... 700 bankers and the like crowded into a hall to hear him speak.' This was when he was 40% ahead in the polls.
So great was the change in Lula, in fact, that some wondered about 'who the real Lula was'. Though others were less bothered. Jose Sobrinho, chairman of Banco Pontual in San Paulo, observed, 'Lula attacks the banks for earning too much, but these days he also says the financial sector is a necessary evil'. A view underscored by another business man , Emerson Kapaz, who 'lavishes praise on his rival' noting that Lula 'understands that he cannot govern alone. These meetings with businessmen are not just for form's sake. He is looking for an alliance that will make it possible' . 92
This example of Lula's turnabout is not unusual - it is quite typical and happens again and again. It was most notable with the rise to power of the various socialist and Labour parties of the world (see earlier), but it continues to apply in any situation where a large grassroots movement seeks 'a voice in parliament'. On the electoral road to power, political parties of the left (in particular) go through a process of 'adaptation' and 'realism'. Their radicalism is gradually diluted away so as to 'send the right message'. The important constraints of electoralism - to build alliances, to retain 'a positive media image' - all take their toll. Radical politics is the inevitable casualty.
Occasionally it does happen that individuals and parties get into power with the intention of making a few changes and/or 'fulfilling their popular mandate'. This is rare, but when it does happen, other important constraints are brought to bear 'on the situation' in order to prevent an 'un-welcomed outcome'. These are the financial markets and the 'threat of a coup'.
The 'financial markets' more than any other single factor are playing an increasingly important role in constraining 'your vote'. Though the effect of the 'markets' is somewhat dependent on the size and relative economic independence of the particular country involved, it is nevertheless becoming an important factor almost everywhere with time. The effect of the 'financial markets' can be in a number of different ways:
1. When an elected Government does pursue, on occasion, a policy that 'conflicts' with the overall interests of business the prospect of 'flight of capital can be brought into play' as a means of disciplining that Government. This happened in the very notable case of France in 1981 after the victory of the French Socialist Party. 'Initial hostility on the part of business was manifested in manoeuvres to avoid nationalisation and a flight of capital abroad'. 93 This was evident in the French media where 'Businessmen made a show of studied pessimism, painting reality in excessively dark colours and discouraging hiring and investment'. France entered 'a crisis'. And in due course, after the balance of power within the French Socialist Party shifted back towards a more moderate programme, French business once again 'became prepared to play its role with a certain amount of loyalty'.94
2. A similar, though importantly different, example is the recent case of South Africa. Here the source of 'financial constraint' is non-national - unlike in the case of France above. The actual achievement of popular suffrage in S. Africa after a long and bitter struggle against the apartheid system fuelled real expectations that substantial change would occur in the aftermath of the vote in April 1994 - in particular with regard to wealth distribution. This did not occur. The Irish Times' correspondent in SA, Edward O'Loughlin, noted in December 1994 (7 months after Government formation) that the ANC's key problem 'is growing discontent among its black constituency, which believes the ANC has done little to improve their lot since taking power'. 95 However, despite this, in March 1995 the same correspondent reported that 'South Africa's second post apartheid budget ... has once again demonstrated the commitment of the country's new rulers to fiscal discipline and free-market reforms'. 96 Noting that the ANC's programme had been 'tempered by reality' O'Loughlin reported that the 'budget message' was overshadowed 'by the ongoing crisis over exchange rates and exchange controls'. Indeed the Rand's (South Africa's currency) fall from grace (its value slumped against the US dollar) was as a result of 'rumours' and 'perceptions'. Though the London based Financial Times, was less circumspect in assessing the impact of this. It noted that Trevor Manual, the ANC's minister of finance, had 'moved a long way towards embracing free market policies. The challenge now is to persuade the rest of the ANC and in particular its union and communist allies to catch-up.' Emphasising the 'disciplinary effect' of the currency problem, the Financial Times continued: 'The value of the Rand in the months ahead is likely to provide an accurate reflection of the progress of that political struggle'. 97
3. The third example is more general, but is also the most indicative of how little parliamentary democracy can mean in today's world. With the 'financial markets' skewed towards the rich and powerful countries in the First World, more 'dependent' economies are increasingly cut adrift by decisions made in say Washington, London or Tokyo. A classic example being the 1979 decision by the Chairman of the US Federal Reserves, Paul Volcker, to 'raise the rate of interest and thereby also to raise the value of the dollar'. 98 According to the economist, Andre Frank, this decision 'was the single most important cause of the debt crisis and consequently the depression and "lost decade" of the 80s'. 99 Indeed in Latin America and Africa the cost of this depression remains untold, though of huge dimension. Perhaps tens of thousands of lives were lost as a result of this 'financial decision.' Frank also notes, interestingly, that even in the specific context of parliamentary democracy neither the American electorate nor the Congress nor the President had any 'right to intervene in such a decision of the Federal Reserve'. A timely reminder of 'the limits' of parliamentary democracy - if such a reminder is still needed.100
In contrast to the remoteness and 'subtlety' of the financial markets, the 'threat of a coup' is an entirely different matter, though no less unreal if we are to judge by even relatively recent examples e.g. Haiti (1991), Algeria (1992), Nigeria (1993) to name just a few.
It is often assumed that such coups occur in situations where 'radical' polices are involved but this, surprisingly enough, is not the case. Coups in parliamentary democracies often occur against relatively 'reasonable' Governments - a fact that supports the theory that it is often the broader social movement that is the real target of the military. An important example being the coup against the Allende government in Chile in 1973. It is often not recognised that the reforms being introduced by the popularly elected government of Salvador Allende were for the most part quite benign, involving 'land reform' of large estates (with compensation) and nationalisation of copper mines (with compensation).
However Allende's period in office was also accompanied by the emergence of 'assemblies of workers in factories, People's Supply Committees in the publaciones ... Peasant Councils in rural areas'. These groups began to play a more and more important role as Allende's Government stalled on implementing its promised polices. 'Basic demands emerged from these popular organisations. The Government was supposed to represent the people, in that case it should put into operation the policies the people were demanding.' 101 Indeed this popular movement became increasingly confident and impatient as time went on, and in some areas began to supplant the State. Food distribution was taken over by community organisations; workers became more belligerent and occupied their places of work ejecting managers; in the countryside land was occupied.
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Leonard Nimoy, well-known actor for his role as the half-human/half-Vulcan character known as Spock on Star Trek TV series and films, has passed away earlier today at the age of 83. Nimoy died at his home in Los Angeles of an end-stage chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Last year, he revealed his condition, which was due to his many years of smoking.
For fans of the popular sci-fi franchise that made its TV debut on NBC in the 1960s, then, found success on TV syndication, and jumped to bigger adventures in films and new series, will for sure miss Leonard Nimoy.
[Source]: New York Times: Leonard Nimoy, Spock of 'Star Trek,' Dies at 83.
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* I Have had serious issues getting the pictures to be the way I wanted, so I have decided to forget putting it in chronological order, etc. It's for her anyhow and she knows!!!!
Since I wrote posts about mom and dad, I decided to write one for sister. I will probably weep through the writing of this post.
Sister and I were the "cool" kids!! Because we are close in age, we have always done everything together.
Sister - I always loved dressing up with you. You are the only reason I have any kind of fashion sense!!!
It's a trademark - those gorgeous locks!!!
I love shopping with you and how that is a part of our special hangout/sister time!
Thanks for putting up with all of my messes.
Regardless of where God takes each of us on this path of life, you will always be sweet sister. I love you more than I could ever explain to you. I rejoice in the ways God has restored our relationship over and over. You are a gift. You bring delight and joy!
Hannah - keep living in the ways of the Lord. Keep on in obedience. The recent things the Lord is doing are amazing and you reflect His radiance.
I can't wait until the next time we see each other again to laugh, cook, play, shop and LIVE!
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N AACP. Kaitlyn Mechem Jesse Bruce Summer Hall J Slaughter . NAACP. Founded February 12 th 1909, the National Association for the Advancement of colored people it the oldest and the largest African-American civil rights organization.
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Founded February 12th 1909, the National Association for the Advancement of colored people it the oldest and the largest African-American civil rights organization.
Today it has more than half a million members and supporters through out the United States and the world.
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The town's projected deficit has been cut by more than half thanks to much better than expected revenue figures and decreased expenses.
The town's projected deficit has been cut by more than half thanks to much better than expected revenue figures and decreased expenses.
Updating his fiscal 2014 preliminary budget, Town Administrator David Colton this week said the projected deficit had fallen from $979,286 to $366,333.
"I am more optimistic than ever that a balanced budget will be achieved in the near future," he said.
Colton said net funds available for appropriation had gone up from $68.9 million to $69.1 million, reflecting 2.17 increase. The amount might change to balance the snow and ice account that exceeded its budget by $150,000.
"Every effort will be made to absorb the additional amount in the FY 13 budget," he said.
Colton said he was awaiting the release of the state House Ways and Means budget to determine if Gov. Deval Patrick's proposed spike in local aid would be locked in or be reduced.
He said he was confident local receipts would go up by 4.8 percent based on a $200,000projected increase in ambulance fees and a $50,000 hike in vehicle excise taxes.
Expense projections had also fallen due to "very good news" from the Southeastern Massachusetts Health Group (SMHG).
"The SMHG, led by Town Treasurer/Collector Teresa DeSilva, has delivered a zero percent increase in health insurance premiums allowing us to trim more than $300,000 from our earlier projection," he said.
The budget is within 1 percent of being balanced, he said.
The most important next step is for the Easton school committee to complete its budget process.


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America's Next Top Model Recap: "Here's Your Test"
America's Next Top Model Quiz: "Here's Your Test"
I was really looking forward to this week's America's Next Top Model episode after Celia's outburst last week at judges' panel. And while a little bit of yelling and drama broke out at the house in the beginning, things got pretty snoozy after that. What is with this cycle? Do you guys think it's one of the most boring to date?
Anyway, I had a hard time paying attention, but let's see how well you did. You can check out more pictures from this week's episode, but first, take my quiz!
Photos courtesy of The CW
America's Next Top Model Quiz: "Here's Your Test"
What did Allison say all the yelling in the house reminds her of?


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Colour in the Diagrams.
Discrete Degrees
Chapter I. The Spiritual and the Natural.
PART I. The Regeneration of Man.
Chapter I. The Spiritual and the Natural.
Chapter Il. The Spirit Two-fold, Mind and Spiritual Body.
Chapter III. The Inmost or the Soul Proper.
Chapter IV. The Mind: - Its Two Faculties, Will and Understanding.
Chapter V. Will and Understanding. - Another View.
Chapter VI. The Internal and the External Mind.
Chapter VII. Internal Will and Understanding, and External Will and Understanding.
Chapter VIII. The Mind in Three Degrees.
Chapter IX. The Mind in Three Degrees. - Another View.
Chapter X. The Spiritual or Internal Mind in Three Degrees.
Chapter XI. Illustration of Passages.
Chapter XII. The Mind as the Two Kingdoms.
Chapter XIII. Relation of the Degrees of the Natural Mind to those of the Spiritual.
Chapter XIV. Each Degree of the Spiritual Mind in Three Planes.
Chapter XV. The Limbus.
Chapter XVI. The Limbus Retained After Death.
Chapter XVII. All the Degrees in Trines.
Chapter XVIII. Man at Birth.
Chapter XIX. Growth During Infancy.
Chapter XX. Growth During Childhood.
Chapter XXI. Growth During Youth.
Chapter XXII. Adult Life. - First Degree of Regeneration.
Chapter XXIII. The Second Degree of Regeneration.
Chapter XXIV. The Third Degree of Regeneration.
Chapter XXV. The Wicked.
Colour in the Diagrams.
Discrete Degrees
Chapter I. The Spiritual and the Natural.


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The NBA returns to play on Tuesday February 18th after the All Star Break. The Atlanta Hawks will come off the break to face the Indiana Pacers from NBA action. The Hawks and Pacers will get it started from Indiana at 7PM Eastern Time and you can watch this game live over the NBA League Pass Channel. Check out the NBA odds at Bovada sportsbook.
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There has been a very good angle to bet following the All Star Break. That is bet against the head coach of the Eastern or Western conference in their first game back with their team. We have seen this play cash well over the past 15 years as it is one of the bettor bets in the NBA. The reason for this is the All Star break requires a lot of time and energy to manage for the coaching staffs. They entire coaching and training staffs leave their team for much of the All Star break. The players are lose touch with coaches are no quite fit when they hit the court. Also with all the All Star hoopla the coaching staffs often lose focus for their upcoming game. The All Star game has been a night game in recent seasons meaning the coaching staffs spend the night most of the time in the host city impaction travel and preparation for practice. That is the reason they have rotated coaching staffs over the years as you no longer see head coaching staffs coach in successive seasons during the All Star game. It is a nice honor to coach the All Star game but it does impact the staff's ability to communicate and keep fit the players who are lounging around. In their meeting this year the Hawks win at home by ten points to Indiana and in the rematch on month later the Pacers win by only four points. Ten points is too much to lay here.
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Gloria Gaynor Interview
In 1976, the International Association of Discotheque Disc Jockeys officially crowned her the "Queen of Disco".
In 1979, her recording of "I Will Survive" won a Grammy for Best Disco Recording.
By now, you know who we're talking about-----Miss Gloria Gaynor.
Last year Polydor Records released "I Will Survive: The Gloria Gaynor Anthology" and Gloria penned her autobiography titled "I Will Survive" ( St. Martin's Press).
Gloria Gaynor has indeed survived and we're proud to present an interview with the "Queen of Disco".
Q – You're about to launch both a modeling
and acting career, is that correct?
Q – What's the acting career going to
be in?
Q – You were in Top 40/Dance band early on in your career called
the "Soul Satisfiers". Did you ever perform here in Syracuse?
Q - You enjoy great popularity in Europe and the Middle East. Why do you
suppose that is?
Q - You write, "One of my philosophies of life
is that you should never feel poor because you don't have what somebody
else has, or what somebody else thinks you should have."
Q - What then was the driving force for you to succeed in the world of
Q - Does it ever upset you to see a fuss made about a singer who really
can't sing?
Q - Do you remember that whole "Disco Sucks" movement
back in 1979?
Q - Why do you think so many people hated disco?
Q - Do you think the fact that guys had to learn how to dance a certain
way and dress a certain way had something to do with it?
Q - Your first hit was "Never Can Say Goodbye"?
Q - Didn't Michael Jackson also record that song?
Q - When you recorded "I Will Survive" did
you realize how good of a song it was?
Q – Did anyone else record that song besides
Q - Do you ever get tired of singing it?
Q - Drugs seem to be the downfall of so many talented singers and musicians.
What do drugs have to do with music anyway? I never understood the connection.
Q - You write in your book, "We were invited to wild parties and we gave wild parties." What was so wild about these parties?
A - Probably this is all relative and to a lot of people it wouldn't be considered wild at all, because their parties were what I would've considered wilder. To me a wild party is a party where you did have alcohol. You had some marijuana. You had some cocaine. You didn't have a bowl of it. But, there was a little packet of it, they were passing around. There was maybe a few dollars of marijuana. There was some champagne. To me a wild party lasted past 3 or 4 a.m.
Q - What is life like for you these days? Do you have a routine down?
A - No. There's very little routine about my life, because I travel so much and have to be ready to go on the spur of the moment. When I'm home I try to get up every morning early enough to pray for a couple of hours, and read the Bible. I try not to be too wiped out before I go to bed so I can study a little bit, and plan my next day. That's the extent of my routine. I also try to get in some exercise which I don't do very often.
Q - Don't you get a good workout running around the airports catching those planes?
A - No. It doesn't work at all. (Laughs). Your body doesn't pay any attention to that. It just gets tired. You travel 15-16 hours to get someplace, you don't feel like lifting weights and getting on a treadmill.
Q - How many days a year are you on the road?A - Well, you know, it's difficult to say, but I'm rarely home for more than two weeks at a time, and I'm rarely gone for more than two weeks at a time.
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The wealth inequality gap in our world today is arguably higher than it has even been in history. 62 People own as much wealth as 50% of the entire population combined according to Oxfam and this gap is predicted to only grow wider and further.
Those 62 individuals, however, are just the tip of the iceberg and do not take into account all the wealth that is being hidden from official records by the elites.
Like those who hide their wealth, the infographic below is certainly debatable, when you consider the fact that it doesn't include the likes of the Rothschilds, the royals or the Pope, but it does still manage to provide us with some insight about who some of the most powerful people in known history are and how the wealth gap and exploitation of average people ("tax payers") has been going on for thousands of years..
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Civil Trial of Lockerbie Bombing Case Under Way
By JOHN H. CUSHMAN Jr.
Published: April 28, 1992
With relatives of those who died in the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 crowding a Brooklyn courtroom, jurors heard opening arguments yesterday in the relatives' lawsuit to hold Pan Am liable for failing to prevent the attack.
Forty months after the explosion over Lockerbie, Scotland, that killed 259 people on a Boeing 747 bound to New York, and 11 people on the ground, there are still many questions about the terrorist attack that could be answered in the United States District Court over the coming weeks.
The crucial issue to emerge so far is a fundamental argument over how much evidence there is to support the contention of the Bush Administration that the bombing was carried out by Libyan agents operating from the Mediterranean island of Malta.
The United States and Britain are seeking to prosecute Libyan intelligence officials whose extradition is being sought under pressure of United Nations sanctions.
Pan Am's defense lawyers said yesterday that they will prove the suitcase containing the bomb did not come from Malta, as international investigators have claimed. The plaintiffs lawyers said they would prove that it did.
But on this first day of a civil trial that may well last into June, lawyers for both sides limited their presentations to a general outline of the evidence they expect to present.
The trial, which draws together more than 200 lawsuits, is to decide damages that could run into hundreds of millions of dollars. Pan Am is bankrupt, but the damages could still be paid by its insurers.
The argument offered yesterday by lawyers for the plaintiffs generally tracks the path explored by the criminal prosecutors: that a bomb disguised as a radio was packed into a suitcase and shipped from Malta to Frankfurt, Germany, where it slipped through Pan Am's security and was checked on via London aboard Flight 103.
That could only happen, the plaintiffs' lawyers contend, because Pan Am failed to take steps required by security rules to ensure that unaccompanied baggage is not shipped without rigorous inspection, including more than an X-ray inspection that cannot detect that kind of bomb.
At least three times, Lee Kriendler, the lead attorney for a plaintiffs committee, used the word "abominable" to describe Pan Am's security. Each time, the defense objected and Judge Thomas C. Platt warned Mr. Kriendler to tone down his argument until after the evidence is heard.
The defense, for its part, said it will show that Pan Am's security programs were approved by the Federal Aviation Administration and that the terrorists somehow put the bag aboard in Frankfort in a way that Pan Am could not have been expected to prevent.
"There is no question we made slip-ups and goofs, but they did not cause the tragedy," said Clinton Coddington, the lead attorney for Pan Am and its insurance underwriters.
And in what appears to be a risky strategy, he asserted that "the bomb could not have been from Malta."
Instead, he argued that an examination of the baggage handling system at Frankfurt's airport, which is not controlled by Pan Am, presented unspecified "opportunities for misconduct."
He presented this argument despite being warned by Judge Platt while the jury was absent that any such theory must be backed up later by evidence. If the evidence is not presented in court, the judge said, he would take the "very unusual" step of telling the jury to ignore Mr. Coddington's theory.
The judge's warning was prompted in part because a theory very much like Mr. Coddington's was laid out in the current issue of Time magazine.
Elements of the Time article have been published before and have been discredited by Justice Department officials and other investigators.
It put forth the theory that the real target of the bombing was a team of American inteligence officers on the plane who were interfering with a United States narcotics operation involving Syrians with terrorist connections.
The article suggested that two pieces of luggage might have been switched inside the Frankfurt airport. Yesterday, Mr. Coddington did not put forth that theory in any detail.


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Some types of credit derivatives on asset-backed securities could be ruled to be guarantees or insurance contracts, which would make them subject to a harsher tax regime and, in the case of insurance, prevent banks from trading them.
The International Swaps and Derivatives Association is drafting documentation for synthetic asset-backed securities trades and under one of the settlement methods--known as pay as you go--sellers of protection would be liable to make up shortfalls in the ABS payments when they were originally scheduled. Donald Carden, partner at Clifford Chance in New York, said, "Pay as you go will bring [credit derivatives on ABS] closer to a guarantee and may make it subject to withholding tax."
The IRS has issued a note in July saying they were examining how credit derivatives should be taxed. Carden said, "The IRS is struggling with the best way to characterize CDS and to the extent you move away from cash settlement the contract starts to more closely resemble a guarantee or insurance and less resemble an option or a swap. The question is whether moving to pay as you go would tip the scales."
A similar problem concerning withholding tax already exists in the Eurobond market. A coupon payment under a Eurobond may generally be made without withholding for U.K. tax under the quoted Eurobond exemption, however a payment under a guarantee of that Eurobond may not benefit from the same exemption, explained Patrick Clancy, counsel at Shearman & Sterling in London. ABS securities are often quoted Eurobonds for withholding tax purposes, while the credit derivative will not be. But a pay as you go default swap should be written so it doesn't amount to a guarantee and so should not be seen as a payment of or in respect of the missing coupon. It should merely pay an amount equal to the coupon to the protection buyer who, after all, doesn't need to own or to continue to own the ABS securities.
London-based lawyers said there is also a risk the contract could be interpreted as an insurance contract at least partly because you would need to own the ABS in order to know when the coupons were scheduled and whether they had been paid. The requirement to own the security, and therefore suffer loss, is one the main differentiating factors between derivatives and insurance contracts. Simon Firth, partner at Linklaters in London, said, "It is potentially an issue, but it is surmountable."
Louise Marshall, spokeswoman at ISDA in New York, said the trade association has not discussed this issue but if members raise concerns the tax committee may look into it. The documents are expected to be finalized before the summer.


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The U.K. Food Standards Agency (FSA) has issued its Strategic Plan 2015-20 outlining a number of initiatives it plans to undertake with industry and other stakeholders over the next five years.
Key activities include (i) implementing campaigns to reduce the incidence of food-borne illness caused by Campylobacter and Listeria infections; (ii) expanding capabilities of the agency's newly established Food Crime Unit; (iii) expanding the agency's horizon scanning and emerging risks analytical capabilities; (iv) establishing new platforms for consumer engagement; and (v) continuing robust engagement with the European Union on revisions to the regulation on official food and feed controls. See FSA News Release, June 3, 2015.


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