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Slyman's Restaurant
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All but two of the restaurant's aluminum-and-laminate tables are occupied. "Slow today?" asks the regular, without a hint of sarcasm. "It's Monday," his waitress commiserates. This is the legend that is Slyman's. Most days, every table is packed at this tiny place famous for a corned beef sandwich piled so high that servers routinely leave extra bread, wax paper and a bag so you can make a second one for the road. There is other food on the menu, but none of it has the same mystique. Taking on this sandwich is a rite of passage. While you could join those in line each noon and order the behemoth to go, first-timers should come in at 11:45 a.m., grab a seat, and enjoy the show.
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Birth Name Bela Ferenc Dezso Blasko
Birthplace Lugos, Hungary (now Romania)
Born 20 October 1882
Died 16 August 1956
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Bela Lugosi shot to stardom in the title role of the 1931 film version of Bram Stoker's Dracula and set the standard for movie vampires. A successful stage actor in his native Hungary and in Germany, he emigrated to the United States in the 1920s and played various character roles until grabbing the lead in the stage production of Dracula in 1927. Lugosi's talent for playing a villain led to a career of playing monsters and mad scientists, and it's generally accepted that he made a lot of bad choices. Some of his more memorable movies include The Black Cat (1934), Ninotchka (1939, starring Greta Garbo), The Wolfman (1941), and Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948).
In 1955, Lugosi committed himself to an institution, admitting an addiction to methadone. In his last years, his personal life and career were on the skids, but he still worked a little in television and low-budget films. During this time he became friends with Tor Johnson. He died while working on what has been called one of the worst movies ever made, Plan 9 From Outer Space (released in 1959).[1] On a happier note, his works increased in popularity after his death and he is now immortalized as a legendary horror movie actor.
In MST3K context, Lugosi appears in the movies from the twilight years of his career, among them Ed Wood's Bride of the Monster.
Earlier in his life, Lugosi was decorated for his service in World War One where he fought on behalf of Austria-Hungary; he was forced from Hungary because of activism in support of actor's unions.2
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Intelligence Speaks
Through confidence flows
Bind and unbind
Unto and undo
You ask the wrong things of the avenger
Be still the movement
Of your will to speak
Of your favors
I am your servant
Least I receive no rest
Yet unpaid
I move on
Awed by my will to serve you
I ask of nothing
And still unnoticed
Pay me no heed
I shun myself as well
And still no thoughts of yours involve my well being
In Love I say
Blessed be
And Still I know
You will think not of me.
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Study in English in Lyon, France (SELF)
Objectives of the program :
The SELF program is designed to encourage significant improvement in the student's level of proficiency in the French language, possible fulfilment of home university curriculum requirements and subsequent credit transfer.
Most of the courses are designed from a European or French perspective and emphasis is placed upon international comparison.
Students should be motivated by the international experience of studying in France, even if they do not master the French language (A2 level or below). The program is thus open to all university undergraduates.
The SELF program is a semester program or an annual program.
It usually starts at the end of August / in early January and ends mid-December/end of April
- Spring semester 2016/2017
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Mid-term break: 18 February to 26 February
Exam period: 3 to 14 April
Program end: 14 April
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Arrival in Lyon: between 25 and 28 August
Program start: 30 August
Mid-term break: to be settled
Exam period: 27 November to 8 December included
Program end: 8 December evening
Admission criteria:
The SELF program is available to students (exchange/non-exchange) who fulfil the following requirements:
Academic background:
Students should have completed a minimum of two years of university studies ; the academic level of SELF corresponds to upper-division undergraduate level
Level of French:
- The SELF program is designed for students with a basic French level (<A2)
- Students staying for two semesters who arrive with an A2 level in French and have attained a B1 level at the end of the semester are directed towards classes taught in French for the spring semester (DEUF program).
Level of English:
For students enrolled in a university where English is not the official language, one of the official tests listed below is required:
- TOEFL IBT: overall score of 80 or higher with 20 at least for each section – only the official test will accepted (the local institutional version is not adequate)
- TOEFL ITP: overall score of 560 minimum and 50 at least for each section
- IELTS: overall score of 6,5 and 6 minimum at each section
- TOEIC including speaking, writing, listening and reading test: overall score of 1020
- Cambridge Advanced: A/B
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Transfer Trophies or Change Region in the FUTURE[ Edited ]
OK, help me with this one please, give one clear answer so I wont over think that there is hope lol, I have 2 accounts one German because I used to live in Germany and didnt do any purchases on its store maybe little things (dont care about them) but all of my freaking trophies are on it its lvl 15 trophies, and the other account is USA which all of my purchases are on it like hundred of dollars worth, so I PURCHASE from the US one and PLAY on the German one to keep my trophies..... so the thing is I want to keep the US one and use it because of PS+ but dont want to lose my trophies, I cant access my special things like avatars and PS+ games when I use the German account for trophies ;(
Long story short, Please tell me I can transfer my trophies from my German account to US one in the future, OR WORST scenario that I can change the German region to American in the future
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On PS4, PS+ can be shared among all users on a system as long as the PS+ subscriber assigns the system as his primary console. This is highly beneficial seeing as most PS4 games will need PS+ for online multiplayer.
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Hmmmm... are you sure that I can PLAY ONLINE on the German account from my PS+ of the US account? but even so what about using my Avatars.... and BTW I know that I can't do anything now about it but what I meant is what about the future can it be implemented later on like what MircroSoft did, on Xbox now you can change Online ID and Region and other stuff but with coast.... is Sony abble to do such thing in the future thats what we want, fo examble we can't be stuck with same Online ID forever since we used to be children lol, there must be a sloution somewhere
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On PS4, them allowing all users to share a single PS+ subscription is awesome. So yes, you will be able to play online on a PS4 that has a user with a PS+ subscription. Buy PS+ and games with your US account and play online and earn trophies on your German account.


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We only use quality, fresh ingredients in all our dishes. Grade A Choice, free range beef and chicken and locally grown produce are the keys to our quality. You can taste the difference for yourself.
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Facebook Rises, MySpace Falters
Compete reported today that with 15.7 billion page views, Facebook is now ranked third in terms of traffic, and MySpace, which has thus far enjoyed both healthy growth and a long run as the leader in social networking, is declining and may not be in the lead for long.
Facebook has grown not only its user-base, but also the time spent per user on the site. At the same time, MySpace, which has been one of the highest ranking sites for about two years now seems to be slowing down in terms of growth (though the existing users continue to use the site quite loyally). So why is MySpace 'stagnating' and Facebook continuing to grow?
It's the platform!
Since releasing the f8 platform, Facebook's growth (as measured by attention metrics) has grown over 50%, with August being the best month yet. As developers create applications that essentially integrate the functionality of other sites into Facebook, it's easy to understand why more users are spending a better part of their time online on Facebook. Not only that, but as they create applications that you have to carefully craft, and that require your daily attention, there is an increasing need to visit the site daily and see how you stack up against others.
That said, it is astonishing that rumors about MySpace's impending launch of a widget platform as well as a developer platform, fail to pan out. Facebook's design, ease-of-use, and (initially) targeted audience certainly helped the site's growth, but it has been clear for a while that the main reason for the site's exponential growth has been the developer platform.


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Adoption of ISO 9000 quality assurance standards by South African agribusiness firms
A postal survey was conducted in 1998 among 92 South African agribusiness firms to establish the extent of adoption of the ISO 9000 quality assurance standards, reasons for certification, and the costs and benefits of adopting these standards. Almost 36% of respondent firms were ISO 9000 certified. The desire to improve customer service, a basis for quality improvement, and the need to improve operational efficiency (reduce wastage) were the most important factors influencing certification. Respondents reported financial, managerial, and production benefits following certification. Two-group and three-group discriminant analyses were performed. Results revealed that ISO 9000 certified firms tended to be larger, established firms with parent company affiliation, manufacturing products derived from agricultural output and exporting to developed countries. Most non-ISO 9000 certified firms had adopted an alternative quality assurance system. The most important variable distinguishing ISO 9000 adopters from adopters of alternative quality assurance systems was turnover (firm size). [Econ-Lit citations: L100, L150, L200] © 2000 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
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A trip to Steaua Bucharest, such as Chelsea experience today, used to be cause for trepidation, and not just because of the spartan hotels and unpalatable food behind the old Iron Curtain. Surviving those privations was the easy part; come the match Steaua were a force to be reckoned with. The Romanian army club won the European Cup in 1986, defeating Terry Venables' Barcelona on penalties, and were only denied in 1989 when they ran into Ruud Gullit's Milan in the final.
Steaua were not the only formidable club in the Soviet bloc. Bucharest rivals Dynamo knocked out the defending champions Hamburg in 1983 while Red Star Belgrade won the competition in 1991, defeating Chris Waddle's Marseilles on penalties in the final. Even Liverpool, the continent's dominant club between 1977 and 1984, when they won a quartet of titles, had cause to be wary of such opposition. They lost just four ties in those eight European Cup seasons. Brian Clough's Nottingham Forest beat them in 1978-79 – the other clubs to defeat them were Dynamo Tbilisi (Soviet Union, now Georgia), CSKA Sofia (Bulgaria) and Widzew Lodz (Poland).
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Though Steaua and Red Star were the only Eastern European clubs to win the European Cup, the forerunner of the Champions League, the region produced semi-finalists on a regular basis for nearly 50 years. This ought not be surprising. The competition came about partly in response to British claims that Wolves were the best club side in the world after they beat the fabled Hungarian army team, Ferenc Puskas's Honved, in 1954.
The European Cup was launched the following year and Red Star made the last four in the competition's second season. More than a dozen other clubs from Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, Poland, Romania and the Soviet Union followed suit.
Not any more. Oligarch wealth enables a few big clubs from Ukraine and Russia to mix it with the elite, but the old Soviet satellite states lack the resources to produce strong teams. Only two made it into the Champions League group stages this season, Steaua and Czech club Viktoria Plzen. Both lost their opening game 3-0, to Schalke 04 and Manchester City respectively. Neither is expected to qualify.
Indeed, no team from the old Soviet satellite states has reached the last four since the competition was rebranded as the Champions League in 1992-93. The last quarter-finalists were Legia Warsaw in 1996 and not since Sparta Prague, in 2004, has any team even reached the knockout stages.
The reasons are not hard to decipher: political change followed by financial inequality. While the Iron Curtain was in place footballers, like other members of society, had no freedom to emigrate so clubs were able to hold on to their best players. When the Berlin Wall fell, triggering a collapse of the East's puppet regimes, footballers were among the first to escape. Steaua's 1989 team quickly broke up as players such as Gheorghe Hagi, Marius Lacatus and Dan Petrescu took advantage of the new opportunities. The club's decline was hastened by it having been favoured by the notorious dictator Nicolae Ceausescu. Defender Miodrag Belodedici had fled while the regime was still in place, to Belgrade where he joined Red Star. He was tried and found guilty of treason in absentia, but the charges were dropped after the Romanian Revolution of Christmas 1989.
This exodus was repeated elsewhere, with the leading players heading for Spain and Italy, England and Germany. The flight has increased as east European clubs, shorn of state support, with limited commercial possibilities and low broadcast revenues, have slipped so far behind the west financially the gap appears unbridgeable. Now players leave while they are merely promising youngsters, not established players on the European stage.
Uefa's European Club Licensing Benchmarking Report lays bare the gulf. In the last financial year for which records are complete (2011), Premier League clubs' average revenue was €134m (£117m). Bundesliga clubs averaged €101m, Spanish and Italian more than €80m. Polish clubs, the wealthiest in the old Soviet satellites, had an average revenue of €6m. That is not only much less than clubs in countries such as Austria (€23m) and Denmark (€13m), it is lower than the average revenue of English League One clubs (€6.3m). Clubs in Romania (€5m) and Czech Republic (€4m) at least earn more than clubs in League Two (€3.5m) but those in Slovakia, Croatia and Hungary do not. Serbian clubs make €1m on average, the same as those in the Irish Republic, Bulgarian clubs even less.
These figures are hardly unexpected, given poor attendances. In Romania, Serbia and Czech Republic only one club averaged more than 10,000 at the gate for domestic league games. Clubs as big as Ferencvaros and Partizan Belgrade only pass 10,000 for derby matches. Poor facilities, suspicion of match-fixing and hooliganism are all factors that keep fans away. Income is also affected by poor sales of merchandise, which is further hampered by the counterfeit economy, and there is very little corporate entertaining.
The future is just as bleak. The advent of Uefa's Financial Fair Play condemns clubs from these countries to second-class status as it rules out the prospect of sugar daddies coming in and investing millions. While Jose Mourinho will be aware there is always the possibility of a club such as Steaua claiming a scalp in a one-off match, the days when such clubs were to be feared are well and truly over.
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Is playing with leaves
Scattering them everywhere
Conjuring winds to blow them around
Putting sparkling acrons in squrills homes
Putting oranging carrots down rabbits holes
Putting wolly coats on robins
Putting young birds in hotter countries
Putting rosy apples in pies
Sewing fruit pips on the ground to grow
Putting flowers into a peaceful sleep
Is playing with leaves
But winter has come
And Autumn dissapears
Leaving no trace
But a small brown leaf
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While saying "Putting" over and over and over is an interesting idea, it is not consistent enough here to be that good. You can replace it with other words and make it better.
Same thing as I have said about your other poems, i.e. capitalization and stanzas (though you do have them here), should be fixed, as well as spelling.
I like autumn, and the imagery here is nice. Keep up the good work.
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Ione and Will wanted their wedding to be bright, fun and homemade. It was also really important to them that all of our friends and family were there so they kept to a strict budget so they could accommodate everyone.
"We met just under seven years ago on Brighton seafront at a club night called Club NME!" the bride began. "I was 18 and he was 23. I was his first girlfriend so we feel like high school sweethearts."
"For the wedding we wanted to combine both my Cuban heritage (I've also lived in Spain) and Will's love of Sussex, where he's lived his whole life. We felt we had lots of little odes to each one. We wanted a village fete type feel and had 120 people from 2pm for our reception. We kept it simple with a vegan paella and a chicken paella with baguettes and some salads that I made to keep costs down. Everyone was so happy with a simple feel to the day, we personally didn't feel like we needed more than one sit down course."


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Seven Haiku's for One
Awaking in the morning
Me, myself and I
No one here to say good-bye
What an awesome day!
Yet I feel so sad
My home is an empty pad
Time for tea, kettle goes on
Only one teabag
Kettle sings a lonely song
I flipped my first pancake
I wanted to share
But sadly, no one was there
My favourite song played
It was time to dance
Just me and an empty space
Putting on a DVD
Buttered popcorn
One person on the settee
Now it's time to go to sleep
Holding Jesus close
Tears streaming down my cheeks
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A life that I share with you
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LOL..just saw my last comment..did I say I was dyslexic? Haiku! You should see my bank account..I swear all the 0's where at on the right!
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New Orleans Ballet Association announces 2012-13 season
The New Orleans Ballet Association announces its 2012-13 Season of Dance American Moves, celebrating American dance pioneers, visionaries and legends.
This season includes Pilobolus, Ballet Hispanico that is teaming up with the Grammy Award-winning Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra, Jessica Lang Dance, Aspen Santa Fe Ballet and legendary Martha Graham Dance Company.
The season kicks off with the gravity-defying dancers of Pilobolus on 8 p.m. Oct. 20 at the Mahalia Jackson Theater.
Continuing our initiative of pairing dance and music, Ballet Hispanico and the Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra bring a Latin dance party to the Mahalia Jackson Theater on Dec. 8, 7:30 p.m.
NOBA and The NOCCA Institute will present the New Orleans debut of Jessica Lang Dance at Fred Lupin Memorial Hall on Jan. 18 and 19 at 8 p.m. and on Jan. 20 at 2 p.m.
Returning to Mahalia Jackson Theater at 8 p.m. on Feb. 23 will be Aspen Santa Fe Ballet.
Closing the season on March 23 at the Mahalia Jackson Theater at 8 p .m is the Martha Graham Dance Company.
NOBA season ticket buyers save up to 20 percent off single ticket price by purchasing a season ticket package. The Grand Plus Series package of all five events ranges from $109 to $445 and the Grand Series package, which includes all four performances at the Mahalia Jackson Theater, ranges from $68 to $425.
The flexible Build-a-Series package allows season ticket holders to design a season package and starts at $51. Discounts are also available for students with a valid ID. Single ticket prices for Pilobolus, Aspen Santa Fe Ballet and Martha Graham Dance Company and Ballet Hispanico are $20-$125. The single ticket price for Jessica Lang Dance is $50.
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Until Tuesday, it was anybody's guess whether or not Sonia would stand. The Gandhi family's traditional constituency of Amethi in Uttar Pradesh stood vacant if she wanted it. Was she merely hoping to give Congress a helpful shove? Was she going to help it avoid an electoral fiasco as a way of protecting her interests? Or was she going to go for broke, become an MP and party president, and make a serious stab at becoming prime minister of the world's second largest nation?
Nobody knew, because the choice was entirely a matter of her own volition. No alliances had to be fumbled together, no backs stabbed, no purges carried out. Sonia Gandhi had merely to arise, and proceed; forwards, backwards or sideways, exactly as she preferred.
For six years her desire had been to remain seated. In May 1991 her husband Rajiv Gandhi, the former prime minister, was assassinated in the southern state of Tamil Nadu, and the next day, as crowds of grief-stricken supporters gathered outside Sonia's house in Delhi, the Congress Working Committee unanimously elected her the party's new president. When their spokesman, Pranab Mukherjee, was asked if Sonia had been consulted, he said, "There is no question of her refusing. She is a party member, and the decision will be communicated to her in due course."
But Sonia did refuse - not once but twice. In retrospect this was the crucial decision of her life, post-Rajiv. By turning down Congress's highest office she demonstrated that she did not intend to become a pawn in an Indian game. Instead she became more like a queen. At first, she was the mute symbol of her party's past glories and gradually fading hopes, the hermit of number 10 Janpath, the sphinx of Indian politics, who received and listened to everybody and kept her own counsel. And now, quite suddenly, when Congress's hopes (and its enemies' fears) of the dynasty had almost dwindled away, her position looks regal indeed. A visitation is announced: half a million people flock to witness it. Wherever she speaks, banners of welcome line the way and her cut-out image stands as big as a block of flats. Party workers line up to touch her feet. Editors struggle for the sake of fair play to keep her picture from dominating the front pages, and fail.
India, and Sonia, have another three weeks of this unreality to get through. But, whatever the result of the election at the end of February, it will merely move to another phase, another level; the dream, the nightmare, will never end.
IF EVER there was a case of greatness - or at least eminence - being thrust upon a person, Sonia Gandhi is it. If the daughter of a provincial Italian building contractor should in some flight of whimsy conceive the idea of becoming the most important woman in India, it's hard to imagine how she could begin to bring it about. Sonia Gandhi, nee Maino, has got there despite often wishing quite virulently that the opposite would happen, by pedalling furiously backwards. In India, where passivity and quiescence have for thousands of years been the dominant principles, her career has been the apotheosis of passivity.
At least, that's how it seems. But the closer that Sonia comes to political power, the more likely it appears that she is not, in fact, merely submitting to her fate. She is taking charge.
She was born in 1946, the daughter of Stefano and Paola Maino, and raised in the small town of Orbassano, outside Turin. Nothing very exciting seems to have happened to her until, 18 years later in 1965, she went to Cambridge to study English as a Foreign Language.
There, as she later wrote, she started frequenting the Varsity, a Greek restaurant and "the only place in Cambridge you could have something close to home food". And it was at the Varsity that she met Rajiv. "As our eyes met for the first time, I could feel my heart pounding ... as far as I was concerned, it was love at first sight..."
She had no idea who he was, and even when she learned about his grandfather, Nehru, who had died the previous year, and his mother, Indira, who was a minister in the government, she was little the wiser. "I had a vague idea that India existed somewhere in the world with its snakes, elephants and jungles, but exactly where it was and what it was really all about, I was not sure."
Within three years, however, in February 1968, they were married. She had arrived in India for the first time the previous month, and was almost immediately pitched into the intricacies - the hand painting, the saris, the garlands - of an Indian wedding ceremony. She also had to come to terms with her adopted family's fame. "Strangest of all," she wrote, "were people's eyes - that gaze of curiosity which followed me everywhere. It was an exasperating experience - the total lack of privacy, the compulsion to constantly check myself and repress my feelings."
Fortunately, she had married fame but not ambition. Rajiv was a beautiful, calm, practical man, a hobbyist in love with his cameras and his hi-fi equipment and his record collection. He seemed innocent of larger concerns. Of Indira's two sons, it was Rajiv's younger brother Sanjay who was being prepared for power. Rajiv had studied mechanical engineering at London's Imperial College as well as at Trinity, Cambridge, but had left both places without a degree. But with marriage to Sonia looming, he decided to become an airline pilot. He returned to India and trained with Air India, and flew with them for 13 happy years. But then in 1980 Sanjay was killed - doing aerobatics in a small plane - and Rajiv was the only person his mother could turn to. Suddenly Rajiv and Sonia's prospects were transformed.
Just as she had shrunk from the family's celebrity, Sonia now resisted this new transformation with all her might. "For the first time in the 15 years that we had known each other," she wrote, "there was tension between Rajiv and me. I fought like a tigress - for him, for us and our children, for the life we had made together ... for our freedom ... I was angry and resentful towards a system which, as I saw it, demanded him as a sacrificial lamb. It would crush him and destroy him - of that I was absolutely certain." But after a long struggle she resigned herself to the course their lives were taking. "He was my Rajiv, we loved each other, and if he felt that he ought to offer his help to his mother, then I would bow to those forces which were now beyond me to fight, and I would go with him ... " Within a year of his brother's death, Rajiv had quit his airline job and entered parliament as the representative of Amethi, the family's "pocket borough". Sonia Gandhi's mysterious journey had begun.
Four years later, following the murderous assault by Indian troops on secessionist guerrillas holed up inside the Sikh Golden Temple in Amritsar, Indira Gandhi was murdered by her Sikh bodyguard and Rajiv was propelled into the premiership. He was prime minister for five years before allegations that he and Sonia had taken millions of dollars in kickbacks from an artillery deal with the Swedish firm Bofors helped lose him an election in 1989. Two years later, during another general-election campaign, Rajiv was pressing the flesh at a vast campaign rally, at a place called Sriperumpudur in Tamil Nadu, when he was murdered by a suicide bomber.
Thrice bereaved - brother-in-law, mother-in-law, husband - now Sonia confronted her fate. In 1991, with a terrible mechanical impulse, Congress tried to thrust her forward to lead them, despite the cruelty and absurdity of the idea. It was then that Sonia learned to say No. You would guess, looking at her face with the formidable thrust of jawline inherited from her father, that she had resources of determination and stubbornness. So it proved. No longer inhibited by the wishes of husband or mother-in-law, Sonia Gandhi was about to give the Congress Party a six-year-long lesson in Italian cussedness.
Sonia refused every attempt to wangle her into political life. She did not run away and bury herself in Orbassano or somewhere. She stayed on at 10 Janpath, the family home near the political heart of New Delhi. She kept busy. She edited the letters exchanged by Indira and Nehru, wrote a coffee-table book about her husband, and ran the Rajiv Gandhi Memorial Foundation. But she gave no interviews - so far she has only given two interviews in her life. She received an endless stream of visitors. Guests of the Indian state routinely paid a call, confirming her stature as the nation's dowager. The Congress Party streamed through her living-room, she made them welcome and smiled and listened and sent them on their way, none the wiser about her thoughts.
Meanwhile Congress began to fall apart. Back in the 1970s, Indira Gandhi had been so insistent that she was to be succeeded by her son Sanjay that many ambitious young politicians left to seek their fortunes elsewhere. Twenty years on, the result was an empty shell of a party: dynasty had been substituted for ideas and vision, and now that the dynasty had failed it was like one of India's vast public-sector factories, full of rusting machinery which no one could remember the point of, watched over by aged officials. In the election of 1996, Congress did worse than at any time in its history, winning only 140 seats.
Congress was finished: that was the conventional view. And its deadly rival the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), the "communalist" party identified with upper-caste Hindu chauvinism, which improved its showing in election after election, seemed on the threshold of a dramatic success. As the largest party in parliament, it formed the new government in May 1996, but collapsed within a fortnight because it failed to make any alliances. Still most people felt it was only an election away from decisive victory. Its veteran leader, Atal Bihari Vajpayee, the party's face of (relatively) sweet reason, is usually regarded as the prime minister in waiting.
Still Sonia sat tight. Then, on 4 December 1997, shorn of the support of Congress that had propped it up, the so-called United Front coalition government of Inder Kumar Gujral collapsed, parliament was dissolved, and new elections were called for February 1998. Would Sonia throw her weight behind Congress? For weeks the speculation raged. The sphinx's jaw remained set, the Mona Lisa's smile unreadable. Then on 29 December she said Yes.
SONIA'S solo electioneering debut was only a partial success. To give them credit, the organisers had only about three days to prepare. With immaculate symbolism, she was to kick off half a mile up the road from the spot where Rajiv was assassinated: the martyred widow, the orphaned child (Priyanka, Sonia's strapping, beetle-browed 25-year-old daughter, came along for the ride), the tragic dynasty, the blood spilled for the motherland, all these excellent cards were to be smacked down on the table together. Madras, 40km east of Sriperumpudur, is a movie town to rival Bombay, and full of gifted poster artists, so the city and suburbs were quickly festooned with lurid paintings of Sonia, Rajiv and Indira.
Unfortunately, Congress's popularity has waned so drastically in this state that getting people to turn up was always going to be a problem. The organisers rounded up those susceptible to a small bribe from the nearby villages and brought them to the sandy yard of the local school in open lorries, like so many head of sheep. The organisers boldly claimed there were 80,000 people present, but the true figure looked closer to 10,000.
Sonia's performance - she spoke in English, after a brief greeting in Tamil - was as wooden and unelectrifying as you would expect from someone making their campaign debut at the age of 51. She waved too much and too frantically (middle-class Indians claimed to be shocked to see her sweating); her speech, explaining her years of private grief, her decision now to put herself forward as a campaigner, and her passionate identification with India, contained nothing controversial. But she was on her way.
Four days later, in the city of Bangalore, she gave almost the same speech, but the effect was different. This time she had the magic of numbers on her side, perhaps 60,000 people, many of them genuine Congress supporters, chanting slogans and straining at the barricades to get closer to the stage. A helicopter dumped 250kg of jasmine and marigold petals on the assembled multitude. And in Sonia's speech there was, for the first time, a note of daring. After clumping through the same topics as before in the same pedestrian manner, she suddenly changed gear.
Bofors, the arms scandal that contributed to Rajiv's defeat in 1989, has never been fully investigated. The general assumption in Delhi is that this has been at the wish of Sonia's family, whose influence has enabled them to keep it under wraps. At Bangalore, Sonia exploded this assumption: she herself, she insisted, was dying to know where the missing money had gone. "Tell us, tell us, tell us!" she cried. "I will be the happiest person if only they name the people responsible. Because on that day my husband will be vindicated. Because it will be proved" - her voice cracked with emotion - "the case was nothing but a vicious attempt to destroy his reputation."
The consensus was that this was an extremely cunning ploy. Whether or not her family did profit from the Bofors deal, it is highly unlikely that more information on the matter can be published before the election. She had seized the issue on which she was most vulnerable by the horns. She had proved - to the alarm of her enemies - that she could dominate the headlines by the force of her own words.
Bangalore was only the start. From there she went on - to Hyderabad and Goa in the south, Orissa in the East, to Rajasthan, Gujarat and Punjab in the west and north - and the numbers continued to build. At almost every rally she threw in something provocative. She expressed deep grief for Operation Blue Star, the attack on the Golden Temple which had been ordered by her mother-in-law. Congress, she said, had been badly to blame for allowing the destruction of the Ayodhya mosque by Hindu extremists five years ago - "If Rajiv had been prime minister," she insisted, "he would stand in front of it and they would have to kill him first. Such was ... his dedication to a secular India." Most startlingly, she identified the thinking of the BJP with that of the killers of Mahatma Gandhi, provoking a furious denial.
The BJP, on a roll before her entry, began to flounder. Sonia Gandhi is proving a difficult person to hit back at. She's never given a press conference. She gives no briefings. Her last interview - with Alexander Chancellor, for the Independent - took place nearly six years ago. She drops her bombs and disappears. It's all most unfair.
It's unfair in other ways, too. The most promising avenue of attack for her enemies, Bofors apart, is that she is a foreigner - "a white-skinned foreigner", as one BJP luminary put it starkly. (She was naturalised as an Indian 13 years ago, when Rajiv became prime minister.) And her background is Roman Catholic, which ought to be grist to the mill of nationalist Hindus.
Yet, frustratingly enough, her critics are finding it hard to strike home. Determined to broaden its appeal, the BJP is desperately diluting its "India for the Hindus" message, so it is precisely the wrong time to be shaking the fist at people of different religions. And while many educated voters can see manifest absurdity in an "Italian housewife", as one woman columnist put it, proposing to lead a nation of 950 million Asians, this seems to be the view of a minority. In one opinion poll after another, Sonia is emerging as the only popular prime ministerial alternative to the BJP's AB Vajpayee. In the most recent poll, Vajpayee was the choice of 44 per cent, Sonia of 25 per cent, while the present prime minister, IK Gujral, was in third place with only 5 per cent.
Because further down the social scale, the absurdity of Sonia as prime minister is less obvious. For India's illiterate masses, their political leaders have generally been remote, exotic, alien figures. The Nehru family was always "wheatish" in complexion, speaking English as their first language, foreign in education and manners. Indira, whose family were Kashmiri Pandits by caste, fell in love with a Gujarati Parsi, Feroze Gandhi, and married him with Nehru's blessing, thus smashing caste taboo and placing her family outside the caste system - tantamount to being foreign.
That Sonia Gandhi hails from the other end of the world doesn't mean much to these voters. She occupies the right place in the right family tree. As a daughter-in-law and a wife she has been tragically bereaved. She is courageous. And she has one other weapon which none of her enemies can do anything about: in the land of skin whiteners, she has the fairest skin in Indian politics.
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Bichir question...
I was thinking of getting a bunch of feeder guppies and putting them in my 75G with my bichir. Any thoughts on that? Would like to see what he would do with a dozen guppies, lol.
Will QT them in a 10G for 3 weeks first to make sure no ick, as the LFS here is notorious for ick. Almost everytime I get fish there, I get ick. I get fish at other places like Petco, and no ick.
I don't see a problem with that, Lone.;) You seem to have planned everything right.:)
I'm also getting a free Rainbow Cichlid next weekend. Well, maybe not free. I have to drive 3 hours to get it, lol. Also getting a free dojo loach as well with it, lol. But that might go to another friend if they are interested still. If not, I'll keep it.
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Good luck.;)
the only problem I see, apart from my own morals, is the poor protein content of guppies.
feeder guppiues as an occasional treat would be ok but as a full time diet could lead to health problems in the future.
That would be so if the guppies were starving. But if well fed right before feeding the bichir, then they would get a decent meal. And that wouldn't be the whole meal either, he'll still get his sinking carnivore pellets as well and shrimp pellets, as well as pieces of frozen shrimp.
Is just like feeding praying mantis or lizards, if you feed the food with high quality food then their nutrition value is better. I has seen where a lot of breeders of lizards are going away from using calcium powder and feeding the "food" with high value calcium food because the suppliments were causing serious defects.
Shouldn't be a problem at all. If you get a good m/f ratio then those dozen could last you for some time.
Your guppies will be gone in no time ! :lol: i added 50 guppies next mornign all gone :twisted:
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My daughter turns 1 in about 6 weeks!
Just wanting ideas of what to do for her birthday party?
Hey !
My daughter turns 1 in about 6 weeks!
Just wanting ideas of what to do for her birthday party?
So does my DS! I've been looking at the parties on babyology.com for inspiration.
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Ds turns 1 in just over 7 weeks. We are doing a monkey themed party at home with family & friends.
The monkey theme is just some basic decorations, with green & yellows for a color scheme
I figure ds is most comfortable at home, and that way when he gets too overwhelmed and tired he can go to bed as normal.
There will be a mix of kids & adults, we are doing a ball pit (he already has, just need more balls) and a bubble machine. Otherwise just have some of his toys out.
I think if you decide who you want there, then you can figure out if you can have it at home or elsewhere. Then decide on time to fit in with your baby - food is dictated by what time of day it is. And if you choose a theme - a character or color scheme - it makes it easy to find decor etc.
There are so many ideas on pinterest!!
Thank you so much for your replies!
I'm gonna have it at home maybe have a BBQ etc!
Just dont know what to do to entertain the other kids that will be coming I was going to hire a jumping castle but that's a bit too expensive lol!!
Also I'm really stuck on what I could buy her as a present from us (she already has so many toys lol) any ideas?
What about a keepsake bracelet? Or a charm bracelet you can add to every year. We are giving ds a jumpolene - like a little inflatable trampoline.. Coz he's obsessed with jumping at the moment!!
I had DS first birthday in a park , most of my friends kids are older so I had about 7 (7-10 year olds) so we did traditional party games like pass the parcel, egg and spoon race, pin the tail and because it was a pirate party a treasure hunt, the funniest thing was a lot of DH mates don't yet have kids so I also did the same games but made all the dads/guys do then while the kids cheered them on! ( very funny watching 20 and 30 something guys doing an egg and spoon race)
I went to town on all the pirate party stuff ( eBay and the USA have great party things) plus got a personalised banner and favor boxes with his photo on them
For his present we bought DS a star ( star registry.com.au) you can name it after your DD and you get a map showing where your star is to frame
We had DSs party in a park - we had a jumping castle and animal farm. We had about 20 kids 2+ coming and these kept them entertained the whole time! Wasn't too expensive and definitely worth it!
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Hi pose, and a warm welcome to fishforum.com.
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This paper provides an empirical investigation of the cohesion versus growth tradeoff on European regions at a fine geographical disaggregation level. We use data on gdp per capita at the NUTS3 level for 1980-2000 to estimate the influence of income dispersion within NUTS1 on their economic growth. We analyze the existence of the tradeoff using Redding and Venables'(2004) approach. From a simple new economic geography model in which we add a technological externality in order to allow for local growth, we derive an estimable equation linking the level of factor prices in a region to the level of inequalities inside that region, as well as the region's access to markets. Our results show a positive relation between the gdp per capita growth rate of a region and the change in the level of inequalities inside the region. Finally, an increase in market potential, as expected, has an unambiguous positive impact on local growth.
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The benefits bill keeps on rising - but a dividing line between the two main parties on how to bring it down is finally emerging.
Rachel Reeves' speech today draws on House of Commons Library analysis showing that the number of working people claiming housing benefit is set to double between 2010 and 2019. Wages are simply not keeping up with rental prices: a job is no longer a guarantee that one can keep a roof over one's head.
In response to the spiralling housing benefit bill, the government has opted for a "supply-side" approach – cutting off the supply of housing benefit by making eligibility for it stricter, and the amount claimants receive less generous.
The flaws with such a policy are obvious. People have less money to pay their rent, but their rents remain the same. Yes, it reduces the housing benefit bill – but the price is increased hardship, arrears, evictions, homelessness. Even the Government's favoured justification for such measures – it will encourage people into work – doesn't ring true in the face of the explosion in claimants who are already working.
Are we honestly going to suggest that every working person claiming housing benefit just needs to "work more" or "work harder"?
Most importantly, the amount one can salami-slice off the benefits bill in this way is limited. In order to make substantial, sustained reductions to the housing benefit spending – which at 14 per cent of the benefits bill is, pensions aside, our biggest single area of benefit spending – is to look at the root causes of demand for housing benefit, rather than fiddling with supply.
When considering it like this, it's clear we have two problems: massively inflated rents, as a result of our failure to build barely half of the housing we need to meet population growth year on year; and wages which do not meet the cost of living.
So it's a huge relief to see that Labour seems to have struck upon this demand-side response to welfare spending. Reeves's promise to build more homes and raise the National Minimum Wage tackle both the housing and wage problems head on, reducing housing benefit "upstream" (i.e. preventing people from needing it) rather than cutting off supply once people do.
Of course, the big question is how one might go about these bold but indisputably necessary moves.
In my recent Demos Quarterly essay I suggest a range of options. To build more houses, I moot setting a target for local authorities to use at least 75 per cent of lending allocation to build new homes. This can be followed up with with compulsory selling off of unused NHS and MOD land and taking a long, hard look at green belt – to separate the 'green and pleasant land' from the inaccessible bits of waste ground – in order to protect the former and free up the owners of the latter to sell to housing developers.
For wages, I point out that the minimum wage would have to increase from £6.31 to a whopping £8.21 an hour to ensure full-time workers (without children) earn £16,000 a year before tax and free themselves of needing state support.
Rather than a blanket increase, a lighter touch approach would be to give employers more 'skin in the game' when it came to the wages they paid. For example, companies paying anything between the national minimum wage and the Living Wage, with high internal wage ratios (where executives earn, say, 100 times their frontline workers), should be made to contribute towards the government's tax credit bill in the form of a flat-rate, per person levy.
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These moves might seem controversial, unpopular in some quarters – but could they be any more unpopular than the Bedroom Tax, or other 'supply side' welfare policies the current government has introduced?
At least the benefit of these 'demand side' measures is that they would work in the long-term and generate a range of economic stimuli on the side. If Labour badged its welfare reform agenda in the run up to the election not as 'tough on benefits', but as 'tough on the causes of benefits' – it would be on to a real winner. Reeves' speech today could be the first step.
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Term enumerations are always ordered by Term.compareTo(). Each term in * the enumeration is greater than all that precede it. */ public final class FuzzyTermEnum extends FilteredTermEnum { /* This should be somewhere around the average long word. * If it is longer, we waste time and space. If it is shorter, we waste a * little bit of time growing the array as we encounter longer words. */ private static final int TYPICAL_LONGEST_WORD_IN_INDEX = 19; /* Allows us save time required to create a new array * everytime similarity is called. These are slices that * will be reused during dynamic programming hand-over-hand * style. They get resized, if necessary, by growDistanceArrays(int). */ private int[] d0; private int[] d1; private float similarity; private boolean endEnum = false; private Term searchTerm = null; private final String field; private final String text; private final String prefix; private final float minimumSimilarity; private final float scale_factor; /** * Creates a FuzzyTermEnum with an empty prefix and a minSimilarity of 0.5f. *
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Similarity returns a number that is 1.0f or less (including negative numbers) * based on how similar the Term is compared to a target term. It returns * exactly 0.0f when *
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* 1 - (editDistance / length)* where length is the length of the shortest term (text or target) including a * prefix that are identical and editDistance is the Levenshtein distance for * the two words. * *
Embedded within this algorithm is a fail-fast Levenshtein distance * algorithm. The fail-fast algorithm differs from the standard Levenshtein * distance algorithm in that it is aborted if it is discovered that the * mimimum distance between the words is greater than some threshold. * *
To calculate the maximum distance threshold we use the following formula: *
* (1 - minimumSimilarity) * length* where length is the shortest term including any prefix that is not part of the * similarity comparision. This formula was derived by solving for what maximum value * of distance returns false for the following statements: *
* similarity = 1 - ((float)distance / (float) (prefixLength + Math.min(textlen, targetlen))); * return (similarity > minimumSimilarity);* where distance is the Levenshtein distance for the two words. * *
Levenshtein distance (also known as edit distance) is a measure of similiarity * between two strings where the distance is measured as the number of character * deletions, insertions or substitutions required to transform one string to * the other string. * @param target the target word or phrase * @return the similarity, 0.0 or less indicates that it matches less than the required * threshold and 1.0 indicates that the text and target are identical */ private synchronized final float similarity(final String target) { final int m = target.length(); final int n = text.length(); if (n == 0) { //we don't have anything to compare. That means if we just add //the letters for m we get the new word return prefix.length() == 0 ? 0.0f : 1.0f - ((float) m / prefix.length()); } if (m == 0) { return prefix.length() == 0 ? 0.0f : 1.0f - ((float) n / prefix.length()); } final int maxDistance = calculateMaxDistance(m); if (maxDistance < Math.abs(m-n)) { //just adding the characters of m to n or vice-versa results in //too many edits //for example "pre" length is 3 and "prefixes" length is 8. We can see that //given this optimal circumstance, the edit distance cannot be less than 5. //which is 8-3 or more precisesly Math.abs(3-8). //if our maximum edit distance is 4, then we can discard this word //without looking at it. return 0.0f; } //let's make sure we have enough room in our array to do the distance calculations. if (d0.length <= m) { growDistanceArrays(m); } int[] dLast = d0; // set local vars for efficiency ~ the old d[i-1] int[] dCurrent = d1; // ~ the old d[i] for (int j = 0; j <= m; j++) dCurrent[j] = j; for (int i = 0; i < n; ) { final char s_i = text.charAt(i); int[] dTemp = dLast; dLast = dCurrent; // previously: d[i-i] dCurrent = dTemp; // previously: d[i] boolean prune = (dCurrent[0] = ++i) > maxDistance; // true if d[i][0] is too large for (int j = 0; j < m; j++) { dCurrent[j+1] = (s_i == target.charAt(j)) ? min(dLast[j+1]+1, dCurrent[j]+1, dLast[j]) : min(dLast[j+1], dCurrent[j], dLast[j])+1; if (prune && dCurrent[j+1] <= maxDistance) prune = false; } // (prune==false) iff (dCurrent[j] < maxDistance) for some j if (prune) { return 0.0f; } } // this will return less than 0.0 when the edit distance is // greater than the number of characters in the shorter word. // but this was the formula that was previously used in FuzzyTermEnum, // so it has not been changed (even though minimumSimilarity must be // greater than 0.0) return 1.0F - dCurrent[m]/(float)(prefix.length() + Math.min(n,m)); } /** * Grow the second dimension of the array slices, so that we can * calculate the Levenshtein difference. */ private void growDistanceArrays(int m) { d0 = new int[m+1]; d1 = new int[m+1]; } private int calculateMaxDistance(int m) { return (int) ((1-minimumSimilarity) * (Math.min(text.length(), m) + prefix.length())); } /* This is redundant public void close() throws IOException { super.close(); //call super.close() and let the garbage collector do its work. } */ }


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Lumina's Vice President for Program Development Jim Applegate addressed the trustees of the Ohio Board of Regents at the Complete College Ohio Conference at Columbus State Community College on November 13, 2012.Continue Reading


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