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Everybody's pregnant.
Following news that Hayden Panettiere, Rachel Bilson, Lake Bell and Kourtney Kardashian are all expecting, "Now and Then" star Gaby Hoffmann is the latest to join the club: The actress is pregnant with her first child.
Hoffmann, 32, showed off her baby bump at a screening of her new film, "Obvious Child," in Los Angeles on Wednesday, reports People.
She was also spotted trading parenting tips with Busy Phillips.
"Gaby was beaming from ear to ear and kept rubbing her belly," says an onlooker. "They were chatting and looking over baby pics."

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Human waste could power a lunar space mission (Day 227)
9th January 2015
You may remember that I made a few suggestions in my festive blog, 'Can chemical engineers save Santa?'. One of my suggestions was to process the reindeer's poo in order to produce biogas for fuel to help Santa travel around the globe to deliver presents.
But processing waste to biogas for fuel may not be limited to just our planet. Researchers at the University of Florida have been working towards the design of an anaerobic digester that can be used on the moon to power a rocket - this rocket would return astronauts back to earth.
NASA is planning to construct a lunar station over a period of five years between 2019 and 2024 with four crew members. So Pratap C. Pullammandappallil, associate professor of agricultural and biological engineering at the University of Florida and author of the study, has conducted research into optimising technologies for waste digestion.
Based on the premise that there will be four crew members present on the lunar base, and using chemically simulated food waste and packaging, the study calculated that a year's worth of the crews' waste could provide around 23 per cent of the methane required as fuel for the journey home.
Pullammandappallil, who studied chemical engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology, published his findings in the Advances in Space Research journal.
Pullammandappallil added that: "59 per cent of methane would be available from carbon dioxide produced by the digester, and from life-support systems so that a total of 82 per cent of fuel needed for lunar ascent could be produced from waste products."
This could mean that any excess weight can be removed right from the outset i.e. lift off from Earth.
But in terms of the technological uptake currently being quite small, Pullammandappallil stated: "One of the reasons is the lack of appropriate digester vessel designs for certain types of wastes."
It's clear to be seen that using human and food waste in anaerobic digesters to produce biogas could provide fuel solutions here on earth as well as up in space.
And this was certainly the case when news of the UK's first 'poo bus' hit the headlines. The bus in question is called "Bio-Bus", and it transports passengers on its route between Bath and Bristol Airport with biomethane gas as its fuel.
The human and food waste used to produce the gas is processed at Bristol sewage treatment works, run by GENeco (a subsidiary of Wessex Water). And one tank of gas can provide fuel for up to 186 miles of travel, and is equivalent to the amount of biomethane gas processed from the annual waste produced by five people.
This 'poo bus' is a way of providing sustainable fuel for public transport, while improving urban air quality.
So there you have it, poo just might be the fuel of the future, both in space and time!


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St. Catherine of Siena
In preparation for the feast of St. Catherine of Siena, we will post a series of 8 brief videos - one each day, leaving up to April 29th, Catherine's feast.
We hope that you will view them and be inspired!
Here is the link of the first one: www.dsiop.org/news/2020/make-hope-contagious/


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I'm not a fan of beauty pageants but this time around I find the Q&A portion of Miss Universe very interesting. I want to focus on the question given to Miss Philippines Shamcey Supsup and her answer.
Here is a transcript of the question from Vivica Fox and Shamcey's answer:
Vivica Fox: "Would you change your religious beliefs to marry the person you love? Why and why not?"
Miss Philippines: "If I had to change my religious beliefs, I will not marry the person that I love because the first person that I love is God, who created me. And I have my faith, my principles, and this is what makes (stet) me who I am. And if that person loves me, he should love my God too."
Shamsey gave a very brave answer, knowing that perhaps most of her judges belong to the liberal mindset of the West where a person's self-fulfillment takes precedence over anything, even over God.
It was a difficult question and no answer will please everyone in the crowd. This is generally true when we start talking about religion. But I affirm Shamcey because she moved from the man-made institution to focus on the heart of every faith-system, God.
And in her case, I have a feeling (this also comes from testimonies of Shamsey's friends and media interviews of people close to her) that the God she was referring to was the God of the Bible. It just saddens me that she may have yielded to ecumenical pressure by not specifying the God she was referring to.
Despite, this, however, I find her stand very bold as it spelled out her life's priorities. How many people can say to the world that God is number one in their life? Though it's difficult to gauge the veracity of Shamcey's answer, I think the fact that she dared to answer the way she did before an unbelieving world should be taken into account.
After all, she could have chosen to be inclusive by saying-- like the universalists --that all religions lead to the same God, so changing one's religion is a non-issue. But she did not choose this path, and instead, stood on the exclusivity of her belief and faith, which she said defined who she was.
But I want to take this discussion further. I find it fitting to clarify that Biblical Christianity is not really about religion. This will sound cliche for believers but I'll say it nonetheless, "It's about relationship."
In a way, one's religious background doesn't really matter when he or she's confronted by Jesus' Gospel of grace. God will not ask, "What is your religion?" before deciding whether or not you enter heaven. Instead, He'll inquire in the book of life if you belong to those whose lives were surrendered by grace through faith in Jesus Christ.
Yes, there is truly exclusivity in the Christian faith, one that makes other belief systems cry out, "Legalism!" But when you try and study Biblical Christianity from the Scriptures firsthand, you will see that it is the most reasonable belief system.
It tells us that God, in His love and mercy, sent His one and only Son, the man-God Jesus, to fulfill what we cannot do on our own-- paying for our sins for our salvation. Upon His completion of this great task, a way was opened for everyone to have a personal relationship with God. This relationship is by grace through faith in Jesus alone, not by good works.
But faith is not just head knowledge, but a total surrender of the person's life, a turning away from sin through repentance and a yielding of the self to the One True God by faith.
I would have loved it if Shamcey was able to include these words in her answer. :)


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- February 9, 2012 at 17:02
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- February 10, 2012 at 14:44
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- February 13, 2012 at 20:17
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- February 15, 2012 at 18:18
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- February 18, 2012 at 18:05
How do you know if you have insomnia? I only get about 4-5 hrs of sleep at night, I wake up a lot, but I don't feel overly tired. ONly sometimes. Wondering if I should give these a try?
- March 7, 2012 at 21:28
You probably don't feel overtired because your body is used to getting that little sleep and you have adapted. Don't kid yourself though. In order for your body to function properly at a cellular level and fight of diseases and be healthy you need to be getting adequat sleep and 4 hrs is not adequat.
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- February 20, 2012 at 21:50
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- February 29, 2012 at 18:15
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I am wondering if there is a pain killer combined with this at all? I have terrible pain which keeps me up most nights I am looking for something to help me sleep. I often take tylenol or advil before bed but somehow it's just not helping any more. Any information is greatly appreciated.
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- March 14, 2012 at 11:07
Thank you. I take the regular Tylenol but it doesn't do a heck of a lot at this point. I will try the tylenol Pm!
- March 15, 2012 at 19:06
Going thru a bad divorce. Can't eat, can't sleep, have lost 15 lbs in one month and I have huge bags under my eyes. I feel and look like hell. Looking for something to help me sleep! does this really work?
- March 19, 2012 at 12:55
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"Pet" in a Sentence (with Audio)
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pet (n): an animal that is kept in the home as a companion and treated kindly
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I have been privy to viewing (from near and far) many successful entrepreneurial businesses over the last 20 years. I have always been fascinated by how one person (or a small group of people) can create an amazing business out of nothing. It takes a certain type of individual to have the motivation, drive and skills to be a successful entrepreneur.
I have also seen many entrepreneurial companies reach a ceiling on their growth potential. The management structure and style that has made them the success they have become can no longer support continued growth without a radical change in how the company is run.
This inflection point is where it can continue its growth and success.
Or it can all fall apart.
It is at this time that the Entrepreneurial CEO, driven by his or her own logic or by outside forces (usually external investors), understands that he or she needs to hire a Real CFO.
I have been called in to situations like this to help with the CFO Search. The biggest challenge CEOs face at this inflection point is emotional, not logical.
A recent article by Alix Stuart in CFO.com called How to Avoid Power-Hungry Bosses discusses this issue, and provides a 7 point check list on how to avoid a "Control Freak CEO."
From my vantage point, the challenge for CFOs as they assess new and exciting opportunities is more than just avoiding difficult situations. The challenge is: How does a new CFO "make it work" with an Entrepreneurial CEO on the cusp of major change?
In essence, the company needs to be ready for a Real CFO. For an outside CFO candidate on the verge of accepting an offer from a growing company, this is difficult to assess.
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At the height of the presidential primary season in March, about 30 activists gathered at St. Louis' Peabody Opera House to protest a Donald Trump campaign rally there. One of the activists, Melissa McKinnies, says that even before the Republican candidate took the stage, his supporters were chanting, "Build a wall! U.S.A! Build a wall! U.S.A!"
McKinnies, a 40-year-old Black mother of three who was a consistent fixture at the protests in Ferguson following Michael Brown's death, was among 20 Black and Latino protesters stationed on the ground floor trying to be heard above the din. "Stop the hate!" they yelled. "Stop the hate!" In the balcony, 10 or so White protesters rolled out an anti-Trump banner. At one point, a handful of White allies created a human shield around the people of color on the ground floor. Still, McKinnies was terrified.
"I sit there, and the more I listen, the more afraid I am because they are screaming and you hear the word 'nigger' in there like crazy—like it's an ordinary, everyday word. They are pointing their fingers and you see fists and folks are yelling things like,'U.S.A.!' and 'Get out of here, nigger!'"
After the banner was unfurled, groups of police moved to eject the protesters from the balcony and the ground floor. "We got picked up, slammed, dragged out of the building and eventually taken to the police station," McKinnies says.
Of the 32 anti-Trump activists police removed, 31 received summonses for disturbing the peace. But McKinnies, a former member of Ferguson grassroots activist group Lost Voices, was slapped with a second-degree robbery charge that had nothing to do with the rally. The charge—greatly inflated—was connected to a 2014 nonviolent exchange at a church meeting that McKinnies had with a man who wouldn't stop recording the private gathering.
McKinnies is now facing a maximum sentence of 17 years in prison.
With nearly two decades in prison hanging over her head, McKinnies has joined the ranks of embattled activists who emerged organically as local leaders of the broader movement for Black lives. They lack the notoriety and resources of famous arrestees such as Cornel West, yet they are well known to their local police departments. A look at circumstances surrounding some of their felony arrests suggest either outlandish coincidences or that they are being targeted by the police from whom they're demanding justice.
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In June, Black Lives Matter–Pasadena founder Jasmine Richards was convicted of a charge that, until recently, was called "felony lynching" for pulling a Black woman accused of stealing a meal away from police. She was demonstrating with her chapter in La Pintoresca Park when she saw the woman being arrested. Richards faced up to four years in prison. She was sentenced to 90 days in jail with 18 served. She will be on probation for three years and must take one year of anger management training. {{pullquote:2:left}}
In December 2015, in Baltimore, the U.S. Attorney's office charged 22-year-old Gregory Butler Jr. with aiding and abetting arson and obstruction of firefighters during a civil disorder after he allegedly stepped on, then punctured, a fire hose during a Freddie Gray protest. The charges came with mandatory minimums of 20 and five years, respectively. In an exchange for the guilty plea he made earlier this month, authorities dropped the arson charge, but he could still serve five years in prison. Butler, who uses the name Greg Baly but is often identified by media as Greg Bailey, is set for sentencing in September.
Also in Baltimore, Allen Bullock, a friend of Gray, agreed to a plea deal that includes a 12-year prison sentence with all but six months suspended for smashing the windshield of a police car during a protest. A photo of 18-year-old Bullock holding an orange traffic cone while standing atop the car has become synonymous with the April 27, 2015, Baltimore uprising. His bail was initially set at $500,000.
In 2015, Brittany Ferrell, a founding member of Ferguson's Millennial Activists United, was charged with first-degree property damage for kicking an SUV that a civilian drove through a line of protesters blocking Interstate 70 on the one-year anniversary of the Mike Brown Rebellion. Alongside activists Ashley Yates, Johnetta Elzie, Tef Poe and Tory Russell, Farrell emerged as an early voice of clarity, inspiring the national resistance now known as The Movement for Black Lives. If convicted, Farrell could be sentenced to four years in prison. She appeared in court in July and wrote on Facebook that her case had been assigned to new judge for the third time, her trial rescheduled for the fifth time and that her next court date is "sometime in September."
What all of these activists have in common is that they are first-time offenders facing serious charges—and they have all been on the frontlines of direct-action protests in their own communities.
Some in the Ferguson and St. Louis activist community refer to Josh Williams as one of the first of a new generation of Black political prisoners.
In December 2015, then-19-year-old activist was sentenced to eight years in prison for an arson he pleaded guilty to committing while protesting the police killing of Antonio Martin. The fire was allegedly set outside a convenience store, but the building never caught fire.
"They are making an example out of [Williams], not only because he was a protester, but because of who he was—someone who had been on the front pages of magazines," says Keith Rose, a member of the National Lawyers Guild based in the St. Louis. "The New York Times, in a front-page story, had called him a leader of the Ferguson protests. [The police] didn't like him. They didn't like his tactics. He embodied resistance in a way that few people do and so they targeted him."
When a Church Meeting Morphs Into a Robbery Charge
The disturbing story of McKinnies' felony charge began in November 2014 at Greater St. Mark's Church in Ferguson, a few days before St. Louis County prosecutor Robert McCulloch announced that a grand jury would not bring charges against Brown's killer.
McKinnies was among 30 to 40 activists from various organizations who had been invited to discuss their role as peacekeepers. "We were having a safety meeting to talk about what to expect because we were supposed to be out there to keep the peace," she recalls. "But before the meeting started, we were told that we were not supposed to record or to have any recording device." {{pullquote:1:right}}
A man who McKinnies says "just looked out of place" sat in the pew behind her. "I was going to welcome him and ask him his name, [but I saw] that he was recording. So I said 'Listen, I know you just got in, but we can't record.' Two minutes later, I look back and he was still recording."
McKinnies says she then told a woman who had accompanied the man, whom police and St. Louis media have identified as 22 year-old Chris Schaefer, that recording wasn't allowed. The woman reiterated the rule to Schaefer, but he continued to record. So McKinnies changed seats, moving further to the front. "Two minutes later, I turn around and this young man is sitting directly behind me again and he's recording! So I stood up, and pointed back to him and said, 'He's recording!'"
Almost immediately, someone McKinnies says she'd never seen before or since threw Schaefer across the room. "I was in disbelief," she recalls. "I looked at my organization brother and said, 'We need to get everybody out of here.' So we proceed to the door. By that time, there is a big scuffle outside. I turned around and went back inside because I didn't want to be in the middle of it."
McKinnies says that after she finally exited the church she encountered a group of people who had taken Schaefer's cell phone. They were debating about what to do with it and she intervened: "I snatched the phone from them and told my boyfriend, 'Let's go give this guy his phone back and get out of here.' Unable to find Schaefer, McKinnies says she gave the phone to the woman who accompanied him to the church.
"That's what he recorded his hospital interview with," says McKinnies about the cell phone Schaefer used to record himself in a hospital bed. "{{pullquote}}The following week, I hear about this incident on the news. Before you know it, I'm hearing that I'm wanted for second-degree felony robbery.{{/pullquote}}" Police investigators accused five members of Lost Voices of attacking Shafer with the intent of stealing his iPhone and charger. McKinnies and three other members were charged with second-degree robbery.
"It's retaliation," legal observer Rose says of McKinnnies' felony charge. "Police don't like the Lost Voices because the group brought so much national attention to Ferguson. They are using this random assault charge that didn't really happen the way they say it happened and definitely didn't involve her."
Lost Voices sparked the ire of local authorities by camping outside 24 hours a day and holding almost daily protests that included shutting down traffic on West Florissant Avenue, not far from where officer Darren Wilson killed Brown. McKinnies' trial is scheduled to begin on September 15. Colorlines' calls to St. Louis County police were not returned.
The Dangerous Irony of Being a Local Activist
So far, McKinnies' case has drawn very little media attention or national discussion. She's not a member of a national organization or clergy network and she lacks the name recognition of a DeRay Mckesson, the Teach for America administrator from Baltimore who came into prominence for his prodigious use of social media in cities rocked by racialized police violence. Large national organizations, clergy groups in particular, tend to have legal and communications support in place before members are arrested at protests. With those resources, people who stage civil disobedience actions are generally released from jail within hours without being charged.
Richards, the Black Lives Matter–Pasadena founder who faced the bizarre lynching charge, had national support from the Black Lives Matter (BLM) network. Leaders such as Patrisse Cullors spoke out about the injustice and irony of a Black woman facing serious time for a charge intended to stop White mobs from abducting Blacks they wanted to lynch from police stations. Richards' case also received mainstream media attention, likely due to its novelty, and that attention probably helped her get a sentence of 90 days in jail instead of four years in prison. Colorlines' calls to the Pasadena Police Department were not returned. {{pullquote:3:left}}
Melina Abdullah, a BLM organizer and chair of Pan African Studies at California State University, L.A., says that local police are using arrests and felony charges to contain a resistance movement pushing to disarm, defund and abolish their departments. "I saw it happen several times; I was present for the targeting," she says, recalling the way police officers watched and followed Richards over the last several years as they organized actions.
Abdullah says that mass arrests are another tactic police use to oppose the overall movement for Black lives and people affiliated with BLM in particular. "{{pullquote}}It is clear that the arrests are a police effort to suck us for our resources. Every time it happens, we spend money, time and energy getting people out of jail instead of focusing on ending police violence.{{/pullquote}}"
Stories have emerged from Ferguson and Baltimore about non-protesters who got caught up in waves of arrests while doing everyday things like getting off the bus or walking out of the laundromat. These people weren't connected to activist networks and some lacked friends and family to keep tabs on their whereabouts.
Ferguson has a comprehensive network of jail support and legal assistance made up of volunteers from groups including Organization for Black Struggle, Missourians Organizing for Reform and Empowerment, National Lawyers Guild, ArchCity Defenders and Saint Louis University School of Law Legal Clinics. Despite these activists' best intentions, unknown numbers of people have slipped through the cracks and are still sitting in jail, says Rose. Also forgotten, according to Rose, are those charged with looting-related crimes. "{{pullquote}}During the protests, people also received felony charges for burglary, breaking and entering and possession of stolen goods. They have been totally ignored.{{/pullquote}}"
Given the pattern of aggressive policing in Black, Latino and Native communities and the law enforcement surveillance of Middle Eastern and South Asian people, it is not a leap to question these charges.
Mass Arrests, High Bail and Special Plea Deals as Deterrents
In Baltimore, when protests erupted following Gray's funeral in April 2015, police arrested more than 200 people over several days. Maryland law requires police to charge arrestees within 24 hours or release them. But Gov. Larry Hogan signed an executive order to keep arrestees in custody for an additional day without charges. Nearly 100 people were released after 48 hours with no charges because officers either could not recall who they'd arrested or why they arrested them.
TJ Smith, chief spokesperson for the Baltimore Police Department, says his colleagues now try to avoid arresting people. "I can't speak for other departments, but in Baltimore we have certainly changed the way that we respond. We are going to help facilitate the protests, except when people break the law. When people break the law, we are going to affect arrests. But arrests are definitely our last option."
How people behave at protests should go both ways, Smith says. "We have had dozens and dozens of protests in Baltimore during the last year where no arrests were made. But it's a two way street. {{pullquote}}We have to keep a line of communication open with protesters, and we have to be clear that criminal activity is not protesting. And our position moving forward is that we are going to treat a riot like a riot and a protest like a protest. And what happened on April 27, 2015, was a riot, not simply acts of civil disobedience.{{/pullquote}}"
When asked about the 65 arrests made on July 17 when protesters blocked interstate 83, he categorized the action as criminal. "Some people think they are going to do whatever they want to do, and things like blocking a highway [are] a crime. That promotes a significant safety risk, and that is not something that we are going to accept. So arrests were made." {{pullquote:4:right}}
Baton Rouge is one of the latest hotspots for mass arrests. During protests that began four days after officer Blane Salamoni fatally shot Alton Sterling—and two days after Micah Xavier Johnson allegedly killed five Dallas cops—officers in Baton Rouge arrested some 185 people for charges such as obstructing a highway of commerce and failure to obey officers.
Arthur "Silky Slim" Reed, founder of Stop the Killing Inc., a local group helping to lead nonviolent demonstrations in response to Sterling's killing, says these mass arrests are not designed for public safety.
"The goal is to discourage the protests," says Reed, a family friend of Sterling who himself was arrested on July 9 for disturbing the peace and "contributing to the delinquency of a minor"—a creative term police used to describe his presence among young protesters. "{{pullquote}}It's not about responding to lawbreakers. These are BS charges.{{/pullquote}}"
Reed says that police and officials are also sending a message to people who come from out of town to join protests. "Their message to out-of-town folks is, 'If you come here, we will show you how we handle business in the hardcore Confederacy.'"
According to Stop the Killing Inc. and other activist organizations on the ground in Baton Rouge, protesters there had bonds set between $300 to $500. But many of those charged with rioting and disorderly conduct in Baltimore had bail set at $10,000 or more. Bonds that high tend to be out of reach of most people who live in the very communities protesting racialized police violence. This means that neighborhood and politically unaffiliated protesters are essentially being disappeared from the streets.
Wyndal Gordon, the attorney represending Baltimore's Bullock and Butler, says over-charging people, is customary, but it reached a fever pitch during the Gray protests. Bullock, for instance, was charged with rioting, malicious destruction of property, disorderly conduct several other infractions. "It was much more heavy handed during the Freddie Gray protests, and those charges had a chilling effect," says Gordon.
The bulk of the arrests related to The Movement for Black Lives protests in Baltimore, Boston, Los Angeles, Cleveland and elsewhere are for city-ordinance violations—misdemeanor charges for crimes like disturbing the peace, rioting, blocking a highway and disobeying a peace officer. {{pullquote:5:left}}
In Ferguson, some protesters arrested for misdemeanors were offered Suspended Imposition of Sentence (SIS) plea deals, an option to seemingly put the matter behind them with the least path of resistance.
But Ferguson activists tell me that by agreeing to an SIS, they essentially signed on for a probationary period. If arrested again, they would be automatically sentenced for the earlier crime. They believe that these arrests and plea deals were used to deter continued organizing—not only because the protesters who signed them were aware of the consequences that another arrest would bring, but because the police learned the names of those who signed them.
Can't Stop, Won't Stop
Of course, such tactics make it more difficult for people to exercise their Constitutional rights. But like various police actions in the Broken Windows/stop-and-frisk era, these approaches anticipate protester strategy and skirt along the border of civil rights violations for as long as it takes for activists to gather the financial and legal resources they need, including the support of attorneys who are able to move challenges through the legal system.
Ironically, few things have done more to politicize the current generation of activists than policing. Add to that rampant misdemeanor charges for protesters and felony cases against local activists like McKinnies, and many activists are doubling down on their work. "A lot of people ask me if I am going to back down a little bit now," she says. "Hell no! Because that would be saying I give up on my babies, my grandson. Because Mike Brown could have been one of mine."
Read the companion piece,"How to Prepare Yourself for a Protest—and What to Do If You End Up in Cuffs," for tips on how to handle an arrest.
Bakari Kitwana is the executive director of Rap Sessions, which is currently touring the nation leading town hall discussions on the theme "Election 2016: Reform or Revolution?" He is the author of the forthcoming "Hip-Hop Activism in the Obama Era."


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Let me begin to bring this short series of blogs on stress to a close, with an attempt to describe a rationale or underlying strategy for what it is, that together, we have been attempting in these blogs to achieve. Presumably, we have all, as children, experienced the pleasures and spills of a seesaw. Sometimes when – say – one is deploying make-shift equipment; for example, a segment of tree trunk or a barrel and a long plank; it becomes possible to accommodate and keep in balance, widely varying weights at either end. An example would be where two children on one end and only one (same-sized child) on the other, are brought into balance by changing the position of the segment of tree trunk or barrel (fulcrum) from centre, to off-centre of the plank. In simple terms, we attempt to redistribute the weight at either end by adjusting the position of the fulcrum.
Thus, translated into terms of human endeavour; additional pressures in life; i.e. illness in one's self or affecting a family member/close friend'; redundancy or some other form of significant change in a negative direction, may also be elevated, (more often than not, without the remotest thought about it in such terms), at least to some extent. By using that same simple principal of leverage illustrated in the above, we find it possible to bring about significant change of a favourable nature. This approach to the self-management of such need is by no means new or difficult to apprehend or apply. Indeed, it is 'as old as the hills'.
Time and again it has proved itself to be a tried and tested way of facing up to the reality of a need to increase the capacity and ability to cope and – perhaps above all – to change the perception of it, all in a more favourable and thus more manageable direction. "Easy to say" you murmur as you read; "but far from easy to achieve". Well, possibly not quite so much, as, at this precise moment, you may be imagining and – as I hope this series of blogs – has already begun and will continue, to reveal.
Moreover, there truly is a great deal of support and help out there (although it may well require some degree of initiative and endeavour on your part to locate it). Furthermore, any such enterprise shown and effort taken, is likely to help form part of those invaluable "waves of recovery", about which I have written copiously in earlier blogs; and for one very good reason In this – as in other spheres of interest and activity – we have an opportunity for growth, even if, understandably, it is one we feel we could well have done without.
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I've come to the conclusion that Freaks and Geeks is the best television show ever. Hands down. I've watched every episode a half-dozen times, and it's still perfect. One short season, and they still managed to give all the characters at least one episode where we really got to learn about them. It gave us more characterization in one episode than on the entire run of Law & Order.
That having been said, I'm glad they cancelled it. Sure, at the time it seemed like an insanely bad idea and the ultimate example of network incompetence, but in retrospect, I'm not sure I could ever be satisfied with another season. The first season ends perfectly, and watching Daniel hang out with the geeks as Lyndsey closes her relationship with Nick and becomes a Deadhead with Kim is such a perfect way to leave this world that we were so lucky to watch for eighteen hours of our lives. I'm fairly convince there is simply no way they could have continued with that level of quality for another season.
As if to underscore that point, producer/writer Judd Apatow has assembled many of the crew and a few of the cast of Freaks and Geeksfor a half-hour sitcom about college life, entitled Undeclared. Given that each episode is half as long, he loses the "Freaks" end of the equation and just focuses in on a handful of geeks, which is probably fair, given that everyone is a geek freshman year of college. Jay Baruchel plays Steven, the king of the geeks, who, while admittedly a fine geek, just doesn't have that vulnerability that John Francis Daley, Samm Levine, and Martin Starr were able to project so admirably. Carla Gallo is fine as the girl who is having trouble with her boyfriend at home (played with amazing brilliance by another Freaks and Geeks refugee, Jason Segal), but nothing special.
I don't know. The show's funny. The writing is good. The acting is good (especially Monica Keena as the initially stressed-out, now apparently drug-hazed girl). It's a good show.
But it's not Freaks and Geeks.
I know I should move on, but it's hard, especially with regular appearances by F&G cast members. I'm hoping I'll grow to accept this show as it is, but, until then, it's just kind of disappointing.
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The Power of Love: Transformational Healing from our Wise Ones
By Lynne McMahan
"Until one has loved an animal, a part of one's soul remains unawakened."
-Anatole France
My late father, born on Valentine's Day, was the epitome of love, sharing his love of animals and children, my spiritual guide, though he has been gone for many years. His lesson of love, along with the lessons of love from my animal family members, is this: the more we give and receive love, the more love we have and the more love there is to share.
Love is infinite wisdom, sharing its essence through compassion, energy, light and healing. The theme of healing through love will be shared through stories prompted by the guiding question, "What have your animals taught you about love?" Contributors each share a unique healing story and I want to thank him or her for their willingness to share their stories in this month's column.
Steve, Rosie & Maggie
Steve, my partner, helped me understand how this simple question and the expression in the answer can be a healing in and of itself. When I asked him about the gifts from his Newfie, Rosie and his lab, Maggie, he shared their ability to give true love in the present moment, without judgment; expressing a state of fearless being, a fearless love. That mode of being in the world was genuine and it was impossible for them to be incongruous with themselves and others. Receiving this love until the end was an unbelievable gift. They came in trusting and they left the same way.
"They taught me that passing really is another example of this seamlessness of being, demonstrated by the way they were during their transition--still there, present to our relationship," Steve said. "Their ultimate teaching is the true nature of being is seamless, timeless, unshakeable, authentic 'is-ness'. We humans get lost and confused with conflicting messages and all of our distractions, Rosie and Maggie were demonstrations and reminders of who we really are--gifts and messages from all that is."
Jennifer, Andrew & Chupa
"When we first met, Andrew told me that he had never had a pet, not even as a kid. Compared to my childhood surrounded by creatures great and small, with daily pony rides and dogs that followed me everywhere, and an adult life that always included at least one cat companion," Jennifer begins.
"As we melded our lives and eventually married, he grew to love our pets and over our 19 years together. I brought home various strays and rescues that joined our family, until 2 years ago, when our 16 year old dog died and we were ready to adopt another. Andrew insisted that he should finally be able to choose one of our pets. We went to the shelter and slowly walked through, checking out each and every available dog. After we were done, he said with confidence, 'I like the little black one.' We brought this small, terrified dog home and could not touch her for months," she continues.
"Less than a year later, Andrew was killed in a traffic accident on his way home from work. In the dark days, weeks, and months that followed, this shy, scared dog was the one thing that made me get out of bed every morning. She barely trusted me, but I was all she had," remembers Jennifer. "She was most relaxed when we were running, so we ran miles and miles--every morning we would just go, no matter how rough life seemed and we would pound out our fears together. Over time, she stopped shaking when I touched her and I was able to get through a run without breaking down."
"We went from being 2 lost souls stumbling around to just being a woman and her dog out for a run. Now, as I lace up my running shoes to head out for our daily miles, I watch a shiny black dog wagging her tail in anticipation, her bright eyes looking at me, telling me to hurry up, and I see her for what she is: Andrew's last gift to me, one he somehow knew I would need, Chupa," Jennifer concludes.
"No one can know how they will react when given the diagnosis of a life threatening illness. I chose to keep it to myself until I had all the information about treatment and outcomes and then told family and close friends. Since I strongly felt that this was my journey, it really was up to me what path I was going to take. During a month long battery of tests and 6 months of chemotherapy, I found out how important my horse family was," Debbie recalls.
"I became quite depressed not knowing what the future held. My horses were an integral part of my healing of mind and body. I would go to the barn 2 times a day to feed and clean and care for my 3 horses. Every time I went there I would sit on my bench in the breezeway of the barn and just be with my horses. I found when I was with them, the depression wasn't there and I felt tranquil. Advised not to ride during treatment because an injury of any kind could delay healing, I complied for 2 months. I then made the decision that it was important for me to ride and I rode at least once a week, sometimes alone or with a friend," she continues. "It took me away from reality during that time. I always felt that my mare would keep me safe and she did."
"I am in remission now and I attended a retreat with my horse after that good news. We did yoga every morning and rode our horses after. It was fabulous. I received a business card from the center where the retreat was held. There were a few statements on the back of that card..." Debbie shared this affirmation, "Horses change lives. They give our young people confidence and self-esteem. They provide peace and tranquility to troubled souls--they give us hope!"
Tina & Ollie
Tina shared the story of her recovery and her horse, Ollie's healing from their riding accident 15 months ago. Tina was very open about this process, stating that the first 3 months after their accident both she and Ollie were simply surviving the physical and emotional shock. Then they both started in on their journey of recovery, experiencing what she expressed as "life goes on-ness," moving on to a new awareness.
She came to realize that part of the therapeutic value of horses is that you can "physically see in their body, what they're feeling; whether it's trembling from fear, rippling tight muscles, their way of leaning back with every muscle on edge, head up, eyes showing the whites or, for that matter, signs of relaxation as well. In a horse you can physically see what we humans might feel (all bottled up inside) without necessarily fully acknowledging those feelings. They also don't use stupid words to try to cover up or 'explain away' their emotions! With the horse it's so physically obvious that you can't help but realize how real those feelings are. Seeing it makes you realize how real your own unseen feelings are," Tina said.
She has learned to understand that Ollie doesn't want to be made to do something or be something that he's not, just as she herself doesn't want that feeling.
Though she hasn't ridden him since the accident, she has provided many healing experiences for each of them, from Reiki to Liberty Work--a framework for deeper bonding, which in and of itself is a vehicle for healing horse and human (http://susansmithsantafe.com). Tina is also adding to her own experience of healing through riding a neighbor's horse. "The world looks different on the back of the horse--you become part of the horse," Tina said.
A perfect quote borrowed from Tina's refrigerator, affirming the power of love and healing through our animals closes this month's column:
"We are not meant to stay wounded. We are supposed to move through our tragedies and changes and to help each other move through the many painful episodes of our lives. By remaining stuck in the power of our wounds, we block our own transformation. We overlook the greater gifts inherent in our wounds--the strength to overcome them and the lessons that we are meant to receive through them. Wounds are the means through which we enter the hearts of others...They are meant to teach us to become compassionate and wise."
-Caroline Myss
Note: The picture this month is my Dad as a teenager, a cousin, his cat and his pet skunk, Jimmy (de-skunked, of course), circa 1930s.
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The whole-cell DPT (diptheria-tetanus-pertussis) vaccine is not very effective, protecting less than half the children vaccinated.
New research from Sweden and Italy has shown that the vaccine is effective in just 48 per cent and 36 per cent of cases respectively.
American experts have tried to explain away the findings by explaining that the children who were studied received just three doses of the vaccine, whereas five doses are given in countries such as the US. In addition, the study coincided with a pertussis epidemic, and so the childen were more exposed to the disease. (Perhaps the vaccine only works when the disease isn't around!)
However, children given the new acellular version of the vaccine fared better, with three of the four vaccines showing efficacy rates of between 84 per cent and 85 per cent. The one failure was the fourth vaccine, which gave protection in just 58 per cent of cases.
The study, which began in 1992, involved more than 25,000 children.
News of the relative success of the acellular vaccine has come not a moment too soon for American health authorities, who have revealed that pertussis rates have increased cyclically since the early 1980s, with peaks occurring in 1983, 1986, 1990 and 1993. This is despite an effective nationwide immunization programme. Since the last peak, the number of cases has fallen during 1994 and the first two quarters of 1995 (JAMA, August 9, 1995).


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It has been awhile since I've cooked something interesting for myself. After my trip a few months ago which included Sicily, I've had a hankering for Pasta alla Norma. Today I saw that my DVR had picked up the Met's broadcast of Norma, after which the pasta was names. I figured that was the signal, so I gathered my ingredients and did it.
Always use short pasta. I made a simple tomato sauce from San Marzano and fried eggplant. Use ricotta salata and fresh basil. This is a really easy one. Always fry the eggplant in olive oil, don't grill. I think this is best with a base of garlic in the sauce rather than onion (pick one or the other and don't burn garlic).
For my second, I opted for scaloppine al limone e vino bianco… again with the south and the lemons, though this isn't so much a southern thing.
After pounding out the scaloppine, flouring it, and giving it proper color in the butter, I put them aside and deglazed with lemon juice and white wine, adding a touch of thyme and a couple little threads of saffron.
VERY seedy lemon. I had to sort that out.
UPDATE Monday 18 June:
Since I was in the mood, I threw together a pizza. I had a pre-made crust. I like pizza super thin and crispy. Sauce: I had made before. Cheese: a combination of what I had on hand. With a sprinkling of thyme and lots of fresh basil = Lunch.


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It's finally here, and the excitement is palpable as Star Wars: The Last Jedi enters the public consciousness. Not surprisingly, the Force seems especially strong in the Los Angeles area and the mothership of movie superfandom, Hollywood Boulevard.
Not far from TCL Chinese Theatre—where fans have been lining up for the premiere since last week—Star Wars, sci-fi, and just cosplay fans have been bellying up to two themed pop-up bars, where every night feels like Comic-Con. Darkside Bar, at the Hollywood & Highland mall (two other locations are in New York City and Washington, D.C.) features themed drinks like the Mind Trick and the Galaxy, with dry ice and LED ice cubes, and small plates of Tentacles on Sticks (BBQ octopus skewers).
Meanwhile, Scum & Villainy Cantina (on Hollywood Boulevard) was inspired by Mos Eisley, the iconic bar featured in the original Star Wars film (and whose scene was filmed in part in Death Valley). The bar—where "costumes are always highly encouraged"—recently announced that it is going permanent with its own themed drinks, food, and games (Wednesday is Trivia Night). It's not just about Star Wars, either: Trekkies will appreciate the bar's Illogical Cocktail, with chili-pepper-infused tequila and mango.
The Dark Side is slated to be open on select nights through January 14; you can walk in, but reservations are encouraged. Scum and Villainy is open every night but Mondays and Tuesdays; all ages are allowed before 9 p.m.
Would-be Jedis can find more sequel-themed attractions elsewhere. At Disneyland Resort, scenes from The Last Jedi now appear in the Star Tours ride, and you can often say hello to a strolling Kylo Ren, or buy stuffed porgs or porg pins, around the two theme parks. (For the uninitiated, porgs are poised to become the 21st century answer to Ewoks.)
Check out our tips on where else you can visit California locations from various Star Wars films, or take a mental trip with Star Wars characters on their ultimate California vacations.


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Divison 1 Teams No March for Eagles2 min read
Saturday's doubleheader for the sixth ranked University of Mary Washington women's tennis team instilled a big boost of confidence for what promises to be a productive and successful season.
The team improved their record from 3-1 after their match up against Division I schools George Mason University and Towson University at the UMW Indoor Tennis Center.
Their Division III standing did not deter them from coming out fighting in their first match against the George Mason Patriots. Beginning the morning with a round of doubles the Eagles came out on top. They played with poise; as each of the five courts began winning their sets the Eagles respectfully gathered in the center of court three to watch the remaining matches on courts one and two which ultimately resulted in the convincing sweep of GMU in the doubles round.
After a strong win early in the day, the Eagles were eager to continue with singles in hopes of replicating the morning's earlier victory. Coming off the court after doubles, freshman Jocelyn Lewis was pleased with the team's initial response to D-I competition.
"We're really pumped up," Lewis said. "We just want to keep playing, especially when we have the momentum."
The defeat of the Patriots in doubles enhanced the Eagles' confidence about the remainder of the sets that day.
"We're ready," freshman Debbie Chang said. "Everyone feels pretty happy."
After doubles the match quickly moved into the singles round. After a brief warm-up the Eagles moved into yet another offensive posture to win all but one singles match.
Sophomore Meg Lawlor, who is injured and incapable of competing tracked the Eagles' progress and observed their performance throughout the day.
"They're looking pretty strong," Lawlor said. "[They] seem pretty confident; so they can vary it up and try new things."
The morning resulted in a 6-1 victory for the Eagles, putting them in a confident position going into the afternoon match against the Towson Tigers.
The Eagles played just as strong in the afternoon as they did in the morning. After doubles it was apparent that it was going to take a lot to prevent the ladies from continuing their streak of collected athletic enthusiasm and exceptional execution.
The team pulled out another sweep in doubles and clinched a victory in singles with four of six players capitalizing on the day's earlier momentum. By the end of both rounds UMW had topped Towson in a 7-2 win.
Coach Patrick Catullo was please with his team's performance and has high expectations for their future chances against other opponents they will face.
"They played with a tremendous amount of discipline and confidence," Catullo said. "[I] expected my team [to] execute well and play with confidence and they accomplished both of those tasks."BY SARAH ALVAREZ


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In the first month of year 2020 the news about Prince Harry, the grandson of Prince Philip and Elizabeth, and his wife Meghan's leaving the royal family came as a blow to the reputation of British monarchy. The couple has announced that they will no longer use their royal titles and will also stop receiving public funds for discharging royal duties.
In this article I will discuss the horoscopes of Harry and Meghan from both Parashari and Jaimini perspective to see if there is any possibility for them to return back to the royal family ?
{Note: This article of mine was appeared in the May issue of Express Star Teller Magazine. The same has been reproduce here for the readers of my blog}
Horoscope of Prince Harry
15 September 1984, 16:20 hours at Paddington, UK
Longitude: 00W 11' and Latitude: 51N 30'
Day Time saving: 01:00 hours
Reference link: https://www.astro.com/astro-databank/Harry,_Duke_of_Sussex
Balance of Dasha in Vimshottari: Sun 5 years 6 months 15 days
Karakamsha: Sagittarius, Upa Pada- Scorpio, Dara Pada- Libra
Gulika- Virgo
Prince Harry is the second son of Prince Charles who got married to an American Actress Meghan Markel on 19 May 2018. On the same day he was made the Duke of Sussex by his grandmother Queen Elizabeth. Harry and Meghan were blessed with a baby boy on 6th of May 2019 but in January 2020 the couple surprised everyone by making an announcement that they intend to step back as senior members of the royal family.
Prince Harry's unconventional marriage
In the Sagittarius lagna horoscope of Prince Harry Jupiter in the ascendant in its own sign makes 'Hansa' Maha Purush Yoga. The 9th lord Sun is in own house along with 10th lord Mercury is the best Raja yoga for Sagittarius lagna as per Sage Parashara. But then from the Moon there is Saturn in the 7th house and the 7th lord from Moon is Venus which is debliteated showing his unconventional marriage. He married an American actress Meghan who was a divorcee and 3 years older than him in age. It was a highly unorthodox marriage considering British royal traditions. See the Navamsha chart of Prince Harry Saturn is in the 7th house astrologically explains the age gap between him and his wife.
It was the Vimshottari dasha of Rahu-Mercury from March 2015 to September 2017 when Prince Harry has come in touch with Meghan in USA. Mercury is the lord of 7th house in birth chart and in Navamsha it is the lord of lagna. They announce their engagement in November 2017 (Rahu-Ketu dasha) and their marriage was solemnized in May 2018 when Harry was under Rahu-Ketu dasha in Vimshottari. Ketu is with Mars which aspect the 7th house of marriage. The next sub period to follow was of Venus which being the lord of 6th house from Janma lagna has to give him troubles. Venus is badly placed in the 12th house in the Navamsha chart receiving the bad aspect of 8th lord Mars. So till the Rahu-Venus dasha (October 2018 to October 2021) is running Harry is not likely to reverse his decision of leaving the royal family. It is in Rahu-Sun dasha from October 2021 to September 2022 in Vimshottari when we can expect him to change his mind. Sun the anter dasha lord is in a great Raja Yoga at the 9th house which beside luck also shows royal patronage and traditions.
Can Prince Harry come back to royal family ?
There is a great possibility that after the demise of Queen Elizabeth II or her retirement Prince Harry's father Prince Charles will become the King of this monarchy and he will then pursue his son Harry to come back to the royal family. As per the horoscope of Prince Harry this is likely to happen during Rahu-Sun dasha from October 2021 to September 2022 when he can come back to royals after being pressurize by his father. Notice the aspect of Jupiter on the 9th lord Sun which is in own house.
From Jaimini angle Price Harry's Libra chara dasha from September 2008 to September 2019 was good. Libra has his Putrakaraka Saturn in it. It was in May 2018 during Libra-Virgo Chara dasha when he married Meghan. Darakaraka Jupiter aspect the Virgo sign in Prince Harry's chart. While Libra is the Rashi of his Dara-Pada and Virgo is the sign of his Navamsha lagna. In the subsequent Libra-Libra period he become father of a son in May 2019. Libra has Putrakaraka Saturn place in it has to give him a child immediately after marriage during its dasha. But then Virgo Dasha from September 2019 to September 2020 is running now. Prince Harry's Atamakaraka Sun falls in the 12th house from Virgo and his Amatayakaraka Moon is in the 8th from Virgo showing change in his career and trouble with the family. Virgo has Gulika in the chart of Prince Harry which is also not a welcome thing.
But after a while the Chara dasha of Leo will start from September 2020 onward for full 12 years. Leo having Atamakaraka Sun in conjoined with Ganatikaraka Mercury is showing challenging periods for Harry. But the 9th house from Leo has Amatayakaraka Moon which shows that his father will inherit long awaited crown very soon. The period of Leo as per Jaimini system shows rise of his father after September 2020 which means that his father Prince Charles will become the King of UK. Then after September 2021 in Leo-Libra Dasha Prince Harry can come come back to the royal family at the request of his father. Sun is the Karaka for father in Prince Harry's chart is showing tremendous influence of his father over his life. Sun as Atamakaraka as per Jaimini is getting the aspect of Amatayakaraka Moon which is a big Raja Yoga. So Prince Harry having such great Parasharai and Jaimini Raja Yoga cannot remain away from royal benefits for a very long periods.
Horoscope of Princess Meghan
4 August 1981, 04:46 hours at Canoga Park,
California, USA
Longitude: 118 W 35' and Latitude: 34 N 12'
Day Time Saving: 01:00 hours
Reference Link : https://www.astro.com/astro-databank/Meghan,_Duchess_of_Sussex
Balance of Dasha in Vimshottari: Moon 9 years 0 months 8 days
Karakamsha: Virgo, Upa Pada – Leo , Dara Pada – Taurus
Gulika- Pisces
The chart 2 of Cancer lagna given above is of Meghan Merkel who was earlier a successful actress in US television industry and also did two movies. In her Vargottama Cancer lagna chart Moon and Venus are prominent making her shine in glamor world. Moon as the lagna lord is in exchange of houses with 3rd lord Mercury. Moon is conjoined with 9th lord Jupiter and it get the aspect of 5th and 10th lord Mars so it is in a great Raja Yoga. Venus as the 11th lord is strongly placed in own Nakshtra in the 2nd house in birth chart and in Navamsha it get the aspect of Yoga Karaka Mars.
Meghan's first marriage was ended in just 2 years. She married to an actor and producer in USA during Rahu-Venus dasha in Vimshottari in year 2011. In Rahu-Moon dasha in year 2013 she took divorce. Notice here Moon and Saturn are in close conjunction making a 'Punar-Bhoo' yoga which is a classical yoga for more than one marriages or relationships. Mars from the 12th house aspect the 7th house of marriage in the birth chart. In Navamsha the 7th lord Saturn is debliteated and is in mutual aspect with 12th lord Mercury. These astrological yoga's has to give him trouble in marriage.
Meghan Markel's Marriage with Prince Harry
At the time of her second marriage Meghan was under Jupiter-Saturn dasha in Vimshottari. It was in May 2018 when Meghan got married in the British royal family. Jupiter as the 9th lord is giving aspect to the 7th house of marriage. Mars the 'Yoga Karaka' planet aspect the 7th house of marriage and also notice the aspect of Sun on the 7th house which shows high status of his spouse. Mars also aspect the 7th lord Saturn here which is the lord of 7th house from Janma lagna and also from the Venus the Karaka for marriage. The noticeable point here is the conjunction of 7th lord with the 9th lord in both birth chart and Navamsha chart. This is another yoga for getting a spouse with royal patronage or of a high social status.
Meghan's Feud with Royal Family
But then Meghan's 7th lord Saturn is also the lord of 8th house in her Cancer lagna chart. Saturn is in planetary war with 6th and 9th lord Jupiter. In Navamsha Saturn is debliteated and is conjoined with 6th lord again. The dasha of Rahu-Mercury from April 2020 to July 2022 is showing excessive travelling now. Mercury is the lord of 12th house in birth chart and Navamsha. Meghan and Harry has announced that after leaving royal duties they will divide their time between North America and Britain. From the horoscope of Meghan it appears that it will be she who has to travel more because of the dasha period of 12th lord Mercury. Since Mercury is in 'Mrityu Bhagh' degrees so there could also be some more trouble in her relations with in-laws. Mercury is in exchange with Moon which is also in Mrityu Bhagh degrees. These are the two planets who are in Mrityu Bhagh degrees in her horoscope which is not a good indication for her health during the upcoming period of 2-3 years.
Jaimini Angle
In the horoscope of Princess Meghan the Chara dasha of Sagittarius (Dhanu) running from August 2012 to August 2021 has bring tremendous changes in her life. Dhanu as per Jaimini is known as the Rashi of rise and fall. In Meghan's chart it is the 6th house from her Janma lagna, 4th house from Karakamsha and 5th house from Atamakaraka Venus. Notice the Jaimini aspects of Darakaraka Moon, Putrakaraka Saturn and Matrikaraka Jupiter on the 7th house from Dhanu where we have 5th lord and Bhatrikaraka Mars placed. Beside this Sagittarius in Navamsha has her Amatayakaraka Sun which make it even stronger. For a film actress to a royal princess was a big achievements for her during this Sagittarius dasha period.
But then there are some blemish on the Jaimini Raja Yoga's in Meghan's chart. Darakaraka Moon is in close association with Saturn which is Putrakaraka making a Raja Yoga but then Saturn is a hard malefic and they get the aspect of Mars another natural malefic. So her Darakaraka Moon is under the influences of two natural malefic planets. Sagittarius being the dasha of 6th house of disputes has to give her troubles in the family. Gulika is in Pisces which aspect Sagittarius and all the other Jaimini Karaka's placed in dual sign's.
But soon the Chara dasha of Scorpio (August 2021 to August 2028) will be in operation in her horoscope. Scorpio is the Rashi of 5th house from the lagna. It get the aspect of Amatayakaraka Sun which shows her getting reconcile with royal family again. This is what we had observe in the chart of her husband Prince Harry. So we can conclude that after 2021 both Harry and Meghan are likely to change their decision of leaving the British royal family. Before this we will see Harry's father Prince Charles becoming the King of British monarchy and it will be he who will play a crucial role in perusing the couple to join the royal duties again.


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Early in the course of The Namesake, a young and beautiful Indian woman stands alone in a spare American kitchen, pondering the riddle of breakfast. She's just come from tropical Calcutta to the ice and snow of New York City with a new husband she barely knows, an ambitious young man who has lived in New York and works in fiber optics. She knows nothing about anything in this city. Warily, she examines a box of Rice Krispies, pours a helping into a bowl, sprinkles it with curry powder and munches a first spoonful of the dry mixture without pleasure. This immensely pleasurable film is anything but dry. It's a saga of the immigrant experience that captures the snap, crackle and pop of American life, along with the pounding pulse, emotional reticence, volcanic colors and cherished rituals of Indian culture.
The Namesake was adapted from the novel of the same name and directed by Mira Nair In her earlier film, Monsoon Wedding, Nair evoked the drama of an extended family by bringing its far-flung members together for a ceremony in New Delhi. This time her story is centrifugal, at least at the start. After an arranged marriage, a pair of almost perfect strangers, Ashoke Ganguli and his bride Ashima, fly off to the United States, where they struggle to put down roots, succeed beyond their hopes and raise an almost thoroughly American son -- the namesake of the title -- with the singular moniker of Gogol Ganguli.
Ashima is played by the Indian film star Tabu; her skill and tact are equal to her startling beauty, or vice versa. At the time of her Rice Krispies breakfast Ashima has no way of knowing if the bookish, bespectacled man she has married will be cool to her, cruel to her or simply detached from her as he carves out a career in his adopted land. But Ashoke is, in fact, a man of extraordinary kindness and tenderness. He's played by the Hindi actor Irrfan Khan with a brilliance that's all the more astonishing for being self-contained. In other hands this material might have been the stuff of soap opera. Here it feels improbably pristine.
The story of how a very Bengali couple's son came to be the namesake of a quintessentially Russian writer is the narrative that informs the family's life. The role of Gogol is crucial, then, and Kal Penn (from Harold and Kumar) fills it with a charming goofiness that eventually gives way to endearing manhood. Gogol's rejection of his heritage constitutes half of the classic template of immigrant sagas. The other half -- reclaiming his heritage when he's wise enough to do so -- brings him to appreciate the parents he's been blessed with. On that score we've been way ahead of him.
300 presents a dual clash of civilizations. An action adventure that pits thousands of Persians against 300 brave Spartans at the Battle of Thermopylae, it also pits millions of fans of brainless violence against a gallant band, or so I choose to think of us, who still expect movies to contain detectable traces of humanity. Like Sin City before it, 300 was adapted from a graphic novel by Frank Miller, and uses digital techniques, to fill the screen with striking images. Being a Spartan, the movie tells us, was about pride, pecs and abs. Being a Persian was about leering, body piercing and, particularly in the case of the bass-boosted Xerxes, bejeweled preening; his costume would be a stunner on any runway in the modern world.


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Virginia vs Maryland (Nov 17, 2013)
|Soccer Box Score
Soccer Box Score (Final)
2013 Virginia Men's Soccer
#10 Virginia vs #4 Maryland (Nov 17, 2013 at Germantown, Md.)
|Virginia (10-5-5) vs.
Maryland (13-3-5)
Date: Nov 17, 2013 Attendance: 4763
Win-Zack Steffen (13-3-5). Loss-Calle Brown (2-1-1).
|Play-by-Play Summary
Play-by-Play (Final)
2013 Virginia Men's Soccer
#10 Virginia vs #4 Maryland (Nov 17, 2013 at Germantown, Md.)
1st Period
|[00:00] Calle Brown at goalie for Virginia.
|[00:00] Zack Steffen at goalie for Maryland.
|Foul on Maryland.
|Corner kick by UMD Sunny Jane [09:50].
|[11:08] Shot by UMD Sunny Jane HIGH.
|Foul on Virginia.
|Foul on Virginia.
|Corner kick by UMD Tsubasa Endoh [18:06].
|Foul on Maryland.
|Foul on Virginia.
|[21:32] Shot by VA M. Salandy-Defour BLOCKED.
|[15:00] UMD substitution: Jake Pace for David Kabelik.
|[23:19] UMD substitution: Michael Sauers for Sunny Jane.
|Foul on Virginia.
|[32:32] VA substitution: Ryan Zinkhan for Nicko Corriveau.
|[33:31] Shot by VA Darius Madison, SAVE Zack Steffen.
|[34:44] UMD substitution: Alex Shinsky for Mikias Eticha.
|Foul on Maryland.
|Corner kick by UMD Tsubasa Endoh [38:17].
|[39:05] VA substitution: Riggs Lennon for Darius Madison.
|[42:13] Offside against Virginia.
|End of period [45:00].
2nd Period
|Start of 2nd period [45:00].
|For VA: #11 Eric Bird, #15 Kevin McBride, #3 Matt Brown, #12 Riggs Lennon, #8 Jordan Allen, #7 Todd Wharton, #18 Calle Brown, #16 M. Salandy-Defour, #13 Kyler Sullivan, #20 Patrick Foss, #21 Ryan Zinkhan.
|For UMD: #7 Dan Metzger, #99 Zack Steffen, #11 Mikias Eticha, #28 Chris Odoi-Atsem, #12 Jereme Raley, #5 Mikey Ambrose, #15 Patrick Mullins, #31 Tsubasa Endoh, #3 Michael Sauers, #22 Suli Dainkeh, #16 David Kabelik.
|[45:36] Shot by VA Eric Bird BLOCKED.
|Foul on Virginia.
|[48:08] Shot by VA Ryan Zinkhan WIDE.
|Corner kick by UMD Tsubasa Endoh [50:07].
|Foul on Virginia.
|[52:18] VA substitution: Nicko Corriveau for Eric Bird.
|Foul on Maryland.
|Foul on Virginia.
|[54:50] VA substitution: Eric Bird for Nicko Corriveau.
|[55:03] UMD substitution: Alex Shinsky for David Kabelik.
|[58:23] Shot by UMD Mikias Eticha, SAVE Calle Brown.
|Foul on Maryland.
|[59:18] Shot by VA Kevin McBride HIGH.
|[61:04] VA substitution: Darius Madison for Riggs Lennon.
|[62:08] Shot by UMD Michael Sauers, SAVE Calle Brown.
|Corner kick by VA Todd Wharton [64:25].
|Foul on Virginia.
|[67:38] UMD substitution: Sunny Jane for Michael Sauers.
|[67:38] UMD substitution: Jake Pace for Alex Shinsky.
|Foul on Maryland.
|[69:44] Offside against Virginia.
|[71:29] VA substitution: Nicko Corriveau for Kyler Sullivan.
|Foul on Maryland.
|[72:55] VA substitution: Kyler Sullivan for Ryan Zinkhan.
|[74:39] Offside against Maryland.
|[76:52] VA substitution: Scott Thomsen for Patrick Foss.
|[79:26] UMD substitution: Alex Shinsky for Sunny Jane.
|[80:25] Shot by UMD Mikias Eticha BLOCKED.
|Foul on Maryland.
|Foul on Maryland.
|[83:08] VA substitution: Ryan Zinkhan for Nicko Corriveau.
|[87:29] Offside against Maryland.
|[85:00] Shot by UMD Patrick Mullins HIGH.
|[87:18] GOAL by UMD OWN GOAL (FIRST GOAL).
|Maryland 1, Virginia 0
|Foul on Maryland.
|[87:18] UMD substitution: Mikias Eticha for Michael Sauers.
|[89:40] Shot by VA Darius Madison HIGH.
|[89:30] VA substitution: Riggs Lennon for Scott Thomsen.
|End of period [90:00].