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Llandeilo is a charming Carmarthenshire market town. Equalling the character and air of chic exclusivity that Cowbridge elicits, its range of independent and quirky shops are dotted around its winding and prettily painted (and often decorated) streets. We have been making it a tradition to stop off here on our way to Tenby or Carmarthen for a number of years, often on the premise of stopping for a coffee in its lovely coffee shop 'Rosetta' (wonderfully positioned for people watching in the town centre) or to pick up some foodie treats, or accessories for the home.
The town has two excellent establishments in which to stay, the well-liked and respected Fronlas and the imposing and grand The Cawdor hotel (but more of that later), as well as several B&Bs in and around the town.
The main reason to visit Llandeilo, in my opinion, is for the shopping. The town has a lovely feel, is not cluttered and has not been invaded by chains. It has an eclectic mix of shops, tempting you with their hand crafted and artisan wears.
We visited Scorpio (which is situated on the top of a small hill overlooking the church), and purchased two beautiful Melin Tregwynt cushions from the downstairs section of the store (accessed by lovely and original wooden steps) – a homage to all things blankets, cushions and throws. Above this there are a further two floors dedicated to home accessories, Yankee candles and the like, all beautifully displayed in complimentary hues and textures. The owner is most pleasant and we passed an interesting half hour, with him, discussing retail and the challenges of independent retailers during which he triumphantly announced that Llandeilo was thriving and that he, and others, were enjoying an excellent year!
Further along (and down) the street is an excellent kitchenalia emporium 'Peppercorn', in which we bought two bars of the delicious NomNom Welsh chocolate. Further along is the Toast boutique, which specialises in luxury lounge-ware and outerwear, shoes and accessories, spread over two rooms. One of the highlights of every visit is to see their beautifully-merchandised front windows, which are changed regularly and are testimony to the art of merchandising/advertising at its simplest and most effective.
We stayed the night at The Cawdor, which is part of the Morgans Hotel group. A 4 star establishment, we stayed in a room called Laugharne (quite apt really as this was the next stop off in our 7-day trip) and were greeted by a large, spacious and clean room situated in the modern-feel annex to the main hotel. The room was accessed by steep steel steps (which would be an issue for those with limited mobility) but was fine for us (and was clearly stated on the website) and afforded us a great view over the main street, which was surprisingly quiet and did not disturb our sleep, especially when one observed the volume of traffic passing through the town.
We had a generous, well seasoned and tasty Sunday lunch at The Cawdor hotel. The starters were especially generous and good value. Booking a table for Sunday lunch would certainly be advisable as the venue was popular with large groups, understandably making use of this lovely hotel for a fuss-free Sunday lunch with their families.
Dining room, The Cawdor, Llandeilo
Just along Rhosmaen Street, Llandeilo's main thoroughfare and the same side of the street as The Cawdor, is Catherine Povey Millinery (whom we interviewed in 2009, before she moved from Penarth). Catherine refurbishes designer hats and creates CP Millinery's exquisite hats in her shop-cum-studio, where they are on sale. Some are also available for hire.
Llandeilo is also good base for visiting some of the interesting places nearby and the countryside all around is quite beautiful:
The grounds of Dinefwr Park and Castle are only a mile or so from the town centre. Dinefwr was the chief seat of the kingdom of Deheubarth and the seat of Rhys ap Gruffydd, Yr Arglwydd Rhys (The Lord Rhys), one of the early kings of Wales;
Castell Dinefwr - image: John Darch
The recently-refurbished Aberglasney House and Gardens is only three miles west of Llandeilo;
Aberglasney House and Gardens - image: Stephen Marsden
Castell Carreg Cennen, the most spectacular of the Welsh castles, is less that five miles southeast;
Castell Carreg Cennen - image: Anthony Gostling
A great place to have your Christmas cards postmarked, the tiny village of Bethlehem is five around miles to the northeast.
Llandeilo is certainly worth a visit!
Claire Meredith, December 2013
Links to places mentioned above: Catherine Povey Millinery, 56 Rhosmaen Street, Llandeilo, SA19 6HA: Tel: 01558 822137, Facebook: Catherine Povey Millinery Fronlas, 7 Thomas Street, Llandeilo, SA19 6LB: Tel: 01558 824733, website: fronlas.com The Cawdor, Rhosmaen Street, Llandeilo, SA19 6EN: Tel: 01558 823500, website: www.thecawdor.com Melin Tregwynt, Castlemorris, Haverfordwest, SA62 5UX: Tel: 01348 891694, website: www.melintregwynt.co.uk NomNom Chocolate, Carmarthenshire: Tel: 01994 419886, Facebook: NomNomChocolate Peppercorn, 5 King Street, Llandeilo, SA19 6BA: Tel: 01558 822410, website: peppercorn.net Siop Scorpio, 9 King Street, Llandeilo, SA19 6BA: Tel: 01558 824462, website: scorpio-llandeilo.co.uk Toast, 4 King Street, Llandeilo, SA19 6BA: Tel: 01558 824330, website: www.toast.co.uk
Also by Claire Meredith: Tenby / Dinbych-y-pysgod; September 2013 The Old Chemist Inn, Saundersfoot; September 2013 The Bunch of Grapes, Pontypridd; September 2013 Gwesty'r Emlyn Hotel, Newcastle Emlyn; June 2013 Photographic study of Newcastle Emlyn; June 2013 Lake Vyrnwy Hotel; December 2012 The Drawing Room, nr Builth Wells; December 2012 3 Pen Cei Guest House, Aberaeron; June 2012 Escape 5* B&B, Llandudno; June 2012 The Bunch of Grapes, Pontypridd; June 2012 Photographic study of Myddfai; February 2011 The Crown at Whitebrook; February 2011 The New White Lion, Llandovery; February 2011 Ty Mawr Mansion Country House, Cilcennin, Lampeter; December 2009 George Thomas Hospice 'Style In the City' event; May 2009
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Set the Penn State season sack record with 15.5 sacks in 2015…Forced six fumbles in 2015, the most forced by a Penn Stater since Michael Haynes forced seven in 2002...Is the first Nittany Lion to lead the FBS in multiple statistical categories since Larry Johnson in 2002...Is the 13th unanimous Consensus All-American in program history...Is the first Penn State player to win three National Awards since Larry Johnson in 2002.
➤ 2015 ➤ Senior Season
Awards: Selected as the Lombardi Award winner for the nation's top lineman or linebacker…Named the winner of the Ted Hendricks Award for the nation's top defensive end...Won the Lott IMPACT Trophy for the defensive player that represent the qualities embodied by Hall of Famer Ronnie Lott – Integrity, Maturity, Performance, Academics, Community and Tenacity...Is the first Nittany Lion to win three National Awards since Larry Johnson in 2002…Selected as the CBS Sports National Defensive Player of the Year…Unanimous Consensus All-American, earning the distinction from Walter Camp, AP, FWAA, Sporting News, AFCA...Is the 13th Nittany Lion to earn unanimous Consensus All-America status and the 41st overall…Also earned first team All-American honors from ESPN.com, SI.com, CBS Sports and Athlon Sports…Earned second team All-America honors from USA Today…Earned second team All-America honors from USA Today…Selected as the Big Ten's Nagurski-Woodson Defensive Player of the Year by the conference's coaches and media…Selected as a finalist for the Nagurski Trophy (College Defensive Player of the Year), Bednarik Award (Nation's Defensive Player of the Year) and Burlsworth Trophy (top walk-on)…Named first team All-Big Ten from the coaches and media…Selected BTN.com's Defensive Player of the Year and earned a nod to the website's all-conference team…Named to ESPN.com's All-Big Ten team…Tabbed first team All-Big Ten and Big Ten Defensive Player of the Year by the Associated Press and Athlon Sports...Selected as an ECAC First Team All-Star…Named to CBS Sports, ESPN.com and SI.com Midseason All-America teams…Selected to ESPN.com's midseason All-Big Ten team…Additionally, was selected by CBS Sports Eye on College Football staff writers Jon Soloman, Tom Fornelli and Robby Kalland as the National Defensive Player of the Year at the 2015 midpoint…Selected as ECAC Defensive Player of the Week (10/20)…Selected as the team's Most Valuable Player…Named the team's Most Valuable Defensive Player.
Season: Started 13 games, playing only two snaps against Michigan (11/21) and two snaps at Michigan State (11/28) due to injury…Made his first career start (high school or college) in the season opener at Temple (9/5)…Led the FBS in forced fumbles (6; 0.46 ffpg) and sacks (15.5; 1.19 spg)…Is the first Nittany Lion to lead the FBS in multiple statistical categories since Larry Johnson in 2002…Ranked No. 11 nationally and No. 2 in the Big Ten in tackles for loss (19.5; 1.50 tflpg)…Had a sack in each of the first 10 games of the season, which was the longest streak by a Penn State player since sacks became an official NCAA statistic in 2000…Posted five multi-sack games…Graduated in December with a degree in biology…One of 14 Nittany Lions to earn their degree in December…One of 17 Nittany Lions to have their degree at the TaxSlayer Bowl. at Temple (9/5): Led the team with a career-high 10 tackles…Made 2.5 tackle for loss, including his second career solo sack in the second quarter…Helped Penn State pile up 15.0 TFL, its most since posting 15.0 vs. Michigan on Sept. 22, 2007. Buffalo (9/12): Grabbed his first career interception in the second quarter after the pass was tipped by Anthony Zettel…Recorded a career-high 3.0 sacks…Accounted for 3.0 tackles for loss…Also forced two fumbles in the fourth quarter…Was instrumental on a defense that held the Bulls to 69 rushing yards, the fewest for an opponent since Illinois (68 yds.) last year…Is the first Nittany Lion with two forced fumbles in a single game since Sean Stanley had two at Temple on Sept. 17, 2011. Rutgers (9/19): Made four tackles...Added 1.5 tackles for loss, which included a sack of Chris Laviano for a loss of 13 yards in the fourth quarter…Part of a defense that held Rutgers to just three points, the fewest in a Big Ten opener since limiting Minnesota to three points in 1994…Helped limit Rutgers to 43 rushing yards, the fewest since giving up just 33 yards to Maryland last season. San Diego State (9/26): Notched his third forced fumble of the season in the fourth quarter and the fifth of his career…The fumble was returned 71 yards for a touchdown by Austin Johnson…Made two solo tackles, both were sacks…His 2.0 tackles for loss helped Penn State amass 9.0 TFLs in the game. Army (10/3): Recorded his eighth sack of the season…Made two tackles. Indiana (10/10): Logged four solo tackles, including two sacks…Also had two forced fumbles, marking the second time this season that he has multiple forced fumbles in a game…Helped snap Indiana's string of nine games in which the Hoosiers scored 20-plus points…Part of a defense that held Indiana to 234 yards of total offense, the fewest allowed by PSU since giving up 221 at Indiana in 2014…Played a major role in limiting IU to just 79 rushing yards, the second-straight B1G opponent with less than 80 yards rushing vs. Penn State…Was the coaching staff's Co-Defensive Player of the Week with Austin Johnson. at Ohio State (10/17): Registered eight total tackles…Recorded 3.5 tackles for loss to mark the fifth time this season he posted 2.0 or more TFLs in a game…Collected 1.5 sacks for his fourth multi-sack game…Helped the Penn State defense accumulate 10.0 tackles for loss…The 10.0 tackles for loss were the most surrendered by Ohio State in 2015. vs. Maryland (10/24): Made four tackles…Recorded his fifth multi-sack game with 2.0 sacks…Had 2.0 tackles for loss. Illinois (10/31): Recorded three tackles…Had 1.0 sack to account for his 1.0 tackle for loss…Part of a defense that recorded its first Big Ten shutout since blanking Minnesota in 2009 (20-0)…Helped hold Illinois to just 167 yards (37 rushing, 130 passing), the fewest allowed since holding Minnesota to 138 yards (37 rushing, 101 passing) in 2009…As a unit, the defense forced a punt on 12 of Illinois' 15 possessions, with two ending with a turnover on downs and the other halted by an interception. at Northwestern (11/7): Recorded one sack, his 10th straight game with at least one sack…Set the Penn State single season record for sacks with his quarterback takedown in the fourth quarter…Helped the Nittany Lions extend their streak to 32 straight games with at least one sack…Penn State moved its streak to 10 straight games with multiple sacks, the longest active streak in the Big Ten and tied for No. 2 in the FBS.…His 1.0 tackle for loss aided the defense in posting 10.0 tackles for loss, marking the seventh time this season and fourth straight game it recorded nine or more TFLs…Recorded four total tackles…Also forced his sixth fumble of the season – which was recovered by NU – on his sack in the fourth quarter…Added one pass breakup. Michigan (11/21): Only played two snaps on Michigan's first series due to an injury…Saw his streak of at least one sack in every game come to an end. at Michigan State (11/28): Only played two snaps in Michigan State's first series due to an injury.
➤ 2014 ➤ Junior Season
Awards: Selected Academic All-Big Ten for the second time in his career.
Season: Appeared in all 13 games on defense and special teams...Made seven tackles with 3.5 tackles for loss (minus-22), one sack (minus-5), one forced fumble and one pass breakup. Akron (9/6): Recorded two stops, including a half-sack. At Rutgers (9/13): Made one tackle. Ohio State (10/25): Made one stop...His lone tackle was a TFL (minus-six) late in the third quarter that helped the Nittany Lions rally in the double-overtime thriller. Maryland (11/1): Registered one tackle...Combined with Tyrone Smith for a third-quarter sack. At Indiana (11/8): Made one tackle, a 10-yard tackle for loss...Moved his streak to three straight games with a TFL...Also forced a fumble...Helped boost a defense that held the then-nation's leading rusher, Tevin Coleman, to just 71 yards...Helped the Nittany Lions shut out the Indiana offense, as the Hoosiers scored their fewest points at home since 2006, via a defensive touchdown. Temple (11/15): Broke up one pass...Helped limit Temple to just 61 rushing yards and eight first downs, the fewest for a Penn State opponent since Indiana State had eight in 2011. At Illinois (11/22): Combined with Jason Cabinda for a TFL...Was a part of a defensive effort that held the Illini to just 68 rushing yards and two-of-16 on third down conversions.
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➤ 2012 ➤ Redshirt Freshman Season
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Full name is Carl Paul Nassib...Son of Gilbert and Mary Nassib...Has two brothers, Ryan and John, and two sisters, Carey and Paige...Father played football at the University of Delaware...Brother, Ryan, was a standout quarterback at Syracuse and was a fourth-round pick of the New York Giants in the 2013 NFL Draft...Cousin, Joe Nassib, was a defensive back for Syracuse...Is slated to graduate in December 2015 with a degree in biology...Plans to go to medical school...Born April 12, 1993 in West Chester, Pa.


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It appears that Microsoft's decision to improve its own free games program for the Xbox One might have pushed arch-rival Sony to do the same. Starting next month, Sony says it will give users who have a PlayStation Plus subscription to free titles each month per console.
Sony announced the sweeping changes to its PlayStation Plus subscription service early this afternoon, with Vice President of Platforms Marketing, John Koller calling the excitement Sony is seeing for its PS4 gaming console "tremendous" and noting that PlayStation Plus is essential to the PS4 experience.
Though the PS4 will benefit from this the most, Koller also confirmed that PS3 and PS Vita users can also expect two free titles for those platforms as well. Effectively Sony is giving users who own all three, six free games a month, every month. Though the change is certainly good for users – more games are more games any way you look at it – it's particularly interesting that Sony chose now to announce the change in PlayStation Plus benefits.
Roughly three weeks ago Microsoft stunned the gaming community when it made landmark changes to its own subscription services for the Xbox One and Xbox 360.
Starting in June, Xbox One and Xbox 360 users with a subscription to Microsoft's Xbox Live service get two free games a month. Up until now, Microsoft had confirmed that Xbox One users would get free games as a part of Xbox Live Gold, however the company hadn't shared details about how the entire system would work.
Xbox 360 users will continue to get two free games that they can keep forever, meanwhile Microsoft has shifted the Xbox One version of the promotion to be more like what Sony offers. Going forward Xbox One users will get two free games, but those games will stop working once they cancel their Xbox Live Gold subscription, just like they would if users had a PS4 and PlayStation Plus. Microsoft announced that it would stop requiring users to have an Xbox Live Gold subscription before watching videos or listening to music through the console's assortment of apps too. Again, that's something that Sony's PS4 already does.
In addition to adding titles, Sony is also adjusting the window each game will be available to make it easier for users to remember. Starting in July, all free PlayStation Plus titles will be available for users to download the first Tuesday of each month. Sony hopes that the change will take some of the guesswork out of knowing when free title disappears from the PlayStation Network. PS Vita handheld users will get Terraria and Mutant Mudds Deluxe in June while PS3 users will get Sly Copper: Thieves of Time and NBA 2k14. Finally, PS4 users will get Trine 2 and Pixeljunk Shooter Ultimate.
All told, Sony is making a very decent deceision. The free games that users get with PlayStation Plus is why many users have their eye on a PS4 instead of an Xbox One. Until Microsoft announced its own set of sweeping changes, Sony's subscription service was a much better deal for users who had their eye on the most up-to-date games. Microsoft never admitted to it, but when it announced those recent changes to Xbox Live it also said that requiring users to have an Xbox Live gold subscription to play the free games would allow them to giveaway more recent titles.
Read: PS4 Vs. Xbox One: The Xbox One Price Cut Changes Things
Now, there's just really one big difference separating the PS4 and the Xbox One's online services. Despite these changes, a PlayStation Plus subscription still costs $49.99 for an entire year. That's $10 less than Xbox Live Gold does. The services are required for multiplayer gaming on Microsoft's and Sony's latest console.


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The West Point Police Department is investigating an armed robbery of a business on the 700 block of West Main Street that occurred Sept. 23.
WPPD Assistant Chief Albert Lee said two masked men entered the business with guns displayed and took a large sum of cash.
Lee said the two men left on foot running in the direction of West City Limits Road.
There were no injuries.
"There was no video surveillance, so we're asking for the public's help solving this crime," Lee said.
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Lee said a Maverick 12-gauge shotgun with the serial number SRMV3080Y was stolen from the home.
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The Black PrismPaperback - 2011
But when Guile discovers he has a son, born in a far kingdom after the war that put him in power, he must decide how much he's willing to pay to protect a secret that could tear his world apart.
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I have at times taken a vacation day when the new book in this series is released. Enough said.
I had a hard time getting into this book at first. It was slow and I was so confused by the magic system. However, I stuck with it and I am so glad I did! It eventually picked up speed and I got to the point where I couldn't put it down. The characters come across as flawed and human and capable of some really cool things. The magic system took some getting used to, but it was unique and interesting to try to visualize. Not to mention, there are many twists and turns you will not see coming. I would highly recommend this book and I urge you to keep reading even if it takes a while to get through. It's well worth it.
This novel was a great read. I think it is better than his Night Angel Trilogy. The book never had a real lull and there is a great plot line with vast depth in the character. Also, the system in which magic is utilized and created is fascinating and well built.
This book has great characters, amazingly detailed geopolitics, and brilliant ploting. It deals with issues of culture and identity in an insightful way, has a magic system whose creativity and consistency rivals Brian Sanderson's, and has a grey-gray morality that forces us to evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of every faction just as we do in real life. Oh, and it's also a really fun read. Weeks is one of my new favorites.
This was a fun book to read. I was surprised, honestly, at how fast I got through it. I had thought that the size would take a but more time, but I was unable to tear myself away once I got going.
The Prism is a complex character with flaws that I really appreciated. There were a few moments throughout the book that really catapulted the character development forward and many surprises that kept him from becoming boring. The snippets of back story that are sprinkled throughout the book also add depth without overwhelming the reader with the characters history.
Karris was a great character. She was a strong and powerful woman, not the typical damsel in distress that needs the big, strong man to save her. I appreciated that she was able to be feminine while still being a force to be reckoned with.
Kip was awesome. This is a kid that everyone can feel for. He is a strong character that you find yourself rooting for nearly immediately. General Danavis, Liv, Ironfist, and the White were interesting characters that added to the story. I do wish that some of them had been featured a but more but I also understand the reason why they were not. I am hopeful that as the series continues these characters will be developed further.
I think the author did a solid job of building a world that was unique while still being easy to fall into. Some fantasy/sci-fi authors create such complex and overwhelming worlds that it is hard to get into the plot while learning about the world, terminology, and the unique aspects. Weeks introduced the world at a slow enough pace to allow the reader to dive in without losing the details.
This book goes beyond the traditional portrayal of an epic battle between good and evil. The primary hero lives a lie, the evil mastermind speaks the truth. I enjoyed identifying with Kip as he slowly learned about himself. I look forward to reading the rest of the story in the next two books.
A very good book. A compelling plot, using characters with real depth. A book about decisions and consequences. Loyalty, lies and repercussions. A book about brothers. All set in a Mediterranean style world with its own religion and politics. The magic system is interesting, and is itself embedded not only in engineering and fighting, but in politics and religion and more subtle forms of power. And Weeks explains all of this without ever boring or lecturing the reader and without straying from the plot. 2 early twists worth praising are the use of a main character who is not a physical paradigm and the existence (and use) of gunpowder. I enjoyed this book immensely, as in "stayed up when I should have been sleeping or working to finish reading it" type of enjoyed.
Brent Weeks is a master of words. I would highly recommend this and his "Night Angel" trilogy. The story is well written and fast paced you become connected to the characters that move the plot faster than you can imagine.
This is a fresh take on the epic fantasy story. Very well written believable characters that drive the plot, rather than being driven by the plot.
Highly recommended.
Brent Weeks follows up his "Night Angel" trilogy with the first in his new series "The Lightbringer". While his writing style is similar to that of his previous series, Weeks makes a conscious effort to create a whole new world that is populated by new and different characters. The Black Prism follows in a similar vein with a complicated plot and lots of action and fighting. Refreshingly, this swords and sorcery series limits itself to human actors and refrains from introducing improbable monsters and magical beings. The world of the Chromeria is a unique creation with an interesting back story,
The characters in this novel are still somewhat two dimensional and have a recognizably middle-American 21st century voice. The protagonists are very likeable and the antagonists are more basic still and agreeably disagreeable. Nonetheless, Weeks' characterization in this novel is more complex and varied than his previous series. Although he still has a propensity to fall into over the top action the nearer he gets to the end of the novel, overall the action is more restrained and relevant to the plot. The author's plotting is also more sophisticated and surprises the reader several times with believable twists and turns.
This book will be enjoyed by mature fantasy readers and by those who enjoyed his first trilogy. Brent Weeks is a writer who continues to develop and I look forward to the next book in the series.
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Gavin Guile is The Prism. He lives in a world where, maybe, 50% of the population can transmute a color they can "see" into something tangible. Most of these people can only "see" one color and therefore "work" with only that color. Fewer can "see" 2 colors, and less can see 3. The Prism can see all colors and work with all of them, from sub-red to superviolets. The work is called "drafting" and the product that comes from the drafters body is called "luxin". (I'm explaining all of this because I struggled with the concepts the first third of the book.) The Prism is sort of a religious figure but his ultimate purpose is to keep the world in balance. If one country/group of people starts to use too much red than red will get weaker and green (it's opposite) will get stronger. Lastly there is suppose to be only one Prism per generation.
The book takes place 16 years after the Prisms' War between Gavin and his younger brother, Dazen. Probably because both brothers are Prisms and struggling for power. (As true to his style of writing, Brent Weeks, doesn't divulge the entire story at the beginning.) Gavin wins the war and everyone thinks that Dazen was killed. Instead he's a prisoner in an elaborate jail under the Prism's room.
At the start of the book Gavin receives a note that it's time to meet his son, that he didn't know he had. ???? Gavin has to "decide how much he's willing to pay to protect a secret (s) that could tear his world apart."
Overall a excellent book, on par with Brent's Night Angel series. I'm anxiously awaiting the next book.
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PagesHinduism & Quantum Physics
Hinduism-Brief Sketch
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The natural habits of a new-born soul
From the Bhagavad Gita
It (the self) is not born, and It does not die; nor is it ever that this One having
been nonexistent becomes existent again. This One is birthless, eternal, undecaying,
ancient; It is not killed when the body is killed.
Of the unreal there is no being; the real has no nonexistence.
As after rejecting (discarding) wornout clothes a man takes up other new ones
Since death of anyone born is certain, and of the dead (re-)birth is a certainty,
Question:Is reincarnation true?
Sri Ramana Maharshi: Reincarnation exists only so long as there is ignorance. There is really no reincarnation at all, either now or before. Nor will there be any hereafter. This is the truth.
[Note: Comments by David Godman: Most religions have constructed elaborate theories which purport to explain what happens to the individual soul after the death of the body. Some claim that the soul goes to heaven or hell while others claim that it is reincarnated in a new body.
Sri Ramana Maharshi taught that all such theories are based on the false assumption that the individual self or soul is real; once this illusion is seen through, the whole superstructure of after-life theories collapses. From the standpoint of the Self, there is no birth or death, no heaven or hell, and no reincarnation.
As a concession to those who were unable to assimilate the implications of this truth, Sri Ramana would sometimes admit that reincarnation existed. In replying to such people he would say that if one imagined that the individual self was real, then that imaginary self would persist after death and that eventually it would identify with a new body and a new life. The whole process, he said, is sustained by the tendency of the mind to identify itself with a body. Once the limiting illusion of mind is transcended, identification with the body ceases, and all theories about death and reincarnation are found to be inapplicable.]
Question: Can a yogi know his past lives?
Maharshi: Do you know the present life that you wish to know the past? Find the present, then the rest will follow. Even with our present limited knowledge, you suffer so much. Why should you burden yourself with more knowledge? Is it to suffer more?
When seen through the sight of the supreme space of Self, the illusion of taking birth in this mirage-like false world is found to be nothing but the egotistical ignorance of identifying a body as "I". Among those whose minds are possessed with forgetfulness of Self, those who are born will die and those who die will be born again. But know that those whose minds are dead, having known the glorious Supreme Reality, will remain only there in that elevated state of reality, devoid of both birth and death. Forgetting Self, mistaking the body for Self, taking innumerable births, and at last knowing Self and being Self is just like waking from a dream of wandering all over the world.
Question: How long does it take a man to be reborn after death? Is it immediately after death or some time later?
Maharshi: You do not know what you were before birth, yet you want to know what you will be after death. Do you know what you are now?
Birth and rebirth pertain to the body. You are identifying the Self with the body. It is a wrong identification. You believe that the body has been born and will die, and confound the phenomena relating to the body with the Self. Know your real being and these questions will not arise.
Births and rebirths are mentioned only to make you investigate the question and find out that there are neither births nor rebirths. They relate to the body and not to the Self. Know the Self and dont be perturbed by doubts.
Question: Do not ones actions affect the person in later births?
Maharshi: Are you born now? Why do you think of other births? The fact is that there is neither birth nor death. Let him who is born think of death and palliatives for it.
Question: What happens to a person after death?
Maharshi: Engage yourself in the living present. The future will take care of itself. Do not worry about the future. The state before creation and the process of creation are dealt with in the scriptures in order that you may know the present. Because you say you are born, therefore they say, yes, and add that God created you.
But do you see God or anything else in your sleep? If God is real, why does he not shine forth in your sleep also? You always are, you are the same now as you were in sleep. You are not different from that one in sleep. But why should there be differences in the feelings or experiences of the two states?
Did you ask, while asleep, questions regarding your birth? Did you then ask Where do I go after death? Why think of all these questions now in the waking state? Let what is born think of its birth and the remedy, its cause and ultimate results.
Question: What becomes of the Jiva (Individual soul) after death?
Maharshi: The question is not appropriate for a Jiva now living. A dead Jiva may ask me, if he wishes to. In the meantime let the embodied Jiva solve its present problem and find who he is. Then there will be an end to such doubts.
Question: Is the Buddhist view, that there is no continuous entity answering to the ideas of the individual soul, correct or not? Is this consistent with the Hindu notion of a reincarnating ego? Is the soul a continuous entity which reincarnates again and again, according to the Hindu doctrine, or is it a mere mass of mental tendencies- samskaras?
Maharshi: The real Self is continuous and unaffected. The reincarnating ego belongs to the lower plane, namely, thought. It is transcended by Self-realisation.
Reincarnations are due to a spurious offshoot. Therefore they are denied by the Buddhists. The present state of ignorance is due to the identification of consciousness (chit) with the insentient (jada) body.
Question: Do not we go to heaven (svarga) as the result of our actions?
Maharshi: That is as true as the present existence. But if we enquire who we are and discover the Self, what need is there to think of heaven?
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Question: Should I not try to escape rebirth?
Maharshi: Yes. Find out who is born and who now has the trouble of existence. When you are asleep do you think of rebirths or even the present existence? So find out from where the present problem arises and in that place you will find the solution. You will discover that there is no birth, no present trouble or unhappiness. The Self is all and all is bliss. Even now we are free from rebirth so why fret over the misery of it?
Ouestion: Is there rebirth?
Maharshi: Do you know what birth is?
Questioner: Oh yes, I know that I exist now, but I want to know if Ill exist in the future.
Maharshi: Past! Present! Future! .
Questioner: Yes, today is the result of yesterday, the past, and tomorrow. The future, will be the result of today, the present. Am I right?
Maharshi: There is neither past nor future. There is only the present. Yesterday was the present to you when you experienced it, and tomorrow will be also the present when you experience it. Therefore, experience takes place only in the present, and beyond experience nothing exists.
Question: Are the past and future mere imagination?
Maharshi: Yes, even the present is mere imagination, for the sense of time is purely mental. Space is similarly mental. Therefore birth and rebirth, which take place in time and space, cannot be other than imagination.
Question: What is the cause of tanha, the thirst for life and the thirst for rebirth?
Maharshi: Real rebirth is dying from the ego into the spirit. This is the significance of the crucifixion of Jesus. Whenever identification with the body exists, a body is always available, whether this or any other one, till the body-sense disappears by merging into the source the spirit, or Self. The stone which is projected upwards remains in constant motion till it returns to its source, the earth, and rests. Headache continues to give trouble, till the pre-headache state is regained.
Thirst for life is inherent in the very nature of life, which is absolute existence sat. Although indestructible by nature, by false identification with its destructible instrument, the body consciousness imbibes a false apprehension of its destructibility. Because of that false identification it tries to perpetuate the body, and that results in a succession of rebirths. But however long these bodies may last, they eventually come to an end and yield to the Self, which alone eternally exists.
Questioner: Yes, "Give up thy life if thou wouldst live", says the Voice of the Silence of H.P.Blavatsky.
Maharshi: Give up the false identification and remember, the body cannot exist without the Self, whereas the Self can exist without the body. In fact it is always without it.
Questioner: A doubt has just now arisen in a friend of mines mind. She has just heard that a human being may take an animal birth in some other life, which is contrary to what Theosophy has taught her.
Maharshi: Let him who takes birth ask this question. Find out first who it is that is born, and whether there is actual birth and death. You will find that birth pertains to the ego, which is an illusion of the mind.
Question: Is it possible for a man to be reborn as a lower animal?
Maharshi: Yes. It is possible, as illustrated by Jada Bharata the scriptural anecdote of a royal sage having been reborn as a deer.
Question: Is the individual capable of spiritual progress in an animal body?
Maharshi: Not impossible, though it is exceedingly rare. It is not true that birth as a man is necessarily the highest, and that one must attain realisation only from being a man. Even an animal can attain Self-realisation.
Question: Theosophy speaks of fifty to 10,000 year intervals between death and rebirth. Why is this so?
Maharshi: There is no relation between the standard of measurements of one state of consciousness and another. All such measurements are hypothetical. It is true that some individuals take more time and some less. But it must be distinctly understood that it is no soul which comes and goes, but only the thinking mind of the individual, which makes it appear to do so. On whatever plane the mind happens to act, it creates a body for itself; in the physical world a physical body and in the dream world a dream body which becomes wet with dream rain and sick with dream disease.
After the death of the physical body, the mind remains inactive for some time, as in dreamless sleep when it remains worldless and therefore bodyless. But soon it becomes active again in a new world and a new body the astral till it assumes another body in what is called a rebirth. But the jnani, the Self-realised man, whose mind has already ceased to act, remains unaffected by death. The mind of the jnani has ceased to exist; it has dropped never to rise again to cause births and deaths. The chain of illusions has snapped forever for him.
It should now be clear that there is neither real birth, nor real death. It is the mind which creates and maintains the illusion of reality in this process, till it is destroyed by Self-realisation.
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Question: Does not death dissolve the individuality of a person, so that there can be no rebirth, just as the rivers discharged into the ocean lose their individualities?
Maharshi: But when the waters evaporate and return as rain on the hills, they once more flow in the form of rivers and fall into the ocean. So also the individualities during sleep lose their separateness and yet return as individuals according to their samskaras, or past tendencies. It is the same after death the individuality of the person with samskaras is not lost.
Question: How can that be?
Maharshi: See how a tree whose branches have been cut grows again. So long as the roots of the tree remain unimpaired, the tree will continue to grow. Similarly, the samskaras (past tendencies) which have merely sunk in the Heart on death, but have not perished for that reason, occasion rebirth at the right time. That is how Jivas (individual souls) are reborn.
Question: How could the innumerable Jivas and the wide universe which they produce sprout up from such subtle samskaras sunk in the Heart?
Maharshi: Just as the big banyan tree sprouts from a tiny seed, so do the Jivas and the whole universe with name and form sprout up from the subtle samskaras.
Question: How does the Jiva (individual soul) transfer from one body to another?
Maharshi: When one begins to die, hard breathing sets in; that means that one has become unconscious of the dying body. The mind at once takes hold of another body, and it swings to and fro between the two, until attachment is fully transferred to the new body. Meanwhile there are occasional violent breaths, and that means that the mind swings back to the dying body. The transitional state of the mind is somewhat like a dream.
Question: How long is the interval between ones death and reincarnation?
Maharshi: It may be long or short. But a jnani (Self-realised man) does not undergo any such changes; he merges into the universal being.
Some say that those who after death pass into the path of light are not reborn, whereas those who after death take the path of darkness are reborn after they have enjoyed the fruits of karma in their subtle bodies.
Some say that if ones merits and demerits are equal, they are directly reborn here. Merits outweighing demerits, the subtle bodies go to heaven and are then reborn here; demerits outweighing merits, they go to hells and are afterwards reborn here.
A Yogabrashta (one who has slipped from the path of yoga) is said to fare in the same manner. All these are described in the sastras (scriptures). But in fact, there is neither birth nor death. One remains only as what one really is. This is the only truth.
Question: I find this very confusing. Are both births and rebirths ultimately unreal?
Maharshi: If there is birth there must be not only one rebirth but a whole succession of births. Why and how did you get this birth? For the same reason and in the same manner you must have succeeding births. But if you ask who has the birth and whether birth and death are for you or for somebody distinct from you, then you realise the truth and the truth burns up all karmas and frees you from all births. The books graphically describe how all would take countless lives to exhaust, is burnt up by one little spark of jnana (spiritual knowledge), just as a mountain of gunpowder will be blown up by a single spark of fire. It is the ego that is the cause of all the world and of the countless sciences whose researches are so great as to baffle description, and if the ego is dissolved by enquiry all this immediately crumbles and the reality or Self alone remains.
Question: Do you mean to say that I was never even born?
Maharshi: Yes, you are now thinking that you are the body and therefore confuse yourself with its birth and death. But you are not the body and you have no birth and death.
Question: So you do not uphold the theory of rebirth?
Maharshi: No. On the other hand I want to remove your confusion that you will be reborn. It is you who think that you will be reborn.
See for whom the question arises. Unless the questioner is found, such questions can
never finally be answered.
By Swami Vivekananda
The Real and the Apparent Man
Birth and death are in nature, not in you. Yet the ignorant are deluded; just as we
under delusion think that the sun is moving and not the earth, in exactly the same way we
think that we are dying, and not nature. These are all, therefore, hallucinations. Just as
it is a hallucination when we think that the fields are moving and not the railway train,
exactly in the same manner is the hallucination of birth and death. When men are in a
certain frame of mind, they see this very existence as the earth, as the sun, the moon,
the stars; and all those who are in the same state of mind see the same things.
Swami Vivekananda wrote about
The natural habits of a new-born soul
We cannot deny that bodies acquire certain tendencies from heredity, but those
tendencies only mean the physical configuration, through which a peculiar mind alone can
act in a peculiar way. There are other tendencies peculiar to a soul caused by its past
actions. And a soul with a certain tendency would by the laws of affinity take birth in a
body, which is the fittest instrument for the display of that tendency. This is in accord
with science, for science wants to explain everything by habit, and habit is got through
repetitions. So repetitions are necessary to explain the natural habits of a new-born
soul. And since they were not obtained in this present life, they must have come down from
past lives.
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The Soul and Its Destiny
The Vedanta philosophy discusses the
1. Absolute or transcendental, and
2. Relative or phenomenal.
From the absolute standpoint, the soul is non-dual, immortal, ever pure, ever free, ever illumined, and one with Brahman. It is untouched by hunger or thirst, good and evil, pain and pleasure, birth and death, and the other pairs of opposites. That is the soul's true nature. The realisation of which is the goal of a man's spiritual aspiration and striving. From this absolute standpoint, the soul is calledParamatma or Supreme Soul.
But from the relative standpoint, the Vedanta philosophy admits the existence of a multitude of individual souls called Jivatmas, and distinguishes them from the Supreme Soul. Attached to the body, the individual soul is a victim of the pairs of the opposites. Entangled in the world, it seeks deliverance from the eternal round of birth and death, and with that end in view, studies the scriptures and practises spiritual disciplines.
The embodied soul is associated with the sense organs, the
The presence of an irrefragable Self or consciousness is assumed in all acts of thinking. The Self or consciousness, which is the true 'seer' or subject, is unchanging intelligence, and can never be imagined to be non-existent. Atman (the Self) in man and Brahman in the universe are completely identical.
The idea of body, senses, and the mind, associated with the non-self, is falsely
superimposed upon the Self, and the Self, which is of the nature of pure consciousness,
appears as a jiva, or phenomenal being, subject to the various limitations of the physical
The Soul
The Rishis speak of two souls:
The real soul is birthless, death less, immortal, and infinite. The same real soul, under the spell of ignorance, appears as the apparent man identified with the body, mind and senses. This apparent man becomes, on account of his attachment to the body, a victim of birth and death, virtue and vice, and the other pairs of opposites.The apparent man is bound to the world, and it is he, again, who strives for liberation.
The enjoyment of material pleasures, and the subsequent satiation and weariness; the consciousness of bondage, and the struggle for freedom; the injunctions of the scriptures, and the practice of moral and spiritual disciplines- all this refers to the apparent man. Again, it is the apparent man who performs virtuous or sinful deeds, goes, after death, to heaven or hell, and assumes different bodies. But it must never be forgotten that rewards and punishments are spoken of only with reference to the reflected, or apparent soul. The real soul is forever free from the characteristics of the relative world.
But the real soul is always free, illumined, and perfect.
From the Mahabharata
Vyasa said: "That has been said to be Manifest which is possessed of these four
attributes, viz., birth, growth, decay and death. That which is not posessed of these
attributes is said to be Unmenifest. Two souls are mentioned in the Vedas
and the sciences that are based upon them. The first (which is called Jivatman; embodied
soul) is endued with the four attributes already mentioned, and has a longing for the four
objects or purposes (viz., Religion, Wealth, Pleasure and Emancipation). This soul is
called Manifest, and it is born of the Unmanifest (Supreme Soul). It is both intelligent
and non-intelligent. I have thus told thee about Sattwa (inert matter) and Kshetrajna
(immaterial spirit).
Soul and its Destiny
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"I suppose I shall have to go," she said, "if only to pacify Tommy."
"A very good and sufficient reason," commented Monck enigmatically.
He lingered on beside her for a while, but nothing further of an intimate nature passed between them. She felt that he had gained his objective and would say no more. The truce between them was to be observed until the psychological moment arrived to break it, and that moment would occur some time on Christmas Eve in the moonlit solitudes of Khanmulla.
Later she reflected that perhaps it was as well to go and get it over. She could not deny him his opportunity, and it would not take long—she was sure it would not take long to convince him that they were better as they were.
Had he been younger, less wedded to his work, less the slave of his ambition, things might have been different. Had she never been married to Ralph Dacre, never known the bondage of those few strange weeks, she might have been more ready to join her life to his.
But Fate had intervened between them, and their paths now lay apart. He realized it as well as she did. He would not press her. Their eyes were open, and if the oasis in the desert had seemed desirable to either for a space, yet each knew that it was no abiding-place.
Their appointed ways lay in the waste beyond, diverging ever more and more, till presently even the greenness of that oasis in which they had met together would be no more to either than a half-forgotten dream.
The moon was full on Christmas Eve. It shone in such splendour that the whole world was transformed into a fairyland of black and silver. Stella stood on the verandah of the Green Bungalow looking forth into the dazzling night with a tremor at her heart. The glory of it was in a sense overwhelming. It made her feel oddly impotent, almost afraid, as if some great power menaced her. She had never felt the ruthlessness of the East more strongly than she felt it that night. But the drugged feeling that had so possessed her in the mountains was wholly absent from her now. She felt vividly alive, almost painfully conscious of the quick blood pulsing through her veins. She was aware of an intense longing to escape even while the magic of the night yet drew her irresistibly. Deep in her heart there lurked an uncertainty which she could not face. Up to that moment she had been barely aware of its existence, but now she felt it stirring, and strangely she was afraid. Was it the call of the East, the wonder of the moonlight? Or was it some greater thing yet, such as had never before entered into her life? She could not say; but her face was still firmly set towards the goal of liberty. Whatever was in store for her, she meant to extricate herself. She meant to cling to her freedom at all costs. When next she stood upon that verandah, the ordeal she had begun to dread so needlessly, so unreasonably, would be over, and she would have emerged triumphant.


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Jesus is Mary's son and Jesus is the Son of God. The God of the universe hand picked Mary to raise His Son!
Mary was there the day Jesus was born and she was there the day he was crucified. Her story is deep and rich and has myriad lessons for any woman—mothers, daughters, sisters, friends.
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When God selected Mary," Hickem says, "He was looking for heart. God set out to find the precise woman who would give her heart to Him, completely and wholly. He wanted a woman with whom He could entrust His perfect Son. This was going to be no ordinary woman."
Heaven in Her Arms will touch your heart if you are facing fear and uncertainty, wondering about leaving your plans behind, feeling a need for community and the support of other women, or wanting to deepen your life of faith.
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One of the single most fascinating people of the Bible, to me, is Mary, the mother of Jesus. In different seasons of my life, I have thought about her life, her heart, and her willingness to forsake everything in order to partake in the plan God had for her life. Catherine Hickem's book, Heaven in Her Arms is a fantastic, intimate look at the life and heart of Mary. Hickem takes her readers on a journey, to the very heart of who Mary was. We see early on, that God chose Mary as participant in his plan of Salvation based not on lofty heritage, but based on the righteous condition of her heart. I deeply appreciate the eloquent way in which this book examines Mary's response to the angel's news that she was to give birth to the Son of God. She was not without fear or questions- in fact, she was very honest about both of those things. But, her fear did not consume her and her questions were an honest response to quite shocking news. I agree with the author when she writes that she is grateful that Mary asked God questions. "She was able to quickly comprehend the situation she was in and authentically put her concerns before God." Oh, that I am able to do that in difficult situations, as well! It is through asking God honest questions that we authenticate our relationship with Him, seeking deeper truths about who God is. The book continues to examine every aspect of Mary as the mother of Jesus, including the facts that Mary knew being a mother would be difficult, she knew to be there when things got tough, she would have to let her Son fulfill his purpose, she knew to stay connected and she knew to be a woman of prayer.
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Satchel Paige told us never to look back. Rich Nelson never has.
Oh, there have been fleeting thoughts: What if he had discovered earlier in the life that he had this God-given gift for marathon running? But the gift has allowed to give back in the most personal of ways.
Nelson, 42, who lives in Manhattan, entered a 5K run benefitting the Susan G. Komen Foundation in October 2009 and won. This struck a deep chord.
Nelson's older sister. Stephanie Robin, 44, was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2004.
Nelson was with his sister in 2007 when doctors told her there were some treatments that had a 40 percent chance of extending her life three months or a treatment had a 35 percent chance of extending her life two months.
"These were not acceptable outcomes,'' Nelson told The Post. "So we started looking into clinical trials. We were looking for a miracle.''
They found one at Sloan Kettering Memorial Hospital. Robin entered an experimental trial along with 71 other women. She is the only woman still in the trial.
Robin started her own charity Think Pink Rocks, urging women to answer a few simple questions, such as, "Have any other women in your family had breast cancer?" There is a gene for breast cancer that can be dedicated easily by routine blood tests.
Nelson has taken the fight to the streets. Through running he has helped raise more than $100,000 for his sister's charity. He was hoping to raise more in the New York City Marathon, which was canceled because of Superstorm Sandy.
Instead he will run today in the Philadelphia Marathon. He is hoping to set a personal best — sub-2:55 — but more important, he is running for Pennies In Action, a foundation trying to develop a cancer vaccine.
Celebrities on hand to help storm victims
A hurricane-ravaged Staten Island and the borough's humanitarian champion would not be deterred. The 16th annual Dr. Theodore Atlas Foundation Dinner packed the Hilton Garden Inn on Staten Island Thursday night, with 700 donors and dozens of celebrities joining ESPN fight analyst and boxing trainer Teddy Atlas to assist the victims of Hurricane Sandy.
Among the star-laden dias were former Knicks stars Patrick Ewing and Charles Oakley, Giants Super Bowl champ and CBS NFL analyst Phil Simms, Packers great and NFL Network analyst Sterling Sharpe, former heavyweight contender Gerry Cooney, thoroughbred jockeys Mike Luzzi and Rajiv Maragh, Giants punting great Sean Landeta, "Who's the Boss" and "Taxi" star Tony Danza (a former club boxer), ex-Jet Bruce Harper, former Yankee Mike Pagliarulo, ex-Ranger Nick Fotiu, and sportscasters NBC's Bruce Beck, MLB Network's Brian Kenny, ESPN analyst and former Jets coach Eric Mangini, and Giants voice Bob Papa.
Atlas, who traveled throughout Staten Island then to the Rockaways and Breezy Point in the past three weeks, was buoyed by the turnout.
"We may be bent, but we don't break…life is measured by the amount of care a person can give out in his life."
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Youth hockey team on classic quest
Several eight-year-old hockey players from the area, led by Christopher Carreon-John, were so upset the Winter Classic was cancelled that they petitioned their hockey coach to create one at NYC's Lasker Rink.
The team — the Avalanche, a Tier 1 club out of Hackensack, N.J. — has invited the L.I. Royals to an outdoor game at Harlem's outdoor ice rink on Dec. 23. Each of the kids from Carreon-John's team is contributing money from his respective piggy bank to pay for the ice time. They are hoping to get a Ranger to referee.


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This story was filed by CBS News' Farhan Bokhari in Islamabad.
A Pakistani provincial high court on Monday declined to rule on whether Raymond Davis, a CIA contractor arrested on charges of murder, is immune to prosecution in the country due to his claimed status as a diplomat. The court's move may delay resolution of a difficult dispute that continues to drive a wedge between the United States and Pakistan.
Davis was arrested on Jan. 27 in Lahore, northwest Pakistan, after he shot and killed two young men who he says were armed and trying to rob him.
Since his arrest, President Obama's administration has pressed Pakistan to release Davis on the grounds that as an American diplomat serving in the country, he is immune from prosecution. Pakistan's foreign ministry, however, has thus far refused to certify Davis as a diplomat armed with immunity, arguing he was never given the designation before the killings.
The Davis case has become the most serious irritant in Washington's security relations with Islamabad since the two countries became allies in the global war on terror after the New York terrorist attacks.
On Monday, Ejaz Chaudhary, chief justice of the provincial high court of the Punjab province in Lahore ruled; "The case is in a trial court. It will decide on his immunity."
Judge Chaudhary's decision now refers the matter of Davis' immunity back to a lower Pakistani court, where he also faces charges of murdering the two young men.
"It seems the case may continue for some time more," a Pakistani foreign ministry official tells CBS News on condition of anonymity.
"The danger is that this matter will now get dragged on and that it will keep on adding strains to this (US-Pakistan) relationship," added a Western diplomat in Islamabad.
Lieutenant General (retired) Talat Masood, a recognized expert on Pakistan's security and foreign policy, warned that a prolonged dispute surrounding the Davis case would harm the interests of both the United States and Pakistan.
"The two countries are locked together in a close relationship. Pakistan and the United States need each other to be friends for stabilizing the Afghanistan-Pakistan region. This relationship is too precious to be put at stake because of this one case," Masood tells CBS News.
Pakistani officials have said a quick end to the case may only be possible if President Asif Ali Zardari grants Davis an official pardon. However, the officials warn that with anti-U.S. sentiment widespread in the Asian nation, that expeditious resolution may clash with sentiment on the streets.
On Monday, after the court hearing in Lahore, some young men gathered outside the Punjab high court to demand that Davis be tried under Pakistani law.
"Murder must never be allowed to go unpunished," college student Ghulam Rasool told CBS News.
Saeed Minhas, an office worker who also joined the demonstration, echoed the sentiment. "Americans are no friends of Pakistan. We must give an exemplary punishment to Raymond Davis. He must be punished, hanged if needed, to uphold Pakistan's law."


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Beer is the main attraction, but a full menu -- including po-boys, burgers, salads, and more -- makes it an option for dinner as well. The new Malt Room event hall has recently opened to host large groups. Just like the bar space, it provides a view of on-site brewing operations.
The new building has a French Country appeal, with outdoor picnic tables facing the trace. Inside, the interior features dark wood and brick accents that relay a modern French country motif. When sidling up to the bar, be sure to notice the "old rail" beneath your feet -- the foot rest is made of old railroad tracks.
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SCHAUMBURG, Ill. — The auto finance industry continues to squash fears of an impending subprime auto finance bubble, with the Experian's latest State of the Automotive Finance Market report showing that finance sources made more than five times as many loan to superprime customers (17.9% of total auto loans and leases) than deep-subprime customers (3.5 percent of total auto loans and leases).
According to the report, both 30- and 60-day loan delinquencies were up slightly. However, the combined subprime and deep-subprime share of new and used auto loans and leases dropped from 23.3% from the year-ago period to 22.8%.
"Automotive lenders seem to be keeping cool heads when it comes to how much risk they are willing to take with subprime and deep-subprime customers," said Melinda Zabritski, senior director of automotive finance for Experian. "Yes, subprime and deep-subprime loans are growing, but the entire market is growing from a volume perspective across all risk tiers. In fact, the subprime loans have actually dropped as a percentage of the total market. That, combined with only a slight uptick in delinquencies, makes clear that the sky is not falling."
Thirty-day delinquencies increased from 2.19% in the year-ago quarter to 2.22%, while 60-day delinquencies rose from 0.56% to 0.62% during the same time period.
Leasing and used-vehicle sales continued to gain momentum during the quarter, with leasing's share of new-vehicle sales jumped from 26.92% in the year-ago period to a record high of 31.44%. Even used-vehicle leasing, which accounts for a small slice of the lease market, experienced growth. It grew from a 3.26% share in the prior-year period to 3.71%.
Used-vehicle financing also grew to record levels in terms of average dollar amount and overall loan share during the quarter. The average used-vehicle loan reached an all-time high of $19,101, up from $18,671 in the prior-year period. As for its overall loan share, used-vehicle loans accounted for a record 55.61% of all vehicle loans during the second quarter.
The growth was driven by an increase in the number of prime and superprime consumers choosing used vehicles. Specifically, 43.3% of superprime consumers selected a used vehicle, a 1`0% increase over 2015. For prime consumers, 59.9% chose used, a 6.6% increase over the previous year. This shift also helped push the average credit score for a used-vehicle loan from 645 in the year-ago period to 648.
"One of the biggest trends we continue to see is the shift to used vehicles by customers with excellent credit," Zabritski said. "As vehicle prices continue to rise, savvy consumers are looking for ways to control costs. That appears to be pushing more customers toward used vehicles."
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Following two days of negotiations, Lufthansa has struck a deal with workers, putting an end to recent strikes.
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In addition to ground staff, the agreement covers workers at the Lufthansa Systems, Lufthansa Technik and Lufthansa Cargo units, according to the union that represents them – Verdi.
All are in line for pay increases between three and 5.2 percent within the next two years and in two stages.
The resolution of the dispute means no more of the industrial action that has cost Europe's second-largest airline an estimated 15 million euros.
The German carrier is cutting 3,500 jobs in a bid to increase profits.
A walkout on April 22 by 14,000 staff caused the cancellation of 99 percent of Lufthansa's European services that day.


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It talks about the "rise of business to power". In other words how multinational corporations have become more powerful than governments and are set to replace governments with corporate power. In the aftermath a new type of smaller groups or communities of people develop and live in balance with nature and resources.
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Wolves Among Sheep
The True Story of Murder in A Jehovah's Witness CommunityBook - 2000
There are tragedies in life. The young child killed by a drunk driver. The family devastated by an early morning house fire. These events sadden us and make us reflect. "There but for the grace of God..." But if tragedy has a degree, there is surely none more unspeakable that the cold-blooded, brutal, shotgun murder of two beautiful children. Such was the case when Kim Anderson's estranged husband, Jeff Anderson, killed her and her two children-Juri, aged 10, and Lindsay, aged 8. Juri died with his arms wrapped around his sister, in a futile effort to protect her. Wolves Among Sheep is unlike any book you have read-or are likely to read again. It is written by the person most affected by the deaths of these two innocent children and their mother-their father and Kim's first husband, James Kostelniuk. Compelled to write the book as an expression of sorrow and love for the family so cruelly taken from him, Kostelniuk also had a deep need to arrive at some understanding of why these senseless murders took place. This question led him to expose the influence of the Jehovah's Witness organization that wielded total control over Kim's life, as it had over himself until he found the resolve to break with the organization. In making that break, Kostelniuk knew he would be forever shunned by the Witness community and, according to its laws, forbidden contact with his own wife and children. The convicted killer, Jeff Anderson, was also a member of the Jehovah's Witnesses. In a bizarre turn of events, Anderson began to correspond with Kostelniuk from prison, and his correspondence provides a chilling look into the mind of a murderer who held back a terrible secret from the world. After serving fifteen years, the Canadian criminal justice system offered Jeff Anderson the opportunity of a faint-hope hearing for early parole from his 25-year sentence. In February 2009, Anderson's file was opened up for public scrutiny at his first National Parole Board hearing at William Head Institution near Victoria, British Columbia. That parole hearing confirmed Kostelniuk's suspicions and revealed even more about this offender than anyone outside the system had known up until that time. Wolves Among Sheep is a riveting read that explores the darkest parts of the human heart and mind, and surprises us with the depth of its love and compassion.
Publisher: Toronto : HarperCollins Publishers, c2000
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