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Highly laudable ambivalent gesture by the Addl Chief Delhi High Court Justice Gita Mittal
The judiciary and the fourth estate of our country are indeed remarkable. There may be difference of opinions in an open democracy about the faith of section of the people in these institutions or about their style of functioning but as far as my personal opinion is concerned I have full confidence and trust in both of them except few negligible instances pertaining to various controversies taking place from time to time.
There are hundreds of examples that whenever the nation's executive have failed to exercise their duties as per the constitutional norms it's the forth estate and the judiciary that have played their vital role in highlighting the injustices confronted by the people and the judiciary intervening at an appropritate time to deliever due justice to the aggrieved whether it's the trivial and most vexed issue of the the controvertial Jessica Lal murder case, the despicable killing of Nitish Katara or the 2012 Nirbhaya episode.
In all these most sensitive, shocking and anguishing cases of national and international concern ot was primarily the media and judicial trial that provided justice to the bereaved families resulting in change of governments and influencing public mindset to the core. As a sequel to these pro people judicial interventions a novel example of the judicial humility and ambivalence have been noticed, felt and experienced on 21st of July in Delhi High Court when the additional chief justice Gita Mittal stopped her hear in one of the ongoing matter in her court when parents and their children entered the courtroom with a request to issue directives to Delhi government to admit their 10 to 15 year old children in the government schools of Delhi who had been denied addmissions in various classes thus playing with their future.
On seeing about 52 children aged between 12 to 15 years in their school uniforms entering her courtroom peacefully the sombre, affable and ambivalent additional chief justice of Delhi High Court not only stopped the hearing of the ongoing case in between but also directed her private secretary to immediately arange snacks ( samosas) and cold drinks for the entire lot of school children.
She then patiently heart the plight of the distressed children and their parents and after feeling convinced of their genuine plight took immediate congnisance of their plight and issued urgent directives to the Delhi government to admit all the four hundred students in their respective schools under intimation to the court at the earliest possible.
The court was of the opinion that no government has any right to play with the future of the students and as such it is bound to admit these students in their respective classes and schools forthwith. It may be recalled that the Right to Education, an act enacted by the central government makes it mandatory for all the state and the union government to deliever free and compulsory education at least up to twelth standard in all the government and government aided schols of the country and this ambivalent gesture of the additional chief justice and two other justices deserve fullest appreciation and kudos for comig to the rescue of 400 children ofDelh8 wh were denied addmission in government schools for one reason or the other.
It is apt to menton here that the Delhi High Court Acting Chief Justice Gita Mittal is the first woman in the field of law and justice to have been brstowed with the presigious 'Nari Shakti Puraskar', one of the India's highest civilian honour for women.
The coveted Nari Shakti award was presented to her for her exemplary contribution in the upliftment of women community of the country. The award was presented to her in a private ceremony by the President at the Rashtrapati Bhavan on International Women's Day.
Justice Mittal, who took over as Acting Chief Justice after the retirement of Justice G Rohini in April last year, has introduced many welcome changes in the functioning of the Delhi High Court. She has been closely monitoring the dispensation of justice in Delhi and has also initiated a clean-up drive of the lower judiciary.
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A Rare Gesture of inner conscience for a true statesman
Hundreds of leaders of BJP and other political parties paid their homage and adieu to the the legend of Indian politics and the former prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee today at the latter's residence. But seeing the member of parliament and the son of late union minister Madhav Rao Scindia, Jyotiraditya Scindia , hailing from a Family of the kings of Gwalior literally laying down of the floor paying his true tributes which was aired by almost all the news channels of the country was unique and outstanding giving a real feel of passionate reverence to the great leader of the masses.
Sounds good. Gives the impression of an extremely genine, conscientious and concerned homage. A rare gesture indeed. Being from the diametrically opposite party ideologically and a core Congressman Jyotiraditya Scindia's kind gesture has really impressed one and all. There may be several leaders of BJP who are today on elevated positions only because of him and his kind blessings but never had anybody exhibited their gesture like Vijay Raje Scindia ?
Both these gestures, one of Rahul hugging PM in parliament, visiting Vajpayeeji in AIIMS twice and then participating in his funeral and Jyotiraditya's lying down on ground to pay homage to this great leaders are the best examples of greatness but thrashing of Swami Agnivesh by the saffron party, who joins other to pay homage is highly condemnable and uncalled for. What's your take friends?
The Bharat Ratna and former prime minister, rather a statesman Atal Bihari Vajpayee has been kept on the life support system in the ICU of All India Institute of Medical Sciences as his condition is extremely critical, not responding to the treatment.
The Vice President Venkaiyya Naidu Prime minister Narendra Modi, union minister Piyush Goyal, Textles minister Aruna Irani, Harsh Vardhan, Suresh Prabhu and several other prominent figures went to AIIMS to enquire about his health condition.
The prime minister Modi was in AIIMS for about fifty minutes consulting with the senior doctors to revive the ailing leader.
Mr. Vajpayee had been addmitted in AIIMS, ICU about nine weeks ago and had been there since then.
He was suffering from the age related ailments like infection in the urinary tract, complications in the Kidney and lungs.
Former prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee is the tallest leader in the Bhartiya Janata Party who's credited with founding the saffron party during the eighties.
He was also the president of Jana Sangh and is the first non Congress PM to have run the BJP led NDA government for full five year term.
A leading poet, writer, thinker, orator and a veteran leader Atal Bihari Vajpayee had been the most acceptable and popular opposition leader of the country who for the very first time addressed the United Nation's Assembly in Hindi in his capacity of Indian External Affairs minister earning tremendous applaud in the country as well as abroad.
He was bestowed with the highest honour of the land, the Bharat Ratna, by the then president of India who personally went to Vajpayee's house to deliever it to him as he was not in good health ailing since long.
We wish him speedy recovery. Atalji's anxious followers from all over the country have started collecting outside AIIMS. The former PM is not all responding to the treatment says AIIMS MEDICAL BULLETIN. CONDITION EXTREMELY CRITICAL.
The Aam Aadmi Party led by Arvind Kejrival has suffered an another huge jolt today as one of its vociferous leaders' and journalist turned politician Asutosh resigned from the Aam Admi Party citing personal reasons and requesting the media friends not to ask for any byte. Formerly AAP's senior leader and one of the important pillars' the senior journalist Asutosh has also announced his permanent retirement from the party that was formed in Delhi as a byproduct of the national movement against corruption led by the crusader of reforms and a seasoned fighter against corruption Anna Hazaare against his wishes to form any political party in the country.
The journalist turned politician who'd been with the AAP's national convenor Arvind Kejrival in his thick and thin, had never given any impression of his resigning from the party though he had been in low profile in the party during the last few months nit given any political statement on issues of national significance against BJP as he used to speak to the media earlier. Asutosh has expressed his desire to resign through a tweet in his twitter handle with the chief minister Arvind Kejrival outrightly rejecting while replying to the former's tweet in Hindi as: ISTIFA KO ACCEPT KARNE KA SAWAAL HI PAIDA NAHI HOTA.
In his twitter handle Asutosh has tweeted : Every journey has an end. My association with the AAP which was beautiful / revolutinery has also an end. I have resigned from the party/ requested the political affairs committee to accept the same. It is purely from.avery very personal reason. Thanks to the party who supported me throughout. Thanks.
He further requested his media friends, not to take any byte from him as his resignation is entirely on the personal reasons. The tweet of Asutosh acknowleged nearly 10000 likes, about 900 retweets and about 3, 200 comments. Sounds interesting that a politician who was diametrically opposite ideologically to the saffron party has in the morning , just before the tweet of resignation has tweeted, advising the BJP workers and leaders to take a pledge on the 71st Independence day to atleast adopt three cows to give them a new lease of life. Cow is the mother ofevery BJPite and the RSSite. How can they leave her on the roads to die of starvation. There can't be a bigger service than this in the Hindu religion.
It may be recalled that this is the 7th major political tragedy for Aam Admi Party after well known leaders like the former union law minister Shanti Bhushan, sr advocate Prashant Bhushan, former minister Kapil Mishra, Psephologist and now Swarajya party's national chief Dr. Yogendra Yadav, an MLA and a renwned crowd puller and poet Dr. Kumar Vishwas had left the party in a huff accusing Arvind Kejrival as s dictator not allowing anybody to raise their voice of dissent in the party. Not only this but the former minister Kapl Mishra had accused him of corruption in favoring his brother in law in various Jal Board contracts thus leading to the loss of crores of rupees of the tax payers money.
Not only this but during the nomination of party MPs for the three Delhi Rajya Sabha seats Kejrival was allegedly blamed for giving RS nominations to two new unknown rich political entities that obliging the senior hard core AAP leaders like Asutosh n others who had been with him in.the party's thick n thin.
There is a general perception in the media that nobody in the AAP dares to raise his or her voice against Arvind Kejrival and the deputy CM Manish Sisodia who are literally running the show. If anyone dares to do show he/ she is shown the door.
Just two days before the Independence day a student leader of JNU facing charges of sedition Umar Khalid (alongwith CPI's Kanahiya Kumar, the former JNU student's union president ) was today fired upon by an assailant in front of IENS building where the newspaper offices are located when the former had come out of the Constitution Club for tea and snacks alongwith his three colleagues.
According to Khalid and his friends they had come to Constitution Club at Rafi Marg, New Delhi to participate in a seminar titled " KHAUF SE AZAADI" but since the programme had not started by then, Umar Khalid alongwith his friends came out at the nearby tea stall of NDMC to have tea n snacks at around 2.10 / 2.30 afternoon.
But when they were returning back a tall healthy man, as described by his friend Lahiri grabbed him ( Umar ) from behind who tried to resist. During the physical struggle with the unknown assailant when Umar noticed a pistol in his hand he applied full strength to catch hold of his hand with pistol.
Meanwhile his friends raised an alarm and tried to over power him but the assailant was successful in losing the grip and ran away firing from the distance.
In the confusion and perhaps desperation, hurry and huff, he left the pistol on the road. There was terror, chaos and anxiety all around.
The police reached the spot and took Umar Khalid in its custody for his safety. The crime branch officials have prepared the sketch of the assailant on the basis of the description given by Khalid's friend accompanying him at the time of the alleged attack. They have also taken the CCTV footage of the cameras fixed in the nearby locations and are trying to examine them minutely and with precision.
Umar Khalid is fully secured and unhurt. This broad day light firing and attack on a person in the heart of the city just few metres away from Parliament house has raised a question mark on the bandobast of the law enforcing agencies just two days before the independence day say the people around.
It may be recalled that cases of sedition had been registered against the two student leaders viz Umar Khalid and Kanhaiya Kumar in June 2016 on the charges of raising anti India slogans in a programme organised in JNU to oppose the hanging of Afzal Guru, the convict of the parliament attack. They are currently on bail.
However even after the lapse of two years the charge sheets have not been filed against both of them for sedition reveal sources. Just a few metres away another function of the ruling party was being held in which Ms Meenakshi Lekhi, MP was the chief guest.
The former skipper of the Indian Cricket team Sunil Gavaskar has refused to attend the swearing in ceremony of his old friend, the former Pakistan Cricket Captain and the twenty first prime minister elect of Pakistan to be sworn in at Islamabad on 18th August.
The reason given by him was his pre occupation in the test matches as a commentator on 18th in England. Sunil Gavaskar's denial to attend this historic swearing in of Imran Khan in Pakistan is being highly appreciated and lauded by one and all in India especially the saffron party and the present political dispensation at the centre and about twenty states of the country.
Though the reason given by the former skipper of the Indian team is quite genuine and true as Sunil Gawaskar would be in England on 18th of August due to his being the commentator in the India versus England test series starting on 18th till 22nd August political analysts say that by refusing to accept the invitation of the the Pakistan's prime minister elect's swearing in ceremony Gawaskar has also given a huge rebuff to the enemy country and its anti India policies thus winning the hearts of billions of Indians around the globe.
Since it was the invitation from a friend ex captain of Pakistan cricket team to the former Indian skipper on extremely personal terms, Sunil Gavaskar could have easily obliged the former by cancelling his trip to England but he did' nt do so proving himself to be a true nationalist in the language of the saffron party that rules the country at the centre and in over twenty states of the country.
Meanwhile the former Indian batsman, MP and now minister in the Congress government of Punjab has created a furore by saying that if allowed he will be extremely pleased to attend the swearing in ceremony of the former Pakistan skipper and the PM elect Imran Khan's swearing ceremony in Islamabad, Pakistan to usher in a new chapter offriendship between the two neighbouring countries always at loggerheads.
On being questioned by journalists about his intention to visit Pakistan after the former Indian skipper Sunil Gawaskar refused to oblige Imran Khan, Navjyot Singh Sidhu said that he would love to go to Pakistan, if permitted as this would usher in opening the doors for a renewed friendship between the warring nations who are at loggerheads for a long time. Sidhu even gave Imran Khan a certificate terming him a man of character to the utter dismay, surprise and shock of all.
There had also been reports that the Indian Ambassador to Pakistan would be presenting a cricket bat to Imran Khan as a diplomatic goodwill gesture for reopening of the friendship dialogues between both the nations who could not see each other eye to eye since long with incessant killings going on in the Indo Pak border and Kashmir at the behest of Pakistan Army and the ISI since long.
The refusal of Sunil Gavaskar and the interest of Navjyot Singh Siddhu to attend the swearing in ofTehrike Insaaf chief Imran Khan has opened serious debates in various television channels of the country with some appreciating Sidhu's move as a purely friendly gesture while his antagonists terming it as an initiative to supportthe India's hardened enemy nation and its prime minister.
However, the another Indian skipper Kapil Dev and Bollywood actor Amir Khan have not yet issued any statement in this context whether they intend to go to Pakistan on 18th August in Imran Khan's swearing in ceremony or not.
It may be recalled that the Tehrike Insaf chief and former Pakistan skipper Imran Khan who had been extremely critical of India during the entire election campaign to beget votes had after scoring the victory over his immediate political rivals like PML-N and PPP has said in the media interviews that he is looking forward for the better friendly relations with neighbouring India and if India puts one step forward his government will come out with two steps forward sunce he has lots of friends in India especially in the cricketing fraternity.
He even said that the Indian media has made him the villain of Bollywoofd for no reason. But on Kashmir issue he never relented and said that its the core issue of Pakistan where human rights violations have become the order of the day. He extented four specific invitations for his swearing in to his Indian crickter friends viz. Sunil Gavaskar, Kapil Dev and Navjyot Singh Sidhu ( all cricketers) and Bollywood actor Amir Khan.
The prime minister elect of Pakistan Imran Khan is likely to be sworn in as the 21st PM of the neighbouring country on 18 th August with the support of few regional parties and independents.
If we view his ascendence to power in Pakistan from the point of view of our future cordial relationships with this religious nation we should not be too much optimistic about improvement in relations as being given us to believe or understand from the recent statements of Imran Khan that if India puts its one step forward, Pakistan under his
leadership will move two steps ahead.
The reason behind my logic is unambiguosly simple. Imran Khan's party Tehrike Insaaf climbed to power with the sole support, help and dictates of the Pakistan Army and the latter's prime and sole objective is to ensure that relations between India and Pakistan should always be in disarray so that the control of Pak Army in the internal affairs of Pakistan including its foreign policy matters go on unhindered.
If the anti India statements and poisionous outbursts of the former cricket champion and Tehrike Insaaf Chief Imram Khan during the general election campaign in Pakistan are assesed or analysed one will come to an unambiguous conclusion that his horrible anti India stance and criticism of the former PM Nawab Sharif calling him a traditional friend of India and prime minister Narendra Modi selling Pakistan's interests to India has played a pivotal role in his victory in the general elections.
The way Pakistan Army has rigged the elections in several constituencies and favoured Imran Khan's Party seek majority ensuring the deadly defeat of the major opposition parties viz Sharief's PML – N and Bilawal Bhutto's Pakistan Peoples' Party it has become absolutely clear that the future of Pakistan despite the duly elected government of PTI under Imran Khan's prime minister ship is going to be remote controlled by the Pakistan Army from behind the scene.
The reason behind launching of corruption cases and putting the former prime minister behind bars is the Army, as the former was not working under their dictates and was in favour of maintaining and improving better relationships with India, but the Pakistan Army would not like that to happen.
Nawab Sharief was also against the Mumbai attack and was interested to start penalisation of those responsible for the Mumbai misadventure but the Army was deadly against these actions. The Kargil war too was the brain child of the Pak Army and it is believed that the then prime minister Nawab Sharief was not brought into confidence who had no option but to follow the Army's dictates.
In fact, through the election of a political novice like Imran Khan who is just a cricketer having no knowlege or experience about running the administration or foreign policy matters of Pakistan, the Army of the neighbouring country has got a real pawn or a stooge who is all set to act on the dictates of the latter failing which they will pressurise the regional parties and the independents supporting him, under coercion to with draw support or pull the rug from under his feet thus dethroning him from power. Imran Khan knows all this, but has no option but to act on the Army's dictates.
Becoming prime minister of Pakistan was a long cherished dream of the former Pakistan Captain who brought the world cup for the country. The husband of four wives, divorced with three, have been active in Pakistan's politics struggling for the last two and a half decades in order to reach the top. But, a sportsman in true sense and a politician, who would never accept defeat, Imran Khan finally made it after 25 years of incessant struggle starting from the ground and crushing the seasoned political parties PML-N and PPP who ruled Pakistan for years together.
Imran is overwhelmned that he is the prime minister of a nation like Pakistan which was his long cherished dream, it hardly matters who operates the remote control.
Moreover, hardly 7 days are left for his swearing in but Imran has not shown courtsey to invite India's prime minister Narendra Modi to the swearing in despite the fact that the latter had invited the then Pakistan PM Nawab Sharief and other heads of all the SAARC nations in New Delhi in 2014. What does this indicate? Leaving it on you friends to respond?
After making the alleged controvertial Rafale deal and banking fraud of Rs 15000 crores as its main election plank for the coming general elections of 2019, the mother and son duo i.e. Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi has now come out of parliament as well to ensure that the issue is highlighted to the most in the media inorder to make it infilterate into the peoples' mind repeatedly and it was in the run up to the general elections and the elections likey to be held in Rajasthan, Chattisgarh and Madhya Pradesh that Sonia Gandhi despite are not so good health registered a physical protest alongwith her party MPs outside the parliament house vociferously raising anti government slogans on Rafale dealand other corruption issues slamming the BJP led NDA government at the centre.
Holding the nicely written colourful playcards having made for this demonstration the sloganson themm read : Rafale cover up, out in the open, Modi corruption exposed, No farm loan waiver,Rs 1,30, 000 crores to Rafale scam, Farm loan waiver with cross on it and Rafale to Ambani and Rafale scam, we demand JPC. There was huge uproar inthe house today with the entire opposition demanding the papers of the entire Rafale deals to be tabled in the house and Joint Parliamentary Probe be held to ensure transparancy and probity in the entire excercise of the deal which the opposition termed as fishy.
It may be recalled that during the no confidence motion the Congress president Rahul Gandhi has openly accused the prime minister and the government for encouraging crony capitalism and helping the private players like Ambani having no experience in defence production being obliged with the offset contract of Rafale jets thus allegedly according them profit of several thousand crores to which prime minister Narendra Modi has taken Rahul Gandhi to task for being childish in matters of the nation's security deals and leading to country's mockery, globally. Modi has challenged Rahul Gandhi on Rafale deal saying that it's a transparent and honest deal, all on papers and records and is fully unchallengeable.
Recently, the strong bete noires of the prime minister Narendra Modi n the NDA government former ministers in Atal Bihari Vajpayee's govt. veteran journalist Arun Shourie, Yashwant Sinha and senior advocate Supreme court and leader of Swaraj Party Prashant Bhushan had also addressed a press conference accusing the PM n the defence minister for dramatically reducing the number of Rafale jets from 126 to 36 and enhancing the cast of each fighter jet fron 660 crores to1660 crores thus leading to the alleged fiscal loss of one hundred thousand crores to the public exchequer. They also questioned the defence minister and the PM's integrity on transferring the offset contract from Hindustan aeronautics ltd to Anil Ambanies new defence company which posseses no previous experience in the field of defence manufacturing.
They demanded that the deal be made transparently public in parliament so as to win the confidence of the people of the country that nothing is fishy in it.
Meanwhile, the political morale ofthe BJP led NDA is too high after it defeated the entire non BJP opposition during the no confidence motion and in the recent election of the Deputy Chairperson of Rajya Sabha.
Lord Shiva devotees Kaanvariyas go on rampage and violence in broad daylight, damage car. Police a mere spectator?
It seems as if there is no law and order in the capital of India. Anyone or a group of vandals can go heywire at any point of time and vandalise the government or private property in the name of being the devotees of God or wearing saffron and the law enforcing agencies or the police behaves like mere spectator, allowing the rampage to go on unabatedly despite the fact that the entire traffic becomes jammed and hundreds of people put to inconvenience.
Yes , I am talking about the shabby, uncalled for, a most shameful and aterrorising incident of an open rampage and vandalism that took place today morning at the main road of Moti Nagar where a women driving her car touched a Kanwariya passing by in a group without physically harming him.
The enraged one of the Kanwariya resorted to open violence using his hockey stick damaging the front and rear window panes of the new car and thereafter calling other fellow Kanwariyas who amid chanting of Har Har Mahadev not only damaged the entire car by forcibly hitting it with hockey sticks and trying to remove the doors hitting it badly with hockey sticks n kicks but finally also turning it upside down in the middle of the road.
Somebody from the crowd rang the 100 number and called the police. After sometime two policemen in uniform reached the scene but instead of feeling apprehensive or terrorised to see these uniformed policemen the highly enraged Kanwariyas, about 30 to 40 in numbers started hitting the car more angrily and grievously n finally turned it upside down damaging it completely and creating a ruckus on the main road leading to the complete traffic jam for hours together amid chanting of slogans Har Har Mahadev.
The two policemen who arrived on the scene were mere spectators witnessing helplessly the mob violence. It was by chance that the woman driver and her son got off the car, otherwise they would have borne the brunt of these enraged Kanwariyas. After creating so much of destruction and terror the Kanwariyas dissapeared by the time the police party arrived on the scene.
The police has registered the case under the relevant sections of the law for vandalising the car and violence and are trying to nail the real culprits by examining the CCTV footage as well as the video clicked by some passers by which have become viral on social media, after some time.
Similarly, in Bulandshahr too on 7th August, several enraged and angry Kaanvariyas have damaged a police vehicle hitting it with hockey sticks amid the slogans of Har Har Mahadev. The police also seemed to be scared as there was no action whatsoever from their side thus encouraging them to continue the rampage and vandalism.
Sounds really shocking that in the name of worshipping Lord Shiva , the Kaanvariyas who are reverred and worshipped for their good deeds are involved in such a shameful act of vandalism and rampage in a broad day light. The police is confident of bringing the guilty Kanvariyas to law book.
There had been number of complaints of such acts of vandalism and violence against Kanwariyas during the Sawan season, but of no awail.
It is usually believed that the believers in God and the worshippers are usually patient believing in high degree of tolerence but the incident of the broad daylight vandalism today has broken this belief or myth, sadly. What's your take friends?
The Aam Admi Party seems to have tightened its belt for the national and well as the Delhi state elections slated for 2019 and 2020 and this can be substantiated by the three major cabinet decisions and approvals the Delhi government led by chief minister Arvind Kejrival and his cabinet has taken yesterday i.e. on 7th August pertaining to about one hundred and twenty percent hike in the MLA development fund from Rs 4 crores annually to Rs 10 crores, establishment of 15 new academies in Delhi and approval of the pensions for the handicapped etc. The 120% staggering increase in the MLA annual fund is going to put an additional burden of 420 crores on the states' exchequer for which the chief minister Delhi Arvind Kejrival says there is no need to seek the central approval nor for opening 15 new academies as the apex court had already made it transparently clear that except the police, law and order and land subjects, the government of NCT Delhi is not legally or constitutionally bound to seek the centre permission or approval. The Bhartiya Janata Party which has merely three MLAs in the Delhi assembly however has badly opposed the increase saying that unless the developmental procedures pertaining to the execution of various schemes are not simplified, there is no use of such a gigantic enhancement of the MLA fund. The Delhi chief minister on the other hand has said that the government of NCT of Delhi are giving full discreation to the Delhi lawmakers to use the budget without any deterrent ot bottlenecks. It may be recalled that this enhancement in the MLA annual fund is the biggest in India as no other state has such a huge budget in terms of MLA development funds. There are number of complaints about the non use and alleged misuse of these funds in majority of the MLA constituencies in several states including Delhi hence such a huge increase is considered to be arbitrary as per the BJPs stand. The Aam Aadmi Party on the other hand is in a perpetual hurry to carry out various developmental projects in all the 66 constituencies being represented by the AAP lawmakers. Siurces reveal that though the AAP government has done remarkable work in the water, electricity, health care, education, social welfare and transport sectors by giving several concessions and free services to the Delhi electorates hailing from the lower middle class, minorities, backward and Dalit sections of the society it has badly lacked on the infrastructural and constituency wise development front at the decentralised level. Hence this rapid increase in the MLA fund from 4 crores annually to 10 crores. The enhanced fund will be officially delivered to every MLA by the end of this year or the starting of 2019. The AAP government strategically wants that the massive development activities gets started in the initial months 2019 in all the constituencies and goes on for the year so that the electorates of Delhi keep the constituency wose decentralized development fresh in their minds and vote for the party enmasse during the 2020 state elections. Moreover, by opening new academies of Garhwali- Kumaoni, Bangla, Kannada, Bengali, Kashmiri, Assamese, Telegu, Malyali, Tamil, Prakrit Pali languages etc it is trying to captire the vote bank of all these communities living in Delhi. What is surprising and shocking part of the whole episode is that the Congress party has not criticized Arvind Kejrival n AAP either on the formation of new academies and increase in the MLA fund despite it not having a single MLA in Delhi. The reason is unambiguous that Rahul Gandhi has a bigger motive of opposition unity against BJP in mind and therefore he do not want to annoy Arvind Kejrival. It may be recalled that Arvind Kejrival was present in the opposition conglomeration at Jantar Mantar with Rahul Gandhi in the protest Dharna against the mass rape of women n girls in Muzaffarpur, Bihar shelter home.What's your take friends?
The Delhi government of Aam Aadmi Party is expeditiously moving ahead with fulfilling its various pre poll and post poll promises in view of the fast approaching national and thereafter Delhi elections in the initial months of 2020.
The Aam Admi Party government and its chief minister Arvind Kejrival has been in direct confrontation with the centre and its nominee, the Lt governor of Delhi for almost three years after it assumed power in the state in 2013 after badly defeating the Congress party at the hustings in which the AAP secured 67 seats, a historic mandate giving merely three seats to BJP and none to Congress that ruled Delhi for 15 long years under the chief ministership of Shiela Dikshit, who herself lost from the Gole Market Assembly constituency to the Delhi CM Arvind Kejrival.
Since then the AAP government had been at constant loggerheads with the centre blaming prime minister Narendra Modi off and on and the then LG Nazeeb Jung and later on Anil Baijal for creating deliberate obstacles and bottlenecks on its way in order not to let it implement the pro peoplespolicies and programmes in Delhi. However, the party and the AAP government has despite sp much of obstacles, as claimed by it, has done tremendous good job in the water, power, education, health and transport sector.
Now since, the AAM Admi party government is left with only one and half years or even less it is trying to use every moment an opportunity to please the Delhi voters, the minorities, the backwards, the down troddens and the lower middle class. It also wants to please every community living in Delhi as well. Delhi has a sizeable population of Poorvanchalies and Uttarakhandies apart from other communities. It has therefore made good efforts to please the inhabitants of Bihar in Delhi by sanctioning a handsome budget for Chat puja arrangements and improving the condition of Chat Puja Ghats and ponds in good number of areas in Delhi. Similarly, the deputy chief minister of Delhi Manish Sisodia publicly announced in a rally of Uttarakhand Ekta Manch at Ram Lila Maidan about two years ago that the AAP government will ensure that an Academy of Garhwal n Kumaon is established in Delhi alongwith other academies like Punjabi, Bhojpuri, Mithila and Sindhi academies who are less in numbers as compared to the Uttarakhandies in Delhi.
The inhabitants of Uttarakhand has been since long demanding the establishment of Uttarakhand Academy in Delhi keeping in view their sizeable numbers say 25 to 30 lakh. The Aam Admi Party knows very well that the communities of Bihar, UP and Uttarakhand who in total comprise of fifty percent or more electoral strength in Delhi can tilt the political.balance of any party while forming the government.
Moreover the deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia's constitiency Mandavli also comprises of more than fifty percent of Uttarakhandi voters. As a result, the AAP government last year sanctioned over a budget of Rs one crore to organise Uttarayini programmes in all the seventy constituencies of Delhi thus making the AAP's solid inroads in the Uttarakhandi vote bank. According to the latest revelation by Manish Sisodia, the Delhi's CM in one of his tweets has declared that theDelhi government's cabinet has today taken a unanimous decision to establish 15 new Academies in the capital which include Kashmiri, Garhwali n Kumaoni, Asaamese, Kanada, Nangla, Telugu, Malyaali, Tamil, Prakrit Pali languages academies and an additional academy of foreign languages.
If this really happens the AAM ADMI Party in Delhi would be in a position to please all the communities of Delhi who may in turn respond by voting in favour of AAP in the Delhi election slated to be held in 2020. But it remains to be seen whether the central government ruled by the BJP would give the state government the necessary permission or legal sanction or not? A moot question indeed?
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Great location for holiday? Kazakhstan - check more information about this country.
From: http://www.flickr.com
At the start of every year, weather in our country become really unfriendly. Thanks to that, we start to thinking about long, summer days in some spot nice. It is great time to start arranging future holidays, mostly since 2017 we don't have to have a travel visa to visit Kazakhstan.


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19 May, 2012
Hippie Camper
I grew up camping and water-skiing so I love fresh air and the great outdoors. There's nothing like camping out under the stars, cooking sausages on an open flame with a glass of red in hand, toasting marshmallows gathered round a roaring fire. Someone's bound to pull out a guitar and everyone sings along to their favourite tunes. I am loving these very chic and stylish tee pees - my camping days were never so glamorous!
5 comments:
- Tania Maree said...
It's funny because I'm sitting here reading this with a glass of red in hand......
There's a pub open somewhere right? ;o)
I LOVE these images. It does make camping look glamorous......
Have a great Saturday night!!!
Tania xx
- May 19, 2012 at 3:18 PM
- Jane said...
Where is this camp located? My kind of style, hat a place to go and get your head clear, and take a healthy break. I loved this post. Thank you.
- May 20, 2012 at 3:06 PM
Oh wow! This teepee is the hyatt of teepees!! G.x
- May 20, 2012 at 6:18 PM
- Mama of 2 boys said...
Now they ARE fabulous! I have never actually been camping, but camping in these would definitely be the inspiration I need to try it out xo
- May 20, 2012 at 11:00 PM
- Melissah said...
Jane, these are different images from different places but it would be a pretty perfect place if they were all melded into one idyllic luxury camp!
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Beast Brewing Company offers a unique line of craft beer focusing on robust flavors for the adventurous palate. We are conveniently located on Highway 92 in the San Jose section of Bisbee, just five minutes from downtown. Our facility offers stunning views of the Mule Mountains in the USA to the north & the San Jose Mountains in Mexico to the south, entertainment and a patio. We are minutes from internationally renowned birding spot – the San Pedro Riparian, as well as many of Arizona's beautiful state and national parks, including Coronado for hiking, biking, caving, picnicking and more. Beast Brewing Company strives to reduce our carbon footprint by incorporating locally sourced ingredients into our products when possible, utilizing refurbished equipment, harvesting rain water and capturing waste water from our brewing process, encouraging the use of reusable growlers and by donating spent grain to farmers. We also source items like our tap handles, tasting trays and some artwork from local artists. Stop in to Arizona's first & wildest craft brewery for a cold, refreshing beverage after an active and sunny day in Arizona. Cheers!
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According to sources close to the White House, Vice President Joe Biden and his chief of staff Bruce Reed are "no longer involved" in planning for Obama's long term gun violence prevention program.
The vice president's disappearance from an issue he'd been spearheading is a clear signal of how much the focus has shifted from passing gun control legislation in Congress to winning reforms at state capitols and building local networks that can pressure and help elect members of Congress over the long term. The background checks bill Obama championed in the Senate isn't going to get another vote after falling short in April unless several senators publicly change their mind, aides to senators involved in gun control discussions say.
Representatives from the White House Office of Public Engagement will now execute the administration's gun control program. The OPE reports to Valerie Jarrett.
"It's pretty fair to say that the vice president's people were more heavily engaged when there was a game on the legislative front," said Democratic strategist Bob Creamer, who facilitates the Gun Violence Table meetings.
Weekly meetings on the gun control issue involve Mayors Against Illegal Gun Control, the Brady Camp, Moms Demand Action, Americans for Responsible Solutions, Center for American Progress and Organizing for Action.


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The shoreline of Cernobbio, a graceful town at 5 minutes walking distance from Sheraton Lake Como Hotel, comprises a compact quarter of old houses just off the lakeside piazza and is laced with a series of fine villas fronting the water. It is ideal for a walk along the lakeshore, followed by an ice-cream or a cocktail in the picture square facing the small pier.
Seven of Italy's top 18-hole courses are close by to keep the most demanding golfing enthusiasts happy. Lake sports and activities include water-skiing, windsurfing, seaplane and fishing. Private lessons can be booked directly by the concierge. The countryside and the mountains around Sheraton Lake Como are full of hiking trails and cycle paths suited to any age or ability.
There are three international casinos within a 30 km radius from Sheraton Lake Como at Campione d'Italia, Mendrisio and Lugano.
Worldwide known as the "pearl of Lake Como", Bellagio is suspended like a pendant on the promontory where the lake's western and eastern arms split and head south.
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Como, with its beautiful multi brand stores from top- name fashion and luxury brands.
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Sonic Youth's second full-length LP, 1985's Bad Moon Rising, has been re-released.
The new release features bonus tracks— "Flower," "Halloween," "Echo Canyon," and "Satan is Boring." The trio of songs are available via download card with the LP.
With Kim Gordon on bass, the album's American gothic sound, inspired by dissolution of hippie ideals in late 1960s Southern California, is a longtime favorite of Sonic Youth fans.
The reissued Bad Moon Rising is available on CD, vinyl and as a digital download (iTunes and vinylAmazon MP3[/amazon])
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Apple will give iPhone 4 owners a free case to address problems some users have reported with the new phone's antenna — an issue that affects the entire cellular phone industry, CEO Steve Jobs contends. Apple announced its free case offer at a press conference at its Cupertino headquarters on Friday (early Saturday here in Australia).
The iPhone 4 debuted in some parts of the world on 24 June and has proven to be a big hit for Apple — Jobs said the company had sold 3 million phones since last month's launch. But nearly immediately after the phone's launch some users reported problems with antenna interference. The most common complaint involves the reception bars disappearing from the iPhone's status bar when users hold the device a certain way, with their fingers covering the phone's antennas.
Jobs spent much of the press conference insisting the problem wasn't unique to the iPhone, showing videos of a Blackberry Bold 9700 and HTC Droid Eris exhibiting the same behaviour when users gripped the phones. "It's a challenge for the whole industry, and we're doing the best we can," Jobs said. "But every phone has weak spots."
Still, Apple says its working to address complaints from users who have had problems with cell reception. On Thursday, the company released iOS 4.0.1, an update to its mobile operating system aimed at more accurately displaying signal strength bars on the iPhone's status bar. Earlier this month, Apple conceded that it had used the wrong formula to calculate signal strength for all its phones.
Apple also plans to appease iPhone 4 owners with reception problems by offering them a free case for their smartphone. Tests by multiple sources have indicated that wrapping the phone in a protective case like Apple's US$29 iPhone Bumper can prevent the signal attenuation some iPhone 4 owners have reported.
The free case offer is available to anyone who buys an iPhone through September 30 as well as to existing iPhone 4 owners. Users who've already bought a bumper will be given a refund, Apple says. Users who bought third-party cases aren't eligible for the refund.
Because Apple's hasn't made enough of its bumpers to meet demand yet, Jobs said the company will offer a choice of cases to customers. Starting next week, iPhone 4 owners will be able to go to Apple's website, and apply for a case.
"We want to make all of our customers happy," Jobs said. "And if you don't know that about Apple, you don't know Apple."
Apple also addressed problems with the iPhone 4's proximity sensor on Friday. Some users have said that the sensor — which detects when you're holding the phone up to your face and disables the screen during calls so you don't inadvertently press buttons — either doesn't turn off the display or doesn't reactive the screen after the call is complete. Jobs says Apple is working on a fix that will be available in the next software update.


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It's 34 degrees in Tulsa. Much colder than I think it should be allowed in March. While I'm waiting for it to warm up enough for me to examine my beds and get my Spring garden work done, I thought I'd share some photos of last Summer.
My Hollyhocks were a new addition last year. They were pretty sparce, only a few stems. I'm hoping they've reseeded well enough and more will come back.
And my reliables. I have Daylillies and Stella Doro's tucked throughout my gardens for splashes of color. I'm really looking forward to seeing these beauties again this year.


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Why sing in the shower when you can do it in a concert hall?
That's one of the draws of Summer Sing. Now in its 53rd year, it's the ultimate one-night stand: no auditions, no rehearsal, no commitment — just the chance to sing great music with people who love it as much as you do.
That would be the New York Choral Society, a 180-member "avocational choir" — meaning its singers, many of them music teachers, perform for free. And while the halls have changed over the years, the music and the mission remain the same: Mozart, Verdi, Carl Orff . . . whoopee!
"Some people think they need to know all the notes, but that's not the point," says Kate Chaffee, 30, a voice teacher and aspiring musical-theater performer. "It's to come together, have fun and meet new people."
Chaffee stood outside Symphony Space the other day handing out scores for Orff's "Carmina Burana." Led by Phillip Cheah, the first of the season's six conductors — they change weekly — it's a wild and woolly song cycle about defrocked, usually drunken monks: a real crowd-pleaser.
But as with so many things in New York, there weren't enough men to go around — we're talking tenors here — so Chaffee and some other sopranos jumped in after the break to fill in, occasionally singing the tenor part an octave higher.
"Obviously, you don't have the luxury of screening people," says David Hayes, the choral society's music director. "But that's not the point. It's about people getting together and singing these great works." He'll conduct Verdi's Requiem ("Some people refer to it as Verdi's greatest opera!") on Aug. 6.
All you need is $20 for a score and a seat.
"In the old days, it was like $7, and we had subscriptions," says Joanne Lawson, a chorus member since 1967. "But hall rentals are expensive. We try to keep the price the same as a movie ticket."
After four decades in CAMI Hall, across from Carnegie, the group moved its Summer Sings to Symphony Space's Leonard Nimoy Theater in 2008. And while the erstwhile Mr. Spock has yet to beam aboard, hundreds of others have, says Rosanne Zoccoli, a chorus member for 23 years.
"The people who come are all ages, from all walks of life," says Zoccoli, whose day job is working for A&E. "Occasionally, some people misunderstand what a Summer Sing is and think it's a performance. Sometimes they leave at intermission, but others stay and listen."
That's what happened last week, at the first sing of the season.
"A couple of people came back and said, 'I bought a ticket but I can't sing!' " Chaffee says. "I told them that it was OK, and to sit toward the back to get the full effect. They stayed the whole time and said, 'This is wonderful!' "
Summer Sing meets Tuesdays through Aug. 20 at Symphony Space, 2537 Broadway at 95th Street. Tomorrow night at 7:30 p.m., Malcolm J. Merriweather conducts Mozart's Requiem. Tickets and information at 212-864-5400, nychoral.org.


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Selvagem's tracklist is CLASSIC!!
Awesome! Great songs, great mix!
typo in the tracklisting...
33. should be "Oba, Lá Vem Ela"
eu sou o rio, sou o zé do queijo, o zé keti, joãozinho 30, sou cartola, sérgio malandro e todo bando ❤
sou fã! tá increible! congrats
black coco! anyone knows where i can find this track?
Yo André Bratten
Can we give the original artists some proper credit??
What the hell is this...fuck...completely shameless
Eh verdade sim...podiam dar credito aos artistas dessas musicas...o mix ta optimo, mas ta errado nao darem credito cara
oh please don't get us started with this "giving the original artists proper credit" because that's an endless discussion that usually ends in a flame war (message boards good times come on). we have our reasons not to give away the ids and let's name just to name one: price speculation. we're usually all about revealing what we play - in our parties we have no problem displaying the cover of the records, but you have to be there - but in this case it was a lot of effort to put this together and it involves years of digging, the majority of the tracks were edited, so please allow us to not reveal everything just because you have the urge to know about everything. gee, we just want people to enjoy, not to create an argument, let's be cool. plus, just be polite and if you want to know about a particular track, ask us at facebook.com/festaselvagem. ta
Well said Trep. Great mix.
Was listening to this tonight and it shattered my expectations. Thanks Tim and Selvagem!
nice edits!
keep up the digging.
here are some of artists i was able to recognize, they're not really very obscure if you live in brasil, plus the name of the songs are usually somewhere in the track names.
2- trio ternura - a gira
15 - painel de controle - black coco
27 - gretchen - shake shake aia!
30 - the vamps - oba oba macumba
32 - samba soul - chove chuva ??
36- sergio malandro - que ideia
48 - Mr Mu - Melo do Sunda
50 - Dj Marlboro - Jack Matador
58 - Black future - Eu so o rio
Um dos melhores sets que já ouvi no BIS
Raridades da Musica Popular Brasileira para o Mundo
Obrigado Selvagem e Tim
One of the best BIS Mix that a I ever heard
Brazilian Pop Rare Grooves for all the World
Thanks Selvagem and Tim
Keep Hide Tracks ID -Hahahaha
What stirmonster said*
who is the artist for number 19, "ayahuasca yoga queen"? Song got me in a trance!
Selvagem mix is great, love the track around 32:30, right after the vampire one.
whats the song at like 50 ish? love the trojan vibes
Today, the guy will play at Gamboa here in Rio de Janeiro and a micro-bus full of cool people is going with me1!!! We will shake our gooves in Rio later!!! Coooooooooooollllll!!!!
Freakagem nos moogs / vocoders @ 44:00
Any idea what the last song Tim plays?
So much love for this! Totally love not having the tracklist - the hunt is all the more fun.
This is awesome!
<3 I absolutely love this. I am melting <3
Love the track 19 but can't find it anywhere online.
number 19, "ayahuasca yoga queen"
It sounds like they are saying Matahari.
If anyone can supply the right artist-song title for track starting at 43.55min.


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As part of precautionary planning Chicago Public Schools (CPS) is undertaking to support Chicago's students should the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) decide to strike, CPS is seeking a waiver from the Illinois High School Association (IHSA) to allow a continuation of practices and games for some 11,000 student-athletes who participate in fall sports. This is an effort to preserve current opportunity for CPS student-athletes to succeed during this season as well as future opportunity for sports-based college scholarships.
CPS today sent a letter to IHSA Executive Director Marty Hickman noting that IHSA bylaws and policies would prohibit student participation in interscholastic activities in the event of a strike. The letter expresses the concern that if CPS student-athletes cannot compete in games during the period of a CTU strike, it would result in their teams forfeiting critical games, potentially risking playoff and championship opportunities for the CPS students, and also risking student-athlete college scholarship opportunities.
"As you know, this is an important activity that keeps our children engaged, while also lending to their academic success," the CPS letter to Hickman says. "In the event of a CTU strike, we must do everything possible to put our students first and avoid any further disruption to their lives."
The IHSA is the governing body for interscholastic competition among Illinois high schools, and all state tournaments take place under its auspices.
Competition has already begun for fall sports in which CPS student-athletes compete, including football, cross country, golf, soccer, softball, swimming and diving, tennis and volleyball.
"No one will be hurt more by a strike than our children, and the potential cancellation of fall sports will negatively impact our student-athletes who not only dedicate countless hours in order to succeed on the field, but also look to sports-based college scholarships to help afford higher education," said CPS Chief Executive Officer Jean-Claude Brizard. "CPS will stay at the negotiation table, every day if needed, until we reach a fair contract for our teachers that keeps our kids in the classroom. We are also prepared to support our students, and this is one step in that preparation."
The letter further asks for clarification on whether teams can continue to hold practices if a properly credentialed coach is in place to ensure safety. About 90 percent of certified CPS coaches are CTU members and the letter seeks to "explore an exception that could allow our students to continue with varsity sports in the event of a strike."
CPS today announced it is taking preliminary steps to implement its "Children First" plan to provide students with essential services should the CTU leadership choose to strike. The plan includes providing a safe environment, daily meals and positive, engaging activities for students. CPS will partner with city sister agencies and departments, faith organizations, non-profits and other stakeholders to ensure students receive the support they need in the event of a CTU strike. Further information about CPS plans in the event of a CTU strike is available on the Children First website at www.cps.edu/childrenfirst or visit the District's main website at cps.edu.
Read the waiver.
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My 12 year old son, who has had type 1 diabetes for the past two years, is unable to feel lows throughout the night which has resulted in three seizures. He is extremely active in sports, and we usually compensate for this activity by giving an extra starch at bedtime. At the present time, I check his blood sugar before I go to bed and usually twice throughout the night. We are considering whether to go on a pump. Would a pump help with stabilizing his blood sugars through the night?
While the insulin pump is most likely the best way to stabilize blood glucose control because of its extreme flexibility and the ability to fine tune things, it is not a panacea. The pump, in and of itself, will only provide this type of control when told what to do.
It seems to me that your first step would be to do some investigating on your own to find out what's going on. This will require checking blood sugars every hour or two throughout a few 24-hour periods, including at least one day when your son has been quite active. You can then look for overall patterns and adjust his insulin regimen appropriately. Your son's situation might more easily be clarified by monitoring sugar levels continuously for several days to try to sort out what's happening in more detail. See The Continuous Glucose Monitoring System and ask if it's available.
Without knowing what insulin regimen your son is on, I cannot make specific recommendations. Hopefully, he is using a basal/bolus program, and you are adept at carbohydrate counting along with appropriate insulin adjustments for highs and lows. These skills will be necessary as well to make the most effective use of an insulin pump.
A pump is a great idea, but not a solution to your son's problem. However, it might make things more flexible provided you and he have appropriate training. To help with your decision, please see Is pumping for you? and ask your son's diabetes team about all options.
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text: First of all, read the That hasn't been released yet part again. Thank you. Second, this post DOES have something to do with ROM hacking. It belongs in the NDS Rom hacking section, and I hope a moderator will replace this. Thank you. I know lots of people here are looking forward to this game (if not, look up some info and start looking forward). I have read some discussion and theory sites, and I came to the (early) conclusion that there is a chance that you won't have the abbility to explore worlds without a time limit, even after completing the game. There is this clock on your screen that lets you see how much time you have left to complete your mission (I think it's 24 min. every mission). I don't really know why the programmers made this, but hey, it's a brand new game, right? But not having the abbility to explore or return to world AFTER you complete the game really sucks. (It's still a rumor, I guess) My real question is: Will there be a way to hack the game so that the clock dissappears in the game (off the screen isn't really necessary, but a loop would be sweet.. so that if it reaches 0, it starts at 24 again.) And if this would be possible, how hard would it be? It would be cool to choose from 'Mission select' (lets pray this option excists) and start a mission where you can explore youre beautiful Twilight Town right in your hands, without this stressing timer. I know it's really hard or in theory impossible to discuss hacking a game that hasn't come out yet, but maybe someone has already done this on a game or knows the chances. And to all the flaming guys (luckily, there aren't that much on GBAtemp ), I promiss I won't use this function in my first playthrough 'cause it will destroy the gameplay. I just switch off my DS when it reaches 0. EDIT: And before people start saying maybe you should do it yourself, I admit I have zero knowledge of programming. The only thing I know is a hex editor. But I have seen people hacking zelda for button use, so I thought that maybe a loop could be build in the game, which lets the timer never ends.


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Southwestern Pennsylvania Conference News (Periodical)
This publication was begun as Southwestern Pennsylvania Mission News, a bimonthly, on 23 November 1936. The first editors were Sanford G. Shetler and John L. Horst. It began as a mimeographed sheet. With the issue of 25 January 1938, it was changcd to a four-page, printed sheet, 6 x 8 inches, enlarged in January 1939 to 9 x 12 inches. In May 1942, by conference action, the name of the paper was changed to Southwestern Pennsylvania Conference News, and its contents were adapted to represent the four conference-wide organizations—Church Conference, Mission Board, Sunday School Conference (now known as the Christian Education Conference), and Associated Sewing Circles. In April 1954 the paper was changed to a monthly and in September 1954 the title was changed to Allegheny Conference News after the conference adopted a new constitution which changed its name from Southwestern Pennsylvania to Allegheny. It continues as the official organ of the four conference-wide organizations of Allegheny Conference (Mennonite Church).
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Horst, John L., Sr. "Southwestern Pennsylvania Conference News (Periodical)." Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. 1959. Web. 19 Aug 2018. http://gameo.org/index.php?title=Southwestern_Pennsylvania_Conference_News_(Periodical)&oldid=123170.
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Horst, John L., Sr. (1959). Southwestern Pennsylvania Conference News (Periodical). Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. Retrieved 19 August 2018, from http://gameo.org/index.php?title=Southwestern_Pennsylvania_Conference_News_(Periodical)&oldid=123170.
Adapted by permission of Herald Press, Harrisonburg, Virginia, from Mennonite Encyclopedia, Vol. 4, p. 589. All rights reserved.
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In case you haven't been keeping up to date with your PlayStation 3 releases, Valkyria Chronicles -- SEGA's beautiful strategy RPG -- hits retailers this week, and the game is extremely good. However, U.S. gamers might be feeling a little left out of the fun considering the fact that the Japanese downloadable content was previously unplanned for a stateside release. Fortunately, the official PlayStation Blog delivered some good news today.
According to a post by Associate Producer Christopher Kaminski, the extra mission and Extra Hard difficulty for Skirmish battles are coming to U.S. gamers early next year. This is certainly great news for people eager to take control of Welkin's Squad 7 in defense of Gallia and her honor.


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Salinas de Guaranda
Salinas de Guaranda, or simply Salinas is a town in the province of Bolivar, Ecuador.
Also called Salinas de Tomabelas. Famous for its brand of cheeses called Salinerito (considered the country's premium range) as well as wool spinning and dye mills Salinas de Guaranda is just 40 minutes by car from Guaranda. The area is surrounded by interesting salt formations left over from salt mining, in addition, it is also home to a major sweets industry and has beautiful walks and fishing areas along with horse riding facilities. The entry cost into Salinas is US$2.00 and US$5.00 for the various community cooperative based projects accompanied with local guides.
The province of Bolivar is around 60% Subtropical covered by western cloud forest while the lower section is more agricultural producing citrus and sugar cane.
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From Guayaquil. The bus ride from Guayaquil into Guaranda is most scenic and you will often see agricultural workers hard at work tilling the fields. You can get it in Bus Station (Av de Las Américas, Guayaquil 090513), you can choose Flota Bolívar, Atenas or San Pedrito lines. Ticket costs about $5.00
From Quito. The bus ride from Quito into Guaranda is most quiet and you will often see a lot of andean cities. You can get it in Bus Station (Av Condor Nan, Quitumbe), you can choose Flota Bolívar, Atenas or San Pedrito lines. Ticket costs about $5.50
You can choose Toursalinerito Pickup Transport Company; wich are stoping in Parque Echeandia, and they travel to Salinas every 15 minutes. Cost per passenger is USD 1,00, also you can use door to door service making a phone call to 0985196031 number. Or, take a bus from Cuatro Esquinas, located on the road to Ambato (10 km north from Guaranda). From there, take a pickup to Salinas (20 km). A taxi costs around US$15. To go back to Guaranda take any pickup from Salinas's main plaza (all of them go to Guaranda). From San Luis de Pambil take the ocational ranchero - be warned: these trucks are scarce.
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Salinas is into high mountains of the ecuadorian Andes. The weather is cold usually. In winter (december to May) there is so much rain, in summer (june to November) there is a lot of wind. Salinas is the main place in a group of 30 little towns. Its area is 4.440 square kilometers
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When you arrive to the town, you will be surprised of marvelous andean landscapes of Salinas. Also you can know a lot od factories wich were created by local people to their own development. You can choose between: chocolate factory, cheese factory, handycrafts, thread factory, chocolate factory, etc. More information you can see in: www.artesalinas.ec, www.tomabelas.com
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FEB 2017 Get a guide (about 5 USD if three people) at the tourist office at main plaza. He will take you to visit chocolate factory, threads factory, cheese factory, the salt mines, the oils factory. Takes around 2.5 hours. All places are in short walking distance.
Salinas de Guaranda style of projects acted as a catalyst and spread to other areas during the 1980s through a group from the town who transplanted their ideas to other towns. For example near La Palma in an easterly direction a native cloud forest reserve called Bosque Peña Blanca was procured along with a 300m waterfall, which has a lodge facility with 16 bunk beds, baths and cooking facilities just an hour's walk away in Echeandía (Tel. 03-970307), along with hotels and restaurants.
Visit Samiyaku permaculture farm and tour around to see beautiful abodes made of clay and straw, get a free guided tour from the farm workers to see and learn about permaculture techniques, native Andean medicinal plants, chicken tractor, rain water harvesting etc. There is also options for voluntourism.
Also, of interest is Chimbo 25km from Guaranda which as well as producing guitars and various firework models it posses a Vatican-style square built around a church called, Santuario de Nuestra Señora de la Natividad del Guayco which houses interesting pre-Spanish antiquities.
San Miguel further up the road is also worth a visit as is the old colonial town of Santiago which houses some interesting local art paintings in its church. If you continue on you'll pass San José de las Palmas to Bilován there are a set of worthwhile caves to explore called Las Guardias (west) which then leads on to a waterfall and river type beach in Balsapamba. The road then loops back to the aforementioned Babahoyo.
Hike down 3000m into the sub-tropical to the community of Chazojuan. This is an amazing 6h descend from the rim of the paramo at approx. 3700m down to the village of Chazojuan, which is part of the Salinas communities. They produce sugar cane and all kinds of tropical fruit and transport them to Salinas. You walk on the partly still used horse and mule trails through cloudforest passing by a waterfall. Ask for a local guide in the oficina de turismo as the treks are almost impossible to find on your own.
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There are a few restaurants around the main plaza. Some of them are communitary run, some are not. One of the places locals opt for a filling almuerzo is Anita Lopez, set in the second floor of the building to the left of the oficina de turismo (where you'll also find a store). In the building left to it is Di Fiorentino - please avoid it: we were ripped off there ($12 for two below average almuerzos).
Great pizzas are made by local Santiago Lopez in his pizzeria "La V-Ka" which is situated just off the main plaza. Using all local ingredients, this is a great place to try the local cheeses and meats. Starting at just $4 for a generous small pizza or $2.50 for a calzone, this place is open every night from about 6.
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There is a bar called "Blue Bird" which opens on Friday and Saturday nights.
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Salinas is a very small town and feels very safe. You may get altitude sickness, since Salinas is about 3560masl.
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Ask around for a local guide to take you on the 2-day hike down to San Luis de Pambil and Piedra Blanca. You can arrange accommodation in advance through Eco-Friendly Farmstays [7].


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National Parks For The Future.
The Atlantic Monthly, June 1961
In answer to the question of whether our national parks
are in jeopardy,
Stewart Udall, the new Secretary of the Interior, has written the following
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1948 and served in the 84th to 86th Congresses before being appointed to
the Cabinet.
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Zimele raises awareness and fundraises for programs that provide economic, educational and social resources such as financial management, job skills and life-skills classes. Since its founding in 2007, Zimele USA has funded programming in South Africa that has empowered over 10,000 women to become small-scale entrepreneurs who sustain independent livelihoods that not only benefit their families, but also their communities.
Zimele programs focus on the internal journey of our people. In order to transform their lives and their communities, they have to reconcile with themselves, their neighbors (fellow man), their environment and with God. Zimele is about helping people to live a life of abundance in their communities.
These Zulu women have inspired other women, men and children to break historical cycles of poverty and dependence on charity to take ownership of their own futures.
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GSK, Tolerx's late-stage trial for otelixizumab doesn't meet endpoints
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — A late-stage trial of a biologic treatment for Type 1 diabetes appears to have failed, according to results announced Friday.
GlaxoSmithKline and Tolerx said results of the 272-patient, phase-3 "DEFEND-1" study of otelixizumab indicated it did not preserve the function of insulin-producing cells in the pancreas, as measured by levels of the protein C-peptide, which is used to measure the amount of insulin the body is producing. Patients received a single, eight-day intravenous course of the drug no more than 90 days after diagnosis. Pending review of the results of DEFEND-1, patient recruitment for a second study, "DEFEND-2," has been suspended, the companies said.
"While we are disappointed in the DEFEND-1 results of otelixizumab, we remain committed to the development and commercialization of the candidates in our pipeline, each of which has a distinct mechanism and target for correcting abnormal immune responses," Tolerx president and CEO Douglas Ringler said.
Type 1 diabetes, formerly called juvenile-onset diabetes, is an autoimmune disorder in which the immune system destroys the pancreatic cells that produce insulin.
Dendreon's manufacturing expansion for Provenge OKed
SEATTLE — The Food and Drug Administration has approved biotech company Dendreon's expansion of manufacturing capacity for an immunotherapy treatment for prostate cancer, Dendreon said Thursday.
The company said it would be able to increase the ability of Provenge (sipuleucel-T) manufactured at its plant in New Jersey by increasing the number of workstations to produce it from 12 to 48.
The treatment is designed to induce an immune response against prostatic acid phosphatase, an antigen present in most prostate cancers.
The company said it expects to have around 225 infusion centers prepared to treat their first patient by the end of the second quarter, and 500 by the end of the year.
BioScrip reports Q4, full-year sales results
ELMSFORD, N.Y. — Specialty pharmacy provider BioScrip had sales of $450.4 million in fourth quarter 2010 and $1.6 billion for the year as a whole, according to financial results released Friday.
Sales for the quarter were $108.8 million higher than in fourth quarter 2009, while sales for the fiscal year were $300 million higher than in fiscal year 2009. However, the company still had net losses of $67.1 million for the quarter and $69.1 million for the year.
"2010 was a challenging year for BioScrip," the company's president and CEO Rick Smith said. "During the year, revenue and margins were impacted by pricing concessions on various specialty drugs, reimbursement pressures, the new industrywide [average wholesale price] standard and the overall impact of the weak economic environment. As a result, we commenced a strategic assessment of our business lines and overhead structure to position BioScrip for the future."
Highlights for the year included the acquisition of CHS, which Smith said bolstered the company's position in infusion and home services.
"We believe there are significant opportunities for BioScrip to improve operating performance and cash-flow generation," Smith said.


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One of the less understood laws of the Torah is that of the Ben Sorer u'Moreh, the rebellious son:
.כִּי יִהְיֶה לְאִישׁ בֵּן סוֹרֵר וּמוֹרֶה אֵינֶנּוּ שֹׁמֵעַ בְּקוֹל אָבִיו וּבְקוֹל אִמּוֹ וְיִסְּרוּ אֹתוֹ וְלֹא יִשְׁמַע אֲלֵיהֶם וְתָפְשׂוּ בוֹ אָבִיו וְאִמּוֹ וְהוֹצִיאוּ אֹתוֹ אֶל זִקְנֵי עִירוֹ וְאֶל שַׁעַר מְקֹמוֹ. וְאָמְרוּ אֶל זִקְנֵי עִירוֹ בְּנֵנוּ זֶה סוֹרֵר וּמֹרֶה אֵינֶנּוּ שֹׁמֵעַ בְּקֹלֵנוּ זוֹלֵל וְסֹבֵא. וּרְגָמֻהוּ כָּל אַנְשֵׁי עִירוֹ בָאֲבָנִים וָמֵת וּבִעַרְתָּ הָרָע מִקִּרְבֶּךָ וְכָל יִשְׂרָאֵל יִשְׁמְעוּ וְיִרָאוּ – If a man has a wayward and rebellious son, who does not obey his father or his mother, and they rebuke him, and he still does not listen to them; his father and his mother shall take hold of him and bring him out to the elders of his city, and to the gate of his town. They shall say to the elders of his city, "This son of ours is wayward and rebellious; he does not obey us; he is a glutton and a guzzler."
And all the men of his city shall pelt him to death with stones, and he shall die. So shall you cast out the evil from among you, and all Israel will listen and fear. (21:18-21)
The underlying reason that a Ben Sorer u'Moreh would theoretically have a death sentence is that Chazal understood that such a child has no boundaries and will eventually murder an innocent person. It is better to die young and innocent than a guilty man later on. This is very difficult to understand, even setting aside the free will paradox implied.
The Torah sets impossible parameters and conditions: the parents have to be united in agreement in every regard for their son be sentenced to death – what parent would do such a thing, let alone both? Furthermore, the age at which Ben Sorer u'Moreh applies is limited to the three months after his 13th birthday; he needs to have stolen a certain amount of meat; itself cooked a particular way; he needs to have drunk a certain amount of wine; all the while on his fathers property. These conditions are so improbable that the Gemara in Sanhedrin writes it off as impossible. The Gemara states that a Ben Sorer u'Moreh never happened, and never will; it is in the Torah simply so that it will be analysed, and its students will be rewarded.
But what reward can the Gemara mean? It cannot be more Torah study, and it cannot be academic. Even without this section, in a hundred lifetimes a person could not hope to complete the entire Torah. The Torah is not lacking material that it needed "filler" content. So what does the Gemara mean that it should be analysed, and those who do so will be rewarded?
R' Moshe Mordechai Epstein concludes that the laws of a Ben Sorer u'Moreh have a more subtle reward than the ability to study more Torah.
By studying this episode, one discovers the Torah's approach to parenting, how to raise them properly; and how to prevent straying.
When a child is overindulged, it is detrimental to everyone – the word we use is "spoilt" – this person has literally been ruined. The Ben Sorer u'Moreh is someone who is out of control from adolescence, and the Torah tells us to recognise this characteristic. This is what the Torah means when it says ובערת הרע בקרבך, וכל ישראל ישמעו ויראו – So shall you cast out the evil from among you, and all Israel will listen and fear.
The Torah wants kind, balanced human beings; not wild, carefree and selfish people. This tasks us with preventing evil in our children, before it is too late. We are meant to learn from the Ben Sorer u'Moreh as the paradigm of what not to do – וכל ישראל ישמעו.
Perhaps the Gemara itself hints to this. The Gemara says that the function of Ben Sorer u'Moreh is דרוש וקבל שכר – analyse it and receive reward. The Gemara does not say למוד, to study it, but דרוש, analyse it. The reward is וכל ישראל ישמעו, how to raise balanced children.
A tree can be straightened with a splint while still a sapling. It takes twenty years to grow an oak tree, but just a few months to grow a cucumber.


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April 04, 2014 02:00 ET
4 April 2014
AFH Financial Group PLC
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Subscription to raise GBP 1.62 million
AFH Financial Group PLC, a leading independent financial advisory ("IFA") and discretionary wealth
management firm, is pleased to announce that the Company has received firm commitments to subscribe for a
total of 1,157,854 ordinary shares of 10 pence each in the Company ("Ordinary Shares") at a price of 140p
per share (the "Subscription").
The proceeds of the Subscription, amounting to GBP 1.62 million (before expenses), will be used to provide
additional working capital for the Company and to finance potential future acquisitions.
Of the Ordinary Shares to be issued in the Subscription, 507,855 have been allotted and will be admitted to
trading on the ISDX Growth Market today, 4 April 2014; the remaining 649,999 Ordinary Shares will be
allotted and admitted to trading on the ISDX Growth Market on 7 April 2014.
Following the issue of the initial 507,855 Ordinary Shares in the Subscription, the Company's issued share
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