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And now to Capitol Hill and NPR's Tamara Keith, who joins us to talk about what movement, if any, there is in Congress. Hey, Tam.
TAMARA KEITH, BYLINE: Hey.
BLOCK: And Mara mentioned there that some Republicans are pushing not to stop the sequester but rather to give the president more flexibility in just how the spending cuts are made. Who supports the idea and is it going anywhere?
KEITH: Well, it's coming from Republican senators all the way up to the minority leader, Mitch McConnell, and it was a topic of discussion at the Senate Republican lunch today. But, you know, after that closed-door lunch, members came out and it was pretty clear from what they were saying that Senate Republicans are not unified on this.
Vocally pro-defense Senators like Lindsey Graham said it's no good because the amount of the cuts are as much of the problem as the nature of the cuts. Others worry that this is basically handing power over to the president and that he might cut things they don't want cut. You know, even a senator who supports the idea says it's not going anywhere, it doesn't have a chance in passing. But he likes it because it would put the president on the spot.
BLOCK: We said, Tam, that there are three day to go until the cuts begin. What kind of urgency are you sensing from lawmakers?
KEITH: I think that there is an urgent desire to avoid getting blamed, so there are sequester avoidance bills popping up now like mushrooms around here, but there's no sense that any of them has a shot at becoming law. You know, Democrats are continuing to call for a balanced approach that's a mix of spending cuts and tax increases. They're unified.
But Republicans are - they're not unified. They're working really hard to push the narrative that it was the president's idea, so that if it is really bad, it's his fault. But then in the same breath, many of them are saying that these cuts are insignificant in light of the big debt and deficit problems. So later this week, the Senate is supposed to vote on both the Democratic sequester replacement and a Republican sequester replacement.
We don't know what the Republican bill is going to look like at this point, but it's pretty clear that neither of them is going to reach that 60-vote threshold that's needed in the Senate to overcome a filibuster.
BLOCK: Okay. So that's the Senate side. What about on the House side?
KEITH: Oh, there's a whole lot of nothing happening on the House side. The House isn't scheduled to vote on anything this week related to the sequester, though they did just overwhelmingly vote to create a congressional science and math competition. So, you know, earlier today the House speaker, John Boehner, he repeated this talking point that he's been using a lot recently, though he got really testy today.
REPRESENTATIVE JOHN BOEHNER: We have moved a bill in the House twice. We should not have to move a third bill before the Senate gets off their ass and begins to do something.
KEITH: So, yeah, very testy. But a quick instant fact check here. Those two bills he's talking about are dead bills. The House passed them in the last Congress, and narrowly, with only Republican votes. This Congress, there are now eight fewer Republicans and so it's not even clear that the House could pass a sequester avoidance for a third time.
BLOCK: And I'm sure that that language of Speaker Boehner went over really well in the Senate.
KEITH: Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid looked angry when he was talking about it. I mean, for the first time I felt like I can imagine what he looked like when he was a young amateur boxer.
SENATOR HARRY REID: I think he should understand who is sitting on their posterior. We're doing our best here to pass something. The speaker's doing nothing to try to pass anything over there.
KEITH: And that's why everyone believes this is going to happen because, you know, there are really no back channel discussions and what they're saying in front of microphones is ugly.
BLOCK: So what happens at the end of this week if, as everyone expects, these cuts are allowed to take effect?
KEITH: Well, we're all going to wake up on March 2nd and things will look pretty much the same. All of these doom and gloom projections are cumulative and will take time. Agencies have to give their employees 30 days' notice before furloughs kick in. The education cuts are for the next school year, so it won't be felt immediately.
And part of the reason people here on the Hill are resigned to allowing it to happen is they're just not getting a lot of pressure to act from people back home. According to a recent Pew poll, only 25 percent of people are even following it closely.
BLOCK: Okay, NPR's Tamara Keith on Capitol Hill. Tamara, thanks so much.
KEITH: Glad to be with you.
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There's something incredibly satisfying about using things up.
Today I'll be polishing off my packet of Strawberry Ginger Peppercorn tea.
This coming from someone who hates endings of books, visits, movies. This from someone who cries every time she leaves New York City and Chicago.
In the case of fibre, using-up means working with what's left. This forces one to work within the parameters of what's left; to make the bits and pieces and remainders work. To make something beautiful from the little that's on hand.And the (strange?) thing is that Something Beautiful never fails to emerge. There's a life-lesson in here, somewhere.
So yes, I do believe in (happy) endings. Things need to end before things can start.
(Happy) Endings
8 comments:
- Rachael said...
Did you spin that? It's absolutely gorgeous!
- February 15, 2011 at 11:13 a.m.
- Ariane said...
One thing at a time. That's my mantra
- February 15, 2011 at 11:16 a.m.
- spillyjane said...
Rachael -- Thank you! Yes, I spun that the other day. I have more singles from that batch yet to ply.
Ariane -- Those are good words to live by.
- February 15, 2011 at 11:27 a.m.
- Julie said...
Your handspun is stunning! Love the plying. And that tea looks delish. I'm a total tea nut, too.
- February 15, 2011 at 2:32 p.m.
- Voie de Vie said...
Not if you have startitis.
Lovely handspun, btw.
- February 15, 2011 at 2:41 p.m.
- Cakewalk Yarns said...
Beautiful handspun! And thanks for the link to the tea....my favorite tea company went out of business. I've been on the hunt for a suitable replacement ever since.
- February 15, 2011 at 5:56 p.m.
- E. Ryan said...
That is BEAUTIFUL yarn!
- February 15, 2011 at 11:09 p.m.
- Katie said...
Victoria Teas is one of my favorite brands! I found them on a trip to Niagara on the Lake.
- February 16, 2011 at 3:09 p.m.
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Tennessee Titans owner Bud Adams isn't ready to start making changes on his coaching staff just yet. But he wants answers from coach Mike Munchak, and he wants them soon.
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"We can't keep losing games like we lost today, and I mean it," Adams told TitanInsider on Sunday, hours after his team's 55-7 loss to the Green Bay Packers. "We've played some good games and looked pretty good at times. But we just need to sit down and go over everything, which I'm not making any decision now. I have to sit down with them and get their views and their points on things and go from there."
Adams, 89 years old, watched the Titans' 10th loss of the season from his Houston home. He couldn't even watch the whole game.
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Over on my Wine & Food Pairing page, you'll find a widget from my friend Natalie MacLean that helps you pair just about any food with any wine, beer, or spirit.
Natalie has taken that up one notch. She has just launched a new mobile application for iPhone and iPod Touch, as well as a web-based app for BlackBerry, Droid and other smartphones. The new mobile version includes all the pairings in the original widget, plus thousands of wine reviews, recipes, articles, blog posts, glossary definitions, cellar journal and winery directory. Even better, the new app is free.
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NASCAR has had lots of heroes over the years. It has also had lots of heroines – we just don't hear as much about them. They're silent and unseen for the most part.
Another word for racing's heroines is "wives."
None is more respected and admired than Lynda Petty, Richard Petty's bride of 50 years.
If her husband is King Richard, doesn't that make her Queen Lynda? It should. She has earned the title; she deserves a crown.
Lynda has been battling lymphoma for several months and recently got some good news. Richard, in a press release, reports that the cancer is in remission; in fact, doctors believe they have completely eliminated the growth.
"She'll still have to take some treatments from time to time but at least she has got all her faculties back and we're looking forward to another 50 years with her," Richard said.
Lynda Petty, like most racing wives, was often the glue that held her famous family together, and it wasn't always easy. She watched her husband and son survive crash after crash and endured the broken-heart agony that only a parent or grandparent can know when grandson Adam failed to walk away from a wreck at New Hampshire.
Lynda was always there – by gravesides and bedsides – stoic and solid.
Richard tells a humorous story about Lynda when he was trying to decide on retirement:
"I said I'd quit racing when it wasn't fun any more," he said, "and about a week later I got caught up in a big wreck and ended up in the hospital. I was laying there all beat up and bruised and bandaged and Lynda walked into the room. She came over beside my bed, stood there lookin' down at me for a long minute, and finally said, "Well, are we still having fun?' "
Stevie Waltrip, Darrell's wife, once told me that drivers have no idea of what their spouses go through during a race.
"They're out there on the track, busy and concentrating on driving their cars," Stevie said. "Meanwhile we wives have to sit there and watch and think about what could happen at any moment. The guys get the excitement, the wives get to worry."
Richard said it took Lynda's illness to make him really appreciate her.
"For 50 years I've been out messing around with a race car, ever since we've been married," he said. "I've always said that racing comes first, and if she works real hard she can be No. 2. I finally said (during her battle with cancer), 'Wait a minute, it's time to give her my next 50 years."
He continued:
"So it's been a deal where I haven't been to a lot of the races this year. I've had to cut back on a lot of appearances and different obligations, but I felt like she came first. Family comes first and then you work everything around that."
Richard's right, and there's a lesson there for all of us. Sometimes we don't appreciate something – or someone – until it's too late.
Let's hope Richard and Lynda have lots of years for catching up. Long live the Queen.
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Zero no Tsukaima (Generic discussion thread)
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"When Saito wakes up a cute girl is looking into his face. Looking around, he finds he is in the strange place and sounded by people looked like wizards. Then ,he learns that he was summoned as a magic servant by the girl, Louise. While he is embarrassed, Louise kisses him saying that it is a contract. Soon, strange letters appears on his hand, and he is made a servant."
Does anyone know of this anime? For instance, was it based off a manga/game?
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|2006-02-09, 19:41
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- http://www.animenfo.com/animetitle,3...o_tsukaim.html
That doesn't provide much information and a Google search turns up very little. I ran a search of the English language blogsphere (technorati, feedster, bloglines, etc.) and found these related links:
- http://psgels.blogspot.com/2005/12/w...nd-beyond.html (very small blurb down at the bottom of the page)
- http://anidb.info/perl-bin/animedb.p...anime&aid=4146 (not much except a picture and a small description)
Not a much info though. Could always run a search on Goo or thumb through the Japanese blogsphere I suppose. According to the AnimeNfo link, the original work was/is done by Yamaguchi Noboru. Sorry it's not much help. Cheers.
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Zero no Tsukaima is based on a novel for young men (a seinen novel).
Zero no Tsukaima
Its based on a novel thats published under the seinen(young men's) label MF Bunko J.
For now there are 10 volumes released of this seinen novel, here are the covers:
And a Zero no Tsukaima side story:
A bigger images of the covers:
Genre: Seinen, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Zero no Tsukaima is a seinen novel/anime.
MF Bunko J: anything published under this label is aimed at young men.
MF Bunko J = Media Factory Bunko J.
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|2006-03-10, 09:03
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The site for the seinen anime has opened:
|2006-05-13, 07:05
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There's a promo video here:
Volume 8 of the seinen novel Zero no Tsukaima will be released sometime on June 2006.
It will be released on 24/6/2006 or 25/6/2006 (just like the other novel volumes were released either on 24 or 25)
I'll post its cover when its out.
|2006-05-22, 15:31
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tsubasa o sagashite
Just finished reading the first arc (first three chapters) of the first novel. I can't say I'm a big fan of the writing, as I get the feeling that the characters sometimes change behavior too abruptly. Also, it also feels kind of sleazy, with constant mentions of underwear. Other than that, it's at least mildly entertaining, and the revelation in chapter three made up for some of the other parts. The language isn't too hard to digest and I suppose I'll continue reading to find out what happens next.
And as a sidenote, I find it kinda cute that a lot of the characters are references to people in France during Louis XIV's reign.
|2006-06-11, 09:30
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Ok, this is supposed to be right, since this is from the publisher >.<
Volume 8 of the seinen light novel Zero no Tsukaima will be released on 23/6/2006
Here its cover:
A manga based on the light novel will start soon
Zero no Tsukaima manga will be serialized in the new seinen(young men's) manga magazine Comic Alive, the first issue (yes the first issue) of Comic Alive magazine will be released on 27/6/2006, and the first chapter of Zero no Tsukaima manga will be serialized on the first issue of this new seinen magazine
Comic Alive
Monthly manga magazine
Site: http://www.mediafactory.co.jp/comic-alive/
Target audience of magazine: young men
The cover of Comic Alive is so moe~ >.< I want it >.<
Comic Alive will have manga in it that are based on seinen light novels that are published under the seinen label MF Bunko J.
|2006-06-11, 09:58
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|2006-06-12, 14:57
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tsubasa o sagashite
Compared to Shana, it seems to me that Zero focuses more on the main character, while Shana seems to be a mix between Shana and the main character. I didn't find Louise (rest of super long name omitted) as interesting as the main character, while I found Shana more interesting than Yuuji. And if you want tsundere, go watch Tsuyokiss ;o
|adventure, comedy, ecchi, fantasy, j.c. staff, magic, romance, shounen, tsundere
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DeKalb County Wills, Estates, Deeds, Church Records, Cemeteries
DeKalb County was created in 1822 after the Muskogee (Creeks) Indians ceded the lands by treaty and was taken from Henry, Gwinnett and Fayette Counties. It was named for Baron Johann DeKalb, a German hero of the American Revolution. In 1853 Fulton County was created from the northern portion of DeKalb County. Many of the settlers to DeKalb County were in search of new lands and were farmers. When researching DeKalb County, Henry (the parent County) and Fulton Counties should also be researched. Unfortunately, the estate records do not begin until 1840. If you have an ancestor who resided within the boundaries of the present-day Atlanta, those records will be found in DeKalb County. Remember, the journey from Atlanta to present-day Decatur to file a deed, will, or other record was quite a trip.
DeKalb County Probate Records Available to Members of Georgia Pioneers
- DeKalb County County Marriages 1885-1886 from newspapers
- Map of DeKalb County County
- DeKalb County Wills & Estates 1841-1869
- DeKalb County Wills & Estates 1870-1889
- DeKalb County Wills & Estates 1890-1919
- DeKalb County Appr. & Returns 1852-1858
Indexes to Probate Records
- Index to Deed Book L 1846-1852
- Index to Deed Book M 1850-1853
- Index to Deed Book N 1852-1854
- Index to Annual Returns, Appraisements, Inventories, Sales, 1842-1852
- Index to Annual Returns, Appraisements, Inventories, Sales, 1852-1859
- Index to Annual Returns, Appraisements, Inventories, Sales, 1858-1863
- Index to Annual Returns, Appraisements, Inventories, Sales, 1863-1868
- Index to Annual Returns, Appraisements, Inventories, Sales, 1868-1884
- 1846 to 1846, Book H
- Adair, Thomas O., estate
- Adair, William, deed dated 1849
- Adams, W. D., estate
- Akin, Martha, estate
- Allen, William, estate
- Anderson, William C., estate
- Argoe, Robert, estate
- Armstrong, John, estate
- Collier, John, Annual Return of Estate
- Evans, John, deed dated 1850
- Holland, Edmund W. (deeds) 1851, 1852
- Jordan, Solomon, deed dated 1851
- Leitch, Arthur, Estate
- Perkinson, Dempsey, LWT (1876)
- Plaster, Benjamin, Sr.
- Smith, David, LWT (1853)
- Spain, William S., Inventory and Appraisement of Estate.
- Sprayberry, Benjamin, LWT (1848).
- Sprayberry, Brice, LWT (1876).
- Sprayberry, W. H. E., LWT (1911).
- Waits, Sarah, LWT (1869)
- Utoy Baptist Church, Ft. McPherson, Georgia (members)
- Index to Burials in the Decatur Cemetery
Tons of Genealogy Records to Help you Find your Georgia Ancestors


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As the multibillion-dollar electronic music industry grows, artists and organizers are taking back the spaces and sounds of the marginalized people who started the genre.
When the members of Khebez Dawle fled Syria, they never expected they'd soon be playing sold out shows across Europe.
David Bowie pushed boundaries, challenged norms, and helped pop culture become more inclusive. Here's how to keep his legacy alive.
In a new music video, two members from Russian punk band Pussy Riot get dirt shoveled over their faces and are buried alive. It's powerful and disturbing to watch.
After getting mad at her daughter for handing hard earned money to a street performer, "Radical Homemaker" Shannon Hayes considers what musicians bring to the local economy.
Las Cafeteras uses acoustic instruments and punk attitude to spread their message of social justice and equality.
The Madaraka festival is a celebration of African cultural heritage and modern-day entrepreneurship—and the proceeds will help build a recording studio for 68 youth in Kenya.
Musical inspiration while putting out this issue.
The Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz has developed "Jazz in America," an Internet-based jazz curriculum for social studies, American history, and music classes to help students "develop imaginative thinking, creativity, curiosity, a positive self image, and a respect for their own and others' cultural heritage."
For Ietef "DJ Cavem" Vita, HIP HOP is not just a form of music, it's a way of life—one he's using to teach kids about cultivating the earth and eating fresh veggies. This is Ietef's story.
Singer-songwriters Brett Dennen and Milow make a strong case for the lasting beauty of "Annie's Song" by John Denver.
Jake Bugg, a Tribute to John Denver, and Beethoven for Everyone.
We can't change the world if we can't even sing together—a star folk singer on what happens if political music dies.
Pete Seeger, Steve Earle, Melodeego, and other inspiration while putting together the Summer 2013 issue of YES!


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At 33rd WDC in Shanghai, DMA elects new officers
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Improvements to industry regulations concerning responsible sourcing were the primary topic of discussion at the World Diamond Council's (WDC's) annual general meeting (AGM) in Mumbai, India, earlier this month.
This is one of the six diamond engagement rings used in the test run of the TrustChain blockchain platform, one of multiple blockchains currently being tested in the diamond industry.
According to a report from the Thomson Reuters Foundation, the majority of the affected miners are from the Democratic Republic of Congo, which borders Angola to the northeast.
The Democratic Republic of Congo has condemned a crackdown on artisanal diamond miners in Angola which has allegedly seen dozens killed and Congo nationals expelled from the country in violation of agreements – a claim Angola denies.
…the technology – known as "Clara" – would replace inefficient diamond sales through tender. It would also enable the company to sell third party diamonds as well as goods from its Karowe mine in Botswana.
"A refreshing quarter from Petra Diamonds delivered a production beat across most of the mines including Finsch and Cullinan where production guidance had recently been downgraded," said Tyler Broda, an analyst for RBC Capital Markets.
Petra Diamonds Ltd said on Monday it has appointed Bernard Pryor and Varda Shine as non-executive directors with effect on January 1, 2019.
The company recently announced the positive results of the independent preliminary economic assessment on the project, which estimates that 66-million carats of diamonds could be recovered in a surface mine over a 38-year project life.
"Our objective is to grow the mining sector where it can continue to meaningfully contribute to our socio-economic development," mines minister Tom Alweendo told AFP.


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Ruth Lance -- Book Ropin' the Dream: The Story of the Ken Lance Sports Arena, 1964-1994 - written by Ruth Lance Wester and June Proctor. Oklahoma cowboy Ken Lance turned a watermelon patch into a showcase rodeo arena bringing champions out of the chutes and Nashville stars on stage. They said it couldn't be done. When Oklahoma trick roper Ken Lance married Ruth Whitlock, he knew he had found the woman who would share his rodeo cowboy dream. She rode into the arena in Chicago, December 1961, as the rodeo princess, and returned with Ken to Oklahoma as his wife and business partner for the next twenty-five years. Together, with their dads, the four of them combined their rescources to build the Ken Lance Sports Arena and restored the annual Ada rodeo to its pre-World War II glory, as the second largest outdoor rodeo in the nation. From the dirt-poor days of the rodeo cowboy in the 1960's to the millionaire cowboys of the 1980's and 1990's, Ken and Ruth worked to produce a professional rodeo at a price that ordinary folks could afford. (It is now the home of The Gospel Station's 3-Crosses/Ken Lance Arena, Cowboy Church and Youth Camp).
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Do you see or feed cats in your neighborhood? Stray cats with no particular home or owner? These are San Francisco's community cats.
The San Francisco SPCA spays and neuters San Francisco's community cats for free. Spay/neuter, along with consistent monitoring, easily and effectively controls the community cat population. It also eliminates behaviors associated with mating such as yowling and fighting. We also vaccinate and microchip during the spay/neuter surgery out community cats before returning them to their outdoor homes.
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- If you know the mother has been killed or you have observed from a distance that the mother has not returned for 24 hours, you can care for the kittens. An example of a kitten care kit can be found at, https://www.alleycat.org/resources/kitten-care-kit/
- If you cannot provide care for the kittens, bringing them to the shelter is the last resort. SF ACC has some capacity to care for unweaned kittens and they support bottle babies through their foster program. SF SPCA supports SF ACC directly and we collaborate closely on care for San Francisco's kittens.
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In fact, using homeopathic medicines for injuries is considerably easier than treating common diseases because treatment for injuries does not require a high degree of individualizing of remedies that is typical in treating diseases. When two people have sprained ankles, they each need a similar homeopathic remedy to heal them, while two people suffering from arthritis generally require different remedies which are individualized to their unique pattern of symptoms.
Homeopathic medicine should be taken in conjunction with, not in replacement of, conventional first aid measures.
The chart of this page summarizes key homeopathic medicines for common injuries. However, for greater detail and further information on the homeopathic treatment of sports injuries, see the three books listed at the bottom of the page.
Single Remedies and Formulas
Homeopathic medicines are available as single remedies or as formulas of two or more remedies mixed together. Formulas are a more user-friendly way to use homeopathic medicines since the indications for their use are extremely clear. The use of several remedies in a formulas provide a more broad spectrum effect not available in a single remedy. Because injuries sometimes involve muscle, nerve, and bone tissue, it sometimes makes sense to use formulas to help to heal the various tissues involved.
Single remedies are more recommended for injuries when you know the correct medicine to give and when you wish to give a higher potency of a remedy than is available in formulas. Formula products usually contain remedies in the 3, 6, or 12th potencies, while people with severe pain may receive more rapid benefit from the 30th potency.
The "x" after the potency number (as in 6x) refers to the number of times in which a medicine is diluted 1:10, while the "c" after the potency number (6c) is diluted 1:100 (it will be easy to remember the difference between "x" and "c" by simply remember their meaning as Roman numerals). Two hundred years of homeopathic clinical experience has found that the higher the potency, the more powerful and faster the medicine acts. However, the higher the potency used, the more accurate the remedy must be for the injured or sick person. Because of this, it is recommended to use the 30th potency when the user is very confident that the remedy used is the correct one. When one is not as confident, the 6th or 12th potency is indicated, or one can consider using a homeopathic formula.
Frequency of Dose
When taking homeopathic medicines it is recommended to take as few doses as necessary but as many as are required when experiencing pain. At first when there is the greatest amount of pain and discomfort, you may need to take the remedy every hour. Usually after four doses, you can reduce the frequency to every other hour, and as the intensity of pain diminishes, taking a dose every four hours is common.
If no improvement is noticeable after one or two days, it is not recommended to take further doses.
External Applications
Although most homeopathic remedies are in pill form for internal consumption, there are a select number of homeopathic medicines which are available in external applications. Some external applications are in ointments, gels, or sprays. Although they have a similar degree of efficacy, each has certain benefits and detriments.


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If I have a worry about the runaway successes we've seen recently on Kickstarter, the latest of which is the $10.2 million raised by e-ink watch Pebble, it's that project owners could end up suffering because of the sheer scale of their success. One particularly important issue, which has gone largely undiscussed in the crowdfunding community, is tax.
In my long-past life as an underemployed music journalist, I met a lot of musicians who were focused exclusively on the creative aspects of their lives. They didn't want to understand how record labels structured their contracts or what the legalese meant. They didn't want to think about what the words or the numbers really meant; if they could have ignored it completely, they would have.
Now, some 15 years later, Kickstarter is a honey pot for creative people, attracting them with the lure of all that sweet golden money that will allow them to make the art they've always wanted to. And attitudes to the business side of things will, I suspect, not have changed. But where the tax implications of being a starving artist living hand-to-mouth are manageable, the implications of suddenly having a million dollars, or £633,601 at today's exchange rate, are not. Especially if you didn't work tax into your financial calculations.
One of author Neil Gaiman's followers summed it up succinctly today after Gaiman mentioned that if his wife Amanda Palmer's Kickstarter project hit $1 million, that wouldn't mean that he could afford to give up writing.
Korvar The Fox is spot on. Money raised from crowdfunding isn't a tax-free windfall. It's not like winning the (UK*) lottery. It's income, just like any other sales income, and that means that project owners could face some sort of tax liability, especially for wildly successful projects.
Bernadette Tansey raised the spectre of tax on crowdfunded income on CNBC in March:
Raising money from other people quickly propels a young venture into the traditional world of corporate rules, bookkeeping requirements, tax bills and legal questions, said M.J. Bogatin, an attorney for start ups in the San Francisco Bay area. His clients often see themselves primarily as artists or filmmakers, but Bogatin tells them, "It's a business. Look, you've started a new business enterprise."[…]
A start up sending "rewards'' such as T-shirts to contributors can look very much like a traditional business selling goods or services. The Kickstarter revenue, minus expenses, could be taxable profit, Andres said. "I'm sure that's the way IRS would come down on it,'' he said. The IRS declined to comment.
I am pretty sure that HMRC would see it the same way.
In basic terms (and this certainly doesn't constitute tax advice!) if you spend all the money you raise on producing your reward items within the same business year, then your tax liabilities would be reduced. If you don't manage to buy all your bits and are left with a surplus at the end of the your financial year, then tax could take a sizeable chunk of it, leaving you with less to spend on your project.
Equally, in the UK, if your crowdfunding revenue plus any other sales income exceeds £77,000, you'll need to register for and pay VAT. That means charging VAT on everything you sell, something you can't retroactively impose on your rewards, and claiming back the VAT on the supplies you buy.
Jamie Sutherland, president of accounting software Xero's US operations, said that he felt many people, including accountants, hadn't fully grasped the significance of crowdfunding:
"The tax implications for crowdfunded 'income' are probably not that well understood by the average startup. I'd encourage a startup to connect with a knowledgeable accountant or tax advisor so they can fully understand their tax obligations"
The bottom line is that as soon as it looks as if you're going to raise more money that you usually earn, you should get some professional advice. And, tedious as it is, you should save every receipt and do proper bookkeeping. These days, looking after your business accounts needn't be too painful as there are plenty of tools around to help, so there's no excuse for keeping everything under your bed in plastic bags anymore.
What you absolutely cannot do is treat crowdfunded money as some sort of magic bonanza that is exempt from normal business rules. It's not. Whether you realise it or not, your Kickstarter project is actually a Kickstarter-funded business and you need to work business expenses, including your accountant's fees, into your financial plans.
* To clarify, in the UK, lottery winnings are not classed as income, and therefore not subject to income tax. Other countries may deal with lottery winnings differently!


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Nanotechnology: The Emerging Field for Future Military Applications | Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses
Nanotechnology is an area of science and technology that holds highly promising prospects for military applications, considering its wide applicability in defensive as well as offensive operations. Given the research and development (R&D) efforts being made in this field by a large number of countries, new products with much superior properties in terms of performance and durability are likely to be realized very soon. The most important aspect of nanotechnology-enabled products is the miniaturization of devices and the diverse functionalities that can be integrated within a singular system. Accordingly, the most profound applications in the future will be realized for the war fighter. Whether it is a battle suit integrated with sensors for nuclear, biological and chemical (NBC) weapons protection, bullet injuries and monitoring of vital body parameters, nanotechnology will find its application in camouflage and concealment, weapons, communication, and situational awareness in the battlefield. This monograph traces the R&D initiatives being undertaken in this field, followed by specific applications which are relevant for the Indian defence forces. It also attempts to foresee how nanotechnology-enabled applications are likely to impact the future battlefield.
Strategic Studies
The following specific issues are covered by the Strategic Studies blog - • Regional(South Asia) and nuclear security • Role of military and nuclear technology • Doctrines, Arms Control and Disarmament • Emerging security concepts • Non-traditional security issues • Terrorism • Human Security issues • Governance • Gender security and migration • Role of Digital Technology in International Relations
Monday, January 11, 2016
The US Factor in Sino-Indian Relations: India's Fine Balancing
In the narrative of India-China-US triangular relations, the United States occupies some degree of strategic space notwithstanding the fact that Sino-Indian relations, like Sino-US relations, or for that matter, Indo-US relations have their own dynamics and imperatives. The monograph seeks to determine the extent to which the US is a factor as an intervening variable in the complex relationship between the two countries. The study attempts to probe the research question as to how China perceives U.S policy towards India in particular, and whether growing Indo-US ties can affect China's security interest negatively. Related to this research question is how India is trying to calibrate its relationship with both USA and China, and how far India has been successful in this endeavour in the context of strategic distrust and security dilemma between both the countries.
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Thursday, May 14, 2015
Core Concerns in Indian Defence and the Imperatives for Reforms
India's current defence imperatives transcend the ideeological 'defence vs. butter' debate. Even while there may be no profound existential concerns, the geo-political reality of a deeply troubled neighbourhood, long legacy of border disputes with neighbours in the north and west and a widening spectrum of potential warfare from conventional and strategic to the asymmetric can be ignored at our own peril. Given the current capability gaps and infrastructure inadequacies, India requires a far more focussed pursuit of the objective of comprehensive national power with an optimal blend of fully deterrent state-of-the-art and readily deployable capabilities potentially on more than one front. Likely out-of-area contingencies and our legitimate aspirations as an emerging regional and world power further fuel this need.
While there has been a significant stepping up of the public discourse in the recent years on the myriad concerns in defence, there is precious little in the public realm on the hard core issues confronting defence decision - makers in critical areas such as the long range geo-strategic environment, higher defence management and civil military relations, defence industrialisation, acquisition, research and development, logistics, manpower, planning, financial management and oversight.
Possibly for the first time ever, this book seeks to put together the perceptions, views and recommendations of a host of past practitioners at the highest level from the civil and military bureaucracy who have had some unmatched insights into the complex world of Indian Defence and its decision-making structures and processes. For obvious reasons, the cause of reliable, efficient, and affordable defence brooks no further delay in terms of a potent capability basket encompassing the land, sea, air, space and cyber-space domains. This would call for some long overdue reforms covering organisations, policies and processes to enhance professionalism, synergies arising from jointness, drastically curtail decision - making time frames, and, above all, enforce accountability for the attainment of stated goals. Hopefully, this book would contribute in some measure to this worthy task.
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Realising the ASEAN-India Vision for Partnership and Prosperity
This volume is based on the proceedings of Delhi Dialogue VI held in March 2014. It epitomizes the growing dialogue between India and ASEAN at all levels. Delhi Dialogue brings together practitioners, corporate leaders, opinion makers, academics and journalists, every year, to discuss a wide range of issues of common interest and concern that animate India - ASEAN relationship . Discussions held at the Delhi Dialogue, subsequent to ASEAN Commemorative issuing the 'Vision Statement' in 2012, provide a good insight into the likely scenarios and possible trends in the post-2015 era.
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India and South Asia: Exploring Regional Perceptions
Perceptions play a very significant role in South Asian politics. They have largely shaped and influenced state policies and politics among the South Asian countries, especially in relation to India, over the years. State policies have at times been hostage to negative or adversarial perceptions, well-entrenched in the popular psyche. The perception formation in South Asia is an extremely dynamic process and has evolved differently in different countries. Perceptions are not static and often change with the shift in domestic as well as regional and global politics. There are myriad stakeholders—with diverse sectional interests—explicitly or implicitly shaping and influencing perceptions among countries in South Asia.
This book comprising sixteen chapters, contributed by scholars from all the South Asian countries, seeks to identify and examine the various strands of (mis)perception prevalent particularly vis-à-vis India; and its various causal factors ranging from conflicting historical memories to contesting national identities, and growing intellectual disconnect to diverging geo-strategic imperatives. The role of the media and the growing Chinese thrust in the region has also been discussed.
The way forward illustrated in the form of key recommendations has both academic and policy relevance.
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Friday, January 16, 2015
The Unfinished War in Afghanistan: 2001-2014
This book makes a modest attempt to contribute to the ongoing debate on future challenges for Afghanistan as the largest ever coalition of Western forces prepares to withdraw. It seeks to examine key political developments within Afghanistan over the last one decade in response to the US-led Western military and political intervention. Perhaps, much more is still to come in a war that could aptly be termed as the last big war of the twentieth and first long war of the twenty-first century. The emerging social and political narratives are unmistakably old and echo the sentiments of the past. Though a 'New Afghanistan' has emerged in the meanwhile, it remains fundamentally an urban phenomenon. The diversity of narratives and perceptions, and failure of past political transitions to build a sustainable internal balance of power, based on changed social and political realities, have turned Afghanistan into a complex entity that defies established theoretical formulations and explanations. The evolving security and political scenario suggests that elections alone may not help bring stability and order to Afghanistan. The next dispensation in Kabul, irrespective of its composition, is most likely to be confronted with a host of old and familiar challenges to its legitimacy and survival.
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Asian Survey 51(1), 2011
- Timor-Leste in 2010: The Window for a "Normal" Future? Matthew B. Arnold
- Cambodia in 2010: Hun Sen's Further Consolidation, Steve Heder
- Laos in 2010: Political Stasis, Rabid Development, and Regional Counter-weighting, William Case
- Vietnam in 2010: Regional Leadership, Ramses Amer
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- The Philippines in 2010: Blood, Ballots, and Beyond, Patricio N. Abinales
- Thailand in 2010: Rupture and Attempts at Reconciliation, Catharin Dalpino
- Myanmar in 2010: Doors Open, Doors Close, Sean Turnell
- Bangladesh in 2010: Digital Makeover but Continued Human and Economic Insecurity, Bina D'Costa
- Sri Lanka in 2010: Regime Consolidation in a Post-Civil War Era, Jayadeva Uyangoda
- Nepal and Bhutan in 2010: At an Impasse, Susan Hangen
- India in 2010: Robust Economics amid Political Stasis, Shalendra Sharma
- Pakistan in 2010: Flooding, Governmental Inefficiency, and Continued Insurgency, C. Christine Fair
- Afghanistan in 2010: Continuing Governance Challenges and Faltering Security, William Maley
- Taiwan in 2010: Mapping for a New Political Landscape and Economic Outlook, Hung-mao Tien and Chen-yuan Tung
- Russia and the CIS in 2010: Post-Crisis Tests, Yu-shan Wu
- South Korea in 2010: Navigating New Heights in the Alliance, Victor D. Cha and Katrin Katz
- Japan in 2010: Messy Politics but Healthier Democracy Frances Mccall Rosenbluth
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- China in 2010: Dilemmas of "Scientific Development" Guoguang Wu
- The United States and Asia in 2010: Uncertain Relations, François Ggodement
- Asia in 2010: Continent Ascendant, Lowell Dittmer
Australian Journal of International Affairs, 65(1), 2011
- An East Asian security community: Japan, Australia and resources as 'security' Donna Weeks Pages 61 - 80
- Asia's transformation, international relations and public policy Nick Bisley Pages 102 - 108
- From the age of asymmetry to the great reconvergence: securing order in the Asian century Andrew Phillips Pages 94 - 101
- Japanese domestic politics and security cooperation with Australia: the limits of 'normalisation' Tadashi Anno Pages 24 - 39
- Japanese security policy formation: assessing the Koizumi revolution Rikki Kersten Pages 5 - 23
- Power shift: rethinking Australia's place in the Asian century Hugh White Pages 81 - 93
- Regional security cooperation in East Asia: what can Japan and Australia usefully do together? Kazuhiko Togo Pages 40 - 60
Australian Journal of International Affairs, 65(2), 2011
- Anglo-American followers or Antipodean iconoclasts? The 2008 TRIP survey of international relations in Australia and New Zealand J. C. Sharman; Jacqui True Pages 148 - 166
- Building the nation in Timor-Leste and its implications for the country's democratic development Selver B. Sahin Pages 220 - 242
- Change and continuity in strategic culture: the cases of Australia and New Zealand David McCraw Pages 167 - 184
- Contextualising the AIDS epidemic in the South Pacific: orthodoxies, estimates and evidence Michael O'Keefe Pages 185 - 202
- Securitising HIV/AIDS in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region Anna Hayes; Abduresit Qarluq Pages 203 - 219
Boston University International Law Journal, Vol.29(2), 2011
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- http://www.bu.edu/law/central/jd/organizations/journals/international/volume29n2/documents/GaroupaLiguerre-finalpdf.pdf
- http://www.bu.edu/law/central/jd/organizations/journals/international/volume29n2/documents/Lieblich-finalpdf.pdf
- http://www.bu.edu/law/central/jd/organizations/journals/international/volume29n2/documents/MitchellVoon-finalpdf.pdf
- http://www.bu.edu/law/central/jd/organizations/journals/international/volume29n2/documents/Ziegler-finalpdf.pdf
Conflict, Security & Development, 11(1), 2011
- 'War don don': stability, normalcy and Sierra Leone Alice Hills Pages 1 - 24
- Conflict and gender: the implications of the Burundian conflict on HIV/AIDS risks Hakan Seckinelgin; Joseph Bigirumwami; Jill Morris Pages 55 - 77
- Revolutionary conflict in federations: the Indian case Jason Miklian Pages 25 - 53
- The securitisation of civil society: a case study of NGOs-State Security Investigations (SSI) relations in Egypt Mariz Tadros Pages 79 - 103
Democratization 18(2), 2011
- An autocrat's toolkit: adaptation and manipulation in 'democratic' Cameroon Ericka A. Albaugh Pages 388 - 414
- Can democratization undermine democracy? Economic and political reform in Uganda Michael F. Keating Pages 415 - 442
- Democracy promotion in Africa: the institutional context Oda van Cranenburgh Pages 443 - 461
- Democracy, identity and the politics of exclusion in post-genocide Rwanda: the case of the Batwa Danielle Beswick Pages 490 - 511
- Democratic crisis or crisis of confidence? What local perceptual lenses tell us about Madagascar's 2009 political crisis Lauren Leigh Hinthorne Pages 535 - 561
- Democratization in Africa 1990-2010: an assessment Gabrielle Lynch; Gordon Crawford Pages 275 - 310
- Ethnicity and party preference in sub-Saharan Africa Matthias Basedau; Gero Erdmann; Jann Lay; Alexander Stroh Pages 462 - 489
- Taking back our democracy? The trials and travails of Nigerian elections since 1999 Cyril Obi Pages 366 - 387
- The abrogation of the electorate: an emergent African phenomenon Wale Adebanwi; Ebenezer Obadare Pages 311 - 335
- The internal dynamics of power-sharing in Africa Nic Cheeseman Pages 336 - 365
- Well, what can you expect?': donor officials' apologetics for hybrid regimes in Africa Stephen Brown Pages 512 - 534
Democratization 18(1), 2011
- Democracy and 'punitive populism': exploring the Supreme Court's role in El Salvador Elena Martinez Barahona; Sebastian Linares Lejarraga Pages 52 - 74
- Democratic agency in the local political sphere. Reflections on inclusion in Bolivia Nancy Thede Pages 211 - 235
- Democratization by decree: the case of Bhutan Mark Turner; Sonam Chuki; Jit Tshering Pages 184 - 210
- Military extrication and temporary democracy: the case of Pakistan Michael Hoffman Pages 75 - 99
- Obstacles to citizen participation by direct democracy in Latin America: a comparative regional analysis of legal frameworks and evidence from the Costa Rican case Anita Breuer Pages 100 - 134
- Questioning Tocqueville in Africa: continuity and change in civil society during Nigeria's democratization A. Carl LeVan Pages 135 - 159
- Stateness first? Jørgen Møller; Svend-Erik Skaaning Pages 1 - 24
- Structural factors vs. regime change: Moldova's difficult quest for democracy Theodor Tudoroiu Pages 236 - 264
- The religious experience as affecting ambivalence: the case of democratic performance evaluation in Israel Pazit Ben-Nun-Bloom; Mina Zemach; Asher Arian Pages 25 - 51
- When government fails us: trust in post-socialist civil organizations Dani M. Marinova Pages 160 - 183
Foreign Affairs, 90(1), 2011
- A Leaner and Meaner Defense: How to Cut the Pentagon's Budget While Improving Its Performance Gordon Adams, Matthew Leatherman, p. 139
- A Third Way to Palestine: Fayyadism and Its Discontents Robert M Danin, p. 94
- Culture Matters: The Real Obstacles to Latin American Development Oscar Arias, p. 2
- Enforcing the Peace: How the Great Powers Can Resolve the Israeli-Palestinian Impasse Howard M Sachar, p. 14
- Finish the Job: How the War in Afghanistan Can Be Won Paul D Miller, p. 51
- Less Than Zero: Bursting the New Disarmament Bubble Josef Joffe, James W Davis, p. 7
- Plan B in Afghanistan: Why a De Facto Partition Is the Least Bad Option Robert D Blackwill, p. 42
- Small Arms, Big Problems: The Fallout of the Global Gun Trade C J Chivers, p. 110
- Sudan's Secession Crisis: Can the South Part From the North Without War? Andrew S Natsios, Michael Abramowitz, p. 19
- The Dangers of a Nuclear Iran: The Limits of Containment Eric S Edelman, Andrew F Krepinevich, Evan Braden Montgomery, p. 66
- The Good News About Gas: The Natural Gas Revolution and Its Consequences John Deutch, p. 82
- The Political Power of Social Media: Technology, the Public Sphere, and Political Change Clay Shirky, p. 28
- The Softer Side of War: Exploring the Influence of Culture on Military Doctrine Peter R Mansoor, p. 164
- West Is Best? Why Civilizations Rise and Fall Timur Kuran, p. 159
- Why Moscow Says No: A Question of Russian Interests, Not Psychology Andrei Shleifer, Daniel Treisman, p. 122
- Why the Rich Are Getting Richer: American Politics and the Second Gilded Age Robert C Lieberman, p. 154
Foreign Affairs, 90(2), 2011
- A G-Zero World: The New Economic Club Will Produce Conflict, Not Cooperation Ian Bremmer, Nouriel Roubini, p. 2
- Arms Sales for India: How Military Trade Could Energize U.S.-Indian Relations Sunil Dasgupta, Stephen P Cohen, p. 22
- China's Search for a Grand Strategy: A Rising Great Power Finds Its Way Wang Jisi, p. 68
- Currencies Aren't the Problem: Fix Domestic Policy, Not Exchange Rates Raghuram Rajan, p. 104
- Currency Wars, Then and Now: How Policymakers Can Avoid the Perils of the 1930s Liaquat Ahamed, p. 92
- Fighting the Laws of War: Protecting Civilians in Asymmetric Conflict Charli Carpenter, p. 146
- From Innovation to Revolution: Do Social Media Make Protests Possible? Malcolm Gladwell, Clay Shirky, p. 153
- Germany's Immigration Dilemma: How Can Germany Attract the Workers It Needs? Tamar Jacoby, p. 8
- Getting China to Sanction Iran: The Chinese-Iranian Oil Connection Erica Downs, Suzanne Maloney, p. 15
- How al Qaeda Works: What the Organization's Subsidiaries Say About Its Strength Leah Farrall, p. 128
- Iraq, From Surge to Sovereignty: Winding Down the War in Iraq Emma Sky, p. 117
- The Advantages of an Assertive China: Responding to Beijing's Abrasive Diplomacy Thomas J Christensen, p. 54
- The Indian-Pakistani Divide: Why India Is Democratic and Pakistan Is Not Christophe Jaffrelot, p. 140
- The Post-Washington Consensus: Development After the Crisis Nancy Birdsall, Francis Fukuyama, p. 45
- The Tea Party and American Foreign Policy: What Populism Means for Globalism Walter Russell Mead, p. 28
- The War Over Containing Iran: Can a Nuclear Iran Be Stopped? Dima Adamsky, Karim Sadjadpour, Diane de Gramont, Shahram Chubin, et al., p. 155
- Will China's Rise Lead to War? Why Realism Does Not Mean Pessimism Charles Glaser, p. 80
International Security, 35(4), 2011
- Preventing Enemy Coalitions: How Wedge Strategies Shape Power Politics Timothy W. Crawford, 155–189.
- The Security Curve and the Structure of International Politics: A Neorealist Synthesis Davide Fiammenghi, 126–154.
- The Right to Be Right: Civil-Military Relations and the Iraq Surge Decision Peter D. Feaver, 87–125.
- Europe's Troubles: Power Politics and the State of the European Project Sebastian Rosato, 45–86.
- Graceful Decline? The Surprising Success of Great Power Retrenchment Paul K. MacDonald, Joseph M. Parent, 7–44.
Journal of Peace Research 48(1), 2011
- Christopher S P Magee and Tansa George Massoud, Openness and internal conflict
- Eric Neumayer and Thomas Plümper, Foreign terror on Americans
- Ifat Maoz, Does contact work in protracted asymmetrical conflict? Appraising 20 years of reconciliation-aimed encounters between Israeli Jews and Palestinians
- Joseph K Young and Laura Dugan, Veto players and terror
- Krista E Wiegand, Militarized territorial disputes: States' attempts to transfer reputation for resolve
- Luis de la Calle and Ignacio Sánchez-Cuenca, The quantity and quality of terrorism: The DTV dataset
- Marie Olson Lounsbery and Alethia H Cook, Rebellion, mediation, and group change: An empirical investigation of competing hypotheses
- Michael Mousseau, Urban poverty and support for Islamist terror: Survey results of Muslims in fourteen countries
- Toby J Rider, Michael G Findley, and Paul F Diehl, Just part of the game? Arms races, rivalry, and war
Journal of Conflict Resolution, 55(1), 2011
- Ravi Bhavnani, Dan Miodownik, Hyun Jin Choi. Three Two Tango: Territorial Control and Selective Violence in Israel, the West Bank, and Gaza. 133-158
- Jennifer Kavanagh. Selection, Availability, and Opportunity: The Conditional Effect of Poverty on Terrorist Group Participation. 106-132
- Orlandrew Danzell. Political Parties: When Do They Turn to Terror?. 85-105
- Juan Benito, Pablo Brañas-Garza, Penélope Hernández, Juan Sanchis. Sequential versus Simultaneous Schelling Models: Experimental Evidence. 60-84
- Krista Wiegand, Emilia Powell. Past Experience, Quest for the Best Forum, and Peaceful Attempts to Resolve Territorial Disputes. 33-59
- Susan Olzak. Does Globalization Breed Ethnic Discontent? 3-32
Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding 5(1), 2011
- Creating 'Partners for Peace': The Palestinian Authority and the International Statebuilding Agenda Mandy Turner Pages 1 - 21
- International Statebuilding and Contentious Universities in Kosovo Nina den Boer; Chris van der Borgh Pages 67 - 88
- JISB Interview: Kosova in Dependence: From Stability of Crisis to the Crisis of Stability Albin Kurti Pages 89 - 97
- Postwar Reconstruction, the Reverse Course and the New Way Forward: Bis Repetitas? Jeff Bridoux Pages 43 - 66
- The EU's Military Operation in Chad and the Central African Republic: An Operation to Save Lives? Giovanna Bono Pages 23 - 42
Peace Studies Journal, Issue 16, November 2010
- The Dilemma of Niger-Delta Region as Oil Producing States of Nigeria P. O. Oviasuyi and Jim Uwadiae
- Post-Sovereign Security, and the Absence of the Political Jacopo Leone
- Petroleum and its Impact on Three Wars in Africa: Angola, Nigeria and Sudan Adrian Gonzalez
- Challenging Child Soldier DDR Processes and Policies in the Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo Elettra Pauletto and Preeti Patel
- Ethnic Nationalism and Separatism in West Papua, Indonesia Julius Cesar I. Trajano
- Peace Research in Pacific Islands: Bridging the Gap between Theory and Practice Jack Maebuta
Political Science Quarterly, 125(4), 2010
- Robert Jervis. Policy and Politics in the United Kingdom and the United States: A Review Essay. p.685-700
- Tarik Ouzlu. Turkey and Europeanization of Foreign Policy?. p. 657-683
- Loree Bykerk, Ardith Maney. Consumer Protection Policy Issues on the Congressional Agenda. p.639-655
- Brian Glenn. Conservatives and American Political Development. p.611-638
- Raúl Madrid. The Origins of the Two Lefts in Latin America. p.587-609
- Stephen Benedict Dyson. George W. Bush, the Surge, and Presidential Leadership. p.557-585
Security Dialogue 42(1), 2011
Scott Watson
The 'human' as referent object?: Humanitarianism as securitization, 3-20.
Jonathan Gilmore
A kinder, gentler counter-terrorism: Counterinsurgency, human security and the War on Terror, 21-37.
Sean Lawson
Articulation, antagonism, and intercalation in Western military imaginaries, 39-56.
Christophe Wasinski
On making war possible: Soldiers, strategy, and military grand narrative, 57-76.
Jonas Wolff and Iris Wurm
Towards a theory of external democracy promotion: A proposal for theoretical classification, 77-96.
Simon Reid-Henry
Spaces of security and development: An alternative mapping of the security–development nexus, 97-104.
Maria Stern and Joakim Öjendal
Mapping security–development: A question of methodology?
The 'human' as referent object?: Humanitarianism as securitization, 3-20.
Jonathan Gilmore
A kinder, gentler counter-terrorism: Counterinsurgency, human security and the War on Terror, 21-37.
Sean Lawson
Articulation, antagonism, and intercalation in Western military imaginaries, 39-56.
Christophe Wasinski
On making war possible: Soldiers, strategy, and military grand narrative, 57-76.
Jonas Wolff and Iris Wurm
Towards a theory of external democracy promotion: A proposal for theoretical classification, 77-96.
Simon Reid-Henry
Spaces of security and development: An alternative mapping of the security–development nexus, 97-104.
Maria Stern and Joakim Öjendal
Mapping security–development: A question of methodology?
Small Wars and Insurgencies, 22(1), 2011
- A transformed insurgency: The strategy of the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) in the light of communist insurgency theories and a modified Beaufrean exterior/interior framework Mika Kerttunen, 78-118
- Analyzing Taliban taranas (chants): an effective Afghan propaganda artifact Thomas H. Johnson; Ahmad Waheed, 3-31
- Global counterinsurgency and US army expansion: the case for recruiting foreign troops Kevin D. Stringer, 142-169
- The artful use of national power: Portuguese Angola (1961–1974) John P. Cann, 196-225
- The strategic utility of New Zealand Special Forces Rhys Ball, 119-141
- Traffickers, terrorists, and a 'new security challenge': Russian counternarcotics strategy and the Federal Service for the Control of the Drugs Trade Bettina Renz, 55-77
- Trinitarian troubles: governmental, military, and societal explanations for post-1945 Western failures in asymmetric conflicts Bart Schuurman, 32-54
- Winning hearts and minds to lose control: exploring various consequences of popular support in counterinsurgency missions Nori Katagiri, 170-195
Studies in Conflict and Terrorism, 34(4), 2011
- Could Suicide Terrorists Actually Be Suicidal? Adam Lankford, 337-366
- When Terrorism as Strategy Fails: Dissident Irish Republicans and the Threat to British Security Aaron Edwards, 318-336
- Gender, Jihad, and Jingoism : Women as Perpetrators, Planners, and Patrons of Militancy in Kashmir Swati Parashar, 295-317
- Negotiating Hostage Crises with the New Terrorists Adam Dolnik; Keith M. Fitzgerald, 267-294
Strategic Comments, 17( 1), 2011
Strategic Comments 17(2), 2011
Survival 53(1), 2011
- Al-Qaeda and the Struggle for Yemen Sarah Phillips Pages 95 - 120
- Can Bad Governance be Good for Development? Sam Wilkin Pages 61 - 76
- Climate Change and Security at the Third Pole Katherine Morton Pages 121 - 132
- Iraq: Back to the Future Raad Alkadiri Pages 5 - 12
- Mobilising Cyber Power Alexander Klimburg Pages 41 - 60
- Policing the Waves: Maritime Paramilitaries in the Asia-Pacific Christian Le Mière Pages 133 - 146
- Stuxnet and the Future of Cyber War James P. Farwell; Rafal Rohozinski Pages 23 - 40
- The Korean Crises and Sino-American Rivalry Benjamin Schreer; Brendan Taylor Pages 13 - 19
- The Socio-economics of Geopolitical Change Peter J. Munson Pages 77 - 94
Survival 53(2), 2011
- A Post-Secular World? Cesare Merlini Pages 117 - 130
- America and Egypt After the Uprisings Marc Lynch Pages 31 - 42
- China's Vulnerability Trap Jonathan Holslag Pages 77 - 88
- Exploring the Maze: Counter-proliferation Intelligence Michael Crawford Pages 131 - 158
- Global Warming and the Arab Spring Sarah Johnstone; Jeffrey Mazo Pages 11 - 17
- Hizbullah's Political Strategy Lina Khatib Pages 61 - 76
- Politics and the Army in Egypt Ibrahim A. Karawan Pages 43 - 50
- Reform and Rebirth in the Middle East Alanoud Al Sharekh Pages 51 - 60
- Resetting the US-China Security Relationship Lyle J. Goldstein Pages 89 - 116
- Towards Two Sudans Peter Woodward Pages 5 - 10
- Waking the Arabs Elham Fakhro; Emile Hokayem Pages 21 - 30
Minority Politics
- http://digilib.bc.edu/reserves/po081/ross/po08121.pdf
- http://elplandehiram.org/documentos/JoustingNYC/Politics_of_Recognition.pdf
- http://epa.oszk.hu/00400/00476/00001/pdf/01.pdf
- http://www.antifjaka.org/literatura/materijali_katunaric_2/SEO.Belgium2.pdf
- http://www.police.gov.il/meida_laezrach/pirsomim/KitveiEt/DocLib/75.pdf
- http://www.sociology.fsu.edu/people/tope/Jacobs_Tope2008.pdf
- http://www.socsci.uci.edu/~bgrofman/55%20Brace,%20Grofman%20et%20al.%201988.%20Minority%20Voting%20Equality....pdf
- http://www.socsci.uci.edu/~bgrofman/R21%20Grofman%20and%20Lijphart.%201986.%20Intro%20to%20%20Electoral%20Laws....pdf
- http://www.spa.ucla.edu/dean/fg_ajps_paper_empowerment.pdf
- https://lirias.kuleuven.be/bitstream/123456789/300348/2/Article+ERS+vol+26+nr+5_Peter+Vermeersch.pdf
Smuggling of Arms by Terror Groups
- http://dsp-psd.pwgsc.gc.ca/Collection/PS64-9-2005E.pdf
- http://faculty.maxwell.syr.edu/rdenever/InternationalSecurity/Levitsky.pdf
- http://faculty.maxwell.syr.edu/rdenever/InternationalSecurity/Thachuk.pdf
- http://faculty.maxwell.syr.edu/rdenever/IntlSecurity2008_docs/Stohl_TraffickingSmallArms.pdf
- http://faculty.maxwell.syr.edu/rdenever/IntlSecurity2008_docs/Tan_SEAsiaWarTerror.pdf
- http://gees.org/documentos/Documen-03348.pdf
- http://iis-db.stanford.edu/pubs/20357/abs_zaitseva.pdf
- http://ipac.kacst.edu.sa/eDoc/2006/157351_1.pdf
- http://jewishpoliticalchronicle.org/jul03/Defensible%20borders.pdf
- http://nci.org/pdf/nt-book/Spector.pdf
- http://portal.uam.es/portal/page/portal/UAM_ORGANIZATIVO/Departamentos/CienciaPoliticaRelacionesInternacionales/doctorado/Seminarios%20y%20cursos%20de%20profesores%20invitados/Materiales%20Misra/9TransnationalTerrorism.pdf
- http://projects.iq.harvard.edu/gov2126/files/unholy_trinity_shelley.pdf
- http://slezakassociates.com/articles/mil_deterrence_terrorism.pdf
- http://web.mit.edu/lipoff/www/hapr/spring02_wto/terrorism.pdf
- http://www.aic.gov.au/documents/1/3/1/%7B131B91C4-909C-482F-B437-42EC40ED4449%7Dtandi308.pdf
- http://www.as.miami.edu/international-studies/pdf/Bagley%20GLOBALIZATION%202.pdf
- http://www.au.af.mil/au/awc/awcgate/cpc-pubs/hls_papers/teicher.pdf
- http://www.dtic.mil/cgi-bin/GetTRDoc?AD=ADA394320&Location=U2&doc=GetTRDoc.pdf
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- http://www.dtic.mil/cgi-bin/GetTRDoc?AD=ADA439621&Location=U2&doc=GetTRDoc.pdf
- http://www.dtic.mil/cgi-bin/GetTRDoc?AD=ADA439845&Location=U2&doc=GetTRDoc.pdf
- http://www.dtic.mil/cgi-bin/GetTRDoc?AD=ADA440502&Location=U2&doc=GetTRDoc.pdf
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- http://www.dtic.mil/cgi-bin/GetTRDoc?AD=ADA464832&Location=U2&doc=GetTRDoc.pdf
- http://www.dtic.mil/cgi-bin/GetTRDoc?AD=ADA467322&Location=U2&doc=GetTRDoc.pdf
- http://www.dtic.mil/cgi-bin/GetTRDoc?AD=ADA467696&Location=U2&doc=GetTRDoc.pdf
- http://www.dtic.mil/cgi-bin/GetTRDoc?AD=ADA484504&Location=U2&doc=GetTRDoc.pdf
- http://www.eisf.eu/resources/library/DrugTraffickingMiddleeastTerrorGroups.pdf
- http://www.fas.org/asmp/library/reports/OAS/FullReport.pdf
- http://www.gees.org/documentos/Documen-02410.pdf
- http://www.icclr.law.ubc.ca/Publications/Reports/LinksBetweenTerrorismLatest_updated.pdf
- http://www.iss.org.za/pubs/Books/SocietyUnderSiege1/Naylor.pdf
- http://www.jaif.or.jp/english/npsympo/orlov.pdf
- http://www.kentlaw.edu/jicl/articles/spring2004/CigSmugArticleII.pdf
- http://www.kongo-kinshasa.de/dokumente/divers/wp12-01.pdf
- http://www.law.syr.edu/Pdfs/0methods_motives.pdf
- http://www.loc.gov/rr/frd/pdf-files/RussianOrgCrime.pdf
- http://www.loc.gov/rr/frd/pdf-files/TerrOrgCrime_TBA.pdf
- http://www.loc.gov/rr/frd/pdf-files/WestEurope_NEXUS.pdf
- http://www.nps.edu/Academics/centers/ccc/publications/OnlineJournal/2004/apr/napoleoniApr04.pdf
- http://www.offnews.info/downloads/CdadDelEste.pdf
- http://www.opendemocracy.net/content/articles/PDF/2321.pdf
- http://www.publicintegrity.org/investigations/tobacco/assets/pdf/Nexus_of_Organized_Crime.pdf
- http://www.rtmsd.org/7472208209615587/lib/7472208209615587/Paying_for_Terror.pdf
- http://www.ryerson.ca/SAFER-Net/issues/TerrJE03.pdf
- http://www.silkroadstudies.org/docs/publications/2004/Drug%20in%20KGZ_Maral.pdf
- http://www.silkroadstudies.org/new/docs/publications/Makarenko_GlobalCrime.pdf?q=terrorism-98
- http://www.silkroadstudies.org/new/docs/publications/ORBIS.pdf
- http://www.southchinasea.org/docs/ghosh,%20maritime%20security%20challenges%20in%20SAsia%20%26%20Indian%20Ocean.pdf
- http://www.thewashingtonquarterly.com/05autumn/docs/05autumn_malka.pdf
- http://www.twq.com/02summer/chege.pdf
- http://www.uni-heidelberg.de/imperia/md/content/fakultaeten/wiso/ipw/croissant/publications/croissant_barlow_2007_money_trail.pdf
- http://www.usembassy.it/pdf/other/RL31539.pdf
- http://www.victorbout.com/Documents/LA_Times.pdf
- https://www.unodc.org/documents/data-and-analysis/Forum/V05-81059_EBOOK.pdf#page=13
- https://www.unodc.org/documents/data-and-analysis/Forum/V05-81059_EBOOK.pdf#page=41
The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) of Sri Lanka
- http://www.rsis.edu.sg/publications/WorkingPapers/WP120.pdf
- http://www.rsis.edu.sg/publications/WorkingPapers/WP106.pdf
- http://www.rsis.edu.sg/publications/WorkingPapers/WP150.pdf
- http://www.rsis.edu.sg/publications/Perspective/RSIS0542009.pdf
- http://www.consilium.europa.eu/uedocs/cms_Data/docs/pressdata/en/cfsp/89790.pdf
- http://www.berghof-conflictresearch.org/documents/publications/transitions_ltte.pdf
- http://www.apgml.org/frameworks/docs/7/LTTE%20Fundraising%20&%20Money%20Transfer_Oct07-Jayasekara.pdf
- http://www.world-check.com/media/d/content_experttalk_reference/ExpertTalk_Jun09.pdf
- http://www.crisisgroup.org/~/media/Files/asia/south-asia/sri-lanka/186%20The%20Sri%20Lankan%20Tamil%20Diaspora%20after%20the%20LTTE.ashx
- http://www.defence.lk/pps/LTTEinbrief.pdf
- http://www.rsis.edu.sg/publications/workingPapers/WP104.pdf
Project BioShield: Authorities, Appropriations, Acquisitions, and Issues for Congress
Osama bin Laden's Death: Implications and Considerations
The United Nations, intra-state peacekeeping and normative change
The international politics of the Middle East
Soldiers and Civil Power: Supporting or Substituting Civil Authorities in Modern Peace Operations
The Kosovo crisis and the evolution of post-Cold War European security
Mapping European security after Kosovo
Human Rights and the Borders of Suffering
India's Strategic Interest
- http://idsa.in/system/files/strategicanalysis_salam_1204.pdf
- http://thewashingtonquarterly.com/summer00/chellaney.pdf
- http://web.clas.ufl.edu/users/zselden/Course%20Readings/Carter.pdf
- http://www.cerium.ca/IMG/pdf/India_and_the_Balance_of_Power.pdf
- http://www.chathamhouse.org.uk/files/3199_wp200904.pdf
- http://www.drworley.org/NSPcommon/National%20Security%20Strategy/NSS%20in%20campaigns/FA+2000,01,02+Rice.pdf
- http://www.dtic.mil/cgi-bin/GetTRDoc?AD=ADA430809&Location=U2&doc=GetTRDoc.pdf
- http://www.einaudi.cornell.edu/files/SAPseminars/sdarticle.pdf
- http://www.fas.org/irp/agency/dod/dtra/india.pdf
- http://www.freewebs.com/indiaslookeastpolicy/articles/Naidu.pdf
- http://www.gees.org/documentos/Documen-01792.pdf
- http://www.gwu.edu/~power/literature/dbase/basrur1.pdf
- http://www.idsa.in/system/files/strategicanalysis_budania_0303.pdf
- http://www.idsa.in/system/files/strategicanalysis_rberi_0603.pdf
- http://www.jmu.edu/nelsoninstitute/India%27s%20Expanding%20Relations%20with%20Africa.pdf
- http://www.rand.org/pubs/conf_proceedings/CF137/CF137.chap5.pdf
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- http://www.thescotties.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/india-mahanian-visions.pdf
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- http://www.thewashingtonquarterly.com/08autumn/docs/08autumn_mohan.pdf
- http://www.twq.com/06autumn/docs/06autumn_vakil.pdf
Useful Links on Strategic Studies
- Brookings Institution
- Center for Strategic & International Studies
- Homeland Security Studies & Analysis
- Institute for Defence Studies & Analyses
- Institute of Peace & Conflict Studies
- International Institute for Counter-terrorism
- Nuclear control institute
- RAND Corporation
- Regional Centre for Strategic Studies, Sri Lanka
- South Asia Terrorism Portal
- Stanley Foundation
- Stimson Centre
- United Nations Association
- United States Institute of Peace


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