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Syverson will be moving to Nashville from Tacoma, Wash., where he has been the head boys and girls cross country and track & field coach, the dean of Students and athletic director at Mount Rainier Lutheran High School.
At Mount Rainier Lutheran Syverson created the first cross country and track & field programs in school history. His boys successfully defended their Class B track & field state championship this year, while his girls team also won their first state championship this year. It was the first time one school has won both the boys and girls titles in the same year at the Washington State B meet.
His track & field teams also compiled three league and eight district championships to go along with the three state championships. In cross country Luke's Mount Rainier Lutheran boys and girls teams earned three League Championships, two District Championships, and three top eight finishes at State Championships (8th, 6th, and 4th). He was named Sea-Tac League Coach of the Year in Track and Cross-Country six times.
Syverson competed in the long jump and triple jump for Kamiakin High School in Kennewick, Wash. In college he competed in the PAC-10 for Washington State University. He finished his Bachelor's degree in Physical Education at Eastern Washington University.
Syverson started his coaching career at Pullman High School, while serving as the horizontal jumps coach at the WSU Track & Field Camp from 1995-2002 and from 2008-2010.
From 1996 to 2002 Syverson served as the assistant coach for Whitworth University in Spokane, Wash., where he coached horizontal and vertical jumps, worked with recruiting, meet management, travel and logistics as well as conditioning and mentoring.
Syverson also worked for the national outdoor sporting goods chain, REI, from 1996 through 2006.
After being transferred by REI to Tacoma to help open a new store from 2002 to 2006, Luke was recruited by the newly opened Mount Rainier Lutheran High School to serve as their first ever athletic director and to create the boys and girls cross country and track & field programs.
As athletic director at Mount Rainier Lutheran he has hired and mentored coaches for every sport and managed every aspect of the athletic department. As dean of students he has been responsible for the welfare and discipline of the student body. In building the boys and girls track & field teams to state championship level, Luke has coached every event area, while managing several volunteer coaches.
Syverson has earned his USATF Level I Coaching certification and will attend a USATF Level II school next summer. He and his wife Sarah have three children.
"Luke moved to the top of our list very early on," Taylor said. "His resume stood out with Pac-10 competition experience, collegiate coaching experience at a top DIII school, an incredibly successful high school coaching career in a strong Christian environment, plus 10 years of experience working in the retail management world as an assistant store manager for REI.
"More than his resume though, Luke has the enthusiasm we were looking for, combined with an incredible understanding of what Lipscomb is about and what our goals are athletically, academically, socially and spiritually. His philosophy of total person development is exactly what we are about. And his personality and desire to serve others is a perfect fit for the culture and unique environment at Lipscomb."
Taylor pointed out that throughout the interview process there was always unanimous agreement that Luke was the best candidate for the job.
"He is going to relate incredibly to our athletes and he will be a terrific recruiter, not just in communicating what Lipscomb is about, but also in recruiting athletes who will fit with our program and Lipscomb University as a whole," Taylor said.
Syverson will assist with both the men's and women's cross country and track & field teams at Lipscomb.
Syverson has earned his USATF Level I Coaching certification and will attend a USATF Level II school next summer. He and his wife, Sarah, have three children. He is excited about the challenges ahead.
"I am truly excited and feel blessed to be given this opportunity," Syverson said. "Lipscomb is an incredible university with a great reputation of developing the 'whole person'. I look forward to working with coach Taylor and supporting his vision of creating a championship program at the conference and national level.
"During interviews and the campus visit, the coaches, student-athletes, administration – the whole campus community were so welcoming. They all communicated the same vision of where Lipscomb is going and it was a great testament to the values and mission of the university. I truly felt at home and can't wait to get started. It is a great time to be a Bison and I'm thrilled to be a part of that."


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I went through some times where I was confused and unclear about things regarding the Brotherhood and now the more I uncover about the Church ....I am finding that I was wrong to point the finger at the Brotherhood like that. Order has been maintained to it's best ability and a new day is upon us for sure.
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As far as me going 180 with not posting for a few days - WE LIVE AND WE LEARN. The day after I declared I wouldn't post here I was given lessons in division and it was shown to me it wasn't cool to divide us like that.
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Annual, perennial herb, shrubs, trees, generally stellate-hairy; juice sticky; inner bark tough, fibrous
Leaves alternate, simple, petioled; blade generally palmately veined or lobed, stipules present
Inflorescence often leafy; whorl or involucre of bractlets often subtending calyx
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Fruit ± cylindric to ± spheric; segments smooth-sided, beaked, walls firm, sometimes woody, generally not separating, dehiscent ± to base
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Kevadu wasn't the only one who grew up not really watching Disney.Some of us prefer stuff that isn't as twee.I keep flipflopping on whether to try this series cause the Disney stuff seems like the mostawkward part of it.
Never said I wasn't exposed to them, just that I don't particularly like them ;)
If you don't mind spoilers.They recently did a feature on GT that pretty much explains the ENTIRETY of KH as it currently exists.Helps cut through some of the thickness that might drive off newcomers. Honestly I've only played KH I and II and relied on that video to get me up to date. XD


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A.J. McLean Welcomes Second Daughter
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The 39-year-old singer's wife Rochelle gave birth to their second daughter on Sunday evening (19Mar17), the couple's representative has confirmed to People.com.
Joining four-year-old sister Ava Jaymes, Lyric Dean McLean weighed in at a healthy 8 lbs., 3 oz.
"Having two baby girls is a dream come true and we couldn't be any more proud or excited to welcome Lyric Dean McLean into the world and into our family," said A.J. in a statement.
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And he also explained his oldest was very excited to meet new sister Lyric, and had been preparing for months for her arrival.
"Now, seeing the excitement and anticipation that Ava has about being a big sister is truly amazing, and the best feeling in the world. She's been practicing for months with her dolls, and with some of my wife's friends' babies," he said. "We decided to try one more time because even though Ava is so independent, the idea of having a sister or brother for her became more and more important to us."
The newborn's arrival comes weeks after her father's group began their Las Vegas residency at The AXIS at Planet Hollywood Resort and Casino. And it seems that A.J. will not be going on paternity leave for the time being, as Backstreet Boys: Larger Than Life runs through 1 July (17), though they don't have a show now until 12 April.
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Hi there faithful readers. This year has been full of stress and hindrances. The latest is the death of my grandfather, Manuel Rito. He's sorely missed by my whole family, and I had to spend the previous week attending the funeral and going through some of the belongings he left behind. That process and mourning continues, but at the same time, it makes me realize how good I've got it right now, and What I want to leave behind. Hopefully the initial pages of Skyborne will be completed within the next month, and I'll finally have something to show for myself from this year. Thanks for reading, everybody. And thanks for your continued patience.
It's hard to describe why comics haven't been getting done. There have been a few things going on in my life. My husband and I are starting the precarious process of trying to find a house to buy. Since we're not rich, we're not even middle-class, really, this is a tough scenario in the Seattle area.
Secondly, the overtime at work cranked up rather suddenly, and I'm just plain tired.
Also, I've been away from comic work for so long I'm having a little trouble figuring out where to get started.
And lastly, getting Skyborne off the ground (sorry for the accidental bad pun) has taken longer than I expected. Something about designing magically-powered SkyKraft seems to be delaying every page. I'm not a good engineer, so blame my stupid brain for wanting to write and draw a story that involves so many crazy vessels and inventions.
Summary? I'm officially or unofficially on Hiatus, everybody. But when I come back in a few weeks, it will be to show you the first ten pages of Skyborne, and start into Aspect Chapter 5.
Apologies again, everybody. Between being obsessed about Skyborne, and doing a drawing for my husband I've owed him for a VERY long time, and work, and Emerald City Comic Con this past weekend, I just had no time to get any more work done on Aspect. Thanks for checking in, and sorry I don't even have any fun filler material to show you.
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I think if your child has had a cough for more than 3 days or so if there is no fever or other signs and symptoms you should call their doctor to be safe. I say this because my 4 month old had a cough and nothing else especially at night for 4 days. I called her doctor and they told me to bring her in. It turns out she was coughing because she had a slight wheezing in her lungs even though we could not here it. So she possibly could have asthma or just allergies and now we have to use an inhaler for her. Its better to be safe than sorry.
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If you have tried cough medication when your child started coughing and there is no improvement - if the cough is very strained or inclined to wanting to vomit I would not hesitate to take your child to the Doctor - better safe than sorry. How long has the coughing been going on for? You are the only one who can hear if the cough is severe or not. I do hope that it is nothing serious and just a tickling in the throat. God bless - Joan
If there is wheezing, a deep rattle in lungs, or cough has lasted longer than 3 weeks.
I agree Dawn, also if they're coughing at night and waking themselves up, especially if it's a dry cough as it could be asthma.
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NEW ORLEANS – The names Archie Manning, Rickey Jackson and Willie Roaf now have a permanent place in the Superdome, ringing the home field of the NFL team with which they spent the best years of their careers.
The Saints formally unveiled their own "Ring of Honor" at halftime of Sunday night's game against the Dallas Cowboys, and the three former stars were on the field for the occasion along with Saints owner Tom Benson.
Before the game, general manager Mickey Loomis spoke about the three players, noting, "We have a number of deserving people that will be in the Ring of Honor and yet these three gentlemen, I think, stand above all others."
Their names are the first in the 46-year history of the Saints to be affixed to the facade of the Superdome's upper deck. The crowd cheered when each players was introduced on the field and while montages of their careers were shown on stadium video boards.
"I'm truly honored to be in this initial class," said Manning, who played quarterback in New Orleans from 1971-82. "You know, this team has been good for several years. All my nights in the Superdome weren't always memorable and my afternoons weren't always great. But I'll always remember this night, I promise you that. It's really special. It's special to me. It's special to my family."
Jackson and Roaf have both been inducted in the Pro Football Hall of Fame in the past four years. Jackson played linebacker for the Saints from 1981-93, while Roaf played left tackle for New Orleans from 1993-2001.
"I put the Saints (Ring of Honor) right up there with the Hall of Fame," said Jackson, who was named to six Pro Bowls and was a defensive leader on New Orleans' first four playoff teams. "All the things I have in life, I consider the Saints part of it. So I would like to thank all the Saints fans, and thank Mr. Benson and his family and just: Go Saints."
Jackson was the first Saint to enter the Hall of Fame in 2010. Roaf, named to 11 Pro Bowls during a 13-year career in New Orleans and Kansas City, was inducted in 2012.
Roaf, who grew up in Louisiana and played for Louisiana Tech, said he followed the careers of Manning and Jackson growing up, and was honored to be included with them among the first names on the Ring of Honor.
"I just would like to say how special this is and thank Mr. Benson and his family for drafting me from Louisiana Tech," Roaf said. "I'm just so grateful I got a chance to play close to home and my family and friends, a lot of them are here right now."
Manning represented the Saints in two Pro Bowls and was once named the NFL's Most Valuable Player in 1978. In addition to being the Saints' career passing leader until current quarterback Drew Brees eclipsed his 21,734 yards, he also rushed for 2,058 yards and 18 TDs. Manning also settled in New Orleans, where he raised his Super Bowl-winning sons, Payton and Eli.
"Archie and his wife, Olivia, and family have been great representatives of the city, great advocates of the city, for 40 years," Loomis said. "But make no mistake about it: Archie Manning was a great football player. … If he played today, he would be an elite quarterback."
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The company reported worldwide profits of $14.2 billion, and said $5.1 billion of the total came from its operations in the
Its American
That may be hard to fathom for the millions of American business owners and households now preparing their own returns, but low taxes are nothing new for G.E. The company has been cutting the percentage of its American profits paid to the
Its extraordinary success is based on an aggressive strategy that mixes fierce lobbying for tax breaks and innovative accounting that enables it to concentrate its profits offshore. G.E.'s giant tax department, led by a bow-tied former
While General Electric is one of the most skilled at reducing its tax burden, many other companies have become better at this as well. Although the top corporate tax rate in the United States is 35 percent, one of the highest in the world, companies have been increasingly using a maze of shelters, tax credits and subsidies to pay far less.
In a regulatory filing just a week before the Japanese disaster put a spotlight on the company's nuclear reactor business, G.E. reported that its tax burden was 7.4 percent of its American profits, about a third of the average reported by other American multinationals. Even those figures are overstated, because they include taxes that will be paid only if the company brings its overseas profits back to the United States. With those profits still offshore, G.E. is effectively getting money back.Continue reading the main story
Such strategies, as well as changes in tax laws that encouraged some businesses and professionals to file as individuals, have pushed down the corporate share of the nation's tax receipts — from 30 percent of all federal revenue in the mid-1950s to 6.6 percent in 2009.
Yet many companies say the current level is so high it hobbles them in competing with foreign rivals. Even as the government faces a mounting budget deficit, the talk in Washington is about lower rates.
"He understands what it takes for America to compete in the global economy," Mr. Obama said of Mr. Immelt, on his appointment in January, after touring a G.E. factory in upstate New York that makes turbines and generators for sale around the world.
A review of company filings and Congressional records shows that one of the most striking advantages of General Electric is its ability to lobby for, win and take advantage of tax breaks.
Over the last decade, G.E. has spent tens of millions of dollars to push for changes in tax law, from more generous depreciation schedules on jet engines to "green energy" credits for its
Company officials say that these measures are necessary for G.E. to compete against global rivals and that they are acting as responsible citizens. "G.E. is committed to acting with integrity in relation to our tax obligations," said Anne Eisele, a spokeswoman. "We are committed to complying with tax rules and paying all legally obliged taxes. At the same time, we have a responsibility to our shareholders to legally minimize our costs."
The assortment of tax breaks G.E. has won in Washington has provided a significant short-term gain for the company's executives and shareholders. While the financial crisis led G.E. to post a loss in the United States in 2009, regulatory filings show that in the last five years, G.E. has accumulated $26 billion in American profits, and received a net tax benefit from the I.R.S. of $4.1 billion.
But critics say the use of so many shelters amounts to corporate welfare, allowing G.E. not just to avoid taxes on profitable overseas lending but also to amass tax credits and write-offs that can be used to reduce taxes on billions of dollars of profit from domestic manufacturing. They say that the assertive tax avoidance of multinationals like G.E. not only shortchanges the Treasury, but also harms the economy by discouraging
"In a rational system, a corporation's tax department would be there to make sure a company complied with the law," said Len Burman, a former Treasury official who now is a scholar at the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center. "But in our system, there are corporations that view their tax departments as a profit center, and the effects on public policy can be negative."
The shelters are so crucial to G.E.'s bottom line that when Congress threatened to let the most lucrative one expire in 2008, the company came out in full force. G.E. officials worked with dozens of financial companies to send letters to Congress and hired a bevy of outside lobbyists.
The head of its tax team, Mr. Samuels, met with Representative
That day, Mr. Rangel reversed his opposition to the tax break, according to other Democrats on the committee.
The following month, Mr. Rangel and Mr. Immelt stood together at St. Nicholas Park in
G.E. officials say the donation was granted solely on the merit of the project. "The foundation goes to great lengths to ensure grant decisions are not influenced by company government relations or lobbying priorities," Ms. Eisele said.
Mr. Rangel, who was censured by Congress last year for soliciting donations from corporations and executives with business before his committee, said this month that the donation was unrelated to his official actions.
Defying Reagan's Legacy
General Electric has been a household name for generations, with light bulbs, electric fans, refrigerators and other appliances in millions of American homes. But today the consumer appliance division accounts for less than 6 percent of revenue, while lending accounts for more than 30 percent. Industrial, commercial and medical equipment like power plant turbines and jet engines account for about 50 percent. Its industrial work includes everything from wind farms to nuclear energy projects like the troubled plant in
Because its lending division,
As it has evolved, the company has used, and in some cases pioneered, aggressive strategies to lower its tax bill. In the mid-1980s, President
"I didn't realize things had gotten that far out of line," Mr. Reagan told the Treasury secretary, Donald T. Regan, according to Mr. Regan's 1988 memoir. The president supported a change that closed loopholes and required G.E. to pay a far higher effective rate, up to 32.5 percent.
That pendulum began to swing back in the late 1990s. G.E. and other financial services firms won a change in tax law that would allow multinationals to avoid taxes on some kinds of banking and
Known as active financing, the tax break proved to be beneficial for investment
G.E. subsequently ramped up its lending business.
As the company expanded abroad, the portion of its profits booked in low-tax countries such as Ireland and
Martin A. Sullivan, a tax economist for the trade publication Tax Analysts, said that booking such a large percentage of its profits in low-tax countries has "allowed G.E. to bring its U.S. effective tax rate to rock-bottom levels."
G.E. officials say the disparity between American revenue and American profit is the result of ordinary business factors, such as investment in overseas markets and heavy lending losses in the United States recently. The company also says the nation's workers benefit when G.E. profits overseas.
"We believe that winning in markets outside the United States increases U.S. exports and jobs," Mr. Samuels said through a spokeswoman. "If U.S. companies aren't competitive outside of their home market, it will mean fewer, not more, jobs in the United States, as the business will go to a non-U.S. competitor."
The company does not specify how much of its global tax savings derive from active financing, but called it "significant" in its annual report. Stock analysts estimate the tax benefit to G.E. to be hundreds of millions of dollars a year.
"Cracking down on offshore profit-shifting by financial companies like G.E. was one of the important achievements of President Reagan's 1986 Tax Reform Act," said Robert S. McIntyre, director of the liberal group Citizens for Tax Justice, who played a key role in those changes. "The fact that Congress was snookered into undermining that reform at the behest of companies like G.E. is an insult not just to Reagan, but to all the ordinary American taxpayers who have to foot the bill for G.E.'s rampant tax sheltering."
A Full-Court Press
Minimizing taxes is so important at G.E. that Mr. Samuels has placed tax strategists in decision-making positions in many major manufacturing facilities and businesses around the globe. Mr. Samuels, a graduate of
At a tax symposium in 2007, a G.E. tax official said the department's "mission statement" consisted of 19 rules and urged employees to divide their time evenly between ensuring compliance with the law and "looking to exploit opportunities to reduce tax."
Transforming the most creative strategies of the tax team into law is another extensive operation. G.E. spends heavily on lobbying: more than $200 million over the last decade, according to the Center for Responsive Politics. Records filed with election officials show a significant portion of that money was devoted to tax legislation. G.E. has even turned setbacks into successes with Congressional help. After the
By the time the measure — the American Jobs Creation Act — was signed into law by President
According to its 2007 regulatory filing, the company saved more than $1 billion in American taxes because of that law in the three years after it was enacted.
By 2008, however, concern over the growing cost of overseas tax loopholes put G.E. and other corporations on the defensive. With Democrats in control of both houses of Congress, momentum was building to let the active financing exception expire. Mr. Rangel of the Ways and Means Committee indicated that he favored letting it end and directing the new revenue — an estimated $4 billion a year — to other priorities.
G.E. pushed back. In addition to the $18 million allocated to its in-house lobbying department, the company spent more than $3 million in 2008 on lobbying firms assigned to the task.
Mr. Rangel dropped his opposition to the tax break. Representative Joseph Crowley, Democrat of New York, said he had helped sway Mr. Rangel by arguing that the tax break would help
G.E. officials say that neither Mr. Samuels nor any lobbyists working on behalf of the company discussed the possibility of a charitable donation with Mr. Rangel. The only contact was made in late 2007, a company spokesman said, when Mr. Immelt called to inform Mr. Rangel that the foundation was giving money to schools in his district.
But in 2008, when Mr. Rangel was criticized for using Congressional stationery to solicit donations for a
G.E. had nothing to do with the City College project, he said at a July 2008 news conference in Washington. "And I didn't send them any letter," Mr. Rangel said, adding that he "leaned on them to help us out in the city of New York as they have throughout the country. But my point there was that I do know that the C.E.O. there is connected with the foundation."
In an interview this month, Mr. Rangel offered a different version of events — saying he didn't remember ever discussing it with Mr. Immelt and was unaware of the foundation's donation until the mayor's office called him in June, before the announcement and after Mr. Rangel had dropped his opposition to the tax break.
Asked to explain the discrepancies between his accounts, Mr. Rangel replied, "I have no idea."
Value to Americans?
While G.E.'s declining tax rates have bolstered profits and helped the company continue paying dividends to shareholders during the economic downturn, some tax experts question what taxpayers are getting in return. Since 2002, the company has eliminated a fifth of its work force in the United States while increasing overseas employment. In that time, G.E.'s accumulated offshore profits have risen to $92 billion from $15 billion.
"That G.E. can almost set its own tax rate shows how very much we need reform," said Representative
As the Obama administration and leaders in Congress consider proposals to revamp the corporate tax code, G.E. is well prepared to defend its interests. The company spent $4.1 million on outside lobbyists last year, including four boutique firms that specialize in tax policy.
"We are a diverse company, so there are a lot of issues that the government considers, that Congress considers, that affect our shareholders," said Gary Sheffer, a G.E. spokesman. "So we want to be sure our voice is heard."Continue reading the main story


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Veddas (Sinhala: වැද්දා , Tamil: வேடுவர் Vēṭuvar) are an indigenous people of Sri Lanka. They, amongst other self-identified native communities such as Coast Veddas and Anuradhapura Veddas, are accorded indigenous status.
According to the genesis chronicle of the Sinhala people, the Mahavamsa ("Great Chronicle"), written in the 5th century CE, the Pulindas believed to refer to Veddas are descended from Prince Vijaya (6th–5th century BCE), the founding father of the Sinhalese nation, through Kuveni, a woman of the indigenous Yakkha he married. The Mahavansa relates that following the repudiation of Kuveni by Vijaya, in favour of a Kshatriya-caste princess from Pandya, their two children, a boy and a girl, departed to the region of Sumanakuta (Adam's Peak in the Ratnapura District), where they multiplied, giving rise to the Veddas. Anthropologists such as the Seligmanns (The Veddhas 1911) believed the Veddas to be identical with the Yakkha.
Veddas are also mentioned in Robert Knox's history of his captivity by the King of Kandy in the 17th century. Knox described them as "wild men", but also said there was a "tamer sort", and that the latter sometimes served in the king's army.[2]
The Ratnapura District, which is part of the Sabaragamuwa Province, is known to have been inhabited by the Veddas in the distant past. This has been shown by scholars like Nandadeva Wijesekera (Veddhas in transition 1964). The very name Sabaragamuwa is believed to have meant the village of the Sabaras or "forest barbarians". Such place-names as Vedda-gala (Vedda Rock), Vedda-ela (Vedda Canal) and Vedi-kanda (Vedda Mountain) in the Ratnapura District also bear testimony to this. As Wijesekera observes, a strong Vedda element is discernible in the population of Vedda-gala and its environs.
The original language of the Veddas is the Vedda language. Today it is used primarily by the interior Veddas of Dambana. Communities, such as Coast Veddas and Anuradhapura Veddas, that do not identify themselves strictly as Veddas also use Vedda language in part for communication during hunting and or for religious chants. When a systematic field study was conducted in 1959 it was determined that the language was confined to the older generation of Veddas from Dambana. In 1990s self-identifying Veddas knew few words and phrases in the Vedda language, but there were individuals who knew the language comprehensively. Initially there was considerable debate amongst linguists as to whether Vedda is a dialect of Sinhalese or an independent language. Later studies indicate that it diverged from its parent stock in the 10th century and became a Creole and a stable independent language by the 13th century, under the influence of Sinhalese.
The parent Vedda language(s) is of unknown genetic origins, while Sinhalese is of the Indo-Aryan branch of Indo-European languages. Phonologically it is distinguished from Sinhalese by the higher frequency of palatal sounds C and J. The effect is also heightened by the addition of inanimate suffixes. Morphologically Vedda language word class is divided into nouns, verbs and invariables with unique gender distinctions in animate nouns. Per its Creole tradition, it has reduced and simplified many forms of Sinhalese such as second person pronouns and denotations of negative meanings. Instead borrowing new words from Sinhalese Vedda created combinations of words from a limited lexical stock. Vedda also maintains many archaic Sinhalese terms prior to the 10th to 12th centuries, as a relict of its close contact with Sinhalese. Vedda also retains a number of unique words that cannot be derived from Sinhalese. Conversely, Sinhalese has also borrowed from the original Vedda language, words and grammatical structures, differentiating it from its related Indo-Aryan languages. Vedda has exerted a substratum influence in the formation of Sinhalese.
Veddas that have adopted Sinhala are found primarily in the southeastern part of the country, especially in the vicinity of Bintenne in Uva District. There are also Veddas that have adopted Sinhala who live in Anuradhapura District in the North Central Province.[3]
Another group, often termed [4][5]
The original religion of Veddas is animism. The Sinhalized interior Veddahs follow a mix of animism and nominal Buddhism, whereas the Tamilized east coast Veddahs follow a mix of animism and nominal Hinduism, which is known as folk Hinduism among anthropologists.
One of the most distinctive features of Vedda religion is the worship of dead ancestors, who are called "nae yaku" among the Sinhala-speaking Veddas and are invoked for game and yams.[6] There are also peculiar deities unique to Veddas, such as "Kande Yakka".[7]
Veddas, along with the Island's Buddhist, Hindu and Muslim communities, venerate the temple complex situated at Kataragama, showing the syncretism that has evolved over 2,000 years of coexistence and assimilation. Kataragama is supposed to be the site where the Hindu god Skanda or Murugan in Tamil met and married a local tribal girl, Valli, who in Sri Lanka is believed to have been a Vedda.[8]
There are a number of less famous shrines across the island, which are as sacred to the Veddas and to other communities.[8]
Vedda marriage is a simple ceremony. It consists of the bride tying a bark rope (diya lanuva) that she has twisted, around the waist of the groom. This symbolizes the bride's acceptance of the man as her mate and life partner. Although marriage between cross-cousins was the norm until recently, this has changed significantly, with Vedda women even contracting marriages with their Sinhalese and Moor neighbours.
In Vedda society, women are in many respects men's equals. They are entitled to similar inheritance. Monogamy is the general rule, though a widow would frequently marry her husband's brother as a means of support and consolation (widow inheritance). They also do not practice a caste system.[9]
Death, too, is a simple affair without ostentatious funeral ceremonies where the corpse of the deceased is promptly buried.
Although the medical knowledge of the Vedda is limited, it nevertheless appears to be sufficient. For example, pythonesa oil (pimburu tel), a local remedy used for healing wounds, has proven to be very successful in the treatment of fractures and deep cuts.
Since the opening of colonisation schemes, Vedda burials changed when they dug graves of 4–5 feet deep and wrapped the body wrapped cloth and covered it with leaves and earth. The Veddas also laid the body between the scooped out trunks of the gadumba tree before they buried it. At the head of the grave were kept three open coconuts and a small bundle of wood, while at its foot were kept an opened coconut and an untouched coconut. Certain cactus species (pathok) were planted at the head, the middle and the foot. Personal possessions like the bow and arrow, betel pouch, were also buried. This practice varied by community. The contents of the betel pouch of the deceased were eaten after his death.
The dead body was scented or smeared with juice from the leaves of jungle trees or lime trees. The foot or the head of the grave was never lit either with fire or wax, and water was not kept in a vessel by the grave side.
The Veddas believe in the cult of the dead. They worshipped and made incantations to their Nae Yakka (Relative Spirit) followed by other customary ritual (called the Kiri Koraha) which is still in vogue among the surviving Gam Veddas of Rathugala, Pollebedda Dambana and the Henanigala Vedda re-settlement (in Mahaweli systems off Mahiyangane).
They believed that the spirit of their dead would haunt them bringing forth diseases and calamity. To appease the dead spirit they invoke the blessings of the Nae Yakka and other spirits, like Bilinda Yakka, Kande Yakka followed by the dance ritual of the Kiri Koraha.
According to Sarasin Cousins (in 1886) and Seligmann's book - 'The Veddas' (1910).
"When man or woman dies from sickness, the body is left in the cave or rock shelter where the death took place, the body is not washed or dressed or ornamented in any way, but is generally allowed to be in the natural supine position and is covered with leaves and branches. This was formerly the universal custom and still persists among the less sophisticated Veddas who sometimes in addition place a large stone upon the chest for which no reason could be given, this is observed at Sitala Wanniya (off Polle-bedda close to Maha Oya), where the body is still covered with branches and left where the death occurred."
Until fairly recent times, the raiment of the Veddas was remarkably scanty. In the case of men, it consisted only of a loincloth suspended with a string at the waist, while in the case of women, it was a piece of cloth that extended from the navel to the knees. Today, however, Vedda attire is more covering, men wear a short sarong extending from the waist to the knees, while the womenfolk clad themselves in a garment similar to the Sinhalese diya-redda which extends from the breastline to the knees.
Bori Bori Sellam-Sellam Bedo Wannita,
Palletalawa Navinna-Pita Gosin Vetenne,
Malpivili genagene-Hele Kado Navinne,
Diyapivili Genagene-Thige Bo Haliskote Peni,
Ka tho ipal denne
(A Vedda honeycomb cutter's folk song)
Meaning of this song - The bees from yonder hills of Palle Talawa and Kade suck nectar from the flowers and made the honeycomb. So why should you give them undue pain when there is no honey by cutting the honeycomb.
Vedda cave drawings such as those found at Hamangala provide graphic evidence of the sublime spiritual and artistic vision achieved by the ancestors of today's Wanniyala-Aetto people. Most researchers today agree that the artists most likely were the Wanniyala-Aetto women who spent long hours in these caves waiting for their menfolk's return from the hunt.
Understood from this perspective, these cave drawings depict brilliant feats of Wanniyala-Aetto culture as seen through the eyes of its womenfolk. The simple yet graceful abstract figures are portrayed engaging in feats of vision and daring that place them firmly above even the greatest beasts of their jungle habitat.
The nimbus or halo about the human figures' heads represents the sun's disc and, equally, the sacred power bordering upon divinity that accrues not only to great hunters but to all those endowed with the vision to behold and apprehend the marvel of divinity in humble guise. Even up to modern times, the Wanniyala-Aetto used to swear oaths of truth by the divinity of the sun, saying 'upon Maha Suriyo Deviyo'.
Such cave drawings have long served as visual memory aids and as teaching tools for the transmission of ancestral wisdom traditions to succeeding generations. To this day, they provide silent testimony to the profound heights attained by Lanka's indigenous culture expressed with elegant simplicity that people of all communities may appreciate.
Veddas were originally hunter-gatherers. They used bows and arrows to hunt game, and also gathered wild plants and honey. Many Veddas also farm, frequently using slash and burn or swidden cultivation, which is called "chena" in Sri Lanka. East Coast Veddas also practice fishing. Veddas are famously known for their rich meat diet. Venison and the flesh of rabbit, turtle, tortoise, monitor lizard, wild boar and the common brown monkey are consumed with much relish. The Veddas kill only for food and do not harm young or pregnant animals. Game is commonly shared amongst the family and clan. Fish are caught by employing fish poisons such as the juice of the pus-vel (Entada scandens) and daluk-kiri (Cactus milk).
Vedda culinary fare is also deserving of mention. Amongst the best known are gona perume, which is a sort of sausage containing alternate layers of meat and fat, and goya-tel-perume, which is the tail of the monitor lizard (talagoya), stuffed with fat obtained from its sides and roasted in embers. Another Vedda delicacy is dried meat preserve soaked in honey. In the olden days, the Veddas used to preserve such meat in the hollow of a tree, enclosing it with clay.
Such succulent meat served as a ready food supply in times of scarcity. The early part of the year (January–February) is considered to be the season of yams and mid-year (June–July) that of fruit and honey, while hunting is availed of throughout the year. Nowadays, more and more Vedda folk have taken to Chena (slash and burn) cultivation. Kurakkan (Eleusine coracana) is cultivated very often. Maize, yams, gourds and melons are also cultivated. In the olden days, the dwellings of the Veddas consisted of caves and rock shelters. Today, they live in unpretentious huts of wattle, daub and thatch.
In the reign of King Datusena (6th century CE) the Mahaweli ganga was diverted at Minipe in the Minipe canal nearly 47 miles long said to be constructed with help from the Yakkas. The Mahawamsa refers to the canal as Yaka-bendi-ela. When the Ruwanweli Seya was built in King Dutugemunu's time (2nd century BCE) the Veddas procured the necessary minerals from the jungles.
King Parakrama Bahu the great (12th century) in his war against the rebels employed these Veddas as scouts.
In the reign of King Rajasinghe II (17th century) in his battle with the Dutch he had a Vedda regiment. In the abortive Uva-Welessa revolt of 1817-1818 of the British times, led by Keppetipola Disawe, the Veddas too fought with the rebels against the British forces.
Some observers have said Veddas are disappearing and have lamented the decline of their distinct culture.[11][12] Development, government forest reserve restrictions, and the civil war have disrupted traditional Vedda ways of life.[13][14] Dr. Wiveca Stegeborn, an anthropologist, has been studying the Vedda since 1977 and alleges that their young women are being tricked into accepting contracts to the Middle East as domestic workers when in fact they will be trafficked into prostitution or sold as sex slaves.[15]
However, cultural assimilation of Veddas with other local populations has been going on for a long time. "Vedda" has been used in Sri Lanka to mean not only hunter-gatherers, but also to refer to any people who adopt an unsettled and rural way of life and thus can be a derogatory term not based on ethnic group. Thus, over time, it is possible for non-Vedda groups to become Veddas, in this broad cultural sense.[16][17] Vedda populations of this kind are increasing in some districts.[18]
A recent genetic study on Veddas has supported them as an outlier in comparison with other Sri Lankan populations [19] [20]
Today many Sinhalese people and some east coast Tamils claim that they have some trace of Veddah blood. Intermarriage between Veddas and Sinhalese is very frequent. They are not considered outcasts in Sri Lankan society, unlike the low caste Rodiyas (see Caste in Sri Lanka).
The current leader of the Wanniyala-Aetto community is Uru Warige Wanniya.
The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Hunters and Gatherers, editor Richard B. Lee. (ISBN 978-0-521-60919-7 | ISBN 0-521-60919-4)
A great deal of information on them can be found at Vedda.org
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Chuck Hagel on Wednesday morning was sworn in as secretary of Defense. He took the oath of office in a private ceremony at the Pentagon and immediately set to work at his new and challenging cabinet-level job, preparing an address to department employees.
After a bitter seven-week confirmation fight, will this be an occasion that the Republican former senator from Nebraska treasures the rest of his life? Or will he rue the day he walked into the bureaucratic snake pit that is the E-ring?
To a certain extent, this question is rhetorical, of course. No matter how this turns out, Secretary Hagel will always have the memory of holding one of America's most coveted political jobs. His office is palatial, his responsibilities extraordinary, his staff vast. When we covered the Pentagon, a friend who worked there would occasionally drag us out to the helipad. We'd stand there and watch the secretary of the time stride out with his military escort and then disappear in a roaring, gleaming US Marine helicopter.
"Now that," our friend would say as the dust settled, "is American power."
But for all the glory, it's also probably the second most difficult job in the executive branch after the presidency itself.
As of now, Hagel is CEO of a $700 billion company. He's just taken office, yet all his division heads, otherwise known as the "Joint Chiefs of Staff," have spent their whole adult lives working up through the company's ranks. He'll never match their institutional knowledge.
He'll immediately confront crucial billion-dollar decisions. ("Chief, what should we do about the F-35"?) The Joint Chiefs will have their own opinions on these, which they've had lots of time to hone. Oh, and these decisions affect thousands of jobs in congressional districts across the United States, so Congress will weigh in as well. Often.
Did we say these decisions also involve the nation's very security? And that Hagel is in the nation's chain of command, meaning he's also got some responsibility for formulating policy and directing the operations of US troops now in harm's way, wherever they are?
All this is why some SecDefs appear happy to spend time on morale-boosting visits to foreign bases, while underlings run things back in Washington.
In addition to the weight of the job, Hagel will face a number of problems particular to him.
The 'sequester.' The big automatic budget cuts known as sequestration look almost certain to take effect Friday. That means Hagel could be grappling with a semi-crisis within days as he loses $46 billion of his budget.
The Senate. Part of the job of secretary of Defense is dealing with the House and Senate Armed Services Committees and military appropriations subcommittees. Right now, Hagel's got problems with the Senate part of this equation. His nomination passed SASC by only 14 to 11, and his performance at his confirmation hearing was unimpressive, at best.
"He will take office with the weakest support of any Defense secretary in modern history, which will make him less effective [in] his job," said Sen. John Cornyn of Texas, the GOP's minority whip.
Of course, a revenge-minded SecDef might find opportunity in the fact that he's supposed to rebuild relations with people who came after him in the first place. As former Pentagon official Lawrence J. Korb writes in Foreign Policy, there are lots of ways he can get back at his GOP foes if he chooses.
He could draw up lists of bases in his adversaries' states for possible closure, cancel weapons systems that senators support, move military units out of his foes' states, and so forth.
"His choices could hurt the constituents of the very officials who have done the most to hurt him," Mr. Korb writes.
The press. Finally, Hagel may face a media primed to cover any misstep. During his confirmation hearing, he hemmed, hawed, and occasionally misstated administration policy. Any similar mistake he makes now will be picked up and magnified.
He doesn't even have to make them now; it might be enough to newly unearth stuff he said in the past. Witness the latest flap: A 2011 Hagel speech, in which he said India has over the years financed trouble for Pakistan from across the border in Afghanistan, has riled the Indian government.
The remark was published by the Washington Free Beacon, a muckraking conservative journal.
"Such comments attributed to Sen. Hagel ... are contrary to the reality of India's unbounded dedication to the welfare of the Afghan people," said a statement issued in response by the Indian Embassy in Washington.


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As the 2013 fire season continues, the costs of fighting wildfires have continued to increase. In 2012, fires consumed 40 percent of the Forest Service's annual budget, compared to only 13 percent in 1991. Many factors have created these rising costs through the years, including worsened drought conditions, continued climate change, and an increased number of homes built near forested areas. These escalating expenses are proving to be so costly, that they are leaving less money for wildfire prevention.
Due to these heightened factors, for fiscal 2014, the federal administration has proposed drastic spending cuts to hazardous fuels reduction, or clearing smaller trees and underbrush through controlled cutting and burns. The idea behind hazardous fuels reduction is that by removing this underbrush, fires will have less fuel to spread rapidly and can then be controlled faster. Donald Smurthwaite, spokesman for the National Interagency Fire Center states, "In a recent study by the Bureau of Land Management, when wildfires burned into fuels treatment areas, they were slowed or stopped about 90 percent of the time. With the decline in fuels funding, we're worried that saving money today will mean larger and more destructive fires tomorrow." Limited funding has decreased fire prevention for several years. In 2009, 4.5 million acres were treated to prevent wildfires, and under the proposed budgetary cuts, fewer than 2 million acres would be treated in 2014.While the proposed budget for fiscal 2014 would increase overall funding for wildfires, it would largely cut the hazardous fuels budgets for several agencies. In all, 41 percent of these budgets would fall, reducing the current funds of $502 million to $297 million. This will be the third consecutive year the administration's proposed budget includes spending cuts to forest treatment to prevent wildfires. Many of these cuts will greatly affect our tree partners — the U.S. Forest Service and the National Park Service.
As an organization of people that cares deeply about our nation's forests and trees, the Arbor Day Foundation continues to challenge ourselves to better understand how to collaborate with our partners on the ground as they overcome these budgetary hurdles. There simply isn't funding available as there has been in decades past, and that is where our valued members, supporters, corporate donors and partners can help us to heighten our efforts to do more with less. They can help us to see new ways to partner with these groups, to create even more relevant programs, and to provide trees to those areas most in need. As we address each new challenge, we search for ways to better engage our loyal members and tree advocates to keep them involved in the good work our partners accomplish each year with our support.
With the help and generosity of our vast network of tree advocates, we will continue to foster our enduring 25-year partnership with the U.S. Forest Service. With their help, the Arbor Day Foundation will continue to bring new ideas surrounding education, conservation, and tree planting in wildfire-stricken areas.
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