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ONITSHA, Dec 31 (Reuters) - Clashes between rival ethnic groups in eastern Nigeria's Ebonyi state on Saturday killed at least 50 people, the state government spokesman said, and police said mobile units had been sent to the state to quell the violence.
The clashes erupted from a long running rivalry between the Ezza and Ezilo people of Ishielu district that periodically flares up.
There was no suggestion it had anything to do with wider security problems in the country stemming from a violent Islamist insurgency that set off a wave of deadly bombs on Christmas Day.
But they are likely to add to President Goodluck Jonathan's mounting security woes at a time when his forces are stretched.
"Up to 60 people died in the violence. It is difficult to give the exact figure because when we visited Ezilo community, which was the scene of the incident today ... villagers were still bringing out corpses," Ebonyi state spokesman Onyekachi Eni told Reuters by telephone. "Fifty corpses were shown to us".
Violent disputes over land are common in Africa's most populous country because the majority of its 160 million people are subsistence farmers living in rural areas with few means of arbitrating disputes.
Hundreds of people are killed every year in such clashes, many going unreported because of a lack of reliable information about them.
State Commissioner of Police Adeola Adeniji said the divisional crime officer for the area was killed in the violence. "Mobile police have been sent there and the inspector general has directed more to come," Adeniji said.
Chioma Oke, an Ezilo who survived the clashes, said they started around 5 a.m.
"We heard sporadic gunshots and we began to run. They burned our houses. They said they were retaliating for an attack on them last year," she said. (Reporting by Anamesere Igboeroteonwu; Writing by Tim Cocks; Editing by Alison Williams)


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DENVER - Masai Ujiri has done a masterful job of reshaping the Nuggets into a Western Conference contender ever since Carmelo Anthony forced his way out of Denver.
With nary an All-Star this season, the Nuggets won a franchise record 57 games and went an NBA-best 38-3 at home, helping Ujiri garner the NBA's Executive of the Year honour to go with George Karl's Coach of the Year award.
Now, the Nuggets reportedly might lose Ujiri.
Yahoo Sports reported Friday that the Nuggets are allowing Ujiri to meet with the Toronto Raptors about their GM vacancy. The Nuggets didn't return messages from The Associated Press.
Yahoo reported that Maple Leaf Sports and Entertainment CEO Tim Leiweke is prepared to offer Ujiri $3 million annually to return to Toronto, where he was assistant GM for three years before joining the Nuggets in 2010.
Denver has a history of paying its front-office architects below market salaries, from Kiki Vandeweghe to Mark Warkentien and Ujiri, who's one of the league's lowest-paid GMs with an annual salary south of $1 million.
Team president Josh Kroenke said earlier this month he didn't think there would be any hiccups in signing Ujiri to a new long-term deal — his current contract expires June 30 — and Ujiri has repeatedly said he wants to stay in Denver.
The Raptors recently stripped Bryan Colangelo of final say on basketball matters, extending his contract as team president but embarking on a search for a new general manager.
The Raptors were 10th in the Eastern Conference this year, finishing out of the playoffs for a franchise-worst fifth straight season.
Leiweke was hired last month after a successful period in charge of Anschutz Entertainment Group, owner of the NBA's Los Angeles Lakers, the NHL's Los Angeles Kings and the Los Angeles Galaxy of MLS.
Leiweke addressed concerns that keeping Colangelo around would complicate things for any new hire by stressing that the new GM will have complete authority on basketball matters and will report directly to Leiweke, not Colangelo.
Colangelo said he understood the message from his new boss, saying, "The bottom line is, if I get in the way, I'm not going to be around."
A native of Nigeria and the first African-born GM in America's four major sports, Ujiri has deep roots with both teams.
He was a scout for the Nuggets from 2003-07 before joining the Raptors as director of global scouting. He was promoted in 2008 to assistant Raptors GM and returned to Denver on Aug. 27, 2010, where he was handed the Melo-drama with Anthony demanding a trade to the New York Knicks.
After finally engineering the blockbuster deal that next February, Ujiri famously apologized, saying, "We feel we got killed in the trade because we lost a couple of pretty good players. Obviously, Carmelo Anthony, I feel sad for the city of Denver. I feel bad this was done on my watch. To lose a guy like that. And also Chauncey (Billups). But I think we had to do it. We had to do this trade. We had to move on and give this city hope."
The trade turned out to be a win-win for both teams: Denver landed a bevy of young players, trade exemptions and draft picks Ujiri used to retool the roster, and the Knicks got a bona fide superstar to build a team around.
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First previewed in video last April, Project Glass has taken a step closer to becoming a reality after Google released the first detailed glimpse of how its user interface would actually look.
Entitled "How it Feels (through Glass)" the new video displays how the voice activated spectacles could enhance a user's life in both everyday, and more indeed extreme situations.
Taking photos and recording your own footage, as well as making video calls, translating foreign languages and looking up maps and information are all made to look very easy in the hands-free world of the Google glass, where users are seen, amongst other activities, flying planes, skydiving and juggling with fire.
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Not unexpectedly, the short video prompted immediate online buzz with commentators left both excited and slightly queasy.
As well as showing off the user interface, Google also released the promo in order to find "bold, creative individuals" interested in pre-ordering the glasses at a reported $1500 (£980).
However, initially at least, Google will only offer the technology to a select few.
The tech giants are running a contest asking for interested parties to submit their plans for using the eyewear on Google+ or Twitter using the #ifihadglass hashtag - those selected will then be asked to stump up for the glasses.
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Power brokers are "constantly" talking politics reveals former attendee.
by Paul Joseph Watson
A Bohemian Grove insider has gone public to reveal that the secretive gathering of power brokers set to begin this week in Monte Rio, California is far more serious than the 'summer holiday camp' tag routinely attached to the powwow by the establishment media, noting how members "constantly" discuss business and politics.
Bohemian Grove is a privately owned 2,700 acre compound in Monte Rio, California surrounded by giant old-growth redwood trees. Once a year it plays host to a bizarre confab attended by some of the most powerful people in the world, including many US politicians and government officials, during which participants embroil themselves in a heady mixture of plutocratic plotting and occult pagan ritual ceremonies.
Alex Jones made history in 2000 when he became the first journalist to capture on video the 'cremation of care' ceremony, where Grove members dressed in Eyes Wide Shut-style hooded capes make a mock child sacrifice to Moloch, the pagan owl god, represented as a 50 foot statue carved out of a hollowed redwood tree.
The mainstream press has habitually treated Bohemian Grove in a similar manner to their coverage of the annual Bilderberg meetings, dismissing the confabs as little more than informal chats interspersed with leisure activities, despite the fact that, like Bilderberg, Bohemian Grove has been the birthplace of some of the most momentous developments in modern history. Like Bilderberg, it is also used to groom future leaders and Presidents.
Although Matt Oggero, the club's general manager, told the Press Democrat this week that Bohemian Grove is merely "a group of guys out in the woods having a good time," Presidents Nixon and Reagan both attended the elitist get-together before they captured the Oval Office. George W. Bush was also introduced to Grove power brokers in 1995 by his father five years before becoming President.
In 1942 Bohemian Grove was the setting for the birthplace of the Manhattan Project, which led to the creation of the atomic bomb, a story often retold by Grove members who are proud of the fact that the most important scientific development of the 20th century was conceived there.
The Strategic Defense Initiative, Star Wars, was also the brainchild of Grove members and was first introduced during a lakeside talk in the early 80′s, before Ronald Reagan publicly proposed the program in March 1983.
Despite two of the most monumental scientific developments of the 20th century being born at the Grove, the establishment media still largely peddles the myth that the annual event is nothing more than a casual carnival for rich revelers.
However, new disclosures by a former Bohemian Grove attendee blow that fable out of the water.
In an interview with the San Francisco Chronicle's Debra J. Saunders, Sonoma State sociology Professor Peter Phillips, who attended the confab in 1994, said that the elitist encampment was a forum for "very important people" to discuss "intimate issues".
Philips made it clear that networking and making deals was a key component of Grove activity.
"They're very clearly talking politics and business constantly," he told Saunders, completely contradicting the Bohemian Club's claim that "weaving spiders come not here," a reference to the notion that members talking shop is severely frowned upon.
"I proved the opposite, quite clearly," said Philips. "I heard conversations about business. 'If GE comes in on the deal, we can get the Japanese to join' – three men walking down a trail together."
The fact that Bohemian Grove is perhaps the ultimate 'secret room', in which world and domestic policy is agreed upon in amidst bizarre environment of drunken frivolity, alleged homosexual prostitution, and occult pagan ceremonies should be of utmost concern to any thinking person.
Just like Bilderberg, Bohemian Grove is antithetical to the notion that politicians are supposed to represent the American people who elect them, and instead underscores the fact that policy is being conceived behind closed-doors in a completely secretive, nefarious and undemocratic manner.
via: Insider: Secretive Elite Set Policy At Bohemian Grove
Related articles on the Bohemian Grove:
- Anonymous Could Unleash "Literally Explosive" Material on Bohemian Grove (mountainrepublic.net)
- 'Anonymous' Launches Operation Bohemian Grove July 13 (mountainrepublic.net)
- Bohemian Grove & Manhattan Project ??? (2012patriot.wordpress.com)


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Going green in Costa Rica
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TRUCKEE, Calif. – This past summer, I had the opportunity to travel to Costa Rica for a month. There I learned "going green" and eating organically is more than just a new trend. It is their lifestyle. I found several businesses there that use green technology and families that eat local organic food. They completely embrace the country's motto of Pura Vida, or in English, Pure Life.
While I was in Costa Rica, I stayed on a completely green farm called Pura Suerte. The owner is a man from Colorado who moved there with the mission to create a completely sustainable farm. He raises his own animals for meat and has several acres in which he grows fruit, vegetables, herbs and even medicinal plants such as aloe. He also has reforestation projects on which he works and encourages his guests to help with as well. To support the reforestation efforts, all of his buildings are made from local bamboo and fallen trees from his property. He does not use lumber taken from anywhere else.
Pura Suerte is not the only ecological retreat. We also had the chance to visit the Pacuare Lodge. It is an environmentally friendly lodge you can only reach by rafting down the Rio Pacuare. They grow and raise much of their own food as well. They also choose to not have electricity. Their goal is to use whatever they can from the land in order to lessen their impact on the beautiful rainforest around them. In addition to their relationship with the jungle itself, they also have a good relationship with the native villages nearby. They work with them and share food and plants in order to work with the resources they have available to them right there in the rainforest.
Another place that is completely self-sufficient and environmentally sustainable is Cafe San Luis. It is a small family owned coffee plantation in the San Luis Valley of Monteverde. The family that owns it lives almost entirely off their land. Along with coffee plants, they also grow fruits and vegetables, raise their own meat and even have a fish pond. Besides eating and selling most of their fruit, they also plant some of it to use as a natural fertilizer. The family makes money by selling coffee, some produce and giving tours of their eco-friendly plantation. Many coffee plantations in the area also go a step further. Along with using old coffee bean shells for fertilizer, they also sell many to the local newspapers to make into paper.
The "going green" doesn't stop with businesses. Many families also embrace this way of living. While abroad, I had the chance to live with a host family. I stayed in the small town of Buena Vista. It is a very small village consisting of one dirt road in the middle of the rainforest. The people there rely on each other and the land to live. Most families raise their own meat and many also grow their own produce. What they do not grow themselves they buy from the nearby city of San Carlos. However, even the products bought there are grown locally. All of their meals consist of local meat and produce and rice and beans they purchase in the city. For the most part, the food they eat comes directly from their back yards.
I learned from this amazing trip that it is not difficult to go green. You just need to look at it as a lifestyle rather than a phase. When people work together with each other and the land around them, they are able to more easily and efficiently get the things they need. Pura Vida!
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Let's combat communalism
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What follows is a comment on "Koenraad Elst--Sangh Parivar's Apologist", a review of my book Decolonizing the Hindu Mind: Ideological development of Hindu Revivalism (Rupa, Delhi 2001), by Ayub Khan in Communalism Watch, 13 March 2003. It is not normally done for an author to write a rebuttal of a review of his book. Since he himself has had his say for hundreds of pages in the book itself, he should leave the review pages of the papers to his critics. They don't usually get more than one or two pages of space from their editors to develop their opinions, so they are already at a disadvantage. Then again, in a brief text it is possible to write more insults and lies than could be answered convincingly in a whole book. Moreover, in many cases far more people read the reviews or the resultant polemic than the book that is their object. That is why in exceptional cases, an author may feel pressured to write a rebuttal. I will try to do justice to the Mr. Khan's effort and reproduce it in full, interspersed with my own comments.
1. Am I a Sangh Parivar apologist?
Ayub Khan's review was published in Communalism Combat. Naïve readers might understand this as "combat against communalism", but its effective editorial line lends itself better to the description: "combative (anti-Hindu) communalism". Its editor, Mrs. Teesta Setalwad, is a convert from secular Hinduism to Islam, and she has the typical zeal of the convert. She was repeatedly caught in the act of lying during the secularist attempts to exploit the Gujarat riots of spring 2002. She even went on record thinking up a justification for the Muslim arson attack on the women's wagon of a pilgrims' train in Godhra, killing 58 innocent Hindus. A Muslim girl whom she had paraded as her crown witness in her culpabilization of the Gujarati Hindus, came out to accuse her of kidnapping and of coercing her to give false testimony in court. Of course, the poor girl stood no chance against Mrs. Setalwad's well-financed media machine, so she was convicted of perjury (which she at any rate committed, but more likely when initially toeing the Setalwad-dictated line than when recanting), but Mrs. Setalwad's insulted-royalty conduct during the whole controversy clearly revealed just what type of character gets attracted by the secularist hate industry. In these circumstances, I take it as a point of honour to find myself the target of criticism in her paper.
Ayub Khan opens his attack on me in a very predictable manner: "In the past decade Belgian scholar Koenraad Elst has emerged as the most prominent advocate of Sangh Parivar in the West."
Anyone who has read my book BJP vis-à-vis Hindu Resurgence (1997) will be surprised to see me described as an "advocate of the Sangh Parivar". The book under review, too, contains a lot of critical observations of the Sangh, as Ayub Khan ought to have noticed. In fact, even some of my observations which secularists might consider favourable to the Sangh, are properly meant as criticisms. Ayub Khan reveals his own outlook of political activist rather than intellectual observer by brushing aside the actual contents of these criticisms, so inconvenient to the case he is making.
But then it is true that I haven't repeated the hysterical discourse so common in journalistic and academic writings on Hindu nationalism and the Sangh Parivar. Thus, before the BJP came to power in 1998, I had never written that the BJP would build gas chambers for Muslims or dump them into the ocean, which clearly put me outside the consensus of the experts. I suppose that in a world of partisan scholarship, where the party-line is scrupulously followed by activists and camp-followers alike, any attempt to remain objective must come across as counter-partisan, meaning partisan activism for the opposite side.
Ayub Khan continues: "Elst's commitment to the Sangh Parivar can be gauged from the fact that he unabashedly defended it even as the fires of Gujarat were still raging last year. (See Elst's 'Dr. Hathaway's Patronizing Conclusions' published at Rediff.com)."
Actually, the correct reference is: "US thinker gives unthinking support to anti-India demands. A reply to Robert Hathaway", 30 August and 3 September 2002, Rediff on the Net; included in Ramesh Rao & Koenraad Elst: Gujarat after Godhra: Real Violence, Selective Outrage, Har-Anand, Delhi 2003. It was written months after "the fires of Gujarat" of March 2002 had stopped raging.
In my reaction to Dr. Hathaway's patronizing sermon on Hindu society, which in his opinion needs supervision by Americans to protect it against its own vicious inhumanity, I have merely pointed out the exaggerated, partisan and plainly false points in his attack on the BJP government of Gujarat. Like most American India-watchers, Dr. Hathaway throws all norms of research to the wind as soon as it comes to Hindu activism, for rather than critically assessing his sources of information, he has merely lapped up all the rumours spread by unscrupled "secularists" such as Arundhati Roy and Ayub Khan's employer Teesta Setalwad. Thus, Communalism Combat and its numerous parrots have been alleging that "more than 2,000 Muslims have been killed" in the post-Godhra riots, but in the meantime the UPA (anti-BJP) Central Government's Home Ministry has officially confirmed the death toll as 790 Muslims and 254 Hindus.
Here is Ayub Khan's clinching argument for my Hindutva affiliation: "Such is his importance in Hindutva circles that L.K.Advani quoted him at length while deposing before the Liberhans Commission investigation the demolition of Babri Masjid."
Rest assured that in Hindutva circles, many people count as far more important than I. If I was the one to be quoted, it is simply because I happened to be the one who had written about the question of the exact authorship of the Ayodhya demolition. That was in reaction to the surrealistic but highly significant behaviour of the Indian media after the Demolition. Eventhough the film footage clearly shows Advani helplessly breaking down in tears when the ordinary activists took control and started the Demolition, and all eyewitnesses confirmed this (as I know from interviewing many of them), the media in unison blamed Advani and the wider Sangh leadership. Instead of doing their job and earning laurels with the scoop of the year by finding out and revealing just which mid-level Sangh activist masterminded the Demolition against the designs of the leadership, the Indian media and their parrots abroad chose the politically motivated option of doing maximum damage to Advani by accusing him. If the media and later also the academic India-watchers had done their job, Advani could have cited many commentators pointing their fingers away from him, but in the event I turned out to be the only one. No special merit, on the contrary: I only did what was normal, it's the others whose conduct was partisan to the point of being bizarre.
2. My critique of Islam
Like most so-called secularists, Mr. Khan isn't very good at distinguishing between various "anti-Islamic" positions: "His vociferous defence of the Hindu right is equally matched by his rabid attacks on Islam. In order to escape being branded a bigot he follows a route, which is much popular among anti-Muslim writers these days. He insists: 'not Muslims but Islam is the problem'. (See Koenraad Elst review of Thom Blom Hansen's The Saffron Wave)."
I wasn't aware that this line has become so popular. I haven't seen it being declaimed anywhere, certainly not in Sangh Parivar circles, nor even among Western "Islamophobes". On the contrary, the official line, intoned across the spectrum from Guru Golwalkar in the 1950s to Tony Blair after the London blasts of 7 July 2005, is that "Islam is not the problem", only a few "misguided" Muslims are. In reality, of course, the problem is Islam. Many Muslims are not terrorists, but those who are, invariably cite the instructions and precedents of the Prophet of Islam as their inspiration.
I agree that many people are fanatical by temperament, no matter what religion they are brought up in; and that others are peaceful and tolerant, no matter the intrinsic fanaticism of the religion they are brought up in. But for many more, religious indoctrination does make the difference: good people are made to do evil because they are taught that this particular evil is the will of God. To repeat a comparison I've made before: some people get drunk and still drive home safely; others are teetotallers and yet are a danger on the road; but for most people, alcohol does make the difference between driving safely and causing an accident. Therefore, most acts of Islamic fanaticism, such as in the Moplah rebellion, the Partition massacres, the East Bengali genocide or the frequent bomb attacks on Hindu crowds and places of worship, are the result of Islamic indoctrination, committed by people who would never have done so if they or their ancestors had not been islamized.
Khan again: "In this book Elst tries to promote a humane face of the Hindutva fanatics while at the same time indulging in polemical attacks on Islam and Christianity."
Here I firmly disagree. Does Mr. Khan really think I would have gotten away with replacing a descriptive study of a Hindu movement with "polemical attacks" when working for a degree at a top-ranking university? In this case, moreover, it was a Catholic university that, according to Mr. Khan, awarded me the degree for what amounted to "polemical attacks on Christianity". I agree that unabashed "polemical attacks" need not necessarily stand in the way of getting a Ph.D. in Indian Studies, but that's only if they are attacks on the Hindu side. By contrast, I have had to scrupulously limit myself to a description of certain criticisms of Christianity and Islam. However, having been pampered and shielded from criticism for all these years, Indian Islamists just cannot tolerate the experience of merely seeing certain criticisms of Islam reproduced in print. And yes, it so happens that after hours, I agree with some of those criticisms, and have said so in other forums. Mr. Khan can try to refute them if he wants, but thus far he hasn't even tried to do so.
Moreover: "It is Elst's contention that the Muslims along with British were also colonizers of the Hindu civilization and that Nehruvian secularism and Islam are two major adversaries that are obstructing the revival of Hindu religion. Hindu thought, he argues, is finally coming into its own after 'centuries of being under the shadow of Islam and Christianity'."
At worst, he is accusing me here of slamming an open door. What is described here as my own "contention" is simply a set of obvious facts, well-known to all except the wilfully blind. Of course Islamic rule was a form of colonialism, the main difference being that the English took India's riches but also gave it railways and democratic institutions, while Islam gave nothing in return for what it took. That Hinduism has been under the shadow of Islam or Christianity is another statement of the obvious that needs no further proof. But I may have been rash in assuming that "Hindu thought is finally coming into its own".
Khan: "While the Sangh is hiding its anti-Muslim feelings Elst is more forthcoming in his animosity towards Islam and Muslims. He is smitten by the age-old biases about Islam. Two fanatical writers namely Sita Ram Goel and Ram Swarup shape his views on Islam. A careful study of these pseudo-historians indicates that there is nothing original in their works. They have just recycled the old orientalist works with the addition of inflammatory comments. For Elst however these two characters are heroes and whose books all Hindu revivalists should read. He says that the Islamic civilization did not create any substantial contribution in the development of India and there is nothing special about the Indo-Saracenic architecture. He says that Muslims did not work towards the elimination of caste-system in India but only preserved it. He falsely claims that the Prophet Muhammad (SAW) never enjoined class equality. (p.398) Obviously he has not read the last sermon of the Prophet (SAW)."
The trick is already a bit worn out but secularists never get enough of it: neutralizing criticism of Islam by identifying some old-school "orientalist" (a dirty word to the followers of Edward Said, that pitiable Arab Christian dhimmi who ran errands for his Muslim bullies) who formulated similar criticisms, then "exposing" such criticism as some long-refuted colonial ploy. The actual refutation is never given, of course. For criticism of Islam is not the fruit of colonial "orientalism", but of the healthy sceptical human mind, which has been around since much earlier. Indeed, the Quran itself reports a number of criticisms of the Prophet by his own contemporaries, and the Hadith collections relate how Mohammed dealt with critics: he had them assassinated in the night or, once he was formally in power, had them executed. To be sure, Mr. Khan is welcome to improve upon the Prophet's conduct and provide the first refutation to anything he dislikes in the criticisms cited in the core texts of Islam, or in the works of "colonial orientalists" like D.S. Margoliouth, or in the works of Ram Swarup and Sita Ram Goel.
Mr. Khan is also invited to enlighten us on Islam's "substantial contribution". Unlike the British railways, which were an unprecedented novelty that opened new economic (and political) possibilities for Indian society, Indo-Saracenic architecture merely replaced the ornate native building style with another. India would have lost nothing if the Muslims had left the numerous magnificent instances of Hindu architecture standing instead of destroying them and replacing them with their own predictable and monotonous architecture. The highlights of Indo-Saracenic architecture were the handiwork of Hindu artists and craftsmen anyway, e.g. the master-masons of the Taj Mahal who had a hand chopped off after finishing the job lest they do a similar job for a rival ruler. For another example of Islam's elusive contributions: the Muslim invaders destroyed all the Buddhist universities which had flourished for centuries under Hindu rule, and never built any educational institutions of similar quality and broadness of subject-matter.
As for Islam and class equality, Ayub Khan is bluffing on the assumption that most readers of the review won't read the book anyway. So, he pretends that my scepticism regarding the propaganda of Islam as the religion of equality is my own, when in fact I was only rendering, with ample quotations, the observations of several authoritative sources and the injunctions in the basic texts of Islam. Thus, summarizing a critique by the generally pro-Islamic leftist Belgian author Lucas Catherine, I refer to three Quran verses (16:71/73, 42:12/10, 43:32/31) he cites as evidence for Islam's anti-egalitarianism, in which Allah states that He has made one man rich and another poor and that it would be ungrateful for man to try to change this divine distribution of fortune.
Mohammed himself sold women and children prisoners as slaves and never questioned the institution of slavery, which remained central to the Muslim economy until the much-maligned British colonialists enforced its abolition. Islamic law regulates the institution of slavery as well as other forms of social inequality including of course that between Muslims and "tolerated" non-Muslims. And naturally, it elaborately details the unequal rights and duties of men and women. That's not all that exceptional, most if not all religions and law systems know gender inequality, but here again the claim that Islam introduced equality is proven to be false.
In India, the Muslim conquerors never interfered in the caste divisions of Hindu society and the converts largely retained their caste identities or acquired new forms of inter-Muslim stratification based on affiliation with various sects or ethnic lobbies of the conquerors. Caste-like stratification in Indian Muslim and Pakistani society has been described by sociologists, though secularist convention is to pretend otherwise in order to magnify Hindu inequality by contrast. All this is a matter of general knowledge but Khan tries to pass it off as figments of my imagination.
As for Mohammed's last sermon, given during his last pilgrimage to Mecca shortly before he fell ill and died, here again Mr. Khan is bluffing. The few readers who may take the trouble of looking up the text of that sermon, as given in Ibn Ishaq's Sîrat Rasûl Allâh (Alfred Guillaume: The Life of Mohammed, OUP, Karachi, p.650/968-652/969) will find that it contains no imposition of equality. To be sure, Mohammed abolishes usury, which is not a bad thing. And yes, he enjoins his men to be kind on their wives, but the reason given is that women "are prisoners with you having no control of their persons". That's hardly equality. He also says that "every Muslim is a Muslim's brother", but he conspicuously fails to deduce from this vague sentiment that they are legally equal, let alone entitled to socio-economic equality. Equality with or among non-Muslims is of course nowhere in the picture.
Khan: "Elst narrates with relish the myth about the execution of 900 Jews at the order of Prophet Muhammad (SAW) in Madina without realizing that this has been debunked long time ago by classical Islamic scholars like Ibn Hajar and Imam Malik and recently by Barakat Ahmed in an article in The Journal of The Royal Asiatic Society."
The execution of the Banu Quraiza tribe is narrated in authoritative Islamic sources such as Ibn Ishaq's Sîrat Rasûl Allâh (Guillaume: Life of Mohammed, p.464/690) and hinted at in others. I have read Barakat Ahmad's attempt at whitewashing the Prophet's record regarding the Jews (Muhammad and the Jews, a Re-Examination, Delhi 1979), and I haven't come across an actual refutation of that narrative. But if there were such a refutation, it would be even worse for Islam. Mr. Khan is of course allowed to bring in the critical method pioneered by modern Bible scholarship, but then he should accept the consequences. After all, if the orthodox sources of Islam can lie to us about that particular event, what else could they be lying about? What else will be "debunked"? The whole edifice of Islamic doctrine and law comes crashing down if the authoritative reports on the Prophet's words and deeds turn out to be unreliable. It's the Islamic theologians and jurists themselves who tell us that Islam is a "seamless garment": pull out a single thread and the whole fabric comes apart.
Khan: "Similarly other arguments made by messrs. Sita Ram Goel etc. have been refuted but Elst would care less. In the bizarre world of Elst and his Hindutva fellow travellers Islam is to be blamed for all the ills of the Indian society as well as the world. From child marriage, caste inequalities to violence and poverty."
Where and when have Mr. Goel's arguments about Islamic doctrine and history been "refuted"? The Marxist and Muslim polemicists have consistently given him the silent treatment because they knew they didn't stand a chance against him. There have been a few swearwords ad hominem by Romila Thapar and maybe some other "eminent" academics, but that leaves Goel's arguments perfectly intact. Ayub Khan seems to have a rather airy and self-serving understanding of the precise logical concept of "refutation".
I have often argued against Hindu apologists who claim that caste, sati and child marriage were the result of Muslim oppression. Like the Arya Samaj reformists, I am convinced that Hindu society became intellectually poorer and socially harder in the post-Vedic age. The marriage age for girls was lowered to the onset of puberty in order to maximize the use of her womb (like in Muslim society) and to minimize the cost of the girl's education (not yet of the dowry, which mainly became a problem during the colonial age), deemed a waste to her family as she was going to spend her married life in another family anyway. Caste discrimination was hardened, witness the insertion into the Ramayana of the Shambuka episode, in which Rama kills a Shudra for having practised austerities, whereas the core Ramayana had described Rama's carefree relations with non-Dwija tribal populations. The taboo-based institution of untouchability, probably originating in neolithic cultures in South India (according to George Hart: The Poems of Ancient Tamil, 1975, OUP Delhi 1999, p.119 ff.), was unknown in Vedic society but was adopted throughout India well before the Muslim age. As for satî, this is an ancient Indo-European custom attested even among the Germanic and Celtic members of the Indo-European world, pre-dating Islam by thousands of years and described in Hellenistic sources still predating the Islamic invasions by a millennium.
All the same, Islam did a lot to aggravate these social problems. Marrying off your daughter at the onset of puberty became a sensible safety measure once unaccountable Muslims soldiers and rulers were on the prowl for girls. Caste reform couldn't become a priority as long as Hindu society was on the defensive and forced to focus on sheer survival. Upper-caste Hindus also didn't escape the human tendency of weighing more heavily on their subordinates when they themselves were under the boot of the Muslim occupying forces.
Khan: "In his maniacal zeal Elst hopes for a similar destruction of Islam as had happened to Communism. He wants the Parivar to concentrate more in attacking the Islamic belief systems. He writes: 'But the implosion of Soviet Communism has alerted people to the possibility that giants on clay feet can crumble surprisingly fast, and in particular, that Pakistan and the rest of the Islamic world may soon see the collapse of their dominant ideology from within.' (p.591) It looks like he needs a refresher course in world history. Islam has survived much more destructive scenarios (civil wars, Mongol invasion, dismantling of the Caliphate, etc) in its history than the one it is currently facing. If Elst and his fellow daydreamers think that they can destroy Islam by indulging in pedestrian attacks they are simply fooling themselves."
European Christianity has survived many fratricidal wars and violent onslaughts by Islam and Communism, but it suffered far greater and deeper losses under the impact of the modern rational inquest into its doctrines. Ayub Khan gives us a glimpse into his own Islamic mindset by changing the subject to military confrontation, when my stated position in the past seventeen years has always been that Islam will implode under the rising impact of critical thought and healthy scepticism among its own followers. Even in the lines quoted by him, I mentioned a scenario in which "Pakistan and the rest of the Islamic world may soon see the collapse of their dominant ideology from within".
Khan: "With regards to Indian Muslims Elst once again repeats the many urban myths that they are a pampered lot, always start riots, are multiplying at an alarming rate etc. If these claims are true then why are Muslims still so downtrodden and impoverished?"
In Malaysia, the Muslims are still poorer than the Indian and Chinese non-Muslims. The latter are more productive and generate wealth, which the Muslims then redistribute to themselves under various bhumiputra schemes of "positive" discrimination. Muslim culture promotes business to some extent, but its work ethic is poor and it doesn't foster inventiveness and dynamic innovation. That is why even in a position of legal privilege and a numerical majority, Muslims still lag behind. This is sufficient explanation for the "impoverished" condition of many Muslims in India.
But "downtrodden" they are not, for they enjoy many legal privileges. But it is in the nature of Islam that those very privileges become factors of backwardness. Muslims enjoy the anti-secular privilege of a separate civil code, but this only puts them under the domination of obscurantist clerics. So they send their children to medieval Islamic schools, dooming them to backwardness in terms of modern skills and job prospects. To the extent that Indian Muslims are impoverished, they have themselves to blame. Or rather, they have Islam to blame.
3. What is Hindutva?
Ayub Khan makes much of certain terminological issues: "Based on his Ph.D. thesis, Elst's Decolonizing the Hindu Mind is a study of the history and ideological development of the extremist Hindutva movement, which he prefers to call 'Hindu Revivalism'."
This choice of terminology is justified. Not all Hindu activists would accept the label Hindutva, a coinage by V.D. Savarkar ca. 1923 embraced by the Hindu Mahasabha and later the RSS. Conversely, the insistence on labelling all Hindu activism or all Hindu discourse critical of Islam and "secularism" as Hindutva is an undisguised attempt to distort the picture by blurring the distinctions within the broad Hindu spectrum of opinion. The term "Hindu revivalism" is well-established, and it has the advantage of emphasizing the continuity between the 19th-century Hindu Renaissance, which was already described as "revivalism", and the 20th-century political movements in the service of Hindu interests.
Khan: "He rejects the charges of fascism, fundamentalism, extremism, etc. lobbed against the Hindu supremacist movement, instead opting for the voguish 'revivalism'."
Once more, Mr. Khan seems to have spotted a trend that has totally escaped me. Having read plenty of academic and journalistic literature on Hindu activism, I have hardly seen anyone using the term "revivalism", which most treat as obsolete and apply only to the pre-Gandhian phase of modern Hindu self-assertion. I thought I was restoring a term that had deliberately been discarded. He himself ends up admitting as much:
"This 'revivalism' is not a recent phenomenon but began in the early stages of the British rule of India by groups like Arya Samaj and Brahmo Samaj under the leadership of influential reformers like Vivekananda, Dayananda Saraswati and Swami Shraddhanand. Nor is this revivalism limited to those within the Sangh Parivar or other similarly oriented organizations. According to Elst 'the most interesting formulations of Hindu revivalist thought have been provided by individuals outside the said organizations, from Bankimchandra Chatterjee and Sri Aurobindo to Ram Swarup , Sita Ram Goel and their younger friends'. (p.584)"
That's correct. Hindutva is a fairly crude ideology, borrowing heavily from European nationalisms with their emphasis on homogeneity. Under the conditions of British colonialism, it was inevitable that some such form of Hindu nationalism would arise, but I believe better alternatives have seen the light, more attuned to the genius of Hindu civilization.
4. Choice of sources
Ayub Khan alleges: "While charting the history of this movement Elst relies almost exclusively on sources associated with Hindu groups giving only partial and that too mostly negative consideration for the other viewpoints."
My job was not to survey other people's opinions about the Hindu movement. That would have been an interesting exercise, especially if it is called by its name, viz. a survey of outsider opinions, and not (as many such academic publications are) falsely presented as a study of the Hindu movement itself. By contrast, I endeavoured to get beyond the secondary--source and mainly hostile-source "research" that has so disastrously filled up this field of study, and focus on the primary sources instead.
The primary sources of Hindu revivalism are obviously going to be pro-Hindu. I knew that, and the reader may be expected to know that. It is perfectly normal to discuss a pro-Hindu movement by analysing its pro-Hindu publications. What is rather less normal, though it is very much the done thing, is to discuss a pro-Hindu movement on the basis of almost exclusively anti-Hindu publications. But that is what Mr. Khan is demanding of me.
Next allegation: "Elst accuses other India watchers of not meeting any Hindutva leaders in their research while at the same time he himself has not interviewed any Muslim to get his viewpoint. Not one Muslim, not even the BJP ones, figures in his long list of people that he has interviewed. His hostility towards the Muslims is evident when he describes the mild-mannered Syed Shahahbuddin as a 'proverbial fanatic'. Compare this with that of Elst's description of Advani whom he calls a 'soft-spoken gentleman' who had tears in his eyes when his vandals destroyed the Babri Masjid. Expectedly Advani's tears were shed not at the demolition of the Babri Masjid but at the 'breakdown of RSS discipline'. (p.175)"
Most people who ever met Mr. Advani will confirm that he is a soft-spoken gentleman. That does not make him either a fanatic or a non-fanatic, which is a different matter. The Sudanese Islamist ideologue Hassan al-Turabi comes across as a soft-spoken gentleman, though his writings and his record in government would also stamp him a fanatic. As for Syed Shahabuddin, I have tried to meet him at his office sometime in 1990, but he sent his assistant to keep me waiting under various unconvincing pretexts, the last one of them being that he had to leave. So I left without meeting him. Similar scenario in 1996 with V.T. Rajshekar, editor of Dalit Voice in Bangalore, who had first agreed to receive me. As for BJP Muslims, I have interviewed Sikander Bakht, but then I realize that some Indian Muslims refuse to recognize him as a Muslim after his marriage to a Hindu lady who didn't convert.
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Rather than having the user pick a category such as music or stocks and then search, Google guesses what vertical your search is in and puts that result at the top of your search results.
Examples include:
Addresses -> Maps
Businesses -> Map & Reviews
Stock Quotes -> Stock Chart
Music Artists -> Artist Tracks
For some types of searches, Google just shows the results in the Google Suggest feature, so you don't even have to click search! Examples include:
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Missing are Facebook & LinkedIn for people searches and shopping comparison for product searches. I can understand Google's reticence about integrating successful social networks since Google lacks one, and Facebook and LinkedIn results inevitably end up near the top. The AdWords free-for-all based on product searches is not one I think they will ever optimize for the enduser.
The Google vertical search progress is impressive and I have found myself using vertical searching less and less and going back to the Google mothership. Well done.


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Richard Ewen Borcherds
Born: 29 November 1959 in Cape Town, South Africa
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Richard Borcherds's father, Peter Howard Borcherds, had studied electrical engineering for his B.Sc. but then his interests moved towards mathematical physics. After the award of an M.Sc. and Ph.D. in physics, Peter Borcherds became a lecturer in physics at the University of Cape Town. Peter had married Margaret Elizabeth Greenfield. Peter and Margaret had four children; two of Richard's three brothers went on to become mathematics teachers, Michael Borcherds being particularly well known as the lead developer of the mathematics teaching package GeoGebra. When Richard was about a year old his parents left South Africa and went to Aldermaston in England. Peter Borcherds went on to became a lecturer in physics at Birmingham University; Peter's particular interests are the use of computers in physics and the involvement of scientists in politics.
Richard attended King Edward's School in Birmingham. He was a keen chess-player and by the age of fourteen, he was Midlands under 21 Chess Champion. As a child he was exposed to quite a lot of mathematics, including Coxeter's polyhedron paper and Cundy and Rollett's Mathematical models.
Borcherds entered Trinity College, Cambridge where he was an undergraduate. After the award of his B.A., he proceeded to undertake research supervised by John Conway. At first he felt that he did not have what it takes to be a research mathematician [8]:-
I wasn't getting very far. Most of the time I was struggling to keep my job. I'd see other people my age, such as Simon Donaldson (1986 Fields Medallist), being considerably more successful, and I thought I'm obviously not all that good. There were times when I thought of dropping out.However, he was highly successful and was awarded his doctorate in 1985 for his thesis The Leech lattice and other lattices. The Leech lattice, discovered by John Leech in 1965, gave a dense packing of spheres in 24 dimensions. From the automorphism group of this lattice, Conway had discovered three previously unknown finite simple groups in 1968. Borcherds wrote in the Preface to his thesis:-
I thank my research supervisor Professor J H Conway for his help and encouragement. I also thank the S.E.R.C. for its financial support and Trinity College for a research scholarship and a fellowship.He published a paper The Leech lattice in 1985 and Vertex algebras, Kac-Moody algebras and the monster in the following year. He had invented to the idea of a vertex algebra which has proved to be extremely significant but at first few realised its importance [8]:-
I was pretty pleased with it at the time but after a few years I got a bit disillusioned, because it was obvious that nobody else was really interested in it. There is no point in having an idea that is so complicated that nobody can understand it. I remember I used to give talks on vertex algebras, and usually nobody turned up. Then there was this one time when I got a really big audience. But there had been a misprint, and the title read "vortex algebras", not "vertex algebras". The audience was made up of fluid physicists, and when they realised it was a misprint, they weren't interested either in what I had to say.Borcherds had been appointed as a Research Fellow at Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1983 and held this post until 1987. He then spent the academic year 1987-88 as Morrey Assistant Professor at the University of California, Berkeley, before returning to Cambridge where he was appointed as a Royal Society University Research Fellow in 1988. His most famous result was to prove the "moonshine conjecture" in the spring of 1989. He had spent eight years thinking about this conjecture while producing many other highly significant results. He had the inspiration necessary to prove the conjecture while travelling in India [8]:-
I was in Kashmir. I had been travelling around northern India, and there was one really long tiresome bus journey, which lasted about 24 hours. Then the bus had to stop because there was a landslide and we couldn't go any further. It was all pretty darn unpleasant. Anyway, I was just toying with some calculations on this bus journey and finally I found an idea which made everything work.The ideas behind the moonshine conjecture are hard to explain. Here is what Allyn Jackson writes in [5]:-
In the classification of finite simple groups, one of the most mysterious objects found was the monster group. There are various conjectures that attempt to connect the monster to other parts of mathematics. Borcherds invented the notion of a vertex algebra and used it to solve the Conway-Norton conjecture, which concerns the representation theory of the monster group (this theory is sometimes called "monstrous moonshine"). He used these results to generate product formulae for certain modular and automorphic forms. The first such formulae were found in the one-dimensional case by Euler and Jacobi, and the conventional wisdom in algebraic geometry was that such product formulae could not exist in higher dimensions. Borcherds's work is also important in physics, as it lays rigorous groundwork for conformal field theory in two dimensions.Borcherds remained as a Royal Society University Research Fellow at Cambridge until 1992, and then spent the following year as a lecturer at Cambridge. In 1993 he was appointed as Professor of Mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley. He returned to Cambridge in 1996 and spent three years there as a Royal Society Professor in the Department of Mathematics before returning to his professorship at the University of California, Berkeley, in 1999. He continues to hold this position.
In 1992 Borcherds was awarded a Junior Whitehead Prize by the London Mathematical Society. The citation reads:-
A Junior Whitehead Prize 1992 is awarded to Dr Richard Borcherds of Cambridge University for his work on mathematical aspects of conformal field theory. Borcherds has made a number of important and original contributions to mathematics, with striking and surprising applications. One notable piece of work is his generalisation of the Kac-Moody algebras, to which much of classical representation theory applies. For one of the algebras in his class, the analogue of the Weyl Denominator Formula gives a remarkable, and quite unexpected, factorisation of the classical modular function as an infinite product. Another important concept invented by Borcherds is that of a 'vertex operator algebra'. This is a way of formulating the essential mathematical ideas of conformal quantum field theory. The concept was used extensively by Frenkel, Lepowski and Meurman in their work on the Monster simple group, and very recently it has been an essential tool in the progress made by E Frenkel on a conjecture of Drinfeld about the Langlands correspondence for representations of loop groups. In a marvellous synthesis of the ideas which he has been developing, Borcherds has proved conjectures of Conway and Norton on the 'Moonshine' module for the Monster group.Also in 1992 he received a prize from the European Mathematical Society at the European Congress of Mathematicians in Paris. On 10 March 1994 he was elected to a fellowship of the Royal Society. His greatest honour, however, was being awarded a Fields Medal on 18 August 1998 at the Opening Ceremonies of the International Congress of Mathematicians in Berlin. The award was made:-
... for his contributions to algebra, the theory of automorphic forms, and mathematical physics, including the introduction of vertex algebras and Borcherds' Lie Algebras, the proof of the Conway-Norton moonshine conjecture and the discovery of a new class of automorphic infinite products.However, Borcherds took the fame which went with this honour in his stride [8]:-
Before the award I used to think it was terribly important, but now I realise that it's meaningless. However, I was over the moon when I proved the moonshine conjecture. If I get a good result I spend several days feeling really happy about it. I sometimes wonder if this is the feeling you get when you take certain drugs. I don't actually know, as I have not tested this theory of mine.Borcherds is married to the topologist Ursula Gritsch and has two daughters. His current research interests include a mathematically rigorous approach to quantum field theory.
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The 8 Best Pizzas in the Pacific Northwest
While the major hubs in the Pacific Northwest don't have a pizza tradition, there are plenty of passionate pizza people that have opened up shop in Seattle and Portland. The pizza landscape has changed dramatically in the last seven years, so much so that Portland and Seattle seem to be leading the charge in the pizza renaissance. There's practically a notable pizzeria in every neighborhood where before there were mostly cheese-and-grease shops. And despite not having regional styles steeped in history, pizzerias in the Pacific Northwest are putting their own stamp on Neopartisinal pies through local sourcing, creative toppings, and new approaches, all of which perpetuate the evolution of pizza.
These are the best eight pizzas in the Pacific Northwest that we have had to date- in no particular order.
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If you were to take the Premier League table and re-arrange it based on the relative importance for each team, what would the table look like?
For example, now that West Ham United have been relegated, they have nothing to play for other than club pride, a paycheck and a thank you to their supporters. So in this imaginary league table for Sunday, they would be ranked last (where they are now).
Sunday will be one of those rare days where the focus of the world will be on specific sections of the Premier League table (near the bottom and in the race to qualify for the Europa League).
So, here is my Premier League table based on how important the final match of the season is for each club:
- Wigan
- Blackpool
- Birmingham City
- Wolves
- Blackburn
- Spurs
- Liverpool
- Fulham
- Arsenal
- Man City
- Everton
- Stoke
- Bolton
- West Brom
- Newcastle United
- Aston Villa
- Sunderland
- Chelsea
- Man United
- West Ham
As a disclaimer, I ranked the table based on (1) staying up in the Premier League, (2) qualifying for Europa League, (3) winning the Fair Play slot to qualify for Europa League, and (4) a combination of bragging rights (based on where each club finishes the season) and TV revenue (the higher up the table the team is, the more TV revenue they'll receive). With teams who are assured their current position no matter what happens Sunday, those are listed near the bottom of the table (Chelsea and Man United, for example).


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Kaleena Mosqueda-Lewis had the third triple-double in UConn history as the Huskies moved into their 21st straight NCAA regional semifinal with a 91-52 rout of Saint Joseph's on Tuesday night.
Mosqueda-Lewis had 20 points, 10 rebounds and 10 assists, to lead five players in double figures for the top-ranked Huskies (36-0), who won their 42nd straight game.
Breanna Stewart added 21 points and 11 rebounds, and Bria Hartley also chipped in 20 points for the defending national champions, who are trying to win a record ninth NCAA tournament.
Erin Shields and Sarah Fairbanks each had 12 points to lead Saint Joseph's which finished the year at 23-10. Natasha Cloud had 10 and six assists for the Hawks.
UConn will face 12th-seeded BYU in Lincoln, Nebraska on Saturday. The Cougars upset Nebraska in the second round, sparing the Huskies a date with the Cornhuskers on their home court.
Mosqueda-Lewis connected on eight of her 14 shots, and was 3 of 5 from 3-point range.
Stefanie Dolson added 17 points and six rebounds. She had UConn's other triple-double this season, scoring 26 points, grabbing 13 rebounds and dishing out 11 assists in a win over Oregon in November.
Dolson scored off the opening tip and UConn never trailed. A pair of 3-pointers from Jefferson and Mosqueda-Lewis made it 8-0 and forced coach Cindy Griffin to use her first timeout less than two minutes into the game.
Fairbanks ended the opening 10-0 UConn run with a layup to get the Hawks on the board.
The Huskies hit five of their first six shots from behind the arc. Moriah Jefferson gave the Huskies their first 20-point lead at 36-16 with an old-fashioned 3-point play on a drive to the basket.
The Huskies led 5-26 at halftime, and Mosqueda-Lewis (13), Dolson (11) and Stewart (11) were already in double figures.
Hartley jointed them less than two minutes into the second half, hitting a 3-pointer that was part of a 10-0 UConn run. Jefferson finished with 11.
The Huskies shot 56 percent from the floor, and held Saint Joe's to 35 percent.
It was the ninth time this season that UConn has put five players into double figures.
It was the 12th time Stewart has reached double figures in points and rebounds. She also recorded her 100th block of the season.
UConn, which is in its 26th straight NCAA tournament improved to 22-2 in second-round games. Its last second-round loss came 22 years ago, a 75-47 setback against Vanderbilt in Nashville, Tenn. The Huskies won the next 20 by an average of 28 points per game.
The 36 wins are the most by a UConn team since the team went 36-2 in 2010-11. They have never won 40 games. That is the number of wins they would need to take home a ninth national title. The Huskies were 35-4 in winning the program's eighth championship last year.
Saint Joseph's, which beat Georgia on Sunday, had not won a tournament game since 2000. They have never advanced past the second round of the tournament.
Shields' four 3-pointers give her 96 for the season, a new single-season record for the school. She passed the old mark of 91, set by Kristen Sullivan in 1996, on Sunday. Cloud's assists also set a single-season mark, giving her 243.
Saint Joseph's falls to 0-8 in games against teams ranked at the top of the AP poll, and 33-118 against any nationally ranked opponent.
Dolson and Hartley were playing in their final games at Gampel Pavilion. Dolson also was starting her 148th game as a Husky, tying a school record set by Renee Montgomery.
Connecticut has not been kind to the Hawks this postseason. The UConn men also ousted Saint Joe's, 89-81, in a second-round game last week in Buffalo.


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Yesterday we looked at the surprises the preliminary rosters had given us. Now, its time to look at who should be there over who is.
- Jason Pominville, with a roster that will struggle for offense, at least compared to some, leaving out a the guy who finished seventh among American scorers last season, and second the season before is unabashedly embarrassing.
- Brandon Dubinsky is one of the best two way forwards in the league. He's capable of throttling the life out of opposing powerplays, winning faceoffs reliably, and will play physically against anyone. He's well over a point a game internationally.
- John Gaudreau makes the most sense of any non-NHL player for this Team USA squad to field. He's money in the bank scoring goals, and is over a point per game at every level he's played, USHL, NCAA, WJC and others.
- Alex Goligoski had his most productive season in points per game, despite having two of the top forwards traded mid season and no describable NHL quality centers on the team.
- Torey Krug, unlike certain invitees, Krug played a significant number of his teams playoff games and managed to make the Bruins walking dead powerplay look like it had a pulse. Speedy, great passer, plays well against larger opponents (nearly everyone).
- Matt Greene while offense is undoubtedly needed, a shut down defenseman who can hit like a freight train is never something to be without. Arguably the best American shutdown defenseman in the NHL, certainly top 3.
- Jack Campbell has international experience and even if he doesn't make the final roster the organization should take a good look at him for next time around. It is unlikely Howard, Anderson or Miller will be at or near their top form as goalies in four years.


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Striped Bass Seine Survey of the Maryland Department of Natural ResourcesEntry ID: MDDNR_stripedbass
Abstract: The juvenile striped bass survey documents annual year-class success for young-of-the-year (YOY) striped bass (Morone saxatilis) and relative abundance of many other fish species in Chesapeake Bay. Over 100 fish species have been collected since 1954. Annual indices of relative abundance provide an early indicator of future adult stock recruitment and document annual variation and long-term trends ... in abundance and distribution.
Juvenile indices are derived annually from sampling at 22 fixed stations within Maryland's portion of the Chesapeake Bay. Stations have been sampled continuously since 1954, with changes in some station locations.seining sites They are divided among four of the major spawning and nursery areas: seven each in the Potomac River and Head of Bay areas and four each in the Nanticoke and Choptank Rivers. Sampling is monthly, with rounds (sampling excursions) occurring during July (Round I), August (Round II), and September (Round III). Replicate seine hauls, a minimum of thirty minutes apart, are taken at each site on each sample round. This produces a total of 132 samples from which bay-wide means are calculated. From 1954 to 1961, juvenile surveys included various stations and rounds. Sample sizes ranged from 34 to 46. Present indices derived for this period include only stations which are consistent with subsequent years. In 1962, stations were standardized and a second sample round was added for a total of 88 samples. A third sample round, added in 1966, increased sample size to 132. Auxiliary stations have been sampled on an inconsistent basis and are not included in survey indices. These data enhance geographical coverage in rivers with permanent stations or provide information from other river systems. They are also useful for replacement of permanent stations when necessary.
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Dataset Originator/Creator: Durell, E.Q. and Weedon, C., Maryland Department of Natural Resources
Dataset Title: Striped Bass Seine Survey Juvenile Index
Dataset Release Date: 2002-01-01T00:00:00.000Z
Dataset Publisher: Maryland Department of Natural Resources, Fisheries Service.
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relative abundance data and graphs for a particular species. The fifteen most
commonly requested species are pictured. Data is presented in an Excel file
which can be downloaded by clicking "Save As" on your browser. Each file
... contains data and graphs for the Chesapeake Bay (includes all areas sampled),
Choptank River, Head of Bay area, Nanticoke River, and Potomac River. Each
system appears in a separate worksheet. Although system-specific indices appear
for each species, they may not always be appropriate. For example: only one
site on the Choptank River is of low enough salinity to be considered good
habitat for juvenile yellow perch. Indices of relative abundance are presented
as Geometric Mean Catch per Haul. The Geometric Mean (GM) has been adopted by
the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission as the preferred index of
relative abundance. The GM is a statistical way of handling the data that is
more precise than the Arithmetic Mean Catch per Haul because it is not as
sensitive to a single large sample value. The Arithmetic Mean Catch per Haul
(AM) is presented for striped bass because it is the most widely recognized and
easily understood juvenile index. Also appearing in the data tables are: year,
number of samples (n), and 95 % confidence intervals.
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Postal Code: 21401
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Postal Code: 20771
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They are resistant against water, oil, fuel, and UV rays (no fading of colour from the sunlight) and are anti-static.
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The Internet is like freakin' Kryptonite for hypochondriacs, right? It seems like very time you hit that Google Search button or refresh your email, you're just asking to stumble upon an ad, news story, or website that plays on your deepest fears about your health. And as someone who is definitely something of a hypochondriac herself, I would never want to instill unnecessary fear in others, but I definitely believe there's some truth to one web "rumor": That chemicals in some cosmetics promote breast cancer.
There's a lot of confusion over what exactly in deodorant and other cosmetics might be linked to breast cancer, but one thing's for sure: Parabens (chemicals like methylparaben, ethylparaben, propylparaben, butylparaben, isopropylparaben, and isobutylparaben) are hormone disruptors (they mimic estrogen in the body) used in lots of different kinds of makeup, moisturizers, and hair care and shaving products. They've also turned up in breast cancer tumors ... more than once!
The latest study to show this was recently published in the Journal of Applied Toxicology just found that in 40 women with breast cancer who chose to have a mastectomy, 99 percent of the tissue samples had evidence of at least one paraben, and 60 percent showed evidence of FIVE! Uh ... definitely raises the question as to whether or not these damn chemicals are related to cancer, right?
It also bears noting that a lot of coverage of the study has discussed how this may alleviate fears that antiperspirant specifically is causing breast cancer, because parabens showed up in women who didn't use it. But we don't know if they were using a slew of other products that do have parabens!
Either way, the researchers who worked on the study acknowledge that the relationship between parabens and breast cancer is complicated, but it does justify further investigation. As for what they recommend to women who are worried ...
Further studies need to be performed to determine if there is a relationship between parabens and breast cancer, but if one is concerned, there are natural products without parabens that could be used.
Although there's a dissenting opinion (I would guess funded by some of these companies that make the cosmetics that use parabens!) claiming that women shouldn't worry whatsoever about parabens and that the "research isn't there," I strongly feel that steering clear of parabens in personal care products is one huge, important precaution we can take.
Over the last few years, after looking into the research and considering my own health issues, I've switched over to all different natural personal care products, from Tom's toothpaste (to avoid fluoride) to paraben-free lotions, face creams, etc. Thankfully, it's not as hard as you might think to find more natural and equally effective substitutes! Yeah, my hair stylist probably doesn't love that I won't even look at the selection of salon products, because they all contain parabens, but oh well. I just know that for me, peace of mind is worth missing out on that fancy mousse or volumizing spray.
Do you try to avoid parabens and/or use natural personal care products?
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I've managed to design my very first pcb. It's a sensor board, with room for an atmega328 and 3 analog inputs, as well as a status LED and a 2x4 pin-header where is meant to go a nordic transceiver breakout module.
Very interesting. The first dedicated board I have seen and, if I can be sure of the Nordics delivering the goods, I am looking at doing pretty much the same thing. I submit the diagram below as i9ntellectual exercise...I would be interested to see how you finish up with this.
Are ground pins 8 and 22 connected? They should be.
That smiley should be pin EIGHT - how do I stop it doing that?


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1868 $1 MS66+ Certification #81226671, PCGS #6961
Owner's Comments
The Rudolf specimen - the finest known. Utterly dripping with luster and eye appeal. Amazing velvety mint frost is practically painted on the devices. Superb!
Expert Comments
Q. David BowersThe following narrative, with minor editing, is from my "Silver Dollars & Trade Dollars of the United States: A Complete Encyclopedia" (Wolfeboro, NH: Bowers and Merena Galleries, Inc., 1993).
Coinage Context
Distribution: Many if not most 1868 dollars were exported, accounting for the relative rarity of circulation strikes today.
In China, merchants accepted Liberty Seated dollars by weight, and at a discount compared to the heavier Mexican dollar, an old story which was repeated in Mint and commercial reports for many years (and which eventually led to the production of the heavier U.S. trade dollar in 1873).
In the Annual Report of the Director of the Mint, 1868, Dr. Henry Richard Linderman observed the following: (Linderman's information concerning dollars in China probably represented the situation in 1867, due to the length of time needed to communicate with that remote location.)
Our silver dollar is not received by the Chinese except at a discount. This is owing to the fact that while it is of equal fineness with the Spanish or Mexican dollar, it is about 1 % less in weight. This rejection seems to take away the last plea for continuing to coin this piece.
Numismatic Information
Circulated grades: Circulated Liberty Seated dollars dated 1868 are quite scarce, but because of the high mintage figure for this date they are nearly universally overlooked by the numismatic fraternity. Exceptions, of course, are Liberty Seated specialists who know full well that a nice VF, EF, or AU 1868 is an object of beauty and rarity.
Mint State grades: The year 1868 does not come to mind immediately when one thinks of rare coins in the Liberty Seated series, but a perusal of the data, including certification service population reports, indicates that it is indeed very rare, even if it is unappreciated and overlooked. Dealer specialist Chris Napolitano stated that an MS-61 coin was the finest circulation strike he could locate in six years of searching. (Conversation with the author, Central States Convention, April 30, 1992.)
Some high-grade pieces show unfinished areas within the lower right area of the shield. Most high-grade coins are prooflike.
Circulation strikes:
1. Normal Date: Breen-5479. Obverse: Date impressed to medium depth in the die.
2. Heavy Date: Breen-5479. Obverse: Date impressed deeply in die.
Dies prepared: Obverse: Unknown; Reverse: Unknown
Circulation strike mintage: 162,100; Delivery figures by day: January 28: 8,000; March 18: 14,000; April 16: 10,000; June 5: 12,000; July 20: 10,000; July 30: 11,300; October 21: 12,000; October 23: 13,000; November 11: 11,700; November 18: 24,000; December 2: 15,000; December 15: 11,700; December 29: 9,400.
Estimated quantity melted: Unknown
Characteristics of striking: Most are well struck. Known hoards of Mint State coins: None
The 1868 circulation strike dollar is rarer than its mintage figures would indicate, for most were shipped to the Orient.
Additional Information
Silver Production Statistics
Silver production is an integral part of the study of nineteenth-century silver dollars. However, historical production statistics differ widely. Examples of this are provided by J. Laurence Laughlin, Ph.D., in The History of Bimetallism in the United States, 1900. The author quotes figures, no two of which are the same, from a variety of economic sources.
Taking as an example silver production in the world in the year 1868, he quoted Dr. Adolf Soetbeer's Aigure of $60,250,000; (Soetbeer achieved prominence in Germany in the 1850s and 1860s, was the author of numerous publications, and made an important report to the Ninth Congress of German Economists in 1868. Soetbeer's data were used at the U.S. Mint to calculate values of gold and silver for tables listing dates prior to the year 1838.) $50,000,000 from Journal des Economistes, March 1876; Sir Hector Hay's figure of $50,225,000; Ernest Seyd's similar figure of $50,225,000, Horton's figure of $46,750,000; and the U.S. Bureau of Statistics at $69,300,000. One might assume if one saw only the figure of $69,300,000 provided by the U.S. Bureau of Statistics that this precise-sounding figure was certainly approximately correct, without knowing that other estimates by authorities deemed worthy of quoting ranged as low as $46,750,000. Throughout nineteenth-century economics, precise-appearing figures give the feeling of numerical confidence not merited by the facts. The more one investigates the sources of such figures, the lower one's confidence in them becomes. Even if economics is now becoming a science, in the nineteenth century it only pretended to be.
A similar situation arises when one endeavors to determine the historical ratio of the value of gold to silver. Different economists have come up with different numbers. For example, for the year 1794, when dollars were first coined in the United States, Soetbeer quotes a ratio of 1 to 15.37, while White suggests 1 to 15.18, and Executive Document 117 of the First Session, 21st Congress, gives a figure of 15.32. Each figure appears to be meticulously calculated. While these ratios are fairly close in proximity, for the year 1812 the respective figures from these three sources vary considerably and are for silver 16.11, 14.09, and 15.04 to 1.
Similarly, the Annual Report of the Director of the Mint for various years quotes average annual silver prices to three or even five decimal points, a precision not backed up by actual market numbers, which were much less precise. Such "precision" arose from adding up hundreds of market figures for a given year and then dividing by the time interval involved.
As also noted later in this text (under the 1883 Morgan dollar), the averaging of many numbers could and did produce statistics of unintended precision, just as 2/3 or two-thirds, a proportion expressed casually, does not necessarily imply a precision of 0.6666666666+ etc.
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Is It a Cold or the Flu? Should I Send My Child to School?
The flu season is going to be a particularly tough one this year and we are already seeing cases among students and employees in M.S.A.D. No. 75 schools. If your child is sick, please keep them home until they are better. Influenza is highly contagious, and the contagious period in children lasts up to 7 days!
The Maine CDC created a quick little check list to help determine if your child might have the flu.
Does your child have a fever of 100 degrees or more without Tylenol or Ibuprofen? □ Yes □ No
Does your child have a cough? □ Yes □ No
Does your child have a sore throat? □ Yes □ No
Does your child have stomach ache and vomiting? □ Yes □ No
Does your child have body aches, a headache, fatigue, or a runny or stuffy nose? □ Yes □ No
If you checked yes to: Fever of 100 degrees or more
Any other symptoms
Then your child may have an influenza-like illness. KEEP YOUR CHILD HOME FOR 24 HOURS AFTER THE FEVER RESOLVES WITHOUT THE USE OF MEDICATION, AND THEY ARE NO LONGER COUGHING UP SECRETIONS.
If you checked yes to only one of the questions above, or if your child is ill with other symptoms, KEEP YOUR CHILD AT HOME AT LEAST ONE DAY TO OBSERVE FOR ADDITIONAL SYMPTOMS. If additional symptoms develop, use the check list again to decide whether to continue to keep your child at home.
Here Are A Few Steps EVERYONE SHOULD FOLLOW to Minimize Spreading Germs:
Remember…it's not too late to get a flu shot. For more information go to: www.MaineFlu.gov
From the M.S.A.D. No. 75 Health and Wellness Team
"We believe healthy people make better learners – when we feel well, we work and learn well."
Looking for Registered Nurses to Help Sub
Are you a registered nurse? Do you have some free time during the week when you are available to work? MSAD 75 is looking for substitute nurses. Learn more by calling Karen Kilmer in Human Resources, at 729-9961 x271.
Suicide Awareness and Prevention Training
Any employee of a Maine school system must receive Suicide Awareness and Prevention Training. Please view the training materials and when you are finished, meet with a school counselor for certification approval.
Wellness Tip from Lisa West, Member of the District Health and Wellness Team
Are your kids getting tired of the same old boring sandwiches (and parents , are you growing tired of finding uneaten sandwiches in the lunchbox!)? Try these fun ideas and tips to make packed lunches exciting!
Spice up that PB&J by trading out the jelly for sliced apples, pears or bananas. This is a great way to include fruit in the meal while cutting down on the sugar(especially high fructose corn syrup).
Put a sticker on it! A recent study showed that kids will choose fruit over cookies when it has a sticker of a cartoon character on it. Kids notice packaging, so use this to your advantage and put a sticker of their favorite character on a bag of carrots or other healthy food.
Entrovirus 68 - Learn the Facts
Enterovirus D68 (EV-D68) is one of many non-polio enteroviruses. It can cause mild to severe respiratory illness. Mild symptoms may include fever, runny nose, sneezing, cough, and body and muscle aches. The virus likely spreads from person to person when an infected person coughs, sneezes, or touches contaminated surfaces.
Safe Schools/Healthy Students Action Center
This site provides assistance to Safe Schools/Healthy Students and School Action Grantees. The focus of the project is to enhance the safety of the school environment; to reduce self-reported drug, alcohol, and tobacco product use and abuse; to provide early, effective, and affordable interventions for troubled children; and to foster growth in resiliency and the reduction of risk factors in early childhood through family outreach programs.
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