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Indian Village 13-day ceremony: By Richard Clarke
The ceremony – Shraddha
After a death in India, the body is cremated or buried usually within one day of the death. Then a few days later an elaborate ceremony is performed, called shraddha. The details of this vary by location and caste. In Tamil Nadu the number of days after the death that this is done depends on the age of the person. The idea is that the atma (soul) takes longer to free itself from the home and family the longer the person lives. During the time between the death and this ceremony, the household where the person died is considered unclean. The residents cannot cook food, etc. In part these ceremonies are seen as contributing to the merit of the deceased, but they also pacify the soul so that it will not linger in this world as a ghost but will pass through the realm of Yama, the god of death.
The ceremony marks the time when the atma is released to what comes next.
This posting shows the 13 day ceremony for a village woman who was 55 years old, widowed, with two sons and a daughter. The funeral was shown in an earlier posting.
The mother's house – the location
In the village street, a canopy is set up in front of Mother's house (to the right). Another village house is shown in the picture on the right.
Village women gather and cook
Village women are gathered to cook. These will not be residents of the household of the dead mother, since these are considered as still 'unclean,' so cannot be involved with food preparation.
Views from the village
Here is Arunachala from the village
Surrounding the village are fields where rice, coconuts and 'groundnuts' (peanuts) are grown, and cows and goats forage.
Puja in Mother's house
First a puja is offered for Mother inside her house. The Brahmin priest builds an altar, starting with a banana leaf, then a bed of uncooked rice. He prepares a pot by winding string around it, then placing water in it. Leave are put in the pot, then a coconut. The coconut is decorated with flowers. The first son, "Anna," and another male relative start the puja. They will offer flowers by tossing them to the altar, and then Anna offers camphor to the altar, then to his mother.
When this is concluded the priest will take the water in the pot, which has now been consecrated by the puja and so is holy water, and 'bless' the people with the water.
Procession to village temple
This ceremony requires different music than the drumming of the first day. A horn and drum create different sounds and rhythms than previously. The the musicians start playing and the village men, with male relatives of Mother, go in procession to the village temple, carrying the puja items that will be used there. Anna carries young plants that will be planted at the site of Mother's ashes.
This is a small village with no walled temple. Rather there is an outside shrine, not shown here, with the tree and platform next two it. These ceremonies are usually preformed under a tree, in a special place in Hindu temples.
This simple temple and tree-temple are hundreds of years old.
Preparing for the Tree-Temple puja
Now preparations for the puja begins. Anna is shaved of all facial hair. He has not shaved since the death of his mother. The priest and a villager work together to lay out the puja items. The specific items used depend first on whether it was a man or a woman, and if a woman, depending on whether her husband survives her, or she is a widow. This is a puja is for a widow.
Preparation of puja altar with shrines for two gods
The priest builds the puja alter. As before, it starts with banana leaves and a bed of rice. Water again is put into pots, then leaves and a coconut. The 'gods' symbolized by coconuts are also decorated with flowers.
Preparing eldest son for puja
Now since these were not to top two castes (who do not wear the Sacred Thread) then the priest makes one for Anna and puts it over his right shoulder.
There are different methods of wearing the Sacred Thread at different occasions. While performing an auspicious ceremony one should be Upaviti, that is, the Sacred Thread should hang from one's left shoulder. At the performance of some inauspicious ceremony one should be Prachnaviti, that is, the Sacred Thread should hang from the right shoulder; and at times it is called Niviti when the Sacred Thread is worn around the neck like a garland.
The Puja
Now Anna performs the puja, again offering flowers and camphor. The the 'gods' are dressed up in dhotis.
Preparing the coconut frond
While the puja is going on, a man takes a half of a coconut frond and starts weaving it together to make the triangular structure that will later be used to offer favorites foods to Mother.
Ashes and Booma, Earth Mother
Then a small symbolic white cloth, set into a wooden frame, is placed on a bed of dry plant material on the ground, and burnt. This invokes Booma, Earth Mother. These ashes resulting from this burning are mixed with other holy materials, and carried by Anna to a nearby tank.
Anna then enters the tank and disperses the ashes into the water. He then submerges himself fully into the water to wash away the impurity that has been his since he lit his mother's cremation pyre. The second son stands by.
Rice Balls – Pindas
The sons returned to the priest. Balls of rice and Mother's favorite foods have been prepared. One ball represents mother. It is broken, and merged it into the ancestors. This process, known as Sapindikarana marks the end of mother's journey. After this, the anna makes a pranam and turns in a circle (honoring the world). Both sons are led into the nearby field by a village elder, who yells "kaa kaa," to call the crows. The rice is left in the field for the crows.
The village women join the ceremony
After the sons went into the field with the rice for the crows, the village women joined the men at the tree temple. A different 'altar' was set up with small inverted ceramic pots holding up a bowl. There were two pots, containing honey and milk, with sticks in them. Some men and women would dip sticks into the pots and then offer these into the bowl. When this was finished, the sons and the priest came over to the bowl for further puja. The sons sat, and the priest placed their outreached hands, with the younger son's hand above the elder son's, which was in turn above the bowl. The priest then poured various things, such as water, milk, turmeric, and kum kum, through their hands into the bowl.
Ceremonial meal for the deceased mother
Then it seemed like a ceremonial meal was offered to the mother. While the puja was going on, a man was weaving a coconut fronds. He formed these into a triangular structure, and put it on the ground in front of the tree-temple. Puja items were put into it, and about six banana leaf plates loaded with food were put in front of this. The sons offered camphor to it, and then they (and a few others) walked pradakshina, circling this structure three times.
Rice flour balls
Then the priest formed a roll of flour dough and cut it into six pieces. He put dabs of turmeric and kum kum on top of 3 balls, and the sons combined each of these with the other three, forming three larger balls. Then there was the final trip to the water tank. This time both sons, as well as the daughter and another woman, got into the tank and immersed themselves, and the dough balls were offered and dissolved in the water. The 'celebrants' climbed out the steep rock walls of the tank, and then returned to the area under the tree temple.
The last act was gift giving by the relatives and villagers. This is needed since the children are not, per custom, allowed to buy any new clothes for themselves for the next year, the period of mourning. Nor will they celebrate the normal festivals, etc. during this period. People offered gifts of clothing and money to the sons and daughter. They gave them to the priest, stating their names, and the priest in turn blessed them by dabbing them with kum kum and then giving them to the sons and daughter. While the sons and the daughter were taking off their old clothes on putting on the new, gifts were being offered in turn to other family members.
Everyone is given a special meal
After this, everyone walked back to the village and sat under the canopy and ate the meal that had been prepared all morning by the village women. It was a pretty typical South India lunch, served on a banana leaf. Rice and sambar, fritters, rasam and buttermilk, with a small serving of sour lemon pickle. Since this was a special occasion several side dishes were also given, none of which I could identify.
The men were seated and fed first. Since my wife is a westerner she was allowed to eat with me and the men. After the men finished eating, the tables were cleared of the banana leaves and the women were able to sit and eat.
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Objective 1: Destroy Vega's dam.
This is the western most mission choice.
There are two ways to meet the objectives. You can either destroy the dams themselves, or you can destroy the regulator stations, which will in turn destroy the dams. There are also two ways to get into the main NOD base. This guide will be for the most interesting of the four possible methods.
The NOD forces start out pretty smart. When they see you coming, they blow up the bridge leading to one of their mini-bases. Do not fear, though. By traveling south and then looping around back north, you can arrive on the other side of the bridge and destroy the base. Your prize for doing so will be a health crate and reinforcements.
Move generally southeast until you arrive at a land bridge. Reinforcements will arrive, and to the north of the bridge will be a truck with another health crate. Try to use the crates sparingly.
A little farther north is a city of sorts with three SAM sites and two tick tanks. There will also be a flame tank in the area, so be ready to scatter your infantry. When you destroy the tick tanks, you will receive reinforcements. When you destroy the SAM sites, you will receive a single engineer before the transport is shot down. Move the engineer west and have him repair the bridge.
Move your troops north and have them cross the newly-repaired bridge. Kill the NOD troops in the area, and then move your forces north to a tunnel. The tunnel leads to the northeastern corner of the map -- and the back door to the NOD base. Use your titans to destroy the lasers, and use your wolverines and infantry to kill the enemy infantry. One of the two regulator stations is on this side of the NOD base, and the other is to the southwest across a bridge. Once the regulator stations are gone, the NOD power plants will blow up, and then the dams will blow up.


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Columbia airport prepares for Thanksgiving travelers
By Reema Vaidya | Nov 16, 2018
With the right preparation, holiday traveling can be stress-free and safe. Columbia Metropolitan Airport is preparing for first-time and Thanksgiving travelers in advance this year.
For Kayla Zimmerman and her family, traveling over the holidays was a foreign idea until her husband joined the military.
"He has never flown, this will actually be his first flight," Zimmerman said Friday. "Me and the kids just wanted to come see him off."
Zimmerman's husband was headed to a military base in Oklahoma.
Many military personnel fly over the holidays, adding to the number of airline passengers and the stress of travel.
"Thanksgiving is one of our [airport] busiest holidays, particularly with our military travelers," said Lynn Douglas, the spokeswoman for Columbia Metropolitan Airport.
Many travelers underestimate the potential for flight delays during this heavily traveled season. A snowstorm Thursday stranded some travelers in the Northeast, resulting in a vast number of flights getting delayed. According to CBS News, nearly 5,000 flights in the U.S. were delayed and 1,300 flights got canceled.
Although the Midlands is not experiencing weather to that extreme, a freeze warning had been in effect for most of the Upstate this past week.
The Columbia Metropolitan Airport has been seeing some buildup of traffic but Douglas said the staff is well prepared for the holiday chaos set to come.
The biggest tip for holiday travelers is to be patient, Douglas said. "We have a lot of folks traveling for the first time; we see a lot of first time travelers," Douglas said. "They are not quite familiar with travel as many of our savvy travelers are."
With the holidays right around the corner, many people forget that the same rules do apply at the security check.
The Transportation Security Administration wants to stress that arriving early can result in an effective check- in process. "If you are traveling with gifts, remember to keep those gifts unwrapped," Douglas said.
She said TSA is ordered to unwrap gifts to inspect them. "We would suggest to put the wrapped gifts into your checked luggage," Douglas said.
Being patient, arriving on time, and being well-prepared are some tips for holiday voyagers this year. Although the Midlands has not experienced unexpected weather, travelers must be prepared for what's to come to ensure holiday traveling is completed safe and stress-free.
For more updates on delays and flight updates, visit the Columbia Metropolitan Airport website for more information.
Lynn Douglas, the spokesperson for Columbia Metropolitan Airport said Thanksgiving is the airport's busiest holiday. "We are expecting Monday, Tuesday, and even over the weekend to get really busy," Douglas said.
Karen Glogauerreich is traveling to Wisconsin to visit some friends for Thanksgiving, but is experiencing an unexpected flight delay. "The delay is for a couple of hours," Glogauerreich said.
The staff at Columbia Metropolitan Airport prepared ahead of time for holiday travelers. "Our staff and TSA do a great job of processing people as quickly as possible," Douglas said. "Still being safe, because that is our priority."
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Benjamin Wilkes (died c. 1749) was an 18th-century artist and naturalist in London. Wilkes' profession was 'painting of History Pieces and Portraits in Oyl'. When a friend invited him to a meeting of the Aurelian Society, where he first saw specimens of butterflies and moths, he became convinced that nature would be his 'best instructor' as to colour and form in art. He began to study entomology spending his leisure time collecting, studying and drawing the adults, larvae, pupae and parasitoids (Tachinidae and Ichneumonidae) of Lepidoptera, assisted by the collector Mr. Joseph Dandridge. Wilkes' own collection was kept, "against the Horn Tavern in Fleet Street," London, "Where any gentleman or lady," could see his collection of insects. Henry Baker, writing in August 1749, stated that Wilkes had, "died of a fever in about a week after he had finished his laborious and elegant work," and paid tribute to Wilkes as, "indefatigable in his observations and faithful in minuting down every particular but for want of learning quite incapable of writing a book."

Works
 1742 Twelve new designs of English butterflies. This rare work consisted solely of twelve engraved plates each depicting geometric arrangements of both butterflies and moths. It depicts seven hawkmoths. The captions to each provide information on the time of emergence, host plants and occurrence of the caterpillar.
 1749  English moths and butterflies. More ambitious, this work ran to three editions, the last of which incorporated Linnaean nomenclature and was published in 1824.

See also
 Aurelian

References

External links
Online version of The English Moths and Butterflies from GDZ
Glasgow Library Archive

English entomologists
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Year of death unknown

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FamilySearch Shaky Leaf Hints
Overshadowed by Ancestry.com's denial of service attack, last week FamilySearch quietly released its version of the Ancestry.com shaky leaf hinting. I've been asked to encourage experienced users to use this new feature to help new users get excited about genealogy. Don't scarf up all the hints yourself.
FamilySearch has compared all the records in its historical records collections to every person in the Tree. In those cases where it found a possible match, it displays a record hint on the person page in the right hand column.
I say possible matches because the records aren't guaranteed. That is why they are called hints. FamilySearch has tried to be correct 95% of the time. I think I could probably chug through 100 records in a sitting. I would expect to find five bad hints during that time. Unlike the Possible Duplicates feature, I didn't see a way to indicate that a particular hint was not a match.
If there are too many hints, Family Tree may not display all of them in the margin. Click Show all to move to a page that shows them all.
Click the hint in the right column of the person page or click the Review button on the hint page. Family Tree displays the enhanced attach records page. Use it to attach the record to everyone mentioned therein.
Family Tree displays on the left hand side the information from the record. On the right, it shows the information from the tree. If the fact is new (such as the marriage in the example above), click Add to copy it into the tree. Don't forget to specify the reason you think the record matches the tree. (In the example above, I might say something like: "The bride's and groom's names match as does the marriage date and place.") After specifying a reason, click the Attach button. Repeat for each person in the record to prevent errors that computers make when they automatically make matching decisions.
Remember: use this feature to engage new genealogists when possible.
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janiejac June 25, 2014 at 11:14 AM
I was excited when I first read about the FamilySearch Tree and hints as I had never used this and it sounds great. But I do not see a way to upload a GEDCOM to the tree. Please tell me I'm wrong about this; I sure wouldn't want to input all my folks manually! I have a lot of separate PAF files I'd love to find a permanent home for. If a GEDCOM can be uploaded would someone give me a link to where that is possible.
Ben Baker June 25, 2014 at 2:43 PM
To answer the Ancestry Insider about how to not a match a hint that doesn't match, you click the Not a Match button on the last screen shot you attached. To see all of the records that have been not a matched for a person, click the Show all link at the bottom of the record hints box and go to the Not a Matches tab.
To answer janiejac, you can still upload GEDCOM files by going to the https://familysearch.org/family-trees page (or the Search / Genealogies tab) and going to the bottom. Depending on the size of the GEDCOM, it will take a while to match against persons already in Family Tree and provide a way to add persons not yet added.
Geolover June 26, 2014 at 8:21 AM
The FS-FT hints widget seems to look in selected low-hanging fruit, such as Civil War and immigration databases, disregarding date bracketing. Returns from these databases are listed for impossibly-long-dead persons, yet chronologically sensible results are not among the first 50.
This appears to reflect FS's emphasis on post-1850 material. If reasonable results are not among the indexed databases, the algorithm should not invent the nonsensical.
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Gunmen Kill Bafarawa's Guard, Kidnap Nephew — But Police Isn't Aware
This is the first time such an attack is happening in Bafarawa town, but the people of Kamarawa, a nearby village, have been experiencing killing, kidnapping and burning of their property.
by Sahara Reporters May 05, 2019
Abdullahi Jijji, the security guard of Attahiru Bafarawa, former Governor of Sokoto State, has been shot dead by gunmen who stormed the former Governor's residence.
The gunmen also kidnapped Abdulrasheed Sa'idu, the 16-year-old cousin of the former Governor during the attack, which happened at Bafarawa in Isa Local Government Area of the state on Friday at 9pm.
The attack came barely 24 hours after the ex-Governor launched a foundation in Abuja named after him, which he said would help in proffering solutions to the incessant banditry and kidnapping, particularly in the northern part of the country.
Sulaiman Shu'aibu Shinkafi, the Director General, Bafarawa Foundation, confirmed the development on Saturday.
He added that the bandits, numbering about 60 and armed with AK47 riffles came on motorcycles and bought N5,000 fuel in the town before invading the house.
A statement by Shinkafi read: "They threatened to wipe out Bafarawa and Kamarawa villages in the Isa Local Government area of the state.
Muhammad Sadiq, spokesman for the state Police Command, however, said he was not aware of the attack.
Speaking at the unveiling of the Attahiru Bafarawa Foundation's proposed 'National Security and Peace Development Summit' on Thursday, the former Governor had identified unemployment, poverty, drug abuse and neighbourhood isolation, among other vices, as the major causes of crimes and criminality in the country.
The former Governor also alleged that some governors were cashing in on the growing spate of insecurity across the country to inflate their security votes.
He lamented that the unending terrorist attacks in the North-East and the banditry with violent kidnapping and killings in the Northwest had not only destroyed socio-economic infrastructures, but had made the regions undesirable destinations to investors.
Nigeria's security situation, according to him, has degenerated to the extent that efforts and synergy have to be garnered across party affiliations, hence his foundation's resolve to provide a platform where both serving and retired security chiefs and other experts would use in proffering workable solutions.
He said: "It is against this backdrop that the Bafarawa Foundation has supported the partnership of Kaduna State Government, the community and other northern state governments such as Katsina, Sokoto, Kebbi, Niger, Kano, Jigawa and Zamfara to undertake this resolution programme.
"This meeting arose from concerns among government institutions, social, political activities and security agencies about the escalation of crime and youth involvement in these crimes in Nigeria, which were all too often linked to insatiable quest for wealth production, terrorism and extremism."
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H.S. SOFTBALL: Abington makes quick work of Carver
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Getting hitting up and down the order, the Green Wave score 12 times in the first two innings en route to a 14-1 South Shore League Tobin Division win over the Crusaders in a game called after 4-1/2 innings due to the mercy rule. The win improves Abington to 16-3 on the year.
ABINGTON – Surely, you've heard of teams employing a hurry-up offense in football.
On Friday, the Green Wave of Abington High employed a hurry-up offense in softball.
Sending 20 batters to the plate, the Wave scored 12 times in the first two innings en route to a 14-1 South Shore League Tobin Division win over Carver at Carey Field in a game that was halted by the mercy rule after 4-1/2 innings. By the time they were through, nine different Abington players had hits and had scored. And five of the Wave's 14 hits in the game went for extra bases.
"It's great to have another win, especially in the conference," said Wave coach Kelsea Cheney, whose team improved to 16-3 overall. "It's great to see the bats be alive. Everyone got on base today, so that's good to see."
Batting out of the cleanup spot, Corin Mahan led the way for Abington with three hits, leadoff hitter Lauren Keleher, No. 2 hitter Victoria Seppala and No. 5 hitter Mackenzie Bailey each had two, and Victoria Becker, the No. 9 hitter on Cheney's lineup card, had punctuated a seven-run second inning with a three-run homer to center field.
"If she makes contact she usually hits the ball pretty hard," said Cheney. "She just gets out over her front foot a little bit every now and then, but when she keeps her weight back she's strong enough to get it over the fence like that."
The Green Wave spotted the Crusaders (now 6-12 overall) a run in the top of the first (back-to-back singles by Jacey Ruzzano and Olivia Camelo to lead off the inning, followed by an infield error) but quickly responded by sending nine batters to the plate and scoring five times in the bottom half of the inning.
Keleher led off by drawing a walk on a 3-2 count, Seppala ripped an RRI double to center field and Jordyn Needle, Mahan and Bailey singled in succession to make it 4-1. A couple of infield errors later, it was 5-1.
The Green Wave were right back at it in the second, sending 11 to the plate this time, scoring seven more times with Becker's three-run shot to center field capping the inning off. The uprising was aided by another error in the infield and a miscommunication in the outfield that allowed a fly ball to drop for a single. Keleher (who reached base twice in the inning), Seppala, Mahan and Criselda Burke all singled in the inning, while Bailey doubled.
After failing to score in the third, Abington tacked on two more runs in the fourth when Lily Jackson singled, Keleher lined a triple into the right-field corner and Mahan singled to left.
Abington pitcher Casey Strobel worked her way into and out of trouble all day, allowing nine hits but stranding eight runners on base, helping her own cause with a couple of nifty plays in the circle. In an act of self-defense, she got her glove on a line shot back to the mound, knocking the ball down, picking it up and throwing to first to end a bases-loaded threat in the fourth. In the fifth, she fielded a hard-hit to start a double play.
Carver finished with nine hits in the game, with Ruzzano and cleanup hitter Maddie Prado each accounting for two.


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Iraqi-Americans pray for Saddam's death
DEARBORN, Mich. - A group of Iraqi-Americans gathered late Friday at a mosque in anticipation of Saddam Hussein's execution, praying for the death of the former Iraqi dictator as drivers outside honked horns in celebration.
Dave Alwatan wore an Iraqi flag around his shoulders and flashed a peace sign to everyone he passed at the Karbalaa Islamic Educational Center in this suburb of Detroit, a city that has one of the nation's largest concentrations of people with roots in the Middle East.
"Peace," he said, grinning and laughing. "Now there will be peace for my family."
Alwatan, 32, said Saddam's forces tortured and killed relatives that were left behind when Alwatan left Iraq in 1991. He was among about 40 men who gathered at the Islamic center.
The center's director, Imam Husham Al-Husainy, said members prayed for Saddam's death. Outside, traffic slowed as people drove in circles around the mosque, honking horns.
Meanwhile, some local Arab-American leaders warned that Saddam's execution would increase violence in Iraq.
Osama Siblani, publisher of The Arab American News and chairman of several Arab-American groups, said the former dictator's death sentence was one more casualty in a war that has killed thousands. He said it will not end the power struggle among Iraqi religious groups.
"The execution might bring some amusement and accomplishment to the Bush administration, but it will not help the Iraqi people," Siblani said. "The problem we're facing in Iraq is going to multiply."
Rauf Naqishbendi, 53, an Iraqi Kurd who moved to the U.S. in 1977, said he was pleased that Hussein was being executed, but lamented that it will not bring back family members who he said were gassed by the dictator's henchman in 1988.
"Psychologically the execution is good news, and people will feel that justice has been served," said Naqishbendi, who lives a few miles south of San Francisco. "But the reality is that it's not going to bring back my family members who he killed."
Naqishbendi followed Hussein's trial closely and said it pained him to watch Hussein rant throughout the proceedings.
"If it wasn't for this tyrant, the Iraqi people wouldn't have to suffer the tragedies now under way," he said.
Siblani, who is also affiliated with the Congress of Arab American Organizations and the Arab American Political Action Committee, said Iraq will "disintegrate" even further after the execution.
The Detroit area's Iraqi community includes a group of Chaldeans, who are Catholic, Arabs and Kurds. Many from Iraq fled their homeland during the rule of Saddam.
Joseph Kassab, executive director of the Chaldean Federation of America, based in the Detroit suburb of Farmington Hills, said his humanitarian organization is against the taking of human life. But, he said, the world must reflect on Saddam's execution, "so we never again relinquish our destiny to tyrants like him."
Imad Hamad, director of the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee in Dearborn, said Saddam's victims were celebrating his impending death, but their happiness was laced with uncertainty about the future.
"Those who have been direct victims of Saddam, they cannot help but celebrate," said Hamad, who is originally a Palestinian from Lebanon.
"The joy would have been complete if we were to see the healthy Iraq, the united Iraq, the safe Iraq," he added. "Then everybody would be jumping up and down, celebrating."
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The fresh scent of lemon along with poppy seeds for exfoliating make this a great all natural soap.
Each bar is made with all natural ingredients. Many of the herbs and plant based ingredients in my soaps are grown organically in my garden. I use no artificial colors or fragrances.
Loved the soap! Simply wonderful on skin and smells terrific!
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Digambar Gadekar was studying for his M.Sc. (master's degree in science) exam in Poona at this time, and Baba permitted him to visit Guruprasad every day. He instructed Digambar to say his name before beginning each test. After the theory portion of the exam was over, Baba asked, "How did you do?"
Digambar said, "I answered all the questions as best I could."
"You must pass first-class [with highest honors]," Baba emphasized.
"Baba, you know for yourself what the result is going to be, but it is my duty to try as hard as I can."
When Digambar's practical (laboratory) exams were over, Baba asked the same question and Digambar replied in a similar fashion.
Baba warned him, "If you do not pass first-class, our dosti [friendship] will come to an end, and you should not show your face to me!"
Digambar was frightened and said, "Baba, whatever is going to happen will happen according to your divine will."
Before the test result was announced, Baba remarked to him, "You have failed the examination!" However, when the results were announced in June, Digambar had not only passed first-class but had scored first in his subject at the university. The news was conveyed to Baba, who sent the following message to Digambar: "Let us hope you pass at least third-class in obeying me!"


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The majority of people weighing in on Miguel Cabrera's new deal are going to exclaim how crazy it is and how baseball players are overpaid, but it's probably worth remembering that since 2002, baseball player total salaries, as a share of new revenue, have declined from 56 percent to 40 percent. And that as average payroll has gone up by 58 percent in that time, team revenue has gone up by 122 percent.
That comes from Matt Swartz of The Hardball Times, who drops some Econ 101 on us about these things — with lots of graphs and data and stuff — concluding that, while eyes continue to pop every time a new contract is signed, baseball players are getting increasingly smaller pieces of the growing baseball revenue pie.
So, lament the "greedy" players all you want. But don't forget to think about what the owners are making these days. And that's without even picking up a bat or a glove.