In contrast to the "We mess with Texas" trip, no sunscreen was needed on our recent four-day expedition to the Okanogan. After an early start we were going great guns picking up birds on I-90 on Friday morning. A Great Horned Owl was perched in daylight near Ellensburg and we had 30 species of birds by the time we met up with the rest of the group at Soap Lake. The trip was organized by the Yakima Audubon Society under the deft and fearless leadership of Denny Granstrand of Yakima.
Then we hit the fog. We were hoping for Snow Buntings, Snowy Owl and maybe a Gyrfalcon on the Waterville Plateau. What we saw instead was a soupy thick white-out caused by dense fog that made driving surreal. The weather seemed quite cold to our delicate Seattle sensibilities, but actually I think we were in a warm spell—it's the Brave New World I'm sure. This shot of a couple of gorgeous Snow Buntings we didn't see on the Plateau was taken several days later in Okanagan County.
Next morning we went up to Havila from Omak to look for what became our great nemesis bird of the trip, the Great Gray Owl. We again encountered lots of fog. As it began to lift I shot this Red Crossbill through a dissipating fog soup.
We had lots of luck encountering the Great Gray Owl's small cousins. This is a Saw-whet Owl in Bridgeport. We found about five.
And this is one of at least five Northern Pygmy Owls we encountered during the trip. At dusk Lamont, one of the our group, spotted a big owl on a power pole near Havila and we had for me the rare experience of being disappointed to see "just " a Great Horned Owl.
Lamont, who will get free admission on the next trip—Oh wait a minute, everybody got free admission, Yakima Audubon hasn't caught up with the real world!—spotted a group of Pine Grosbeaks by the side of the road. Here's a male posing .
And here he's at work getting lunch.
Coming off the Waterville Plateau we had stopped above Bridgeport and other birders pointed out these distant Sharp-tailed Grouse, above us on the hill. I apologize for my photos of these sage-specialist birds which used to be so abundant the DAILY bag limit was set at 20.
Here's the ski slope near Havila.
This is Mt. Abercrombie, in Canada. At one point, I reached under a barbed wire fence and made a snowball out of Canadian snow, but don't worry, it won't happen again, we're building a wall.
We found these Redpolls in Chesaw. In my binoculars, the red forehead spots gleamed brightly, and I held out great hopes for this photo. It was the one that got away. Maybe I'll have to paint the scene and combine the photo with the vivid memory.
A large juvenile Goshawk attacked a Eurasian Collared Dove and chased it to within an inch of it's life, then gave up and flew off like a bullet. I was frozen in confusion and amazement and never reached for my camera so I asked Lamont McLachlan for permission to run his shots, this one showing the two birds in chase. More than any other shot of a Goshawk I've seen, this seems to show the long-wingedness of the species compared to Cooper's or Sharp-shinned, the cousins.
And here is his shot of the Goshawk heading to the south at high speed.
Great landscapes were everywhere. Here's one.
Aspens contribute to the beautiful thing that the Okanagan has going.
Horned Larks were common in the wide open areas. Only one "horn" shows here. What a cool bird.
We had Pygmy Nuthatches and this female White-headed Woodpecker in a lower-elevation Pine Forest.
This female Bald Eagle (Gender ID can be achieved by looking for the "Roman Nose" of the larger female) was in the Canyon. We also had more than a few Golden Eagles.
Birding can be great fun, but as this shot taken in the Canyon shows, it's important to be careful at all times. This is Brian Pendleton moments after I warned him not to stand so close to a sheer drop off.
On the last day we tried the Waterville Plateau again. We looked hard for a Gyrfalcon that had been reported by another group. In an effort to find the bird, this group from our party made the first ascent of "Mt. Gyrmore" but to no avail.
Here's Delia, Lamont and Brian looking for distant raptors.
There was a distant teardropped-shaped object seen. Tear-dropped is a good sign of Gyrfalcon. Eric Heisey took matters into his own hands to get a better look but in the end decided it was most likely a tear-dropped-shaped rock. Eric is a senior in High School who knows way more about birds and is far better in the field than well, let's take me for example, despite my having a 50-year head-start.
We were lucky to have so much expertise. Andy Stepniewski, author of Birds of Yakima County and also an expert on Okanagan County was along and he brought his wide background of knowledge including botany and geology that made things interesting when the birds were scarce. Here he is in our one snow storm.
If you hear of a trip being led by Denny Granstrand, book it immediately. He's an expert on birds, a great photographer and will through in enough well-timed jokes to keep everybody laughing.
Brian finally found this Snowy Owl on the Waterville Plateau.
We looked some more for a Gyrfalcon but then decided to head over the pass before it got too late. We'd seen 89 species of birds and a Porcupine, made great friends, learned a lot and had many good laughs. It was a golden weekend, even if partially obscured by fog.


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Top Performing Countries At The Rugby 7s World Cup
New Zealand has won the Rugby 7s World Cup three times.
New Zealand All Blacks with the ball. Editorial credit: Faiz Azizan / Shutterstock.com
The Rugby World Cup Sevens is a rugby competition. The Rugby World Cup Sevens is a different event from the Rugby World Cup. The Sevens World Cup as is popularly know is organized by the sport's governing body, World Rugby. Twenty-four male and 12 female teams are featured in the event. The first Seven Word Cup was held in 1993 in Edinburg, Scotland, a country considered the birthplace of the rugby sevens. England emerged the winner and became the first ever titleholders of the competition. Since then the competition has been held after every four years.
Rugby World Cup Sevens Records
New Zealand holds the record for the most Seven World Cup titles. The country has participated in all seven men's competitions and three women's competitions. During that time, the New Zealand team bagged 3 men's titles (2001, 2013, 2018) and 2 women's title (2013, 2018). New Zealand became the only country to defend the title when both the male and female teams successfully defended their titles in the 2018 series.
Fiji has won the men's title twice in 1997 and 2005 while England (1993 ) and Wales (2009) have each won the men's title only once. Australia has won the women's title once as well during the inaugural women's competition.
Olympic Consideration
In 2005, the rugby governing body submitted a request to the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to include rugby as an Olympic sport but the request was rejected because the women's competition was not developed enough to be part of the Olympics. The IRB introduced the Women's World Cup in 2009 to concur with the Men's event with the aim of promoting the development of women's rugby across the globe. Australia won the inaugural tournament held in the United Arab Emirates while New Zealand won the subsequent 2013 and 2018 competitions in Moscow and San Francisco respectively. In 2009, the IOC voted to include the Rugby Sevens as an Olympic sport as from the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. The IRB declared that the 2013 event in Russia would be the last because the Olympic Games would only accommodate 12 teams but member states rejected the proposal and chose to continue with the event.
Men's Team
Games Participated
1 New Zealand 3 (2001, 2013, 2018) 1 (2005) 7
2 Fiji 2 (1997, 2005) 7
3 England 1 (1993) 2 (2013, 2018) 7
4 Wales 1 (2009) 6
5 Australia 2 (1993, 2001) 7
6 Argentina 1 (2009) 7
7 South Africa 1 (1997) 7
Rank Women's Team Winner Runner-Up Games Participated
1 New Zealand 2 (2013, 2018) 1 (2009) 3
2 Australia 1 (2009) 3
3 Canada 1 (2013) 3
4 France 1 (2018) 3
This page was last updated on March 18, 2019.
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Effects of Preheating and Cooling Durations on Roll-to-Roll Hot Embossing
Seyoung Kim, Youngsu Son, Heechang Park, Byungin Kim, Dongwon Yun
Journal: Microscopy and Microanalysis / Volume 21 / Issue 1 / February 2015
In this study, we examined the sensitivity of embossed pattern depth to preheat supply and cooling and investigated how the pattern type and density affect the embossed depth. The main factors that affect embossed pattern qualities of roll-to-roll hot embossing, such as roller temperature, roller speed, and applied force, were determined using the response surface methodology. Eight conditions were then added to determine the time-dependent effects of heat transfer with custom-designed preheating and cooling systems. An extended preheat time for the polymethylmethacrylate substrate contributed to the significant change in the embossed depth, whereas the substrate-cooling did not exhibit a clear increasing or decreasing trend. Larger embossed depths were achieved in the horizontal patterns with lower density than in the vertical patterns, and the lower pattern densities showed greater embossed depths in most embossing conditions. We expect that this result will help to understand the effects of the pre- and posttreatment of roll-to-roll hot embossing by employing time duration factors of heat transfer, depending on the mold pattern type and density.
Optimization of the heat treatment of phosphate
E.M. El Ouardi, H. Chehouani, I. Mrani, M. Anoua, A. Noubhani
Journal: Revue de Métallurgie – International Journal of Metallurgy / Volume 109 / Issue 6 / 2012
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 13 November 2012, pp. 453-463
In this article, we studied the process of cold and hot mixing of sedimentary phosphates of Bouchane in order to optimize the energy requirements by reducing the organic matter and carbonates. The cold mixture is done at the ambient temperature whereas the hot mixture is made at the calcination temperature. The experimental process of the mixtures is performed under the atmospheric air using the same phosphate source and mixing in the same manner, in order to make possible the comparison between cold and hot. It appeared that the hot mixture using 33% of the same phosphate source can have an important impact on the energy saving while preserving the environment and responding to the quality requirements of the users.
Adaptation to hot climate and strategies to alleviate heat stress in livestock production
D. Renaudeau, A. Collin, S. Yahav, V. de Basilio, J. L. Gourdine, R. J. Collier
Journal: animal / Volume 6 / Issue 5 / May 2012
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 08 December 2011, pp. 707-728
Despite many challenges faced by animal producers, including environmental problems, diseases, economic pressure, and feed availability, it is still predicted that animal production in developing countries will continue to sustain the future growth of the world's meat production. In these areas, livestock performance is generally lower than those obtained in Western Europe and North America. Although many factors can be involved, climatic factors are among the first and crucial limiting factors of the development of animal production in warm regions. In addition, global warming will further accentuate heat stress-related problems. The objective of this paper was to review the effective strategies to alleviate heat stress in the context of tropical livestock production systems. These strategies can be classified into three groups: those increasing feed intake or decreasing metabolic heat production, those enhancing heat-loss capacities, and those involving genetic selection for heat tolerance. Under heat stress, improved production should be possible through modifications of diet composition that either promotes a higher intake or compensates the low feed consumption. In addition, altering feeding management such as a change in feeding time and/or frequency, are efficient tools to avoid excessive heat load and improve survival rate, especially in poultry. Methods to enhance heat exchange between the environment and the animal and those changing the environment to prevent or limit heat stress can be used to improve performance under hot climatic conditions. Although differences in thermal tolerance exist between livestock species (ruminants > monogastrics), there are also large differences between breeds of a species and within each breed. Consequently, the opportunity may exist to improve thermal tolerance of the animals using genetic tools. However, further research is required to quantify the genetic antagonism between adaptation and production traits to evaluate the potential selection response. With the development of molecular biotechnologies, new opportunities are available to characterize gene expression and identify key cellular responses to heat stress. These new tools will enable scientists to improve the accuracy and the efficiency of selection for heat tolerance. Epigenetic regulation of gene expression and thermal imprinting of the genome could also be an efficient method to improve thermal tolerance. Such techniques (e.g. perinatal heat acclimation) are currently being experimented in chicken.
Apatite fission-track thermochronology of the Western Pontides (NW Turkey)
WILLIAM CAVAZZA, ILARIA FEDERICI, ARAL I. OKAY, MASSIMILIANO ZATTIN
Journal: Geological Magazine / Volume 149 / Issue 1 / January 2012
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 23 June 2011, pp. 133-140
The results of apatite fission-track analyses of the Western Pontides of NW Turkey point to three discrete episodes of Cenozoic exhumation correlatable with major supraregional tectonic events. (1) Paleocene–early Eocene exhumation reflected the closure of the İzmir–Ankara ocean. (2) Late Eocene–earliest Oligocene exhumation was the result of renewed tectonic activity along the İzmir–Ankara suture. (3) Late Oligocene–early Miocene exhumation recorded the onset of northern Aegean extension. Samples collected north and south of the tectonic contact between the two terranes forming the Western Pontides (i.e. İstanbul and Sakarya terranes) record the same cooling events, suggesting that such terranes were amalgamated in pre-Cenozoic times.
Effect of combined application of 1-MCP and low oxygen treatments on alleviation of chilling injury and lipid oxidation stability of avocado (Persea americana Mill.) under low temperature storage
U. A. Prabath Pathirana, Yoshihiko Sekozawa, Sumiko Sugaya, Hiroshi Gemma
Journal: Fruits / Volume 66 / Issue 3 / May 2011
Introduction. The avocado (Persea americana Mill.) fruit is sensitive to chilling injury (CI) when exposed to low temperatures. High lipid content in avocado pulp makes it prone to oxidation, resulting in rancidity and subsequent production of undesirable flavours and quality loss during storage. Materials and methods. Avocado fruit (cv. Becon) were treated with 1 μL.L-1 1-MCP for 24 h at 20 °C, and thereafter stored at 4 °C for 21 d under low oxygen atmosphere (3.5% O2), followed by transferring to 20 °C for 14 d to simulate the shelf life. The CI index, firmness, peel colour, relative electrical conductivity (EC), respiration, ethylene evolution, malondialdehyde (MDA) content, peroxidase (POD) activity, peroxide value and iodine value were measured throughout the storage period. Results and discussion. The CI incidence and severity of fruit treated with a combination of 1-MCP and low oxygen were significantly lower and delayed compared with the other treatments. The combined application of 1-MCP and low oxygen treatment was effective and delayed the onset of climacteric peaks of respiration and ethylene production. The delay was associated with reductions in fruit softening and cell membrane permeability as expressed by EC. The results of MDA content and POD activity of fruit treated with a combination of 1-MCP and low oxygen were significantly reduced. Moreover, significantly lower peroxide values and higher iodine values suggested that a combination of 1-MCP and low oxygen treatment effectively controlled the lipid oxidation in avocado fruit pulp. Conclusion. Overall, the results support the hypothesis that combined treatment (as compared with either 1-MCP or low oxygen treatment) was the most effective for alleviation of CI, lipid oxidation stability and extending the shelf life of avocado fruit under low temperature storage
Thermal modeling of the quench at Burns Harbor utilizing on-line characterization of cooling*
J.-L. Borean, C. Romberger, P.-S. Manga, T. Petesch, A. Daubigny
In order to limit the thermal gradient of plates during quenching and limit flatness issues, it is necessary to control the cooling. This control requires the knowledge of the cooling performances of the cooling device. This paper describes the equipments and procedure we developed for the on-line characterization of quenching. We illustrate the application of this methodology to the quench of Burns Harbor. After the austenitzing furnace, this quench is equipped with 3 cooling sections that have been characterized for several flow rates, for several speeds of plates and for the top and bottom sides of plates. Thanks to the collected data, heat fluxes have been calculated and correlations describing the cooling performances of the equipment have been built. These correlations have been implemented in a thermal model that gives the thermal state of a plate during cooling according to parameters like thickness of the plate, flow rates of the cooling sections, speed of the plate, and temperature after heating. Experimental and numerical results are discussed.
Fission-track analysis unravels the denudation history of the Bonar Range in the footwall of the Alpine Fault, South Island, New Zealand
UWE RING, MATTHIAS BERNET
Journal: Geological Magazine / Volume 147 / Issue 6 / November 2010
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 April 2010, pp. 801-813
We apply fission-track thermochronology to shed new light on the tectonic history of Zealandia during Late Cretaceous continental extension and the onset of Late Tertiary mountain building in the Southern Alps of New Zealand. The Southern Alps are one of the fastest erosionally exhuming mountain belts on Earth. Exhumation of the Bonar Range in Westland just to the northwest of the Alpine Fault is orders of magnitude slower. We report apatite and zircon fission-track ages from samples that were collected along an ENE–WSW profile across the central Bonar Range, parallel to the tectonic transport direction of a prominent ductile fabric in the basement gneiss. Zircon fission-track (ZFT) ages show a large spread from 121.9 ± 12.1 Ma to 74.9 ± 7.2 Ma (1σ errors). The youngest ZFT ages of 78 to 75 Ma occur at low elevations on either side of the Bonar Range and become older towards the top of the range, thereby showing a symmetric pattern parallel to the ENE-trending profile across the range. Age–elevation relationships suggest an exhumation rate of 50–100 m Ma−1. We relate the ZFT ages to slow erosion of a tectonically inactive spot in the Late Cretaceous magmatic arc of Zealandia. Therefore, the first main significance of the paper is that it demonstrates that not all of 110–90 Ma Zealandia was necessarily participating in extreme core complex-related extension but that there were enclaves of lithosphere that underwent slow erosion. The apatite fission-track (AFT) ages range from 11.1 ± 1.9 Ma to 5.3 ± 1.0 Ma and age–elevation relationships suggest an exhumation rate of c. 200 m Ma−1. We relate the AFT ages to the inception of transpressive motion across the Alpine Fault and modest exhumation in its footwall in Late Miocene times. If so, the second significant point of this paper is that transpressive motion across the Alpine Fault was already under way by c. 11 Ma.
Petrology of forearc peridotite from the Hahajima Seamount, the Izu-Bonin arc, with special reference to chemical characteristics of chromian spinel
H. Okamura, S. Arai, Y.-U. Kim
Journal: Mineralogical Magazine / Volume 70 / Issue 1 / February 2006
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 July 2018, pp. 15-26
Forearc peridotite is generally characterized by low Mg# (= Mg/[Mg + Fe2+] atomic ratio) at a given Cr# (= Cr/[Cr + Al] atomic ratio) of chromian spinel compared to common abyssal peridotite. This may be due to (1) smaller modal abundance of spinel and/or (2) lower equilibrium temperature, for the forearc peridotite. Forearc peridotite has the same amount of spinel as abyssal peridotite, eliminating the first possibility. Spinel in harzburgite and dunite from the Hahajima Seamount at the Izu-Bonin forearc, has a large Cr#, >0.57, and the Mg# is slightly variable towards low values at a given Cr#. The Mg# of spinel cores decreases strongly with a decrease in size. This is due to cooling along with hydration, which gave rise to a compositional variation of Ca-amphibole, from edenitic hornblende (high-temperature) to tremolite (low-temperature) in the Hahajima peridotite. The average two- pyroxene temperature of the Hahajima peridotite, 921°C, is less than that of the abyssal peridotite (1138°C), which is not consistent with a size-dependent Mg# of spinel for the latter. Forearc peridotite has been cooled effectively by H2O released from the subducted slab, causing a small Mg# of their spinels.
Cooling of Micro Spots by Oscillatory Flows
F. C. Chou, J. G. Weng, C. L. Tien
Journal: Journal of Mechanics / Volume 20 / Issue 4 / December 2004
This paper explores a novel design of an encapsulated and integrated device, which employs an oscillatory fluid flow to cool micro spots in micro systems. The oscillatory flow can be induced by two thermal bubbles that form and expand in turn on two micro line heaters at both ends of a sealed fluid channel. Compared with those using outside connecting channels and pumps, this design benefits from its much smaller size. A numerical calculation indicates that the heat transfer enhancement is independent of the Wormersely number, but depends on the Peclet number, Pe, and the cooling capacity of channel walls. The heat transfer rate increases dramatically as Pe increases from 30 to 100.
Maturation of porcine oocytes after cooling at the germinal vesicle stage
Rui-Hua Liu, Qing-Yuan Sun, Yong-Hai Li, Li-Hong Jiao, Wei-Hua Wang
Journal: Zygote / Volume 11 / Issue 4 / November 2003
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 08 March 2004, pp. 299-305
Maturation of porcine oocytes was examined after oocytes were cooled at the germinal vesicle stage. Cumulus-oocyte complexes (COCs) collected from medium-sized follicles were cooled at 24 °C or 4 °C for 5, 30 or 120 min in a solution with or without 1.5 M dimethylsulfoxide (DMSO). After rewarming, COCs were cultured in maturation medium at 39 °C, 5% CO2 in air for 44 h. Meiotic spindle organisation (by immunostaining and confocal microscopy), nuclear maturation (by orcein staining) and cytoplasmic maturation (by intracellular glutathione assay) of oocytes were examined after maturation. When COCs were cooled at 24 °C for various times in the medium without DMSO, a tendency to decreased spindle formation, nuclear maturation and cytoplasmic maturation was observed, but there was no statistical difference compared with controls. Addition of DMSO during cooling inhibited subsequent nuclear maturation and spindle formation. When COCs were cooled at 4 °C, both nuclear and cytoplasmic maturation as well as spindle formation were inhibited in most oocytes in a time-dependent manner. DMSO during cooling did not have any beneficial effect on subsequent oocyte maturation and spindle formation. These results suggest that porcine oocytes are very sensitive to a drop in the temperature before exposure to culture. Cooling oocytes before maturation inhibits their subsequent spindle organisation, nuclear and cytoplasmic maturation. Addition of DMSO to the cooling solution did not protect porcine oocytes from cooling-induced damage.
Changing Produce Marketing Barriers: A Comparison Among Three Southern States
David B. Eastwood, John R. Brooker, Charles R. Hall, Alice J. Rhea, Edmund A. Estes, Timothy A. Woods
Journal: Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics / Volume 35 / Issue 2 / August 2003
Produce growers in Kentucky, North Carolina, and Tennessee were surveyed in 2002 to gather information about their decision making in the areas of planting, postharvest handling, marketing, and expected changes. North Carolina has proportionately more respondents with large operations, and Kentucky and Tennessee were more similar and concentrated in smaller farms. Tennessee and Kentucky respondents were less likely to have engaged in activities that were associated with the commercial distribution system. Greater reliance on the commercial distribution system on the part of North Carolina growers is consistent with more produce export activity.
Principles of Retention of the Vitality and Vital Activity During Deep Hypothermia without Rewarming the Body
KP Ivanov
Journal: Prehospital and Disaster Medicine / Volume 13 / Issue S1 / December 1998
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 June 2012, pp. S12-S13
Patterns of solute in individual mesophyll, bundle sheath and epidermal cells of barley leaves induced to accumulate carbohydrate
O. A. KOROLEVA, J. F. FARRAR, A. D. TOMOS, C. J. POLLOCK
Journal: The New Phytologist / Volume 136 / Issue 1 / May 1997
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 May 1997, pp. 97-104
After cooling the roots and shoot apex of barley, there is a reduction in sucrose export from, and an increased total accumulation of carbohydrate and induction of fructan synthesis in, source leaves. We investigated carbohydrate accumulation in individual leaf cells. Using the microsampling technique and microfluorometric enzymatic assay, the amounts of various carbohydrates were measured in mesophyll, bundle sheath and epidermal cells. Epidermal cells take no part in carbohydrate partitioning and have very low concentrations of sugars even when leaf export is reduced. Even without cooling, however, there are remarkable changes in sucrose concentration (up to 200 mM) in mesophyll and bundle sheath cells during the photoperiod. The activity of acid invertase in samples from individual cells was very low, c. 3 μmol sucrose (g f. wt)−1 h−1. Interrelationships between these cell types and the control of fructan metabolism are discussed.
A Model and Simulation of Branching Mineral Growth from Cooling Contacts and Glasses
Anthony D. Fowler, Daniel E. Roach
Journal: Mineralogical Magazine / Volume 60 / Issue 401 / August 1996
Silicate minerals grown from glasses, and rapidly cooled melts, often have non-compact branching or 'spherulitic' morphology. The branching patterns are observed in volcanic rocks, glasses, meteorites, slags and sometimes in shallow level intrusive rocks. Experiments, observations, theory and simulations all support the concept that the crystal morphology is the result of growth under diffusion limited conditions. We show that in a silicate melt under appropriate conditions the equations for heat transfer and chemical-diffusion reduce to the Laplace equation. This means that the temperature or chemical gradient is a steady state field. Interaction between this field and a random variable (Brownian motion of growth species) is modelled and yields complex branching objects. The growing cluster affects the field such that an in-filled structure cannot be formed. The branching structures of the model crystal are remarkably similar to those formed in nature, and to those produced in laboratory experiments, implying that the model captures the essence of the branching-growth process.


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Daniel Müller Jansen has sourced old propaganda photographs of Adolf Hitler as raw material to channel his rage and frustration into his etchings and overpaintings. The results are a subversive attempt to unmask Hitler, on the one hand, and extend to motifs in which Hitler is seen as the seducer and the evil incarnate he was. Above all, the memories consciously brought about by the title support the emergence of negative emotions in the viewer. The artist skillfully uses historical photographs to chalk up current political tensions.
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Thursday, Sep 13, 2018 10:35 AM
James Bradberry: I have to do it against guys like Julio
Max Henson
CHARLOTTE – It's that time again for cornerback James Bradberry.
Julio Week.
"We all know," Bradberry said. "I'm ready for a battle."
And that's exactly what Carolina's No. 1 corner will get against a superstar like Jones, who is coming off a 10-catch, 169-yard performance in Atlanta's season-opening loss at Philadelphia.
For Bradberry, this is the third year of preparing to face Atlanta's famous No. 11. The experience doesn't necessarily make it any easier, but it makes him more comfortable and confident during the week.
"I'm prepared for what I'm going to see throughout the game," Bradberry explained. "I have my routine down. But it's going to be competitive and it's going to be hard – it's Julio."
Bradberry has reason to feel good about himself entering this matchup. He's faced Jones four times with respectable results. The alarming outlier of course came in Week 4 of Bradberry's rookie year when he exited the game due to injury after just one series and Jones proceeded to GO OFF for 300 yards.
As cornerback Captain Munnerlyn said, "I think they burned that tape."
JULIO JONES' LAST FOUR GAMES VS. CAROLINA
2016 Week 4: 12 catches on 15 targets, 300 yards, 1 TD
2016 Week 16: 4 catches on 7 targets, 60 yards, 0 TD
2017 Week 9: 6 catches on 12 targets, 118 yards 0 TD
2017 Week 17: 5 catches on 11 targets, 80 yards, 0 TD
Bradberry will likely line up across Jones for the majority of Sunday's game. But rookie cornerback Donte Jackson might have an opportunity or two. Plus, the second-rounder will have his hands full with Mohamed Sanu and Atlanta's other talented receivers.
You'd think a veteran quarterback like Matt Ryan will look to test a rookie corner in his first regular season road game.
"Hopefully," Jackson said. "We know they have a lot of great players on the offensive side.
"I don't really know what a 'welcome to the NFL' moment is, but I'm ready for it."
Bradberry, who is just a few years removed from being the rookie corner with a target on his back, has confidence about what will take place on the other side of the field.
"With the speed he has, Donte can run and compete with anybody. He's not going to be worried about it," Bradberry said. "They're going to go to Julio – that's their go-to guy, so I'm preparing to get most of the targets."
That's a safe assumption.
A game like this offers Bradberry a chance to take a big step toward his goal of becoming recognized as one of the league's top corners.
"I know James is ready for it. I have all the faith in the world in James," Munnerlyn said. "I remember being around a young guy named Xavier Rhodes (in Minnesota). Nobody knew about him. And when we started playing Calvin Johnson and Julio Jones and guys like that, he made a name for himself. Now he's probably one of the best corners in the game."
Bradberry is hoping to follow a similar trajectory.
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Q: To find some words in a text file using regex and later print them in a different text file I need to find some words such as inherited, INHERITANCE, Ingeritable, etc., using regex, in a text file (origin.txt) and later I want to print them in a new text file (origin_spp.txt) and the line where they were found.
This is my code
re_pattern_string = r'(?:inherit|INHERIT|Inherit)*\w'

print('Opening origin.txt')
with open('origin.txt', 'r') as in_stream:
    print('Opening origin_spp.txt')
    with open('origin_spp.txt', 'w') as out_stream:
        for num, line in enumerate (in_stream):
        re_pattern_object = re.compile(re_pattern_string)
        line = line.strip()
        inherit_list = line.split()
        temp_list = re_pattern_object.findall('line')
        complete = origin_list.append('temp_list')
        for word in temp_list:
            out_stream.write(str(num) + '\t{0}\n'.format(word))

print("Done!")
print('origin.txt is closed?', in_stream.closed)
print('origin_spp.txt is closed?', out_stream.closed)

if __name__ == '__main__':
    print(temp_list)

Can you help me, please? I am not getting anything and I do not know where is the error.
Thank you in advance
I need to print the words that I want to find in the origin.txt in a different text file.
This new file must contain the number of the line in the origin.txt plus the word/s.

A: Your code had some problems:

*

*It's redundant to define re.compile inside for.

*for re_pattern_object.findall('line') and origin_list.append('temp_list') don't wrap variables with ''

*with findall we don't need iterate lines, it's works for whole text.

Because you didn't provide input and output I just guess what you want:
import re

re_pattern_string = r'((?:inherit|INHERIT|Inherit)(\w*))'
originmain_list = []
re_pattern_object = re.compile(re_pattern_string)
print('Opening origin.txt')
with open('origin.txt', 'r') as in_stream:
    print('Opening origin_spp.txt')
    with open('origin_spp.txt', 'w') as out_stream:
        for num, line in enumerate(in_stream):
            temp_list = re_pattern_object.findall(line)
            for word in temp_list:
                out_stream.write(str(num) + '\t{0}\n'.format(word[0]))
                originmain_list.append((num, word[0]))

print("Done!")
print('origin.txt is closed?', in_stream.closed)
print('origin_spp.txt is closed?', out_stream.closed)
print(originmain_list)

if origin.txt contains:
inheritxxxxxxx some text INHERITccccc some text
Inheritzzzzzzzz some text
inherit some text INHERIT some text
Inherit some text

the output in the origin_spp.txt will be
0   inheritxxxxxxx
0   INHERITccccc
1   Inheritzzzzzzzz
2   inherit
2   INHERIT
3   Inherit

The command line output will be:
Opening origin.txt
Opening origin_spp.txt
Done!
origin.txt is closed? True
origin_spp.txt is closed? True
[(0, 'inheritxxxxxxx'), (0, 'INHERITccccc'), (1, 'Inheritzzzzzzzz'), (2, 'inherit'), (2, 'INHERIT'), (3, 'Inherit')]

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Transgender Woman Speaks on Chechnya's Persecutions and Life Pre-Kadyrov
Posted 24 June 2017 12:18 GMT
Map of Chechnya, surrounding federations and countries. Author: Peter Fitzgerald. Creative commons.
The following is a version of a partner post written by Aida Mirmaksumova that first appeared on the website OC Media.
Queer people in the Caucasus face a number of challenges; discrimination, physical and sexual abuse, and blackmail. In recent times, activists have observed in horror evidence of the persecution of gay men in Chechnya. But the threat to the LGBTQ community in the country did not emerge overnight. OC Media spoke to a transgender woman from Grozny, who shared some of her experiences and talked with us about what is happening in the republic.
Queer rights in Chechnya were thrust into the global spotlight several months ago, after reports emerged of the abduction, torture, and murder of queer men in the republic. The story was broken by Novaya Gazeta journalist Elena Milashina, who revealed how the Chechen authorities were rounding up suspected queer men, and sending them to the secret prisons of Argun.
'You gave birth to a freak'
Sabrina (not her real name) a transgender woman, was born and raised in Grozny. She has felt that she was a woman since childhood. Once she reached adulthood, she realised that it wasn't safe for her in Chechnya and moved to Moscow. After a group of Chechens learned of their compatriot's sex change, a hunt began for Sabrina. In the end, in fear for her life, Sabrina moved to the US.
Sabrina: I worked as a volunteer at a human rights organisation. Once I was told that that someone needed my help. It was an acquaintance from Daghestan, a transgender woman. She had problems; she was in danger. I immediately took her in, because she didn't have any money. While I was trying to help her, someone I considered a friend made copies of my documents and posted them all over the internet along with my phone number and photo, sending them to his Chechen affiliates with a following note: 'So there are no men left in Chechnya that can remove this shame?' After that, photos of my documents were widely spread across WhatsApp.
On October 10, 2015 I was attacked. I was taking shopping bags from the backseat of my car. I heard a man's voice: 'This is a gift to you from your uncle'.
When I looked around I felt something in my body, but there was no pain. Then I heard another sentence, but in Chechen: 'How long are you going to disgrace the family, scum?' I didn't know this person. I remember that it was a young man, under 30. Then I lost consciousness. I woke up in the hospital. Apparently some women saw everything and began yelling. The man ran away. The women called an ambulance. I learned at the hospital that I had two stab wounds in my right lung.
OC Media: Which room were you put in, the men's room or the women's room?
Sabrina: I have old documents with my male name, but the doctor understood everything and put me in the women's room. I am very thankful to him for this. When I first saw his name on the door, I was crazily afraid — a Muslim name, Caucasian. But he turned out to be a decent man. I am grateful for his attitude towards me.
I spent more than a month in hospital. Last February I received threats. They called me, relatives wrote to me, strangers, some unknown people. A nightmare began. Neighbours and some distant relatives were coming to my family. They were demanding that I move back to Chechnya to prove that this [the sex change] was all a lie. There were crazy demands. Some people said that I had to prove it by walking through the streets topless. Some people said that I had to speak on the official Grozny TV and say that I hadn't changed my sex, that it was all slander and photoshop. How could I speak on TV with C-cup breasts?
OC Media: How did your family cope with this pressure?
Sabrina: They still cope with it. Some elderly people from the street approached my mum once. They told her: 'You gave birth to a freak who disgraced not only your family, but the entire republic. We cannot touch you, because you are a pious woman, but you must leave'. Mum couldn't take any more and put a noose around her neck. Luckily, neighbours came and saved her.
During that time I had to switch flats several times a day. I would move into one flat and in a few hours a car would park under the flat's windows with the number 95 numberplate, [from Chechnya], and tinted windows. After the third time I understood that something was wrong. My friends, human rights activists, checked the number plates; it turned out that they were looking for me.
OC Media: How did you leave the country?
Sabrina: Activists helped me. I don't want to say their names, for safety reasons, but I want to say that I remember everyone, they really helped me.
With their help I left the country, but something unbelievable happened. I still cannot understand how it was possible.
Right before my departure from Moscow, I purchased a new sim card in order to call my mother once I arrived. I bought it without registration, without documents, without anything. I broke my previous sim card and put it in the bin. I arrived and checked into my hotel. The number was registered to a stranger.
I put the sim card in my phone. I tried to call my mother through WhatsApp and at the same moment I received a message: 'Do you think you are safe because you left the country? We have our people there who have already been notified which hotel you are in, and even about your room number. To assure you that we know, your room number is 115'. Can you imagine?! This was indeed my room number.
OC Media: Do you keep in touch with your relatives?
Sabrina: Only with my mother and sisters. However we don't discuss the sex change — this is a taboo. Traditional Caucasian moments are still inside me. No matter how strongly I want to, I cannot ignore this psychological barrier. I always say that while my mum is alive, I will do my best to do everything not to upset her. If we have a video chat, I do try to look like the person she remembers I was in the past, I mean in the male form. However it is very hard to do.
OC Media: Do you know what the situation is like in Chechnya now? Do you know what friends are doing, those who are left there?
Sabrina: I introduced a report in Washington last week. I needed fresh information about the situation in Chechnya for the report. I spoke with someone who spent a month and a half in Argun Prison. He said that now, during the month of Ramadan, they are not abducting and torturing people, but that everyone looks forward for the end of Ramadan, and he didn't rule out that there will be a new wave [of persecutions]. Most likely, they will now bet on people's relatives. I mean, they will probably summon their relatives [those of suspected queer people]; they will deal with the person, and then [the authorities] will demand proof that so-called 'honor' has been satisfied with blood.
OC Media: Are there gays left in these secret prisons?
Sabrina: According to an acquaintance of mine, there are not so many now. Mainly those who do not have rich relatives, or whose relatives have abandoned them to face Kadyrov's trials. From what I understand they are being kept there in order to show them off later as terrorists. I mean, if they murder them, they will show their bodies on TV alleging that they attacked some village or military target. Do you understand? As if they were not just people who disappeared but went underground to become militants.
OC Media: Is this an assumption or do you have a source for this information?
Sabrina: I am quoting a person, who spent a month and half at Agrun Prison. He says that several people who were kept in this prison disappeared after their beards had grown. There has been no news of them. They just took them. And this so-called Lord [Magomed Daudov, the Speaker of the Chechen Parliament, and close ally of Ramzan Kadyrov], this person, personally saw them at the moment they took these people. However, until now they have not been presented as bandits, there were no reports of this, but we suspect that such actions are possible. Otherwise why did they not allow these people to shave?
Do you know if there were previously such persecutions, abductions of people with a so-called 'nontraditional' orientation in the republic?
Sabrina: I always wore long hair. I had a bob cut when I lived in Chechnya. I think the whole of Grozny knew about me even before 2003 [when the Kadyrov regime came into being], when I lived in Grozny and I didn't have any problems. Seriously! I never had problems even in 1998–1999, when Shariah Law was in force. On the contrary, it was much safer then than now. I mean Russia, which wanted to bring 'civilisation' to us, brought us a stone age in the end.
OC Media: How is this possible with Sharia Law?
Sabrina: My eyebrows were plucked, I had coloured eyelashes, tube-jeans, I wore short tops. The Ministry of Sharia Security never touched me. There was a spot in front of the Russian theatre in Grozny where every evening, especially on weekends, a whole bunch of people like me gathered. This was a small square with several benches, and the entire city knew about it, why men would come, young people, to meet up. We were never insulted. There is such an expression in Chechen language — Kharda ma Kharda — which means 'do not laugh at someone else's misfortune'. They often tell this to children if they make fun of sick people.
OC Media: So they would just close their eyes to you, as they thought you were sick?
Sabrina: Yes. They would never insult me, never chase me or beat me.
OC Media: How long did this grace period last?
Sabrina: Before [Ramzan] Kadyrov came in. In 2005, when he was appointed Prime Minister [of Chechnya], he began to speak on television, talking about morality. He didn't speak specifically about us, but mainly about the behaviour of women. However, you could feel in the city that people began to change. Those who used to smile and laugh, began looking at you questioningly. I left Chechnya in those years. But every time I went back home I would feel how the situation was worsening in the republic.
OC Media: What do you do now?
Sabrina: I earn money as a waitress. I am not paid much — $700–800 a month — which is not much in the US. Apart from that I continue being an activist. Now I am responsible for 15 Muslim women. I communicate with them as kind of a psychologist. We organise tea drinking meetings, rallies, I go to the hospital with them, I help them to get food cards. I do all this absolutely free. I found these people myself. I was going through shelters. I am Muslim and I want to help those who need help.
OC Media: Do you wear a hijab?
Sabrina: Yes.
OC Media: Many people say that there cannot be gays, lesbians or transgender people as Muslim worshipers…
Sabrina: This is silly. This is nature — religion has nothing to do with it. It's the same thing as Chechens foaming at the mouth to prove that they do not have any gays. Daghestanis have them, Kabardians have them, and Russians have them too, the entire planet has them, but 'Chechens — they don't'. I came from there, it is unpleasant for me to hear this.
I meet so many men from the Caucasus here. Many of them — Muslim worshipers, who visit the mosque and fast during Ramadan — live with men.
You know, many people mix transgenderism with men who like men, and they think that people change sex so that they have more intimate opportunities, but this is wrong. This is a different thing, different psychology in fact, different attitudes to things. For me it is important that now I feel in my own shoes and I am not ashamed of my body. It is not important if you have a partner or not. I am sorry for the details, but it's been more than a year since I had intimate relations with anyone. And I'm absolutely not upset about this — I just know that now I am myself.
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"Fair Crack of the Whip, Sport!"
By Meaghan Wilson Anastasios, February 27, 2013
AIS alumnus Lleyton Hewitt (image via heraldsun.com.au)
AIS alumnus Michael Clarke (image via adelaidenow.com.au)
Interesting opinion piece in The Age today by Australian artist Ben Quilty (link… here). In response to the recent raft of sporting-world scandals, he raises the question of why it is that sportsmen and women at the Australian Institute of Sport are exempt from the Higher Education Contribution Scheme (HECS) that applies to tertiary education in Australia (note: a couple of alumni pictured above).
The refreshing angle in Ben's article is that he isn't whingeing about how hard-up the visual arts are in terms of public funding. Nor does he suggest that artists should be exempt from the HECS fees they accumulate while studying, or from paying taxes on the windfalls that occasionally come their way during the course of their career (prizes, bursaries, scholarships). But he does challenge the fact that, unlike any other students, the privileged few who make it into Australia's elite sporting academy are exempt from HECS fees.
Now, the argument of course is that people who commit their lives to amateur sport rarely if ever generate huge sums of money through their chosen discipline, and that there are tangible benefits to the Australian community when they achieve sporting greatness (think national pride, international profile, etc.) If there's a benefit to us, the argument is that we should pay. And so we do – as taxpayers we fund the Institute of Sport, and those who attend it do so at the taxpayers' expense.
But as Ben points out, should we treat the contributions made to our society by our petulant and ill-disciplined men's swimming team any differently from the contributions made by everybody from nurses to teachers, paramedics and police officers? Not to mention artists of all ilk? Because they all had to pay for their education. And in all instances, if their post-graduation salaries do not lift above a pre-ordained level, the debt they accumulate while studying is deferred until such time as graduates are generating enough income to repay the debt.
Let's face it. No doubt at all, it must be financially challenging for hurdlers and hammer-throwers after they retire. But not all the AIS graduates are in penury (witness: images above).
The exemption granted to our elite athletes just doesn't seem fair. Interestingly (depressingly?) enough, the only politician Ben mentions as entertaining the idea about the need for HECS equity is Malcolm Turnbull.
Besides which, amateur sportsmen and women don't have the corner on the "oh, poor me – we don't make any money out of what we do for a living" schtick. David Throsby's review of the economic circumstances of practising artists was called Don't Give Up Your Day Job for a reason.
Don't get me wrong. This isn't a 'down on sport' spiel. Some of my best friends are sports-people. Heh.
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Leveraging his career-long focus in complex software, he frequently provides IP counsel for clients including a leading global technology company with a record number of patents, a Fortune 500 networking equipment provider and a world-renowned innovator in film animation and rendering software.
As a member of the firm's leadership committee, Gero focuses on integrating the patent litigation and prosecution groups. By emphasizing the direct relationship between the two disciplines, he empowers the attorneys in both practice areas to better serve their clients.


Switchable matrix for SPDIF signals with four inputs that can be independently routed to two outputs. An additional insert can be used to insert a SRC or as a fifth input. The outputs feature optical and coaxial connectors. For two inputs additional optical connectors are provided.
For mounting the Digi Switchboard only one single rack space is required.
For each of the four inputs a label is reserved at the front. Use a non-permanent marking pen to write on.
The Digi Switchboard is capable of switching optical and coaxial SPDIF signals. For SPDIF signals the Switchboard can serve as a format converter between optical and coaxial. Optical digital signals will be transmitted with TOS link cables.
The Digi Switchboard is capable to switch even optical ADAT signals. Please note that the ADAT multitrack format is not compatible to the stereo SPDIF format and therefore will not match to devices with optical SPDIF input.
The four inputs (source 1-4) can be routed to the two outputs (destination A and B) independently. For each of the two outputs one input can be selected. An additional insert can be routed between source and destination A or B.
Normally the insert is used for an external Sample Rate Converter or an external effect device. Connect the insert SEND to the input of the external device and the output with the insert RETURN at the Digi Switchboard.


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Participants gained an understanding to explore the intersection of health, housing & services for older adults in the LA Region. Experts spoke on the economic challenges facing seniors locally, and gain an understanding into the complexities of housing a vulnerable at-risk and homeless population. Participants heard about promising innovations and partnerships that are redefining housing solutions for older adults along the housing continuum.
An exciting cross-sector breakout session helped identify collaborative solutions and worked to expand networks and systems collaboration.
Sharon Richardson- CSH Advocate, Speak Up!


Spring is definately springing! Seriously, I'm all for global warming if it means springs like this! We just have to get in the habit of grooming the fields earlier! Good luck this season coach!
Just want to see these kids in action already!!!!
I know the feeling Coach! Good Luck!
We've finished our regular season with a 10-8 mark in KVBSA Advanced Division. We probably should have been better but there were games when the bats didn't show up.
We won the FAAST Monroe Spring Classic and finished 2nd in the USSSA Canton Classic tournaments.
This week we travel to Bowling Green for the Black Swamp Classic....can you tell we like "classic" tournaments!!
Then KVBSA Advanced playoffs and Cooperstown to finish the season. Would love to see a Michigan team I know have a result at All Star Village. Looking like a mixed bag for Michigan teams so far at Dreamspark but I recognize more national level teams there too. Great Lakes Cards are 5-1 in pool and Warriors fared pretty well last week until losing in the quarters or semis.


I was raised a meat-eater. Steak, hamburger, pork chops, ham, bacon, chicken. These foods were the staples of my diet for the first 17 years of my life. Meat was the only real element of interest in that diet too – side dishes were always pretty much the same –potatoes, frozen peas, and iceberg lettuce. My 16 year-old self would be amazed by the food I eat in quantity today – things like bok choy, whole wheat couscous, and homemade falafel.
But much of the time, during the years I avoided all red meat, I simply replaced one animal product with another. Like the national trends, my own poultry consummation escalated.
or three days a week, though thanks in part to Charcutepalooza, that change hasn't really been reflected on the blog. And it is still something of a struggle for me to plan a meal without some kind of meat or fish – my traditional central plate anchors.
Three books (and all the produce I've been bringing home from garden class) are helping me move in a new direction. Seattle-based Kim O'Donnel's The Meat Lover's Meatless Cookbook, and Mark Bittman's Food Matters, and its companion the The Food Matters Cookbook.
I have nothing but praise for O'Donnel's book. How not? I actually have a photo from my meat-centered childhood very much like the one she uses to open the book.
As a writer for the Washington Post, (she now writes for USA Today) , O'Donnel used her blog to help popularize the idea of Meatless Monday. Everything I've tried from the book has been a hit: Slurpy Pan-Asian Noodles, made those twice, and I've eaten the leftovers for breakfast, Rocket (arugula ) Lasagna , Shepherd's Pie with Chard-Lentil filling (below), and last but certainly not least Red Lentil Dal with Cumin Fried Onions and Wilted Spinach.
dish a huge wow factor. I'm sold – and I think a lot of other carnivores who try it out will be too.
which has found a place in the New York Times opinion section. The first time I read the book, I wasn't ready to make the leap to part time veganism that Bittman advocates. My attitude was, I don't eat red meat, and that's enough, surely. In other words, in spite of through case laid out in the book, I simply didn't want to hear Bittman's central message: If we want to heal the planet, and ourselves, our food system must change and animal products must share the spotlight with plants.
Two years later, my attitude has changed. And I'm thinking that the best way for me to live ethically is learn to see all animal products as luxuries and treats – not as daily essentials.
cheese. And I'm certainly not giving up on Charcutepalooza – but I'm going to start making the efforts to plan my food day around plants.
I've only started cooking with Food Matters, but reading the book, Bittman's carrot soup inspired me to create my own version. Cold Carrot Soup with Chilies and Avocados is a lovely end to a hot summer day. And it's the first deliberately vegan recipe I've written – which feels like progress.


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Celebrate constitutionalism
SIXTYSIX years after the adoption of the Constitution on November 26, 1949, by the Constituent Assembly, we have decided to celebrate it as 'Constitution Day' rather than 'law day'.
Updated : 5 years ago
Constitutionalism is the antithesis of authoritarianism.
SIXTYSIX years after the adoption of the Constitution on November 26, 1949, by the Constituent Assembly, we have decided to celebrate it as 'Constitution Day' rather than 'law day'. The Constitution is the supreme law, but devoid of constitutionalism, it is not important. We should celebrate constitutionalism, but feel concerned about its silent death. Hitler had Weimar constitution, but no constitutionalism. Many Muslim and socialist countries' constitutions similarly undermined the idea of constitutionalism. The 'death of constitutionalism' may be the central event of our time, just as the 'death of God' was that of the 19th century. Why constitutionalism is more significant? Is our Constitution also only ostensibly one of rights and limitations, but in reality of just powers and control?
Man since antiquity has pondered the problem of how to reconcile the need for order and authority in society, with the desire for individual liberty. In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the greatest difficulty lies in this: You must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself. Humanity has always had a longing to be free in addition to being well governed. As a result, a great deal of thought and political inventiveness has gone into an attempt to create political systems that will allow governments and its organs to exercise all the power that is essential to attain the collective ends of society, without at the same time, either compromising or destroying the liberties of its individual members. Such an attempt to institutionalise such a social condition is being termed as constitutionalism, the concept of limited government. Governmental power must be restricted so that the government does not destroy the values which it is supposed to promote. Ministers and MPs of the ruling party are the visible face of the government and therefore their views on liberty do give an idea of how the government views individual freedom.
The fundamental value that constitutionalism must protect is human dignity. Democracy in itself is not a goal. Individual liberty and limitations on governmental powers are far more important. If Aamir Khan does not have the freedom to express his family's apprehensions, we are compromising his liberty of free speech. In the National Anthem case, the Supreme Court had observed: "Our traditions teach us tolerance. Our Constitution preaches tolerance. Let us not dilute it." The strong reaction against writers and actors prove our intolerance for a contrary view.
Are we tilting toward authoritarianism? Some scholars think that all societies are by nature authoritarian and governments even more so. The widely held belief that sovereignty resides in "the people" who delegate it to the politicians to hold in trust for them is, for Prof Griffith, a "bit of nonsense" — a "cover-up for authoritarianism". We had spells of authoritarianism under Indira Gandhi. Today, the PMO has once again become too powerful. The country wanted a decisive leader and we have one. But massive mandates at times may lead to authoritarianism. Constitutionalism is basically the antithesis of authoritarianism. The main purpose of drafting a constitution is to limit or restrict the power of government and its three organs. Fundamental rights under our Constitution thus do the sacred function of denying or limiting the power of the 'state' from where the greatest threat to such rights comes. The other institutional methods of limiting the power are to be found in the doctrines of distribution of powers, separation of powers, judicial review. The framers of our Constitution established both the nation's ideals and the institutions and processes for achieving them. The ideals were national unity and integrity and a democratic and an equitable society. But today when the nation is celebrating its first Constitution Day, "we, the people of India", the real "sovereign masters" of this great country, are at a loss to see the slow and certain demise of these ideals, particularly constitutionalism. If our democracy has failed to meet our aspirations and is seen to be beset with grave maladies, it is not so much the fault of the Constitution as the people operating the system. We have one of the best constitutions. Most Asian and African constitutions which were drafted in last four decades have borrowed heavily from our model.
Our Constitution deals with four Ds — it defines power (Preamble), distributes power (between Centre, states and three organs), denies power (fundamental rights) and directs power (Directive Principles). The purpose is to ensure that no organ or entity should have power without restrictions. Even the Supreme Court is not supreme. No one should cross the Lakshmanrekha.
American chief justice Marshal rightly said a constitution is framed for ages to come, but its course cannot always be tranquil. Today, it is shocking to see how we are governed. Unprecedented intolerance, corruption, reckless criminalisation and debasement of all values of the freedom movement have become the hallmark of our polity. Criticism of the government or party in power or expression of one's opinion on growing intolerance is understood as sedition or treason. No effort has been made to make the outdated sedition law of 1860 compatible with the citizen's freedom of speech and expression.
Ordinance making power is routinely invoked, constitutional amendments are passed to protect individuals or enhance powers of the government, judicial activism has become a norm, and democratically elected state governments have been dismissed under Article 356. We continue to have draconian laws under which people can be arrested and denied bail. The new Gujarat law is a blot on civil liberties. Beef laws impinge on an individual's freedom. If people write or speak against Parliament or state legislatures, they will be hauled up for the breach of legislative privileges. There is an urgent need to interpret the freedom of the media. Similarly, if we criticise a decision of the court, we will be punished for contempt. Though social activist Medha Patkar was punished under this law, Bal Thackeray who said "I piss on the judgments of the court" was spared.
Dr Ambedkar rightly observed that ultimately it was the character, the integrity and the wisdom of those who worked the Constitution that would determine its fate: "However good a Constitution may be, it is sure to turn out bad if those who are called to work it happen to be a bad lot." Will we, the proud citizens of this great nation, prove Thomas Carlyle right when he said that a "nation should be governed by its best elements or it will perish". The portents are certainly alarming.
— The writer is the Vice-Chancellor of NALSAR University of Law, Hyderabad


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Nanako Ishido
CANVAS, Digital Ehon, Keio University Graduate School Of Media Design
President of CANVAS, CEO of Digital Ehon, Associate professor of Keio University Graduate School Of Media Design
- Winner of Rakuten Technology & Innovation Award Concept Prize: Heart (people and education) -
Nanako Ishido graduated from the Faculty of Engineering, the University of Tokyo and later conducted research as a visiting scholar at the MIT Media Lab. Soon after, Ishido established NPO CANVAS in 2002 that promotes the creative and expressive activities for children.To date, CANVAS has delivered 3000 workshops to approximately 500,000 children and comprehensively researched the relations between children and media through practice. The annual children's creative workshop exhibition "Workshop Collection", which Ishido also serves as a committee chairperson, draws huge crowds, with 100,000 people visiting the event in just two days. Ishido later founded Digital Ehon Inc. in 2011, a company that develops creative tools for children's expressive activities. She concurrently serves as a member of Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, Information and Communications Council and is the director of Association of Digital Textbook & Teaching, and so on.Her publications include "Children's Creativity Switch! Children's Fort to Play & Learn - CANVAS's practice" (Film Art, Inc.) and "Digital Education Manifesto – The future of children playing & learning with smartphones" (KADOKAWA EPUB Anthology).
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Jay-Z confesses his sins to Beyoncé in new music video
If Beyoncé and Jay-Z's tumultuous marriage has been anything, it has most certainly been public.
Never has this been more apparent than through the new video for Jay-Z's song, 'Family Feud'.
Not only is the song partly about the up and downs of the couple's marriage (much like Beyoncé's Lemonade), but the video stars both the rapper's wife and their 5-year-old daughter Blue Ivy.
Watch @S_C_'s "Family Feud": https://t.co/We5OlPBrLl pic.twitter.com/8SuekP8Crd
— TIDAL (@TIDAL) 29 December 2017
The 34 second teaser from his latest album 4:44 is rife with religious iconography.
The father-of-three raps in a confessional, Queen Bey stands tall behind a pulpit, and adorable Blue Ivy walks through a church with her father.
The rest of the video features a star-studded cast: Brie Larson, new mum Mindy Kaling, Rosario Dawson, Constance Wu, and Rashida Jones, to name a few.
The myriad of talented women play the Founding Mothers of the United States, who revise the Constitution together.
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While the video focuses heavily on Jay-Z's relationships (there is, of course, a reference to 'Becky'), the track is also an exploration of the black entertainment community.
The line 'Nobody wins when the family feuds' can most certainly apply to both his home life and the conflicts found within hip-hop culture.
The full video is available on Tidal.
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Oh wow! Charlie Sheen is at it YET again
Well, we think it's safe to say that the Anger Management definitely isn't working.
Charlie Sheen shocked his Twitter followers once again when he went on a tirade and posted a slew of tweets bashing his ex-wife Denise Richards.
The mother of two of his children was the object of a serious amount of verbal abuse, with Charlie calling her a "heretic washed up piglet Shame pile," and saying "Happy Father's Day!!!"
In an ever-so-slightly different tone, the 49-year-old actor also addressed another ex-wife of his, Brooke Mueller. "Brooke M is a sexy rok star whom I adore," he wrote before beginning his attack on Ms Richards.
While the tweets have since been deleted, the former Two and a Half Men star wrote an "open letter to the media" where he continued his onslaught of insults to his ex-wife.
Despite being called an "evil terrorist" and the "worst mom alive", the 44-year-old actress rose above it and tweeted her own response saying, "Happy Dad's Day! @CharlieSheen have a great trip in Mexico! Kids were disappointed u weren't here for it- Hey we'll celebrate when u r back!"
Happy Dad's Day! @charliesheen have a great trip in Mexico! Kids were disappointed u weren't here for it- Hey we'll celebrate when u r back!
— Denise Richards (@DENISE_RICHARDS) June 21, 2015
When a fan tweeted the Blue Mountain State actress asking if Charlie was in Mexico for work, she simply replied "nope".
Wow! We are seriously impressed with her taking the high road. Staying as classy as ever, we can definitely say that Denise won that round!
Olly Murs opens up about bitter feud with twin brother
Remember back in 2009 when X Factor finalist Olly Murs was faced with the difficult decision of performing on the show or attending his twin brother Ben's wedding?
Well, Olly decided to put the X Factor first and things have never been the same between his brother and the entire Murs clan since.
In a revealing interview with the Radio Times, the Troublemaker singer spoke of his decision not to attend the wedding, saying: "At that point in my life, I was like, as much as I love him, I have to do this for myself, I have to change my life, I never expected him to react the way he did."
Olly who hasn't spoken to his brother in five years thinks that there's much more to the feud than just his absence at the wedding, admitting: "Ben's wedding was his excuse for not having me in his life anymore. He got into a relationship with his now wife and I don't think she ever liked us a family."
Back in 2009, Olly's brother Ben called him a "self-absorbed sell-out", but Olly seems more concerned about Ben's relationship with his parents than fussing over any bitter name-calling, saying: "I would love my mum to have her son back. She gave birth to both of us and she now only has one son."
S! TV BREAKING: Kendall Jenner moves out over family feud?
Kendall Jenner has splashed out on a fancy LA pad leading us to wonder has a family feud forced the model to leave her family home?
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City sells 221 S. Illinois St. Property
By The Chrisman Leader | March 23, 2022 | 0
The City of Chrisman held their last meeting of the month on March 21st. The meeting began with approval of the previous meeting minutes, along with the claims in the amount of $30,440.58. Building permits were also approved for 221 West Madison Avenue and 301 South Iowa Street.
Jeremy Neal, owner of Neal EMS told the council that in front of his building, by the water meter, the crack in the concrete sidewalk was causing an issue. People have tripped on the sidewalk and at one point, the water meter was leaking and insulation was put on top of it to prevent it from freezing.
"I'm not trying to drum up business with a broken sidewalk," Neal said.
Deputy Mayor Cory Chaney thanked Neal for bringing up the issue and said he would have the guys look into getting it fixed.
At the last meeting, Police Chief Tom Dolan was asked to look at RV's that were sitting at homeowners' property without stickers. "We've spoken with them and they're all taking some sort of corrective action," Dolan said.
Chrisman resident Shawna Boyer was in attendance to ask about the progress on the Centennial Park pavilion.
"The electrical should be done shortly, we're waiting on Ameren," Commissioner Thad Crispin said. "We're trying to get quotes to finish the plumbing and get that taken care of."
Crispin believes that once the plumbing is started, it shouldn't take too much longer for the project to be complete. Boyer mentioned that the Booster Club was having a meeting on March 30th and invited Crispin to answer any questions that others may have.
Boyer also brought up that she's had issues with the position that the on duty police officers park to run traffic. Normally, the officer on duty parks in the old Mooney Motors parking lot and has the lights turned down.
"Last night, whoever was on duty had the lights on and it was shining in my house," Boyer stated.
Dolan mentioned that he would make a note to keep the lights down and mention it to the other officers so they could do the same.
In unfinished business, the city opened bids for the property located at 221 South Illinois Street. The previous bid was under the asking price that the city wanted. This time, the price was at $2,601 by Steve Stratton. With no objections, the council approved the bid and sale of the property.
Concerning the backhoe, Commissioner Brice Stratton stated that he was working to get someone to come and look at the machine. "It's not going to be cheap to drive it somewhere and load it up," Stratton said. "We're still looking at trading – just in case."
More information should be available at the next meeting.
In another matter, Commissioner Crispin stated that he was made aware of many drainage issues that the town was having with the big storm drain. Crispin said that the plan was to widen the opening, but it was brought to his attention that maybe another drain further up, just north of that culvert may be plugged and could be causing the issue.
"We'll table that until next time and I can get more information," Crispin said.
A couple of weeks ago, the city council signed a municipal aggregation contract. Prices weren't available at the time of the signing, but the council proceeded with the signing just as an agreement to extend the contract.
A mowing position should be finalized this week and be on the agenda for the next meeting.
With the final day of school being May 31st, an opening for summer help will be posted shortly.
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Barcelona forwards Lionel Messi, Philippe Coutinho and Luis Suarez combined to devastating effect to hammer Girona 6-1 Saturday as they went 10 points clear at the top of La Liga and set a club record of 32 games unbeaten in the league. Visiting striker Portu gave Girona a shock lead in the third minute of their first league game at the Nou Camp. However, Suarez quickly levelled down the other end, while two goals from Messi and another from the Uruguayan saw Barca march into a 4-1 lead at halftime. Barca's record signing Coutinho had set up Suarez's second goal and then struck for the first time in La Liga with a spectacular long-distance shot from well outside of the area in the 66th minute. Suarez completed a hat-trick in the 76th, tapping in a cut-back from Ousmane Dembele. Earlier Saturday Real Madrid's "BBC" strikeforce hit back with a vengeance when Cristiano Ronaldo, Gareth Bale and Karim Benzema all scored in a 4-0 win at home to Alaves, a fifth straight win in all competition for Zinedine Zidane's side.
Barca lead the standing on 65 points, 10 clear of Atletico Madrid who visit Sevilla Sunday and 14 ahead of champion Real. Ernesto Valverde's side also surpassed the club's longest run without a defeat in the league, which had stood since April 2011 when Pep Guardiola was in charge of the Catalans. Valverde has favoured a 4-4-2 formation for most of the season but after his side had struggled to a 1-1 draw at Chelsea in the Champions League Tuesday the coach opted for an ultra-attacking 4-3-3 against Girona, with Dembele often joining the South American trio to create a ruthless four-man attack. Ronaldo put Real ahead on the stroke of halftime, taking advantage of a clever backheel from Benzema and before celebrating the goal he pointed to his maligned French team mate, who had been subjected to plenty of criticism from the home fans in recent weeks.
Benzema was also the catalyst for Real's second goal which came under a minute into the second half, with the striker winning the ball back in midfield and tearing towards goal, slipping it into Bale's path for the Wales international to slot it inside the near post. Ronaldo struck Real's third goal of the day and his 299th in La Liga in the 61st minute, meeting a cutback from in-form winger Lucas Vazquez first time and sending it under the reach of former Real goalkeeper Fernando Pacheco. Ronaldo then surrendered the opportunity to score a hat-trick by offering Benzema penalty-taking duty after Bale was brought down, and the Frenchman made no mistake, converting from the spot in the 89th minute. It was the first time Benzema had taken a penalty for Real and the first time he, Bale and Ronaldo had all scored in the same game since 2016.


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Future Islands are a juggernaut of a band who exceed expectation with a performance that is built on the foundations of several years hard graft.
Azealia Banks first official long play, is as daring as it is brilliant.
On All Hallow's Eve, My Brightest Diamond took to the stage to perform a befittingly bewitching set.
Kidkanevil's My Little Ghost is a detailed, bright and imaginative album. Often a gentle listen connecting his experimental idiosyncrasies and melodic talent.
She Keeps Bees' fourth album Eight Houses is a refined, meditative record that unfurls in front of you.
The debut album You Want The Night from Sleep Thieves show that they've grown in leaps and bounds, yet still hold the spirit of when they first emerged.
Opus spans a variety of styles, and Jane Badler's voice is all the sultry sass and seduction. A beautiful, bittersweet and ethereal journey.
FKA Twigs is the absolute doyenne of tumblr cool. The trip-hop inspired LP1 boasts strong and masterful song writing.