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Ghost Town: Thousands flee Donetsk as Ukrainian army closes in
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Russian humanitarian convoy heads to Lugansk
A Russian convoy carrying humanitarian aid for Ukraine enters border crossing point Donetsk for customs control, in Russia's Rostov Region, August 20, 2014. (Reuters / Alexander Demianchuk)
Moscow has accused Kiev of deliberately holding up the delivery of Russian humanitarian aid to the Donetsk and Lugansk regions in eastern Ukraine, according to a new statement by the Russian Foreign Ministry.
The ministry says Russia has ordered the convoy to proceed, without waiting for further permission.
The first set of trucks carrying humanitarian aid has left the Isvarino check-point and has started moving along the territory of Ukraine towards Lugansk, a RIA Novosti correspondent on the ground reports.
The Russian customs officers have started to get the second set of trucks, consisting of 34 vehicles, ready to cross the border, according to local customs officials.
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is not escorting the convoy.
"That's because of the problems with security," Galina Balzamova of the ICRC told RT. "Lugansk was shelled all night long. We believe we did not get sufficient guarantees of safety from all the parties to the conflict to start escorting the convoy."
The head of the Russian Red Cross, Raisa Lukutsova, has said the organization supported the decision to get the humanitarian convoy moving.
The Russian Foreign Ministry said the "excuses" for delaying the aid from entering Ukraine have been "exhausted".
A convoy of 280 Kamaz trucks carrying food, medicines and other essentials for Lugansk and Donetsk in eastern Ukraine left the Moscow region on August 12.
It has been stuck at the border with Ukraine for more than a week.
"Our convoy with humanitarian aid is starting to move in the direction of Lugansk," the Foreign Ministry's statement reads. "We are of course ready for it to be accompanied by Red Cross representatives and for their participation in the aid's distribution."
"There's a feeling that the current Ukrainian authorities have been consciously putting the humanitarian aid delivery on hold to arrive at a situation where there'll be just no one left to get it," the Ministry's statement reads.
http://rt.com/news/182088-kiev-delay-humanitarian-aid/
вторник, 12 августа 2014 г.
Humanitarian catastrophe: Lugansk, E. Ukraine, left with no water, power
The eastern Ukrainian city of Lugansk has declared a state of humanitarian catastrophe over a lack of medical supplies, electricity, lighting, mobile and internet communication. Some 250,000 civilians are unable to leave, the statement also says.
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"As of August 5, Lugansk remains disconnected from electricity. The situation remains critical on the city's territory. Lugansk is has no energy, is in a state of humanitarian catastrophe. Since Sunday, part of the population in the region's center have been without light or water, as well as mobile and internet communication," the statement on the city council website read.
Due to high temperatures and the damage to most community services' cars, rubbish collection"completely stopped," which is why the city is basically "on the brink of an ecological catastrophe," the administration said.
"Today 250,000 civilian Lugansk residents - mainly retirees and families with children who don't have the money to leave the city and who have nowhere to go - have been the hostages to the situation: the people are forced to live in the conditions of armed clashes, with the lacking communications, the remaining nutrition disappearing from the counter of shops and supermarkets which are still working," according to the statement.
An especially burning issue has become the lack of medical supplies.
"People can't purchase the essential medical supplies, only a handful of drugstores are operating," the statement added.
Donbass Community Fund representative Roman Korotenko told Novorossiya press center that Lugansk has descended into "the Stone Age."
"We are practically in the Stone Age – we have no light, no water, and all this comes amid unstoppable shelling by the Ukrainian army. Electricity is on only for few hours as the power lines are constantly under fire from the military."
"Many people have left the town – I had almost no one left, only my sister. If you had gone out to your balcony in the evening, there would be a feeling that the city had died out," a former resident of Lugansk, Olga, who recently moved to more peaceful Kharkov, told RIA Novosti.
Transport communication is no good in the embattled city these days, Olga said.
"The buses go to Kharkov, Starobelsk. <…> In the city, the buses are infrequent, they used to come every five minutes, now it's half an hour. The drivers won't keep to the route – it's dangerous. Also, there is no petrol, and if there is, it's very expensive. No trolleybuses or tramways are left."
The shops work several hours a day, and Olga said the prices have increased, there are almost no cigarettes on sale, but it's still possible to buy food.
In the evenings, people try not to go out. Attacks and clashes are an every-day occurrence.
Another resident Olga, who spoke to RT, said that the situation has recently changed: for the worse.
"The fighting used to be away from residential areas. But now the locals, the children are suffering, they're scared," she told RT's Maria Finoshina.
Many of the residents who stayed in the city are forced to shelter in the basements. There is a shelter in almost every household: it looks like an apartment, but underground.
The locals say they "don't know what to do anymore" and that "there was no hope left."
Even the youngest ones share the adults' fears, as 13-year-old Artyom said.
"I was really scared when the glass started flying. I'm still scared."
While RT's Marina Finoshina was speaking with the locals, the electricity went dead.
"Sometimes the wires get ruptured. When it's in neutral zone, some workers go there to fix the connection. They carry a white flag, but they just get fired on," local resident Irina explained.
The Ukrainian army has approached the outskirts of Donetsk and Lugansk, preparing to storm these cities, the speaker for the Council of National Security and Defense, Andrey Lysenko, declared, as quoted by Ria Novosti.
"The main forces of the anti-terrorist operation, including the territorial battalions have approached those areas. It doesn't mean that the storming has already started, but preparation to free the cities is on," he said.
The attack won't be announced, only the seizing of the cities, Lysenko added.
Source: http://rt.com/news/178068-ukraine-lugansk-humanitarian-crisis/
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'Chemical threat': Disaster looms as Kiev shells fall near Donetsk plant
Ukraine is at risk of an environmental disaster as Kiev's army continues to bomb the Donestk region, nearly hitting its largest chemical plant that stores lethal agents, the plant's spokesperson warned. The minimum impact zone would be at least 300 km.
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For the past three weeks, the Ukrainian army has been intensely shelling Gorlovka, located in Ukraine's Donetsk region — home to the nation's largest chemical plant, Stirol.
"Due to the irresponsible actions of the Ukrainian army, citizens of Ukraine, Russia, and Belarus are exposed to a deadly threat from an ecological disaster on a daily basis, the size of which cannot be predicted," Pavel Brykov, a spokesman for the plant, said in a YouTube message on Sunday.
According to Brykov, an accident at the plant could cause a toxic leak of nitrochlorobenzene – a lethal substance which, if it enters the human body, affects the liver, heart, and bone marrow, causing death.
The minimum impact of the accident would be at least 300 kilometers, Brykov said, adding that the risks of the accident are being silenced in the Ukrainian media.
Stirol is part of the OSTCHEM holding company that belongs to Ukrainian businessman Dmitry Firtash.
Earlier, Firtash claimed there is no risk of a catastrophe since there are no lethal agents stored at the plant. He added that back in May, when the shelling of the region began to intensify, the plant stopped the synthesis and processing of the colorless gas ammonia and evacuated all of its workers.
In their offensive against the eastern Ukrainian militia, Kiev troops have been using multiple-rocket launchers, such as Grad and Uragan – highly indiscriminate weapons designed for destroying enemy forces in the field. If fired at a city, their lack of precision would likely lead to multiple civilian casualties, increasing the risk of a chemical catastrophe.
Just on Thursday, a unique wooden Orthodox church burned to the ground after being hit by an artillery shell in Gorlovka.
The ongoing fighting in eastern Ukraine has already led to more than 1,300 people – both civilians and military troops – being killed in the conflict, and over 4,000 others being wounded. At the same time, around 118,000 people have been internally displaced and 740,000 others have fled to Russia.
The Stirol plant was involved in an accident that killed six people and injured 26 others a year ago, when a colorless gas ammonia was released into the air during repair work. The incident was one of the biggest in the country's recent history.
Ukraine is also the site of the world's worst nuclear power plant accident in history. The catastrophic nuclear disaster happened on April 26, 1986 at reactor number four of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine, which was then one of the USSR republics. The plant is located near the city of Pripyat, some 100 km north of the capital Kiev.
As a result of the explosion and fire, a huge radioactive cloud was spread into the atmosphere, covering thousands of miles of Soviet and European territories. Approximately 100,000 square kilometers of land were significantly contaminated.
Thirty-one out of the 237 people diagnosed with acute radiation sickness died within the first three months of the accident. Overall, up to 985,000 people have died as a result of the incident, mainly from cancer due caused by the radiation, according to Global Research.
Source: http://rt.com/news/179336-chemical-disaster-donetsk-plant/
суббота, 9 августа 2014 г.
Ukrainians flee war horrors
Why neo-Nazi in Ukraine?
Author: Alex
Many western observers wonder why the US relied on neo-Nazi as a driving force for the Ukrainian coup. Here is a typical example.
There are historical reasons for this.
After Russian revolution in 1917 Poland with western backing waged a war on Russia and annexed territories of western Ukraine. These territories stayed under Polish control until 1939. German Nazi created a terrorist network of Ukrainian nationalists OUN-UPA to terrorize Polish authorities as well as spy on Poland, Russia and Czechoslovakia. Terrorists were trained, armed and generously funded by German intelligence. They carried out high profile terror attacks such as assassination of Polish minister of internal affairs, Bronisław Pieracki in 1934.
Before an attack on Soviet Union in 1941, Nazi created two battalions of Ukrainian nationalists Nachtigall and Roland. The ideology of Ukrainian Nazi was scaled down provincial Nazism. They believed that nations fight Darwinian survival of the fittest and wanted to ethnically cleanse all non-Ukrainians in what they believed to be Ukraine. Of course Ukrainians, who accepted soviet power were to be killed as well. The Ukrainian commander of Nachtigall battalion Roman Shukhevych wrote in instructions for his troops:
"OUN must strive to destroy everyone who accepted Soviet power. We don't need terror, we need annihilation. Don't worry that people might damn us for our cruelty. Even if only half of current Ukraine's population of 40 million survives, it is not something to be afraid of."
The Ukraininan Nazi battalions started the war 3 days after the invasion by Lvov pogrom that left behind plenty of photographic evidence. Jews were rounded up, forced to lick the roads, crawl miles to the jail on their knees with their hands up. Women were stripped naked in the streets and beaten to death with sticks.
After capture of Kiev by Germans, Ukrainian Nazi were used to execute between 100 000 and 200 000 people in Babi Yar. Ukrainian Nazi systematically ethnically cleansed Poles, killing over 60 000. Women cut in two by saws, pregnant women opened with pieces of broken glass stuffed into their bodies, children with red stars carved on their foreheads among other things were left behind to terrorize the survivors. But perhaps the symbol of Ukrainian Nazism was an alley in the village of Lozovaya, where they decorated an alley by little children nailed to the trees, the "wreaths". They called it a "Ukrainian independence alley".
Although expanded significantly by POWs, who joined the Nazi in an attempt to avoid death in German camps, and supplemented by Ukrainian SS division "Galician", Ukrainian Nazi never were a formidable military force and were only good for extermination of unarmed civilians. As his German masters were nearing defeat, Roman Shukhevych issued an order to hurry up with exterminating Poles:
"Given the advance of Bolsheviks, we have to speed up extermination of Poles. Cut to the root. Villages populated by Poles only must be burned to the ground. In mixed villages exterminate Poles only".
Fortunately for Ukrainian Nazi, after the war they found new masters. Pope Pius XII petitioned allied forces to not hand Ukrainian NAZIs over to the USSR, where they would have faced justice, because "they [were] good Catholics and fervent anticommunists." Until 1954 Both Britain and the US used OUN-UPA underground terrorist network, Nazi left behind in Ukraine and after it was defeated by Soviet authorities allowed Ukrainian Nazi to immigrate in the US, UK and Canada.
Ukrainian Nazi were valuable for the Cold war purposes not only for their knowledge of the language and culture, but also for their hatred of Russians and communists. The US and the UK were Russia's allies in the war so attitudes of both Brits and Americans were not Russophobic enough. Ukrainian Nazi, on the other hand, totally considered Russians their sworn enemies. So Ukrainian Nazi made fast carreer through the ranks of American and British intelligence, military, political, academic and business structures.
Under the CIA patronage Ukrainian Nazi, that were exterminating other ethnic groups through WWII created an "Antibolshevik league of nations", that united other "victims" of communism such as themselves. Interestingly, althought there were planty of Russian Nazi collaborators, they were not represented in the league. This proves once again that western anticommunism is just a disguise for Russophobia. German commander of Ukrainian Nazi battalion Nachtigall Theodor Oberländer was also very active in the structure as late as in 1980-s.
Ukrainian Nazi that emigrated to the West and their children brought up in the Nazi ideology were the driving force in splitting Ukraine from Russia. They were theaching Nazi ideology to Ukrainian children from 1990s to this day. Two coups the US carried out on Ukraine brought to power Viktor Yushchenko and Alexander Turchinov – both children of Nazi collaborators. Viktor Yushchenko is married to Kateryna Chumachenko – an American citizen of Ukrainian descent, whose parents apparently were Nazi collaborators too. Officially they were Soviet POW and a slave girl captured by Germans, who got married in Nazi Germany and even had children there. But 76% of Soviet POWs died in captivity. Life of soviet slaves in Nazi empire was not much better. The story sounds highly suspicious.
At any rate Chumachenko was a member of the Nazi "anti-bolshevik league of nations" and was dispatched to Ukraine to spread Nazi propaganda about "famine genocide" and such. After bringing Yushchenko was brought to power in Ukraine by the US backed coup in 2004, the couple posthumously awarded the Ukraine's top military award "Hero of Ukraine" to the head of Ukrainian Nazi Stepan Bandera and the commander of battalion Nachtigall, Roman Shukhevych. The birthday of the Nazi is celebrated by regular marche with torches in the capital of Kiev and other Ukrainian cities.
So on the surface reliance of the US on neo-Nazi in Ukraine has historic roots and might be explained by prevalence of Ukrainian Nazi and their descendants in American Ukrainology. But there is a reason why Nazi are that prevalent there. Ukrainian Nazi better reflect the attitude of American elites to Russia than regular Americans ever could.
Source: http://en.voicesevas.ru/news/analytics/2780-why-neo-nazi-in-ukraine.html
Summary of Novorussia news 04.08.14
Together as one for peace to come
Face to face with the Russian-backed rebels in Eastern Ukraine
'I wish it wasn't like this but it is, it has to be' ... Vice Commandant Oxana Grinyova. Picture: Ella Pellegrini Source: News Corp Australia
WITH a Makarov pistol in a holster on her left and a jagged edged knife on her right, Oxana Grinyova is more Che Guevara than suburban soccer mum.
But standing dressed in battle fatigues beside her two sons the 43-year-old says it wasn't always this way.
"I wish it wasn't like this but it is, it has to be," shrugs Vice Commandant Grinyova from the separatist militia group's SVOT Squad in their city stronghold of Donetsk.
"My life changed in one day for sure. Am I afraid now of dying? Probably just the stupid is not afraid but someone has to do this."
As government forces close in on the city stronghold, the local ragtag militia with Russian-issue weapons is ready to fight.
Camouflaged ... the battalion consists of around 80 people. Picture: Ella Pellegrini Source: News Corp Australia
Surprisingly they are not the embittered revolutionaries one could imagine say in Chechnya or Syria, rather they are idealists led by extremists who can see no way forward. And now too they are potentially mass murderers with the blood of 298 innocents on their hands.
The engaging softly spoken commander with the warm smile and (bottled) flame red hair looks out of place talking guns, bombs and war, surrounded by edgy-looking young men whose index fingers shift nervously over the trigger guards of their Kalashnikovs in a permanent state of readiness.
But that is probably because a few months ago she was a manager of a large international hotel and restaurant commanding an army of cooks, clerks and cleaners and not directing 70 to 100 men and women of the self-styled Pro-Russian Donetsk People's Republic looking to secede from Ukraine through bloody revolt and become an independent state tied to Russia.
Tough guy ... Ihor, separatist with the pro Russia militia. Picture: Ella Pellegrini Source: News Corp Australia
Those nearby are equally out of place — until a few months ago they worked in shops and factories, or were accountants, farmers, shopkeepers, housewives or students.
Until a week ago, there would be few outside of Ukraine who would have ever heard of or cared about such a ragtag army or their industrial city 40km from the border of Russia, founded by a Welshman 140 years ago as a steel and coal producing regional capital.
Then Malaysian Airlines flight MH17 dropped out of the sky in the disputed Donetsk territory killing all 298 passengers and crew on board, including 40 Australian residents.
Suddenly, the world is taking an interest.
Just who shot the aircraft down is being investigated but it is likely to have been fired by the Pro-Russian separatists mistaking it for a military aircraft from the Ukrainian air force.
Comrades in arms ... the militants come from the Sloviansk area. Picture: Ella Pellegrini Source: News Corp Australia
Talk of the downed aircraft sits uncomfortably among the militia spoken to by News Corp Australia inside their base. They either don't know who shot it down or declare with absolute authority it was a Ukraine fighter jet tailing the aircraft and slaughtering it to bring the West into the war. But Cmdr Grinyova and her force agree it was a terrible tragedy. No-one wants to see civilians killed — not least of all because before April 1 the militia were largely ordinary civilians themselves.
Either way, that is of little consequence to the families and loved ones of the 298 killed during the little known armed struggle in Ukraine's east and who are now just searching for answers among the fields of sunflowers where the wreckage of the doomed jet fell.
The multinational force of air crash investigators are struggling to gain access to the site despite both sides declaring a 20km exclusion zone around it.
No soccer mum ... Oxana Grinyova with her son Stanislav. Picture: Ella Pellegrini Source: News Corp Australia
No one is prepared to guarantee their safety, not the rebels nor the Ukrainian military who during the week were firing rockets at the rebels but inadvertently killing civilians with wayward missiles dropping into the suburbs of the city.
Cmd Grinyova's sons Stanislav and Vladislav are also both in the army now, the 25 and 19 year olds joking that the family now always know where each other are at any given point in time in the day.
Stanislav was studying to be a tour operator and Vladislav had only just finished school.
"Before all these events I loved my country a lot and was even proud of the Ukraine flag," Stanislav said.
"But when they made heroes out of those fascists in Kiev I became ashamed to be Ukrainian. They want to cut us off from our (Russian) culture and I don't agree with this."
Smoking cigarettes and waiting ... the separatists are waiting for the Ukrainian troops. Picture: Ella Pellegrini Source:News Corp Australia
The "fascists" were ironically men just like him in Kiev in February who overthrew the Kremlin-backed presidency of Viktor Yanukovych. There were extremists directing the ordinary Kiev residents into armed conflict — just as there are now in Donestk ordinary people being directed to revolution by extremists.
Vlad was a teacher before he decided to fight for independence. He says it's about controlling the land and their own destiny.
"The EU is guilty over all of this, they created this situation," he says, referring to decisions made during the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991.
He said he went to bed a Russian and woke to be told he was now Ukrainian. He said he speaks Russian, dreams in Russian and for centuries his people considered themselves Russian but Ukraine wanted to erase the past.
Platoon leader Denis Shapovsky, 31, (formerly a mechanical engineer) likes to show photos of his "baby girl" the 11-year-old Daria. Three months ago he sent her away with her mother to be safe after he decided to join the fight.
'This is my home' ... psychologist Irina joined the battalion last week. Picture: Ella Pellegrini Source: News Corp Australia
"You need to ask the Ukrainians — who are you fighting? The women and children they bomb in their houses, the people whose electricity and water they turn off and try to starve. These Ukrainians fight with their NATO weapons and they accuse us of being Russian — well I've only been there once in my life. This is not Russia's fault. I do hope this cause ends and we can get back to a normal life."
At the moment they wait, smoke cigarettes, play cards and wait. They know the Ukrainian troops are coming, the shelling is getting closer, but they say they are prepared.
Irina, 27, had just completed a degree in psychology. There is no work so last week she decided to wear military green garb.
When asked is she is ready to fight and die, the pretty new recruit smiles coyly.
"Of course, this is my home," she said.
Source: http://www.news.com.au/world/face-to-face-with-the-russianbacked-rebels-in-eastern-ukraine/story-fndir2ev-1227002032424
The world of russian folk gestures:tearing shirts and throwing hats.
Why did Russians use to tear the front of their shirts, throw their hats on the ground, and show each other the 'fig' sign? And do they still do this? Maxim Desyatnikov deciphers the language of seven different folk gestures that have their roots in Russian folk culture, some of which are still used today.
Scratching the back of the head.Drawing by Tatiana Perelygina.
A Russian person scratches the back of his head when he is concerned about something. But why? Probably not to stimulate circulation in the brain. One version says that the gesture comes from folk magic: Their ancestors scratched the backs of their heads in order to summon the help of a primogenitor, a genius of mankind.
Tearing the front of a shirt. Drawing by Tatiana Perelygina
Originally, this gesture was supposed to be the improvisation of an oath. There is a hypothesis that in times gone by Russians used this expressive gesture to demonstrate their loyalty to the Orthodox faith, displaying a cross on the chest. The Russian Picture Dictionary: Russian gestures It is well known that during corporal punishment, the executioners tore the tops of the person's shirt. Therefore voluntarily tearing your clothes indicated a willingness to ascend the scaffold in the name of truth. Russians stopped making this gesture literally when it became indecent to show emotions in society. Culturologists link this phenomenon with the birth of etiquette in Russia during the reign of Peter the Great in the 18th century. Today, the action of tearing one's shirt has been replaced by the use of a proverb in cases when people show their emotions too vigorously, and the expression "to tear one's shirt" is rooted in Russian slang speech.
Throwing one's hat on the ground. Drawing by Tatiana Perelygina.
This expressive gesture was used to articulate some kind of desperate decision. A headdress (along with a beard) was a symbol of honor and integration into society for Russian men. Taking off one's hat in public was considered to be shameful – a civil penalty of sorts. Usually, debtors were subject to taking off their hats. When a person took off his hat and threw it on the ground voluntarily, he was demonstrating a willingness to take an insane risk in which the price for failure would have been expulsion from society. In the modern world, this action has lost its significance, as the hat is no longer a way of differentiating social classes. In addition, perhaps another circumstance affected the disappearance of this gesture. As a result of Russia's disastrous defeat in the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-1905, throwing hats became seen as a symbol of foolish arrogance and bravado and acquired a negative association for the Russian nation.
Beating one's chest Drawing by Tatiana Perelygina.
According to one version, this gesture evolved from a nomad military tradition and was imported to Russia by the Tatars, who used this gesture to make an oath of allegiance to a military commander. Hitting oneself in the chest was a demonstration of loyalty. The best-known Russian homonyms Like many other Russian gestures, beating one's chest almost disappeared after the introduction of rules of etiquette to Russian culture in the 18th century. Beating one's chest became a phraseological expression meaning to "by way of an oath, vociferously tell someone something". As for the gesture itself, today such behavior is rare, regarded as a manifestation of aggression typical for boxing or street gangs, though people can sometimes be seen beating their chest in an attempt to prove their rightness when their arguments are exhausted.
Showing somebody the "koza" (a finger gesture meant to resemble a goat). Drawing by Tatiana Perelygina.
This gesture is often wrongly confused with the criminal "sign of the horns" or the sign made by heavy metal fans. But the Russian version, the "koza", is thousands of years old. It is associated with protection from black magic and evil spirits during the Middle Ages, when belief in the occult was widespread. The older generations probably still remember the short tale that starts with "a goat with horns is coming for little children…" The adult shows the child a butting goat by imitating the goat's horns with the little finger and the index finger of the right hand. This isn't just a game; it is how our ancestors warded off the evil eye. It is curious to note that some Orthodox icons feature the Savior and saints who are showing off an extended pinky and index finger. In the 90's, Russia's nouveaux riches (the so-called "New Russians") used "koza" as a symbol of superiority over others, but this expression has since lost popularity. Ordinary people use the gesture for playing with children. In Russian sign language for the deaf and dumb, this gesture means the letter Ы.
Showing somebody the "fig". Drawing by Tatiana Perelygina.
To make the "fig", you must put your thumb between the index and middle fingers – a gesture that is common across many cultures. According to legend, this gesture relates to East Slavic traditions, in which it was a universal talisman capable of warding off danger, especially the evil eye and evil spirits. Yet the Russians most likely picked it up from German travelers, who used it as a vulgar gesture in an attempt to seduce Russian ladies. There is even a version that the gesture's alternative name, "figa", came from the German phrase fick-fick machen, meaning to engage in sexual intercourse. In Russian tradition, the gesture was transformed into a symbol of absolute and final refusal. These days, the gesture is not necessarily a manifestation of aggression; it can even be a joke. Russians even do not have to make this gesture nowadays, it is enough to say fig tebe! ("fig to you!"). Since it has become a slang expression that contradicts the rules of etiquette, fig is commonly used among friends and close social circles.
Flicking a finger on the neck. Drawing by Tatiana Perelygina.
This Russian drinking gesture comes from the idiom "to put [a drink] down under the necktie", which was popular in the 19th and earlier 20th centuries. The expression originated in officer culture and was supposedly thought up by colonel Rayevsky, who was "a talker and a joker." According to the legend, he came up with another drinking term – a little bit "podchauffé," which means tipsy [the expression appears to be a combination of the Russian prefix 'pod' and the French 'chauffé', meaning 'heated' – it could perhaps be translated as "heated up" – RBTH]. It is interesting to note that the gesture was adopted by illicit sellers of alcohol during the "dry law" established by Tsar Nicholai II in 1914. First published in Russian in Russkaya Semyorka.
Source: Russia Beyond the Headlines - http://rbth.com/arts/2014/07/26/tearing_shirts_and_throwing_hats_the_world_of_russian_folk_gestures_37775.html)
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Il recettore H4 è un recettore dell'istamina, un membro della superfamiglia dei recettori accoppiati a proteine G.

Distribuzione nei tessuti
Il recettore H4 è altamente espresso nel midollo osseo e sui leucociti, e nei modelli sperimentali su topi di pleurite indotta da zymosan, regola il rilascio dei neutrofili dal midollo osseo e la loro successiva infiltrazione.

È espresso anche in colon, fegato, polmoni, intestino tenue, milza, testicoli, timo, tonsille e trachea.

Funzione
Il recettore dell'istamina H4 ha dimostrato di essere coinvolto nella mediazione del cambiamento di forma degli eosinofili e nella chemiotassi dei mastociti. Quest'ultima avviene tramite la subunità βγ agente presso la fosfolipasi C, causando la polimerizzazione dell'actina e infine la chemiotassi.

Struttura
La struttura 3D del recettore H4 non è stata ancora definita a causa delle difficoltà relative alla cristallizzazione dei recettori accoppiati a proteine G. Sono stati fatti alcuni tentativi di sviluppo di modelli strutturali del recettore H4 per scopi diversi. Il primo modello di recettore H4 è stato costruito da modellazioni omologhe basate sulla struttura cristallina della rodopsina bovina. Questo modello è stato utilizzato per l'interpretazione dei dati sulla mutagenesi sito-diretta, che hanno rivelato l'importanza cruciale dei residui Asp94 (3.32) e Glu182 (5.46) nell'attivazione del recettore H4 e nei suoi legami coi ligandi.

Un secondo modello strutturale del recettore H4 basato sulla rodopsina è stato utilizzato con successo per l'identificazione di nuovi ligandi di H4.

I recenti progressi nella cristallizzazione, e in particolare la determinazione del complesso del recettore dell'istamina umana H1 con la doxepina, probabilmente aumenteranno la qualità dei nuovi modelli strutturali del recettore H4.

Ligandi

Agonisti
 4-Methylhistamine
 VUF-8430 (2-[(Aminoiminomethyl)amino]ethyl carbamimidothioic acid ester)
 OUP-16

Antagonisti
 Thioperamide
 JNJ 7777120
 VUF-6002 (1-[(5-Chloro-1H-benzimidazol-2-yl)carbonyl]-4-methylpiperazine)
 A987306
 A943931

Potenziale terapeutico
Inibendo il recettore H4 si possono trattare asma e allergie.

L'antagonista altamente selettivo di H4 VUF-6002 è attivo per via orale e inibisce l'attività sia dei mastociti che degli eosinofili in vivo, ed ha effetti antinfiammatori e antiperalgesici.

Note

Collegamenti esterni

Recettori dell'istamina
Biologia molecolare

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Additional Associate Justices for the Supreme Court of D.C : hearings before the United States House Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee No. 3 (Judiciary), Sixty-Seventh Congress, first session, on July 15, 16, 1921
Additional Judge for the Northern District of California : hearings before the United States House Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee No. 3 (Judiciary), Sixty-Seventh Congress, first session, on Oct. 22, 1921
Additional Judge, Southern District of California : hearings before the United States House Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee No. 3 (Judiciary), Sixty-Third Congress, first session, on Sept. 3, 1913
Additional Judge, Southern District of California : hearings before the United States House Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee No. 3 (Judiciary), Sixty-Third Congress, second session, on Dec. 15, 1913
Additional Judge, State of Georgia : hearings before the United States House Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee No. 3 (Judiciary), Sixty-Third Congress, second session, on Jan. 26, 1914
Additional Judicial District in the State of Oklahoma : hearings before the United States House Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee No. 3 (Judiciary), Sixty-Eighth Congress, second session, on Jan. 27, 1925
Amend the Longshoremen's and Harbor Workers' Compensation Act : hearings before the United States House Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee No. 3 (Judiciary), Seventy-Fourth Congress, first session, on July 31, 1935
Amend the Longshoremen's and Harbor Workers' Compensation Act : hearings before the United States House Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee No. 3 (Judiciary), Seventy-Fourth Congress, second session, on Feb. 3, 1936, Part 2
Amending sections 7 and 11 of the Clayton Act. : Hearings,Eighty-first Congress, first session on H. R. 988, H.R. 2006, H.R. 2734. May 18, 1949
Amendment to Constitution Relative to the Making of Treaties : hearings before the United States House Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee No. 3 (Judiciary), Seventy-Eighth Congress, second session, on Mar. 8, Nov. 29, 30, Dec. 1, 2, 1944
Antiobscenity legislation. : Hearings, Ninety-first Congress
Appeals from Circuit Court of Appeals : hearings before the United States House Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee No. 3 (Judiciary), Sixty-Third Congress, second session, on Jan. 23, 1914
Appeals from Interlocutory Orders and Confinement in Jail-Type Institutions : hearings before the United States House Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee No. 3 (Judiciary), Eighty-Fifth Congress, second session, on Feb. 26, 1958
Attorneys' practice before agencies : hearings before Subcommittee No. 3 of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, Eighty-eighth Congress, second session on S. 1466, H.R. 3440, H.R. 6160, H.R. 8207, H.R. 8535, H.R. 8666... January 30, 1964
Authorization to appropriate for the Administrative Conference : hearings, Ninety-second Congress, second session ... May 4, 1972
Authorization to appropriate for the Administrative Conference. : Hearings, Ninety-second Congress, second session ... May 4, 1972
Authorizing Royalties for Musical Compositions on Coin-Operated Machines : hearings before the United States House Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee No. 3 (Judiciary), Eighty-Sixth Congress, first session, on June 10-12, 17, 18, 1959
Authorizing abbreviated records in reviewing administrative agency proceedings. : Hearing, Eighty-fifth Congress, first session, on H.R. 6788. June 27, 1957
Authorizing royalties for musical compositions on coinoperated machines. : Hearings...Eighty-sixth Congress, First Session, on H.R. 5921, to require jukebox operators to pay royalty fees for the use of the musical properties of composers, authors, and copyright owners. June 10-12, 17-18, 1959
Capital punishment. : Hearings, Ninety-second Congress, second session
Codification of Armed Forces and National Guard Laws : hearings before the United States House Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee No. 3 (Judiciary), Eighty-Fourth Congress, first session, on June 22, 1955
Codification of Armed Forces and National Guard laws. : Hearing, Eighty-fourth Congress, first session on H.R. 6366, June 22, 1955
Commercial Bribery : hearings before the United States House Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee No. 3 (Judiciary), Sixty-Ninth Congress, second session, on Dec. 13, 1926
Commission on Marihuana. : Hearings, Ninety-first Congress, first session, October 15 and 16, 1969
Compensation of U.S. Supreme Court Reporter : hearings before the United States House Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee No. 3 (Judiciary), Sixty-Seventh Congress, first session, on July 19, 1921
Conflicting Claims Against the U.S : hearings before the United States House Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee No. 3 (Judiciary), Seventy-Seventh Congress, second session, on May 22, 1942
Conflicts of interest with respect to members of the District of Columbia Council. : Hearings, Ninetieth Congress, second session on H.R. 16123 ... June 12, 1968
Consenting that Certain States May Sue the U.S. To Recover Certain Direct Taxes : hearings before the United States House Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee No. 3 (Judiciary), Sixty-Ninth Congress, first session, on June 28, 1926
Contract Termination : hearings before the United States House Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee No. 3 (Judiciary), Seventy-Eighth Congress, second session, on May 17, 1944
Contract termination, executive session. : Hearings, Seventy-eighth Congress, second session, on H.R. 4789 and S. 1718 ... May 17, 1944
Copyright Law Revision : hearings before the United States House Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee No. 3 (Judiciary), Eighty-Ninth Congress, first session, on May 26-28, June 2-4, 9, 1965, Part 1
Corrections. : Hearings, Ninety-second Congress, first session
Counterfeit phonograph records. : Hearing, Eighty-seventh Congress, second session, on H.R. 6354, a bill to provide (1) criminal penalties for the counterfeiting of phonograph records and (2) civil remedies for infringement of mechanical rights in copyrighted music. May 10, 1962
Creation of Two Judicial Districts Within the State of Indiana : hearings before the United States House Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee No. 3 (Judiciary), Sixty-Seventh Congress, second session, on Dec. 12, 1921, Jan. 6, 1922
Criminal justice act : Hearing, before Subcommitte No. 5 of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, Eighty-eighth Congress, first session, on H.R. 1027 [and others] to promote the cause of criminal justice by providing for the representation of defendants who are financially unable to obtain an adequate defense in criminal cases in the Courts of the United States ; may 22, 1963
Criminal justice act amendments. : Hearings, Ninety-first Congress, second session ... June 18 and 25, 1970
Cummins-Vaile Bill : hearings before the United States House Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee No. 3 (Judiciary), and Senate Committee on the Judiciary, Sixty-Eighth Congress, first session, on Apr. 8, May 9, 1924
Discretionary Treble Damages in Private Antitrust Suits : hearings before the United States House Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee No. 3 (Judiciary), Eighty-Third Congress, first session, on May 26, 1953
Equity Receiverships : hearings before the United States House Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee No. 3 (Judiciary), Seventy-First Congress, second session, on Apr. 11, 1930
Establishing Administrative Conference : hearings before the United States House Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee No. 3 (Judiciary), Eighty-Eighth Congress, second session, on Mar. 5, 1964
Establishment of a Tenth Judicial Circuit of the U.S : hearings before the United States House Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee No. 3 (Judiciary), Sixty-Seventh Congress, first session, on July 22, 1921
Extending the National Stolen Property Act to Confiscated Property : hearings before the United States House Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee No. 3 (Judiciary), Seventy-Sixth Congress, third session, on Aug. 5, 6, 1940
Extension of Royalty Adjustment Act : hearings before the United States House Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee No. 3 (Judiciary), Eighty-Third Congress, first session, on Apr. 29, 1953
Federal Corrections Act and Improvement in Parole : hearings before the United States House Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee No. 3 (Judiciary), Seventy-Eighth Congress, first session, on May 18, 19, June 10, 1943
Federal Corrections Act and improvement in parole : hearings before Subcommittee No. 3 of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, Seventy-eighth Congress, first session, on H.R. 2139 ... and H.R. 2140 ... May 18 and 19 and June 10, 1943
Federal Employees Compensation : hearings before the United States House Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee No. 3 (Judiciary), Sixty-Second Congress, second session, on Feb. 10, 1912
Federal immunity of witnesses act. : Hearings, Ninety-first Congress, first session, on H.R. 11157 and H.R. 12041 ... August 7, 1969
Federal sentencing procedure. : Hearing, Eighty-fifth Congress, second session on H.J. Res. 424...April 30, 1958
Fees of Jurors and Witnesses : hearings before the United States House Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee No. 3 (Judiciary), Sixty-Eighth Congress, first session, on Jan. 22, 29, 1924
For the relief of Clayton Bion Craig, Arthur P. Wuth, Mrs. Lenore D. Hanks, David E. Sleeper, and DeWitt John, Hearings, Ninety-second Congress, first session, on S. 1866 ... October 27, 1971
Foreign Agents Registration Act amendments. : Hearings, Eighty-ninth Congress, first session, on S. 693 and H.R. 290. July 28, August 2, 1965
General Revision of the Patent Laws : hearings before the United States House Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee No. 3 (Judiciary), Ninetieth Congress, second session, on Feb. 21, 28, 29, 1968, Part 2
General revision of the patent laws. : Hearings, Ninetieth Congress, on H.R. 5924, H.R. 13951, and related bills
Increase in Fees Payable to the Patent Office : hearings before the United States House Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee No. 3 (Judiciary), Eighty-Fifth Congress, first session, on June 20, 1957
Increase in fees payable to the Patent office. : Hearing, Eighty-fifth Congress, first session, on H.R. 7151. June 20, 1957
Increasing the Membership of the House of Representatives and Redistricting Congressional Districts : hearings before the United States House Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee No. 3 (Judiciary), Eighty-Seventh Congress, first session, on Aug. 24, 30, 1961
Increasing the Salaries of Certain Judges of the Territories and Insular Possessions of the U.S : hearings before the United States House Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee No. 3 (Judiciary), Seventieth Congress, first session, on Feb. 28, 1928
Institute for Continuing Studies of Juvenile Justice : hearings, Ninety-second Congress, first session, on H.R. 45 and related bills ... April 28, 1971, and H.R. 14950 and related bills (91st Cong.), July 23 and 29, 1970
Institute for Continuing Studies of Juvenile Justice. : Hearings, Ninety-second Congress, first session, on H.R. 45 and related bills ... April 28, 1971, and H.R. 14950 and related bills (91st Cong.), July 23 and 29, 1970
Interstate Traffic in Intoxicating Liquors : hearings before the United States House Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee No. 3 (Judiciary), Sixty-Second Congress, second session, on Mar. 4-6, 11, 22, 1912, <Part 2
Inventive Contributions Awards Board. : Hearings before Subcommittee No. 3, Eighty-fourth Congress, first session on H.R. 639 and H.R. 2383, May 24 and June 13, 1955
Judicial Districts of Illinois : hearings before the United States House Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee No. 3 (Judiciary), Sixty-Third Congress, second session, on July 20, 1914, Part 1
Jurisdiction of Federal Courts Concerning Diversity of Citizenship : hearings before the United States House Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee No. 3 (Judiciary), Eighty-Fifth Congress, first session, on July 12, 1957
Making Provision for Judicial Review of Certain Tax Court Decisions : hearings before the United States House Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee No. 3 (Judiciary), Eighty-Third Congress, second session, on Jan. 28, 1954
Making provision for judicial review of certain Tax Court decisions. : Hearing, Eighty-third Congress, second session on S. 984, January 28, 1954
New Jersey-New York Airport Commission compact : hearings, Ninety-second Congress
New Jersey-New York Airport Commission compact. : Hearings, Ninety-second Congress
Newsmen's privilege. : Hearings, Ninety-second Congress, second session
Newsmen's privilege. : Hearings, Ninety-third Congress, first session, on H.R. 717
Official Reporters in Federal Courts : hearings before the United States House Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee No. 3 (Judiciary), Sixty-Third Congress, second session, on Oct. 5, 1914
Organized Crime Control : hearings before Subcommittee No. 5, Committee on the Judiciary, U.S. House of Representatives, Ninety-First Congress, second session
Osteopathic Professional Services Under Employees' Compensation Act : hearings before the United States House Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee No. 3 (Judiciary), Seventy-Fifth Congress, first session, on June 4, 1937
Patent Extension : hearings before the United States House Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee No. 3 (Judiciary), Eighty-Fourth Congress, first session, on Mar. 9, 1955
Patent Extension : hearings before the United States House Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee No. 3 (Judiciary), Eighty-Third Congress, first session, on June 10, 1953
Patent Law Codification and Revision : hearings before the United States House Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee No. 3 (Judiciary), Eighty-Second Congress, first session, on June 13-15, 1951
Patent Office legislation. : Hearings, Ninety-second Congress, first session... May 5, 1971
Patent disclosure. : Hearings before Subcommittee No. 3, Eighty-second Congress, first session, on H.R. 4687 to provide for the withholding of certain patents that might be detrimental to the national security, and for other purposes, August 21, 1951
Patent extension : hearing before Subcommittee No. 3 ... Eighty-third Congress, first session on H.R. 1301 and H.R. 4944, bills to provide for extension of terms of patents where the use, exploitation, or promotion thereof was prevented impaired, or delayed by causes due to war, national emergency, or other causes. June 1953
Patent law codification and revision. : Hearings, Eighty-second Congress, first session, on H. R. 3760, a bill to revise and codify the laws relating to patents and the Patent Office, and to enact into law title 35 of the United States Code entitled "Patents". June 13-15, 1951
Prohibiting detention camps. : Hearings, Ninety-second Congress, first session, H.R. 234 and related bills ... March 18, 1971
Prohibiting piracy of sound recordings. : Hearings, Ninety-second Congress, first session, on S. 646 and H.R. 6927 ... June 9 and 10, 1971
Protection of Labels and Other Emblems of Labor Organizations : hearings before the United States House Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee No. 3 (Judiciary), Sixty-Second Congress, second session, on May 3, 1912
Providing for royalties for musical composition on coin-operated machines : hearings before Subcommittee No. 3 ... Eighty-eighth Congress, first session on H.R. 5174, a bill to provide for the payment of royalties for the public performance of copyrighted musical compositions by means of coin-operated machines, and for other purposes. May 2 and 3, 1963
Punishment for Violation of Narcotic Laws : hearings before the United States House Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee No. 3 (Judiciary), Seventy-Fifth Congress, first session, on Apr. 23, 1937
Recording and Performing Rights in Certain Literary Works : hearings before the United States House Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee No. 3 (Judiciary), Eighty-Second Congress, first session, on Apr. 30, May 1, 1951
Registration and Protection of Trademarks : hearings before the United States House Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee No. 3 (Judiciary), Eighty-Seventh Congress, first session, on Aug. 16, 1961
Registration of Certain Persons Trained in Foreign Espionage Systems : hearings before the United States House Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee No. 3 (Judiciary), Eighty-Fourth Congress, first session, on Mar. 21, 1955
Registration of Labor Organizations, Business and Trade Associations : hearings before the United States House Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee No. 3 (Judiciary), Seventy-Seventh Congress, second session, on Mar. 4, 11-13, 21, 1942
Removal of Domestic Manufacturing Requirements for the Acquisition of Copyright by Certain Foreign Nationals : hearings before the United States House Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee No. 3 (Judiciary), Eighty-Second Congress, second session, on Jan. 28, 30, Feb. 1, 1952
Resale Price Maintenance : hearings before the United States House Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee No. 3 (Judiciary), Seventy-Fifth Congress, first session, on Jan. 27, 29, 1937
Residential community treatment centers. : Hearings, Ninety-first Con[gress], second session, on H.R. 2175 ... June 25, 1970
Rules of Review of Decisions of the Tax Court of the U.S : hearings before the United States House Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee No. 3 (Judiciary), Eighty-Third Congress, second session, on Jan. 28, 1954
Seizure and Forfeiture of Contraband Carriers : hearings before the United States House Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee No. 3 (Judiciary), Seventy-Fifth Congress, first session, on Apr. 23, 1937
Short Selling of Securities : hearings before the United States House Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee No. 3 (Judiciary), Seventy-Second Congress, first session, on Feb. 15, 17, 19, 24, 1932, Part 1
Susquehanna River Basin compact. : Hearings, Ninety-first Congress, second session. June 4 and September 30, 1970
Tahoe regional planning compact. : Hearings, Ninety-first Congress, first session ... November 12, 1969
Terms of Court at Albuquerque, Roswell, Las Vegas, Silver City, and Las Cruces, N.Mex : hearings before the United States House Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee No. 3 (Judiciary), Sixty-Eighth Congress, first session, on Apr. 18, 1924
Terms of Court at Rockford Instead of Freeport in the Western District of Illinois : hearings before the United States House Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee No. 3 (Judiciary), Seventy-First Congress, second session, on May 2, 1930
The Customs courts act : hearings, Ninety-first Congress, second session, on S. 2624 ... January 22 and 23, 1970
The Customs courts act. : Hearings, Ninety-first Congress, second session, on S. 2624 ... January 22 and 23, 1970
Context of United States, Congress | House | Committee on the Judiciary | Subcommittee No. 3.
Criminal justice act : Hearing
For the relief of Clayton Bion Craig, Arthur P. Wuth, Mrs. Lenore D. Hanks, David E. Sleeper, and DeWitt John
To Confer Jurisdiction upon the Court of Claims To Adjudicate Claims of American Citizens Who Were Charged with Unlawfully Sealing in the Bering Sea : hearings before the United States House Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee No. 3 (Judiciary), Sixty-Seventh Congress, first session, on July 13, 1921, <Part 1
To Incorporate the American Citizenship Foundation : hearings before the United States House Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee No. 3 (Judiciary), Sixty-Ninth Congress, first session, on May 21, 1926
To Increase Certain Patent and Trademark Fees : hearings before the United States House Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee No. 3 (Judiciary), Eighty-Fourth Congress, first session, on June 3, 17, 1955
To Provide for Dispensing with Oath or Affirmation as a Method of Verifying Certain Written Instruments : hearings before the United States House Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee No. 3 (Judiciary), Seventieth Congress, first session, on Feb. 28, 1928
To Provide for a Term of Court at Schenectady, N.Y : hearings before the United States House Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee No. 3 (Judiciary), Sixty-Seventh Congress, second session, on Mar. 15, 1922
To amend sections 7 and 11 of the Clayton Act. : Hearings, Seventy-ninth Congress, first session on H. R. 2357. May 23-25, September 20, 1945
To increase certain patent and trademark fees : hearings ... Eighty-fourth Congress, first session, on H.R. 4983 and H.R. 6175, bills to fix the fees payable to the Patent Office, and for other purposes, June 3 and 17, 1955
Trust Legislation : Western Newspaper Union, Part 1: hearings before the United States House Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee No. 3 (Judiciary), Sixty-Second Congress, second session, on June 11, 1912
Trust Legislation : Western Newspaper Union, Part 2: hearings before the United States House Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee No. 3 (Judiciary), Sixty-Second Congress, second session, on July 8, 10, 1912
U.S. Courts, Texas : hearings before the United States House Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee No. 3 (Judiciary), Sixty-Third Congress, second session, on Apr. 8, 1914
U.S. Courts, West Virginia : hearings before the United States House Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee No. 3 (Judiciary), Sixty-Third Congress, second session, on Apr. 2, 1914
U.S. District Courts -- Additional Judges and Districts : hearings before the United States House Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee No. 3 (Judiciary), Seventy-Fourth Congress, first session, on Apr. 3, 1935, Part 2, Minnesota
U.S. District Courts -- Additional Judges and Districts : hearings before the United States House Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee No. 3 (Judiciary), Seventy-Fourth Congress, first session, on Apr. 3, 1935, Part 3, Arkansas
U.S. District Courts -- Additional Judges and Districts : hearings before the United States House Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee No. 3 (Judiciary), Seventy-Fourth Congress, first session, on Mar. 6, 1935, Part 1, New York
Washington area transit compact amendments. : Hearing before the Subcommittee No. 3 of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, Eighty-seventh Congress, second session, on H. J. Res. 693 and H. J. Res. 694, granting the consent and approval of Congress for the State of Maryland, the Commonwealth of Virginia, and the District of Columbia, to amend the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Commission compact, and for other purposes. June 13, 1962
Wiretapping for National Security : hearings before the United States House Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee No. 3 (Judiciary), Eighty-Third Congress, first session, on May 4, 20, July 8, 1953
Workmen's Compensation : hearings before the United States House Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee No. 3 (Judiciary), Sixty-First Congress, second session, on Feb. 17, Mar. 15, 1910
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Startup Professionals Musings: Are You Selling Solutions Through The Right Channel?
Are You Selling Solutions Through The Right Channel?
Even the best products and solutions won't go anywhere unless you sell them through the right channels. For example, if you watch the TV show "Shark Tank," you will remember several entrepreneurs with specialty products doing well online who want money to move into big box retail. They usually get chastised and declined for ignoring the realities of the retail channel.
The right channel for marketing and distribution is one of the basic "four Ps" of business (product, promotion, price and placement). For growing revenue and market share, it's a key element of your overall strategy, and one that can make or break you. The most common channels in use today include e-commerce, direct to customer, wholesale to dealers, and value-added resellers.
Focus on only one channel to begin. Every startup has limited resources and people, so rolling out your solution in multiple channels will likely mean a weak implementation in all, and customer confusion. Do your homework on industry norms for your product, competitor placements, and margins achievable. Set marketing plans accordingly.
Resist the channel sales pitch for exclusivity. For your new and innovative offering, you won't know how customers react or how a channel will perform until you can see and measure results. If necessary, you may have to negotiate limited time frames and limited territory arrangements. Recognize that terminating an exclusive arrangement is costly.
Treat distribution partners as part of your team. The goal must always be a win-win relationship, rather than a contentious win-lose one. Distributors know their customers, usually do their own marketing, and can help alleviate your cash flow issues. In international territories, they have localization expertise that you need badly.
Optimize existing channels before adding new ones. Just like it's cheaper to sell more to existing customers than acquire new ones, it's important to saturate existing channels before adding new ones. As your business expands into new regions, or adds new product lines, the opportunity for new channels should be evaluated.
Expect some channel conflict as a cost of doing business. With multiple channels, there will always be inequities and disagreements. These must be dealt with openly, and in a proactive manner if at all possible. For example, if a new partner wants to offer new terms or prices, disclose and negotiate with existing partners before it becomes a crisis.
Avoid direct sales forces and wholly owned channels initially. These are not recommended for startups, who have neither the money nor customer access of outside channels. Use them only when no other alternatives exist, or business success has given you the means to take full control, and make your channel a competitive advantage.
Always use analytics and listen directly to customer feedback. Sometimes external channel partners will attempt to buffer you from your real customers, insisting that all input and measurements come through them for filtering and control. For any business, especially new ones, this is a mistake. You need to stay in the dialog with customers.
Don't treat globalization as just another territory expansion. Every international market is unique in channel expectations, purchasing behavior, and pricing. Before you expand into this arena, make sure you have the resources and expertise on the ground, and have done your homework on cost versus return. These expansions can be lucrative, but may require more complex strategic partner arrangements or even acquisitions.
For every startup, these steps and the evaluation behind them should be a key part of developing your go-to-market strategy. But like everything else in a startup, your go-to-market and channel strategy are not one-time things – they need to be revisited and optimized several times each year. Don't let an innovative solution and a great business model get lost in the wrong channel.


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The Aksarben Foundation has a long and rich history of developing leaders and building up communities in Nebraska. With a new strategic direction, Aksarben was in need of a way to display their historical impact on the community as well as reflect their change of focus and bright future ahead.
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Vanna, Can I See if There a Sincere Apology For $500?
Every week or so you see a public figure make an apology about some indiscretion. I sometimes feel that we have a wheel of fortune style game show called Say Sorry or Lose a Fortune. Many people wonder, though, how valid are the apologies. Do they really mean it?
Mark McGwire is the latest to step in front of the camera and say, "I'm sorry." Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid did the same this week. We see public apologies all the time, but are often skeptical of them. So how sorry are these people?
"Public apologies are designed to serve very different purposes than private apologies," said Marti Hope Gonzalez, a University of Minnesota psychology professor, currently researching how apologies play a role in conflict resolution.
"They're enacting a little performance to gain the esteem of the public, not necessarily the person they've harmed," Gonzalez said.
It's a tricky situation for public figures, who may or may not truly be sorry, but nevertheless face a public outcry for an apology.
"When people do bad things we like to hold them accountable," Gonzalez said.
Oddly, our forgiveness of the public figure may be more about our own need to avoid cognitive dissonance, she said. That's when one belief contradicts with another.
It is important, however, to distinguish between public and private apologies. The question begs: what is the apology in a mediation? The answer is, it depends. It can be a mix of both a public and private. Many times in mediation, the apology is calculated by a party to create a change in the other side's position, similar to a public apology. On the other hand, I have seen many apologies given in mediation that are intended solely and exclusively to express regret and remorse over an event.
There are many more, what are your thoughts or suggestions. Or do you disagree?


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No. 2 Kentucky defeats Wright State to improve to 4-0
LEXINGTON, Ky. -- Tyler Ulis scored a career-high 21 points, and No. 2 Kentucky beat Wright State 78-63 on Friday night.
The Wildcats (4-0) followed Tuesday night's impressive victory over No. 5 Duke by shooting 53 percent from the field, with the 5-foot-9 Ulis setting the tone by getting to the basket and the foul line. He was 5 for 9 from the field and 10 for 12 from the line with five assists, after he collected 18 points and six assists against the Blue Devils.
Kentucky held the Raiders (1-3) to 36 percent shooting and outrebounded them 37-27. Alex Poythress had 10 points and 10 rebounds, and Marcus Lee grabbed seven boards.
Sophomore guard Grant Benzinger, son of former major leaguer Todd Benzinger, had 19 points for Wright State.
Poythress, who sustained a season-ending left knee injury last December, posted his first double-double since a 10-point, 13-rebound effort against UNC Asheville last November. His performance included a midcourt steal leading to a monstrous dunk and an emphatic hang on the rim.
Not surprisingly, Kentucky enjoyed a 38-20 advantage in points in the paint, and its reserves topped Wright State 16-8. Starters Isaiah Briscoe (15 points), Jamal Murray (13 points) and Skal Labissiere (13) also scored in double figures.
The intense performance came just a few nights after answering coach John Calipari's challenge to show toughness against the Blue Devils, and it dropped Wright State to its third straight loss.
When Kentucky wasn't wrestling the Raiders for loose balls under the basket and on the floor, the Wildcats were fighting each other for rebounds. And there was the frequent sight of Briscoe harassing dribblers out, applying pressure even with his mouth guard dangling out of his mouth.
The combination helped the Wildcats to a 39-26 lead at the break. Wright State's perimeter shooting kept the game respectable for a while before Kentucky used its size and physicality to pull away.
JT Yoho added 13 points for Wright State, which went 6 of 14 from 3-point range.
Kentucky hosts Boston University on Tuesday night.
Points G. Benzinger - 19 T. Ulis - 21
Rebounds J. Yoho - 5 A. Poythress - 10
Assists J. Yoho - 3 T. Ulis - 5
Steals J. Yoho - 2 T. Ulis - 2
Blocks B. Neel - 1 S. Labissiere - 1
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Dingtuna is a locality situated in Västerås Municipality, Västmanland County, Sweden with 1,005 inhabitants in 2010.

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Shannon Shaw is blessed with one of the greatest naturally raw voices of recent years. It's obvious on all Shannon and the Clams' releases but their newest, Gone by the Dawn, showcases how fully toned her vocals can go. It's also a necessary note on how well Shaw and Cody Blanchard's (aka King Lollipop) voices pair together, especially on the heavy doo-wop that Dawn is calling to.
The 1950's was an era that always spoke to Shannon and the Clams, but Dawn leaves behind almost every garage/punk aspect that was present in their discography's past. Blanchard takes the lead a few songs, like "It's Too Late" and "My Man," but maintains the sultry standing Shaw established. The cuts most like classic Clams are definitely "Knock 'em Dead" and "You Let Me Rust," but those don't pop up until the end of the album, sending listeners off in their characteristic way. Gone by the Dawn basically sounds like all the music the live band at the school dance would've played back in the 50's, yet it's not corny, contrived or overdone.


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Horn-shaped leaves help to amplify sounds for bats
Posted by Deanna Conners in Earth | October 20, 2013
Bats roosting in the curled up leaves of tropical plants are able to better hear their companions, a new study suggests.
Bats roosting in the curled up leaves of tropical plants are able to better hear their companions, a new study suggests. Large tropical leaves were shown to amplify incoming calls from wandering bats searching for their social group. Besides humans, no other animal is known to use horn-shaped structures to boost sound signals used for communication. The research was published on October 16, 2013 in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B.
Sound is a very effective means for communication and it is widely used in the animal kingdom. However, sound signals can degrade quickly when travelling over long distances. Humans invented the horn to help amplify incoming and outgoing sounds. Now, it appears that Spix's disc-winged bat (Thyroptera tricolor) is also capable of using horn-shaped structures to extend their ability to hear other animals.
Antique horns called ear trumpets were once used as hearing aids. Image Credit: Regine Debatty.
Spix's disc-winged bats roost in the curled up leaves of tropical plants. The leaves provide them with shelter from the weather and help to hide them from predators. However, the leaves only stay curled up for a short period of time after emerging. Once the leaves unfold, the bats move on to find other suitable leaves to roost in. With all that moving around, the bats need to be skilled at finding their roost. To do so, a bat that is out hunting for food will emit an inquiry call. When bats in the roost hear the inquiry call, they let out a response call that in effect says "we're over here."
Scientists from the University of Costa Rica and North Dakota State University wondered if the peculiar shape of the leaves was helping to boost the communication signals used by bats. They recorded the calls of over a hundred bats in Costa Rica and measured the strength of the signals as the sounds traveled into the curled up leaves. Indeed, they found that sounds were much louder inside the leaf by about 5 to 10 decibels. They estimate that this sort of amplification can extend the distance that bats can hear by an additional 15 to 30 meters (about 50 to 100 feet). That's useful if you're a bat flying around the tropical rainforest trying to find your home.
Spix's disc-winged bat. Image Credit: Anton Sorokin.
The curled up leaves also amplified the intensity of outgoing response calls, but not to the same extent as the incoming calls.
Gloriana Chaverri, lead author of the study and professor at the University of Costa Rica, explained to Discovery News how the leaves were able to amplify the bat calls. She said:
Leaves appear to amplify incoming calls as sound waves get increasingly compressed when they enter the leaves. Outgoing calls are amplified possibly due to sound directionality: Instead of sound[s] being dispersed over a large area, they are aimed in a specific direction and so retain most of the energy of the original sound.
The research was funded in part by the National Geographic Society and North Dakota State University. Erin Gillam, an assistant professor at North Dakota State University, was a co-author of the paper.
Bottom line: Spix's disc-winged bats that roost in the curled up leaves of tropical plants are able to better hear their companions, a new study suggests. The large tropical leaves were shown to amplify incoming calls from wandering bats searching for their social group. This is the first evidence showing that roosts can play a role in improving acoustic communication among bats. The research was published on October 16, 2013 in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B.
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Deanna Conners
Deanna Conners is an Environmental Scientist who holds a Ph.D. in Toxicology and an M.S. in Environmental Studies. Her interest in toxicology stems from having grown up near the Love Canal Superfund Site in New York. Her current work is to provide high-quality scientific information to the public and decision-makers and to help build cross-disciplinary partnerships that help solve environmental problems. She writes about Earth science and nature conservation for EarthSky.


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PHARAOH: 'After The Fire' Debut To Receive Vinyl Release
July 10, 2018 Enrico
Ground-zero, catalog number "Cruz01" and the album that started it all for Cruz Del Sur Music, PHARAOH's 2003 "After The Fire" debut provided an early glimpse of the label's unflinching commitment to releasing high-quality, true heavy metal. The album also positioned PHARAOH as one of the most promising and classy melodic metal bands in recent memory, earning the band much-deserved praise both on domestic and international shores.
Now, 15 years after the fact, Cruz Del Sur is releasing "After The Fire" on vinyl on Aug 31, with a different, alternative mixing, new mastering, and fresh, updated liner notes by Matt Johnsen!
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"PHARAOH and Cruz Del Sur are still doing what we do, in our stubborn ways!" says drummer Chris Black. "How little has changed in this regard. I guess our producer/engineer Matt Crooks wasn't yet on board, but otherwise with 'After the Fire', we have already included all of the same people and roles as we do today. I'm talking about the musicians/songwriters but also Enrico Leccese of Cruz Del Sur and JP Fournier, who has painted all of our album covers."
PHARAOH, rounded out by vocalist Tim Aymar, guitarist Matt Johnsen and bassist Chris Kerns, was originally formed to play, according to Johnsen, "the kind of melodic heavy metal that was highly unfashionable when we first met."
"Chris had SAXON and IRON MAIDEN in mind, while I was thinking about RAGE and ANGRA," he says. "And although none of us have the same tastes, exactly, I guess they're close enough where it counts! "Since 'After the Fire', we've all grown immensely as players and writers, but the basic templates we established for ourselves on that record have held up surprisingly well. Our newer songs are much harder to play, but they're clearly cut from the same cloth as the ones on our debut."
PHARAOH has released three studio albums since "After The Fire" and are hard at work at their next full-length, tentatively titled "The Powers That Be". But, the memories associated with "After The Fire" hold lasting impact, making the vinyl release all the more important.
"Finally having 'After The Fire' on vinyl will be great for our fans who cherish this format," says Black. "It's understandable that it didn't happen in 2003, but as the years have passed and all of the other albums have been pressed on vinyl, it has become way overdue. But as it happens now, it's a great way to say happy 15th birthday to the album and to Cruz Del Sur as well. A just reward for our continuity!"
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PHARAOH Hard At Work On Fifth Full-Length Album
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Comments Johnsen: "We're doing this one a bit differently, in that before we always completed the full complement of songs and then hit the studio, but this time, we're recording tunes a couple at a time as we finish writing. Because we're not a rehearsing band and because we all live in different cities, recording as we write makes it possible to get more done in less time; while Chris Black is tracking drums for one song, I can be tracking guitars for any songs he's already recorded, and then when I'm ready to move onto the next set of rhythm guitars, Tim can start tracking vocals. We're still early in the process, though; Chris only just started tracking the first tune.
Melodic metal veterans PHARAOH – featuring vocalist Tim Aymar, guitarist Matt Johnsen, bassist Chris Kerns and drummer Chris Black – are currently hard at work on their fifth full-length album, which is tentatively due in mid-2018 via Italy's Cruz Del Sur Music. The album will be the band's first 2012's "Bury The Light".
"We have four songs completed as far as instrumentation goes, and three more at about seventy-five percent. Then there are three to five more which are no more than fifty percent finished. In the past, the riffs to most songs were more or less written by one guy, and then fleshed out collaboratively with vocals and lyrics at the end, but this time, the majority of songs have been put together from the beginning with riff contributions from two or more members, and we expect to do more tinkering with the riffs than we usually do once the vocal lines are introduced. Then again, maybe we won't!"
Johnsen promises PHARAOH's forthcoming new LP will continue in the same vein of their previous efforts; however, some new wrinkles are being thrown into the mix, namely from the technical thrash world with bands such as CORONER, HOLY TERROR, REALM and FORBIDDEN serving as inspiration.
"My arrangements involve much less repetition of riffs than is customary from a power metal band," he says. "Lots of 'one-and-done' riffs, and a lot of left-field bridges and codas. At the same time, I've also started a couple tunes which are almost doom metal, assuming a definition of doom metal that encompasses MEMENTO MORI and early TYR. We'll see how those pan out, but I expect at least one of them to make the album."
PHARAOH has released all four of its studio albums with Cruz Del Sur Music, starting with 2003's "After The Fire", which was followed by 2006's "The Longest Night", 2008's "Be Gone" and 2012's "Bury The Light".
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QUICKSAND DREAM: "Beheading Tyrants" to be released in November, song streaming!
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Sixteen years after the release of "Aelin", cult Swedish epic metal band QUICKSAND DREAM is finally ready to release their second album, "Beheading Tyrants".
QUICKSAND DREAM is one of those bands surrounded by an aura of secrecy, its name spoken among a selected circle of fans. The strength and beauty of "Aelin", originally released in 35 CDRs copies and repressed in 2010 by Chris Black's own label "Planet Metal" (vinyl version on High Roller Records) , built up a loyal and strong army of devotees enchanted by the band's unconventional and genuine offer.
Through all these years founding members Patrick Backlund (Mortalicum) and Göran Jacobson have kept the flame of QUICKSAND DREAM alive, and now with the help of Henrik Högl and Andreas Häggström are ready to release their second opus.
Adorned by Vincent Van Gogh beautiful "Autumn Landscape At Dusk" painting, "Beheading Tyrants" consists of six tracks of heavy, doom-tinged epic metal, recommended for fans of Cirith Ungol, Manilla Road, Solstice and Black Sabbath.
Cruz Del Sur Music is proud to unveil the secret upon the album and in collaboration with Decibel Magazine to present "Girl From The Island" the first track out of it.
"Beheading Tyrants" will see the light in mid November in Compact Disc, Vinyl and Digital.
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My first job out of college was in the sales and marketing group of a small high-tech company in Connecticut that sold shop floor automation systems to major Fortune 500 manufacturers. It was long hours and heavy traveling for low pay – but superb experience. At the ripe age of 21, I found myself touring plants and giving technology presentations at GE, IBM, General Motors, Ford, Grumman Aerospace, and many other major manufacturers.
Most technology business decisions today are made by people who have spent considerable time getting input, insights and recommendations from a wide range of peers, friends, experts, analysts, consultants – as well as additional advisers and influencers.
In an effort to rise above parity among competitors, technology companies will attempt to create sales messaging that is differentiated – and avoid common "me, too" language. In my 2013 white paper, "Six Common Technology Marketing Mistakes," I showcase some of the typical, over-used (if not fully abused) nomenclature that is all too easy for content writers to rely on for their technology-focused messaging.
So much of our standard marketing principles are based on traditional consumer marketing concepts. But in today's highly complex world of B2B technology marketing, many of those concepts don't really align well with modern business customer behavior. Take, for example, the concept of the "Customer Purchase Cycle" (also referred to as the "Buying Cycle" or the "Decision Cycle"). The major flaw in this nomenclature is the word "Cycle".
My first job out of college in the early 1980s was with an information technology manufacturer and systems integrator. We resold IBM Series 1 computer systems along with our own peripherals, focusing on industrial and manufacturing markets. In those days, the sales focus was very simple: explain and sell the technology by focusing on its technical features and benefits. We called it "moving iron" in those days.
Whether you are marketing a product or service, your goal is to make it recognizable, desirable and readily available to customers. Rarely does a single impression with a potential customer achieve this goal. An effective marketing campaign will bring your company in contact with your customer multiple times.


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These are absolutely THE most fluffy, wonderful and delicious pancakes I've ever had. The secret is the "sour" milk which is made by adding vinegar to ordinary milk.
Four years ago, I realized that I had discovered the secret to happiness (quite by accident). I've put together a list of 7 simple things you can do.
I decided tonight. I served it as a vegetable side dish, partially disguised beneath some Cheddar cheese sauce. Half way through dinner it hit me: what's the point? I don't like cauliflower. I never have.
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The mission of the Los Angeles Chapter of the Tuskegee Airmen, Inc., is to preserve the historical legacy of the first African American military aviators in the United States Armed Forces in World War II.
The vision of the Los Angeles Chapter of the Tuskegee Airmen Inc., is to provide an accurate historical accounting of documented original Tuskegee airmen (DOTA's) through ongoing public education, aeronautical and engineering scholastic assistance, and preservation of DOTA memorabilia.
The Tuskegee Airmen, Inc. partners with community agencies and programs to foster youth interest in S.T.E.M.(Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) and provide opportunities in related fields. Organization sponsored events are member supported with a community service objective.
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The Tuskegee Airmen were the first black pilots in American military service. They were called the Tuskegee Airmen because they received their pilot training on airfields around Tuskegee, Alabama. The most important of these airfields were Moton Field, where they obtained their primary flying training in biplanes, and Tuskegee Army Air Field, several miles to the northwest of Moton Field, where the airmen received their basic, advanced, and transition flying training. More..History of the Tuskegee Airmen
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Bayou Blue Screening Tonight
By: Alix Lambert
Tonight at 8pm Bayou Blue will screen at Real Art Ways in Hartford, Connecticut.
About a year and a half ago, David McMahon first approached me with the idea of making a documentary about the serial killer Ronald Dominique. I was surprised that I had never heard of Dominique, as versed as I was in the world of crime, but I hadn't. We drove into Houma Louisiana for the first time, arriving at 3am and it felt dark and bleak and very much appropriate for a serial killer. Over subsequent trips, spanning the next six months we got to know the detectives involved with the case, the families of the victims, and members of the community who fed us good food and showed us kindness. Dominique declined our request to speak with him, but we were given his interrogation tapes, so his own voice, to some extent, narrates the film. The story we wove ended up being much more a portrait of a part of America that has been hit by one tragedy after another – from hurricanes, to oil spills, to coastal erosion, to poverty, to a serial killer in the midst – southern Louisiana had not been spared any blows.
David McMahon and I will be present for a q and a after the screening. I hope you can come out.
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March 26th Madras –Mylapore Diocese celebrated the "Sanctification Day"at Archdiocesan Patoral Centre-Chennai. Fr. Franklin D'Souza, Secretary, CBCI Office for Youth –ICYM from New Delhi guided the recollection. In his First talk at 10am he spoke on Luke 5:1-11; the Call of Simon and our call. In the second session at 11.15am he explained Mathew 18:21-35; where he stressed on Sacrament of reconciliation and forgiveness in our ministry as well as personal life. Confessions were organized from 12pm onwards.
Evening at 4.30pm Holy Hour was organized at Santhome Cathedral. Fr. Franklin led the Holy Hour. After which Most Rev. George Anthonysamy, Archbishop of Madras-Mylapore concelebrated the Chrism Mass with the priests and religious of his diocese. A large number of faithful, clergy & religious witnessed this moment of grace. Vicar General thanked everyone also jubilarinas were honored by the Archbishop. Fr Franklin was thanked by V.G. for helping the clergy in the recollection.