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It's the Primaries, Stupid: Guilty Until Proven Innocent
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RINOs Up For reelection in 2016
Richard A. Viguerie, CHQ Chairman
In response to my recent column, "It's the Primaries, Stupid: Have You Filed For Office Yet?" some CHQ readers have (quite fairly) asked the question, "How do I know if my elected official is a RINO who deserves a Primary challenge?"
My answer is one shared by the First Lady of the Conservative Movement Phyllis Schlafly: Today, all incumbent Republican Members of Congress are 'guilty until proven innocent,' by their actions and votes.
What this means is that even though your Congressman, your State Representative, your County Clerk, your local School Board Member, Fire Control District Commissioner or City Councilman talks like a conservative you must honestly and diligently investigate whether they actually spent their past term governing like a conservative.
If they haven't, they deserve a Primary challenge.
Doing your due diligence is especially important with regard to Congress, the Republican establishment has mastered the art of campaigning like conservatives and governing like John Boehner, Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell – they are more like con men than the principled defenders of constitutional liberty that the Founders envisioned their successors would be.
Fortunately, we conservatives have many resources to help us identify who on Capitol Hill is a real conservative and who is a con man.
Heritage Action for America, The American Conservative Union, Gun Owners of America, Conservative Review, The Club for Growth, The National Rifle Association, The Family Research Council, Americans for Prosperity and National Right to Life to name but a few all publish ratings of Congress and track votes on the conservative agenda and are worth using as a starting point for your research.
None of these are individually by themselves dispositive of which Member of Congress is a conservative and which one is a con man, and some of them may even be in conflict, but taken as a whole they offer a good starting point in your research as to whether or not your Representative in Congress is innocent of being a RINO.
I say they are a good starting point because none of them really measures the key element that separates the conservatives from the RINO con men – the willingness to rock the boat and stand on principle and vote against the establishment Republican leadership.
And determining whether or not your Congressman is a boat-rocker is absolutely vital, because a big part of the incumbent Republican congressional con is the use of "show votes" to cover the con.
"Show votes" are votes that are meaningless because the establishment leadership does not intend for them to go anywhere once taken, sometimes they are set-up so incumbents being challenged on the Right can vote against leadership, knowing that Democrats will provide the votes to pass the bills the leadership wants – the recent Omnibus was a classic example of a "show vote."
The Omnibus gave Democrats everything they wanted, so of course they were going to vote for it, giving establishment Republicans who are facing challenges from the Right the opportunity to vote "NO" without actually producing a result that was contrary to what the RINO leadership really wanted.
The key vote, the vote that actually separated the "boat rockers" from the go-along-get-along crowd was the vote on the Rule to bring the Omnibus to the Floor, and only a handful of principled conservative Republicans actually opposed the Rule, whereas 95 House Republicans including several like incumbent Rep. Martha Roby (AL-2), who are facing stiff conservative primary challenges ended up voting against the bill.
But what do you do about your local offices that aren't covered by the national conservative organization scorecards?
Some scorecards do cover state legislators and can be helpful, but for your local offices, like County Clerk and Commissioner, City Council and the various Boards, like School Board, Fire Control or Soil and Water Conservation Districts you are pretty much on your own, so here are a few foolproof tests.
Did your local elected official campaign on being a fiscal conservative and holding down taxes and spending and then take a taxpayer-funded trip to a resort destination, like Las Vegas?
If they did, they deserve a primary challenge.
Does your local elected official claim to be a conservative and then act like national issues, such as same-sex marriage, funding of Planned Parenthood, the Muslim invasion and the like have nothing to do with them?
If they do, and they are unwilling to use the power of their office to stand for constitutional liberty, then they deserve a primary challenge.
Of course, there are some incumbents and many good candidates already running who are limited government constitutional conservatives and share our values. Some like principled limited government constitutional conservative All-Star Representatives Dave Brat and Louie Gohmert, may be facing a Primary challenge from establishment Republicans, and so they need your help.
However, if you apply the "guilty until proven innocent" test to your elected officials you will discover that the vast majority of positions on the ballot this year do not have limited government constitutional conservatives running, and many will have incumbents who have not faced a contest in years.
And because they have become professional politicians, rather than public servants, they are going to have all of the establishment money and resources behind them – don't let that intimidate you!
As I documented in my book TAKEOVER, ever since 2010 and the Tea Party Wave incumbent RINOs have been on the bubble.
In 2012 Tea Party-backed candidate Ted Cruz announced his campaign for Senate against the incumbent Lt. Governor, David Dewhurst. Cruz started the campaign at 2% as measured by a poll with a 3% margin of error, against a candidate whose support read like a Who's Who of DC and Austin lobbyists and influence peddlers – and who was prepared to spend over $20 million of his own money to fund his campaign.
As I explained in TAKEOVER, Ted Cruz won that election by assembling a vast grassroots army of limited government constitutional conservatives and campaigning relentlessly on the conservative agenda.
Dave Brat's stunning upset of House Majority Leader Eric Cantor in Virginia was likewise accomplished through a grassroots "zen campaign" that turned Cantor's overwhelming fundraising advantage among lobbyists and influence groups into an anchor around his neck that drowned him in a sea of voter outrage over his double-talk and betrayals of the conservative principles voters expected their Congressman to stand for.
So don't be intimidated - if there was ever a year in which being an incumbent and having the support of lobbyists, insiders and political powerbrokers was a hindrance, not a help, this is that year.
And remember, you don't have to run for Congress to make a difference. Running for any office, no matter how far down the ballot, is worthy of your efforts.
If constitutional conservatives are to govern America, we must not only elect a President and a Congress, but also County Clerks, City Council members, School Board members, state legislators, Secretaries of State, Lt. Governors, etc., etc.
Remember, the only time we conservatives are guaranteed to lose is when we don't compete.
Please read my other recent columns on the important of the 2016 Republican Primaries:
It's the Primaries, Stupid: The Most Important Office On The Ballot
It's the Primaries, Stupid: Have You Filed For Office Yet?
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Concerned over the negative impact of PUBG because of the violent content, Nepal has decided to ban the online game across the country. The federal investigation authority has requested all the internet service providers, mobile operators and network service providers to completely block the streaming of the online game.
This rule is for those above 18 years of age. For those under 18, the limit is the same, but they will be receiving notifications after two and four hours as well.
Launched in December 2017, PUBG is a multi-player battle game that connects users from around the world in real-time and allows them to fight missions, and is known to indulge players into long hours of gaming.
The decision has been taken keeping the upcoming Board exams in mind. MP home minister Bala Bachchan and law minister PC Sharma said that the decision to ban PUBG will be taken soon.


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CHIEF CONSTABLE CONDEMNS 'THUGGERY' ON THE STREETS OF BELFAST
A bird's eye view of the stand between loyalists and police in Belfast's Royal Avenu
PSNI Chief Constable Matt Baggott has hit out at rioters who brought another night of shame to the streets of Belfast.
He condemned the violent clashes around Royal Avenue and the North Street area of the city centre as "mindless anarchy and sheer thuggery".
A total 26 police officers were injured during loyalist protests on Friday evening. A number of civilians were also injured.
One police officer was knocked out during clashes with loyalist protestors after he was struck on the neck by an iron railing which bounced off his riot shield.
And a female officer had to be treated at the scene by a member of the public while colleagues used riot shields as protection from missiles.
Ulster Unionist MLA Michael Copeland was also injured after he was struck on the leg with a baton by a police officer.
The PSNI chief constable praised his officers, saying they had put their lives on the line to protect the rule of law.
Secretary of State Theresa Villiers described the violence and attacks on police as "shameful".
She said what had happened was a "hugely regrettable step backwards" after Northern Ireland's recent successes at hosting the G8 summit and World Police and Fire Games.
Five of the injured officers needed hospital treatment. Police fired 20 plastic baton rounds and used water cannon as well as dogs.
PSNI riot squad officer knocked out after struck by metal missile in Royal Avenue on Friday night
Loyalist protesters prevented the anti-internment republican parade from passing along Royal Avenue.
Police said they came under heavy and sustained attack by crowds "intent on creating disorder".
By late Friday night, Belfast was reported quiet after over four hours of sustained violence.
Before calm was restored, loyalists attacked a nationalist housing development near the lower Shankill estate.
Roofs were ripped off a new development, contractor vans burned out in what locals described as "serious rioting".
One local told Belfast Daily: "There was up 1,000 out on the Shankill. It is the worst rioting I have seen in this area.
"Those involved said it was in response to republicans earlier coming into Brown's Square and attacking homes.
"But this rioting is getting us nowhere. We are being taken down a cul-de-sac."
Police were forced to re-route a planned republican anti-internment parade after loyalists blocked a main thoroughfare through Belfast city centre on Friday night.
Rioting erupted just after 6 pm in Royal Avenue when several thousand loyalists blocked the road and refused to move.
They then attacked police lines with missiles, smoke bombs, fireworks, bottles and even beer kegs.
As a result, police stopped a republican parade in North Queen Street before it headed to Royal Avenue.
Some republicans broke through the police lines after being held up for an hour.
The parade later passed along North Queen Street, past Carrick Hill and Peters Hill.
Police forced loyalist protestors back up Peters Hill and into the Shankill using water cannon before the republicans marched past the flashpoint area.
Loyalists claimed it was "victory over terrorism" as republicans were not allowed to march down Royal Avenue.
Hijacked car burned by loyalists in north Street on Friday evening
PSNI resources were stretched to the limit as loyalists and republicans converged from many parts of Belfast on Friday evening.
At one point, they were caught in the middle of a Belfast city centre street battle tonight as loyalists and republican rioted.
At least one car was set on fire in north Street.
The Sunflower Bar just off Library Street, where three Catholics were shot dead by loyalist paramilitaries in the 1980s, was attacked masked loyalist youths, with windows being smashed.
In other parts of the city centre, republican crowds gathered in Castle Street, Kent Street and Library Street, not far from where up to 2,000 loyalists are holding a protest and refusing to move from the street.
A republican parade also set off from Divis Street to head into the centre to meet up with the other republican marchers before they headed to a rallying point in Andersonstown, west Belfast.
Both sets of protestors threw missiles at police who were finding it almost impossible to keep control of the crowds.
The scenes of violence on what should have been a busy night city centre eateries and pubs turned Belfast into a ghost town for traders.
Pubs and restaurants had to close their doors for the safety of staff and patrons, with the loss of an evenings trade.
The Sunflower Bar in Belfast city centre whicih was attacked on Friday night
Furious commuters were left stranded after Translink diverted its bus services away from the trouble.
One mother said: "It was just so nice of Translink to let us know their plans. I was left stranded in the city centre and had to wait forever to get home to pick up my son."
PSNI Assistant Chief Constable George Hamilton said the violence could have a lasting effect on Northern Ireland.
"Whilst facilitating the Parades Commission determination for tonight's parade and associated protests, police have come under heavy and sustained attack by crowds intent on creating disorder," said ACC Hamilton.
"As Northern Ireland moves ahead, the effect of tonight's violence has the potential to damage the local economy and the reputation of Belfast as a tourist destination."
The DUP's Nelson McCausland said the republican parade had been designed to provoke a loyalist reaction.
"We warned the secretary of state, the PSNI and the Parades Commission that this would happen but they ignored our warnings," he said.
"They misjudged the situation and the image of Belfast has suffered badly. That is particularly frustrating because what happened was entirely avoidable."
UUP MLA Michael Copeland made a complaint to the PSNI after he was hit with a baton by a PSNI officer.
The Ulster Unionist Party said its East Belfast assembly member Michael Copeland had made a complaint to police that he had been assaulted by an officer.
His complaint has been referred to the Police Ombudsman's office.
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Melba Honeybee accused me of getting a new camera, which is why I've posted "a thousand photos of Jinx" on my site. Well, Miss Melba, the camera is 3 years old and the cat is a little over a year, so my recent joining of the pack on Cat Blogging Fridays is only because I wanted to share Jinx's beauty with the three or four people who read my blog. (Hey Kathy! Andrew! Rich! and, of course, Miss Melba!) Some may be confusing Jinx with the cat that graces the Ephemeral Exclamation page, but that particular feline is not Jinx, but Sleepycat, another black and white kitty. I wrote a poem for her some time ago.


Maersk and IBM have announced the creation of TradeLens, jointly developed by the two companies to apply blockchain to the world's global supply chain.
TradeLens is the result of a collaboration agreement between Maersk and IBM, a blockchain-enabled shipping solution designed to promote more efficient and secure global trade, bringing together various parties to support information sharing and transparency, and spur industry-wide innovation.
TradeLens uses IBM Blockchain technology as the foundation for digital supply chains, empowering multiple trading partners to collaborate by establishing a single shared view of a transaction without compromising details, privacy or confidentiality.
Shippers, shipping lines, freight forwarders, port and terminal operators, inland transportation and customs authorities can interact more efficiently through real-time access to shipping data and shipping documents, including IoT and sensor data ranging from temperature control to container weight.
Using blockchain smart contracts, TradeLens enables digital collaboration across the multiple parties involved in international trade.
The trade document module, released under a beta program and called ClearWay, enables importers/exporters, customs brokers, trusted third parties such as Customs, other government agencies, and NGOs to collaborate in cross-organisational business processes and information exchanges, all backed by a secure, non-repudiable audit trail.
One example demonstrated how TradeLens can reduce the transit time of a shipment of packaging materials to a production line in the United States by 40%, avoiding thousands of dollars in cost. Through better visibility and more efficient means of communicating, some supply chain participants estimate they could reduce the steps taken to answer basic operational questions such as "where is my container" from 10 steps and five people to, with TradeLens, one step and one person.
More than 154 million shipping events have been captured on the platform, including data such as arrival times of vessels and container "gate-in", and documents such as customs releases, commercial invoices and bills of lading.
"We believe blockchain can play an important role in digitising global shipping, an area of the global economy that moves four trillion dollars of goods every year. However, success with the technology rests on a single factor –bringing the entire ecosystem together around a common approach that benefits all participants equally," said Bridget van Kralingen, senior vice president, IBM Global Industries, Solutions and Blockchain.
"Our work with Maersk and other enterprises in the shipping ecosystem has shown that blockchain can be used to form a strong, connected network in which all members gain by sharing important data and that together we can transform a vital part of how global trade is conducted."


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As you can see, the theme of yesterday's lunch was "orange." That is, except for the cheese. This is the stinky cheese I referred to in my post the other day. Notice the black line through it. I wondered what it was, and trotted off to google. And then I thought hey, another blog post about cheese! Sure!
It's called Morbier. I discovered that the black stuff is actually WOOD ASH. Yes. You read that right. My almost-six-year-old daughter eats stinky cheese that features WOOD ASH. I cannot deny that this is some excellent cheese, wood ash and all.
If you happen to be one of those people who are interested in cheese production (or appreciate food journalism in general), please consider reading this great little article about Morbier cheese on the NYT website.
Please note: "Morbier is best eaten in very thin slices, with the rose gray rind removed and accompanied by fresh country bread and a glass of local red wine." Yum.
In Sarah's case she had to make do with a glass of milk instead.
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Xiaofeng "Denver" Tang is an Assistant Professor of Practice in the Department of Engineering Education at The Ohio State University. He worked as a Postdoctoral Scholar in Engineering Ethics for the Rock Ethics Institute and the Leonhard Center for the Enhancement of Engineering Education at the Pennsylvania State University. Dr. Tang received his Ph.D. in Science and Technology Studies from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. His doctoral dissertation examines institutional and pedagogical strategies for integrating engineering and the liberal arts education in the U.S. Since coming to Penn State in 2014, Dr. Tang's research has focused on developing teaching materials and pedagogical tools to help engineering faculty members integrate ethics into technical courses. Currently he is developing an online module for teaching data ethics. He and his team are also designing an ethics curriculum for the undergraduate Biological Engineering majors at Penn State. Dr. Tang is a contributor to the Penn State engineering ethics education program that was recognized by the National Academy of Engineering as a "national exemplar" in 2016. Dr. Tang's work has appeared in Engineering Studies, the International Journal of Engineering, Social Justice, and Peace, and the ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings.


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SIP - Session initiation protocol - is a protocol developed by the IETF MMUSIC Working Group and proposed standard for initiating, modifying, and terminating an interactive user session that involves multimedia elements such as video, voice, instant messaging, online games, and virtual reality.
PSTN - the public switched telephone network - is the concentration of the world's public circuit-switched telephone networks, in much the same way that the Internet is the concentration of the world's public IP-based packet-switched networks.
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IVR - In telephony, Interactive Voice Response - is a computerised system that allows a person, typically a telephone caller, to select an option from a voice menu and otherwise interface with a computer system.
DID - Direct Inward Dialing (also called DDI in Europe) is a feature offered by telephone companies for use with their customers' PBX system, whereby the telephone company (telco) allocates a range of numbers all connected to their customer's PBX.
RFC - Request for Comments (plurals Requests for Comments but RFCs) is one of a series of numbered Internet informational documents and standards very widely followed by both commercial software and freeware in the Internet and Unix communities.
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SIP is the internet standard for real time voice and video communication. SIP (Session Initiation Protocol) was developed by the IETF and published as RFC 3261.
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Echo cancellation not only improves quality but it also reduces bandwidth consumption because of its silence suppression technique.
What does ENUM mean ?
ENUM stands for Telephone Number Mapping. Behind this 'abbreviation' hides a great idea: To be reachable anywhere in the world with the same number - and via the best and cheapest route. ENUM takes a phone number and links it to an internet address which is published in the DNS system. The owner of an ENUM number can thus publish where a call should be routed to via a DNS entry. What's more, different routes can be defined for different types of calls - for example you can define a different route if the caller is a fax machine. ENUM does require the phone of the caller to support it.
You register an ENUM number rather like you register a domain. At present many registrars and VOIP Providers are providing this as a free service.
ENUM is a new standard, and is not that widespread yet. Though it looks set to become another revolution in communications and personal mobility.
How does FAX work in VOIP environment ?
FAX was designed for analog networks, and does not travel well over a VOIP network. The reason for this is that FAX communication uses the signal in a different way to regular voice communication. When VOIP technologies digitize and compress analog voice communication it is optimized for VOICE and not for FAX. Subsequently, there are a number of things you need to take note of when you move to a VoIP Phone System.
If you want to continue using your old fax machine, and you want to connect to your VoIP phone system, its best to use a VOIP GATWAY and an ATA that supports. T38 is a protocol designed to allow fax to 'travel' over a VoIP network.
It is also possible to convert to computer based fax and choose a VoIP phone system that supports fax. AANNEX Phone System for Windows includes a full feature FAX that receive faxes and forward them in PDF format to e-mail. Faxes can be sent from anywhere in the network using the Microsoft FAX client and Fax server(which comes free with Windows Server 2003 and 2008)
Another way to deal with fax when you switch to VOIP are to connect the fax machine directly to the existing analog phone line and bypass your VOIP system.
What is FOIP - Fax over IP ?
FOIP stands for Fax over IP and refers to the process of sending and receiving faxes via a VOIP network.
Fax over IP works via T38 and requires a T38 capable VOIP Gateway as well as a T38 capable fax machine, fax card or fax software. Fax Server software that can talk 'T38' allows sending and receiving faxes directly via a VOIP gateway and, consequently, does not need any additional fax hardware.
AANNEX includes a T38 compatible network Fax server in its. Faxes are converted to PDF files and forwarded via email. Outbound faxes are sent via Microsoft Fax from anywhere in the network. Other fax servers currently in the market require the use of separately licensed and expensive Dialogic SoftIP drivers.
What is RTCP - Real Time Transport Protocol ?
RTCP stands for Real Time Transport Protocol and is defined in RFC 3550. RTCP works hand in hand with RTP. RTP does the delivery of the actual data, where as RTCP is used to send control packets to participants in a call. The primary function is to provide feedback on the quality of service being provided by RTP.
What is SDP - Session Description Protocol ?
SDP, short for Session Description Protocol, is a format for describing streaming media initialization parameters. It has been published by the IETF as RFC 4566. Streaming media is content that is viewed or heard while it is being delivered.
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Comparative Literature 2013 December UGC NET Solved Question Paper II
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1. Elaine Showalter is associated with ________.
(A) Feminism
(B) Cultural materialism
(C) Structuralism
(D) Reception
Answer: (A)
2. Which Marxist text among those listed below engages with formalism?
(A) Lenin and Philosophy by Althusser
(B) The Novel and the People by Fox.
(C) Art and Social Life by Plekhanov
(D) Literature and Revolution by Trotsky
Answer: (D)
3. The journal of the Comparative Literature Association of India is called ______.
(A) Literary and Cultural Studies
(B) Comparative Literature
(C) Literature and Literary Studies
(D) Sahitya
4. The chief exponent of Dhvani theory is ________.
(A) Kuntaka
(B) Bharata
(C) Abhinava Gupta
(D) Anandavardhana
5. The periodical Indian Literature is currently edited by _______.
(A) K. Satchidanandan
(B) Harish Trivedi
(C) Yashodhara Mishra
(D) Indranath Choudhari
Answer: (C)
6. Which of the following words is not an acceptable translation of the term 'rasa'?
(A) Flavour
(B) Truth
(C) Desire
(D) Beauty
Answer: (B)
7. Bharatendu Harishchandra had translated Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay's _______.
(A) Durgeshnandini
(B) Sitaram
(C) Rajani
(D) Rajsimha
8. In his An Autobiography: My Experiments with Truth, Gandhi mentions one of these texts as a distinct influence. Identify the text.
(A) Thoreau, Walden
(B) Ruskin, Unto This Last
(C) Arnold, Culture and Anarchy
(D) Carlyle, Sartor Resartus
9. "Indian Literature is one though written in different languages." This was a statement by ______
(A) Jawaharlal Nehru
(B) S. Radhakrishnan
(C) Rabindra Nath Tagore
(D) Sisir Kumar Das
10. The theme of the educated hero as the liberator of the oppressed peasant appears diachronically in _______.
(A) Russian Nihilist and Marxist traditions.
(B) French tradition of the revolution of 1789 and the anti-Nazi resistance.
(C) Bengali leftist writings of the Progressive and Naxalite eras.
(D) Malayalam literature of the 1930s and 1970s.
11. In an Akam poem, the description of a buffalo treading on a lotus as he feeds on small flowers symbolises an unfaithful man who makes his lady love suffer by visiting prostitutes, is an example of ________.
(A) Ullurai
(B) Utanurai
(C) Nakai
(D) Sirappu
12. In which of these novels does M.K. Gandhi not feature by his physical presence?
(A) R.K. Narayan's Waiting for the Mahatma
(B) Mulk Raj Anand's Untouchable
(C) Raja Rao's Kanthapura
(D) Sashi Tharoor's The Great Indian Novel
13. Sartre's The Flies borrows its theme from _______.
(A) Homer
(B) Aeschylus
(C) Sophocles
(D) Aristophanes
14. The utopian aspirations of the epic poets of the sixteenth century have been disentangled by examining the theme of earthly paradise by ________.
(A) Kaiser
(B) Frye
(C) Giamatti
(D) Levin
15. The Comparatist who introduces a distinction, between 'direct' and 'indirect' influence, by asking the question, 'did a Renaissance poet have to read Petrarch in order to write a petrarchan sonnet' is _______.
(A) G.E. Lessing
(B) A. Balakian
(C) J.T. Shaw
(D) C. Guillen
16. Which of the following pairs do not deal with thematology?
(A) Stoff-Rohstoff
(B) Dominant – Residual
(C) Plot – Tale
(D) Trait – Type
17. The critic who defined 'analogy' or 'affinity' as "resemblances in style, structure, mood or idea between works which have no other connection" is ________.
(A) Wellek
(B) Aldridge
(C) Prawar
(D) Balakian
18. In the Harry Potter series, a central theme is ________.
(A) Religion
(B) Sports
(C) Racism
(D) Modern Science
19. Who among the following has mapped the reception of Kalidasa's Abhijñānasākuntalam in nineteenth century Europe?
(A) Michael Dodson
(B) Ronald B. Inden
(C) Dorothy Figueira
(D) Richard King
20. Evam Indrajit is _______.
(A) A short story by Rabindranath
(B) A play by Badal Sarkar
(C) A play by Girish Karnad
(D) A novel by Munshi Prem Chand
21. The critic who believes that a high translation activity takes place when a literature is in its initial stage of development is ________.
(A) Nida
(B) Evan Zohar
(C) Newmark
(D) Steiner
22. Which genre came up in medieval India as non-fiction but has survived to encompass fiction in modern South Asia?
(A) Upanyās
(B) Mahākāvya
(C) Nāmāh
(D) Nātaka
23. The critic who talks about the impossibility of translation is ________.
(A) Dryden
(C) Croce
(D) Cowper
24. Who talked about three kinds of poetry – the heroic (epic and tragedy), the scommatic (satire and comedy), and the pastoral?
(A) Hobbes
(B) Davenant
(C) Dallas
(D) Coleridge
25. The writer who makes a distinction between languages and meta language in connection with translation is ________.
(A) Catford
(B) Nida
(C) Steiner
(D) Lefevère
26. Thomas More's Utopia is seen as a forerunner of the modern genre of _______.
(A) Fantasy
(B) Travel narrative
(C) Science Fiction
(D) Mirror of Prince tract
27. Who argues that every translator should look at the translation process through the prism of culture, which refracts the source language cultural norms and it is the translator's task to convey them, preserving their meaning and their foreigners, to the target-language text?
(A) Harish Trivedi
(B) Laurence Venuti
(C) Andrew Robinson
(D) Shamile Bandyopadhyay
28. Who among the following conceived of Greek tragedy as an interplay of the Apollonian/Dionysian opposition ________?
(A) Nietzsche
(B) Heraclitus
(C) Schopenhauer
(D) Kant
29. Who among the following has translated Beowulf?
(A) Ezra Pound
(B) Seamus Heaney
(C) Robert Lowell
(D) Joseph Brodsky
30. Marxist literary historiography in relation to science fiction was pioneered by ________.
(A) Raymond Williams
(B) Terry Eagleton
(C) Darko Suvin
(D) Pierre Macherey
31. The Throne of Blood is a Japanese film version of _________.
(A) Macbeth
(B) Richard the Third
(C) Hamlet
(D) King Lear
32. An argument about Literature's "crisis" of periodisation was made by ________.
(A) Wellek and Warren
(B) Althusser
(C) Guillen
(D) Jameson
33. One of the novels in the list below is analogically related to the structure of Indian classical music. Identify.
(A) The Ground Beneath Her Feet
(B) An Equal Music
(C) A Suitable Boy
(D) Evening Raga
34. The genre of history writing was developed in conscious opposition to epics by _________.
(A) Hiuen Tsang
(B) Aristotle
(C) Thucydides
(D) Plutarch
35. In which of the following American plays is the African folk music used as a motif?
(A) The Hairy Ape
(B) A Streetcar Named Desire
(C) The Emperor Jones
(D) Death of a Salesman
36. Which among the following elements tends to be de-emphasized in extrinsic histories of literature?
(A) Text
(B) Author
(C) Context
(D) Readers
37. The Last Supper is a subject of which novel?
(A) The Bourne Inheritance
(B) The Da Vinci Code
(C) The Trotternamah
(D) Angels and Demons
38. Who among the following has said "all history is contemporary history"?
(A) Hegel
(B) Croce
(C) Voltaire
(D) Bossuet
39. Francois Truffault's film Fahreinheit 451 is based on a story by _________.
(A) Isaac Asimov
(B) Dorothy L Sayers
(C) Ray Bradbury
(D) Toni Morrison
40. Which of the following is not one of the Comparative Literature "methodology triad"?
(A) Genealogy
(B) Historiography
(C) Genology
(D) Thematology
41. Which event was to result in the writing of a Canadian play?
(A) The Jallianwalla Bagh Massacre
(B) The Komagata Maru Incident
(C) The Bengal Famine
(D) The Fall of the Berlin Wall
42. Who among the following thinkers holds the view that the African culture is weak compared to the Western culture?
(A) Kant
(B) Hegel
(C) Sartre
(D) Pascal
43. Which among the following is a definitive characteristic of the French School of Comparative Literature?
(A) Stylistics
(B) Polygenesis Studies
(C) Mythological Studies
(D) Influence Studies
44. The critic who has used Robelais' The Life of Gargantua and Pantagruel in a significant way is _______.
(A) Leavis
(B) Bakhtin
(C) Gramsci
(D) Spivak
45. Who described Comparative Literature as "a discipline which bears on facts common to several literatures, considered as such, be it in their mutual interdependence or by analogy"?
(A) Van Tieghem
(B) Guyard
(C) Wellek
46. The Quit India Movement is the subject matter of _________.
(A) Maila Anchal
(B) Chemmeen
(C) Jagori
(D) Chha Mana Atha Guntha
47. Comparative Literature is defined as "the comparison of one literature with another or others, and the comparison of literature with other spheres of human experience" by __________.
(B) Weisstein
(C) Levin
(D) Remak
48. Who are the authors of Dialectics of Enlightenment?
(A) Partha Chatterjee and Dipesh Chakravorty
(B) Edward Said and Homi Bhaba
(C) Theodore Adorno and Max Hoskheimer
(D) Robert E. Park and Charles H. Cooley
49. The device of using set speeches by early historians is derived from _________.
(A) Homer's Iliad
(B) Virgil's Aeneid
(C) Dante's Divine Comedy
(D) Plato's Republic
50. Name the novel that features South Indian life that deals with the theme of extra-marital relationship as a sin from among the following:
(A) Choma's Drum
(B) Kaadu
(C) Mother Came
(D) Nectar in a Sieve
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In graph theory, the Gyárfás–Sumner conjecture asks whether, for every tree  and complete graph , the graphs with neither  nor  as induced subgraphs can be properly colored using only a constant number of colors. Equivalently, it asks whether the -free graphs are -bounded.
It is named after András Gyárfás and David Sumner, who formulated it independently in 1975 and 1981 respectively. It remains unproven.

In this conjecture, it is not possible to replace  by a graph with cycles. As Paul Erdős and András Hajnal have shown, there exist graphs with arbitrarily large chromatic number and, at the same time, arbitrarily large girth. Using these graphs, one can obtain graphs that avoid any fixed choice of a cyclic graph and clique (of more than two vertices) as induced subgraphs, and exceed any fixed bound on the chromatic number.

The conjecture is known to be true for certain special choices of , including paths, stars, and trees of radius two.
It is also known that, for any tree , the graphs that do not contain a subdivision of  are -bounded.

References

External links
Graphs with a forbidden induced tree are chi-bounded, Open Problem Garden

Graph coloring
Conjectures
Unsolved problems in graph theory

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Can't COPE
By The New Republic
Why South Africa's nascent black opposition fell flat on Election Day.
A theory of racial politics that shed light on last year's U.S. presidential election could perhaps have been used to better effect by a new opposition party in South Africa. The theory--promulgated by Shelby Steele, a fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution--is that blacks who succeed in mainstream America are either race-stoking "challengers" or race-conciliatory "bargainers." While Steele's assessment was dead wrong stateside--it failed to adequately account for Obama's success--his framework was largely valid. Had it been leveraged by South Africans who opposed the presidential candidacy of Jacob Zuma, head of the ruling black-led African National Congress (ANC), things today might look very different for the G-20 nation.
Since 1994--when apartheid ended, Nelson Mandela came to power, and South Africa became a democracy--the country has been stymied by something of a Thomas Frankian paradox. Most middle- and upper-class whites there have refused to vote for the apartheid-ending ANC, even though its neoliberal economic policies--including partial deregulation and inflation targeting--distinctly favor them. Likewise, poor black voters, still seduced by the ANC's liberation narrative, consistently vote against their own economic interests, leaving many of these have-nots worse off still.
Enter COPE, the Congress of the People, a black-led opposition party that emerged late last year and promised to challenge South Africa's racially defined voting patterns. Comprising former President Thabo Mbeki's old ANC allies, it was the first genuine multiracial opposition that threatened to upset the ANC's dominance since the end of apartheid.
The ANC received 63 percent of the parliamentary vote in 1994, and nearly 70 percent in 2004. The largest (and largely white) opposition party, the Democratic Alliance (DA), managed to win the support of many disgruntled whites and Afrikaners who had previously voted for the National Party, led by the country's last white president, F.W. de Klerk. But without significant black support, the DA has never been able to compete with the ANC on a national level. The party, led today by Helen Zille, the 58-year-old white mayor of Cape Town, has made incremental gains, notably winning 16 percent in last week's election, its best-ever total--as well as an impressive majority win in the Western Cape province (Cape Town is its capital), which is largely white and mixed race. In the weeks prior to the election, Zille courted these voters by criticizing the ANC and sensationally attacking Zuma, warning that he was a "one-man constitution wrecking machine."
COPE, meantime, adopted a "bargaining" strategy--in this case, appealing to middle-class white South Africans while promising upward mobility to the poor black majority and hoping its slick professionalism would appeal to the emerging black middle class. "Bargainers," according to Steele, reassure whites that they will not be blamed for their country's racist past so long as they abandon racism in the voting booth. "Challengers," by contrast, aggressively leverage the history of racism and pressure whites to make concessions, such as agreeing to affirmative action-like policies. As a result, the theory holds, challengers enjoy immediate material gain, while their white counterparts gain some amount of racial redemption.
In February, COPE co-founder Mosiuoa Lekota, the country's former defense minister, criticized the ANC's affirmative-action policies, likening them to "job reservation" under apartheid--a racial quota system that ensured government jobs for Afrikaners. Young white taxpayers, he asserted, should not bear the cost of affirmative-action policies (even though, according to the Commission for Employment Equity--which advises the minister of labor on relevant matters--white women benefit more from the policy than black men do).
Lekota's rhetoric undercut whites' anxieties, provided them a sense of racial redemption, and sent a message of post-racialism. Just as Barack Obama gave voice to white bitterness in his March 2008 speech on race in Philadelphia--"When they hear that an African American is getting an advantage in landing a good job," he said, "or a spot in a good college because of an injustice that they themselves never committed; when they're told that their fears about crime in urban neighborhoods are somehow prejudiced, resentment builds over time,"--COPE, it seemed, was beginning to acknowledge the racial grievances aired in private by many white South Africans.
In the end, though, bargaining proved too risky a strategy. After all, unlike in the U.S., whites in South Africa do not make up a majority of the electorate, and so the tactic of overtly wooing them was and is a losing proposition. Add to that more pedestrian errors, like near-invisibility in the media, and the outcome was all but inevitable. But it was the party's ideological incoherence and posturing that left it with a disappointingly narrow slice of the electorate. For instance, while the ANC rented 3,300 buses to bring voters to a 200,000-person rally in central Johannesburg, COPE held its final pre-election event in the swanky Hilton ballroom in Sandton, a wealthy suburb to which many of the nouveaux riches have fled. In a bizarre blend of religion and alarmism, COPE's leaders invited the audience, primarily black men and women in business suits, to pray for 30 percent of the vote and then listen to a series of speeches--peppered with an odd array of quotations from the likes of Thomas Jefferson and Frantz Fanon-- denouncing the ANC for its totalitarian decision-making and populist economic policies. At one point, COPE's Gauteng provincial leader, Lawrence Khosa, likened Zuma's rise to the reign of terror in post-revolutionary France.
What's more, COPE failed to make explicit its position on affirmative action. Though Lekota's position was clear, the rest of the party equivocated. Even its official manifesto was vague: nominally committed to retaining affirmative action but open to reviewing its implementation. This left the party awkwardly straddling bargainer and challenger positions, placing the party in a no-man's land that confused and alienated potential supporters. In the end, COPE's leaders did not have the political resolve to bluntly support race-based redress, and they were too timid to openly embrace non-racialism with a principled renunciation of affirmative action. As a result, many would-be white voters were left unable to affirm COPE's commitment to post-racialism, while many "buppies"--South Africa's black middle class constitutes about six percent of the total population and is rapidly expanding, thus making it a much-targeted constituency--feared losing the very affirmative action benefits that have helped them join the middle class. The end result: COPE was trounced, and received less than eight percent of the vote.
COPE must now regroup and reconsider how it will become a post-racial party capable of attracting anxious whites, maintaining the trust of self-interested buppies, and building support in the impoverished townships. South Africa's democracy is maturing fast, but the psychological scars of apartheid and the racial allegiances it produced will color voting patterns for years to come. COPE's best shot at success may come from demonstrating to political competitors and voters alike that color-blind policies and ideologies are not essential for building a substantively equal post-democratic society. Some of the logic of challenger politics, such as the need to address South Africa's deep racial legacies in explicit racial terms, can be successfully articulated in the gentle, inclusive, and non-alienating voice of a skilled bargainer.
Eusebius McKaiser is a political and social analyst at the Center for the Study of Democracy in Johannesburg.
Sasha Polakow-Suransky is an associate editor at Foreign Affairs.
By Eusebius McKaiser and Sasha Polakow-Suransky


New sandals from Teva. The upper part is made of fabric - fabric. textile is the material of the lining. Comfort is provided by the insoles made of synthetic material. The sole made from high-quality material grants good adhesion to surfaces The Non-Marking, Shoc Pad, Spider Rubber technology is a big advantage of this model. This pair adjusts to free and casual clothes.


Sales from Oakwell have finished, but remain available from Brighton.
Final sales for Brighton are 712. Tickets are no longer available for Reds fans at the BFC Box Office, but fans can pay on the day if they're yet to get tickets for the Sky Bet Championship clash.
For those who are yet to purchase a ticket, tickets for the away section can be purchased directly from Brighton & Hove Albion's Booking Line on 0844 327 1901 (select option 1 and advise you wish to sit in the away section) until 8pm today.
The away end concourse opens at 1.30pm, with live coverage of Manchester United v Leicester City pre-match, and Arsenal v Chelsea and Aston Villa v Newcastle United post-match.
Visiting supporters are also reminded that the concourses around the Amex remain open to all fans after the match, with the stadium's north concourse open late until 7.30pm - for those wishing to avoid the rush away from the Amex.


Unsurprisingly, I have a rather long list of eateries I really want to try out, but as it happens, thousands of other food-crazed Londoners also seem to have the same list. I'm learning the hard way that booking a Saturday night dinner on the Thursday beforehand rarely ever works, and I don't even bother trying to get in before the dinner rush anymore – because there's always a rush. On the flipside, I guess I should be grateful for the places that do take bookings, because the one thing I find more ridiculous than that is a restaurant that takes no reservations at all and makes me queue outside for two hours; I don't care how good your lobster is.
So, does it pay to be organised? The restaurants which are constantly booked out are either the latest darling of the London food crowd or actually have really good food – sometimes you hit the jackpot and get both, but after all the weeks of anticipation and hype, can they ever manage to live up to expectations? This is what I pondered to myself as I headed towards The Dairy in Clapham on a chilly Wednesday night at 6.15pm – the first available table that my (much more organised) friend could find when she checked over three weeks earlier.
The menu is seasonal and split into simple categories: snacks, garden, sea, land, sweets. They are all a couple of items in each, all made for sharing – or if you would rather, there is also a tasting menu. With four of us, the ordering was pretty easy; we asked for one of almost everything and away we went.
The meal kicked off with a tasty pumpkin morsel and toasty warm sourdough buns served with lightly whipped, smokey butter. From this point I had a very good feeling about the rest to come.
As someone who eats with her eyes as much as with her mouth, I thought that each dish was beautiful – whoever is in the kitchen really cares about what they are putting on that plate and exactly where they're putting it. And yes, they did taste as good as they looked.
My personal highlights were the fluffy piles of Cornish crab sitting in a rich bisque, the punchy applewood-smoked eel, and that Yorkshire wood pigeon perfectly paired with celeriac and bitter leaves. And because the plates are all rather small, there was definitely room left for a little extra-aged Comte cheese with maple and thyme crackers as well as the devilishly delicious salted caramel with cacao crumb and malted barley ice cream.
The Dairy was definitely well worth the wait; if I am organised enough in the future I'll definitely be making another booking without hesitation. And then I'll also remember to take plenty of spare change along as well, because, while the plates and prices seem small, they all do quickly add up to amount to a little more than your average trip to the local corner dairy.
The Dairy, 15 The Pavement, Clapham Old Town, SW4 0HY, open for lunch Wednesday-Saturday and Sunday, open for dinner Wednesday-Saturday.


The 2016 Yachting New Zealand Awards was held on Friday 25th November, and Royal Akarana Yacht Club members were featured throughout the categories.
Eli Liefting and Rose Dickson, who won a Youth Performance Award for their achievements in the RS Feva class locally and international, were also named as the Aon Emerging Talent winners. Eli and Rose have excelled in the class and won the National Championship as well as placing 4th at the Worlds in Spain. The award was a huge shock to Eli and Rose, who were in a category with some of New Zealand's top youth talent.
Alex Maloney and Molly Meech, who won Silver at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games, were given Life Time memberships to Yachting New Zealand, as well as winning performance awards. Alex and Molly based themselves from RAYC during their Olympic campaign and were the toast of club when they crossed the finish line of the nail biting medal race, which secured them with the podium finish.
18′ Skiff sailors David McDiarmid, Matthew Steven and Brad Collins were acknowledge with performance awards for their outstanding achievements in the class locally, in Australia and their results in Fiji. The crew from Yamaha finished second at the JJ's which is considered the intergalatics of 18′ Skiff racing, the best result from a Kiwi boat in 42 years. They showed dominance once again over the Australians during the Mark Foy World Championships in Fiji in July, winning the regatta outright. MC for evening Peter Lester said that it was great to see the 18′ Skiffs come alive on the Waitemata Harbour.
Matt Steven, David McDiarmid and Brad Collins.
Commodore Sally Garrett was presented with a Service Award for her tireless work with offshore safety standards. Sally has worked alongside Yachting New Zealand to tailor the safety standards for offshore racing and has ensured that RAYC leads the way in this field. Sally was also recognised for her great work with the ANZ Sail Fiji race and her continued efforts to promote offshore racing to the masses.
It was a very successful evening for RAYC and it's been some time since members have been on the stage winning these prestigious awards. The club has revamped it's image over the last few years and is now considered a big player for both youth racing, off the beach, high performance and long distance keelboat racing.


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Leather artist sets up shop at the back of Wandering Hermit
Pat Mitchell/Record-Times Eric Hannig stands among the tools of his leatherwork trade and items he's made in the shop in the back of the Wandering Hermit.
By: Pat Mitchell - Updated: 4 months ago
WHEATLAND – There are people in Wheatland with all kinds of skills, designing all kinds of things and putting their talents to work. One who has only been in this community a couple of years but has a well-honed talent is a young Navajo man, Eric Hannig, originally from Albuquerque.
At about nine years old, his aunt told him he had to get a hobby and she took him to the Tandy Leather store in Cheyenne. During the next few years he had made every kit available in that store and had every leather-working tool sold there. Then Hannig when on to putting his own ideas into designing patterns. Finally it was time to make a saddle from scratch for a friend.
Looking around his shop in the back of the newly-extended Wandering Hermit, there is a myriad of hand tools, a large sewing machine and leather items in several stages of completion. Billfolds, notebook covers, tapaderos (covers for stirrups), all beautifully hand-tooled, showcase Hannig's talent at working leather. A saddle tree sits on a stand ready for the next step in its completion. "If that's all I work on, a saddle will take three weeks to complete," he said. He takes orders for custom items as well.
"People have been very good to me here. Dan Brecht, Murel Connolly, Ben Harnish, Mary Louise Shepard and Wade Stoll have helped me a lot," he said.
With the barn wood, western photos and photos of himself riding horses, this location from a previous business venture certainly fits what Hannig is doing with the skills of his hands. Some of his items are displayed for sale in the front of the Wandering Hermit or you can go to his shop in the back and see what else he has made.
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