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Skip to comments.Yangtze River Turns Red and Turns Up a Mystery
Posted on 09/07/2012 2:31:16 PM PDT by kingattax
For a river known as the "golden watercourse," red is a strange color to see.
Yet that's the shade turning up in the Yangtze River and officials have no idea why.
The red began appearing in the Yangtze, the longest and largest river in China and the third longest river in the world, yesterday near the city of Chongquing, where the Yangtze connects to the Jialin River.
The Yangtze, called "golden" because of the heavy rainfall it receives year-round, runs through Chongqing, Southwest China's largest industrial and commercial center, also known as the "mountain city" because of the hills and peaks upon which its many buildings and factories stand.
The red color stopped some residents in their tracks. They put water from the river in bottles to save it. Fishermen and other workers who rely on the river for income kept going about their business, according to the UK's Daily Mail.
While the river's red coloring was most pronounced near Chongqing it was also reported at several other points. Officials are reportedly investigating the cause.
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Obvious satire...
This could be Hugh.
He could be rusting.
Alabama fans.
Revelation 16:4 NIV
The third angel poured out his bowl on the rivers and springs of water, and they became blood.
"Chongqing, Southwest China's largest industrial and commercial center"
probably industrial pollution
The stink of dead fish will not be a new odor to the Chinese, so the millions of fish that will be killed by this pollution probably will not cause any changes along the river. Eventually, the billions of Chinese will end up 'disposing of the fish kill'. One could hope in cans of fish for North Korean armies.
Just a small leak of red food coloring number 40.
Scary looking to say the least.....
Any red rainfall?
I thought I read that. The BP oil spill looked something like it too. I'm sure it's just coincidence.
Satire? Based on what exactly? China's pollution problem is notorious. It is been said that up to 1/3 of all rivers, lakes, and fresh water sources in China are not even fit for industrial use. That's pretty bad.
Are there any red algae types? China has a very bad record with industrial pollution, even in their most important waterways. I'd bet on a petchem plant that's discharging waste illegally.
Maybe they've taken a page out of Saddam's book and are putting dissidents through shredders, just on a Chinese scale. It could be easier to just chum the river than bulldoze for mass graves.
If this is polution the Chinese government just might have figured out a way to keep the population in check...(sarcasm....I think? but who knows with the communists)
———Any red rainfall?——
In the picture a second river is merging with the red flow. The merging water is not red. Had rainfall been the source of the color, both would be red
The Chicom answer to the Chicago dying the river green on St. Patrick's day.
I thought the Red River was the border between Texas and Oklahoma.
The Yangtze River and Pearl River estuaries have been listed as newly registered "dead zones," according to a study released by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP).
Dead zones, or low oxygenated areas in the world's seas and oceans, are places where nutrients from fertilizer runoff, sewage, animal waste and the burning of fossil fuels trigger algae blooms.
The algae blooms need oxygen and remove it from water, endangering other marine life.
The number and size of deoxygenated areas has risen each decade since the 1970s. Experts warn that these areas are fast becoming major threats to fish stocks, and to people who depend upon fisheries for food and livelihoods.
The major pollutants affecting seawater off China were inorganic nitrogen and active phosphate in 2005, according to a report on pollution of the marine environment released this week by the State Environmental Protection Administration (SEPA).
The report said 500,000 tons of ammonia nitrogen and 30,000 tons of phosphate from land-based activities floated into the sea last year.
Eighty-two "red tides" one type of algal bloom occurred in China's seas in 2005, down 15 per cent from the previous year, according to the UNEP report.
With a billion people and poor sanitation, no wonder it's golden. It's only red after the purges.
probably industrial pollution
Yes. I was thinking pet food and pet treat companies dumping anti freeze sweeteners etc., into there.
Come to think of it, the article I cited was about the river delta near Shanghai, whereas this one is about Chungking, which is far inland. I'd guess that there's been a bit of a drought, and the Three Gorges Dam isn't helping matters. Red tide is said to be a problem in slow-moving waters.
Red Tide is actually a red algae....sometimes causing Shellfish poisoning.
Gadzooks! Maybe China is one of those extra states in Obama's 57... and it appears they are trending Romney-Ryan!
Mr. Lamarr? Mr. Lamarr, all them Chinks of ours we bought for the railroad... they's a voting for Romney!
It is to be expected, Taggart, after we let him be Sheriff... he had to reach his true level of incompetence under the Peter Principle!
Now that I've looked a Google map, the scary part is that Chungking is upstream of the Three Gorges Dam. I can't imagine how low the Yangtze's water level must be for red tide to be a problem upstream of the dam. Ultimately, the Chinese will have to limit the amounts used to irrigate crops, meaning shut down a big chunk of agriculture that taps the Yangtze, until the drought is over. I am beginning to understand why grain prices are near record highs. This three-year Chinese drought can't be helping matters. (The ethanol mandate isn't helping, of course).
The government knows very well where the pollutant came from. They are just playing dumb.
This will be interesting to see what the "Official" answer is.
Since I am guessing from pictures only, I would say it looks like a industrial Chem Spill. But I don't see or have read of any fish kills associated with this red colorization. So the next guess is that of an erosion of a soil layer that contains a lot of red pigment. Especially since the article emphasizes that this is a mountain city.
And yet people try to survive on the fish they catch from these cesspools.........
The Chinese are thinning the herd. All the people that will eat whatever is taken out of there over the next few weeks will eventually succumb to something that no doubt will be blamed on George Bush and Mitt Romney.
I wish it was satire. But, it's not. We'll continue to sell our debt to them, buy their products, allow the EPA and 'free trade' to put us at a competitive disadvantage, and kowtow to their domination of the seas. I don't use sarcasm tags.
a tribute to Bear Bryant?
On one of my trips on the Yangtze, there was a body floating down the river. The guide was not at all surprised (or upset) and just passed it off as a result of all the floods they had had that Spring.
Yes. Ocean red tides come to mind. Algae.
That epidemic is already on the way.
It touched the Eastern Quadrant, so that meant this was just short of the worst kind of drought.
Currently the drought is breaking as hurricanes spin up and onto the continent!
China's drought should also break this year.
The WORST we had that anyone saw personally and wrote about was in the Eastern Quadrant for a 70 year period ~ ending about 1609 or thereabouts. 17 years in the last half saw no precipitation at all and may have influenced Spanish thinking about how to carve North America up in the Treaty of London (1604).
Red tide 1000 miles upstream of the sea, and 500 miles upstream of the dam isn't cause for optimism. Maybe this is one period in which East Asian and North American drought cycles decouple.
Red clay is common throughout China. So is yellow clay. That's a mountainous region. Lots and lots of red and yellow clay around.
Moses came back from Heaven and dipped his staff into the river. The Chinese Pharaoh has been given notice!
Maybe an algae. If it's like Karenia brevis and in high enough concentration, it'll be toxic in fish.
Not all red tides are harmful, BTW.
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Well, let's see:
He got hit exactly one time in 4 rounds, and managed to partially duck even that blow.
He came back immediately and finished that round strong, showing tremendous heart.
He completely dominated the fight, yet kept his cool and showed tremendous patience.
He landed a lot of vicious body shots, which is unusual for a HW.
He showed excellent footwork and speed.
His accuracy was the best we've ever seen from him.
He ended the fiight with a 1-punch KO.
Yeah, he really sucks!
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Ya know
I mean haterz gonna hate, but as another pointed out.....Tupou is a monster puncher, and is a far stronger puncher than Pajkic who KDd Fury similarly.
The fact that Jennings ended the round effectively shows he's got good recovery skills.
Sometimes, a 260lb fighter is gonna KD and even KO the 220lbs fighter when those kindof shots land. But Jennings, wasnt about to let that happen. He went straight away back to his gameplan and got his 2nd consecutive dominant KO win.
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Very good interview with Jennings (pre Tupou fight) here:
He seems pretty humble & intelligent.
Some of our more delusional Brit****s should also realize that Jennings still holds a full-time job as an a mechanic. Combine that with the fact that he's only been a boxer for 3 years (no amateur career) and if you're still not impressed with the guy, you must be sucking the Queen's *****.
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The following is a guest post by South Dakota State Senator Angie Buhl O'Donnell, a member of People For the American Way Foundation's Young Elected Officials Network.
Harvey Milk's words inspired audiences throughout his life, but his most enduring words may have been the simple push to "come out, come out wherever you are."
To me, that's the most important legacy of the political leader we lost 35 years ago this week – his insistence on the far-reaching impact of the very personal act of coming out. Despite the potential downsides, despite the fact that it can feel easier not to come out, Harvey Milk knew that our community must be visible in order to make legal and social equality a reality.
While Milk spent much of his life in urban centers, I believe the urgency to make ourselves visible is even greater in places like South Dakota, where I live. It's 2013, but some people still think LGBT people only exist in New York or San Francisco. As researcher Mary Gray has written, popular representations of rural LGBT people paint us as "out of place" in states like South Dakota – as people who need to "seek out belonging in an urban elsewhere to find happiness." But LGBT people are in every part of our country, and we are increasingly visible in the political landscape.
Milk's legacy has been a personal inspiration for me, as an openly bisexual elected official. Earlier this year, I became a Harvey Milk Champion of Change. While I was honored to be recognized by the White House with an award bearing his name, I actually had some hesitation about accepting. As a bisexual woman married to a man, I was worried about people thinking I didn't really "deserve" it. But I realized that line of reasoning was not what Harvey Milk would have embraced. His legacy is about sharing your own identity, your own truth in whatever form that might take. Besides, there's a "B" in "LGBT" for a reason.
On Wednesday, Senator Elizabeth Warren co-sponsored Senator Udall's amendment proposal, SJRES 19, adding a key progressive voice to the amendment movement. With Warren's endorsement, the entire Massachusetts's congressional delegation is now in support of amending the Constitution to overturn Citizens United and related cases.
In a speech two months ago, Senator Warren decried the overwhelming influence of money in politics and noted that "Congress needs power to address all of the ways in which corruption threatens the health of our political system." That notion – that Congress and the states should have the constitutional authority to protect the integrity of the legislative and electoral processes – is at the heart of what the Udall proposal does.
To date, 16 states, 500 cities/towns, and over 150 members of Congress have called for a constitutional amendment. To learn more about the amendment movement, visit: www.united4thepeople.org.
The following is a guest post by Campbell, California Mayor Evan Low, a member of People For the American Way Foundation's Young Elected Officials Network.
In 2009, I became the youngest openly gay mayor as well as the youngest Asian-American mayor in the country. Some journalists wrote about how I was making history, but I like to point out that I was preceded by a number of other courageous "firsts."
I became mayor 35 years after Kathy Kozachenko was the first openly LGBT person elected to public office, and 32 years after Harvey Milk – affectionately known as "the mayor of Castro Street" – was elected to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors in the same state I serve today.
This week marks the anniversary of the tragic end of Milk's short time in office, when he and Mayor George Moscone were shot and killed by Supervisor Dan White. But the legacy of Harvey Milk and other LGBT trailblazers is very much alive. Today there are more than 500 openly LGBT elected or appointed officials serving our country. Through their service and that of public officials representing other marginalized communities, it is clear that our democracy works best when our lawmakers reflect the nation's diversity.
That's not to say that things are always easy for LGBT elected officials. Like Milk, I have received my share of hate mail, with messages like: "We don't want the homosexual agenda in our community." As I have told reporters before, I don't know what is on that so-called agenda, other than basic equality for all people.
One issue that's certainly on my agenda is the end of the FDA's ban on blood donations from gay and bisexual men. In a petition that now has more than 62,000 supporters, I wrote:
…recently, I hosted a blood drive on city property, but was banned from donating blood myself.
As the mayor of Campbell, providing for the welfare of the general public is a top priority. As a gay man, however, I am conflicted in my advocacy for blood drives. Under current U.S. Food and Drug Administration guidelines, a man who has sex with another man is deferred for life from donating blood. The ban was imposed in 1983 when there were no reliable tests for screening blood for HIV/AIDS. It was also made during a time of mass medical confusion and cultural homophobia associated with HIV/AIDS. The current FDA ban is wildly outdated and perpetuates unfair labels against gay and bisexual men that live on through decades of discrimination.
These kinds of stereotypes are not unlike the ones Harvey Milk was fighting nearly four decades ago, and why he, like I do today, encouraged LGBT people to come out whenever possible – to dispel the harmful lies about our community with the truth. Stuart Milk, nephew of Harvey Milk and founder of the Harvey Milk Foundation, continues his uncle's legacy, and we are so fortunate to have Stuart carry the torch.
In a tape Milk recorded before his death, he said, "I have never considered myself a candidate. I have always considered myself part of a movement." I think he would be proud of the movement that lives on in his spirit today.
When the teaching of Isabel Allende's internationally renowned novel The House of the Spirits was challenged in a North Carolina school district last month, advocates from all corners spoke out in its defense, including PFAW Foundation president Michael Keegan and North Carolina Poet Laureate Joseph Bathanti. Now, Isabel Allende herself has joined the conversation.
Yesterday the School Library Journal reported that Allende has mailed a letter, along with copies of her book, to the Watauga County school board, superintendent, and the principal of Watauga High School.
After acknowledging that being in the position of defending her own book is "unusual and awkward," Allende points out in her letter that The House of the Spirits is "considered a classic of Latin American literature and it is taught in high schools, colleges, and universities in all Western countries, including the USA for more than two decades." She expresses concern about the practice of book censorship in general:
Banning of books is a common practice in police states, like Cuba or North Korea, and by religious fundamentalist groups like the Taliban, but I did not expect it in our democracy.
Allende's letter comes as the book undergoes a multi-step review process in the county. Last month an advisory committee comprised of teachers, students, and parents voted unanimously not to remove the book from the curriculum, but that decision has been appealed.
Barbara "Bobbie" Handman, a former Vice President of PFAW and PFAW Foundation, died on Thursday. For years, Bobbie's creative energy and fierce commitment to the First Amendment shaped the organizations' free expression work from New York City, where she was based. Bobbie's long record of advocacy for free expression and the arts was recognized in 1998 when she received the National Medal of Arts from President Bill Clinton.
Bobbie's years at PFAW were part of a long life of political activism. Time after time she responded to would-be censors by rallying well-known actors and writers to participate in public events that affirmed the value of artistic freedom. You can read more about Bobbie's life and work in the obituary that appears in today's New York Times. It ends with this quote from Norman Lear: "Bobbie was a lifelong lesson in perseverance. She made New York happen for People For the American Way. And she made everything grander. She dealt in grand."
People For the American Way extends its heartfelt condolences to Bobbie's husband Wynn Handman and the rest of their family.
A symposium on the 20th anniversary of the Religious Freedom Restoration Act hosted by First Amendment advocate Charles Haynes at the Newseum in Washington D.C. on November 6 demonstrated one premise of People For the American Way Foundation's 12 Rules for Mixing Religion and Politics – that people who support a core constitutional principle like religious liberty can disagree with how that principle should be applied. In recent years, religious conservatives have increasingly charged that those who disagree with them on this line-drawing are tyrannical enemies of faith and freedom. The RFRA anniversary was a reminder that, as Bill Moyers wrote in his introduction to the 12 Rules, "We can simultaneously share a strong commitment to religious liberty, while disagreeing over the application of that principle in a given circumstance."
In fact, an almost unimaginably broad coalition worked to pass RFRA in 1993, including People For the American Way and the ACLU, the National Association of Evangelicals and Concerned Women for America, and a huge array of religious and civil rights groups. Also unimaginable in our political climate: RFRA passed the Senate 97-3 and the House unanimously by voice vote. But divisions within the coalition developed just a few years later and persist today.
RFRA was a response to the Supreme Court's 1990 Smith decision in a case involving Native Americans who were denied unemployment benefits because they had violated state anti-drug laws through the sacramental use of peyote. The Court ruled that as long as the law in question was applied generally and not designed to target a particular religious practice, there was no real recourse for people whose exercise of religion was restricted. The decision toppled long-standing precedent and left advocates for religious liberty deeply concerned that religious minorities would suffer if there were no legal requirement for reasonable accommodation of their beliefs.
RFRA states that if a law places a substantial burden on a person's exercise of religion, the government must demonstrate that the law is serving a compelling interest and does so in the least restrictive way. In 1997, the Supreme Court upheld RFRA as it applies to the federal government, but not to the states. Efforts to re-mobilize the RFRA coalition to pass a new law failed when civil rights advocates feared that a broad standard could be used to undermine state civil rights laws such as laws against discrimination based on sexual orientation.
Oliver Thomas, a co-chair of the original RFRA coalition, said it is not surprising that RFRA gets less popular as it gets older and its "majestic generalities" get applied in contentious cases. Organizations that were allies in passing RFRA are now on both sides of political and legal disagreements about how its standards should apply in a variety of situations, including the mandate under the Affordable Care Act that insurance plans include contraception, the proposed Employment Non Discrimination Act that just passed the Senate, and the advance of marriage equality. Even among ENDA's backers there are disagreements about the nature and extent of religious exemptions in the bill.
The first part of the anniversary symposium, which included PFAW Foundation Board Member Rabbi David Saperstein, presented an insider view of RFRA's history: the development of the RFRA coalition, the politics of writing the law and building congressional support. One historical tidbit: coalition members had to work hard to overcome objections raised by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, who feared the law might somehow give a weapon to their opponents on abortion rights issues. Rep. Henry Hyde told coalition members that the bill would not move until they addressed the bishops' concerns.
That history is particularly interesting given that conservative Catholics are now using RFRA to challenge the contraception mandate. A discussion of the contraception mandate in the Affordable Care Act featured Lori Windham from the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, which represents a number of companies, business owners, and organizations challenging the mandate, and Dan Mach of the ACLU Program on Freedom of Religion and Belief, which argues that the contraception requirement does not substantially burden the religious freedom of business owners, and that the Obama administration's accommodation for religious organizations is more than sufficient. Mach noted that while religious liberty is fundamental, it is not absolute, and should not be used to infringe the rights of others.
Another issue discussed by the panelists was whether RFRA protects for-profit corporations – not the owners, but the corporation itself as an entity. Some of the panelists discussing RFRA's history agreed that conversation about violations of religious liberty were focused on individual people, not for-profit corporations, though some said the debate on RFRA and related laws assumed that companies would be covered. The Becket Fund's Windham made a case for including such corporations with RFRA's protections, saying constitutional rights shouldn't depend on your tax status. The Constitutional Accountability Center has argued otherwise.
Doug Laycock, a University of Virginia law professor, is among the most prominent legal scholars on religious liberty. He finds himself positioned on differing sides in various culture war battles. Just a day before the anniversary symposium, Laycock argued before the Supreme Court, representing people who are challenging the practice of sectarian prayer at city council meetings in the Town of Greece case. In that case he stood with advocates of strong church-state separation. On other issues, such as whether a business owner should have the right not to provide services related to a same-sex wedding, he stands with religious conservatives who are pushing for broad religious exemptions to anti-discrimination laws.
Laycock dismissed right-wing charges that the Obama administration is waging a war on religious liberty. He said the administration has gone to "remarkable lengths" to accommodate religious organizations on the contraception mandate and said he doubts that opponents will be able to convince judges that the current rule creates a substantial burden under RFRA. Obviously, the Becket Fund and other Religious Right legal groups and their clients strongly disagree. Later this month the Supreme Court will consider whether to accept for consideration four cases involving for-profit companies challenging the mandate. Cases involving non-profits have not advanced as far.
A panel on other current controversies placed them in the context of increasing religious pluralism in America, including the rapid growth of "nones" – people who claim to religious affiliation. One panelist noted that religious and civil rights groups can still find common ground in opposition to laws targeting religious minorities, as many did in opposition to Oklahoma's anti-Sharia law, which was found unconstitutional earlier this year. But it should be noted that some Religious Right groups have in fact backed such laws, and some opposed the building of the Islamic community center in New York that was deceptively dubbed the "Ground Zero Mosque."
Laycock worries that culture war battles are weakening Americans' commitment to religious liberty. He faults conservative religious groups for continuing to fight legal marriage equality for same-sex couples. But he also believes LGBT rights advocates should be more willing to accept broad religious exemptions. Laycock said that conservatives' dug-in resistance to equality diminishes the incentives for gay-rights activists to accommodate them. The challenge, as he sees it: on issues of sexual morality, one side views as a grave evil what the other side views as a fundamental right. In that climate, tens of millions of Americans believe that "religious liberty" empowers their enemies, and neither side is willing to embrace what Laycock considers "live and let live" solutions.
Marc Stern of the American Jewish Committee agreed with Laycock's concerns about a winner-take-all approach to religious freedom issues, which he said reflects the broader political climate. But the courts will continue to undertake the balancing act required by the Constitution and by RFRA when constitutional principles come into tension. And, he said, once the courts work through issues regarding contraception and LGBT equality, we will all still need to grapple more with larger cultural and legal questions, such as those involving the growing number of nonbelievers who are reshaping America's religious landscape.
The anniversary symposium, "Restored or Endangered? The State of Religious Freedom," was sponsored by The Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty, Christian Legal Society, American Jewish Committee, Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism, Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations, Becket Fund for Religious Liberty and Religious Freedom Center of the Newseum Institute.
Last month, PFAW Foundation sent a letter to a school district review committee in Alamogordo, New Mexico urging them to reject attempts to remove Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere from the English curriculum. Yesterday a local television station, KRQE News 13, reported that the book will indeed be put back into the Alamogordo High School curriculum. A district spokesperson told the School Library Journal that in the review process the book was found to be "educationally suitable, balanced, and age-appropriate for high school students."
The School Library Journal's Karyn Peterson provides the backstory:
Use of the novel, which had been a part of the AHS English department's curriculum for nearly 10 years, was suspended from classrooms in early October after a mother complained to the school board about what she characterized as the book's "sexual innuendos" and "harsh" language—occurring on a single page of the 400-page novel. The district then created a review committee and opened a public comment period...
PFAW Foundation was one of the groups that weighed in, encouraging the review committee to uphold the right of all students to "to receive a competitive, rigorous education free from censorship."
The full text of our letter is below.
October 25, 2013
Dear Members of the Review Committee,
We urge you to reject attempts to remove Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere from the English curriculum. We understand that the novel was temporarily removed from the curriculum following the complaint of a parent and will be reviewed by this committee.
Neil Gaiman, whose awards include the Newbery Medal for outstanding children's literature, is an acclaimed author whose work has been taught in the district for many years. We recognize that school leaders often face difficult decisions that require balancing the concerns of parents with the educational development of students. However, according to English teacher Pam Thorp's recent letter in the Alamogordo News, the child of the parent bringing the complaint was offered alternative reading material. While parents have every right to decline reading material for their own children, they should not be allowed to censor the curricula for all students.
Many works of literature tackle mature or challenging topics. Attempting to shield high school students from challenging works robs them of the opportunity to learn from and engage with literature, and sets a dangerous precedent.
We trust that as educators you will uphold the right of all students in Alamogordo public schools to receive a competitive, rigorous education free from censorship. For over 30 years we have worked with school districts to protect students' right to learn, and are happy to serve as a resource for you in this and any future challenges to school curricula.
Best wishes,
Michael Keegan
President, People For the American Way Foundation
There is no shortage of senators opposed to the DISCLOSE Act. But while any of them will no doubt bloviate on why shining a light on campaign ad expenditures somehow limits free speech, junior Texas Senator Ted Cruz has taken his distaste for sunshine to a new level this month by holding the Federal Communications Commission hostage over the matter. Luckily, Sen. Cruz has folded, in part due to his dwindling stock among GOP leaders.
With two seats vacant on the FCC, the Senate Commerce committee held confirmation hearings this summer on candidates to fill the commission. While Michael O'Rielly, an advisor to Sen. Cornyn of Texas, faced a breezy nomination hearing in September, nominee Tom Wheeler's June hearing grabbed media attention thanks to Sen. Cruz. Mr. Wheeler, a long time industry leader and President Obama's nominee to chair the Commission, was asked by the senator for his thoughts on the FCC's role in campaign ad disclosure. When Mr. Wheeler replied frankly that he did not know enough about the matter and could not answer, Sen. Cruz threatened to hold up the confirmation process until he was given a different answer.
Once the federal government reopened this month, the Senate was poised to pass the two nominees so that the FCC could handle its full docket of work. Then Sen. Cruz caused a new shutdown, this time blocking a unanimous consent confirmation vote for Mr. Wheeler because he wanted the presumptive chairman of the FCC to effectively set policy without the resources of the Commission at his disposal. With Mr. Wheeler's vote tied to Mr. O'Rielly's, the FCC was thus left without a chairman and its fifth commissioner. In the Senate, there are only two ways to overcome a hold like Sen. Cruz's. The first is for the senator in question to remove his hold, while the other is to override the senator by way of a cloture vote requiring a supermajority of 60 votes.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid decided to call Sen. Cruz on his bluff Monday night. Sources have indicated that, given Sen. Cruz's particularly vocal role in this month's government shutdown, he has little clout among his Senate GOP peers. With a losing cloture vote imminent, it looks like Sen. Cruz set up a meeting Tuesday with Mr. Wheeler to hash out the nominee's thoughts on disclosure with the senator. Mr. Wheeler came out of the meeting saying that this move by the FCC was not a priority, which mollified the Texas statesman. It is worth noting that this does not mean the FCC won't take up disclosure rules for broadcasters airing political ads under a Wheeler chairmanship.
Sen. Cruz has regarded the FCC as an enemy in his anti-disclosure fight since March when Florida's senior senator, Bill Nelson (who saw almost $10 million spent against him by outside organizations last November), addressed the issue. Sen. Nelson pointed out during a Committee hearing (at the 2:06:35 mark) that the FCC must require full on-air disclosure of campaign ad sponsors, and that this was not limited to just the umbrella entity (see Section 73.1212 for the authorizing language's full text). He went on to say that the Supreme Court looked approvingly on disclosure in its Citizens United decision. Sen. Cruz's response was to call such a reading "overtly partisan," and that it would "undermine the integrity of the Commission," which he stressed is non-partisan (2:28:05).
Yes, Sen. Cruz called the FCC non-partisan, then turned around and used it as a partisan tool to lock the Senate up over the matter of campaign disclosure, all while trying to force an agency nominee to set policy before he steps foot in the door.
Both Mr. Wheeler and Mr. O'Rielly got their Senate confirmation votes yesterday.
The movement to amend the Constitution to overturn Citizens United and related cases continues to grow across the country and in the halls of Congress.
At the local level, over 500 cities and towns – including New York City, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, San Diego, Chicago, San Jose, Austin, San Francisco, Boston, Seattle, Washington DC, Baltimore, Portland, Albuquerque, Tucson, and Miami, among others – have called for a constitutional amendment.
At the state level, either by passing legislative resolutions or by voting directly on ballot measures, 16 states (containing over 95 million people) have called upon Congress to send them an amendment bill for ratification.
At the federal level, 14 amendment resolutions have been introduced in the US Congress in the 113th session, and 124 representatives (directly representing 87 million people) and 35 senators (representing over 150 million people) have endorsed the amendment strategy since the Citizens United decision came down in January 2010. Furthermore, President Barack Obama has repeatedly called for a constitutional amendment to overturn Citizens United and related cases.
To find out more about the amendment strategy and its progress, please visit www.United4ThePeople.org.
In September, Salt Lake City residents voted by mail on whether or not they want the Constitution to be amended to overturn Citizens United and related cases. Last week the results came in, showing resounding support for taking back our democracy. The ballot opinion question was supported by overwhelming 90 percent of Salt Lake City voters who participated in the election.
It was a huge victory for both residents and for the people who worked tirelessly on the initiative. The ballot measure was spearheaded by Move To Amend Salt Lake, who asked voters to support the People's Rights Amendment, which states:
"Only human beings, not corporations, are endowed with constitutional rights," and that "Money is not speech and therefore regulating political contributions and spending is not equivalent to limiting political speech."
Last year, Move To Amend Salt Lake gathered more than the required amount of signatures to place the initiative on the ballot. However, following City Council law, the initiative was rejected because it was non-binding. The grassroots group then worked with City Council members to change the process and was successful in putting forward the opinion question to voters in 2013.
By supporting the initiative, Salt Lake City joins the roughly 500 municipalities and 16 states that have called for a constitutional amendment to overturn Citizens United and related cases.
The Associated Press is reporting that Virginia election officials have gone ahead with a planned "purge" of the state's voter rolls, removing nearly 40,000 names from voter registration lists.
The state's gubernatorial election is in less than three weeks.
There are signs that some eligible voters may have had their vaild voter registrations revoked in the purge. One local registrar refused to participate, the AP reports, because one in ten names that state elections officers sent him to be removed from the rolls were in fact eligible voters:
One local registrar, Lawrence Haake in Chesterfield County, has defied the state elections board and refused to purge any voters. In an affidavit, Haake says that he conducted a preliminary review that found nearly 10 percent of the names given to him by the state for potential purging were, in fact, eligible voters. He concluded that the risk of purging legitimate voters was too great.
"The list sent to us from the SBE is clearly inaccurate and unreliable," Haake said in the affidavit.
In our report "The Right to Vote Under Attack," we documented how flawed voter purges keep eligible citizens from voting.


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At this time our career coaches are only able to offer advice through our site. If there is a way for you to phrase your question in a way it can be posted on the site I recommend doing that, then you can go back and forth with a coach.
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Mary P.
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The Irish Dancers: Rhonda, Connie, & Angela.
Rhonda and Angela have on matching dance outfits.
They begin dancing to an Irish jig.
Connie joins the dance when the music cues. It is almost time for her solo.
Connie looks so cute in the new Irish dancer outfit.
She especially likes the red curly wig.
Come on, let's dance some more.
They are busy dancing when suddenly...
A 4th Irish Dancer has joined them.
Mr.Curtis! You can't dance with us, you don't have an Irish dress to wear.
Curtis refuses to get off the stage. The dolls decide have the intermission now. They hope Curtis will get bored & leave, so they can continue their dance performance.
The dolls are busy making ice cream for the party.
They love the new table & chairs set, it is so roomy.
Yummy! It looks like the ice cream is almost ready.
Evangeline is the perfect hostess, and will serve the ice cream to the others.
Dig in everyone!
Nellie & Evangeline show off their pretty dresses.
Evangeline's dress is made from Kirsten's patterns. This dress is like her school dress, it has the growth strips in the skirt.
Norah Kathleen looks stunning in her green shamrock dress.
Lily Nicole & Norah Kathleen. Lily's dress is similar to the styles that Molly would wear.
Evangeline & Lily Nicole in dresses made from the same fabric. This is such a pretty print.
Nellie, Linda, and Norah Kathleen wearing their green shamrock dresses.
Linda is a re-wigged Josefina. Her hair was practically scalped when I bought her.
Group pose.
The dolls are enjoying some cake and drinks.
Kailey will you play another song for us on Felicity's guitar?
Wearing matching Holiday bibs.
Samantha is wearing Molly's Christmas dress.
They look so pretty in their green velvet outfits.
Craft time. The dolls are making shamrocks in different sizes & colors.
Left to right: Victoria, Fiona Claire, Felicity, WB Molly, and McKenzie.
Another view of their craft project.
Shelby & Shanna with the Shamrock bears.
Shelby & Shana are my JLY #7 twins (except that one is PM & the other is Mattel).
They come to join in the craft project.
WB Molly and the doll who needs a new wig. She came to me with this horrible wig glued to her head. I really need to re-wig her, so she can be beautiful. She is a PM doll with soft vinyl & soft eyelashes.
They are wearing matching pinafores with different color dresses underneath.
Diane is dreaming about what is inside her lunchbox. "Is it time for lunch yet?" she asks.
I am going to faint I am so hungry, Diane complains.
Victoria convinces Diane that helping make Shamrock crafts will take her mind off how hungry she is. The dolls hope you enjoyed their St. Patrick's Day party.


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Professional education boosts development in the regions of Georgia
AKHMETA. September 2011 - The milk processing plant in Akhmeta provides up-to-date technology for making famous Georgian cheese – tushuri and guda. In addition, it serves the students of professional courses as a practical training site.
Professional education for farmers and new technologies in food processing are the way to boost local production, enhance local market and raise employment in the regions of Georgia.
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FIVE APPEARANCES. Four innings pitched. One hit. No runs. That had been the postseason enjoyed by Brad Lidge before last night.
Then, it happened. This is what we have all expected to happen since about June. This was the concern. The emotions have risen and fallen since that time, and the opinions and prognostications have varied along with those rhythms. But the thing has always been there, in the back of everybody's mind.
The thing: that Brad Lidge really wasn't Brad Lidge anymore.
Perfection is the standard. Lidge set it. Lidge knows it. That he never had a chance to match it, after his impeccable, impossible 2008 season, was a known fact. But he has not approached it. He has not been in the area code. We have all pretended sometimes, or kind of pretended. But we always really knew, deep down.


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multiple aliases bashing after-hours is a sign they are desperates
Sentiment: Strong Buy
you are toasted!
Sentiment: Strong Buy
what if remain $1 per share after assets sale?
Sentiment: Strong Buy
FACTS are FACTS
Sentiment: Strong Buy
working sunday? who said N E R V O U S ?
Sentiment: Strong Buy
Sentiment: Strong Buy
naked shorters TOASTED!
nervous thats why bashing 24/07 here
Sentiment: Strong Buy
just do math
they are really nervous creating new aliases
Blackstone professionals expected to assist the Committee in this chapter 11 case is related or
connected to any United States Bankruptcy Judge for the Southern District of Texas, the U.S.
Trustee, or any person employed in the office of the U.S. Trustee. Blackstone has also advised
the Committee that Blackstone's Private Equity Group may be a potential bidder in the proposed
auction for the Debtor's assets. Members of the Blackstone team working on this chapter 11
case will not communicate with members of Blackstone's Private Equity Group regarding the
Debtor or this chapter 11 case.
Sentiment: Strong Buy
company submitted assets value to the Court for that reason? shorters TOASTED
check document 206 (june 19th)
Sentiment: Strong Buy
continue desperate jack.bolander = pngggjones = a lot ok mutiple aliases
assets sale results near and shorters MUST cover
show us where it says NO ASSETS SALE!
btw Court granted extension until August 6th read Court document dont be ignorant
they look really desperate
nervous mutliple aliases?
tons of oil and gas
Sentiment: Strong Buy
the best opportunity to make money EVER
Sentiment: Strong Buy
auction tomorrow shorters MUST cover.. money will remain to shareholders
Sentiment: Strong Buy
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I accidentaly a gijinka. by Kaji04Watch
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Whoops. Liked how the color came out.
so cute!
I really like this! She's cute. Does she have a name?
Thank you, I don't really named her, I slightly based her from the character of Pokepark 2, the Princess Snive, hence the crown.
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I'm building an alumni site. As part of the site, I want to list the alumni by name but have an individual's details visible only to members. It looks like wp-members actually solves a couple of things for me, but I'm not seeing an easy way to get the member list outside the context of the admin page. Are there any methods similar to "get_userdata" in wp-members?
I've found a couple of other partial solutions (cimy extra user fields) that address some of what I'm needing, but not everything. The cimy plugin ties into users, so I can use author.php and the all-authors page to do that, but it's not as easily protected.


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Is it possible to intercept all audio data sent to a speaker and write it to a file? I am trying to extract the audio content of a video but I do not have a microphone.
With either a file or a streaming address, you can use ffmpeg to extract the audio.
I've used a Matroska (MKV) file because it can handle pretty much any audio codec - the only major exception I know of is Opus, and that's unlikely to be part of a video file at the moment. If you know which audio codec is in use, you can use a different format. If you just want to extract it as an MP3, you can re-encode:
Now, to answer your actual question, again with ffmpeg. First, use the following command to list your dshow devices:
...the last few lines of which should be something like this:
In my case, I used (on Windows 8)
...which captured all the sound from my laptop's audio output. The name of the relevant device will probably be different on your computer. To stop recording, press


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Eighth grade guard Natalie Treise drives to the basket past a couple of Oroville Hornet defenders during junior high basketball action Thursday night at Methow Valley Elementary's Eagle gym. Photo by Mike Maltais
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Today, I found out my mom has been telling my entire family I need surgery on my "Labia" instead of my "Labrum". I went from needing shoulder surgery to needing vagina surgery with one group text. Thanks, mom. FML
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Today, my train departed over 10 minutes early. It was the last train of the day. I missed my transatlantic flight and along with it the vacation and concert I'd spent over a year saving for. FML
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Today, the guy I've been seeing asked me to have a threesome. With his girlfriend. FML
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Today, my ex-boyfriend decided to humiliate me by confessing to my dad in detail what he and I had done together and "apologizing" for taking my virginity. FML
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Today, I was feeling terrible and posted on Facebook about how I was stressed out and feeling really lonely. My sister replied saying "#fatfuckproblems". 13 people liked it and some so-called friends posted stuff like "rekt" and "SLAYED, bitch!", all in less than a minute. FML
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Today, I got fired from my job. When I asked why, all that was said to me was, "We don't have to disclose that information, but you did nothing wrong. It's just not working out." FML
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Today, I spent over $20 at the laundromat doing two weeks of laundry, just to avoid using the facilities in my apartment complex and having to deal with my creepy landlord trying to steal my underwear again. FML
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Today, I went to the bowling alley. I have short, stubby fingers, and as I looked for a bowling ball that would fit my hand properly, an old man watched me searching, and approached asking, "Is that how you are with women? Fingering them, tossing them in the gutter, and looking for another?" FML
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Today, I popped two tires hitting a curb. I called my dad hysterical, and he told me to call my mom and hung up. My mom's been dead for seven years. FML
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Today, the girl I like at work surprised me in the otherwise empty break room. She caught me taking part in what might as well have been the Ball-Scratching Olympics. I didn't notice she was behind me until she cleared her throat to get my attention. Shit. FML
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I have no clue who to ask about this because I doubt many have been in this situation, and I don't feel comfortable asking my family because I don't think they would be OK with it.
Background - I lived with a lady who was my biological father's PO upon his release from prison for a couple of years when I was 3-5. After that my aunt and uncle adopted me (they are my mom and dad now) we had court ordered visitations and I would go stay with this lady for the weekends and such. I have great memories and she was super sweet, however I didn't know all the court and money things going on around me at the time either. She took care of me as my dad was dying from cancer and I am forever grateful. As I got older my new mom and dad didn't like me going there and eventually we quit around age 10 because I got busy with sports and everything (6 hr drive). I stayed in touch with her daughter who called me this evening to let me know she had passed. I'm really sad that I didn't go up there one more time or something.
Here is the strange part, she left me in her will. She has 13 children and more grandkids and great grand kids than I know of. and she left ME in her will. They plan on selling a vacation property and she said I would get a portion of it.. Can you politely decline? I'm not hurting for money as when my bio parents passed they left me money. I know this lady probably didn't have a lot. Her daughter told me to email her brother with my address so a lawyer could contact me. Even if I do Email him what do I say? I don't remember the brother him but I feel awful they just lost their mom. I just feel bad like I'm taking away from someone else... that I haven't even seen in 10+ years...
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Understanding the consequences of declining diversity and abundance of pollinators for crops and floral biodiversity is a major challenge for current conservation ecology. However, most studies on this issue focus on bees, while other invertebrate taxa are largely ignored. We investigated the pollination efficiency of the globally abundant hover fly Episyrphus balteatus on the common crop, oilseed rape (Brassica napus). The study was conducted over a period of 2 consecutive years by means of enclosure experiments at an agricultural site located in Central Hesse (Germany). E. balteatus significantly increased both seed set and yield. This effect was very constant in the 2 years, despite considerable interannual differences in total seed numbers and seed mass. It highlights the important role of hover flies as pollinators of arable crops under varying environmental conditions. In contrast to bees, the effect of E. balteatus was lower at high pollinator densities than at low pollinator densities. This suggests adverse effects of density-dependent factors on pollination efficiency at high densities. Thus, models ignoring the modulating effect of biotic interactions by generally assuming a simple positive relationship between pollinator density and pollination efficiency might not apply to a vital component of the pollinator community.
KeywordsSyrphidae Canola Pollination Generalists Brassica napus
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- Hover flies are efficient pollinators of oilseed rape
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- April 2008
- 10.1007/s00442-008-1034-x
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- 1432-1939
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Herman Cain Laughs Off 'Ubeki-beki-beki-stan-stan' Gaffe, Blames Belafonte And 'Colonel' West
GOP presidential hopeful Herman Cain defended his decidedly unserious approach to foreign policy issues on Fox News last night. Host Sean Hannity asked about his botched foreign policy answer this weekend, but Cain dodged and somehow blamed liberal commentators Harry Belafonte and Princeton professor Cornel West for attacking him because "they don't want black people to think for themselves."
Hannity referenced a friendly interview this weekend with the religious right Christian Broadcasting Network (CBN) where Cain was asked about the president of Uzbekistan, to which he said: "When they ask me, who is the president of Ubeki-beki-beki-beki-stan-stan? I'm going to say, you know, I don't know." Cain laughed off Hannity's question and implied Belafonte and West — whom he initially called "Colonel" — are just trying to suppress his popularity among black voters. Here's the exchange:
HANNITY: My good friend David Brody had an interview with you on CBN at the Value Voter Summit in which you got a tremendous response. You keep winning these straw polls.
Your numbers are going through the roof and continue to. And he said are you ready for all the gotcha questions? Who is the president of Pakistan [SIC], et cetera, and you had a pretty funny answer.
CAIN: Heh heh heh heh. Yes, you know, ever since that Florida straw poll, there's been a big bulls-eye on my back. It's coming from Harry Belafonte, it's coming from Colonel — you know, from Professor West, it's coming from anybody who do not like the fact that I, as an American black conservative, am in a position to be able to speak my mind and tell the truth and wake people up.
They don't want a lot of people to wake up, especially black people. I've also said, Sean, which also received some criticism, that a large percentage of American black people are thinking for themselves. That's the good news.
But people like Harry Belafonte, Professor West, and others who attack me, they don't want black people to think for themselves. And this is why they are so upset with Herman Cain, who is now moving up into the top tier for the Republican presidential nomination, and that people are listening to me.
They don't want me to wake people up and get them to read the fine print and think for themselves.
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It's not clear where exactly in the "fine print" it says that it's okay for Cain to, as ThinkProgress's Matt Yglesias put it, go about running a presidential campaign "without him taking the process seriously at all." But Cain is nonetheless managing a surge in the polls, all the while deflecting his own ignorance by pointing to attacks from other commentators supposedly trying to keep black America down.
Cain's been exchanging jabs with Belafonte and West for a couple days now over Cain's comments that he doesn't think racism "holds anybody back in a big way today."
At least Cain didn't try to answer Hannity's question about the leader of Pakistan (an apparent case of the Fox Host confusing Uzbekistan with Pakistan). As we learned this weekend, Cain won't figure out the leaders of foreign countries until he's getting ready to get on a plane to visit them.


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Gideon is a fictional character on the television show Charmed.
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Gideon is one of the most powerful Elders and is the headmaster of Magic School,[episodes 1] an institution where young magical beings learn magic. He is also Leo Wyatt's mentor.
He originally pushes for the Elders to allow Leo to marry Piper Halliwell, and even served as the Charmed Ones' lawyer when Barbas tried to have the Charmed Ones' stripped of their powers. However, at some point between the events in "The Legend of Sleepy Halliwell" and "The Courtship of Wyatt's Father", Gideon's attitude toward the couple and their one-year-old son Wyatt Halliwell changes drastically. He fears that Wyatt's vast powers will turn him evil and allow him to become an unstoppable threat. His belief is only strengthened by the arrival of Wyatt's younger brother, Chris from a future where Wyatt is the king of evil and ruthlessly rules over the entire world.
Having gained the sisters' confidence, Gideon uses his position as a friend of the family to get close to Wyatt as he plots to destroy Wyatt. He even hires a team of darklighters to get Leo out of the way.[episodes 2] However, his efforts are slowed often by the very thing that seems to confirm his fears about Wyatt: Chris. The young half witch/whitelighter is determined to find and stop the person or persons responsible for his brother turning evil, causing Gideon to tread lightly around him.
When the Charmed Ones nearly catch on to his plans, his desperation leads him to conspire with demons who run a game show where demons kill witches and steal their powers for their own gain. He has the hosts and their henchmen attack the sisters, Leo and Chris in hopes of leading them off his trail, which works temporarily. Though he threatens the hosts so they won't harm innocents of the Charmed Ones his reckless and ill-thought out scheme leads to the death of an innocent witch.
Through a magic mirror, Gideon communicates with his evil counterpart in a parallel dimension to distract both the good and evil Charmed Ones so that they might kill their Wyatts.[episodes 3] Realizing Gideon is the one after Wyatt, the sisters, Leo and Chris are able to stop him by joining forces with their evil counterparts. Gideon realizes that killing Wyatt will be the act of "great evil" necessary to restore the balance between the good and evil worlds. However, the sisters, Leo and Chris soon discover that in Chris' timeline, Gideon took Wyatt away for several weeks in his attempt to kill the boy. While Wyatt was able to fend him off, the trauma of having to constantly defend himself was too much for his young psyche to handle, and turned him evil—thus making Gideon's concerns a self-fulfilling prophecy.
Gideon conspires with Barbas, who uses his powers to distract the sisters and Leo while Gideon kidnaps Wyatt, killing Chris in the process. Grief-stricken by his son's death, Leo tracks Gideon down in the Underworld just as the Elder is about to kill Wyatt. Gideon claims that Wyatt's death is necessary to protect the future. Leo immediately counters that killing a child is never for the greater good, and that Gideon is the real reason the future is threatened. He then savagely electrocutes Gideon—a "great evil" that restored the balance between the good and evil worlds.[episodes 3]
Episode footnotes[edit]
- ^ "The Legend of Sleepy Halliwell". Charmed. Season 6. Episode 14. 2004-02-08. The WB Television Network.
- ^ "The Courtship of Wyatt's Father". Charmed. Season 6. Episode 16. 2004-02-22. The WB Television Network.
- ^ a b "It's a Bad, Bad, Bad, Bad World (Part 2)". Charmed. Season 6. Episode 23. 2004-05-16. The WB Television Network.


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City Slickers
|Release Date:
|June 1, 1991
|Running time:
|112 minutes
|Billy Crystal, Bruno Kirby, Daniel Stern, Patricia Wettig, Helen Slater
|Ron Underwood
|Irby Smith, Billy Crystal
|Lowell Ganz, Babaloo Mandel
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Description: City Slickers blends sight gags, one-liners, and sincerity, with both humor and drama arising from the characters and their situations. Mitch (Billy Crystal) is a radio station sales executive who finds himself in the throes of a mid-life crisis; accompanied by two friends, Phil (Daniel Stern) and Ed (Bruno Kirby) in the grip of similar problems, he heads to New Mexico for his birthday to participate in a two-week vacation cattle drive to Colorado. The three friends and the rest of their group, including an attractive, newly single young woman and two African-American dentists, are all urbanites lost when it comes to herding cattle and surviving on the prairie; it's up to authentic, almost mythic cowboy Curly (Jack Palance, who won an Oscar for the role), to whip them into shape. As various adventures occur along the way, including run-ins with outlaw cattlehands, treacherous natural mishaps, and Mitch's delivery of a newborn calf, the three city slickers open up to each other, learn to appreciate Curly's Old West values, and begin to resolve their midlife dilemmas. When Curly dies, it's left to Mitch, Phil, and Ed to bring in the herd.~ Don Kaye, All Movie Guide
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Hazur Rai Saligram Bahadur
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|Hazur Rai Saligram Bahadur
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|Hazur Maharaj
|14 March 1829
Peepal Mandi, Agra, British India (present-day Uttar Pradesh, India)
|6 December 1898
Peepal Mandi, Agra, British India (present-day Uttar Pradesh, India)
|Senior posting
|Satguru of Sant Mat/Radhasoami tradition
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|Soamiji Maharaj (Shiv Dayal Singh)
|Maharaj Sahab (Brahm Shankar Mishra ji)
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The second guru of the Radhasoami Faith, Rai Saligram Bahadur, popularly known as Hazur Maharaj, was born in a kayastha family of Peepal Mandi, Agra, on 14 March 1829. He served as chief inspector of post offices in British India, and, in 1881, was Postmaster-General of the North-Western Provinces, based in Allahabad. He was the first Indian to hold the position.
He came in contact with his guru, Shiv Dayal Singh (popularly known as Soamiji Maharaj), in 1858 in Agra. He had a deep faith in his guru and became a follower of the Radha Soami spiritual movement. He served Singh for many years and, after Singh's death, he retired from his job and took up the role of guru in Agra. He died on 6 December 1898.
His father, Bahadur Singh, a lawyer of repute, was a highly religious and generous man. He died early leaving behind his widow, two sons and a daughter. At that time, Rai Saligram was only four years old. His mother, a talented lady, had therefore to struggle hard against heavy odds to provide her sons with the best possible education.
Throughout his academic career, Rai Saligram was a brilliant student. After completing his primary education in a maktab [Urdu school], he went to Agra College for higher studies. He passed the Senior Cambridge examination from this college in 1847 with distinction in Theology, English, Mathematics and Urdu. Subsequently he devoted himself to higher studies in Persian and Arabic. He also studied advanced books on religion, philosophy and astrology. He took great interest in learning Hindi and Sanskrit and within a short time acquired high proficiency in these languages. His ever-increasing thirst for knowledge knew no bounds.
He really desired to reveal unto himself the secrets of absolute Truth. Driven by an inner urge to seek a perfect guru, he visited many holy places in the country where he met many religious teachers and saints. He came to the conclusion that many reputed religious leaders were themselves labouring under delusion, and that they were deluding their disciples. Nevertheless, on the insistence of his mother, he agreed to receive initiation from the family priest on the clear understanding that he would discard the priest and his teachings as soon as he had found a true and perfect guru. His first marriage was short lived and his wife died after giving birth to a female child. He married again in 1852. His second wife was a talented lady and devoted to her husband. She gave birth to two daughters and three sons out of whom only one survived.
He was appointed as a second clerk in the office of Postmaster General, North Western Provinces soon after he had finished his studies. since he proved to be an honest and efficient in the department, he got rapid promotions. First he was promoted to the office of inspector of post offices, and then head assistant and later personal assistant to the Postmaster General. In 1871, he was appointed chief inspector of post offices in India, and in 1881 as the Postmaster General of the North Western Provinces with headquarters at Allahabad. He was the first Indian to hold this coveted post.
Being an administrator of outstanding ability, Rai Saligram introduced a number of new practices in the postal department, namely, land revenue money order scheme, insurance of parcels, value payable parcel [VPP], procedures regarding bearing letters, under stamped articles and telegrams and the total amalgamation of the district postal arrangements for official letters with general postal department. He toned up the services in the department during the difficult period of its growth and development. By his extraordinary grasp of departmental working, he successfully dealt with complicated pending cases. He removed confusion and redtapism prevalent in the department. These schemes proved very useful and convenient for departmental work and immensely benefited the people. He also recommended the issue of one-price post-card for the benefit of poor people. Further, he himself translated the rules and regulations of the postal department in the North Western Provinces and Punjab, into vernacular to acquaint the educated few with them. The government honoured him with the award of the title of Rai Bahadur in 1871, in appreciation of his meritorious services.
For enforcing honesty and efficiency in the rank and file of the department, he strictly dealt with persons found guilty of embezzlement. He had become so indispensable to the postal department that no scheme would go on paper without his prior consultation. The British authorities felt so much beholden to him for his outstanding contributions that they did not want him to retire early when he expressed such a desire in 1884. The Director-General personally requested him in a letter not to press for his retirement. However, when he insisted he was relieved of his duties in 1887. In a personal letter, the Director-General paid glowing tributes to him for his efficient work.
Worldly achievements, howsoever great, had no significance for Hazur Maharaj. What really mattered to him was the guidance of a true preceptor who would satisfy his spiritual thirst. His long - cherished ambition was realised when he met Soamiji Maharaj in 1858; in whom he could discern a real guide in flesh and blood. For twenty long years (1858-1878), he served the guru in manner unparalleled in the annals of bhakti.
When in 1878, Soamiji departed for his heavenly abode, Rai Saligram Bahadur succeeded him as the guru and inaugurated an era of consolidation in the history of Radhasoami Satsang. After his retirement from official duties, he finally settled at Agra and devoted his entire time to religious duties. For twenty years (1878-1898) he served humanity at large and spread the divine light of love which he had received from his master. He took very little food and slept less than four hours a day. Excessive work weakened him physically. He left for his heavenly abode on 6 December 1898 after a brief illness. Thousands of his followers rushed to Agra for his last darshan and paid homage to their benevolent guru. His samadhi was built by his son Rai Ajudhya Prasad at the very place where satsang was held. Paying a tribute to him, the Indian Mirror observed : " The death of Rai Saligram Saheb Bahadur of Agra will be sincerely regretted by the people of the North-west Provinces. The deceased gentleman occupied a high position in the Postal Department and enjoyed the confidence and respect of both the Government and the public. But we notice Rai Saligram death not so much because of his official position as because of the hold he had over the hearts of his countrymen. Indian official, who are in anyway in the service are apt to become some time denationalized. Rai Saligram, on the contrary, was a Hindu of Hindus, and the leader of a recognized Hindu association. He was a very charitable man, and his death is a distinct loss to the community."
Miracles beyond the reach of human reason have been generally associated with mystic saints of India and Saligram was no exception to it. Many stories about his occult are current at different centres of Radhasoami Satsang. A few miracles are mentioned below to illustrate the tremendous faith his followers had in him.
It is said that when he was about to be born, the gestation period of his mother extended eighteen instead of the normal nine month and his mother experienced no trouble on that account and the delivery was normal. When he was only a few months old, a cobra would come to his bed-room every night and to his mother's horror the child would catch hold of the cobra by the neck and with it. The poisonous creature did not harm to him.
Another story relate to an accident in which the boy Saligram fell down in the flooded Jamuna. Just when he was about to drown, some unseen hand caught hold of him and put him back into the boat.
Many of his followers experienced his miraculous power when he became the Santsatguru. Max Mueller, his contemporary, writes "the people are convinced that he can miracles, but he himself regards such thing as unbecoming and below his dignity." It is said that he granted vision and initiation in dreams to persons who were keen on initiation into the Radhasoami faith by Hazur himself but could not personally approach him. Many proof are available about his capacity to cure patients merely by his personal touch or a glance. Dr. Mukund Lall, the then assistant surgeon to the viceroy, often sent patients of chronic hysteria to Hazur Maharaj and all of them were fully cured.
It is said that many a foreigner came to his satsang after knowing his supernatural talents. A German theosophist and an American lady felt an inner call impelling them to seek spiritual guidance from Hazur Maharaj after having seen him in their dreams. The sanctity and spiritual impact of his residence are revealed by the belief that anyone who walked under the lamp-post in his lane, was sure to be attracted to the Radhasoami faith. People also thought that there was some magic in his eyes; even his casual glance would draw them towards him. Devotees who came to attend his satsang at Agra got so absorbed in the spiritual ecstasy of the saint's company that they would forget to attend to their official duties at the prescribed hour. To their surprise, they would find on reaching their office that the work allotted to them had been duly completed and they were marked present in the attendance register. Many of his followers recorded their experiences acknowledging Hazur Maharaj's grace and mercy in every walk of life. He granted them strength against evil forces. A compilation of these records would be sufficient material for an interesting book on mystic revelations. He was followed by Maharaj Sahab (Brahm Shankar Mishra sahab), his chief disciple was his successor and third revered leader of radhasoami satsang.[1]
Huzur Maharaj published the writings of Shiv Dayal Singh as well as his own writings. He wrote following books: [2] [3]
- Prem Patra Radhasoami (Six volumes)
- Prem Bani Radhasoami
- Radhasoami Mat-Prakash (English)
- Radhasoami Mat-Sandesh
- Radhasoami Mat-Upadesh
- Sar-Upadesh
- Nij-Upadesh
- Guru-Upadesh
- Jugat Prakash
See also[edit]
- Shiv Dayal Singh
- Radhasoami Satsang (http://www.radhasoamisatsang.org)
- Radha Swami Satsang, Dinod
- Shiv Brat Lal
- Baba Faqir Chand
- Sant Kanwar Singh
- ^ Prof. Agam Prasad Mathur (1974). Radhasoami Faith - A Historical Study. Vikas Publishing House Pvt. Ltd., Delhi, India.
- ^ HAZUR MAHARAJ: Merciful Hazur Maharaj Radhasoami - The Redeemer
- ^ Santmat-meditation.net: Literature of Hazur Rai Saligram


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