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226 warrior 93, Sun, 20th Oct '13 10:34:49 PM from North Carolina
warrior93So in an stateless society how will people produce and purchase entertainment like movies, video games, computers, game consoles, etc? Also would an stateless society be basically the air nomads from Avatar without an Elder monk or Mother superior?
It shouldn't be a crime to be young
227 Meklar, Sun, 20th Oct '13 11:07:49 PM from Milky Way Relationship Status: RelationshipOutOfBoundsException: 1
So in an stateless society how will people produce and purchase entertainment like movies, video games, computers, game consoles, etc?Huh? The absence of government does nothing to eliminate either the supply or the demand for such things. Can you explain what you think is the problem here?
228 warrior 93, Sun, 20th Oct '13 11:25:04 PM from North Carolina
warrior93From what I read most but not all forms of Anarchism are opposed to Capitalism and I don't see how entertainment will benefit in non capitalist societies. Or how people who produce entertainment will be paid because some anarchists believe in artificial markets, no private property, labor vouchers instead of cash, and no intellectual property. Also how will stateless society will deal with investigating and preventing more covert crimes?
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It shouldn't be a crime to be young
229 Nick The Swing, Fri, 1st Nov '13 6:59:35 PM from Ya really wanna know? Relationship Status: Dating Catwoman
BFS EnthusiastWait a sec, so let me get this straight; a stateless society would do away with the police...if that is the case, then how would anyone be defended from serial killers and Mad Max style Warlords? You can't just throw random people guns and expect them to be gung ho badasses. Just arming everyone won't make everyone necessarily safer. And let alone how this reeks of The Social Darwinist Creed; in stateless society, then those unfit and old and without good physical abilities could be very easily preyed upon by the strong. And would be. And excuse me for saying it, but I do not find Moral Guardians to be such a horrible evil. You can just ignore them and what their cause of the week is. They just don't seem to be that menacing to me. Stateless society basically assumes that people are naturally good, wholesome and nice, when the reality is that if the state and laws go away, then people will do as they damn well please for ill rather than good. Psychopaths who are only kept in line by the law will see fit to exact their fantasies on random passersby. Even "normal" people have a low threshold in such a society before depravity emerges.
This feels like a repeat of the other thread. It sounds more like you are opposed to specific forms of anarchy or statelessness rather than the concept in general.
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Those who are curious see how things were in the times of the BSSR will certain appreciate the new exhibition at the Minsk History Museum. The exposition features posters of the 1940s-1980s, household items, machines, and works of art dating back to the times of the Belarusian Soviet Socialist Republic. There is a section dedicated to representatives of the youth subcultures, like Stilyagi, hippy and the beat generation. Visitors will also see clothing, photos, books, underground press and records. The museum has also prepared themed concerts, retro-parties and presentations.
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The Coffer project brings together historical costume enthusiasts interested in secular fashion trends of the 19th century the exhibition features costumes for everyday wear, promenades, balls and soirees from the age of Empire to the age of Modern. The costumes have been made on the basis of sketches of original apparel and have been inspired by works of art and fashion editions of that time. There is a story behind every costume, a reflection of the owner's destiny, character, and lifestyle. On weekends visitors are invited to attend lectures on the history of costumes and everyday life of the 19th century, dancing classes and creative meetings.
When: 1 June – 28 September
Where: Wing of the Loshitsa estate and park complex, Minsk
Participants from a dozen countries are expected to come to Belarus for the 5th Bard Music & Fishing Festival that will be held on the banks of the Chigirinskoye Water Reservoir in Bykhov District, Mogilev Oblast. These are musicians and fishermen from Belarus, Russia, Poland, Moldova, Lithuania, Estonia, Latvia, Georgia, and Azerbaijan… The most important new thing about the festival this year is the diversity of music genres that will include jazz, rock'n'roll, acoustic rock and hard rock. The famous bard music performers are expected to attend. Among them are Alexander Dolsky, Psoy Korolenko, Tatyana Vizbor and Lidia Cheboksarova. Participants of the festival will try tsar's fish broth from a famous Belarusian chef and learn to cook traditional dishes. They will also take part in contests and quizzes, lotteries, a photo plain air session and a master class, buy souvenirs and hand-made gifts. Outdoor sports lovers will be offered animated music tours to the Island of Love on a wooden bark, as well as water excursions on catamarans and kayaks and horse riding tours…
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The central event of the international festival of music, art and entertainment will be an open-air live concert of famous performers and musicians. However, the festival is not only about the concert. The spectators will be invited to take part in master classes, see exhibitions of modern artists, and watch theatrical performances and music shows. There will be a lot to do for outdoor sports lovers. They will be offered to play volleyball, badminton, do yoga and take part in numerous contests and quizzes.
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1 August – Nogu Svelo!, Animal JaZZ (Russia), Serebryanaya Svadba, Bez Bileta, :B:N: and Akute (Belarus);
2 August – Delfin (Russia), Sergei Babkin (Ukraine), The Toobes, Botanic Project, Petlya Pristrastia, Kassiopeya, Sounduk, Navi (Belarus).
Where: Shabli village, Volozhin District, Minsk Oblast
Dribin felt boots are among the most recognizable brands of Belarusian craftsmen. The ancient traditions and the secret professional language of felt boot makers from the town of Dribin are inscribed in the preliminary UNESCO World Heritage List. Each year on the first Saturday of August the town hosts a big festival featuring dozens of interesting crafts, like woodcarving and cooperage, ceramics, straw weaving and beads plaiting, embroidery, and, of course, the pride of Dribin – making of felt boots and hats. You will see how bast shoes are made, how straw and willow are turned into masterpieces of folk craft, how the most beautiful patterns are embroidered on clothing, towels, and table cloths… Artisans will show how to make warm felt boots, Magyar hats, woolen gloves and decorations. Folk music bands will perform in the central square all day long. There will be food stands selling local foods, gift shops, and tea shops where one will be able to try savory herbal tea.
When: 2 August
Where: Dribin, Mogilev Oblast
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The open-air music festival at the majestic Mir Castle, one of the most popular attractions in Belarus, promises to turn into an amazing show of the best musicians from Great Britain, Germany, Georgia, Russia, and Ukraine... The line-up includes Dave DK, Vakula, Vidis, Migloko, Murovei, Funkyjaws, Schmoltz, Shyam, Outro Pin, Gaamer, Induss, BV, Verde, Salut 80', Alex D b2b G100F, Milk Splash, Dankov, Psher & Laquisa, A Glade, 50k. Special guests of the festival are the star of the world jazz Nino Katamadze and the Insight band which will present their hits of the past 15 years...
When: 9 August
Where: Mir Castle, town of Mir, Grodno Oblast
The holiday of traditional arts and crafts will become an alternative to the famous international culinary festival Motalskiya Prysmaki dedicated to the unique culinary traditions of Polesye in the village of Motol, the birthplace of first President of Israel Chaim Weizmann. During the festival 30 famous Belarusian craftsmen will hold their master classes on different traditional arts and crafts, blacksmithing, weaving, embroidery, straw weaving and bast shoes plaiting, making of felt boots, cooperage, wood painting and making of the ritual dolls. In addition, there will be held a cruise featuring the local estates "From neighbour to neighbour" and a round table discussion, National crafts and agritourism: a synergy effect. Guests and participators will be absorbed in the atmosphere of Belarusian Polesye. They will take part in the unique local rites and also will know more about the history and crafts of this edge visiting Motol Folk Museum.
When: 8 - 9 August
Where: Village of Motol, Ivanovo District, Brest Oblast
For the third time the main ice arena of Belarus will host the tournament dedicated to the legendary former national team captain and the first Belarusian in the IIHF Hall of Fame Ruslan Salei. The tournament will feature the best ice hockey teams of Belarus and other countries, including HC Dinamo Minsk and HC Sochi of the KHL. The past winners were HC Vityaz (Chekhov, Moscow Oblast), and HC Amur (Khabarovsk). After the 2014 IIHF Ice Hockey World Championship in Minsk the tournament will become another prime sporting event for ice hockey fans.
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The biggest international festival of extreme music will gather more than 40 bands from different countries in one of the oldest towns of Belarus, Rechitsa. The festival expands its boundaries on a regular basis and this time the forum will feature representatives of different metal music genres from the UK, Sweden, Finland, Norway, Poland, Ukraine, Russia and Belarus. Heavy metal fans that flock to the town for the festival from Belarus, Russia and Ukraine will have a chance to both enjoy the live show and meet their favorite singers.
When: 16 – 17 August
Where: Nadezhda sports center, Rechitsa, Gomel Oblast
The traditional "flower carnival" invites gardeners and beauty lovers to visit the world of floral fantasies. The colorful feast in the Belarusian town of Zheludok will feature a sightseeing tour, Zheludok Fulfills Dreams, (the town is home to an ancient estate of Svyatopolk-Chetvertinsky dukes and is often used as a movie setting), a presentation of clothing made of natural flowers, numerous competitions, including contests for the best flower arrangements and best and original posies. Professional artists, decorators, hairdressers and cooks will put on show their "flower" compositions. The festival will also include master classes in flower compositions and bouquets, a trading show of crafts and arts, presentation and tasting of the Belarusian dishes.
When: 17 August
Where: Zheludok, Shchuchin District, Grodno Oblast
A big international tournament will take place as part of the Belarusian traditional scything championship Sporovskiye Senokosy on the Pripyat Polesye lands at the Sporovsky Biological Reserve. The unique competition that has become a brand of the reserve will gather the best scythemen from Belarus, Eastern Europe, Poland and Sweden. The participants will compete in team and individual events on a 100m long and 3m wide strip of land with fenny grass. The tournament promises a breathtaking show with unpredictable weather and lowland bogs adding challenges to the contestants…
When: 22 – 24 August
Where: Sporovsky Biological Reserve, the village of Zditovo, Bereza District, Brest Oblast
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Belarusian Polesye prides itself on unique cultural and culinary traditions, authentic folk rites, which are still alive in the 21st century. The ethno-cultural forum, which is held every two years in picturesque parts of Pripyatsky National Park, will gather over 10,000 participants and guests from Belarus, Russia, Ukraine, Lithuania, and Poland… The festival will feature concerts by folk choirs and vocalists, an exhibition of souvenirs and an artistic plein air Land Under White Wings, a towel festival, a beauty contest, an exhibition about famous Polesye residents, and a photo contest dedicated to the nature of the Polesye land, folklore games, an ethnographic nook, an exhibition and presentation of Polesye folk cuisine dishes. Thematic farm tourism estates will represent various districts of Polesye and folk crafts and unique arts inherent in Polesye. Craftsmen will arrange training sessions in pottery, smithing, bee keeping, and twig weaving. A tournament of fishermen and a kayaking race along the river have been planned. Guests are invited for a motor boat tour and a ride on an air balloon, they will see a drum show and a performance by strong men.
When: 23 August
Where: Agrotown of Lyaskovichi, Petrikov District, Gomel Oblast
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The legendary Annensky Fair (Gannensky Kirmash or St. Anna Fair) was one of the largest fairs in Europe in the 18th century, the second largest fair after the Leipzig Fair, the place where thousands of buyers and owners of purebred horses gathered from all over the world. Named after Saint Anna, the fair was also a major cultural event: for an entire month singers, conjurers, jugglers, and acrobats would entertain the public while actors and musicians would arrange drama and opera performances. Traditions of the past in the town of Zelva have been revived. On the first day of the fair the water reservoir Zelvyanka will host competitions of divers and fishermen, a water show and a water and laser show, and a concert by Belarusian pop stars. On the second day the events will unfold in the center of the town. Tourists are invited to appreciate theatrical performances and concerts, traditional fair contests, presentations of farm tourism estates, and exhibitions of craftsmen, folk games, a ride in horse carts and a horse exhibition, a grand dancing ball, and a fire show… Apart from that, for the first time the fair will gather researchers and local lore experts for the conference about the role of the Sapieha family in the history of Zelva land.
When: 22 – 23 August
Where: Town of Zelva, Grodno Oblast
The country's largest cookout will gather guests and maestros of high-style cuisine from Belarus, Russia, Ukraine, Lithuania, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Georgia, the USA, and Italy. The 2nd national cooking tournament Golden Jacket 2014 that will name Belarus' best cook will be the most awaited event of the festival. The event will also feature competitions for the title of the best amateur cook, hot cooking competitions between Belarusian celebrities and media persons, captivating master classes by famous chefs, sampling of dishes, contests and live music. Besides, a presentation of the book Home Cuisine Encyclopedia will take place.
When: 23 – 24 August
Where: Gorky Park, Minsk
The festival will take place near the walls of once awe-inspiring Krevo Castle where local dukes struggled for power and the famous dynastic union was formed. The name of the festival "Under the Sign of Lyaliva" derives from the name of an ancient coat of arms of the local nobility. The festival will feature performances of historical reenactment clubs and knights' tournaments, costume performances, theater, dance and folk song shows… The festival will include medieval amusements and fascinating master classes in folk dances, songs and games. Visitors will get familiar with traditional Belarusian crafts, buy souvenirs and learn to cook Belarusian national food. During the festival volunteers will present their initiatives regarding the protection of the Belarusian cultural heritage.
Before the festival of medieval culture which will take place in the evening, the town of Krevo will host the first ceramics fest. It will bring together the best potters. During the one-day festival they will help visitors make cups, horns of plenty or whistles. The big ceramics fair will offer exclusive souvenirs. Young visitors to the ceramics fair will receive clay modeling lessons. The inspiring atmosphere will be created by musicians, ethnic and folk art groups. The trade stalls will offer fresh bread baked to ancient recipes, kvass, other Belarusian foods and drinks.
When: 23 August
Where: Krevo Castle, Smorgon District, Grodno Oblast
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Visitors to the first ecofestival in Shchuchin will take part in amusing open air activities. The festival will feature fascinating master classes, equestrian lessons and other kinds of eco-friendly leisure. The program of the festival will include equestrian and roller shows, performances of extreme bikers and the military and patriotic club Slavyane, air balloon flights, a music show, various amusements, games, contests and food sampling. Apart from that, local rural tourism estates will make presentations.
When: 24 August
Where: Shchuchin, Grodno Oblast
The cucumber capital of Belarus, the town of Shklov, will once again host the festival dedicated to the vegetable the locals have grown since the 16th century. The main square of the town with the sculptural composition Cucumber will be the venue for the costume street procession featuring Shklov Cucumber, who will parade accompanied by ladies and gentlemen to the sounds of the orchestra. The festival will also include concerts, "cucumber" contests, performances for children and the all-prize lottery. The trade stalls will offer vegetables from private gardens, dozens of cucumber dishes: salads, pickles and marinades, unusual cucumber-honey sandwiches and even cucumber vodka "ogurtsovka"…
When: August
Where: Shklov, Mogilev Oblast
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Although we're now well into the summer holidays, the babies are still coming thick and fast here at Flamingo Land! This week we're welcoming a brand new flamingo chick to our flock.
Our flamingos are currently in the middle of their nesting season, and this is the first chick to have hatched from this clutch of eggs. Our famous flamingos are of course where the resort got its name, as one of the first animals to ever arrive here! We keep two species, Chilean and Caribbean flamingos, both of which can be found in South America.
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Mara are classified into the same family as guinea pigs and capybaras, which are all native to South America. At Flamingo Land we have Patagonian mara, as opposed to Chacoan, and they can be visible from the treetop walkway in the zoo.
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Measurement Equivalence and Extreme Response Bias in the Comparison of Attitudes across Europe
AbstractIt is generally accepted that both measurement inequivalence and extreme response bias can seriously distort measurement of attitudes and subsequent causal models. However, these two issues have rarely been investigated together. In this article we demonstrate the flexibility of a multigroup latent class factor approach in both analysing measurement equivalence and detecting extreme response bias. Using data from the European Value Survey from 1999/2000, we identified an extreme response bias in answering Likert type questions on attitudes towards morals of compatriots. Furthermore, we found measurement inequivalence in form of direct effects of countries on response variables. When only one of these two issues – either measurement inequivalence or extreme response bias - was included into measurement model estimated effects of countries on attitudinal dimension were different from those obtained with a model that includes both measurement issues. Using this all-inclusive model we have got more valid estimates of the differences between countries on measured attitude.
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Bob Woodruff, Joe Paterno, and the lights at Neyland
Former Tennessee Athletic Director Bob Woodruff was a crafty old dude. I had the privilege to interview him in his office during my undergraduate years at UT as part of a journalism project. I was researching the plans (that were never fulfilled) to retrofit the south end of Neyland Stadium so that the Vols basketball team could play a few selected home games there. This was the mid-1970s when Bernard King, Ernie Grunfeld and Co. were lighting up men's hoops like a bonfire. The old Stokely Athletic Center was not big enough to hold the excitement of those days. All-night lines for student tickets were becoming commonplace, especially for the big games like Kentucky (that 103-98 war remains the best basketball game at any level I've ever witnessed in person).
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Nothing is sacred anymore.
Campaign to Fill Neyland Stadium
Now that former Vol Ball Head Coach Bruce Pearl has taken a job as V.P. of Marketing for Knoxville-based H.T. Hackney, I am consumed with an idea… Read More…
The Sound and the Fury
Oregon 48 Tennessee 13
11 Sep 2010 | Neyland Stadium | 102,035Recap | Boxscore | Play-by-play | Drive Chart
With 8:53 left in the first quarter, a good old-fashioned late-summer thunderstorm unleashed its sound and fury. That was just after the Vols and their fans in a floodlit Neyland Stadium unleashed their own sound and fury to ruffle the Ducks's feathers for a quick 6-0 lead. One hour and 10 minutes later, following a mandated safety break due to lightening, the sound and fury of Vol football in the house that a General built resumed in front of a full-throated Volunteer party that reached its apex with the Vols ahead 13-3 just after the first quarter break.
The Announcement of Doug's Rug
Tom Mattingly's post of today on his blog The Vol Historian is a great reminder of how different communications were 42 years ago. Read More…
And that was a d*mn good answer :)
So the TV crew is interviewing fans during pre-game festivities about their thoughts on the Tennessee / Vanderbilt rivalry. A gentleman dressed in black and gold made the following comment:
" the Vandy UT rivalry is all about pride. And about what is best for Tennessee.. and shows the best for Tennesse"
And a gentleman dressed in Orange standing next to him replied:
"And that was a damn good answer"
So What's a Game at Neyland Like?
Today we say so long to yet another season of football played at Neyland Stadium.
You know what it's all about.
I know what it's all about.
But, have you ever been approached by someone who has never been to a game in Knoxville and is interested in knowing what it's like? Do you just get all babbly and googly and teary-eyed, and just end up saying, "well, you just have to go and be there for the experience"?
I did just that to a friend in California, a Cal alum, and he ended up going to the Cal-Tennessee game played at Neyland in 2006. He came back all babbly and googly and teary-eyed from the experience, even though his school got soundly thrashed. He told all his friends back in the Bay Area that didn't go that they should have, because it would have been nothing like they had ever experienced.
So the next time you get the question, send them to this great article in two parts written by freelance writer and editor Eric Angevine who lives in Charlottesville, VA. He is a frequent contributor to ESPN.com and the editor of the college basketball Web site StormingTheFloor.net.
For that matter, this is a must read even if you've been to a hundred games at Neyland.
Then both of you can get all babbly and googly and teary-eyed just from the read.
267 Games and Counting…
Today we are graced by the presence of the one-and-only TK. He's one of those lovable folks who keeps everything. Including a list of all Tennessee football games that he has attended in person. I've known TK for somewhere around 40 years, and he is one of my earliest connections to UT football. He also was the instigator behind the email discussion group that eventually was transformed into this Vols in the Fall blog. We've had many long conversations about the fortunes and misfortunes of the Vols. So I thought it would be perfect during this bye week to have TK write a post for us that reflects on his nearly half-a-century experience of attending Vol football games, in Knoxville and elsewhere. Kind of like a segment on one of those Ken Burns documentaries.
So, TK, take it away…
Well, Hello Volunteers! TK speaking.
It's a bye week for University of Tennessee football. Our Blog Master Fred (BMF? We could have a little fun with that) has invited me to do a recap of the 267 Tennessee games I have had the privilege of attending since my first one in 1966. Shouldn't take more than a few words!
Picture this. Knoxville, Tennessee. Neyland Stadium, Sheilds-Watkins Field. Football Saturday. Countdown: 13 minutes and change before kickoff – the Pride of the Southland Band takes the field. 11 minutes and change before kickoff – the National Anthem. 3 minutes and change before kickoff – the "T" opens up. 1 minute and change before kickoff – the Volunteers erupt through the "T"… players, coaches, trainers, cheerleaders, all led by a blue tick coon hound affectionately named "Smokey". It's Football Time in Tennessee!!!!!!!!!!!!
And so goes at each home game in Knoxville, but I've seen 'em on the road, too. At approximately three and a half hours per game, that's about 39 days solid of Tennessee Football! Yes, 39 days spread over 43 years. Of my 267 games to date, through last week's defeat of Georgia, I have never arrived at a game late, and never left a game 'till time had expired. I'm proud to say that's never changed. But as you can imagine, I've seen a lot of changes over the years. Read More…


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Khalili writes that 10 senior Revolutionary Guards officers, members of the elite Quds Force, are already here. Highly trained and sophisticated, each commands a cell of five agents. Targets have been identified, photographed and approved by Supreme Leader Khamenei, and include electrical transmission lines, cell phone towers, water supplies, public transportation, bridges, tunnels and government buildings.
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Terming them as "incorrect", the Haryana government on Thursday refuted media reports that Maruti Suzuki India Limited (MSIL) may shut its Manesar plant on account of demand for enhanced land compensation.
In a statement released to the media, the Haryana State Industrial and Infrastructural Development Corporation (HSIIDC) on Thursday said that "reports appearing in a section of media in this regard are incorrect and not based on facts".
An HSIIDC spokesperson said that the Haryana government and MSIL have shared very close relationship over the last three decades. He added that the state government has been extremely supportive of the company and facilitated its growth in every possible manner.
"Investments made by the Maruti Suzuki group over the years, especially during the last eight years, bear testimony to its confidence reposed in the state," said the spokesperson.
"MSIL has invested about R17,000 crore in Haryana, including R12,000 crore during the past eight years. Investment worth R6,000 crore is in the pipeline," added the spokesperson.
The automobile major has two manufacturing facilities in India — Gurgaon and Manesar. Both the facilities have a combined capability to produce over 1.5 million vehicles annually.
Further, Maruti Suzuki is setting up a state-of-the-art research and development and contemporary test facility at IMT Rohtak over an area of 600 acres. It will be the first such facility of Suzuki Motor Company outside Japan, the spokesperson added.
In addition, Suzuki Motorcycle India Private Limited is setting up a plant for manufacturing motorcycles at IMT Rohtak, the spokesperson said.
"A finality in this behalf is a long-drawn process and difficult to predict in advance. As such, the pricing of industrial plots at this stage does not take into account any component of enhancement allowed by the courts subsequently. The impact of enhancement in compensation is thus a pass-through and recoverable from the allottees as and when the references under Section 18 are decided by the district courts or in appeals at higher levels," he said.
The HSIIDC has already paid the enhanced cost to the land owners which is now being recovered from the allottees.
Further, a number of allottees have already made the payments. The matter is still pending in the high court and the HSIIDC is contesting the case, the spokesperson added.
An FIR was registered against nine officials of realty major Unitech Realty Pvt Ltd, including its directors Ramesh Chandra, Sanjay Chandra and Ajay Chandra, on Thursday evening for allegedly cheating investors. A Gurgaon court had passed an ex- parte order to this effect.


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There are a lot of Cantonese dictionaries online. The one I often use is CantoDict. It is volunteer-contributed and is pretty comprehensive. I has both characters and words, and has pronunciation for both Cantonese in Jyutping and Mandarin in pinyin, meanings in English. and you can search based on characters, Jyutping, pinyin, or English. Once you get the ...
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广州话方言词典 2010 Comerical Press 8,453 (approx.) entries Is a good place to start. For instance the entry for 係 1 是 係唔係? 是不是? 你係邊個? 你是誰? 係就話係。 是就說是。 2 只有(與"至"配搭着用) 係你佢至服 只有你他才服 係噉至好。 只有這樣才好。 Not only does it have written Cantonese for the individual words but also example sentences with ...
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其 is referred to 'it' as in your translation. However, 自然 here does not necessarily mean the literal meaning 'nature'. Instead, it refers to the natural tendency of any subject you're talking about. If you see a child growing as he/she prefers to be rather than pushing him/her to be, 其is the child and 自然 means 'without intervention'. If you let something ...
The qu4 去 tone class in Middle Chinese is generally understood to derive from an OC suffix –s. Sagart regards the whole class as deriving from this process (Roots of OC, p. 131). This results in word pairs of plain root and root + s that in Middle Chinese and later differ by tone. If the –s is applied to a root that ends in a stop, it seems to efface that ...
The construction ignores the lanaguage changes on various places. It is for reference only. The entering tone tends to lose when vowel lenghtens. When 'a' lengthens to 'aa' the p is dropped. This happened when Old Chinese evolved into Middle Chinese. So do the evolution of Mandarin.
You can try the Cantonese Phonetic IME at http://cpime.hk/. I don't know about specific support for Windows 8.1, but it works on prior versions of Windows.
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Cartoonist Alison Bechdel, author of the legendary comic strip Dykes to Watch Out For and the bestselling graphic memoir Fun Home, has been traveling the country in support of her latest book, Are You My Mother? The new memoir, recently released in paperback, delves into Alison's complex relationship with her mother, frequently invoking the writings of Virginia Woolf and psychoanalyst Donald Winnicott.
I spoke with Alison via Skype one afternoon in early April, catching her at home in Vermont during a brief lull between trips to San Francisco and Montreal. We'd exchanged e-mails in the past, but had never met or talked to one another. Despite her busy schedule, she chatted with me for upward of an hour, sounding more relaxed than the nerve-wracked portrayal of herself in her autobiographical comics.
Q: Your schedule sounds pretty hectic. Alison Bechdel: Yeah, it is! It's crazy. I accept that this is what you have to do in this day and age to promote a book, and I'm lucky to get invited to do this stuff, but it's still a huge drain.
Q: You drew Dykes to Watch Out For for twenty-five years, which is a good, long run for an alternative strip. Now that you've moved on to graphic novels, do you miss it? Is the lack of a regular deadline a blessing or a curse? Bechdel: It's both. I wouldn't go back to those deadlines; they were really starting to crush my soul. But I do miss the sense of achievement. Q: There is something nice about getting your work out there on a regular basis. At the same time, I've always thought it would be kind of a luxury to have all that time to make something perfect. Bechdel: When I was writing my first memoir, Fun Home, I was also doing the comic strip, and having that other, constant pull on me to do something else was very motivating. I was so eager to get the comic strip done so I could get back to the memoir, and then I could leave the memoir to go back to the comic strip. My second memoir, the book about my mother, I didn't have that other thing, and I got kind of stuck. I think it helps to have at least two things going on. Q: That's how my chores get done. Bechdel: Yeah, it's like a kind of transitive procrastination. Q: Dykes to Watch Out For was often highly political. In addition to featuring a cast of lesbian characters (which was political in itself), those characters frequently discussed the issues of the day. I recall a good deal of criticism of the George W. Bush Administration. Since then, you've shifted toward intensely introspective work. Are you burned out on politics? Have you traded overt commentary for a more "personal is political" approach? Bechdel: Yes, I feel like I have. I also feel like something did get burnt out in me, something very deep during the Bush Administration. I stopped my comic strip in the spring of 2008, just before the election season, and I feel like George Bush killed Dykes to Watch Out For. Q: That's sad! Bechdel: But I do feel that somehow these more personal works are also somehow more political. Yes, Dykes to Watch Out For was often about specific things happening in the news, specific current events, and the characters would have these ideological discussions all the time. But Fun Home is a book about my closeted gay dad who killed himself. It's a book about homophobia. That's a very political topic. I hope that it doesn't come across in that kind of heavy-handed way. It's implicit, it's buried in there, but I still think it's a pretty powerful political message. And likewise, this book about my mother that I just did is about misogyny. It's about the different courses my mother's life and my life have taken because of being on different sides of that watershed moment of the women's liberation movement, and that's a very political story. Q: Your latest book relies heavily on psychoanalytic theory. What makes the work of Donald Winnicott so important to you? Bechdel: I love Donald Winnicott. It's hard to pick out a particular point, because there are so many weird ways that I connect with him, but maybe the main way is his kind of gender ambiguity. Before I knew anything about him, I thought he was a woman. I was reading a book about him that didn't use a pronoun in reference to him. All these ideas sounded so deeply nurturing, I just assumed that this Winnicott person was female. But he was a man—I found out he was a small man, a man with a high-pitched voice, who suffered from impotence. And a man who was freakishly gifted with children. So he became this sort of androgynous mentor for me. This person who was a man, but who was a really good mother to me in a way, giving me some particular piece that I was missing in my actual relationship with my real mother. And I've just felt really connected to him. One of his more popular ideas is this notion of a "false self"—that some people learn to create to protect their true self, and that really resonated for me. I feel like all my life I've been trying to get down to this true self under these layers of false selves I've had to adopt for one purpose or another, and so there's something very liberating about Winnicott's work for me. Q: Your mother did not approve of your comic strip when you started it. Would you characterize cartooning as an act of rebellion, in a good way? Bechdel: It was not exactly that she didn't approve of the comic strip, but of me attaching my actual name to the comic strip. Which I guess is basically the same thing. I didn't think of it intentionally as a kind of rebellion at the time. I just felt like I was doing what I had to do. You know, I was coming out as a lesbian, seeing all of this unfairness and lack of representation, and I wanted to do something about it. That just seemed pretty straightforward and necessary to me as a young person. But yeah, looking back it was absolutely kind of a rebellion that really freed me from my mother in a way, or began to free me from my mother's critical power over me.
Q: You illustrate that one moment in the book, where you realize you're just not going to get her approval.
Bechdel: It certainly was an important moment for me, that realization that I was not going to get what I wanted. It was very freeing. I keep using that word "freeing" or "liberating." I feel like Houdini sometimes, like I'm just getting out of one set of shackles after another, hanging upside down inside a burlap bag with handcuffs on. Hopefully one day, I'm going to get out of this tank of water.
Q: In Are You My Mother? you write about professional envy and career anxiety. Has some of that abated with your more recent success?
Bechdel: Well, you would think that it would have because things have been going really well for me. It was a huge break that Fun Home succeeded the way it did. But I would say that my professional envy has just kind of ratcheted up another notch [laughs]. Now I'm just envious of different people. I have some more insight into it, and a little bit more freedom from it, but it's still there. It's still something I have to grapple with. It's something that we don't really seem to talk about much in polite society, though, so a lot of people are telling me they liked hearing about that in the book. That's kind of cool.
Q: When you make the leap to literature, you enter a whole new world of accolades and people who pay attention to you. Do you feel that going from doing a comic strip to doing serious graphic memoir has gained you a certain amount of respectability?
Bechdel: I never thought about it in exactly those terms, because there were so many other factors at work for me. I was not doing just a comic strip, but this very marginal queer comic strip. I do sometimes miss doing that lighter, more humorous work, and I find there's a heavier responsibility that goes along with a literary reputation. You have to start knowing what you're talking about and you have to go have public conversations with writers. That's been pretty intense; I have to really stay on top of things in a way I didn't before.
But it's a great challenge, and it pushes me to take a bigger view of things, though, sometimes I wish I could just do my silly comic strip.
Q: What's a typical workday like for you?
Bechdel: I wish I had a typical workday. I struggle to get up at seven and almost always fail. I just try to get to my office as soon as I can, but it's always later than I would like. I try not to have anything too much going on between waking up and getting to work. I like to just be really fresh when I sit down. I always have my best ideas, like, within five minutes of starting. And then the rest of the day is just kind of putting in time [laughs].
So I tend to write first thing, and then do my drawing later. I like to draw at night. But often I go for long stretches without drawing, because I'm trying to figure out what I'm writing. I haven't been drawing lately, and I just hate that. It's a terrible feeling.
Q: You've mentioned that you were miserable writing this latest book, but that you enjoyed some of the drawing process.
Bechdel: Drawing is more fun to me than writing. I think it's interesting to talk to different cartoonists about how those activities work for them. I'm a very writerly cartoonist. I certainly spend more time on the writing than I do on the drawing, even though the drawing, of course, is very time-consuming. But the writing is hard, and the drawing is fun. It's very satisfying to see a drawing start to come together. I love having something concrete or tangible, since I work for long stretches without any sign of that. It's so different from when I had a comic strip. Every two weeks, I'd have this achievement. And now that I'm not doing my comic strip but I'm working on these longer book projects, years go by.
Q: You currently live in a rustic setting in Vermont. Earlier in your career, you lived in New York City. Which environment do you think is better for doing creative work?
Bechdel: Oh, I don't know how anyone gets anything done in New York City. I vastly prefer living in the country. I just need a lot of quiet and solitude, and I'm so easily distracted. I mean, the Internet is enough to deal with.
Q: Do you ever find yourself wishing you had a simple life as a mushroom farmer or something?
Bechdel: I have that wish frequently. I would even settle for being an accountant. But it's amazing to get to do what we do. It's incredible. Basically, my work is play. It never actually feels that way—I'm always aiming to attain that state. But I get to do for a living what I did as a child for fun, and that's pretty cool.
In addition to appearing in The Progressive, Jen Sorensen's comics have been featured in a variety of publications, including NPR.org, Ms. Magazine, The Austin Chronicle, Daily Kos, The Los Angeles Times, The Village Voice, and many other alternative newspapers. She has won several awards from the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies, including First Place in 2012. She has also won the Grambs Aronson "Cartoonist with a Conscience" Award, and was named a 2012 Herblock Prize Finalist. A graduate of the University of Virginia, she lives in Austin, Texas, with her husband and cairn terrier.
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Manifesto: The Mad Farmer Liberation Front
Love the quick profit, the annual raise, vacation with pay. Want more of everything ready made. Be afraid to know your neighbors and to die. And you will have a window in your head. Not even your future will be a mystery any more. Your mind will be punched in a card and shut away in a little drawer. When they want you to buy something they will call you. When they want you to die for profit they will let you know. So, friends, every day do something that won't compute. Love the Lord. Love the world. Work for nothing. Take all that you have and be poor. Love someone who does not deserve it. Denounce the government and embrace the flag. Hope to live in that free republic for which it stands. Give your approval to all you cannot understand. Praise ignorance, for what man has not encountered he has not destroyed. Ask the questions that have no answers. Invest in the millennium. Plant sequoias. Say that your main crop is the forest that you did not plant, that you will not live to harvest. Say that the leaves are harvested when they have rotted into the mold. Call that profit. Prophesy such returns. Put your faith in the two inches of humus that will build under the trees every thousand years. Listen to carrion—put your ear close, and hear the faint chattering of the songs that are to come. Expect the end of the world. Laugh. Laughter is immeasurable. Be joyful though you have considered all the facts. So long as women do not go cheap for power, please women more than men. Ask yourself: Will this satisfy a woman satisfied to bear a child? Will this disturb the sleep of a woman near to giving birth? Go with your love to the fields. Lie easy in the shade. Rest your head in her lap. Swear allegiance to what is nighest your thoughts. As soon as the generals and the politicos can predict the motions of your mind, lose it. Leave it as a sign to mark the false trail, the way you didn't go. Be like the fox who makes more tracks than necessary, some in the wrong direction. Practice resurrection.
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Uncharted 2 is not innovative. But everything in it is better than in the first chapter. And everything seems nearly perfect. It is simply the new standard for the action adventure genre. A perfect mix between single player and multiplayer and something that will pave a new way for videogames. Any other production in the future will have to look at it. As we said at the beginning: the perfect game doesn't exist...but Naughty Dog seems really interested in finding a way to bring it to us.
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Creating Strategic Advantage through Entrepreneurial Governance in New Ventures
AbstractAn important literature has made a fundamental link between corporate governance and corporate strategy. According to agency theory, assigning managers stock options aligns their interests with the interests of the owners of the firm. This paper suggests that this may not apply in the context of new ventures. Instead, an alternative perspective offered in this paper suggests that if contracts are incomplete, then managerial stock ownership not only provides a mechanism to align managerial incentives with the owners' goals, as agency theory predicts, it also grants top managers residual control rights to be used in subsequent negotiations with the owners. The ability to exercise residual control rights improves the ex post bargaining position of the CEO as an asset owner, thereby increasing her incentive to make relationship-specific investments that are specific to the new venture. Thus, in the context of new venture strategy assigning asset ownership to those who have the most important relationship-specific resources or who have indispensable human capital is a crucial source of subsequent competitive advantage. This theory of entrepreneurial governance is tested using patent ownership as a proxy for both relationship-specific investments and indispensable human capital of the CEO of the new venture. The empirical results support the main hypothesis posited by the entrepreneurial governance model.
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