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For the next few days - we are going to be having traditional Tambram food for lunch. When it's just me, I usually make one-pot meals which have a fair balance of carbs, proteins and loads of vegetables. Now that I have company for the next couple of weeks, proper lunch it is!
I'm just doing this for fun to chronicle how many such traditional (read non-fusion) recipes I can cook :) Anyway it is also a great way to share authentic (almost) recipes from my heritage with anyone who may be interested.
All items are accompanied by rice / broken wheat and with lots of yogurt to end the meal and serve 3-4 people
Day One - Sunday
- Vengaya Sambar
- Potato Roast
- Vendakai Curry
- Special add on: Fried vadam
Recipe for Vengaya Sambar (Onion sambar)
3/4 cup tur dal (pressure cooked with pinch of hing and mashed)
5 medium sized onions, peeled & quartered
2 tsp oil
fat pinch asafoetida
1/4 tsp fenugreek seeds
1/2 tsp mustard seeds
2 sprigs curry leaves
1 dried red chilli broken
1/4 tsp turmeric powder
2 tsp ready tamarind paste or 1 large lemon sized ball soaked in water and extracted
3 tsp sambar powder
1 tsp salt or to taste
1. In a heavy pan, heat the oil. Temper with asafoetida, fenugreek, mustard, curry leaves, dried chilli and saute for a few seconds.
2. Add the quartered onions, turmeric, pinch of salt, saute on medium heat for 1-2 minutes.
3. Add a glass of water, cover and cook till onions are soft.
4. In a bowl, make a slurry with sambar powder, tamarind paste and 1/2 cup water.
5. Add this slurry to the softened onions, bring to a simmer.
6. Next add the mashed dal, salt, bring to a simmer.
7. Check for salt and sourness, adjust and bring to a simmer again.
Remove from flame and keep covered until ready to serve with rice.
This tastes better after 1-2 hours of making it, as the flavours improve with time.
You can use chinna vengayam (Madras onions / Shallots) instead of regular onions.
I will share with you the recipe for homemade sambar powder in a later post, you can use MTR sambar powder instead.
Recipe for Potato Roast
5 medium potoes, boiled, skinned and cubed
2 tbsp oil
For the dry marinade:
1 tbsp fine rice flour
1/4-1/2 tsp turmeric powder
1 1/2 tsp salt
2 tsp red chilli powder
2 tsp coriander powder
Tempering ingredients:
fat pinch asafoetida
1/2 tsp mustard seeds
1 tsp cumin seeds
1/2 tsp fennel seeds
1 tsp Bengal gram dal (chana dal)
1 tsp udad dal
2 sprigs curry leaves
1 tbsp finely chopped coriander for garnish
1. Sprinkle the ingredients for the dry marinade on the boiled potato cubes, coat using light hands and keep aside for 15 min - half hour.
2. Heat oil in a heavy bottomed pan, add all the tempering ingredients, stir around till the dals turn golden.
3. Add the spiced potato cubes, toss well to coat with whole spices. Let the potato brown on a low flame. For this it is necessary that you don't keep tossing them around, keep them on a low flame and turn around after 10 minutes, to brown the other sides.
4. Once ready, garnish with coriander and serve hot.
The udad dal, bengal gram, fennel seeds and curry leaves are not added in a typical Iyer style roast, I have incorporated some Chettinad flavours in this. So you can avoid them to make a simpler roast.
Recipe for Vendakkai Curry (Dry okra / lady's finger / bhindi saute)
A curry in Tamil Brahmin cuisine is a dry sauteed preparation, not involving any gravy. Most 'curries' are prepared in the similar manner using a variety of vegetables.
2 cups thickly sliced okra
(Preparation: Wash okra well, wipe completely dry, top, tail and slice with a dry knife)
1 tbsp oil
1/2 tsp mustard seeds
2 broken dried red chillies
1 tsp udad dal
1/4 tsp turmeric powder
1 tsp salt
In a wok, heat oil. Splutter the mustard seeds, fry the red chillies and saute the udad dal till golden. Add in the sliced okra, tumeric and salt and saute on medium flame off and on for 7-8 minutes till okra is cooked yet lightly crunchy.
Do not cover while cooking.
Serve with rice and rasam / sambar / mor kozhambu.


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Interview by Donald Barthelme with Larry McCaffery
SOURCE: "An interview with Donald Barthelme," in Partisan Review, Vol. 49, No. 2, 1982, pp. 184-93.
In the following interview, Barthelme discusses his life, his literary influences, his views on language and literature, and his works.
[McCaffery:] You've published two novels, but most of your work has been in short fiction.
[Barthelme:] Novels take me a long time; short fiction provides a kind of immediate gratification—the relationship of sketches to battle paintings. Over a period of years I can have a dozen bad ideas for novels, some of which I actually invest a certain amount of time in. Some of these false starts yield short pieces: most don't. The first story in Sadness—"La Critique de la Vie Quotidienne"—is salvage.
Do stories typically begin for you by landing on you, like the dog in "Falling Dog"?
Well, for about four days I've been writing what amounts to nonsense. And then suddenly I come across an interesting sentence—or at least interesting to me: "It is not clear that Arthur Byte was wearing his black corduroy suit when he set fire to the Yale Art and Architecture Building in the spring of 1968." I don't know what follows from this sentence; I'm hoping it may develop into something. I did know someone who was at Yale teaching in the architecture department at the time of that notorious fire; I'm not sure if the date was 1968, I'd have to check. I don't believe they ever found out who set it; I certainly have no idea. But I'm positing a someone and hoping that tragic additional material may accumulate around that sentence.
At the end of your story "Sentence," your narrator says that the sentence is "a structure to be treasured for its weaknesses, as opposed to the strength of stones." Am I right in assuming that one of the things that interests you most about the sentence as an object is precisely its "treasured weaknesses"?
I look for a particular kind of sentence, perhaps more often the awkward than the beautiful. A back-broken sentence is interesting. Any sentence that begins with the phrase, "It is not clear that …," is clearly clumsy, but preparing itself for greatness of a kind. It's a way of backing into a story—of getting past the reader's hard-won armor. Then a process of accretion occurs, like barnacles growing on a wreck or a rock. I'd rather have a wreck than a ship that sails. Things attach themselves to wrecks; strange fish find your wreck or rock to be a good feeding ground. After a while you've got a situation with possibilities.
Have you ever studied philosophy of language in any kind of systematic way?
No. I spent two years in the Army in the middle of my undergraduate days at Houston. When I came back to the university, which must have been about 1955, there was a new man—Maurice Natanson—teaching a course titled "Sociology and Literature" that sounded good. I enrolled, and he talked about Kafka and Kleist and George Herbert Mead. I wasn't a particularly acute or productive student of philosophy, but in that and subsequent classes, I got acquainted with people Mauri was interested in: Husserl, Heidegger, Kierkegaard, Sartre, and company.
You were originally interested in journalism, weren't you?
It seemed clear that the way to become a writer was to go to work for a newspaper, as Hemingway had done—then, if you were lucky, you might write fiction. I don't think anybody believes that anymore. But I went to work for a newspaper while I was still a sophomore and went back to the newspaper when I got out of the Army. I was really very happy there—thought I was in high cotton.
By the late fifties, when you became editor of the Forum, you were obviously already interested a great deal in parody and satire as literary forms. What so attracted you to this type of writing?
People like S. J. Perelman and E. B. White—people who could do certain amazing things in prose. Perelman was the first true American surrealist—ranking with the best in the world surrealist movement—and West was another. Also, Wolcott Gibbs—all those New Yorker writers. And Hemingway as parodist, like in The Torrents of Spring.
Somewhere along the line you got involved as a director of an art museum. How did that come about?
A peculiar happenstance. I was entrusted with a small museum for a couple of years—the Contemporary Arts Museum in Houston. They had just lost the director, didn't have a prospect, and I'd been on the board. They asked me to fill in temporarily, which I did for a while, and then they made me director—probably more fun than anything I've done before or since. For two years I mounted shows and developed programs in music, theater, and film. In consequence, I met Harold Rosenberg in 1962. At that time Harold had in mind starting a new magazine, which he and Thomas B. Hess would edit. They needed someone to be the managing editor—that is, someone to put out the magazine—and they hired me.
This was the now-legendary magazine, Location?
Yes. It was meant to be not just an art magazine, but an art-and-literary magazine. We were able to publish some wonderful material—some early Gass, some of John Ashbery's work, Kenneth Koch's stuff. It was supposed to be a quarterly, but in fact we published only two issues. Tom and Harold were not worried about putting the magazine out on time and certainly never put any pressure on me. We waited until we had enough decent stuff for a good issue. That experience was a great pleasure—listening to Tom and Harold talk. But getting back to the museum, it was a very small place. My responsibility was to put some good shows together, mildly didactic, modestly informative. So I had to study quite a lot very fast to be able to do this—to make intelligent or useful shows. Luckily, I've always gotten along well with painters and sculptors, mostly by virtue of not asking the wrong questions of them.
It's been my experience that asking a painter what his work "means" is considered to be in bad taste. This seems to hold true for writers as well.
It's a separate study, "How to manifest intelligent sympathy while not saying very much." The early sixties were, as you know, an explosive period in American art, and I learned on the job, nervously. Just being in the studio teaches you something. I'll give you an example: when we were doing Location I went over to Rauschenberg's studio on tower Broadway with Rudy Burkhardt, the photographer, to take some pictures. Rauschenberg was doing silk-screen pieces, and the tonality of these things was gray—very, very gray. I looked out the windows and they were dirty, very much the tonality of the pictures. So I asked Rudy to get some shots of the windows, and we ran one of them with the paintings. They were very much New York lower Broadway windows. A footnote.
Your narrator in "See the Moon?" comments enviously at one point about the "fantastic metaphysical advantage" possessed by painters. What is he referring to?
The physicality of the medium—there's a physicality of color, of an object present before the spectator, which painters don't have to project by means of words. I can peel the label off that bottle of beer you're drinking and glue it to the canvas and it's there. This sort of thing is of course what Dos Passos did in the Newsreels, what Joyce did in various ways. I suppose the theater has the possibility of doing this in the most immediate way. I'm on the stage, and I suddenly climb down into the pit and kick you in the knee. That's not like writing about kicking you in the knee, it's not like painting you being kicked in the knee, because you have a pain in the knee. This sounds a bit aggressive, forgive me.
Another aspect of painting that seems relevant to your fiction is the surrealist practice of juxtaposing two elements—different sorts of language—for certain kinds of effects in fiction or poetry.
It's a principle of construction. This can be terribly easy and can become cheapo surrealism, mechanically linking contradictions. Take Duchamp's phrase, in reference to The Bride and the Bachelors, that the Bride "warmly refuses" her suitors. The phrase is very nice, but you can see how it could become a formula.
How do you avoid falling into this trap in your own work?
I think you stare at the sentence for a long time. The better elements are retained, and the worse fall out of the manuscript.
There is a tendency in the painting of this century to explore itself, its own medium—the nature of paint, colors, shapes, and lines, rather than attempting to reproduce or comment on something outside itself. This tendency seems relevant not only to your work, but also to that of several other important writers of the past fifteen years. Is this a fair analogy?
It is. I also think that painting—in the sixties but especially in the seventies—really pioneered for us all the things that it is not necessary to do. Under the aegis of exploring itself, exploring its own means or the medium, painting really did a lot of dumb things that showed poets and prose writers what might usefully not be done. I'm thinking mostly of conceptual art, which seems to me a bit sterile. Concrete poetry is an example of something that is, for me, not very nourishing, though it can be said to be explorative in the way that a lot of conceptual art is explorative. I can see why in some sense it had to be done. But perhaps not twice.
What about some of the "New-New-Novelists" in France—Pinget, Sollers, Baudry, LeClezio? They seem to be trying to push fiction to the same limits of abstraction that conceptual artists have pushed toward.
Of a work like Butor's Mobile, after a time there's nothing more you can say than "I like it" or "I don't like it"—the stupidest of comments. A more refined version is "I know this is good, but I still don't like it." And I think that this is a fair comment. There are more récherché examples of this kind of thing. Triquarterly did an issue a while back, entitled "In the Wake of the Wake," featuring several gallant Frenchmen whose work I'd seen in scattered places. The emphasis was towards "pure abstraction." For me this is a problem since they get further and further away from the common reader. I understand the impulse—towards the condition of music—but as a common reader I demand that this be done in masterly fashion or not at all. Mallarmé is perhaps the extreme, along with Gertrude Stein. I admire them both. But I don't have any great enthusiasm for fiction about fiction. Critics, of course, have been searching for a term that would describe fiction after the great period of modernism—"postmodernism," "metafiction," "surfiction," and "super-fiction." The last two are terrible. I suppose "postmodernism" is the least ugly and most descriptive.
What do you think about Philip Roth's famous suggestion back in the early sixties that reality was outstripping fiction's ability to amaze us?
I do think something happened in fiction about that time but I'd locate it differently. I think writers got past being intimidated by Joyce. Maybe the reality that Roth was talking about was instrumental in this recognition, but I think people realized that one didn't have to repeat Joyce (if that were even possible), but could use aspects of his achievement.
One of your most evident abilities is your gift at mimicking a wide range of styles, jargons, and lingoes. Where do these voices come from?
I listen to people talk, and I read. I doubt that there has ever been more jargon and cant of various professions and semiprofessions than there is today. I remember being amazed when I was in basic training, which was back in the early fifties, that people could make sentences in which the word fucking was used three times or even five times.
How did your relationship with the New Yorker begin?
I sent them something in the mail and they accepted it. Agented probably by a nine-cent stamp. Also, once in a while when I was low on cash I'd write something for certain strange magazines—the names I don't even remember. Names like Dasher and Thug. I do remember picking up five hundred bucks or something per piece. I did that a few times. Kind of gory, or even Gorey, fiction.
Have any of these things ever resurfaced?
No. Nor shall they ever.
It wasn't long before the New Yorker began publishing a story of yours almost every month. You didn't develop a specific understanding with them about regularly accepting your work?
I had moved to New York to work with Tom and Harold doing Location, and since I was only working hall-lime on the magazine, I had more time to write fiction. I had and have what they call a first-reading agreement.
Have you had a specific editor working with you at the New Yorker?
Yes, Roger Angell.
Do your stories usually require much in the way of editing?
Roger makes very few changes. If he and the magazine don't like a piece that I've written, they'll turn it down. The magazine sometimes turns down a piece I don't think should be turned down—but what else can I think? Roger is a wonderful editor, and if he objects to something in a story, he's probably right. He's very sensitive about the editing process, which makes it a pleasure.
Do you see yourself working out of some kind of New Yorker tradition?
The magazine in recent years has been very catholic. Anybody who publishes Singer, Merwin, Lem, Updike, Borges, and Marquez has got to be said to be various in terms of taste. Plus Grace Paley and Susan Sontag and Ann Beattie, and who knows who else.
I've noticed that in your last few books you seem to have dropped the interest in typographical or graphic play that was so evident in City Life and Guilty Pleasures. What got you interested in this sort of thing in the first place?
I think I was trying to be a painter, in some small way. Probably a yearning for something not properly the domain of writers. Maybe I was distracted by the things painters can do. I had an ambition toward something that maybe fiction can't do—an immediate impact—a beautifully realized whole that can be taken in at a glance and yet still be studied for a long time. Flannery O'Connor says, very sourly, very wittily, that she doesn't like anything that looks funny on the page. I know what she's talking about, but on the other hand, I'm intrigued by things that look funny on the page. But then there was the flood of concrete poetry, which devalued looking funny on the page.
I recall a comment of yours that you not only enjoyed doing layout work but that you could cheerfully become a typographer. Did you do all your own visual work?
They're mostly very simple collages, Ernst rather than Schwitters.
Have you tried your own hand at drawing?
Can't draw a lick.
At the end of the title story in City Life, Ramona comments about life's invitations "down many muddy roads" that she accepted: "What was the alternative?" I find a similar passivity in many of your characters—an inability to change their lot. Does this tendency spring from a personal sense of resignation about things or are you trying to suggest something more fundamental about modern man's relationship to the world?
The quotation you mention possibly has more to do with the great world than with me. In writing about the two girls in "City Life" who come to the city, I noticed that their choices, which seem to be infinite, are not so open-ended. I don't think this spirit of resignation, as you call it, has to do with any personal passivity; it's more a sociological observation. One attempts to write about the way contemporary life is lived by most people. In a more reportorial fiction, one would of necessity seek out more "active" protagonists—the mode requires it, in order to make the book or story work. In a mixed mode, some reportage and some play (which also makes its own observations), you might be relieved of this restriction. Contemporary life engenders, even enforces, passivity, as does television. Have you ever tried to reason with a Convenience Card money machine? Asked for napkin rings in an Amtrak snack-bar car? Of course you don't. Still, the horizon of memory enters in, you attempt to register change, the color of this moment as opposed to the past or what you know of it.
In The Dead Father, yon deal with the notion that we're all dragging around behind us the corpses of our fathers, as well as the past in general.
Worse: dragging these ahead of us. I have several younger brothers, among them my brother Frederick, who is also a writer. After The Dead Father came out, he telephoned and said, "I'm working on a new novel." I said, "What's it called?" and he said, "The Dead Brother."
Was "A Manual for Sons" originally conceived as being a part of the novel? It seems like a marvellous set piece.
Originally it was distributed throughout the book as a kind of seasoning, but in time it became clear that it should be one long section. My German publisher, Siegfried Unseld, said rather sternly to me one evening, "Isn't this a digression?" I said, "Yes, it is." He was absolutely right, in technical terms.
In The Dead Father, and more recently in Great Days, you strip the narrative almost completely of the old-fashioned means of story development. In fact, by the time we get to the stories in Great Days, what we find are simply voices interacting with one another.
In The Dead Father, there are four or five passages in which the two principal women talk to each other, or talk against each other, or over each other's heads, or between each other's legs—passages which were possible because there is a fairly strong narrative line surrounding them. It's questionable whether such things can be made to fly without the support of a controlling narrative.
Was Beckett an influence in this recent form of experimentation?
Beckett has been a great influence, which I think is clear. But the effort is not to write like Beckett. You can't do Beckett all over again anymore than you can do Joyce again. That would waste everyone's time.
Have you ever tried writing poetry, as such?
No, too difficult. I can't do it. A very tough discipline, to be attempted by saints or Villons.
We've talked about the influence of painting on your work. What about the cinema?
I was bombarded with film from, let us say, my sixth year right up to yesterday, when I saw Wiseman's Basic Training. There has to have been an effect, including the effect of teaching me what waste is. As with painting, film has shown us what not to pursue. The movies provide a whole set of stock situations, emotions, and responses that can be played against. They inflect contemporary language, and one uses this.
Your fiction has often drawn materials from the realm of pop culture—Snow White, Batman, the Phantom of the Opera, King Kong, and so forth. What do you find useful in this kind of material?
Relatively few of my stories have to do with pop culture, a very small percentage, really. What's attractive about this kind of thing is the given—you have to do very little establishing, and can get right to the variations. The usefulness of the Snow White story is that everybody knows it, and it can be played against. The presence of the seven men made possible a "we" narration that offered some tactical opportunities—there's a sort of generalized narrator, a group spokesman who could be any one of the seven. Every small change in the story is momentous when everybody knows the story backwards; possibly I wasn't as bold in making these changes as I should have been.
It's very obvious in Snow White—and in nearly all your fiction—that you distrust the impulse to "go beneath the surface" of your characters and events.
If you mean doing psychological studies of some kind, no, I'm not so interested. "Going beneath the surface" has all sorts of positive-sounding associations, as if you were a Cousteau of the heart. I'm not sure there isn't just as much to be seen if you remain a student of the surfaces.
What function do the lists that appear in your work serve?
Litanies, incantations, have a certain richness per se. They also provide stability in what is often a volatile environment, something to tie onto, like an almanac or a telephone book. And discoveries—a list of meter maids in any given city will give you a Glory Hercules.
Who are some of the contemporary writers you find most interesting?
Along with the South Americans, who everyone agrees are doing very well, I think the Germans: Peter Handke, Max Frisch, certainly Grass, Thomas Bernhard, who did Correction. I think the Americans are doing very well. The French perhaps less so.
Raymond Federman says that while Samuel Beckett had devised a means of taking the world away from the contemporary writer, Garcia Marquez has shown writers a way to reconnect themselves with the world.
I don't agree with Ray that that's what Beckett has done; the Marquez portion of the comment seems more appropriate. I think they've both opened things up, in different ways. Marquez provided an answer to the question of what was possible after Beckett—not the only answer, but a large and significant one. Robert Coover, among American writers, seems to be doing something parallel, with good results.
Do you feel that New York City has helped shape your sensibility over the years?
I think my sensibility was pretty well put together before I came here. Although I've now lived here close to twenty years, I've also lived in other places in the meantime—Copenhagen for a year, Paris, Tokyo. I like cities. But this is a tiny corner of New York, very like a real village village. Once I was walking down Seventh Avenue with Hans Magnus Enzensberger, we'd just finished lunch, and we bumped into my daughter, who was then about eight. I introduced them, and she went home and told her mother she'd just met Hans Christian Andersen. And in a way she had.
Do you see any changes having taken place in your approach to writing over the past twenty years?
Certainly fewer jokes, perhaps fewer words.
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The festival at the Long Beach Arena was attended by some 16,000 SGI-USA members and guests, while 8,000 came from 20 states to join that held at the University of Illinois at Chicago Pavilion. Temple University's Liacouras Center hosted some 11,700 people in Philadelphia, and 2,600 converged at the Neal ... read more
Culture | Jul 11 2010
Lijian River School Paintings Shown in Hong Kong and Macau
From June 11-20, 2010, a painting exhibition containing work from the Lijian River School, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China, was shown at the SGI-Hong Kong Culture Center. The show was co-organized and sponsored by the Guangxi Art Institute, Lijian Painting Style Promotion Association and SGI-Hong Kong. The paintings depict scenes of ... read more
Culture | Jun 14 2010
"Victory Over Violence" Tours High Schools in USA with the International Committee of Artists for Peace
From April 30 to May 14 and from June 1-14, 2010, the International Committee of Artists for Peace (ICAP), in partnership with "Victory Over Violence," presented the musical "iChoose" at junior and senior high schools throughout New York and New Jersey, USA. With an aim of empowering youth to make positive ... read more
Culture | Jun 6 2010
40th International Children's Painting Exhibition Shown in Malaysia
From May 30 to June 6, 2010, an exhibition entitled "The 40th Taiwanese Travelling Exhibition of International Children's Paintings" was held at the Soka Gakkai Malaysia (SGM) Selangor Culture Center in Klang, Malaysia. The exhibition featured 150 paintings by children from 54 countries. Co-organizers of the exhibition were SGM Selangor, ... read more
Culture | May 30 2010
SGI-USA Members Take Part in Parade in San Francisco, California
From May 29-30, 2010, behind a banner which read "Waves of Brilliant Sunshine," more than 40 SGI-USA San Francisco members danced and drummed down San Francisco's Mission Street to the beat of the samba at the 2010 Carnival Festival and Grand Parade. The two-day event, which bills itself as California's largest ... read more
Culture | May 30 2010
SGI-New Zealand's Brass Band Holds Annual Concert
On May 30, 2010, SGI-New Zealand's Victorious March Brass Band held its eighth annual concert together with New Zealand's Manukau City Concert Band at the SGI-New Zealand Culture Center in Auckland. Approximately 380 attended. The Victorious March Brass Band performed the "Alvamar Overture" by James Barnes. The Manukau City Concert Band ... read more
Culture | May 15 2010
SGI-Canada Holds "Youth Fest 2010" in Toronto
On May 15, 2010, SGI-Canada held a festival titled "Youth Fest 2010" at Roy Thomson Hall in Toronto, Canada. The show included a multimedia, bilingual show titled "Your Victory is My Victory" that explored how to achieve a more meaningful and rich life through challenging and overcoming difficulties. Song, dance ... read more
Culture | Mar 24 2010
Taiwan Soka Assoc. Donates Books to Taiwan Council of Cultural Affairs
On March 24, 2010, Taiwan Soka Association (TSA) representatives received a certificate of appreciation from the Taiwan Council of Cultural Affairs for donating to the council 600 copies of the book, The Official Fine Arts Exhibition in Taiwan (1927-1943) during the Japanese Occupation. The Arts and Literature Center Committee of TSA ... read more
Culture | Mar 21 2010
SGI-USA Youth Hold Culture Festival at Columbine High School, Colorado
On March 21, 2010, more than 1,000 SGI-USA members and guests gathered at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado, for a culture festival titled "1 World: The Power of Youth." SGI-USA youth from Colorado, Utah and Wyoming converged at the school for an event featuring a variety of dances, a rock ... read more
Culture | Mar 21 2010
SGI-Kenya Youth Organize Community Festival
On March 21, 2010, SGI-Kenya youth members in Nairobi organized a community friendship festival at a public venue in the city. The event included performances by SGI youth along with young people from local cultural and educational organizations. The festivities, which included dancing, singing and drumming, lasted over ... read more
Culture | Feb 25 2010
Min-On Concert Association Hosts Chinese Acrobatics Troupe Performance
On February 25, 2010, the Min-On Concert Association hosted a performance of the China National Acrobatic Troupe at Act City in Hamamatsu, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan. Founded in 1950 under Premier Zhou Enlai, the China National Acrobatic Troupe is the first troupe of its kind created after the establishment of the ... read more
Culture | Feb 7 2010
Culture Festival Held in Korea
On February 7, 2010, SGI-Korea young women's Culture Department held a festival at the SGI-Korea headquarters in Seoul, South Korea. Including families and friends, some 400 attended the event. A number of performing groups make up the Culture Department, the SGI-Korea Arirang Fife-and-Drum Corps and Puroonvit Chorus, which won ... read more
Culture | Jan 17 2010
SGI-Hawaii Celebrates SGI's 35th Anniversary
On January 17, 2010, SGI-USA Pacific Zone held a culture festival and general meeting at the Hawaii Convention Center in Honolulu, Hawaii. Some 3,000 converged to commemorate the 35th anniversary of the SGI and the 50th anniversary of SGI-USA's founding. In a message, SGI President Daisaku Ikeda expressed his appreciation ... read more
Culture | Jan 3 2010
Soka Gakkai Malaysia Holds Art Exhibitions
From December 13-27, 2009, Soka Gakkai Malaysia (SGM) held the "Guangzhou Art Sensation: An Exhibition by Renowned Guanghzou Artists" at the Wisma Kebudayaan SGM Center in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The exhibition celebrated the 35th anniversary of Sino-Malaysia diplomatic relations. It was jointly organized by SGM, the Embassy of the People's Republic ... read more
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U.S. Attorneys' Offices Contributed To $6.68 Billion In Civil & Criminal Collections In Fiscal Year 2010
Recoveries Largest in History
PITTSBURGH, Pa. ‑ U.S. Attorney David J. Hickton announced that financial collections by the Department of Justice in criminal and civil actions in Fiscal Year (FY) 2010 reached an all‑time high due to the efforts of the U.S. Attorneys' offices nationwide. The ninety‑four U.S. Attorneys' offices nationwide contributed to the collection of $6.68 billion during the government's fiscal year. This amount is the most successful collection year by the U.S. Attorneys' offices.
According to statistics from the Department of Justice, the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Western District of Pennsylvania contributed to the collection of $10,567,977.65 in FY 2010. Of this amount, $4,164,884.30 was collected in criminal actions and $6,403,093.35 was collected in civil actions. Additionally, the office also collected $8,864,060 in criminal and civil forfeitures. "During this time of economic recovery, these collections are more important than ever," said U.S. Attorney Hickton. "The U.S. Attorney's Office is dedicated to protecting the public and recovering funds for the federal treasury and for victims of federal crime. We will continue to hold accountable those who seek to profit from their illegal activities."
The U.S. Attorneys' offices are responsible for enforcing and collecting civil and criminal debts owed to the United States and criminal debts owed to federal crime victims. Statistics from the Department of Justice indicate that the total amount collected in criminal actions totaled $2.84 billion in restitution, criminal fines, and felony assessments. The law requires defendants to pay restitution to victims of certain federal crimes who have suffered a physical injury or financial loss. While restitution is paid directly to the victim, criminal fines and felony assessments are paid to the Department's Crime Victims' Fund, which distributes the funds to state victim compensation and victim assistance programs.
Additionally, the U.S. Attorneys' offices contributed to the collection of $1.8 billion in asset forfeiture actions in FY 2010. Forfeited assets are deposited into either the Department of Justice Assets Forfeiture Fund or the Department of Treasury Forfeiture Fund and are used to restore funds to crime victims and for a variety of law enforcement purposes.
The statistics also indicate that $3.84 billion was collected in civil actions. The largest civil collections were from affirmative civil enforcement cases, in which the United States recovered government money lost to fraud or other misconduct or collected fines imposed on individuals and/or corporations for violations of federal health, safety, civil rights or environmental laws. In addition, civil debts were collected on behalf of several federal agencies, including the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Health and Human Services, Internal Revenue Service, and Small Business Administration.
The nationwide collection totals for FY 2010 represent nearly a 30% increase in criminal collections and 57% increase in civil collections over FY 2009. In FY 2009, the U.S. Attorneys' offices contributed to the collection of more than $4.6 billion. Of the amount collected, $2.23 billion was collected criminally and $2.44 billion was collected civilly. The significant increase in collections was due to various large criminal restitution cases as well as large health care fraud cases.
For further information, the United States Attorneys' Annual Statistical Reports through FY 2009 can be found on the internet at http://www.justice.gov/usao/resources/reports/.
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Federal Family Education Loan Program:
More Oversight Is Needed for Schools That Are Lenders
GAO-05-184: Published: Jan 24, 2005. Publicly Released: Jan 24, 2005.
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In fiscal year 2004, lenders made about $65 billion in loans through the Federal Family Education Loan Program (FFELP) to assist students in paying for postsecondary education. The Higher Education Act (HEA), which authorizes FFELP, broadly defined eligible lenders--including schools. The Department of Education's (Education) Office of Federal Student Aid (FSA) is responsible for ensuring that lenders comply with FFELP laws and regulations. Recently, schools have become increasingly interested in becoming lenders, and this has raised concerns about whether it is appropriate for schools to become lenders given that they both determine students' eligibility for loans and in some cases set the price of attendance. In light of these concerns we determined (1) the extent to which schools have participated as FFELP lenders and their characteristics, (2) how schools have structured lending operations and benefits for borrowers and schools, and (3) statutory and regulatory safeguards designed to protect taxpayers' and borrowers' interests.
Between school years 1993-1994 and 2003-2004, lending by schools has increased significantly from 22 school lenders disbursing about $155 million to 64 schools disbursing $1.5 billion in FFELP loans. Several schools we interviewed reported that a primary reason to become a FFELP lender was to generate more revenue for the school. About 80 percent of school lenders in school year 2003-2004 were private nonprofit schools, and almost all of them had graduate and professional programs in medicine, law, or business. Most school lenders have contracted with other FFELP organizations to administer their loan programs and subsequently have sold their loans to earn revenue, but school lenders differed in terms of how they financed the loans made and when they sold their loans. About a third of the school lenders we interviewed used their own money to finance the loans they made, while the others obtained lines of credit from a bank or secondary market lender, in some cases from the same organization that eventually purchased the loans disbursed by the school lender. Most schools we interviewed reported using or planning to use revenues earned from the sale of loans to lower student borrowing costs or provide need-based aid. A number of statutory and regulatory provisions applicable to all lenders and schools, and some applicable only to school lenders, exist to safeguard the interests of taxpayers and borrowers. FSA, however, has little information about how school lenders' have complied with FFELP regulations. Under the HEA, FFELP lenders that originate or hold more than $5 million in FFELP loans must submit annually audited financial statements and compliance audits. In October 2004, FSA discovered that 10 of 29 school lenders required to submit an audit for fiscal year 2002 had not done so. Moreover, FSA has not conducted program reviews of school lenders. However, during the course of our review, three regional offices asked 31 school lenders about their compliance with the regulation pertaining to the use of interest income and special allowance payments for need-based grants.
Recommendation for Executive Action
Status: Closed - Implemented
Comments: The Department of Education issued guidance to school lenders on new requirements implemented under the Higher Education Reconciliation Act. In particular, all school lenders are now subject to the annual compliance audit requirement, must use proceeds from the sale of loans for need-based grants, and award any contract for financing, servicing, or administration of the loan program on a competitive basis. Education provided results of 9 program reviews of school lenders reported from January through October of 2005, and results of 12 reviews completed from April through November 2006. Of the 12 reviews completed in 2006, 4 had findings of non-compliance, and 8 had findings of compliance (although some included recommendations regarding changes in procedures).
Recommendation: To ensure program integrity, FSA's Chief Operating Officer should take the steps necessary to ensure that school lenders are consistently complying with statutory and regulatory provisions. As a first step, FSA should ensure that school lenders consistently submit audited financial statements and compliance audits in a timely manner.
Agency Affected: Department of Education: Office of Federal Student Aid
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Fabulosity is no longer a word reserved only for Hollywood glam stars such as Kimora Lee Simmons. Right here in Zimbabwe the well- heeled have taken fabulosity, a word used to describe anything that is beyond wonderful, whether it is an outfit, a car, a lifestyle or a hairstyle to new levels. In this case they have taken fabulosity to holidaying.
In the past holidays for most Zimbabweans meant driving to the rural home to have a good Christmas with the folks down there. While this is still a very much-revered part of our culture as a people, for the well-heeled, some holidays especially the Christmas break, are now reading like novels.
Destinations such as Qatar, Dubai, China, Mauritius, Seychelles, Cape Town, Zanzibar, Maputo, Durban, Rome, New York and Paris are just some of the hot spots for these well- heeled. While it costs an arm and a leg to fly to these destinations and to book into a decent hotel for the new money crowd of Harare, this is nothing.
While the assumption would be that only the well known would afford such extravagance, Saturday Lifestyle established that actually some of these loaded people are not even in the limelight. They do their things quietly.
Sandra, a 35-year-old businesswoman who has clothing shops in Harare, says she usually travels to China or the United States for her annual break. During this trip, she does not order any stuff for her shops but simply enjoys time out with her three children and partner.
"My partner is a busy executive. Throughout the year he is always up and about and the annual break at the end of the year is our time to take it easy and have fun together. We shop for our own clothes, go to Disneyland with the children, eat in all the cozy restaurants and take time to visit his business partners in and around the different states in the US," she said.
Every year, a budget of US$150 000 is set aside for the couple's holiday even though Sandra says at times her partner fails to make it and she has to go with a friend or her sisters.
Jane, a 40-year-old married mother of five says Dubai is the most fabulous destination of all the ones she has gone to over the years.
"It is a shopping paradise, with the Dubai Mall being the biggest mall in the world. Every exclusive shop is there. When you are in that place it is your money that talks. The desert safari rides are to die for and so are the camel rides," she said.
Many other women said the same of Dubai, which seems to be fast becoming the holiday destination of all time, especially because of its shopping allure.
Tari, a Harare-based socialite said she loves Dubai for its sights and shopping, saying Burj Khalifa, the tallest building in the world is one of her favourite sights as it allows her to see the world from a totally different perspective.
"Dubai Architecture is just amazing; you find hotels and buildings of any shapes and sizes. The shopping is out of this world. I always buy myself jewellery and handbags when I am there," she said. Usually US$50 000 is enough to cover her trip with her family to the capital of the United Arab Emirates.
A Harare dealer who identifies himself as Joe said he loves to go to Hong Kong during his holiday breaks because while his family shops themselves crazy, he has time to look for new business opportunities.
He said this December will be the third time in a row he would have gone to China for a holiday.
"I am making money and money is there to be spent with one's family. I don't believe in enjoying life with small girls or any other such silly things. My wife has been there by my side from when I did not have money so Christmas is our time to go and spoil ourselves and our children. While some make noise about the money they have, I let my money talk in how my family spends it," he said.
For these folks there is nothing like a stringent budget for their holiday getaways. They budget anything from US$10 000 to US$300 000, depending on where they choose to holiday. Even if their destination is the majestic Victoria Falls, they make sure they do it in style. Rented cars, five star accommodation, first class flights, and candlelit dinners are the order of the day.
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LGBT Kids Kicked Out of Their Homes
October 1st, 2009 by Admin
Twenty-three years ago statistics indicated that 25% of LGBT youth who came out to their parents were kicked out of the house and abandoned.Â
With all the progress that has been made since that time for gay rights, and all the exposure and acceptance that gays have received, I was disheartened to read an recent article (http://www.examiner.com) from the Indypendent (www.indypendent.org) that currently twenty-six percent of LGBT youth who come out to their parents are kicked out of their home. (Stats from a report from the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force)Â And when they get kicked out of their homes, they wind up on the street.
The article goes on to say that, in the United States, 575,000 to 1.6 million youth are homeless each year, of which 20-40% identify as LGBT. This means 115,000 to 640,000 LGBT youth are homeless per year.
The statistics are brutal: Twenty-five to thirty-three percent of homeless youth have engaged in survival sex. Nearly 50% of LGBT homeless youth have attempted suicide. The number of safe havens for homeless LGBT youth is nearly non-existent when compared to the staggering numbers of LGBT youth on the street.
We are not addressing the problem. The government is not paying attention, and in this economic climate, it is not likely to. It's going to take organizations like the Ali Forney Center in New York City, which provides emergency and transitional shelter for LGBT youth, to deal with the problem. We are going to need a mass social movement and we have to start by making people aware of what's going on. Frankly it's going to take the gay community and its allies to solve this problem.
We need to tackle the problem from both sides. First, for the 26% of the kids being abandoned, the immediate need is for more beds, more safe havens for homeless LGBT youth. Second, the long term solution is to educate the 26% of parents who are abandoning their kids. That's where my focus will be. My  new book is coming out in a few weeks. It's entitled The Rest of the Way: A Coming Out Story for Parents and Gay Children. One of the themes of the book is that parents have to be active participants in their gay children's lives.  Check out my website at www.RestoftheWay.com. Only by educating parents to overcome their homophobic fears can we begin to reduce these numbers. ÂGay Lesbian Homeless LGBT National Gay & Lesbian Task Force The Rest of the Way: A Coming Out Story for Parents and Gay Children
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Shane Ost of Valley City State and Kameron Hunter of Jamestown were named the first Co-North Star Athletic Association MenŌĆÖs Golfers of the Week, the NSAA announced Monday.
Ost continued his hot start to the fall golf season with an even-par 72 and a first-place finish in the Bismarck State Mystics Invitational on Sept. 3. OstŌĆÖs big day paced the Viking menŌĆÖs golf team to a score of 307 and a first-place finish at the six-team meet.
Jamestown volleyball (8-4) brought a four-game win streak to town against Valley City State (4-7), who were on a two-game win streak of their own, for the first North Star Athletic Conference clash between the rivals on Wednesday night.
Scoring streaks told the story of the back-and-forth match ŌĆö seven-and-eight-point leads did not last long for either squad ŌĆö but Jamestown took the match, 3-0 (25-21, 29-27, 25-19).
Hi-Liner tennis (1-3 EDC, 1-3 overall) looked to make it two wins in a row as West Fargo (4-1, 8-1) came to town for a conference match on Tuesday night.
The veteran Packers had other ideas, and came away with a 9-0 win.
Hi-Liner volleyball (1-1, 5-3) looked to keep third place in the Eastern Dakota Conference as they hosted conference rival Shanley (3-0, 9-0) on Tuesday night after rallying from a two-set deficit in a 3-2 loss to Fargo Davies the night before.
Valley City kept it close in all three games, but Shanley powered to a 3-0 (25-18, 25-22, 25-19) win.
Jessica Denholm led the Hi-Liners in assists with 23. Ellie Winter added three, and Danica Diegel two more.
Denholm connected on Valley City's lone ace and totaled 13 digs, Claire Olson 12, Dierra Diegel 11.
Barnes County native Stacey Lilja of Leonard was one of the members of the North Dakota State University Extension Service's sixth Rural Leadership North Dakota class.
"I'm extremely honored to be chosen,ŌĆØ Lilja said Wednesday.
More in Thursday's issue of the Times-Record.
A Times-Record newspaper carrier received an award for her customer service Wednesday morning. Diana Gehlhoff, an Open Door Center resident, has been delivering the newspaper for about a year-and-a-half and has received many compliments, she said.
One person was impressed enough to nominate Gehlhoff for the Valley City Area Chamber of Commerce monthly community service award.
Chamber ambassadors and other community members presented the award to Gehlhoff Wednesday morning in an ODC building.
Read more in Wednesday's Times-Record.
A culprit or culprits in the May vandalism of the decorative water fountain in City Park has still not be found four months after the incident took place.
Valley City Police Chief Fred Thompson said Wednesday, "The culprits have not been located, and the investigation is continuing."
More in Thursday's issue of the Times-Record.
Hi-Liner Football has a few reminders for this Friday's game against Grafton:
1. The south street entrance to Hanna Field is still under construction and will not be open this week. VCHS asks all fans to enter through the west gate and apologizes for the inconvenience and anticipates that it will be open for the next home game on Sept. 27th vs. Maple Valley/Enderlin.
2. Stoudt-Ross Ford will host a chili dog feed on the south side of the grand stands starting at 5 p.m. Fans are encouraged to come out and support the tailgate. All proceeds will go to the Valley City Booster Club.
Valley City Youth Bowling gets rolling this Saturday and Sunday (Sept. 14-15).
Saturday Youth League for boys and girls, grades K-6, begins at 9 a.m.
Sunday Youth League, grades 7-12, begins this Sunday at 1:30 p.m.
VC Youth Bowling is open to all area youth. Valley City has an open membership program, so new members may join any time during the season.
Contact Mary at (701) 840-0622 for further information.
UPDATE: Valley City High School's Varsity and JV Bowling meet in Red River Lanes in Fargo on Saturday has been cancelled.
The North Star Athletic Association will recognize the inaugural season at each member institutionŌĆÖs first home conference event by throwing a commemorative t-shirt into the fan sections as significant landmarks are reached for the first time by the home team.
Each NSAA sport that sponsors a championship event throughout the year will have landmark ŌĆśfirstsŌĆÖ in the history of the NSAA that will trigger a t-shirt toss into the fan section.
Fans are encouraged to attend to help celebrate the milestones as they come along, according to NSAA Commissioner Cory Anderson.


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Once again summer is with us and so are flies and partially opened windows. In this period we are, yet again, faced with the age-old conundrum of why flies persist in banging their heads against the closed portion of the window instead of flying out of the open part.
It has occurred to us that this may not be due to simple stupidity on behalf of the fly, but may have a good physiological reason. Flies are probably sensitive to polarised light and it is possible that the flies are selectively flying towards the more polarised light that comes through the glass. Maybe other readers can comment upon the validity of this theory.
Douglas Adams once wrote upon this very subject in his legendary guide. He described the alien creation of a 'superfly' that was capable of flying out of the open window. Perhaps modern genetics on Earth could engineer ...
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i was getting really into the path of totality album, so i checked out some skrillex, and fell in love. then i went to youtube to check out killbot sound surgery. not at all what i was expecting. lol, don't judge a book by it's cover. by the looks of that robot, i was expecting a darker, murderous, more heavy bass undertone, and mabee some of jon's insane growling rapp. but i got more of an up-beat hip-hop infused dubsteppy, gogo disco-funk thing goin on. don't get me wrong, it was good! just not at all what i was expecting....mabee that robot should be chrome?


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Alrighty folks, it's about that time again to dust off the ol' shitty plastic award trophys and hand these bad boys out. I'll go ahead and recap what to do and what not to do when doing these silly awards. I'll list out what the categories are and you (the poster) write in who you are nominating for that award. Please write in one person to receive the award. You CAN NOT vote for yourself. The voting will be open from 12 p.m. tonight (CT) until 12 p.m. next Friday (CT). That's a good solid week for any straggelers just coming in. To keep the thread towards the top, i'll bump the thread daily to make sure it stays on the first page. When the week is over, I'll go through like the last awards and tally everything up. So good luck to everyone and let the voting start!
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In Kenya, I am the focal point for a Campaign that focuses on ending violence against girls and young women in the Kenya Girl Guides Association and a member of the Africa UNiTE to End Violence, Kenyan Chapter. I have had the opportunity to attend national events such as the 3rd Conference on Peer Education, Sexuality and HIV/AIDS, Kenya AIDS National Strategic Plan (KNASP III) launch, and the HIV Free Generation Campaign launch in Nairobi. Presently, I am a coordinating the 6th Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS Research Alliance (SAHARA) conference youth programme. I will also be working closely with the Pan-African Youth Leadership team to ensure the 4th Pan-African Youth Leadership conference consults on eradicating unemployment while bringing more economic empowerment and creating more job opportunities for women and youth in Africa.
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In Like a Virgin Aarathi Prasad looks at historical notions of virgin birth and explores the possiblity of a future without the need for pregnancy
FIRST, seal a man's semen in a glass tube. Then bury the tube in horse manure for 40 days, remove it, magnetise it and watch the semen assemble themselves into a tiny human form. Voilà - conception, without the pesky uterus.
This was the recipe for life suggested by the 16th-century scientist Paracelsus. His was one of the first enquiries into whether children could be born without the need for women. According to the prevailing scientific wisdom of the time, women were simply vessels, replaceable if you could just find the right alternative.
This misunderstanding isn't even the most entertaining story in Like a Virgin, in which biologist and science writer Aarathi Prasad looks from several perspectives at the possibility of human parthenogenesis, or reproduction ...
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Saikou Ba Jammeh of Bakau, an NDEA officer attached to Kiang Keneba Station has told the Banjul Magistrates' Court presided over by Principal Magistrate Taiwo Ade Alagbe that Mbye Njie, the former NDEA Operation director was bribed by one Bakary Jammeh in the case of one Sarjo Jallow, who was in their custody.
Jammeh made this revelation while testifyingas the first prosecution witness in the corruption trial of the embattled former director of Operation at the NDEA, on Tuesday continued before the Banjul Magistrates' Court. Mbye Njie is defending corruption charges leveled against him by the state at the said court.
When the case came up, the director of Public Prosecution (DPP) S.H Barkun reminded the court that the case was set for hearing and he was with some of his witnesses in court. Lawyer Lamin K. Mboge who appeared for the first time in the case announced he representation for the accused and that the previous defence counsel L.S Camara had filed a motion for the bail of the accused person, which he wished to adopt.
The DPP informed the court that he did not see any other motion filed in the case apart from the one filed by the previous defence counsel, Lamin S Camara, who has withdrawn from the case and so any document filed by him goes with him as he withdraws. Lawyer Mboge replied that there is no law that states that when a counsel withdraws anything filed by him goes with him. He further urged the court to disregard the application of the DPP and allow him to go on with his application.
The court in its ruling revealed that the succeeding defence counsel, L.K Mboge cannot adopt the motion filed by previous counsel L.S Camara because the affidavit in support is not to the knowledge of the succeeding counsel; the court therefore ordered for the counsel to file a bail application.
At that juncture, the DPP called his first witness who identified himself as Saikou Ba Jammeh of Bakau, an NDEA officer attached to Kiang Keneba Station. The first prosecution witness (PW1) informed the court that he knew the accused, who was one time his boss as the director of Operation, and that he also knew Sheriff Sanyang, the officer commanding at NDEA Banjul Division, who is presently in Liberia on a peacekeeping mission. He further told the court that he knew Sarjo Jallow who was under detention for being in possession of drug and he as well knew one Bakary Jammeh who is a mediator between Sarjo Jallow and his family.
PW1 narrated that between April and July 2011, while he was in his office one Musta Bah came to him and said he wanted to bail Sarjo Jallow and he (PW1) told him that he could nothandle bail issue but he referred him to the accused or OC Sanyang. He said the following day, one Bakary Jammeh came to him and said he was directed by Musta Bah to bail Sarjo Jallow and he repeated the same thing to him (Bakary) after which he left and went upstairs to the OC, Sheriff Sanyang who called him (PW1) and asked whether they had any suspect by the name Sarjo Jallow. He said he responded in the affirmative and Sanyang further said he will get back to him.
PW1 disclosed that OC Sanyang later told him that the accused instructed for the said Sarjo Jallow to be granted bail with a national ID card, to which he complied and did the same. He revealed that after Sarjo's sister left, few minutes later Bakary came back to his office alone and told him that the time he went upstairs to discuss about the bail, he was charged D6, 000 but he was with only D4, 000 which was given to him (PW1).
He further told the court that after sometime, the accused person called him to ask about Bakary Jammeh and whether he (Bakary) left anything with him (PW1) to which he answered in the affirmative and later delivered the said money to the accused in his office.
According to him, after a week, Bakary Jammeh came with one of Sarjo Jallow's relatives and said to him that they wanted to settle Sarjo's case but he (PW1) instructed him to go to court and do that and they left. He disclosed that Bakary Jammeh then said he was going to see the accused person and at that time, he (Bakary) was having a plastic bag that was containing D15, 000.
He explained after a while, he was called to the office of OC, Sheriff Sanyang and when he arrived at the said office, he found the accused with Bakary Jammeh and the said D15, 000 was given to the accused who also handed it over to OC Sheriff Sanyang for safekeeping, and the accused warned that they (Sarjo Jallow's family) have to pay the remaining D35, 000 in three months if not he will take the case to court. He finally said that Sarjo Jallow's case was not a plea bargain but instead it was a bribe to the accused.
During cross-examination of PW1 by the defence counsel for the accused person, Lawyer L.K Mboge, the witness told the court that he is a native of Essau village in the North Bank Region and a resident of Bakau. He added that his wife is from Kanilai, that it is the same village the CEO of the NDEA comes from. He said he could not answer any further questions about the relationship between the NDEA CEO and his wife.
He informed the court that he served for seven years in the NDEA and he went up to the rank of sub-inspector but now he is a corporal. He further informed the court that he knew Inspect Pa Serign Mboob but that he did notknow if he was dismissed from the NDEA but he missed to see him. He said he does not know why he was transferred from Banjul to Kiang, adding that he knows the first order at the NDEA, which he said is about transfer and posting and it is published at the NDEA office on its notice board.
The case was adjourned to 16th August 2012 for continuation.


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Pete noticed himself that he was becoming too touchy and negative. I presume possibly because of the failure of The QBasic Forum to meet his expectations or possibly just change-in-life unconnected to QBasic.
He graciously opted out rather than "contribute negatively".
I will miss the old, happy, constructive Pete. And his command of SCREEN 0 QBasic was superlative and helpful. But I won't miss the Pete of lately.
I began to especially notice and lament the personality change in this thread:
Solitaire asked a simple question: "How come this freezes up before reaching 30?".
Pete is sharp and found the answer before anyone else, but responded with the title "Because you don't know how to use INSTR() properly"
I thought that was an insulting way to put it, so I changed the his title to "Change where you insert ", ""
Rather than think to himself "Yeah, that was uncalled for. I'm glad Mac caught that and fixed it. I hope nobody else saw it." as a mentally competent mature person should, he posted his title back! I deleted that and sent him an email, but he insisted and put it back again!! Sure, I could delete it again and freeze the thread, but then he would probably start a new thead and it might escalate. I thought, oh, well, maybe he's going through some crisis and the old, happy Pete will return.
But NO!!
In this thread a few days later, I was helping someone at The Unoriginal Forum but forgot the function SCREEN(0,0). Rather than look at each command in QBasic HELP, I asked the simple question.
Pete answered, but eventually found out I was helping and went into a rant to the effect that I should give credit for his one-line answer to a simple question. I then could see Pete was losing his old charm and ability to think rationally. He hates Mark, Solitaire, Ted and possibly others. I don't see any reason to hate anyone.
Why does he hate Mark? I guess because he didn't do things exactly as Pete thought he should.
Why does he hate Solitaire? I guess because Solitaire once said he should use indentation and upper/lower case. Pete holds a grudge. As he said "That's WAY out of line". Since that day, he examines every post of Solitaire's to find fault.
Why does he hate Ted? I guess because Ted started using the variable "Martha Stewart" names which Pete introduced to the forum and a copy cat annoyed him. Everyone but Pete should use one and only one name. Or maybe he got into some squabble I missed and Pete holds a grudge.
If he violates his word and comes back to the forum and sees this, I guess I will be added to the hate list. And I know it is a one-way list. Once hated, always hated.
Too bad, all this. As I said, Pete graciously opted out rather than "contribute negatively". Thank goodness he is that nice. I will miss the old, happy, constructive Pete. But I won't miss the new, vindictive, negative Pete at all.
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The Roman Empire: Economy, Society and CulturePaperback Omite British Commonwealth
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During the first, stable period of the Principate (roughly from 27 BC to AD 235), when the empire reached its maximum extent, Roman society and culture were radically transformed. But how was the vast territory of the empire controlled? Did the demands of central government stimulate economic growth, or endanger survival? What forces of cohesion operated to balance the social and economic inequalities and high mortality rates? Why did Roman governments freeze the official religion while allowing the diffusion of alien, especially oriental, cults? Are we to see in their attitude to Christianity a policy of toleration - or simply confusion and a failure of nerve? These are some of the many questions posed in this book, which offers the first overall account of the society, economy and culture of the Roman empire.Addressed to non-specialist readers no less than to scholars, it breaks with the traditional historian's preoccupation with narrative and politics. As an integrated study of the life and outlook of the ordinary inhabitants of the Roman world, it deepens our understanding of the underlying factors in this important formative period of world history.
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|Kinesiology and Athletics Division
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|This course teaches and provides practice specific techniques and conditioning for the sport of soccer. This includes drills, weight and flexibility training, and cardio-respiratory development.
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Round Rock, Texas (PRWEB) April 28, 2014
Round Rock's City Council has made the redevelopment of downtown one of its top priorities. The City has undergone several downtown planning initiatives recently. In 2010, the City adopted a Downtown Master Plan. The Plan's stated vision is that "Downtown Round Rock can become a thriving town center, featuring a viable mix of residential, commercial, retail, dining, entertainment and public space uses, in a walkable and historically-sensitive environment to enhance Round Rock's economy, quality of life, and sense of place."
The vision of downtown as a vibrant destination is gaining momentum. The City has invested significantly over the past 10 years in streetscape improvements, upgrades to utilities, public parking, upgrades and construction of City facilities, public plazas and property acquisition and will continue to do so with several pending projects.
Recently, the City acquired a prominent piece of land downtown, known as the Bagdad Avenue Property. The site is approximately 3.68 acres. The City wishes to develop this land as a mixed use project that will complement the City's vision for downtown and bring additional commercial activity, such as entertainment and dining venues, to the City's core.
Project objectives include:
In order to gauge the level of interest in the development community for projects of this nature, the City is inviting developers to submit a Letter of Interest along with information about their firm and past experience with similar projects. For more information on this invitation, please visit the City's website at: http://www.roundrocktexas.gov/bagdadproperty/. The website also includes supplemental materials related to this project.
Letters of interest are due to the City by June 16, 2014. The City anticipates responding to letters of interest by mid-summer. A detailed proposal and vision for the property will be requested from qualified developers, with approximately three (3) months given to submit responses. Selection and negotiation with a chosen developer will occur in late 2014. Any questions and requests for further information may be directed to Brad Wiseman, AICP, Director of Planning and Development Services at bwiseman(at)roundrocktexas(dot)gov or (512) 341-3321.


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Dodie Dickey, president of the Fairfield, Ill. based Animals Requesting Friends, (ARF) has been named winner of the St. Louis based Animal Rescue Foundation's pet look-alike contest. The St. Louis based ARF was founded by retired St. Louis Cardinals skipper Tony LaRussa. Dodie and her dog Rico were pictured together at Bush Stadium during a Cardinal's game last summer. The photo was chosen as the winning entry of the event which is sponsored by several St. Louis area corporations, including Purina. Rico is a mixed breed dog that Dodie rescued from the Wayne County Humane Society's dog pound. Dodie's prize package includes two tickets to this Saturday evening's Wine and Whiskers gala in the Redbird Club at Busch Stadium, in which attendees will gather to celebrate LaRussa's induction into the Baseball Hall of Fame. The event is also being staged as a fundraiser for LaRussa's ARF organization.
City officials are scrambling to develop a plan to come up with $700,000 to pay the city's share of the cost of building a new water treatment plant. The plant is expected to come on line within the next month or two. Aldermen who were on the council when the project was approved suggested an increase in water rates was proposed, but never enacted. No action has been taken on the issue.
The Fairfield City Police Department has 13 firearms for sale. Ten Beretta pistols and three shotguns will be sold by sealed bid. The minimum price for the pistols is $250. The minimum price for the shotguns is $125. The guns will be put on display at Wayne-White Propane and Sporting Goods and Barnard's Bait Shop starting Jan. 22.
No action was taken Tuesday night on a request by the Fairfield American Legion to be open and sell alcohol on Sunday. Three aldermen volunteered to serve on a committee to make a recommendation on the issue. The aldermen are Jim Griffith, David Fletcher and David Simpson. If the request is approved, it would affect all clubs in Fairfield as well as restaurants that hold a liquor license. Package stores would be exempt.
Landon Brooks, the 5th grade son of Tara and Kenneth Thomason has won the Center Street spelling Bee. The runner up was 8th grader, Tyler Hooper, son of Richard and Amy Hooper.
The National Weather Service Office in Paducah will be offering a Skywarn Spotter Training class in Fairfield on Thursday, Feb. 13. The weather spotter class will begin at 6 p.m. at the Fairfield City Police Station. The class lasts 2 hours, is free and open to the public.


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This is the last Casual Friday before Christmas. We kick off the show with a chat with our friend Steve Pacer from the auto club, talking about the holiday travel forecast. Then, Shelly, Bryan and I talk a bit about last minute holiday plans, I cave on the subject of karaoke, and we wrap up with a bit of info about what is ahead for the show in 2013 and thanks to everybody who makes the show possible. Listen, enjoy, comment, share, and have a great holiday.
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