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Change in FEV1 8.6% increase (139 mls) on 400 mg Bronchitol.
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SHORTAGE of precise data for various development programmes will soon become a thing of the past following the introduction of a better system that will be providing accurate and timely statistics.
The system of registration of vital events of life and in data collection is initiated by the government through the Registration, Insolvency and Trusteeship Agency (RITA) in collaboration with the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS).
These two bodies -- RITA and NBS have jointly agreed to take up comprehensive assessment on civil registration and vital statistics in September this year.
The country, days back did not have a proper system to keep record on deaths, divorces and all other forms of phenomena that affected demographic statistics and number of such events happened without being recorded.
The new system according to RITA Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Mr Philip Saliboko will increase the speed of registering progress, towards attaining the Millennium Development Goals, that include ending poverty, ignorance and disease and accessing basic rights of citizens.
The assessment will also point out reasons that made such events go unrecorded, he said, adding: "From the assessment we will find out why such events were not recorded.
Did they go unreported due to lack of a system, registration bureaucracy or just the geographical positions?" "We will collaborate with NBS in evaluating the collected data because they will help NBS and other stakeholders in various issues," adding that the process will be in line with the population and housing census being conducted after every 10 years.
He said that such assessment will help in the creation of a well defined system which will be used in providing timely and accurate statistics for various development plans.
"Most of the development plans embarked on by the country can only be viable through having in place accurate demographic data," Mr Saliboko said, adding that the agency is determined to ensure that such information is readily available.
He explained that customarily, the government has been depending mostly on the statistics from demographic and settlement census carried out after every ten years and also from different researches.
"These approaches apart from consuming a lot of money, but at times were also not sustainable," Mr Saliboko expounded. He said that with advanced technological innovations and high growth of Tanzanian populations it was high time the government moved from depending on such approaches to other more advanced ways to have good records.
"The system that will be established after conducting this evaluation will enable citizens access their basic rights, including the right of the child to be given a name and legally recognized," he said adding that such system among other things will speed the attainment of the millennium goals.
The CEO further noted that the evaluation exercise is expected to be conducted in fifteen days starting from September 15 to 30, this year all over the country and will engage sampling procedure in all the regions.
"Evaluation will be carried out in different places including offices of Administrative Districts officers, medical centres, police posts, mortuaries, churches, mosques and at the citizens' residence where most of such events happen," he said, adding that the exercise will involve different statistics stakeholders including relevant ministries, institutes, departments, colleges and other different government agencies.
Mr Saliboko pointed out that a number of African countries are also expected to take on similar process to improve accuracy in their databases.
He stated that an agreement to see better ways of having well-formulated demographic information was jointly reached by United Nations (UN) and African Union (AU).
"It was agreed that there was a need the system of registering vital life events for accurate statistics apart from those from other sources like census and research," he hinted.
Mr Saliboko also urged all the citizens to fully participate in the exercise so that the intended goal to have timely and accurate statistics for national development is easily achieved.
The agency's Registration Manager, Ms Angela Anatory said the data will help in evaluating factors that cause deaths or high delivery rates.
"Our collaboration with NBS will go a long way to support it because we work in all regions in Tanzania," she said, adding that the regions have been divided into seven zones.
"We have seven zones, and we will have seven teams which will comprise a total of seven up to ten officials going around the country for that purpose," explained Ms Anatory.
She detailed that for now, the country relies on NBS censuses which are conducted after every ten years, but data being collected by RITA will help in between the times when waiting for the next census.
RITA was officially launched in 2006 and replaces what was known as the Administrator General's Department in the Attorney General's Chambers, Ministry of Justice and Constitutional Affairs.
Its mission is to ensure justice through provision of effective and efficient management of information on key life events, Insolvency and Trusteeship services so as to contribute to the National development.
Ms Anatory affirmed that the agency aims at effective and efficient management of information on key life events, incorporation of trustees, safeguarding properties under trust, of deceased persons, insolvents, and minors to enable the law to take its course.
She noted that the agency works diligently to ensure that it becomes the most efficient and effective Registration, Insolvency and Trusteeship service provider.


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PPG Industries and subsidiary PPG Colombia have agreed to purchase the coatings businesses of Colpisa Colombiana de Pinturas, a privately owned Colombian coatings company, and its affiliates.
Founded in 1973, Colpisa, based in Itagüi, near Medellin, manufactures and distributes coatings for industrial, automotive OEM and refinish, and architectural customers in Colombia and Ecuador. The company's coatings manufacturing facility in Colombia employs about 400 people.
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The cap for payments would increase from the current £216 to £700, and payments would be made automatically wherever possible.
The regulator also wants the claims process by which customers receive payment to be simplified.
Ofgem said the proposed changes, which follow increased payments for customers cut off during normal weather conditions, would strengthen incentives for companies to act quickly and reconnect customers as soon as possible.
Ofgem's senior partner for distribution, Hannah Nixon said: "Many parts of Britain have seen some extreme weather conditions over the last few months and Ofgem has been proactively looking at ways to help consumers who face disruption to their energy supply in these situations.
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Sometimes, when we were about to have oral sex, I would get a nervous grin on my face, which he interpreted as mockery.
My prize was getting to share my ideas with millions of people via TED.com, through the primal art of oral storytelling.
A high-profile case, with exceptional and numerous briefs, is not the kind where oral arguments are likely to matter.
1620s, from Late Latin oralis, from Latin os (genitive oris) "mouth, opening, face, entrance," from PIE *os-/*ous- "mouth" (cf. Sanskrit asan "mouth," asyam "mouth, opening," Avestan ah-, Hittite aish, Middle Irish a "mouth," Old Norse oss "mouth of a river," Old English or "beginning, origin, front"). Psychological meaning "of the mouth as the focus of infantile sexual energy" (e.g. oral fixation) is from 1910. The sexual sense is first recorded 1948, in Kinsey. As a noun, "oral examination," attested from 1876. Related: Orally (c.1600); orality.
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Of or relating to the mouth.
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The Immigration Temptation
The political issue that always disappoints is back.
Jan 23, 2006, Vol. 11, No. 18 • By TAMAR JACOBY
CONGRESSWOMAN KAY GRANGER WAS PRACTICING a stump speech before an audience of big-time Republican donors. Her district, anchored by the bustling city of Fort Worth, is experiencing a host of problems linked to illegal immigration: day laborers loitering in strip malls, an influx of Spanish-speaking children in the schools, longer-than-usual waits in emergency rooms. Yet the congresswoman hardly mentioned any of this.
Her concerns were larger and more alarming. She noted that a troubling number of the non-Mexican illegal immigrants apprehended in 2004 were Afghans (in fact, they accounted for 57 out of 98,000 in 2004), and she warned that the gangland drug wars raging in Nuevo Laredo (nearly 400 miles away, on the other side of a heavily policed border) would soon be spilling over into Fort Worth. It was hard to say whether Granger was addressing local worries or fanning them, wrestling with real threats or creating fear. But one thing seemed certain: Like many Republican members of Congress, she intends to make illegal immigration a centerpiece of her campaign in the coming midterm election.
Indeed, the conventional wisdom in Washington holds that immigration is emerging as a pivotal issue in the 2006 elections. Some of the capital's most quoted columnists and pollsters say it is the topic to watch, not just in border states but anywhere, from the heartland to the Deep South, that has experienced an influx of newcomers. These pundits expect immigration to loom large in GOP primaries, with incumbents being challenged from the right, as well as in November between Republicans and Democrats.
And though Ken Mehlman, chairman of the Republican National Committee, has long been pressing in a different direction--struggling to shape a GOP more welcoming to minority voters--a bottom-up revolt is taking place within the party: a push to talk tough and crack down in the hope of appealing to the conservative base. It's no accident that Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist featured immigration and border security in his fall fundraising mail piece, or that the House's last act before disbanding for the holidays was to pass a bill calling for a fence along the border. The tough-talkers' hope: that immigration will be the GOP's new secret weapon, an emotional wedge issue to rally voters, pumping up turnout and helping Republicans hold on to threatened majorities in both houses of Congress.
The only problem is that neither public opinion research nor recent electoral history supports this hope. And Republicans planning to ride an anti-immigrant groundswell to victory do so at their peril--and the party's.
Of course, immigration is an increasingly pressing issue, both locally and nationwide. With some 1.5 million foreigners entering the country each year, more than a third of them illegally, voters are ever more concerned not just with the changes they observe, but also with a sense that the system is out of control--that minor irritants like loitering day laborers and Spanish heard in the supermarket will soon be growing exponentially. The issue appeals to a range of dark emotions: economic insecurities, fear of terrorism, and resentment about spending tax revenues on people who have no right to be here in the first place. Then there are the cultural concerns. According to Andrew Kohut of the Pew Research Center, some 40 percent of the public think the growing number of newcomers "threaten traditional American customs and values."
A chorus of restrictionist candidates, bloggers, and talk show hosts inflame these fears, and before long there is no separating the real from the exaggerated. Nor does it help, as some Democratic pundits point out gleefully, that Republican congressional candidates have little else to run on in 2006--few new domestic successes, a fresh batch of scandals, and not much else to distract from the war in Iraq.
Nevertheless, it is far from clear that any but a small minority of Americans care enough about immigration to vote on it. True, a recent Time survey found that nearly two-thirds of the public think illegal immigration is a serious problem, and according to a December Gallup poll, more than half would like to see the number of foreigners admitted each year reduced. It's also true that the "salience" of the issue--how important it is to people--has risen in the last year or so. Still, of eight major surveys that measured immigration's salience in recent months, none found it anywhere near the top of the list nationally.


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A Bridge Too Far (1977)
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Directed by: Richard Attenborough
Starring: Laurence Olivier, Michael Caine, Sean Connery
Continuity mistake: In a scene in a town on the rooftops as the British fight the Nazis, we see that the townsfolk were truly ahead of their times as they nearly all have television antennas.
Continuity mistake: There is a close-up of a parachutist's boot as he leaves the aircraft. It is a DMS boot. DMS boots were not issued to the army until much, much later. Late sixties, early seventies as I recall.
Continuity mistake: Halfway through the movie, James Caan drives his jeep to escape Nazi brigades and brings his wounded comrade to the hospital. He is wearing full dress, with jacket. After he holds the doctor at gunpoint to "check" his friend, the scene switches outside where he is smoking a cigarette without the jacket, then flashes back with him wearing the jacket.
Factual error: The C-47s are shown with steel collapsible chocks that were in use in the RAF from about 1960 onwards. In WWII all chocks were made of wood.
Continuity mistake: When they're building the Bailey bridge to replace the destroyed Son bridge, work continues into the night. Cut to scene of a soldier waiting for them to complete the bridge - in daylight. Cut back to the continuing work on the bridge - it's dark again.
Continuity mistake: After the scene where a British soldier is killed trying to recover supplies, a C-47 is seen crashing with a smoking engine. After the crash, look carefully at the explosion and you can see the airplane winging away.
Factual error: In the conference between Feldmarshalls Rundstedt and Model, they decide to move the 2nd SS Panzer Division, under Bittrich, to Arnhem to refit before fighting Patton's anticipated attack. Actually, it was Bittrich's II SS Panzer Korps (with the 9th and 10th SS Panzer Divisions) that were at Arnhem. The 2nd SS Panzer Division did not fight at Arnhem.
Factual error: The German tanks in the film are Leopard 1 tanks, which were made about 20 years later. Although the turret and the cannon are changed and there are different skirts, the Leopard is very recognizable by it's specific exhaust grill and back.
Factual error: The Waffen SS soldiers throughout the movie are wearing the wrong uniforms. By 1944, most Waffen SS soldiers should be wearing half or full camouflage. Their helmets also shouldn't have the swastika on it, and many should also have been camouflaged.
Factual error: When the tank corps is shown before leaving, the village is refered to as Leopoldsville. It was in fact the Belgian village of Leopoldsburg. It's shown on the map as Bourg Leopold (which is the correct French name). Leopoldville was the capital of the Belgian Congo which is now called Kinshasa.
Factual error: In many of the scenes, German Mauser rifles do not have cleaning rods. However, judging from archive footage, almost all Mauser rifles used by the Germans during World War II had cleaning rods attached. Many weapons dealers sell World War II surplus rifles without cleaning rods because they are welded into the barrel as part of the deactivation process, hence why they're missing. Still a mistake though.


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ALBANY — Wylie Fred Truitt, 75, of Albany, GA, died Thursday, May 16, 2013, at Phoebe North Hospital. Funeral services will be conducted Monday, May 20, 2013 at 11:00 a.m. at Mathews Funeral Home. Mr. Ross Powell and Rev. Tom Pollock will officiate. Interment will follow at Crown Hill Cemetery.
A native of Tignall, GA, Mr. Truitt had resided in Albany, GA for the past forty one years. He was employed with Johnson Motor Lines as their terminal manager and later with AAA Cooper Transport as their general manager and retired from Kenney Construction Co. as their job superintendent. He was a devoted and generous father, husband, grandfather and friend to all and a member of Sherwood Baptist Church.
Survivors include his wife, Beverly Burch Truitt, Albany, GA, a son Todd Truitt, Albany, GA, a daughter, Tara Truitt (Neal Wilkes), three brothers, Jim Truitt, Baltimore, MD, Mack Truitt, Lincolnton, GA, Bobby Gene Truitt, Augusta, GA, three sisters, Peggy Stewart, Warrenton, GA, Lucy Wallace, Elberton, GA and Terry Williamson, Gainesville, GA, his step-mother, Dora Truitt, Clinton, SC, four grandchildren, Nikki Truitt, Nigel Wilkes, Fiona Wilkes, Liam Wilkes and a great-grandchild, Carolyn Truitt.
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You are absolutely right. 12 year olds would know the difference between to and too.
Seriously though, what modern games are hard? Twilight Princess was easy, especially the bosses. There are some challenges in Super Mario Galaxy and you can't deny that. Luigi's Purple Coins for one. That's what great about Galaxy though, most gamers can beat the game, but completing it is a lot more of a challenge. Basically they made this game for everyone. The less accomplished gamers can beat it while the completionist will try to get 120 stars. But yeah, go ahead and bitch about the highest rated game since Ocarina of Time.


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LAS VEGAS—The home security and home automation space has a new player: Qolsys. Based in Silicon Valley, the company introduced its first product, the 7-inch touch-screen IQ Panel, at ISC West today.
In the second decade of the 21st century, home security is no longer just about catching bad guys.
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The band was "forged through the winter doldrums of our dry county in the coal mine mountains of southeast Kentucky," said Laura "Gap Tooth Larry" Gregory, one of the band's members.
"I reckon the band was born out of necessity," said Gregory.
Gregory and two of the band's other members, Casey "Poodledog" Papendieck and Tyler "Crazy Lloyd" Emery, wound up in Hyden, Ky., because of their passions for bluegrass and traditional music. Band member Ishi "Chelsea" Wooton, however, has deep roots in the region and has lived there since age 13.
The band has been performing its own brand of "dirty, raw, passionate, desperate, intricate, moonshine-driven American roots music" across the country, said Gregory. It's music that is mainly composed of original material peppered with "a few tasty covers."
"We uphold a generally anti-genre attitude towards our music and strive to be real and genuine to who we are with everything that we produce," she said.
Gregory plays doghouse bass, accordion, washboard, and tambourine in the band. Papendieck plays mandolin, tenor banjo, guitar, and kazoo while Wooton plays fiddle, tenor banjo, doghouse bass, and slide whistle; and Emery plays guitar, mandolin, tenor banjo, and doghouse bass. Each of the four also contributes with their own vocal talents.
"Through our bluegrass emersion," said Gregory, "we realized that we had a mutual appreciation for bluegrass and traditional music but we had individual and starkly different influences and backgrounds that we brought to the table as well. Basically, we liked to drink moonshine and pick around on some tunes - traditional and original alike."
The band collectively has musical influences of artists Tom Waits, Man Man, and Mungo Jerry, with some of the band members having a shine to artists that range anywhere from Neil Young to Lady Gaga. Though their unique sound draws a crowd, there's much more to their stage presence than music to rock out to, said Gregory.
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|Portrait of Oboi
|Regent of the Qing Dynasty
|In office
Serving with Sonin, Ebilun, Suksaha
|Kangxi Emperor
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|c. 1610
|Guwalgiya Uici (father)
|Four Regents of the Kangxi Emperor
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|Chaowu (超武)
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|Defeated Zhang Xianzhong
Gūwalgiya Oboi (Manchu: ᡤᡡᠸᠠᠯᡤᡳᠶᠠ ᠣᠪᠣᡳ; simplified Chinese: 瓜尔佳 鰲拜; traditional Chinese: 瓜爾佳 鼇拜; pinyin: Guāěrjiā Áobài) (c. 1610[1]–1669) was a highly decorated Manchu military commander and courtier who served in various military and administrative posts under three successive emperors of the early Qing Dynasty. He was one of four regents nominated by the Shunzhi Emperor to oversee the government during the Kangxi Emperor's minority. Eventually deposed and imprisoned by the new emperor for having amassed too much power, he was posthumously rehabilitated.
Early life and military career[edit]
Oboi was born to a distinguished military family of the Manchu Guwalgiya clan. Under the Manchu Banner organization created by Nurhachi, Oboi's branch of the family was registered under the Bordered Yellow division which came under the command of Nurhachi's son Hong Taiji. Oboi's father Uici (衛齊) (d. 1634) was a senior military officer who was once garrison commander of the Manchu capital city Mukden while his paternal uncle Fiongdon (费英東) was one of Nurhachi's most trusted generals. Oboi's childhood and early years are relatively obscure. Being his father's third son, he was not destined to inherit the family's hereditary seat in the Banner hierarchy. Oboi was first mentioned in official Qing history in the Chronicles of Hong Taiji (清太宗实录) in 1632, documenting his triumphant return from a minor raid into Ming territories in which he was allowed to keep his spoils as reward.
Oboi officially started his military career in 1634 during the reign of Hong Taiji as a junior officer in the Banner's cavalry guard unit[2] in which capacity he distinguished himself many times in battle against Ming forces and was renowned for his personal bravery. For this, he was granted an hereditary commission as captain of a company (niru i janggin). In 1637 during the Manchus' second campaign against Korea, Oboi volunteered and succeeded in capturing a small but strategically important Pi Island[3] (皮岛) south of the Yalu River after a difficult amphibious landing followed by desperate hand-to-hand battle ending in the complete annihilation of the Ming garrison. For this achievement he was promoted to the rank of a hereditary colonel third-class and bestowed the rare honorific title of "Baturu" (巴图鲁), which means "(brave) warrior" in Manchu.[4] In 1641 Oboi again distinguished himself in battle scoring five victories in as many encounters against Ming forces in the campaign for Songshan (松山). He was promoted to full Colonel and given command of the Bayarai guards of the Bordered Yellow Banner. Oboi's rise in the Banner hierarchy continued apace with the Manchus' war with the Ming Dynasty. In 1645 he was promoted to the rank of General. It was recorded in official Qing history that in 1646 during the campaign to pacify Sichuan, Oboi was personally responsible for slaying the rebel chief Zhang Xianzhong in battle.[5]
Persecution and rehabilitation[edit]
As a member of the Bordered Yellow Banner, Oboi's loyalty to his Banner master was crucial to his rapid advancement during the years when Hong Taiji commanded the Banner. However after Hong Taiji's death, Oboi's loyalty to his new Banner master Hooge became a political liability. When Dorgon who commanded the White and Bordered White Banners became regent to the young Shunzhi Emperor, he sought to weaken the influence of the other Banners at court by purging the ranks of their senior commanders. Just as Hooge was arrested and eventually died in prison, in 1648 Oboi was stripped of his rank and titles under a charge of claiming false victories in battle. Later he was found guilty of a more serious crime of conspiracy to elect Hooge as emperor during the succession dispute after Hong Taiji's death. This later charge carried with it the death penalty, however the sentence was commuted while he continued to command troops against Ming loyalists. The charges against Oboi were most likely politically motivated and were rehabilitated in 1651 after Dorgon's death. Oboi for his unswerving loyalty to his Banner and services to the Qing government was appointed a cabinet minister by Shunzhi Emperor, who also bestowed on him the title of Marquis of the First Rank.
The extent of the Shunzhi Emperor's trust in Oboi's loyalty can be gauged by the honours the emperor showered on him. In 1652 after Shunzhi successfully purged the court of the more powerful elements in Dorgon's faction, Oboi was elevated to a hereditary Duke of the Second Rank and more importantly appointed the commander of the imperial bodyguard (领侍卫内大臣), a job which doubled as the de facto police chief in the capital. In this capacity Oboi acted as Shunzhi's much feared enforcer against Dorgon's old cohorts and helped to consolidate power to the throne and the Emperor's own "Upper Three Banners". During the period of Shunzhi's personal rule, Oboi was responsible for the arrest and execution of a number of noblemen found guilty of one crime or another. Although there is no doubt that these executions were carried out with the approval of Shunzhi, it is not surprising that after the emperor's death, Oboi, given his ruthless character and position in court, when left uncontrolled by a higher authority should eventually come to dominate court politics creating unto himself a "state within a state".
The Shunzhi Emperor died from smallpox on February 5, 1661, at the age of 24. On his deathbed he appointed four "Executive Ministers" (辅政大臣) commonly referred to as regents[6] to "assist" his eight-year-old son Xuanye to govern the country until the young emperor reached the age of maturity at 16. The four ministers in their order of seniority[7] were Sonin of the Yellow Banner, who apart from being chief minister of the Imperial Household Department (內務府大臣) was also nominated by Empress Dowager Xiaozhuang to head the regency. The second minister on the list was Suksaha of the White Banner. Originally a trusted deputy of Dorgon, Suksaha was politically astute enough to switch sides immediately after the former regent's death when the court was still dominated by Dorgon's associates. By the time of the Shunzhi Emperor's death he was one of the emperor's most trusted courtiers. Then came Ebilun and Oboi, both members of the Bordered Yellow Banner. The Shunzhi Emperor's succession plan set a precedence for the Qing Dynasty of nominating courtiers who owed their loyalty to the crown to "assist" a young emperor during the years of minority in running the state. This reflected the lesson learned from Dorgon's regency, when the regent grew almost too powerful for the emperor to control. Unfortunately, this system of appointing ministers to oversee the government during an emperor's minority proved not to be a very stable political device after all.[8]
Three of the four ministers, Sonin, Ebilun and Oboi were members of the "Two Yellow Banners" (i.e. Yellow Banner and Bordered Yellow Banner) previously under the command of the Shunzhi Emperor's elder brother Hooge. Because of the personal and political rivalries between Hooge and Dorgon, all three men were persecuted at one time or another during Dorgon's regency for their Banner affiliation. However their loyalty thus proven was also key to their rapid advancement after Dorgon's death. It was a major factor in Shunzhi's choice of personnel to oversee his son's regency. However Shunzhi's arrangement heightened the already sensitive relationship between the three members of the Yellow Banners and Suksaha who belonged to the White Banner. Suksaha was a much despised figure at this point not only because he was a member of the White Banner in an imperial court dominated by the two Yellow Banners, but also because he gained the Shunzhi Emperor's trust by denouncing his former master Dorgon, an action seen by his colleagues including members of the White Banner as disloyal.
In the first years of the regency, the tension between the Yellow Banners faction and Suksaha was kept in check by the even handed Sonin and thus the four ministers maintained a relatively peaceful and efficient working relationship. But the dynamics of the regency began to change as Sonin's health deteriorated due to old age. As Sonin gradually took more time off on sabbatical, Oboi monopolized decision making by dominating the indecisive Ebilun and worked to sideline Suksaha during policy discussions especially on issues concerning welfare of the Manchu Eight Banners. By 1667 when Sonin realized he did not have long to live, he tried a last-ditch effort to restore balance to the regency and neutralize Oboi's rapidly expanding power clique by petitioning the then 14-year-old Kangxi Emperor to assume personal rule ahead of schedule. Thus Kangxi formerly took over the reins of power in an ascension ceremony on August 25, 1667, a month after Sonin's death. This was followed by an official decree technically downgrading the three remaining ministers to the status of "advisers" (佐政大臣) while still remaining at their posts. However even with the formal authority of office, the young Kangxi Emperor found it difficult to curb the growing power of Oboi.
Conflict with the Kangxi Emperor[edit]
Oboi forced the young Kangxi Emperor to execute Suksaha and his family. He controlled Ebilun completely and then finally established a system of near absolute rule under himself.
The Kangxi Emperor took power earlier than expected at the age of 14 in 1669. The emperor suddenly had Oboi arrested on 30 charges. Oboi was sentenced to death but it was reduced to imprisonment in consideration of his achievements. Some sources say that he displayed the many wounds on his body that had been received in the defense of Kangxi's great-grandfather Nurhaci, this act had apparently moved the Kangxi Emperor to pardon Oboi.
Oboi was posthumously rehabilitated. The Kangxi Emperor issued a pardon in 1713, while his successor, the Yongzheng Emperor, granted Oboi the rank of a First Class Duke and the posthumous title Chaowu (超武 "exceedingly martial") but Yongzheng's successor, the Qianlong Emperor, gave Oboi the lower title of First Class Baron after reviewing his merits and demerits.
Popular culture[edit]
- The Deer and the Cauldron (鹿鼎記), a wuxia novel by Jin Yong. In the story, Oboi is a cruel and power-hungry aristocrat who plots to usurp the Kangxi Emperor's throne. He is removed from power by the protagonist Wei Xiaobao and the young Kangxi Emperor and is imprisoned. He is later killed by Wei Xiaobao.
- ^ Oboi's birthday is historically undocumented, but based on circumstantial evidence historians generally estimate his birth year to be within a few years after 1610.
- ^ Official Qing Court History, Chronicles Volume 36 - The Chronicles of Oboi (清史稿.列传三十六.鳌拜列传). Oboi's initial post was a lieutenant (Manchu: juwan-i da; Chinese: 壯達) in the Banner guard unit (Manchu: Bayarai; Chinese: 巴牙喇). The Bayarais were hand-picked elite cavalry units within a Manchu Banner army that served both as camp guard and tactical reserve. In battle they were usually tasked with difficult missions independent of the main battle formation.
- ^ Ka-Do in present day North Korea.
- ^ The Manchu term "Baturu" was derived from the Mongol term "Bahadur" which translates to mean a warrior, knight or a great hero.
- ^ Qing History, Chronicles of Shunzhi Vol.1 (清史稿.本紀四.世祖本紀一) "順治三年十一月己巳,豪格師至南部,時張獻忠列寨西充,鰲拜等兼程進擊,大破之,斬獻忠於陣,復分兵擊餘賊,破一百三十餘營,四川平。") "In the eleventh month of the third year of Shunzhi's reign, Hooge's divisions reached the southern regions (of China), when Zhang Xianzhong was encamped to the west, Oboi etc. advanced to attack, routed (the rebels), slain Xianzhong upon the battlefield, (they) then divided up forces to eradicate the remaining rebels, overran in excess of 130 (enemy) camps, Sichuan was thus pacified."
- ^ The English term "regent" translates to the Chinese "shezheng" (摄政) as in the case of Dorgon whereas the four ministers' brief as stated in "Qing Court history, the Chronicles of the Shunzhi Emperor" (清太祖实录) was merely to "assist (the Emperor) in governance" i.e. "fuzheng" (辅政)
- ^ According to the order listed in the Shunzhi Emperor's edict.
- ^ The Xianfeng Emperor tried the same system again nominating eight ministers to oversee the regency of his son, the Tongzhi Emperor, but they were outmaneuvered by Empress Dowager Cixi, who took control through a palace coup.
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COLOMA – A trio of Buchanan girls earned first team All-Lakeland Conference cross country honors on Monday at Coloma.
Torrie Eger, Elizabeth Hein and Steph Reith all were on the first team, while Shannen Green was on the second team.
Allison Mitchell was on the honorable mention portion of the squad.
Buchanan's Rick Reith, Carston McCarty, Alex Eger and Jon Kuntz all earned second team honors on the boys' squad.
Brandywine's Elliot Richards was also on the second team.
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Boys first team
Josh Clark – Edwardsburg, Zak Eggleston; Mark Haukereid, Cameron Magro, Conner Magro – Bridgman; Jarret Anderson, Justin Kiewel – Bridgman
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Jake Malsch, Beau Rathgeb – Bridgman; Rick Reith, Carston McCarty, Alex Eger, Jon Kuntz – Buchanan; Elliot Richards – Brandywine
Honorable Mention
Brandon Parsons, Evan Zimmerman, A. J. Chrapliwy – Edwardsburg; John Querl – Buchanan; Zach Nearpass, Damon Davidson – Berrien Springs; P. Mojsiejenko – Bridgman
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1. Bridgman
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Torrie Eger, Elizabeth Hein, Steph Reith – Buchanan; Jessica Nave, Mandy Piedt, Kelsey Lewis – Berrien Springs; Monica Harris – Coloma
Second Team
Lindsay Ward, Taylor Kanaby – Edwardsburg; Shannen Green – Buchanan, Becca Guntz, Allison Corbin – Coloma; Kelly Ferguson – Bridgman, Mandy Bromilow – Berrien Springs
Honorable Mention
Allison Mitchell – Buchanan, Amber Vanluvanee, Koby Gillespie, Bekah Sherburn – Berrien Springs; Heidi Conrad – Coloma; Jessi Buzalski, Miranda Bronicki – Edwardsburg
Girls final standings
1. Buchanan
2. Berrien Springs
3. Coloma
4. Edwardsburg
5. Brandywine
6. Bridgman
Dual meet records
Buchanan 5-0
Berrien Springs 4-1
Coloma 3-2
Edwardsburg 2-3
Brandywine 1-4
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First, I'm not sure that the paper actually says "instead of" in there. I couldn't find it. The news sites say "instead of links" but my reading makes it seem like they are talking "in addition to" links. There was a time on the web when popularity and quality shared the same metrics. That's changed recently - especially with content marketers like us and fake news sites and sites like buzzfeed and what not.
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People won't need to validate facts. More KG info will help, but shouldn't be necessary, Yeah I'm sure you can game parts of it but it won't be easy, and adding random facts about dresses to your e-commerce site won't help you rank higher.
These people aren't thinking like an algorithm. How does the current algorithm determine relevancy to a term? It uses information retrieval theories similar to but more advanced than tf-idf. It basically means they look at every result that has that term and use math to see how "important" that term is. It's not based on any inherent value that the term has, it's based on the set of results. If every site has the term it's probably not as important. If only a subset of sites mention that term, it's probably more important. Again, this is simplified - there's TONS of math involved here.
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