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I'm 26 yo and have suffered with mild acne since junior high. I get a cystic acne bump a couple of times a year as well. I had one pop up a week ago and they always take weeks to go away. I can't get in to see the local dermatologist till November. A skincare office recommended tretinoin 0.1 cream and a different office said I was too young to use it and it would cause blood vessels to break etc etc. and they prescribed spironolactone. I don't know who to go with...I use the skinceuticals line too.
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Hate to say this, while I looked for Carp, I did not see anything to write about. He got close to sacking the QB a couple of times, and looked decent on run defense, but based only on what I saw I would not have thought he was a first round pick.
Maybe I missed them when they happened, but I really didn't see anything spectacular, or things that made me went "hey, that's a player!" Not saying that he's not doing well, I just didn't see it myself.
Don't be alarmed though, based on the misc. reports coming out of camp, he seems to be doing just fine, so I wouldn't jump to any conclusion based on one man's limited experience.
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Dacoity is a term used for "banditry" in Bengali, Odiya, Hindi, Kannada and Urdu. The spelling is the anglicized version of the Hindustani word and as a colloquial Indian English word with this meaning, it appears in the Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases (1903).[1] Banditry is criminal activity involving robbery by groups of armed bandits. The East India Company established the Thuggee and Dacoity Department in 1830, and the Thuggee and Dacoity Suppression Acts, 1836–1848 were enacted in British India under East India Company rule. Areas with ravines or forests, such as Chambal and Chilapata Forests, were once known for dacoits.
The word "dacoity", the anglicized version of the Hindustani word ḍakaitī (historically spelled dakaitee, Hindi डकैती or Urdu ڈکیتی or Bengali ডাকাতি, or Odiya ଡକାୟତି ), comes from ḍākū (historically spelled dakoo, Hindi: डाकू, Urdu: ڈاکو, meaning "armed robber") or Bengali ḍakat (ডাকাত, or Odiya ଡକାୟତି).
In Urdu, ḍākū ڈاکو is singular and ḍakait ڈکیت plural for bandits. The crime of banditry is known as dakaitee ڈکیتی.
In Hindi dacoity (Hindi: डकैती ḍakaitī, Urdu: ڈکیتی ḍakaitī, Bengali: ডাকাতি ḍakati, or Odiya ଡକାୟତି) means "armed robbery". In Tamil Nadu, the crime of banditry is known as "Dakalti".
The term dacoit (Hindi: डकैत ḍakait, Urdu: ڈکیت ḍakait, Bengali: ডাকাত ḍākāt , or Odiya ଡକାୟତି) means "a bandit", according to the OED ("A member of a class of robbers in India and Burma, who plunder in armed bands.") Dacoits existed in Burma as well as in India - Rudyard Kipling's fictional Private Mulvaney hunted Burmese dacoits in "The Taking of Lungtungpen". Sax Rohmer's criminal mastermind Dr. Fu Manchu also employed Burmese dacoits as his henchmen. The term also applied, according to the OED, to "pirates who formerly infested the Ganges between Calcutta and Burhampore".
Indian police forces use "Known Dacoit" (K.D.) as a label to classify criminals.
The dacoity have had a large impact in the Morena and Chambal regions in Madhya Pradesh.
India's Phoolan Devi[2] authored an autobiography and the movie Bandit Queen, released in 1994, was based on her life.
Dadua was one of the most infamous dacoits in U.P. and M.P. states, having very strong political links. His son Veer Sing is an MLA and brother Bal Kumar patel is an MP. His nephew Ram Singh is also an MLA.
Daku Man Singh Roopa Pandit committed over 1,000 armed robberies, 185 murders, and many ransom kidnappings between 1939 and 1955.[3] He was involved in 90 police encounters and killed 32 police officers.[4]
Daku Paan Singh Tomar was another infamous dacoit in Chambal. He was an international athlete before he was a dacoit. Other well known dacoits are Jagga Jatt and Sucha Singh Soorma from Punjab.
Veerappan evaded authorities for decades until he was shot and killed in 2004.[5][6] He was active for a period of years in an area covering 6,000 km² in the states of Karnataka, Kerala and Tamil Nadu.
Chambal dacoit Nirbhay Singh Gujjar achieved national infamy before being killed in 2005.[7]
Other infamous dacoits were Sultana Daku in the Bijnor district, and Dhira, mostly active in present Amritsar, particularly in the Majitha area.
Protection measures[edit]
In Madhya Pradesh State, women belonging to a village defence group have been issued firearm permits to fend off dacoity. The chief minister of the state, Shivraj Singh Chouhan, recognised the role the women had played in defending their villages without guns. He stated that he wanted to enable these women to better defend both themselves and their villages, and issued the gun permits to advance this goal.[8]
Popular culture[edit]
As the dacoits flourished through the 1950s–1970s, they were the subject of several films made during this era, beginning with Ganga Jamuna (1961) and Raj Kapoor's Jis Desh Mein Ganga Behti Hai (1960), and Sunil Dutt's Mujhe Jeene Do (1963).[9] Other films in this genre were Khote Sikkay (1973), Mera Gaon Mera Desh (1971), and Kuchhe Dhaage (1973) both by Raj Khosla; the latter inspired the film Sholay (1975), where the character of Gabbar Singh was played by Amjad Khan. Sholay became a classic in the genre, and its success led to a surge in films in this genre, including Ganga Ki Saugandh (1978) once again with Amitabh Bachchan, and Amjad Khan.
Punjabi biopic Jatt Jeona Morh about the noted dacoit Jatt Jeona Morh, was made in 1991; also in that same year came Jagga Daku, based on a noted outlaw and dacoit during the British Raj, Jagga Daku.
A Hindi novel पैंसठ लाख की डकैती (Painstth Lakh ki Dacoity, 1977) was written by Surender Mohan Pathak; it was translated as The 65 Lakh Heist.
Dacoits armed with pistols and swords appear in Age of Empires III: Asian Dynasties.
They frequently appeared in the French language Bob Morane series of novels by Henri Vernes, principally as the main thugs or assassins of the hero's recurring villain, Mr. Ming.
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- ^ HereThe genesis of dacoity [armed robbery by a gang] in Chambal valley [north-central India] has been a popular theme too (Bhaduri, 1972; Khan, 1981; Jatar, 1980; Katare, 1972). Again, most explanations have simply suggested feudal exploitation as the cause that provoked many people of this region to take to arms. The fact that many gangs operating in this valley were composed of higher castes and wealthy people appears to suggest that feudalism may only be a partial explanation of dacoity in Chambal valley. (Defined by Arvind Verma, in Jul-Dec 2008) "Anglo-Indian" refers to the language, or linguistic usage. See Yule, Henry and Burnell, Arthur Coke (1886) Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive J. Murry, London; reprinted 1903; see page page 290 of the 1903 edition for "dacoit".
- ^ Phoolan Devi; Marie-Therese Cuny & Paul Rambali. "The Bandit Queen of India: An Indian Woman's Amazing Journey from Peasant to International Legend". Guilford, CT: The Lyons Press, 2006. ISBN 978-1-59228-641-6.
- ^ Staff (5 September 1955) "India: Dead Man" Time magazine
- ^ Austa, Sanjay (23 August 2003) "Daku Raja becomes devta" The Sunday Tribune Spectrum section
- ^ "Veerappan, the man behind 124 murders". Hindustan Times. 2002.
- ^ "'Treasure hunt' for bandit's loot". BBC News. October 22, 2004. Retrieved April 30, 2010.
- ^ "The 'Last Lion of Chambal' gunned down by police". www.southasianpost.com. September 20, 2005. Archived from the original on 16 July 2011.
- ^ "Indian Women Granted Gun Permits to Fend Off Armed Robbers" LearnAboutGuns.com
- ^ "THE REAL LIFE HERO". Screen (magazine). Jun 6, 2008.
Further reading[edit]
- Phoolan Devi, with Marie-Therese Cuny, and Paul Rambali, The Bandit Queen of India: An Indian Woman's Amazing Journey from Peasant to International Legend Guilford, CT: The Lyons Press, 2006 ISBN 978-1-59228-641-6
- Mala Sen, India's Bandit Queen: The true Story of Phoolan Devi, HarperCollins Publishers (September 1991) ISBN 978-0-00-272066-3.
- G. K. Betham, The Story of a Dacoity, and the Lolapaur Week: An Up-Country Sketch. BiblioBazaar, 2008. ISBN 0-559-47369-9.
- Shyam Sunder Katare, Patterns of dacoity in India: a case study of Madhya Pradesh. S. Chand, 1972.
- Mohammad Zahir Khan, Dacoity in Chambal Valley. National, 1981.
External links[edit]
- Dacoity - Indian Penal Code, Chapter XVII (Mobile Friendly)
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Women—it is often said—can't keep their mouths shut. They talk more than men and, according to one study, keep a secret on average for only 32 minutes before breaking the confidence. The search for an explanation behind female chattiness has even led to the discovery of a protein that supposedly explains volubility. Most damningly, or so it has been believed through the ages, women's loose tongues make them unreliable in matters of state and diplomacy that demand discretion.
But when it comes to the most common form of secret—the family secret—those stalwart male secret-keepers tend to go missing. After eight years of researching family secrets, I've learned that if you want to bury a secret, tell your mother. It is women who minister to the skeletons in the closet. That's the shadow side of care-taking, the invisible labor that has to be hidden. Over the centuries, mothers have presided over regimes of secrecy that David Petraeus could only dream of.
Take the most common family secret of all: illegitimacy. Most often it was to their own mothers that unmarried and pregnant girls confided their plight. In poorer families, illegitimate offspring would frequently be absorbed into the mother's kin network. Grandmothers and, less frequently, aunts posed as mothers.
In middle-class families with the resources to hide a daughter's pregnancy, the girl's mother took charge of arranging her grandchild's adoption. "Last night I slept through the whole of the night! A thing I have not done for a year past," reported one grandmother to the adoption agency after it placed her 16-month-old grandson.
Adoption—both the relinquishment of children and their placement, often in secret and even illegally—was a field of endeavor that women dominated. Celia Ward (a pseudonym), the well-heeled wife of an executive of English Steel, hatched a plan in 1920 to take the youngest female infant the adoption society had available and to proceed to a convalescent home to complete the ruse. "I intend to do everything in my power to introduce the child as my own to everyone (except of course my husband)."
Like Ward's husband, men may have been consulted, but managing stigma and shame has been women's metier. Look, for instance, behind the closed doors of the Normansfield Institution, founded by Dr. John Langdon Down, for whom Down's syndrome is named. In the hundreds of boxes of letters that document how mentally disabled children became disappeared people, hidden from sight for a lifetime, there is hardly a father to be seen.
Elizabeth Scott-Sanderson was 1 year old when her mother delivered her to Normansfield in 1921. The youngest of six daughters, Elizabeth suffered a series of fits when she was seven months old, and could hardly hold up her head. The family doctor could find nothing physically wrong with the child, but thought it a hopeless case of mental impairment, and advised immediate institutionalization. When Elizabeth's mother wrote the institution, she was desperate to find a place for her baby to go.
Over the 20 years that followed, Mrs. Scott-Sanderson proved a reasonably attentive correspondent by the standards of the era. She wrote the institution regularly for details about her daughter, and visited her once or twice a year for the first decade she was at Normansfield, and sporadically thereafter. Elizabeth's father, by contrast, came to see her only twice, and wrote a single letter to the institution about her care.
If secret-keeping could be repressive, it could also serve to protect. Mothers tenaciously kept mum—even in the heat of the courtroom. When the notorious cross-dressers Frederick Park and Ernest Boulton were put on trial for the "abominable crime of buggery" in 1871, it was Boulton's mother, Mary Ann, who came forward to defend her son. She had provided Ernest and his friends with dresses and altered them to fit. Now she appeared in court to insist upon her son's innocence. Boulton's father (or so the story went) had been called away on urgent business to the Cape of Good Hope.
Before the era of gay liberation, homosexual men were more likely to come out to their mothers than to their fathers. They often assumed that their mothers either already knew or would be more sympathetic, willing to preserve their confidences. "Very good to his mother" was a euphemism for a homosexual.
There was nothing innate about women's proclivity to keep family secrets. Such discretion is no more biological than women's supposed tendency to gab. Secret-keeping has been a pragmatic strategy of collective defense, a means of shielding black sheep as well as the family's reputation. Here, where security was paramount, women were the gate-keepers and the wall-builders. There's a reason why family scandal was called dirty laundry. Like the real-life stuff, mothers washed it at home.
Deborah Cohen is the Peter B. Ritzma Professor of the Humanities and Professor of History at Northwestern University. Her new book is Family Secrets: Living with Shame from the Victorians to the Present Day, published by Oxford in the US and by Viking Penguin in the UK. Her website is www.DeborahACohen.com and she tweets from @DeborahACohen.


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Solutions to the ills of corporate health care may be found in unlikely places. From out of a quiet corner of a Los Angeles Hilton lobby on a recent eve-ning comes the eager voice of one dyed-in-the-wool conservative. And hes mad as hellat Americas greedy hospitals that routinely, he says, price-gouge low-income people without health insurance. Its an evil wrongdoing, says the practicing Catholic, peering bug-eyed through thick, black-rimmed glasses.
K.B. Forbes has become one of Americas most powerful advocates for the uninsured, chiefly by attacking hospitals practice of billing uninsured patients up to four times as much as they bill HMOs and Medicare for exactly the same services. Hospital chains frequently pump up their sticker prices to mitigate their losses when forced to negotiate downward by big-time insurers. Without a powerful HMO behind them, the uninsured are saddled with the full list price. In 2002, according to the National Journal, some hospitals were charging them an average of more than 200 percent above cost; Medicare, in contrast, pays an average of 1 percent below cost. With an inimitable mix of attack-style PR and detective work, the 38-year-old Forbes almost single-handedly pressured a major hospital chain to end the inflated pricing and has called on government to review the nonprofit status of some of the most egregious hospital offenders. A congressional investigation is now threatening to do just that.
But hand in hand with his victories for the uninsured, Forbes has advanced the interests of a wealthy conservative insurance executive, J. Patrick Rooney, for whom he once worked and to whom he maintains close ties. Rooney is a relatively small-time health insurer compared with the likes of Aetna and Blue Cross but is an influential figure on the right for championing private health savings accounts. Already, hospital discounts resulting from Forbes campaign have netted Rooneys Indianapolis-based company, Medical Savings Insurance, a multimillion-dollar windfall.
Forbes, a self-styled child of the Reagan revolution, grew up in a mixed household in a Los Angeles suburb. His father was an Irish union member and his mother a Chilean social worker. Both were card-carrying Democrats, but Forbes quickly blazed a trail in conservative politics, and by his late 20s he was serving as chief spokesman for Pat Buchanan and later Steve Forbes (no relation) in two successive presidential campaigns. These days, though, Forbes likes to hark back to one of his first jobs, as an ESL teacher in Latino Los Angeles. The day after the 2000 presidential elections, he said his farewells to Capitol halls and jetted across the country to return to something more grassroots.
Which turned out to be Consejo de Latinos Unidos. Forbes, who speaks fluent Spanish, founded this advocacy group out of East Los Angeles in 2001a nonprofit dedicated to fighting for hospital discounts for the uninsured, a disproportionate share of whom are Latino. Navigating 8,000 miles of Los Angeles freeway alone in a 1995 green Ford Taurus, El Gordito or Chubby, as Forbes is affectionately known, began documenting cases like that of Pascual Rivera. In 2001, Rivera, an uninsured auto mechanic and the father of three children, was charged nearly $30,000 for a three-day hospital stay after coming down with a severe flu10 times the amount the hospital would have billed an HMO. When Rivera offered to pay $10,000 and have the rest refinanced, the hospital threatened to put a lien on his home. Soon, Forbes was taking the most egregious cases to the press. It was phenomenal, Forbes booms. Everyone was doing itfor-profit, nonprofit, public, and private.
In 2003, Tenet Healthcare Corporation, the nations second-largest hospital chain, finally yielded to Forbes pressure and agreed to implement discounts for the uninsured. Now Forbes is targeting the only chain bigger than TenetHospital Corporation of America, or HCA. Consejos damning radio and television ads have aired in 15 states; in press releases, Forbes has called on Catholic hospital executives to end the price-gouging and visit the confessional booth.
Living by cell phone and sometimes crusading through three different cities in the course of a week, Forbes has taken his campaign to rhetorical heights where many liberal consumer advocates fear to tread. Instead of simply campaigning against hospital overbilling, he alleges racial discrimination. (A full 42 percent of non-elderly adult Hispanics are uninsured, compared to 24.5 percent of blacks and 15 percent of whites.) One Consejo television ad aired widely in Florida compares hospital pricing to the colored only waiting rooms of the Jim Crow era. And when Alabamas attorney general came out in support of a nonprofit hospital Consejo had targeted, Forbes responded by calling the official a stooge for price-gouging thugs. Since June, the trial lawyers have joined in, filing claims of overbilling against more than 65 hospital chains nationwide. Hospitals are so worried about being the campaigns next target, Forbes claims, some are contacting him to start negotiations rather than wait for Consejo to attack. They dont want to defend the indefensible, he says.
In part, Forbes Tenet success was based on timing. In 2002, he helped put together a series of 10 lawsuits filed by uninsured Latinos against Tenet hospitals in Southern California; two months later, federal officials began investigating the hospital chain for Medicare fraud and illegal kickbacks to doctors. Meanwhile, Tenet lost $1.6 billion in acquisition deals in four cities, and in January 2003, the besieged company finally came around. Tenet agreed to implement discounts for the uninsured, and to stop aggressive collection practicessuch as liens on patients homes and court cases against the unemployed. They were seized upon with situations in the stock market and the feds, Forbes now says. Who pushed us to a deal? It was the federal government of the United States that raided them.
But looming over Forbes passionate advocacy is the long shadow of J. Patrick Rooney, his former employer. Forbes work has produced direct, and dramatic, benefits for Rooneys company, Medical Savings Insurance. When Tenet agreed to discount care to the uninsured, the chain applied discounts to MSI, which, unlike the much larger players in the industry, couldnt negotiate deep discounts on its own. Tenet ultimately forgave some portion of the bills MSI had refused to pay in protest over inflated prices. According to a June 2004 article in Businessweek, that portion amounted to $2 million. In addition, Tenet agreed to accept significantly reduced payments from Rooney in all future claims.
For Rooney and a handful of his colleagues at conservative policy centers, however, there is more at stake than just his companys private fortunes. Rooney has been at the forefront of a conservative push to promote health savings accounts, with which individuals can set aside tax-free money to pay their own medical bills. Typically, the health accounts are linked to high-deductible insurance policies that provide only catastrophic coverage. The idea is that as consumers pay more bills out-of-pocketand save whatever they dont spendthey will be more leery of unneeded medical expenses and therefore generate more competition among doctors groups and hospitals. Consumers will demand that pricing be more transparent, and good old market forces will be restored to the health care business.
Rooney, who has led two insurance companies that specialize in selling both the health savings accounts and the catastrophic insurance policies, has lobbied hard for this consumer-driven solution to health care. (He sold his familys company, Golden Rule, for $500 million in 2003.) That has meant getting Congress behind the notion of offering tax-free savings opportunities to attract medical consumers into a freer market. Over the past 14 years, his family members and employees have contributed several million to Republican coffers. And in 2003, Congress crowned those efforts with success in the form of a Medicare prescription drug bill that included a $6.4 billion tax break for health savings accounts.
Rooney was a key supporter of Consejos launch, pledging $100,000 to help get the organization off the ground. Forbes, who worked for Medical Savings Insurance between 1997 and 1999, denies any other financial ties, but is unapologetic about receiving intellectual help and political access from Rooneys company, where he is also a policyholder. Im good friends with Pat Rooneyits true. But the bottom line is we do all of our work for the uninsured. Period.
Despite such protests, some health care executives have clearly come to view Forbes and Rooney as a team. Weve known the connection was there, says Jeff Prescott, spokesman for HCA. Rooneys agenda, he points out, is to win the same pricing treatment as the big guys. Prescott adds, Rooney is trying to get his insurance company legitimized.
Today Forbes gleefully likens his work with Consejo to his work on the insurgent Buchanan presidential campaign. It was like this little speedboat that drove the big aircraft carrier mad, he notes. He seems tickled at Consejos success, as if pleasantly surprised at having pulled off a somewhat improbable gambit. Referring to some of the hospital chains he has taken on in the past several years, he muses, I could see them sitting there thinking, Who is this son of a bitch? Forbes is happy to leave that question unanswered: People cannot pigeonhole Consejo, or K.B. Forbes.


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It's extremely tough to tell anyone what to do with their BlackBerry (BBRY) shares, still being held by investors such as Charles Brandes. I was sure a deal to sell the company to a stronger player such as Lenovo was coming. But I was dead wrong. BlackBerry just announced that it halted the sale plan. Instead, the company will issue $1 billion worth of convertible bonds to institutional investors such as Fairfax (FRFHF), the Canadian insurance company which had agreed to acquire BlackBerry for $4.7 billion.
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According to John Chen, BlackBerry's new interim CEO, the company needs to recover itself before being sold. The company's new leader has some experience in the matter. After all, he was able to sell the troubled tech company Sybase (a company that was considered doomed when he took over in 1998) to SAP for $5.8 billion. In Chen's words, "BlackBerry is an iconic brand with enormous potential but it's going to take time, discipline and tough decisions to reclaim our success… I look forward to leading BlackBerry in its turnaround and business model transformation for the benefit of all of its constituencies, including its customers, shareholders and employees."
Upon the closing of the bond issuance, Chen shall be appointed executive chair of BlackBerry's board of directors and he will continue to serve as CEO until a new executive leader is found. Meanwhile, Thorsten Heins (the former CEO) and David Kerr will resign from the board.
The Future Ahead
According to most analysts, BlackBerry will continue to struggle for the foreseeable future. Credit Suisse's analysts assume that the company will suffer an operating loss of $911 million in 2014 and $400 million in 2015. Clearly, in such a dynamic sector all forecasts are extremely prone to error. That said, it's clear the future does not look easy for BlackBerry and its shareholders.
On the one hand you can find BlackBerry's handset business which will be very tough to turn around given the ultra-competitive nature of the industry. This segment is the one responsible for the huge free cash flow (FCF) burn the company is suffering – expected at $984 million for 2014. On the other hand, you have the services business, which is the company's FCF engine. That said, the services business is slowing fast. It's losing revenues as subscribers are leaving the old BB7 platform.
If BlackBerry would be able sell its hardware business and continue to run its services business while giving cash back to its shareholders (from the services business), I see considerable value in the shares. I would also see value in the shares if the company's management would re-consider the idea of selling the entire company to a stronger strategic player.
Otherwise, I think that the risks remain too high at the current market capitalization level ($3.3 billion). I would re-consider owning the shares if a credible plan is set in motion. It's very tough to buy shares of a company that is losing revenue and is not planning to sell itself or give cash back to shareholders from the operations that are still creating cash flows. I would stay on the side lines.
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Juvenile delinquency is big business in Japan. It's not the criminal or motorcycle gang activity itself, but its representation and the attraction of media products that depict it. The origins of the term yankii, according to Patrick Galbraith's Otaku Encyclopedia, are various. (1) Most date back to the post-World War II days and actually do relate to "Yankee," in the sense that the delinquents emulated the styles of their American counterparts and lived in neighborhoods with shops that sold US army surplus and other American goods. We sense that it was convenient to label delinquency as something foreign, so that the young people themselves could be seen as good kids.
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Two films this summer are proving to be blockbusters, Crows Zero II and Rookies. Both are based on long-running manga series by Takahashi Hiroshi and Morita Masanori respectively. Crows Zero II, a sequel to the 2007 film Crows Zero, is proving to be more successful. Rookies, made on the heels of a TV series, is also a box office success. The yankii styles, the bad-look, are also a hit. For example, there is the hip-hop look of Inoue Santa's Tokyo Tribe series; Crows Zero II has the school uniform look with multiple permutations on the Nehru-cut jacket; Rookies offers more of the same uniform look, plus variations on baseball gear.
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John E. Ingulsrud is Professor of Applied Linguistics in the Department of International Studies at Meisei University. Kate Allen is Professor of Linguistics in the School of Global Japanese Studies at Meiji University. They are the authors of Reading Japan Cool: Patterns of Manga Literacy and Discourse.
- Patrick W. Galbraith, The Otaku Encyclopedia: An Insider's Guide to the Subculture of Cool Japan, (Tokyo: Kodansha, 2009), 238.
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I heard this on a little boy the other day at work and thought it was rather cute. I've never really warmed up to it on a girl, but I think it works just as well on a boy...Pushing sleeping beauty associations aside.
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It works on both. Underused nature names tend to be unisex in my opinion. I do like it on both, but I would never use it on a boy because I tend to like very masculine names on boys.Anxiously awaiting the arrival of Luther's little brother November 2015!
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I think it's fine on a boy. It reminds me of Br'er Rabbit
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Should have never let that dude walk... bah!!
It's taken him almost five years to actually make an impact and last night was his second best game as a pro.
I rue losing Amendola, but not this guy.
Nobody misses like Dallas. Our Front Office shovels sand with a rake.
Would have been perfect timing since a Spencer departure seems nearing plus Butler doesnt make for a consistent water boy
We only keep developmental QBs who never arrive.
Bunch of over reactionary know nothins
Or even worse you all know he's a starter and not a very good one and are just using his nationally televised performance last night to further your Cowboy bashing agenda.
You caught me ! Busted!! my agenda as a fan for the Dallas Cowboys is to just bash and dont actually LIKE this team, AMIRITE??
Walden an OK 3-4 OLB. Not terrible. Not special.
Spencer is obviously a superior player.
However, if you look at it from a value perspective, Walden is paid $725/year -- vs $8.86m for Spencer. So Spencer got paid 10x more this year and assuming he gets $10m/year from someone next season he'll be getting roughly 13x more.
Between Walden and the Packers undrafted free agent OLB Desmond Moses, they got 7.5 sacks at a cost of $1m or so. I suspect the Packers are perfectly fine with that kind of performance at that price when they already have Raji and Matthews also pressuring on the front seven.
This kind of "value-based" strategy is something the Cowboys will have to consider when they contemplate resigning Spencer or not.
You can only have so many $10m/year guys on the team -- is Spencer one of those guys?
Good, then Butler should start coming around anytime now.
Truthfully, Walden is just an average (at best) 3-4 strong side OLB -- nothing more and he bounced around quite a bit before he caught on with the Packers.
You can't rue losing Walden.
Having said that, there is nothing wrong with having "OK" guys like Walden on a team at $725k as opposed to filling every spot with a $8-10m/year guy.
We really liked Walden and thus drafted him on potential.
Issue was he couldn't play special teams.
So he was a body we needed to keep on ice.
When they tried to sneak him onto the practice squad that failed and he left for KC who kept him very shortly.
He was through two other short stints before landing in GB and because they suffered injuries he got to start and produced an amazing 3 sack effort.
That has kept him going. But make no mistake, GB has been trying to replace him in the starting lineup continually.
He is not a better player than Victor Butler. Not a far worse one either.
If we want him we can go get him. He is an UFA this season.
Walden could be a cheap servicable option if the front office does let Spencer walk.
I think he is a big better than Butler because he is a bit more rugged and looks to slightly better against the run. Also, he had 2 interceptions this season.
He is an almost identical player to Victor Butler for right at the same cost.
Both guys about 6'2" and 250 pounds. Both guys averaging about 3 sacks per season when granted consistent playing time.
Neither guy is someone you start by choice. But both are solid options when injuries hit.
He also got far less pressure on a per snap basis than Butler.
Green Bay fans hate this guy and think he is a bum.
That's why GB drafted an OLB in the first round last year in Nick Perry.
I agree with majority of your post, but I think he's a little better than Butler. I'd only bring him in for depth, not to start.
Agreed the Packer are attempting to replace Walden.
I guess when I am going with this is almost a Sabermetrics view of a position. Packers got 22 sacks from the 4 OLBs in Matthews, Walden, Perry, and Moses at it cost them roughly $4.4m:
Matthews: $1,930,000
Nick Perry: 1,363,500
Walden: $725,000
Moses: $391,000
Packers OLB sacks: 22
Packers Total $4.4m for OLB position
Packers cost per sack: $200,000
Ware: $7,546,000
Spencer: $8,856,000
Butler: $739,000
Albright: $465,000
Cowboys OLB sacks: 25.5
Cowboys Total $17.6m for OLB positon
Cowboys cost per sack: $1,270,000
So the Cowboys are spending (in salary) 6x as much as the Packers per sack by their OLBs. The question is why?
If the Cowboys resign Spencer for $10m/year a year the cost goes up even more.
Nothing wrong with spending a lot of on position, however, I wonder sometimes about the relational value of how some of these big contracts play out and suspect that a good measure of teams like the Packer's success is predicated on putting together a reasonable blend of salaries and looking for "value" players.
Again -- the application of Sabermetrics thinking in football fascinates me -- not sure if it can really work since baseball (as opposed to football) is such an individual game -- especially hitting, however, it can't hurt to try to apply some of those theories and see what happens.
So Sabermetrics would have you believe that when Clay Mathews wants $15 mil a yr they should let him walk.
The problem with the baseball math theories in football is great players require other teams to commit more resources to deal with their greatness (which don't show in the stats) and allow other players to get the #'s.
Well, the first step to solving a problem is admitting you have one. : Seriously, the guy has had two good games his entire career. One just happened to come in a playoff game, and now, we should have never gotten rid of him. PFF has him rated at something like -35, meaning he's way below average. Can't overreact to one game.
I hope nobody is arguing that Walden is at best, mediocre.
My question is this -- is Walden's production at $725,000/year worthwhile compared to Spencer's at $8,800,000 (likely ~$10,000,000/y if the resign him)?
It helps frame the conversation of deciding whether or not the Cowboys should break the bank on Spencer.
Sure. You're always trying to get value throughout the team. It's a tough balance. If Spencer walks, and they go cheap at SOLB, can they use that money to improve other areas, thus hopefully making the team better as a whole? That's what they have to decide.


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The Perennial Q & A section provides answers to common questions about perennials and their care. We encourage you to look in other areas of this website and at individual plant records in the Perennial Encyclopedia if you do not find the answer you are looking for here.
Hemerocallis FAQs
Do any insects or diseases affect daylilies?
Though daylilies are generally very low maintenance and are not bothered much by pests or diseases, occasional problems may occur. Under certain conditions, thrips and mites may feed on daylilies. Many people simply tolerate the occasional damage these insects do to daylily foliage and blossoms. Others choose to apply pesticides appropriately chosen. Orthene is effective in controlling thrips. Mites usually infest daylilies that are drought-stressed. Keeping your daylilies well-watered will usually keep mites at bay. Avoid using Kelthane, a common miticide on daylilies, as serious foliage damage to the daylilies will occur.
Daylilies also are occasionally infested with foliage diseases. Two of the most common are leaf streak and bacterial leaf spot. Commonly available fungicides such as Dithane or Daconil are useful in controlling such diseases.
None of these problems is so damaging to daylilies that special care is necessary. In most cases, even if you do nothing, your daylilies will perform satisfactorily.
Do daylilies come in different heights?
Daylilies come in a wide range of heights from dwarfs that are under 12 inches tall to a few that approach 6 feet tall. As you are selecting daylilies for your particular plantings, pay attention to the plant height which is noted in the catalog description. Such height information applies to the height of the bloom scape at maturity, not foliage height. Height information is also approximate, due to the fact that growing conditions in different areas of the country result in the same cultivar reaching somewhat variable heights.
Short daylilies are useful as edging plants. They work particularly well if a single cultivar is planted en masse. Single clumps of short cultivars are also showy in rock gardens, near mailbox bases, and scattered near the front of mixed borders. Although it is not classified as a particularly short daylily, 'Mardi Gras Parade' makes a wonderful plant for edging walkways. It is a profuse bloomer with narrow arching foliage and uniquely presents many of its blossoms at or near the same height.
Daylilies of medium heighth can serve well in just about any setting. Always keep height in mind when you are designing a planting. For example, you would not want a short daylily placed behind taller perennials where it could not be seen. Also keep in mind that a daylily's height and blossom size are not necessarily correlated. Daylilies come in every size imaginable, from short plants with large flowers to tall plants with small flowers.
Use tall daylilies at the rear of planting beds. They serve as useful accents in mixed borders and go well with other tall perennials such as Phlox paniculata (cv. 'DAVID', 'EVA CULLUM', 'ROBERT POORE', and 'SHORTWOOD') and Eupatorium (Joe Pye Weed).
Do my daylilies need any special protection in the winter?
Established daylilies require no winter protection whatsoever. Most growers simply allow the daylily foliage to remain on the plant over the winter, where it serves as natural mulch. The partially decayed old foliage is removed at spring clean-up time. Other growers cut the daylily foliage to the soil level in the fall after freezing temperatures has killed it. They then remove and compost the foliage, leaving the clump clean and uncovered during the winter. Either approach appears to work we
Do my daylilies need to be fertilized?
Many gardening guidebooks describe daylilies as effortless perennials. Daylilies are certainly easy to grow, but they will perform better if given periodic care. Fertilizing your daylilies twice a year, once in early spring just as the plants resume growth, and again after they have finished blooming, will help them look their best. Low nitrogen fertilizers such as 5-10-10 or general ones such as 10-10-10 work well with daylilies. Organic fertilizers, such as animal manures, are also beneficial.
How can I keep my weeds under control?
Mulch is very effective for controlling weeds. Applying mulch around the base of the daylily clump in early spring, just as the plants are resuming growth, will help suppress weed growth. As the foliage matures, it helps shade the soil around the base of the clump, thus helping further to suppress weeds. Weeds can be removed quite readily from a mulch cover.
Cultivation with a scuffle hoe is also effective, although some daylily roots will inevitably be near the surface and may experience some damage. Cultivation must be systematic, because weed seeds will germinate throughout the growing season.
Preen, an herbicide widely available to retail consumers in garden outlets, works well with daylilies. Other herbicides such as Pennant, Snapshot, and Factor are also registered for use with daylilies but are typically used only by large-scale commercial growers. These specialized products are usually not available through common retail garden sources. They usually are purchased through agricultural suppliers and require both special knowledge and care in their correct application.
How deep should daylilies be planted?
Daylilies should be planted at a depth where the crown (the junction point between root and foliage) is approximately one inch below the soil line.
How do I divide a daylily clump?
The most common way gardeners increase their daylily plantings is by periodically digging up and dividing the mature clumps. Daylilies should be divided every four to five years in order to ensure best bloom performance. After many years, the plants typically have become overcrowded and their bloom quality and quantity decline.
Dividing a daylily clump is a very simple process. However, it does require some physical exertion and the appropriate tools. Most gardeners use a strong spade or spading fork to lift the mature clump. Partial lifting from both sides of the clump should loosen it from the soil. Do not worry about cutting or breaking roots. Daylilies are tough. Once the daylily clump is out of the ground, simply use the spade to cut the clump into multiple sections, much like cutting a pie. Experience has shown that even such rough treatment that results in some crown cutting has no adverse effect on the replanted segment. The partial clump simply resumes growth when replanted, and by the following season, the clump will look just fine. Some gardeners prefer to use a sharp knife to separate the individual plants in the clump. This is often easier if the clump is washed free of soil before taking a knife to it. Sandier soils simply fall from the clump. When dividing the individual fans, use the knife to separate the plants, not to cut them apart. Again, however, do not worry about root damage. The clump will contain a mass of tangled roots. Many of these will fall off or be cut in the process of division. This is OK. Daylilies are prolific root makers. Replanted daylilies will soon send out new major roots from the crown and small feeder roots from the fleshy stabilizing roots.
Some gardeners keep their daylilies in good condition by periodically reducing the size of the clump. This is done by slicing the clump in half with a sharp spade, removing half the clump, and adding fresh soil to the side where the partial clump was removed. When such an operation is performed in late summer, the parent clump usually recovers well to put on an acceptable display the following summer. The removed half-clump can then be divided further into plantable divisions of two to three fans each. Division down to single fans is possible if you want to obtain the maximum number of plants for replanting a large area but these single divisions may take a few years to bloom again. Remember your gardening friends when you are dividing your daylilies and have surplus plants. Daylilies make great gifts!
How do I plant bare root daylilies?
Dig a hole about a foot deep and 12-18 inches in diameter. Mound soil up in the center of the hole. Position the daylily at the top of the soil mound so that the crown will end up about one inch below the soil surface when the hole is filled in. Spread the roots out around the mound of soil. Refill the planting hole and firm up the soil around the plant. Make sure there are no air pockets, then water well.
Daylilies should be positioned about 18 inches apart if planting for mass effect and 24-30 inches apart for specimen clumps.
Water your newly planted daylilies once a week. DO NOT water every day. Newly planted daylilies need to be encouraged to send out new roots, and they will do that in search of moisture. Newly planted daylilies rarely rot, but over-watering during times of high heat combine to create stress for the plant. When in doubt, don't kill your daylilies with kindness.
What are good companion plants for daylilies?
Spring bulbs work amazingly well in plantings that feature daylilies. Use bulbs such as daffodils, crocus, and grape hyacinths which are long-lived and do not require frequent replacement like tulips do. Daffodils come into full bloom with mature foliage just as daylilies are resuming their own growth. By the time the daffodils are finished and their foliage begins to die back, the daylilies have developed full, mature foliage which masks the daffodils' yellowing leaves.
Almost all perennials that prefer to grow in full sun or partial shade combine well with daylilies in the landscape. Some common companions include:
More companion plants are listed on each cultivar record on this website.
What do the abbreviation codes used for daylilies stand for?
What is a daylily?
A daylily is a perennial which is characterized by its long, narrow, strappy leaves and its flowers which each last only one day (hence the common name Daylily).
Its botanical name is Hemerocallis. Daylily is one word, not two, although even The New York Times regularly gets this wrong. These outstanding plants are now the best selling, most popular perennial in most of the United States.
Daylily Anatomy
Daylilies have a crown which is the intersection where the roots and foliage meet. The foliage emerges from the center of this crown in fans. A three year daylily clump may contain 10-30 individual fans, most of which will produce a bloom scape.
When the foliage matures in midsummer, the flower stalk emerges from the center of the fan. Each scape contains 10 to 40 or more buds, thus making a progression of bloom which may extend over three to four weeks. Some daylilies are repeat bloomers and others can flower all summer long, but these are exceptions.
Daylilies have a specialized root system. They are not bulbs, tubers, or corms. Instead, they have fibrous, fleshy roots of all different sizes. The larger ones may be as thick as your finger! These roots store the nutrients and water which serve as the plants' energy reserves.
Most of the work in daylily hybridizing (coming up with new cultivars) has been performed in the United States. Major advances in improving daylily quality and diversity have been made in the past 50 years.
What questions should I consider when designing with daylilies?
What are you trying to accomplish? What do you want to see as the finished result?
Are you featuring daylilies as the primary attraction? Or will daylilies serve a specific purpose in a mixed perennial planting?
Do you need prominent bloom color at a particular time in the growing season?
How much effort should be anticipated in maintaining the planting?
What colors will be featured? Will they complement one another or contrast with the color of another perennial?
Does your intended planting area contain significant features, such as a pool, fence, or stone wall?
Is the planting intended to be admired from a distance or close-up?
Are you creating a totally new planting, or are you renovating or enhancing an existing planting?
Does the landscape already provide a backdrop? Will you need daylilies of varying heights?
Is your plant acquisition budget adequate to obtain sufficient plants to achieve your intended result?
When is the best time to plant daylilies?
Daylilies may be planted at any time during the growing season when the soil is workable. Spring-planted daylilies are likely to bloom the first season, but bloom probably will be substandard. Summer and fall-planted daylilies usually perform well the following summer. Container-grown daylily purchases can be replanted at any time, even in full bloom, without much adverse affect on the plant. Fall-planted daylilies benefit from mulching the first winter. Bark chips, ground leaves, chopped straw, and pine straw all work well.


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Cognitive Mapping and Radio Drama by Alan Beck - Consciousness, Literature and the Arts, Volume 1 Number 2, July 2000
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10.1 Objects in outline Gestalts
But what do I 'see' here? Shapes, outlines or objects in all their detailed 'presence'? Let me analyse more generally at this point. Radio drama's filtering out means that the objects represented in so many plays - doors opening and closing, steps, the acoustic allowing me to hear voices within the dimensions of a domestic room, a cave or a cathedral, Spot effects of cups and glasses, FXs of car doors and engines - are to be grasped in their relatively simple, emblematic, perhaps at times almost abstract properties or outline Gestalts. Gestalt is defined here as a psychic whole formed by the structuring of the perceptual field, and especially so in the limited perceptual field of radio. In my cognitive-perceptual tracking, I 'see' outlines: a three-dimensionality of edges and lines, patches of 'colour', tones, the volumes resulting from sound events in space, etc. At their most basic, and stripped of their narrative context, these are relatively simple stimuli. Of course, and this is back to referentiality in radio, other listeners may 'concretize' the fictional events more fully and colourfully than I have.
However, there are links across my whole perceptual array (sight, smell, touch, hearing, taste). On what is termed the internalist model of the human sensorium - and so back to phenomenologist Merleau-Ponty - aural perception is in some way penetrated by the other modes. The listener 'sees', 'tastes', 'smells', etc., or at least many anecdotally so report, as I said above. The various modalities are always present or potentially so. In real-life interaction for example, even tactility, the physical sensation of touch, is linked to mental information of the texture of spaces, and complex socio-cultural references (personal and universal, intimate and distant, literal and figurative). So 'tangible' / 'intangible,' 'material' / 'immaterial,' 'visible' / 'invisible' exist in parallel to each other. I could sum up this phenomenological approach by saying that radio both is, and is not, 'invisible'.
I recognise the radio equivalent of invariants - elements perceptually invariant even under transformation. These crucially affect radio drama's limited vocabulary in the non-verbal domains and they are the means for generating expectations and my filling-in of missing information. Of course, when used creatively, invariants (in the play excerpt, the STORM SOUNDS and TOM-TOMS) offer the radio director many opportunities. This is just one particular approach to the relatively limited stock of radio drama's FXs (sound effects). Filling-in is the compensation that the listener makes for what radio has filtered out in its representation of the extra-radio world.
So as I orienteer through the play, I transfer over, in my meaning-making, some attributes of my own Lifespace: shape, size, relative distance and directions. This is the validating process or concretizing I mentioned above (Ingarden 1973), when I introduced the topic of referentiality - the listener's task of conjuring up in the mind and imagination. I have to rely on my own memory storage and personal experiences (Branigan's schemata and Forrester, 2000, 1.4 on our 'cultural repertoire'), for as the philosopher Nelson Goodman says, worlds are always made from other pre-existing worlds (Goodman, 1978, 48).
Radio of course, filters out and excludes incoming 'information' from the extra-radio world, like a character's facial appearance, colours and smell. (See also Crisell, 1994, 10). But I can recognise all of the cues en route. They are most often dialogue in the foreground balanced against an atmos background (often traffic or rain and in 'Ingredient X', the STORM SOUNDS and TOM-TOMS), or some FX sound effects (boiling the kettle, opening the door, footsteps going 'off' up the stairs), or dialogue in a neutral acoustic.
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The Muslim Brotherhood and Egypt's Succession Crisis: The Politics of Liberalisation and Reform in the Middle East
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BeschreibungFraming economic and political reform in the Middle East, this book explores the interplay between the Egyptian state, the Muslim Brotherhood and the politics of succession. Egypt has in recent years experienced a rise in political activism driven by increasing internal demands for reform and change, impacting upon its economic and political strategy. Two key issues have been central to this: the Muslim Brotherhood, in its evolution from a spiritual to a political movement, and the politics of succession, which has seen the grooming of Gamal Mubarak, son of President Hosni Mubarak, to usher forward the inheritance of power in Egypt. This book enables a greater understanding of the dynamics of authoritarianism and democratisation, and the challenges and dilemmas which any future Egyptian reform process will face in the context of succession to Hosni Mubarak.
PortraitMohammed Zahid completed his PHD in Middle Eastern Political Economy and Politics at the University of Leeds. He has published widely in international journals and consulted for a number of agencies and think tanks on a variety of Middle Eastern issues, in particular relating to political economy, internal Arab politics and security in North Africa and the Persian Gulf.
Pressestimmen'[This book] focuses on major transformations within Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood and does so interestingly and somewhat uniquely by situating the Muslim Brotherhood in the context of the debates about the Mubarak succession. This is an interesting and challenging account of politics and society in Egypt. It locates Egypt in the Middle East, examines the debates about the political economy of reform in Egypt and then examines how the 'old guard' within the Muslim Brotherhood is confronted by challenges to its leadership, policies and style of engaging with the state and other actors.' - Ray Bush, Professor of African Studies and Development Politics, University of Leeds; 'The relationship between [the] Muslim Brotherhood and the Egyptian state has dominated developments in Egypt for nearly 90 years. This tense relationship has come also as a result of instability in the Middle East region, which obviously influenced the stability of the state as well. Since the establishment of the Muslim Brotherhood there has always been a clash between the organisation and the Egyptian political leadership. This clash is rooted in issues of perception, specifically the perception that the Muslim Brotherhood wishes to take control of the state. The Brotherhood, for its part, opposes the manner of governance. It disagrees with government economic policy which leaders of the organisation believe to be unrealistic plans implemented by a corrupt body. It is clear that under President Hosni Mubarak a new era in Egypt's modern history [began]. This period has seen an increase in the challenges facing Egyptian leadership. The gap between the Muslim Brotherhood and the Egyptian state has widened rapidly and the severe ideological disagreements continue today. The emerging clash over the post-Mubarak succession has also increased the level of tension between both sides. This book investigates all of these elements, and contributes to the debate on the role of the Muslim Brotherhood in Modern Egypt. [It] also focuses on economic and political liberalisation as it relates to the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt and it draws attention to the new Muslim Brotherhood discourse not only in Egypt but in the entire region. [Mohammed Zahid] succeeds in [considering] the unseen elements of the Muslim Brotherhood discourse related to the succession issue in Egypt which looks as if it will dominate the Egyptian political scene until the end of the Mubarak presidency. Moreover, the book analyses all of these elements in terms of the influence of general Middle East politics on Egyptian domestic and foreign policy' - Mahjoob Zweiri, Assistant Professor in Middle East Politics and Iran, Center for Strategic Studies, University of Jordan; '[This book helps] significantly to expand our knowledge concerning the many dimensions of one of the most intriguing phenomena of the social and political landscape of the Mediterranean and Middle Eastern region - [and to provide] the instruments that make it possible to approach and become enthralled by a complex and articulated movement that is sometimes not properly understood.' - Siliva Colombo, Research Fellow, Mediterranean and Middle East Programme, Istituto Afffari Internazionali (Rome)
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Verlag: TAURIS I B
Erscheinungsdatum: Mai 2010
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