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BeschreibungExplains why societies are not bound to embrace western liberal rationality as an evolutionary inevitability. The author shows that the opposite is true: that where a secular society represses the religious imagination, the human predisposition to religion will in the end break out in surprising, apparently secular, modes and outlets.
PortraitJonathan Benthall is an Honorary Research Fellow in the Department of Anthropology, University College London. A former Director of the Royal Anthropological Institute, and Founding Editor of Anthropology Today, his previous books are Disasters, Relief and the Media (1993) and The Charitable Crescent: Politics of Aid in the Muslim World (2003), both published by I.B.Tauris.
Pressestimmen'Ranging widely and rooted in prodigious learning and many years of omnivorous anthropological observation, Returning to Religion is an erudite, yet delightfully lucid and uncluttered book. Thought provoking and informative on almost every page, it is a fascinating examination of the human as an incorrigibly religious being. From Abstract Expressionism to animal rights, from Nazism to new religions, and from Medecins Sans Frontieres to militant atheism, this analysis of the growth of 'religioid' movements is a breathtaking tour de force. It is one of most enjoyable books I have read for some time. I cannot commend it highly enough.'--""Christopher Partridge, Professor of Religion, Lancaster University""'Much debate surrounds the question of how religion should be defined - whether narrowly or rather broadly. Jonathan Benthall here follows the second path and makes a convincing case for the persistence of religion, or "religioid movements" as he says, even if these quests for human meaning take many, quite diverse forms. Readers of the book will have their minds stretched as they ponder phenomena as different from one another as animal liberation, environmentalism, psychotherapy, and even Medecins Sans Frontieres as giving expression to religious qualities. They will also rethink whether the so-called "secular world" in which we live today is as secular as they had first thought.'""- Wade Clark Roof, J F Rowny Professor of Religion and Society, University of California at Santa Barbara""
Untertitel: Sprache: Englisch.
Verlag: I B TAURIS
Erscheinungsdatum: November 2008
Seitenanzahl: 229 Seiten
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No one wants him, meaning this is will not boost sales. I checked five other forums and there all, "PLEASE DON'T DO IT PLEASE"
And Ofcourse this forum is the forum who find ways to defend the creators or whoever is uncharged faults. If he's in great for you but don't expect many to purchase some unknown genie in a box guy for five bucks. It's outrageous
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Just wondering what was up with all the hate.
I haven't played Sorcery but I've seen a few walkthroughs and Finn looks like a cool character. I agree with most people here though, they should save him for later.
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Yea he looks cool, just the same for me though, I would think other characters are more appropriate at this time. Otherwise, I would purchase Finn after like three other dlc packs are released. We don't know how long this frame will be supported and I don't want to waste slots you know?
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Precious Doe was identified as 3-year-old Erica Michelle Marie Green of Muskogee, Okla. During a trip to Kansas City, prosecutors allege, her stepfather kicked her to death because she wouldn't go to bed on time.
In the past 12 years, police across the USA have identified thousands of suspects by testing DNA profiles in blood, sweat, semen or skin tissue left at crime scenes, and then comparing them to the profiles of known offenders on file in government databases. But as the Kansas City case showed, advances in DNA testing are allowing investigators to learn more about suspects whose profiles are not in the databases. Tests that can identify a suspect's ancestry are being used not to identify the suspect by name, but rather to give police an idea of what he or she looks like.
DNA ancestry testing "made a huge difference" in the Precious Doe case by helping investigators sort through reports about possible suspects, says Dave Bernard, a Kansas City police detective. "It allowed us to prioritize our tips, to give special attention to tips about mixed-race children, for instance. It was invaluable."
How the test works
DNA is a cellular acid that carries a person's unique genetic code. The company that invented the ancestry test, DNAPrint Genomics of Sarasota, Fla., says that by examining tiny genetic markers on the DNA molecule that tend to be similar in people of certain population groups, it can tell whether a suspect's heritage is European, Sub-Saharan African, Southeast Asian, Native American or a mix of those.
The test works, the company says, because population groups developed different DNA characteristics after splitting off from common African ancestors more than 60,000 years ago.
In 2003, police in Louisiana used ancestry testing to help find the suspect in seven rape/murders. Since then, police in Missouri, Virginia, Colorado, California and the United Kingdom also have used such tests to develop leads in more than 80 other homicide, rape and missing-persons cases, according to DNAPrint Genomics and USA TODAY research.
Using the same genetic principles, DNAPrint Genomics is developing tests aimed at determining a suspect's eye color from a DNA sample. In the United Kingdom, meanwhile, the government's Forensic Science Service has begun examining DNA samples for indications of hair color.
DNAPrint Genomics also sells the test to people who want to trace their roots. The test, which costs $219, has been especially popular among those seeking to determine whether they are descended from Native Americans, lab director Matt Thomas says. DNAPrint Genomics charges police departments $1,000 for each ancestry test, because testing crime scene evidence for DNA can be particularly difficult.
Bernard and many other police detectives hail the ancestry tests as a breakthrough in crime-fighting. But medical ethicists, defense lawyers and even some police officials are troubled by the push to use DNA tests to identify suspects by what amounts to their race.
Some, such as Terry Melton, president of Mitotyping Technologies of State College, Pa., say the reliability of ancestry testing remains unproved.
William Shields, a biology professor and genetics specialist at State University of New York's College of Environmental Science and Forestry in Syracuse, says that even if the tests are correct, a person's ancestry often is a poor predictor of what he will look like. Human beings, Shields adds, are too scientifically similar to one another to be distinguished by a "layman's term" such as race.
Some defense lawyers say they fear that using ancestry testing to determine suspects' heritage could lead to genetic racial profiling, or promote the idea that certain races are more inclined than others to commit crimes.
"How far are we from having (ancestry tests) used to justify taking DNA from any black man on a street corner, because we think a Sub-Saharan African committed the crime?" asks Ingrid Gill, a Chicago lawyer who has lectured on ancestry testing at the American Academy of Forensic Sciences.
George Rhoden, a detective with London's Metropolitan Police and president of the force's Black Police Association, also is a skeptic. He says that in a society in which marriages between people of different ethnic backgrounds are increasingly common, racial designations often are "very broad" and "don't do us coppers much good."
Rhoden points out that suspects with similar genetic ancestry can look significantly different from one another. A person whose profile is 75% Sub-Saharan African, for example, may have skin color that is nearly identical to someone whose profile is 35% Sub-Saharan African.
"As a detective, I don't care where (a suspect's) grandfather came from," Rhoden says. "I want to know what he looks like."
Mark Shriver, an anthropological geneticist at Penn State University and a consultant to DNAPrint Genomics, acknowledges that "there's a huge sensitivity about race in our society. We are making a strong attempt to be sensitive to the issue."
But "that doesn't take away the reality that people often describe each other in terms of race. We're saying: Let DNA be the witness."
Beyond standard DNA tests
Conventional DNA analysis compares 13 relatively large areas on the molecule where the DNA sequence is known to vary greatly among individuals. If two DNA samples match at all 13 positions, statistics maintained by the FBI say it's highly likely they came from the same person.
Ancestry tests, by contrast, examine 176 mutations in which the DNA varies at only one position. Some of the mutations, called single nucleotide polymorphisms (or SNPs), have been found to occur only in certain ancestral groups. Others tend to cluster in one group more than others because of centuries of geographic separation and inter-marriage. Together, Thomas says, SNPs are "highly informative of ancestry."
In 2003, DNAPrint Genomics began to license its test to police agencies. The scientists realized, Thomas says, that knowing a suspect's race or ancestral background "may not be great for, 'Who do we arrest?' " but could help police determine, "Who do we question?"
The company's test was first used in a criminal investigation in the Baton Rouge area, where a series of at least seven rape/murders had authorities stumped. Witnesses had reported seeing a white man in a white truck near the scene of two of the killings. Police had taken DNA samples from more than 1,200 white men in the area and had not found a match to samples from the crimes.
Then the DNAPrint Genomics ancestry test found that the unknown attacker was mostly of Sub-Saharan African ancestry with a smattering of Native American.
That led authorities to focus on Derrick Todd Lee, a black man with convictions for burglary and stalking. Additional testing matched Lee's DNA to samples taken from victims. He has been convicted in two of the slayings.
In 2004, police in Charlottesville, Va., used ancestry testing to confirm the race of a suspect in six unsolved rapes that began in 1997. Police had been criticized for seeking DNA samples from local black men based on victims' descriptions of the assailant. The testing indicated that he indeed was of Sub-Saharan African descent.
Ancestry testing also has been used on a female skeleton that was found in the snow near Mammoth Lake, Calif., in May 2003. The slain woman initially was misidentified as southeast Asian, based on witnesses' descriptions of a woman seen in the area. DNAPrint Genomics found she actually was a Native American, a finding confirmed by analyses of her diet and bone composition and further DNA tests.
The ancestry test "turned around the whole investigation," says Paul Dostie, the police detective investigating the case. "We're still looking for the killer, but we know a lot more now."
New technology 'scares me'
For all the promise of ancestry testing, there are increasing concerns about how police will use such information.
Defense lawyer Bruce Unangst, who defended Lee in his second murder trial, says the new technology "scares me. It's supposed to be new and foolproof, but that's traditionally what they say about all new" crime-fighting innovations. "By the time we find out there are serious questions ... a whole bunch of innocent people have had their DNA searched."
Last year, London police sought DNA samples from officers of Afro-Caribbean backgrounds to compare them with evidence from nine unsolved rapes. The suspect's accent and the neighborhood in which he operated suggested to police that he was a black man with Caribbean roots.
Working with DNAPrint Genomics, London police hoped to develop a database of DNA characteristics that are particular to Afro-Caribbeans to confirm their suspicions and to help them find suspects in other cases.
Rhoden, as head of the Black Police Association, urged members not to cooperate. "In our view, this promoted racial stereotyping while adding little to the investigation."
Melton, the private lab president from State College, Pa., says inferring a suspect's appearance by examining only 176 ancestry markers is "more than (labs) ought to be doing."
Because scientists have identified thousands of SNPs, Melton says, many more should be tested.
DNAPrint Genomics reviewed about 25,000 DNA markers before choosing the 176 that were "most informative of ancestry," Thomas says. The company now has a test that can tell whether a European's DNA came from a northern or southern European, he says.
For detectives who use its service, the company provides photographs of people whose ancestral profile matches that of the detectives' suspect.
"What does a Northern European, Native American and Southeast Asian mixture look like? That's a fair question," Thomas says. "We're told the photographs are extremely helpful."
The company's research is continuing. After Afro-Caribbean police in London refused to donate DNA samples, DNAPrint Genomics collected about 150 samples from police on Caribbean islands.
More samples are needed, Thomas says, but the DNA profiles collected so far suggest there are markers that distinguish Afro-Caribbean blacks from others in the Sub-Saharan group.
London police, Thomas says, were "on the right track" in their rape investigation.
Rhoden draws a different lesson from the episode. He notes that few of the Caribbean officers who gave DNA samples were willing to have their photographs added to the company's files.
"Even for these guys, who wished to be helpful, that was going too far," Rhoden says. "We should take notice of how nervous it makes such people before we endorse any kind of mass DNA taking from ordinary people."


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Recently I asked someone- What did you learn from the recent train accident near Kanpur? And he gave me a long answer on -how to improve railway security, how Suresh prabhu should resign, so on and so forth..
But he never thought for a second that- this could have happened to him!! And if this were to happen to him, how will his family cope up with the situation- both emotionally and economically! Not to my surprise- he had never imagined such a situation because we never wish to think about death and the negative feelings associated with the same. As a mater of fact, we have been told to be optimism. But the sheer optimism of those 143 passengers couldn't save them from death and the same optimism is not going to help the children who survived!
How many of those do you think would have a term insurance cover? Not many I guess..
So while it pays to be an optimist, one has to be prepared for worst scenarios in life- that is what will make you and your family navigate such situations in life!
So if you are still avoiding term insurance as it doesn't give you any return- think again! You could have been one of the passengers in that train that hoped to reach its destination the next day! Think about the financial security this one decision of yours can provide can provide to your family.
So I urge you to have a quick term plan comparison and protect your family today.
Are interest rates headed even lower with demonetization?
I had written sometime back that interest rates are headed lower and so far that trajectory has held. With recent demonetization, the biggest impact will be on interest rates and don't be surprised if 1 year FD fetches you only 5.5 to 6% from the current 7%.
With lots of deposits coming into the system and Govt. able to reduce its fiscal deficit, there will be a lot of downward pressure on the interest rates. With inflation around 4%, the real rate of interest in the economy should be around 5.5%. So if you are a saver, who believes in FD- you are on for a shock in the coming times as your post tax returns will fall to 3-4%.( which implies that it will take you 15-20 years to double your money!)
At the same time, lower interest rates will be good for the economy and might start a permanent bull market in equities. So it might be prudent to take a bit of risk to enhance your returns by investing in equity market.
Not taking any risk might turn out to be the biggest risk! So make volatility your friend and take the plunge.
Latest IRDA Claim Settlement Ratio in 2016-17 for life insurers
Here is the IRDA claim settlement ratio 2016-17 for a few term life insurance for which data is available .
- HDFC Life has settled about 23006 claims in 2016-17 while rejecting only 123 claims giving it a claim settlement ratio of 98%
- Max Life insurance has settled about 4137 claims in 2016-17 while rejecting about 77 claims giving it a claim settlement ratio of 93%. About 5% claims are pending.
- SBI Life has settled about 19856 claims with claim settlement of 91.6% till Sep 30, 2016
Hdfc Life has also given some statistics on why claims are getting rejected. This is for the first time we are seeing insurers giving reasons for claim rejection:
"Out of 53 repudiated claims,45% were repudiated due to non disclosure of existing health conditions, 19% were repudiated due to misrepresentation of age, 17% were repudiated due to income misrepresentation, 9% were repudiated due to non- disclosure of insurance with other insurance companies prior to our policy, 6% due to misrepresentation of occupation and 4% due to other misrepresentation."
This information should help you avoid these mistakes while buying a term insurance policy.
To see the latest premiums and claim settlement ratio of term insurance , compare now.
Have you started planning for your retirement?
Whenever I ask people about retirement planning, they think that I am talking about a distant future which will be taken care of automatically. (I don't blame them as it is psychologically difficult for people to take such a long term view of things).And when I show them how ill prepared they are for their retirement based on their current savings rate and investment returns, they get a rude shock!
Many people think that their income/expense levels will remain the same post retirement. Most of people working in the private sector won't have the luxury of a pension in their retirement years. So it is our responsibility to build a retirement corpus that will last us for our life.
In India, most of the people start to work between 22-25 and retire by 60- a working life of about 35 to 40 years. With average age expected to climb up to 80-85 years in the coming times, one needs to be able to live of your retirement income for atleast 25-30 years. Have you really estimated your expenses and income during that time? Have you estimated your medical expenses?
I find people planning a lot for their kid's education or their child's marriage but never think or plan about their own retirement needs. Without any planning, you might have really difficult times meeting your expenses in your old age.
In the coming times, financial planning will not be a luxury but a necessity.
Mutual Fund Investing- How investing in direct plans can enhance your returns?
If you go to any mutual fund website- you will see the same MF listed under "Regular Plan" and "Direct Plan". So you have a ICICI Pru Discovery Fund- Direct Plan and ICICI Pru Discovery- Regular plan. So what exactly is the difference between the two plans and which one should you invest in?
- If you look at their equity portfolios, both regular plans and direct plans have essentially the same stocks.
- The only difference is between their "expense ratio" which is like a fund management fee that the mutual fund charges from its investors. This ranges from 0.5 to 3% for many equity funds.
- Direct plans are funds that you buy directly from the mutual fund company without the intervention of any MF distributor/agent whereas regular plans are the plans where a part of your investments goes as "commissions" to the MF agent/bank/broker.
- Direct plans have lower expense ratios as compared to regular plans, thereby enhancing your returns by 0.5-1.5% in many cases. Take an example of ICICI Pru Discovery Fund that we talked about. The expense ratio of direct plan is 0.88% whereas that of regular plan is 2.16%- a difference of about 1.25% per annum. As a result direct plan has a 1 year return of about 1% whereas regular plan has a 1 year return of -0.25%. This is the money going into the pocket of your agent/advisor.
- So if you are DIY investor who knows which funds to buy, then you should definitely buy direct plans . If you are KYC compliant, you can buy directly from MF websites. If you first time investor, get yourself KYC complaint first .
We always recommend that you hire an investment advisor and pay him separately for portfolio management rather than paying unnecessary commissions on regular MF plans. Buying regular plans encourages MF agents to churn your portfolio more frequently as their incentive comes from extra commissions!
If you have any questions regarding MF investments, feel free to contact us. We construct efficient portfolios based on direct MF plans and diversify using asset allocation techniques rather than buying and selling 25 different schemes in the portfolio.
Should you buy term plans with return of premium?
It refuses to amaze me how the insurance industry will try to complicate a simple product like a term plan. As Indians are not ready to pay for insurance and still view it is an investment, insurance companies have manufactured a product that comes with a return of premium at the end of the tenure? Isn't this wonderful? So should one go for such plans? Lets do some simple math to find out:
I had a look at Aegon Religare's return of premium plan for a 30 year old non smoker male for a sum assured of 1 crore. The premium comes around 23,000 per annum and the coverage is only available till 50 years. Compare this to a normal online term plan which will cost around 8000 for 30-35 years.
Now lets compare the so called "returns" of these 2 options:
In return of premium plan, you'd invest 23000 every year and get back your 4.6 lakhs at the end of year 20. One of biggest drawbacks is that you are not covered in your 50's !
In the normal term plan, you'd pay 8000 and get 0% return on the same.Assume that you manage to get about 7% on the remaining 15000/annum for the next 20 years. So what do you get here. A back of envelop calculation shows that you'd get around 660,000 after 20 years! That gives you a saving of about 2 lakhs plus you get covered till 70!
Now most of the people can't do this calculation and fall into the trap of "securing their money" and insurers are happy to give them such fancy products.
Our recommendation is always to go with simple term plan. Put rest of your money into good investment products that can get you 8-12% returns!
Are you an investor or a trader?
Most of the people who put their money in the market, do not know if they are long term investors in the market or if they are short term traders. There are couple of differences between traders and investors that one should understand before putting any money into the stock market (via equities or mutual funds).
Traits of Investors
- Investors invest based on company fundamentals and have a deep knowledge about company fundamentals like its business model, its growth potential, quality of the business and the management etc.
- Investors are usually contrary by nature- they buy value when others are selling in panic. They don't believe in timing the market.
- Most of the good investors run concentrated portfolios and don't have more than 20-30 stocks in their portfolios. This allows them to do deep research into few names rather than buy the complete market.
- Most of the investors hold the stock for a long period of time-usually more than 2-3 years. They are willing to suffer massive drawdowns (upto 50% of their capital) during bear market phases. As a matter of fact, they might add to their positions during downturns.
- Their market edge lies in picking good stocks and holding them for really long term. So imagine holding an infosys for 15-20 years and taking all those 2008 type corrections in your stride!
- The risk with fundamental investing is holding on to "wrong stocks" for long period of time. In the current scenario imagine the difference between holding PSU banks for last 5-7 years and holding private sector banks like Yes Bank/IndusInd Bank for 5-7 years
Traits of Traders
- A stock trader usually trades based on price action and rides the market trends. His holding time can be few hours to few months.
- A Trader is essentually a market timer and tries to time the market in various time frames. He usually uses technical analysis tools/charts as well as macro factors to take his trades. Many successful traders employ mathematical algorithms to make buy and sell decisions.
- A trader is not akin to using levearge to enhance his/her returns during trending markets.He main objective is to ride the upside/downside momentum in stocks.
- A trader practices strong risk managment and is quick to get put of losing positions. He is a master student of probability and is alsways listeing to the market sentiment.
- A trader is always looking for risk adjusted returns and is always looking to limit his drawdown during bear markets. Some traders might even go short during bear phases to profit from the same!
- His biggest strength is his ability to cut his losses which gives him an edge over the investing crowd!
So are you a trader or an investor? Many times we enetr a market for short term gains but when we see a loss we turn into an investor and then end up owning dead stocks for long periods of time.On the other times- we say we are a long term investors but don't have the patience to keep our good stocks for really long periods of time.
So it is important to undersatnd your goals and objectives before you put any money into the market. And remember- no strategy will work all the time in the market.
Are you still buying traditional insurance plans for investment?
I am still appalled to find many people still buying life insurance policies( especially endowment/single premium/money back) for the purpose of investment. When you are investing your money, you want to have returns that beat inflation for a longer period of time. When you are buying life insurance, you are doing so to protect your family against financial distress in case of your sudden death! The two objectives have nothing in common.
In India , financial advisors ( read insurance agents) sell these policies in name of tax saving,bonuses,long term returns etc. If you see the hard fats, most of such policies won't yield you more than 5% in the long term. Let me give you an example:
Lets look at a benefit illustration of LIC Endowment Plan:
As you can see, a 30 year old health male is paying about 2900 per Lakh of insurance. So what does the person get @4% returns- 2.4 lakhs. (don't even bother to look at 8% returns as LIC bonuses range between 3-5%). Now when people sell you this policy, then 2.4 lakhs looks like a huge amount at maturity but actually you'd have actually put about 90,000 as investment in this plan and you won't even double your investment in 35 years! ( The reason for the same is the fact that the bonus is not compounded and the bonus rates are too low- thats double whammy for any long term investment!). Also not to forget- you can't sell your investments for 35 years(unless you are willing to take a loss on your investments for a surrender value)
Money back policies are even worst in terms of returns but play on the investor psychology of "getting his money back".
Now look at the insurance bit- by paying 2900 per annum, you are getting a cover of just 1 lakh whereas a similar sum can buy you a 25-50 lakhs of term insurance cover! Get a quote here.
So next time when someone coaxes you to buy a traditional/endowment plan- ask him/her these hard questions. This might be a good time to take a fresh look at your insurance and investment portfolio. Also remember that money decisions are not to be taken based on emotions but based on data and your financial goals. You work hard for your money, let it work even harder for you.
Also see- Are Endowment plans any good for wealth creation?
PPF rates cut- Is there more to go in terms of reduced interest rates on FDs and EPF/PPF?
Recently there was a lot of hue and cry when Govt cut the PPF rates to 8.1%. Also long term FD rates are coming down drastically in the system. Currently 5 years FDs are fetching about 7.5%( might go even lower after RBI rate cuts in April). Now this is bad news for the savers and those who take unrealistic assumptions for PPF/EPF returns in their retirement planning.
So what is the way forward for interest rates?
If we look at the global interest rates, India still has one of the highest interest rates in the world. See this table and you will realize that Indian interest rates are bound to come down as 70-80% of world economies are having interest rates less than 3-4%. US is at 0.5% and while Japan and EURO area are having negative interest rates ! Indian interest rates as set by RBI is currently 6.75%. This is with inflation currently around 5.1%. With the formation of new MPC, RBI Gov. Rajan has been given the mandate to keep the inflation between a band of 2-6%. Considering that, 7-8% should be peak for interest rates in the economic. And if Global deflation continues, we might see even lower rates(as low as as 3-4%) in the economy.
While lower interest rates are good for the industry and the economy, for savers and retirees it is bad news. Imagine how savers are managing in developed economies where interest rates are zero or below zero!
This also implies that you can't afford to be all 100% in debt, you will have to assume some risk and get into equities. Although it is very difficult to say that you will be adequately compensated for taking that risk in equities. Even equity returns would fall from 15-17% CAGR to about 10-12% CAGR(or even lower) for longer periods of time.
So when you are planning for your retirement 20-30 years down the line, keep in mind such return assumptions. Don't assume lofty returns of 10-15% on your portfolio!In the short term(say 1-2 years), equities might zoom because of global liquidity so it might make sense to be slightly overweight on this asset class. But if global growth doesn't pick up in next 1-2 years, it will be very difficult to get returns from any asset class except Gold as people will just turn to Gold for security. Hence, it is always prudent to keep at least 10% of your portfolio in Gold.
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- The fourth official meeting of the Camarilla's Inner Circle.[citation needed]
- "De Revolutionibus Orbium Caolestium" ("On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres"), Nicolaus Copernicus' treatise on the motion of the solar system is published. In it, he proposes that the Sun and planets do not revolve around the Earth, but rather that the Earth and planets revolve around the Sun.[1][2][3][4] This establishes the heliocentric model of the universe in the Consensus,[5][6], proving Aristotle wrong. The Pupils of Parmenides and the Chœur Céleste are devastated.[7] Whether this theory simply observed the extant universe or actually changed consensus reality remains a hotly debated topic.[8][9]
- Note: A number of Mage sources erroneously place this event in 1453 rather than 1543[1][5][7][2][6][8][9], likely due to a simple typographical error. This mistake was eventually corrected in later books, which confirmed that the event occurred in the same century in the World of Darkness as it did in the real world.[2][3][4]
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The partially convertible rupee resumed high at 48.95 per dollar and later fluctuated in a narrow range at 48.95 and 49.10 per dollar in intra day trade.
The foreign exchange market was open, traders said, but volumes were low because some state-run banks, which generally form the bulk of the market, were not trading and there were no central bank reference rates.
Dealers said traders were wary of pushing the rupee past 49 per dollar after the central bank was seen selling dollars around that level on Monday, helping hold the unit in a tight range.
India's main share index was up nearly 4.50 percent, offering some support to the rupee.
The central bank unexpectedly slashed its key lending rate for the first time in more than four years on Monday, stepping up measures to shield the economy from the slowdown effects of the global financial crisis. Analysts and traders said that ''The outlook for the rupee remains bearish in the near term, but Bank of America said it expected the currency to retrace some of its steep losses and end the year at 46 per dollar.
Meanwhile, the six-month and annualised forward dollar premiums were minor changes by 0.52 (0.51) per cent and 0.46 (0.45) per cent respectively due to strike by RBI.
The Rupee today ended at 65.48/50 (65.84/86) per unit against the Euro. It closed at 83.04/06 (85.26/28) per unit against the Pound Sterling and at 48.38/40 (48.20/22) per hundred units against the Japanese Yen.


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Dillon Baxter, adieu: Remembering a brief but colorful college career
Less than two months after alighting at San Diego State, former blue-chip USC running back Dillon Baxter once again finds himself without a team -- or a scholarship. This is an unsurprising development to anyone who's been following Baxter's brief career (just more than a week ago, news broke that he was already being held out of spring practice thanks to "personal issues and academics"), but it is a sad one. His was a talent that deserved to see the field, however much his actions away from football made that impossible within NCAA parameters. More crucially for our bloggy purposes, captivating story fodder seemed to emanate from his being at every turn.
Baxter, a San Diego native out of Mission Bay High, was ranked at the top of his position in the Class of 2010, and entertained offers from high-profile programs around the country (Florida, Michigan and Oregon, to name few) before settling close to home at USC via early enrollment and drawing overt comparisons to Reggie Bush from Lane Kiffin during spring practice. A few short months later, the fun started. Baxter was suspended for the Trojans' season opener and later found to have perpetrated a highly entertaining hoax in which he claimed to have been illegally contacted by Alabama, Florida, Fresno State, Michigan and Washington. (Fresno State? Fresno State.) He would finish 2010 as the team's distant third-leading rusher behind Marc Tyler and Allen Bradford, recording 252 yards on 59 rushes in 10 games and capping his first college season with a touchdown pass at UCLA, the first Trojans tailback to do so since Bush in 2004. Oh, and the other game he missed was due to a one-game suspension after he rode around campus in a golf cart with a fellow student who turned out to be a registered sports agent. Y'know, stuff.
The 2011 season proved more grim and less fun. Baxter's family made the news just after Week 1, having a sit-down with Kiffin "to discuss [Baxter's] lack of playing time in the season opener." Baxter's girlfriend had his baby in October, around the time it was decided he would "focus on academics" rather than football. Less than a month later, he was granted his release from USC. It is the fervent hope of bloggers with columns to fill that Baxter turns up again somewhere, somehow. Our wish for him to raise the antics bar at SDSU with something infraction-y and scampish, but ultimately harmless -- like a high-stakes underground Magic: The Gathering tournament -- have been dashed for the moment, but Baxter's a young man yet. Plenty of time still for him to be caught keeping an endangered sea lion as a pet in his bathtub.


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Pig: I have a dream
Somebody has to lose. In fact, all except one will lose. It doesn't seem fair to me as I plow into our first barrier: a swift river. I make sure to keep my snout above the splashing current, and frantically paddle my hooves. Pigs aren't great swimmers. If you didn't already know that. The rat scuttles past, and I hear a squeaky chuckle.
Okay, so nobody expects anything from the Pig. If the last race was any indication, things do not look promising for me. Even I am afraid to get my hopes up.
But there is still this nagging dream. If I finish this race, I can create a new image for my fellow pigs: no longer laughingstocks, only good for bacon, but respected and admired animals.
My hooves come in contact with the rocky shore of the other side, and I pull myself onto the riverbank. I am cold and already exhausted, but I head for the forest, determined to do my best. Even though nobody expects anything, maybe - just maybe - I will surprise myself.


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Gaining Ground and Growing: SCaLE 9x
With more than 1,800 registered attendees, the Southern California Linux Expo (SCaLE 9x), which is now in its ninth year, continues to grow and attract open source users, contributors, developers, projects, and companies.
Once again, Linux New Media had a booth at SCaLE last weekend at the Hilton Los Angeles Airport. Thanks to everyone who stopped by the booth! Many of the attendees scored free copies of Linux Pro Magazine and Ubuntu User, as well as our newly launched Smart Developer and Admin magazine.
What did you miss if you weren't there?
Friday's full FOSS line up included Build an Open Source Cloud Day, DevOps Day Los Angeles, FOSS Mentoring, Fedora Activity Day, LPI Testing, Los Angeles PostgreSQL Day, Open Source Software In Education, PGP Keysigning Party, SCALE 9x Birds of a Feather, SCALE University, Splunk Training, and the UbuCon. Also on Friday were the fast paced, entertaining UpSCALE talks, which Linux Pro's own Rikki Kite and Amber Graner participated in.
Saturday opened with Leigh Honeywell's energizing keynote on Hackerspaces and Free Software. Other talks included Byobu: GNU Screen for Human Beings, OpenShot: Lights. Camera. Action!, Intro to Python, Open Source Television and more. There was a lot of movement throughout the day and the growing excitement attendees felt as as they left the scheduled talks transitioned easily into various "hallway tracks" between the scheduled sessions.
Canonical CEO, Jane Silber, opened Sunday with her keynote—Cloud for Human Beings, and kicked off another exciting line up of talks. Ruth Suehle, writer and editor in Brand Communications and Design at Red Hat, spoke about moving Beyond Linux: Changing the World with Open Source and Robyn Bergergon, Fedora Program Manager, discussed Decentralized Collaboration with Open Source Tools: Technical and Cultural Implementation. Sunday also saw talks on Crash Course : Open Source Cloud Computing, Writing GIMP scripts and plug-ins, Unity: Why does it matter? and more.
Many of these sessions are now available online and more are being added daily. More information can be found on the SCaLE 9x website.
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Red Hat Announces OpenShift.io
Red Hat takes its IDE online.
Microsoft Bakes Linux into Windows Server
Microsoft is slowly becoming a Linux vendor.
Fearless Coyote, Linux Kernel 4.11 is Out
The new kernel makes swap implementation more scalable, which will help cloud providers.
Docker Appoints Steve Singh CEO
The new CEO comes from a very strong SaaS background.
Docker Announces Linux Kit and Moby Project
Both projects help organizations build their own containerized systems.
Ubuntu Returns to Gnome as Its Mobile Plans Shatter
Mark Shuttleworth has resumed the position of CEO of Canonical.
Microsoft is Shutting Down CodePlex
Microsoft's open source code hosting platform CodePlex will come to an end after a more than 10-year stint.
Fedora 26 Alpha Released
Comes with Gnome 3.24
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OpenSSH 7.5 Released
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Jim, at no point have I or do I disagree with your view of IAC. BUT
What will you do when you win this struggle over the IAC.
A board with the power to institute such rules with out discussion and
proper debate with those effected by the rules will make another arbitrary
Change the rules that govern the board not the rules the board makes.
At 11:06 AM 10/4/99 -0400, you wrote:
>This post is to try to describe one more time a very serious problem we
>face in the AHS. The Executive Board one year ago passed under its
>assumed authority, the IAC Policies/Program containing new rules
>regarding registration. The Program provides for promotion, education
>and use of hostas which are registered but intends to "minimize" ( I
>assume it means discourage, discriminate against, blackball, prohibit
>certain activities and to coerce growers, gardeners, hybridizers,
>scientists, writers, exhibitors and buyers and sellers of hostas from)
>engaging in activities involving unregistered hostas.
>This Program of segregation, apartheid and discrimination between
>registered and unregistered hostas appears to conflict with AHS Bylaws.
>Where in the Bylaws is the Board authorized to make an arbitrary
>separation between one group of hostas which it will maximize and
>another group which it will minimize? Article II, Section A states that
>"the Society was organized exclusively as a non-profit educational
>society formed to foster and promote knowledge of and interest in the
>genus Hosta, to encourage the introduction of the genus into
>cultivation, the development of new and improved varieties and to
>promote International Hosta Registry". If even a part of the strategy is
>intended to minimize some hostas, this is just the opposite of its
>stated goals regarding these hostas.
>Which hostas will it minimize? IAC policy intends to minimize
>unregistered hostas. These include:
>1. all hosta species in gardens as ornamentals
>2.all hosta species used in breeding programs
>3.all unregistered hosta hybrids or sports used in breeding programs
>4.all unregistered streaked breeder plants that differ from their
>registered unstreaked siblings or progenitors
>5.hundreds of thousands of seedlings being produced by hundreds of
>6.all seedlings or sports one year or older undergoing evaluation until
>they are mature
>7.all plants used in research and development ( such as natural or
>induced polyploids, sports, or tissue chimeras, plants used in
>physiology studies or pest control research)
>8.all unregistered plants in tissue culture or other propagation
>9. all plants in collections from the wild or from other collections
>The IAC Program is claimed to be a well thought out Program. Really?
>Then why does it appear to violate existing Bylaws? Why has there been
>so much opposition to it? Why has it created more problems within the
>AHS than any unidentified or any undescribed nomenclatural problems it
>was designed to correct?
>IMO, registration is not a crititeria important enough to establish an
>artificial distinction of two distinct groups of hostas...one
>registered, one un-registered... which is so divisive in character.
>In addition to the hosta problem, there is the people problem. I have
>learned from experience that if a person dissents against IAC, the
>person gets minimized also. Because one dissents, one may become
>punished and have his rights as an AHS member taken away.This whole
>policy is un-American, undemocratic, irrational, silly, divisive and
>unwize. Because I have also called it stupid, I get accused of personal
>attacks and get "minimized". This is insane!!! Where is our sense of
>What makes unregistered hostas less "preferred", less desirable for use
>in our gardens? Why is the sigma attached only to those which are bought
>and sold? This looks like interference in the marketplace ( not the role
>of a non-profit organization), which is a requirement under Article II,
>Section B of the Bylaws.
>Is IAC contrary to our Bylaws? I suggest it is. Opinions from anyone of
>the several lawyers on or outside the Board?
>Jim Hawes
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Cute delivery guy
Avatar is still playing in the background as the beautiful girl sits, drenched on your couch. You stand underpants in hand, giving out the distinct impression your house may be contaminated with fleas.
You forget all about the film.
You forget all about pizza.
You forget all about the na'vi sex goddess on your screen.
The girl looks a little like Natalie Portman.
You've always loved Natalie Portman.
You're racking your mind for appropriate ways to ask her out. You understand that this is easier said than done when you haven't washed for a week and parts of yesterday's pizza are still attached to your tracksuit bottoms. First things first - dispose of the briefs and stop staring at her - drooling is not an appropriate mating ritual.
You signal that you'll be right back and you leave the room. You've never moved so fast. You locate and change into some jeans that aren't hosting specimens of food that you recently spilled down yourself. You spray deodorant, and hope to hell it's stronger than whatever it is your body is producing. You attack your head with a brush that simply gets tangled up in hair that could have done with cutting maybe six months ago.
There is another knock from the living room window.
You run from your bedroom with a t-shirt that doesn't have a novelty slogan on, half pulled over your head and open the front door.
From out of the storm bursts the pizza guy. At least you assume he's the pizza delivery guy. He has pizza. It looks more likely that he mugged the pizza guy, this guy is buff.
"Holy hell" he says, "boy is it coming down out there." He's standing in your front room sporting that, I'm drenched but I'm sexy, look. He is a good foot taller than you with a chest you could probably fit inside if it wasn't already crammed full of muscles. He's wearing a white top that is practically invisible after the downpour and his hair is reminiscent of 90's boy bands.
Plus he smells so good you could lick him.
Who the hell is this guy?


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Jevin -- Back On Board
I muttered a whole-hearted thanks to Lace as he helped to pull Odael onto the lopsided deck so I could climb up myself. But I felt anything from safe as the it had a gaping hole in the side of it and its mast had collapsed.
But it could've been worse, far worse.
I looked up to see that Alexican now had the wheel and a rush of relief rushed over me as she seemed to know a whole not more of what she was doing than Valour obviously had. I turned the my head the other direction to see what I desperatly hoped was land through the still-raging storm. I wasn't sure how experienced Alexican was at sailing, but I put all my trust in her to get us there. I had other matters to attend to.
Lace and I leaned over Odael, searching frantically for any sign of conciousness. I put two fingers to her neck and relaxed slightly as I felt a pulse. It was a little slower than I'd like, but it was a pulse.
The ship rocked again, sending just about everyone but Alexican and a few sailors tumbling to one side. Lace almost rolled out again and I managed to clutch the straps of one of his shouldergaurds and heave him back on, considering it a small payback for the enormous heroism he had performed.
The impact must've triggered something because suddenly Odael burst into a fit of coughing, emptying her lungs of the salt water along with my head of worry.
"J-Jevin?" she asked weakly.
"Yep," I said excitedly, "that'd be me."
"What's going on? What happened?"
"Nothing," I muttered, helping her to her feet and leading her across the deck towards the captain's quaters--the nearest shelter.
"Nothing?" she rose a slender eyebrow, "I wouldn't have been unconcious if it was nothing."
"I'll explain later," I said, passing Alexican and entering the small cabin. Ignoring her protests, I made sure she was resting in the hammock before I left, knowing a swim like hers left a person as good as dead with exhaustion.
And speaking of the sapping of energy, I began to look around for Lace, feeling a slight pang of embarrasment for forgetting him in my concern for Odael.
I spotted him simply lying where I had left him and was about to head that way when I noticed a movement out of the corner of my eye. Turning, I saw that Valour had also gained concious and was attempting at making his groggy way towards Alexican--to take his place back I assumed.
"Oh no you don't," I muttered, yanking him back by the collar of his tunic, thinking in his state he'd actually listen. But boy was I wrong.
"Get your grimy goblin fingers off of me!" he demanded, grabbing my wrists and twisting them beyond their limits before shoving me into the wall of the captain's cabin. My head knocked uncomfortably against the soggy wood and my fists clenched angrily as he once again moved towards the wheel.
This time I ran right up in front of him and shook him by the shoulders, "Don't you get it!? You almost killed us all--including Odael!"
"Me?" he scoffed, "Nah, it was this hunk of wood they call a ship. Can't sail an ocean to save its life."
He was hopless. Utterly hopless.
I opened my mouth to attempt at yelling some sense into him but another buck of the ship sent us tumbling the other way.
"See?" he shouted above the storm, "Just ask Alexican."
I rolled my eyes, wondering why I didn't just go help Lace.


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