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Zooey Deschanel, Jessica Pare & 18 Other Celebs Who Look Amazing Without Makeup
Jessica Pare and Zooey Deschanel were photographed for People "Most Beautiful" issue and holy crap. Mmkay, so can we all just agree that Jessica Pare should NEVER WEAR MAKE UP AGAIN? That lady is so friggin' gorgeous it's ridonkulous. And Zooey? Well, whatever. Fart fart fart. You either love her or think her bangs are a contrived way to drive hipster dudes completely insane. In either case, we can't wait to pick up the issue (on stands now) and see more of these makeup-free portraits, shot by Ben Watts. Other famous faces featured include Lily Collins, Paris Jackson, Rose Byrne and Paula Patton. And keep clicking through this slideshow to see more stars looking lovely sans fards. How refreshing to see how gorgeous celebs are without their faces on.

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|Statut :
|Organisation :
|Emmanuel International of Canada
|Acronyme :
|Type :
|Organisme non gouvernemental
|Mandat :
|Emmanuel Relief and Rehabilitation International of Canada {also known as Emmanuel International of Canada (EIC)} was founded in 1975 an an international, interdenominational, relief and development NGO committed to christian concern through the local church. EIC encourages, strengthens and assists each partner church to appropriately meet the physical and spiritual needs of its community and beyond.Through its partners in Brazil, Ethiopia, Haiti, Indonesia, Malawi, Mozambique, Peru, the Philippines, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania and Uganda, Emmanuel International has helped meet the needs of the poor through its relief, rehabilitation and rural community development programs. EIC insists that all project benefits derived from community development, relief and rehabilitation are to be available to all, regardless of race, gender, or religion. Some projects may be gender specific in order to target the most vulnerable.
|Adresse :
|P.O Box 4050
Stoufffville, Ontario,
|Veuillez visiter le site Internet de l'organisation offrant ce stage pour connaître ses exigences avant de lui envoyer votre curriculum vitae.
|Personne ressource :
|Human Resource Personnel
|Courriel :
|Pays :
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|Description du stage :
Uhambingeto Dispensary includes an out patients department, child health
clinics, sexual health services, family planning, and a nursery school. It
provides essential treatment and preventative health services to the rural
community which consits of 5 sub-villages. The dispensary also provides health
education by working in conjunction with village health workers and local
schools. The intern will be working together with the Dispensary and School
staff to bring motivation and resources to local people with regards to
nutrition and food security.
In Canada
The intern is responsible for attending training sessions and preparing themselves for their time abroad.
After an initial month of studying the national language of Swahili, the intern will live and work in the remote village of Uhambingeto. He or she will work with the Diocesan Dispensary staff. and liase with village health workers and local schools. The activities that this intern will be involved with include:
* To bring motivation and resourcefulness to the staff at the dispensary with regards to nutrition and food security.
* To identify and address child malnutrition through growth monitoring clinics and follow up home visits.
* To increase awareness and understanding among villagers and staff of the role of nutrition in health promotion, disease prevention, and treatment of disease including HIV/AIDS, through teaching at clinics and in schools, and working with community groups.
* To improve villagers' capacity to increase their food security and nutritional status through demonstrating and teaching the use of kitchen gardens, grey water recyling and composting.
|Organisation d'accueil :
|Anglican Diocese of Ruaha
|Détails au sujet de l'organisation d'accueil :
|To address the needs of the poor in a holistic way.


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Octapolis (Commodore 64)
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100 point score based on reviews from various critics.
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DescriptionBy the year 3897 the Galactic Imperium had conquered almost the entire galaxy. Only the planet Octapolis could resist the empire with telekinetic powers that turned the best pilots into bumbling idiots and caused the most sophisticated A.I.s to blow a fuse. However, after 200 years of searching, the Galactic intelligence Agency found a pilot immune to the effects of the mental powers and sent him to deactivate Octapolis' defenses.
Your task is to conquer all eight cities and deactivate the planet's defense system. Each level is divided into a shooter and a platformer portion. During the shooter portion, the screen is split in half showing your ship from the side and from above. This means you cannot only move the ship forward, backward, up and down, but also to the left and to the right (by holding down the fire-button which enables you to control the ship's sideway movements in the bottom half of the screen). The ship fires automatically and once a certain number of enemies is destroyed or a time limit is reached, you have to maneuver your ship onto a certain spot and enter the city.
Inside the cities you must jump and shoot your way through five screen-sized rooms. Destroying "evil eyes" will reward you with bonus points. All other enemies cannot be damaged by your weapon and have to be avoided, which is made difficult by the fact that you cannot control your jump in the air. After leaving the last room you continue to the next city.
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Critic Reviews
|Computer and Video Games (CVG)
|Jan, 1988
|9 out of 10
|ASM (Aktueller Software Markt)
|Feb, 1988
|9 out of 12
|ACE (Advanced Computer Entertainment)
|Mar, 1988
|739 out of 1000
|Happy Computer
|Mar, 1988
|67 out of 100
|Power Play
|Mar, 1988
|6 out of 10
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InspirationThe split screen design of the shooting sections was inspired by the game Sanxion, which was released a year earlier.
Mobygamesisreanimated (10744) added Octapolis (Commodore 64) on Nov 18, 2007
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The Adventures Of A Special Correspondent
Jules Verne
Chapter 25
And I, who wanted "incident," who feared the weariness of a monotonous voyage of six thousand kilometres, in the course of which I should not meet with an impression or emotion worth clothing in type!
I have made another muddle of it, I admit! My lord Faruskiar, of whom I had made a hero—by telegraph—for the readers of the Twentieth. Century. Decidedly my good intentions ought certainly to qualify me as one of the best paviers of a road to a certain place you have doubtless heard of.
We are, as I have said, two hundred yards from the valley of the Tjon, so deep and wide as to require a viaduct from three hundred and fifty to four hundred feet long. The floor of the valley is scattered over with rocks, and a hundred feet down. If the train had been hurled to the bottom of that chasm, not one of us would have escaped alive. This memorable catastrophe—most interesting from a reporter's point of view—would have claimed a hundred victims. But thanks to the coolness, energy and devotion of the young Roumanian, we have escaped this terrible disaster.
All? No! Kinko has paid with his life for the safety of his fellow passengers.
Amid the confusion my first care was to visit the luggage van, which had remained uninjured. Evidently if Kinko had survived the explosion he would have got back into his box and waited till I put myself in communication with him.
Alas! The coffer is empty—empty as that of a company which has suspended payment. Kinko has been the victim of his sacrifice.
And so there has been a hero among our traveling companions, and he was not this Faruskiar, this abominable bandit hidden beneath the skin of a manager, whose name I have so stupidly published over the four corners of the globe! It was this Roumanian, this humble, this little, this poor fellow, whose sweetheart will wait for him in vain, and whom she will never again see! Well, I will do him justice! I will tell what he has done. As to his secret, I shall be sorry if I keep it. If he defrauded the Grand Transasiatic, it is thanks to that fraud that a whole train has been saved. We were lost, we should have perished in the most horrible of deaths if Kinko had not been there!
I went back on to the line, my heart heavy, my eyes full of tears.
Assuredly Faruskiar's scheme—in the execution of which he had executed his rival Ki-Tsang—had been cleverly contrived in utilizing this branch line leading to the unfinished viaduct. Nothing was easier than to switch off the train if an accomplice was at the points. And as soon as the signal was given that we were on the branch, all he had to do was to gain the foot-plate, kill the driver and stoker, slow the train and get off, leaving the steam on full to work up to full speed.
And now there could be no doubt that the scoundrels worthy of the most refined tortures that Chinese practice could devise were hastening down into the Tjon valley. There, amid the wreck of the train, they expected to find the fifteen millions of gold and precious stones, and this treasure they could carry off without fear of surprise when the night enabled them to consummate this fearful crime. Well! They have been robbed, these robbers, and I hope that they will pay for their crime with their lives, at the least. I alone know what has passed, but I will tell the story, for poor Kinko is no more.
Yes! My mind is made up. I will speak as soon as I have seen Zinca Klork. The poor girl must be told with consideration. The death of her betrothed must not come upon her like a thunderclap. Yes! To-morrow, as soon as we are at Pekin.
After all, if I do not say anything about Kinko, I may at least denounce Faruskiar and Ghangir and the four Mongols. I can say that I saw them go through the van, that I followed them, that I found they were talking on the gangway, that I heard the screams of the driver and stoker as they were strangled on the foot-plate, and that I then returned to the cars shouting: "Back! Back!" or whatever it was.
Besides, as will be seen immediately, there was somebody else whose just suspicions had been changed into certainty, who only awaited his opportunity to denounce Faruskiar.
We are now standing at the head of the train, Major Noltitz, the German baron, Caterna, Ephrinell, Pan-Chao, Popof, about twenty travelers in all. The Chinese guard, faithful to their trust, are still near the treasure which not one of them has abandoned. The rear guard has brought along the tail lamps, and by their powerful light we can see in what a state the engine is.
If the train, which was then running at enormous velocity, had not stopped suddenly—and thus brought about its destruction—it was because the boiler had exploded at the top and on the side. The wheels being undamaged, the engine had run far enough to come gradually to a standstill of itself, and thus the passengers had been saved a violent shock.
Of the boiler and its accessories only a few shapeless fragments remained. The funnel had gone, the dome, the steam chest; there was nothing but torn plates, broken, twisted tubes, split cylinders, and loose connecting rods—gaping wounds in the corpse of steel.
And not only had the engine been destroyed, but the tender had been rendered useless. Its tank had been cracked, and its load of coals scattered over the line. The luggage-van, curious to relate, had miraculously escaped without injury.
And looking at the terrible effects of the explosion, I could see that the Roumanian had had no chance of escape, and had probably been blown to fragments.
Going a hundred yards down the line I could find no trace of him—which was not to be wondered at.
At first we looked on at the disaster in silence; but eventually conversation began.
"It is only too evident," said one of the passengers, "that our driver and stoker have perished in the explosion."
"Poor fellows!" said Popof. "But I wonder how the train could have got on the Nanking branch without being noticed?"
"The night was very dark," said Ephrinell, "and the driver could not see the points."
"That is the only explanation possible," said Popof, "for he would have tried to stop the train, and, on the contrary, we were traveling at tremendous speed."
"But," said Pan-Chao, "how does it happen the Nanking branch was open when the Tjon viaduct is not finished? Had the switch been interfered with?"
"Undoubtedly," said Popof, "and probably out of carelessness."
"No," said Ephrinell, deliberately. "There has been a crime—a crime intended to bring about the destruction of the train and passengers——"
"And with what object?" asked Popof.
"The object of stealing the imperial treasure," said Ephrinell. "Do you forget that those millions would be a temptation to scoundrels? Was it not for the purpose of robbing the train that we were attacked between Tchertchen and Tcharkalyk?"
The American could not have been nearer the truth.
"And so," said Popof, "after Ki-Tsang's attempt, you think that other bandits——"
Up to now Major Noltitz had taken no part in the discussion. Now he interrupted Popof, and in a voice heard by all he asked:
"Where is Faruskiar?"
They all looked about and tried to discover what had become of the manager of the Transasiatic.
"And where is his friend Ghangir?" asked the major.
There was no reply.
"And where are the four Mongols who were in the rear van?" asked Major Noltitz.
And none of them presented themselves.
They called my lord Faruskiar a second time.
Faruskiar made no response.
Popof entered the car where this personage was generally to be found.
It was empty.
Empty? No. Sir Francis Trevellyan was calmly seated in his place, utterly indifferent to all that happened. Was it any business of his? Not at all. Was he not entitled to consider that the Russo-Chinese railways were the very apex of absurdity and disorder? A switch opened, nobody knew by whom! A train on the wrong line! Could anything be more ridiculous than this Russian mismanagement?
"Well, then!" said Major Noltitz, "the rascal who sent us on to the Nanking line, who would have hurled us into the Tjon valley, to walk off with the imperial treasure, is Faruskiar."
"Faruskiar!" the passengers exclaimed. And most of them refused to believe it.
"What!" said Popof. "The manager of the company who so courageously drove off the bandits and killed their chief Ki-Tsang with his own hand?"
Then I entered on the scene.
"The major is not mistaken. It was Faruskiar who laid this fine trap for us."
And amid the general stupefaction I told them what I knew, and what good fortune had enabled me to ascertain. I told them how I had overheard the plan of Faruskiar and his Mongols, when it was too late to stop it, but I was silent regarding the intervention of Kinko. The moment had not come, and I would do him justice in due time.
To my words there succeeded a chorus of maledictions and menaces.
What! This seigneur Faruskiar, this superb Mongol, this functionary we had seen at work! No! It was impossible.
But they had to give in to the evidence. I had seen; I had heard; I affirmed that Faruskiar was the author of this catastrophe in which all our train might have perished, was the most consummate bandit who had ever disgraced Central Asia!
"You see, Monsieur Bombarnac," said Major Noltitz, "that I was not mistaken in my first suspicion."
"It is only too true," I replied, without any false modesty, "that I was taken in by the grand manners of the abominable rascal."
"Monsieur Claudius," said Caterna, "put that into a romance, and see if anybody believes it likely."
Caterna was right; but unlikely as it may seem, it was. And, besides, I alone knew Kinko's secret. It certainly did seem as though it was miraculous for the locomotive to explode just on the verge of the abyss.
Now that all danger had disappeared we must take immediate measures for running back the cars on to the Pekin line.
"The best thing to do is for one of us to volunteer——"
"I will do that," said Caterna.
"What is he to do?" I asked.
"Go to the nearest station, that of Fuen Choo, and telegraph to Tai-Youan for them to send on a relief engine."
"How far is it to Fuen Choo?" asked Ephrinell.
"About six kilometres to Nanking junction, and about five kilometres beyond that."
"Eleven kilometres," said the major; "that is a matter of an hour and a half for good walkers. Before three o'clock the engine from Tai-Youan ought to be here. I am ready to start."
"So am I," said Popof! "I think several of us ought to go. Who knows if we may not meet Faruskiar and his Mongols on the road?"
"You are right, Popof," said Major Noltitz, "and we should be armed."
This was only prudent, for the bandits who ought to be on their way to the Tjon viaduct could not be very far off. Of course, as soon as they found that their attempt had failed, they would hasten to get away. How would they dare—six strong—to attack a hundred passengers, including the Chinese guard?
Twelve of us, including Pan-Chao, Caterna, and myself, volunteered to accompany Major Noltitz. But by common accord we advised Popof not to abandon the train, assuring him that we would do all that was necessary at Fuen Choo.
Then, armed with daggers and revolvers—it was one o'clock in the morning—we went along the line to the junction, walking as fast as the very dark night permitted.
In less than two hours we arrived at Fuen Choo station without adventure. Evidently Faruskiar had cleared off. The Chinese police would have to deal with the bandit and his accomplices. Would they catch him? I hoped so, but I doubted.
At the station Pan-Chao explained matters to the stationmaster, who telegraphed for an engine to be sent from Tai-Youan to the Nanking line.
At three o'clock, just at daybreak, we returned to wait for the engine at the junction. Three-quarters of an hour afterwards its whistle announced its approach, and it stopped at the bifurcation of the lines. We climbed up on to the tender, and half an hour later had rejoined the train.
The dawn had come on sufficiently for us to be able to see over a considerable distance. Without saying anything to anybody, I went in search of the body of my poor Kinko. And I could not find it among the wreck.
As the engine could not reach the front of the train, owing to their being only a single line, and no turning-table, it was decided to couple it on in the rear and run backwards to the junction. In this way the box, alas! without the Roumanian in it, was in the last carriage.
We started, and in half an hour we were on the main line again.
Fortunately it was not necessary for us to return to Tai-Youan, and we thus saved a delay of an hour and a half. At the junction the engine was detached and run for a few yards towards Pekin, then the vans and cars, one by one, were pushed on to the main line, and then the engine backed and the train proceeded, made up as before the accident. By five o'clock we were on our way across Petchili as if nothing had happened.
I have nothing to say regarding this latter half of the journey, during which the Chinese driver—to do him justice—in no way endeavored to make up for lost time. But if a few hours more or less were of no importance to us, it was otherwise with Baron Weissschnitzerdörfer, who wanted to catch the Yokohama boat at Tien Tsin.
When we arrived there at noon the steamer had been gone for three-quarters of an hour; and when the German globetrotter, the rival of Bly and Bisland, rushed on to the platform, it was to learn that the said steamer was then going out of the mouths of the Pei-Ho into the open sea.
Unfortunate traveler! We were not astonished when, as Gaterna said, the baron "let go both broadsides" of Teutonic maledictions. And really he had cause to curse in his native tongue.
We remained but a quarter of an hour at Tien Tsin. My readers must pardon me for not having visited this city of five hundred thousand inhabitants, the Chinese town with its temples, the European quarter in which the trade is concentrated, the Pei-Ho quays where hundreds of junks load and unload. It was all Faruskiar's fault, and were it only for having wrecked my reportorial endeavors he ought to be hanged by the most fantastic executioner in China.
Nothing happened for the rest of our run. I was very sorry at the thought that I was not bringing Kinko along with me, and that his box was empty. And he had asked me to accompany him to Mademoiselle Zinca Klork! How could I tell this unfortunate girl that her sweetheart would never reach Pekin station?
Everything ends in this world below, even a voyage of six thousand kilometres on the Grand Transasiatic; and after a run of thirteen days, hour after hour, our train stopped at the gates of the capital of the Celestial Empire.


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I am one of many postal workers who reluctantly voted in favour of strike action (Royal Mail loses Amazon contract as strikes loom, 8 October). However, unlike many postal workers, I am concerned about the decimation of the excellent service Royal Mail once provided.
Why have I become a Mail Militant? Consider the fact that delivery office managers (DOMs) will get £8,000 each for making improvements in their offices. Section managers, however, only receive £2,000 each. The postmen who have been "encouraged" to help make things work will receive £0. As an added thank-you we will not be receiving a pay rise – a kind of "stick and stick approach", as they can't afford carrots. In addition the chairman is to have £145,000 paid to top up his pension fund at a time when there is insufficient money available from the huge recently announced profits to alleviate the Royal Mail pension fund that is allegedly a little short. Obviously the £2m bonus he got in the past was insufficient.
Now consider the harassment delivery men are met with over flexible working. I am made to feel guilty if I take more than my allotted delivery span and try to claim overtime, and am no doubt contributing to my DOM's bonus by not claiming for the first 30 minutes. Flexible agreements only seem to work one way in Royal Mail, and the loss of the Amazon contract is only the tip of the iceberg. However, the "cherry pickers" will still be handing over the "too difficult/too far" parcels to Royal Mail, just as they have done since the opening up of competition gave them a toehold in the parcels market. Amazon are fooling the public if they think they have the infrastructure to replace Royal Mail – we will still be essential. Or am I just an optimist?
Name and address supplied
• So Mark Lawson has joined the media chorus attacking post workers for taking strike action (Royal Mail's last post, 9 October). But the arguments are a distortion of the reality. "Letters have largely been replaced by email," he writes – even if the claim of a 10% reduction in post is true, the workforce has already been reduced by 30%. But the 10% is disputed – Royal Mail claimed this by deciding that the average box of mail post workers sort before delivery now contains 150 items. A random check by the CWU found that the average was in fact 267 items. The pension deficit argument is also a red herring – the deficit is so large that no private company will take it on, privatisation or no privatisation. It will have to be taken on by the government if it is to be sorted at all. Furthermore, post workers should not have to pay for a deficit created by employers taking a 10-year contributions holiday. Lastly, Lawson seems to think that the strike is the all the work of Billy Hayes. But postal workers voted 76% for a national strike on a 67% turnout. We should all support this group of workers striking to defend a vital public service.
Jonathan Maunder
• No doubt many readers will share our dismay at this escalating dispute. Are Royal Mail management and the CWU totally unaware that, as well as business users, many private individuals rely heavily on mail services for social and commercial correspondence, wish the postal service well and want to see this dispute resolved as quickly as possible? Is it too much to ask that both sides should now take a couple of weeks' breathing space, put away their megaphones, cease trying to score points and enter into meaningful negotiations in the interests of staff, customers and the future of the service, if necessary with support from Acas? The present impasse is completely unacceptable – perhaps there is a role for Peter Mandelson here?
Peter & Mary Draper
Banbury, Oxfordshire
• Historians will measure the New Labour years as a lost opportunity to consolidate the public sector industries left after Thatcher. They have failed miserably with the Royal Mail. As one who left in the first tranche of redundancies meant to stabilise the business, I have great sympathy with CWU members threatened by their own private sector managers, the eroding of the monopoly and growth of e-technology. Peter Mandelson is itching to privatise Royal Mail and will call it self-inflicted by the CWU, who actually, like the miners, cannot win.
Dr Graham Ullathorne
Chesterfield, Derbyshire


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By Rose L. Thayer
Killeen Daily Herald
The Better Business Bureau is warning area residents of door-to-door meat salespeople representing Ranch House Quality Meats.
This is the same company the bureau warned about last April.
Consumers have reported that Ranch House representatives use high-pressure sales tactics to collect hundreds, sometimes thousands, of dollars in cash, and then never deliver the meat. Others have complained of receiving spoiled meat.
Tracey McKeever of Killeen dealt with the company complaint-free for about a year. She began purchasing frozen meat when a salesman came to her door in her neighborhood off W.S. Young Drive and Westcliff Road.
"I never had a problem dealing with him and spending money until about the last week in January of this year," McKeever said.
During that visit, the salesman brought a co-worker who claimed to be the boss' son.
McKeever said she felt pressured into buying more than normal and the post-dated check she wrote was cashed before the agreed-upon date.
In February, the salesman proposed a deal to deliver a new freezer fully stocked with meat. McKeever decided to use her income tax refund and paid him more than $1,600 in cash. After failing to deliver on several dates, he finally stopped responding to McKeever's calls, texts and voice messages.
"I found out from two other Ranch House employees that he took off to Florida," McKeever said. "It irritates me that we became really good friends with (him) and then he does this."
McKeever said she has tried calling the Ranch House main office in Austin, without success.
Nearly 50 complaints about Ranch House have been filed with the bureau over the last three years; 19 of those were in the Killeen area.
The bureau has not received a response from Ranch House regarding 39 of 48 complaints processed in the past three years.
Richard Kitterman, the Harker Heights-based regional bureau director, said people should be cautious of anyone who knocks on their doors selling something. "Like any industry, everybody shouldn't be painted with a broad brush, but they should be checked out to find out who the good guys are and who they are not."
Ranch House's practices have negatively impacted another Texas business.
In Menard, Marsha Stabel runs the 33-year-old mail order business Ranch House Meat Company.
She said she gets calls all the time from people who find her company online and confuse it with Ranch House Quality Meats.
"We are in no way associated with the scam artists at Ranch House Quality Meats," Stabel said.
Eventually, she said, she put a disclaimer at the bottom of her website saying the same.
"I feel so badly about that because I know those people have been taken advantage of and are frustrated and concerned. All we can do is tell them I'm so sorry, but it isn't us."
Attempts to reach Ranch House Quality Meats Thursday were unsuccessful.
Contact Rose L. Thayer at firstname.lastname@example.com or (254) 501-7463. Follow her on Twitter at KDHreporter.
Tips for door-to-door sales
The Better Business Bureau recommends consumers consider the following tips when doing business with a door-to-door salesperson:
Ask solicitors to confirm their business is licensed and registered with the Texas secretary of state.
Always research the company before making a purchase. Go to www.bbb.org.
Resist high-pressure sales tactics, including aggressive or persuasive rebuttals to concerns, deep discounts upon immediate payment or persistent refusal to take "no" for an answer.
Get transaction details in writing.
Remember the Federal Trade Commission's "Three-Day Cooling-Off Rule," which gives consumers three days to cancel purchases of more than $25 made at a location that is not the seller's permanent place of business.


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While the race for Most Valuable Player in the National League will go down to the wire with Carlos Gonzalez, Joey Votto and Albert Pujols, when it comes to fanatsy baseball, Carlos is in a league of his own.
Pujols entered the year as the consensus top player in fantasy ball, Votto could lay claim to it best young superstar, but Gonzalez was more of a wild card, a player with power and speed but also poor plate discipline, a short track record of major league success and not even an iron-clad hold on a starting job. That he's matched them in triple crown stats while stealing bases at a harder-to-fill position has made him far more valuable—in fact he's far more valuable this season than any other player in baseball
My draft team, the NorthExposures, was among the beneficiaries in our 14-owner mixed league, one of the countless public leagues at Yahoo. The chart below shows the list of 50 players who appear most often on Yahoo's top 500 Public League teams (rotisserie scoring):
Player %500 Fantasy Team Draft position
Carlos González 51.6 NorthExposures 110
Buster Posey 32.6 Honkers —
Mat Latos 31.8 NorthExposures 222
Adam Wainwright 31.6 The_Superhoo 49
Billy Wagner 30.2 Snipas 91
Francisco Liriano 27.8 The Little Ninjas 234
Juan Pierre 26.6 Honkers 236
John Axford 25.6 fHoogazi —
Álex Ríos 24.2 Vegas Breasts 158
Josh Hamilton 23.4 MR Hoos 93
Rafael Soriano 21.4 NorthExposures 143
David Price 21.4 The Little Ninjas 182
Carl Crawford 20.8 fHoogazi 17
Jon Lester 20.8 The Little Ninjas 47
Josh Johnson 20.4 fHoogazi 73
Martín Prado 20.4 Bealestreet Bluesmen 142
Hanley Ramírez 20.2 Bealestreet Bluesmen 2
Tim Hudson 20.2 Bealestreet Bluesmen 167
Chris Pérez 19.8 NorthExposures 274w
Robinson Canó 19.6 Uni Va Cavs 41
Matt Capps 18.8 Snipas 218
Vladimir Guerrero 18.4 NorthExposures 194
Omar Infante 18.2 The_Superhoo 288
Jason Heyward 17.8 Snipas 106
José Bautista 17.8 fHoogazi —
Miguel Cabrera 17.6 Gus Burgher 14
José Reyes 17.2 NorthExposures 56
Ryan Franklin 17.0 WahooWasp 173
Max Scherzer 16.4 Vegas Breasts 213
Clay Buchholz 16.2 fHoogazi 292
Hong-Chih Kuo 16.2 Tiki —
Hunter Pence 16.0 Tiki 112
Joakim Soria 15.8 The_Superhoo 105
Joey Votto 15.8 Bealestreet Bluesmen 27
Brian Wilson 15.6 Bealestreet Bluesmen 139
Roy Halladay 15.6 The_Superhoo 21
Brandon Lyon 15.4 fHoogazi —
Ryan Zimmerman 15.4 MR Hoos 20
Heath Bell 15.2 Snipas 119
Andrés Torres 15.2 NorthExposures —
Ryan Raburn 15.0 Vegas Breasts —
Clayton Kershaw 14.6 NorthExposures 82
Tommy Hanson 14.6 The Little Ninjas 66
Brad Lidge 14.6 WahooWasp 224
Albert Pujols 14.4 Tiki 1
Brett Gardner 14.2 Uni Va Cavs —
Kevin Gregg 14.0 Honkers —
Trevor Cahill 14.0 Honkers —
Justin Verlander 13.8 WahooWasp 61
Nelson Cruz 13.8 NorthExposures 59
My thoughts and observations:
(1) This reinforces my belief that while leagues can be lost in the early rounds, they are won in the middle and late rounds. You have to go down to the 17th most valuable player to find a first-round pick in Hanley Ramirez and only two other first-rounders cracked the top 50.
(2) It sucked this year if you had the third pick of the first round, as I did. Pujols and Ramirez were vastly superior to anyone else heading into the season and proved why.
(3) Miguel Cabrera is the type of player to take in the first couple of rounds: Safe, consistent, not prone to injury and young enough that he shouldn't regress.
(4) Sixteen of the top 50 were selected after round 10 and 10 weren't selected at all. It really pays to research deeply enough to make strong picks later in the draft.
(5) Toss out the pre-draft rankings and don't be afraid to over-draft a player you think is underrated. That's how I got Cargo, Cruz. Of course it's also how I ended up with Julio Borbon, so there is risk involved.
(6) Here's an attempt to group the players, noting that some players fit in to several:
– Budding stars: Gonzales, Cano, Zimmerman, Kershaw, Hanson,
– top prospects: Posey, Latos, Axford, Heyward
– Prospects a year or two later: Price, Perez, Scherzer, Buchholz, Rayburn, Gardner, Cahill
– best of the best: Wainwright, Crawford, Lester, Johnson, Ramirez, Cabrera, Soria, Votto, Wilson, Halladay, Bell, Pujols, Verlander
– injury risks: Wagner, Reyes, Hudson, Cruz
– comeback kids: Liriano, Rios, Hamilton, Guerrero
– one-dimensional wonders: Pierre, Franklin
– underrated: Prado, Pence
– change of scenery helped: Soriano
– luck at a shallow position: Infante
– out of left field: Bautista, Torres
– Emerging closers: Kuo, Lyon, Lidge, Gregg
(7) There is a deeper pool of prospects a year or two past their buzz than there are of current prospects.
(8) Most of the "best of the best" are on the right side of 30.
(9) Picking injury risks can be a viable strategy, but don't go overboard.
(10) It surprised me Bautista was so low in the top-50, but perhaps our league was slow to pick him up as a waiver claim and missed out on some of his production. Or maybe there is a weaker correlation between good free agent acquisitions and a good overall finish than there is between good drafts and finishes since arguably the draft is more a product of skill where as free agent signing can simply be a matter of who is quickest.
(11) I was able to build what looks to be the league winner with strong picks in the middle and late rounds. My NorthExposures ended up with two of the top three, three of the top 11, four of the top 19, five of the top 22, six of the top 27, seven of the top 40 and nine of the top 50, including one I picked up as a free agent (Torres). In the lower rounds, especially, go for players with high ceilings who are ranked low because they haven't fulfilled their potential, are injury risks or who struggled the previous year.


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Some people's memories are jogged by the whiff of a particular scent or smell. Other people reflect on important events in their lives by looking at photographs. But when I want to take a trip down memory lane, I need only open my closet, because I remember the special events of my life through fashion. That means that digging through my closet brings back cherished memories of the milestones in my life, whether it's the ivory white dress I wore to my high school graduation or the black-on-black ensemble I celebrated my 20th birthday in.
Fashion has the ability to evoke memories and feelings in the same way as a beautiful piece of art. After all, fashion is a form of art that everybody uses to express themselves. No matter the amount of effort behind one's outfit, what someone wears can reveal a myriad of personal facts about them, from the specifics of their personal taste, to their plans for the day, to how much time they had to get ready in the morning.
My name is Emaan Akbar and I am a junior at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. I was born and raised in this beautiful state and I love calling it my home. My hobbies include anything that does not require physical activity, such as watching TV and movies, updating my Tumblr, reading and, of course, online shopping. I've had an interest in fashion since before I could speak—the only tantrums I ever threw were when I was made to wear something I didn't like, and I've never shied away from taking risks or standing out when it comes to my clothing. My only priority when dressing is that I feel good about what I'm wearing. My personal style icons include Olivia Palermo for her ability to consistently look put-together and on-trend, Tilda Swinton for her irreverence on the red carpet and entrepreneur Pernia Qureshi for effortlessly blending an Eastern and Western aesthetic.
I am absolutely thrilled to have the opportunity to document student style as a Style Guru this summer. I had to wear a uniform to school everyday from first grade to my senior year of high school, so I relish my newfound ability as a college student to check out what other people are wearing, and now I get to write about the reasoning behind people's sartorial choices for the WHAT TO WEAR column. I can't wait to get started and hope all of you Fashionistas and Fashionistos are as excited as I am for what's to come this summer!


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Nasty Gal was dubbed the "Fastest Growing Retailer" by INC Magazine in 2012. Many people wonder how one out of many different fashion sites and lifestyle brands could grow so quickly. On the surface, there are many different brands that target young, fashionable, and powerful women. Nasty Gal has done a superior job creating a lifestyle brand in addition to a superior shopping experience.
The Nasty Gal Story
Sophia Amoruso founded Nasty Gal as a simple eBay store in 2006. Amoruso would browse thrift stores for hidden vintage treasures and sell them at a steep markup. Amorouso grew her brand into a social phenomenon by starting a MySpace page in 2007. Customers could connect with the face behind the brand. Instead of purchasing a standalone vintage designer jacket, they were purchasing a lifestyle. In 2008, Nasty Gal moved off of eBay and founded its own e-commerce site. Nasty Gal's first employee was hired in 2009. By 2013, Nasty Gal has over 110 employees. Nasty Gal is an excellent study in the importance behind building a lifestyle brand. eBay shoppers could easily find vintage clothing elsewhere on eBay, but many chose not to. Amorouso sold more than vintage treasures. She continues to sell a lifestyle to young women.
What's the Secret?
Nasty Gal has incorporated many items for sale into its brand. Many women might not be eager to wear a highly revealing dress to work or to dinner with friends, but the couture designs keep online shoppers looking at inventory. The inventory mimics the lifestyle and the brand. Styles of clothing sold range from wardrobe essentials such as a nude slip to couture fashions. There is something more engaging about the brand and about the online store. There is a reason for online shoppers to browse.
Why People Still Shop at the Mall
Purchasing items at the local mall during the holiday season can appear suboptimal in many different ways. Shoppers have to physically drive to the location. Shoppers then have to drive in circles when finding parking. Furthermore, shoppers have to deal with the hassle of standing in lines and fighting crowds. Often, shoppers at the mall are redirected to a store's website in order to find the color or size of an item they want to purchase. However, shoppers still go to the mall for the social experience. Favorite brands have store personnel that represent the brand. And, shoppers have the ability to browse. It is common for shoppers to purchase items that they were not originally looking for or observe an interesting item that they do not purchase. Recreating the social and browsing aspects of in-store shopping online can be difficult to achieve.
The Three Shopping Essentials
People shop at a particular online or brick and mortar store for three main reasons:
- Purchased items are seen as having value.
- There is a social element when shopping.
- The shopping experience is convenient or otherwise pleasant.
Amoruso had all three elements in place. She had an accessible eBay presence. She had a significant following on MySpace. She branched out by creating her own website and further crafting her lifestyle brand in order to improve the shopping experience.
An Exciting Online Shopping Experience
Many Nasty Gal shoppers probably do not know exactly what they will see next. There are a few essentials that define the brand and are highly appealing to the target audience. However, there are unexpected items in the inventory. The brand is niche but not too niche. It offers a comprehensive and inspired. The products remain accessible to the common online shopper.
What's Next for Nasty Gal?
Nasty Gal has launched Super Nasty, a lifestyle magazine. The magazine should further build the persona behind the brand by bridging the gap between fashion, music, and culture. Methodical brand-building can be largely attributed to Nasty Gal's sudden growth. The company remains free of debt. The original eBay store and MySpace page were the building blocks for an e-commerce sensation a short five years down the road.
How Simple Ideas and Passionate People Make e-Commerce Work
Jumping on the e-commerce circuit is not an easy way to make quick cash. Amoruso is the perfect example of the successful online entrepreneur. She slowly built a brand and business around personal interests and beliefs. Like other entrepreneurs, Nasty Gal continues to be a labor of love. Almost anyone can sell stuff on eBay from a thrift store. Not everyone can create a highly successful lifestyle brand.
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Care to join me?
Today Instapundit is organizing a massive link-fest coordinating the blogosphere's charity response to Katrina. It's time for me to do my part as well.
So here is my proposal. I have little knowledge about which charities are most likely to do the most good. I know many of my readers may be more tuned in to this than I am, though. For the first reader who responds donating to a reputable charity for Katrina relief, I'll match up to $100. Note that I'm flat broke until Sep 15 ( ), but will match it at that time.
I'm going to see if Wilson or JimmyJ wants to join in on this as well. I'll keep you updated.
Update: Wilson has offered to kick in $50. He's subject to the same Sep 15 constraint as me though…
Update 2: Reader Hoover has graciously donated $100 to the American Red Cross, which takes care of my matching. And I just got off the phone with JimmyJ, who is offering $50 matching. So at this time (noon EST 9/1/05), we still have Wilson's $50 and Jim's $50 available for matching. Any takers?
Life, Liberty, and Property Group Blog linked with Katrina - Life, Liberty, Property Community's Relief Efforts
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I am going to donate to the Red Cross as I have in the past during these types of events. They have the biggest coverage down there and provide most of the necessities to the people.
Brad, TF and I are donating thru our church. We know that 100% of the money goes to the relief efforts.
Brad, This Sunday is dedicated as a Fast, as is the first Sunday of each month. In our church we donate the money we would have spent on those meals to a special poverty relief fund. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that I can spend as much as I want to on a meal that I don't eat; why not be good to yourself on those missed meals and take the family out to a very expensive place for a missed steak and lobster meal, lots of missed beverages, lots of tip for having missed an excellent meal. Now how much did you enjoy that missed meal; send that money off as a donation and you have the idea. I plan to invite all my relatives to miss a meal on me this Sunday. Match that.
What's your donation amount? If it's $150 or greater, Wilson and I have it matched. If it's less, we still need a second charity.
That's a good little system. I'll have to keep it in mind… Right now, the wife and I are missing meals out just to pay our bills, so I'll have to file that away for future use
I attempted to donate $100 at http://store.yahoo.com/redcross-donate/ but the site is a little slow and backed up now. I will get my donation in before the 15th as well.
I finally got through, donation made, via credit card if you don't want to wait until the 15th.
"Thank you for your donation to the American Red Cross in response to the Hurricane 2005 Relief effort. Your donation enables the Red Cross to provide immediate relief and long-term support through shelter, food, water, comfort kits, and other relief supplies. The Red Cross is mobilizing thousands of volunteers from our nationwide network of 850 chapters to assist those in need. The American Red Cross encourages you to learn more about these and other efforts by visiting http://www.RedCross.org.
Together, we can save a life.
American Red Cross"
Thanks Hoover!
Trust me, we don't want to get into a discussion of my credit card balance in relation to my credit limit. It's uglier than my bank account balance!
I will have my $100 in to them on the 15th.
Katrina – What Am I Donating?
Now that I've plugged a couple of charities and my company's efforts, here's what my wife and I are doing. My charity of choice is America's Second Harvest. My wife's charity of choice is Blood Source, a northern California blood…
Shoot, too bad you guys can't put the money up until the 15th. Otherwise I'd say let's pool it all together and donate it via me, since my employer is doing dollar for dollar matching up to $1 million. By the 15th (actually probably by the 5th) we'll have easily hit the ceiling though.
Katrina – Life, Liberty, Property Community's Relief Efforts
I'm posting a round up of posts from the Life, Liberty, Property community that deals with their relief efforts, or anything else they care to add on Hurricane Katrina Relief. I'll keep this at the top through midnight Friday, 9/02/05….
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I'm posting a round up of posts from the Life, Liberty, Property community that deals with their relief efforts, or anything else they care to add on Hurricane Katrina Relief. I'll keep this at the top through midnight Friday, 9/02/05. Thi…
Good news! A friend of mine works for a company who doubles donations. So he is fronting the money for my donation to the Red Cross, and my $100 turns into $200. Not only that, it gets to them immediately instead of waiting until the 15th. So a big thank you to Justin!
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Hello Friday, what do we have planned today? After a busy day out yesterday, it is quiet here this morning. No where to rush off to, no need to get all dolled up (not that that usually happens any way), plenty of time to use my new floor steamer (always fun to use a new gadget...just hope it works) and then setting aside some time to catch up on crafting. To to start a day off, a little Pink Paislee will do the trick. Today my project is posted on the Pink Paislee blog and showcases the new Declaration line...
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Pilot Dies Of Heart Attack Mid-Flight, A pilot of a UTair Boeing 757 flying from Bangkok to Novosibirsk in Russia's Siberia region died as the plane was flying over China, officials said.
Sergei Golev, 44, sustained a heart attack in the cckpit and died despite all attempts at resuscitation, a local prosecutor's office spokeswoman said.
Uralinform.ru reported that a cardiologist found among the passengers also failed to revive him.
The chief pilot attempted an emergency landing in the Chinese city of Chengdu, but abandoned it because Golev died before the jet touched down.
The incident took place Tuesday, but was not reported before.
Some media reports said the Boeing was bound for Moscow and executed an emergency landing in Novosibirsk, and that Golev, though a pilot, was flying as a passenger.
But a spokeswoman for the regional transportation prosecutors told Komsomolskaya Pravda newspaper that the plane was flying to Novosibirsk and that Golev was a crew member — a reserve pilot tasked, ironically, with replacing a crew member in case they fall ill.
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I'm broke. Seriously. If you know me or read my blogs, you might know I quit my job to pursue teaching and DJing yoga about a month ago. So far so good. I guess in all honesty I was never "well off" or whatever that means, so it was not a long drop down to "broke." If you think this is a complaint, then think again. This is my statement, and at what better time than tax time? Can I claim a yoga tax? Hmmm. Welp, I broke it down to see what that return might look like:
After doing some calculations on a healthy (or shall I say wealthy?) yoga year, the Special Yogi is spending about $1200 a year, the Simple Yogi invests about $2,000-$5,000 a year (if in training) and the Overachiever Yogi spends about $6,000 – $10,00 per year. Which brings me to my next observation….
All of my money may be funneling into a pit, but it is a pit of my deepest passion. Don't get me wrong, I am a-okay with this. In fact, I love it, because I love yoga. I love practicing it, teaching it, studying it, DJing for it. Clearly, this is my life purpose. I happily assume a sort of "Hand-to-Foot-to-Mouth pose," because the return is far beyond monetary terms. I get the return of its intangibles, its friendships, its revelations, and of course, balance. But here's the biggest return on my yoga dollar: It's the feeling like, Hey, I'm not going to bust a cap in someone's ass for acting in a certain way, because I did my yoga today. No lie, that's BEYOND priceless.
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Indian Railways is one of the largest systems in the world. It is also one of the very few railway systems in the world generating operating surpluses. With a modest beginning in India on April 16, 1853, when the first wheels rolled on rails from Bombay to Thane, the Indian Railways has emerged today as the main vehicle for socio-economic development of the country.
Rail transportation has a number of favourable characteristics
as compared to road transportation. It is six times more energy-efficient
than road and four times more economical. The social costs in terms of
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Contributing to Modern Market Economy
Since its inception, the Indian Railways has served to integrate the fragmented markets and thereby, stimulating the emergence of a modern market economy. It connects industrial production centres with markets and with sources of raw materials and facilitates industrial development and link agricultural production centres with distant markets. It provides rapid, reliable and cost-effective bulk transportation to the energy sector, to move coal from the coal fields to power plants and petroleum products from refineries to consumption centres. It links places, enabling large-scale, rapid and low-cost movement of people across the length and breadth of the country. In the process, the Indian Railways has become a symbol of national integration and a strategic instrument for enhancing our defence preparedness.
The Indian Railways contributes to India's economic development, accounting for about one per cent of the GNP and the backbone of freight needs of the core sector. It accounts for six per cent of the total employment in the organised sector directly and an additional 2.5 per cent indirectly through its dependent organisations. It has in vested significantly in health, education, housing and sanitation. With its vast network of schools and investment in training, the Indian Railways plays an important role in human resource development. The Indian Railways, with nearly 63,000 route kilometres fulfils the country's transport needs, particularly, in respect of long-distance passenger and goods traffic. Freight trains carry nearly 1.2 million tonnes of originating goods and 7,500 passenger trains carry nearly 12 million passengers every day.
Freight and passenger traffic carried by the Indian Railways has recorded an impressive growth ever since Independence. While the input indices in terms of route kms, locomotives, passenger coaches and wagon capacity have only doubled during this period, the traffic output indices have increased by six times. These achievements were due to selective inputs of affordable technology, adoption of innovative operational strategies, phased reduction of staff and operating costs and intensive monitoring of movements and maintenance areas.
The Railways has developed indigenous capacity for rolling stock manufacture, including state-of-the-art electric and diesel locomotives and high-speed passenger coaches. It has introduced high-speed Rajdhani and Shatabdi Express trains and Mass Rapid Transit Systems in the metropolitan areas.
Commissioning of the Konkan Railway, extension of
Electric Traction to cover 30 per cent of the broad gauge network, gauge
conversion of about 8,000 kms. and provision of about 15,000 kms of double/multiple
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The Railways is sharpening its Marketing Capability to attract more and more freight and passenger business through constructive pricing mechanisms and tariff rationalisation and through customer focus. It has initiated steps to enhance market share in the bulk freight business as well as to secure growth in the non-bulk business, including less than rake load. Appropriate growth strategies for each passenger segment have also been evolved to secure recovery of various costs for the passenger business as a whole through internal cross-subsidisation within the various passenger segments.
The Indian Railways has strengthened the high density
network to make the system capable of meeting the projected demands of
the freight and passenger business. It practises austerity especially in
the areas of energy consumption, material management, overtime, travelling
allowance and advertisements. It tries to reduce operating costs by improving
efficiency in production and maintenance units; by improving the purchasing
procedures not only to secure cost reduction but also to improve reliability;
by reduction in man power in a phased manner and by improving organisational
excellence through human resource development. It plans to withdraw from
ancillary activities to enable the management to concentrate on primary
business for running freight and passenger services. For tapping non-traditional
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The Indian Railways has a glorious past and has achieved a phenomenal growth in both freight and passenger traffic by improving asset utilisation and efficiency of operations. The time has come when massive investments are required for expanding the rail infrastructure and give the Railways its due share in the country's infrastructure development.
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Kalyan Singh
|Kalyan Singh
|Governor of Rajasthan
|Assumed office
4 September 2014
|Preceded by
|Margaret Alva
|Governor of Himachal Pradesh
|In office
28 January 2015 – 12 August 2015
|Preceded by
|Urmila Singh
|Succeeded by
|Acharya Dev Vrat
|Lok Sabha
|Member of Parliament
for Etah
|In office
|Preceded by
|Devendra Singh Yadav
|Succeeded by
|Rajveer Singh
|Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh
|In office
24 Jun 1991 – 6 Dec 1992
|Preceded by
|Mulayam Singh Yadav
|Succeeded by
|President's Rule
|In office
21 Sep 1997 – 12 Nov 1999
|Preceded by
|Succeeded by
|Ram Prakash Gupta
|Personal details
5 January 1932
Atrauli, United Provinces, British India
|Political party
|Bharatiya Janata Party
|1 son and 1 daughter
|Raj Bhavan (Rajasthan)
|As of 20 January, 2009
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Kalyan Singh (b 1932) is the Governor of Rajasthan since 4 September 2014. He took additional charge of Himachal Pradesh replacing Urmila Singh, whose five-year term ended on 24 January 2015. Prior to that, he was an Indian politician from the state of Uttar Pradesh. Kalyan Singh was born to Tejpal Singh Lodhi and Sita on 5 January 1932. He has served two terms as the Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh and was appointed Governor of Rajasthan on 26 August 2014.[1] Kalyan Singh is known for his role in the Babri Masjid demolition. Addressing reporters in Etah, Kalyan Singh once said that he owns full responsibility for the demolition of the 16th-century mosque in Ayodhya on 6 December 1992, thus reigniting the controversial Ramjanmabhoomi dispute.[citation needed] During a speech at the 26th convocation ceremony, he appealed against the word 'Adhinayak', saying it should be replaced by 'Mangal'.[2]
Political career[edit]
First term as Chief Minister[edit]
He first became the chief minister of Uttar Pradesh in June 1991.
Role in demolition of Babri Masjid[edit]
According to the chargesheet filed by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in the Babri Masjid demolition case, just after becoming chief minister, he, with his colleagues, "visited Ayodhya and took a vow to construct Ram temple there itself."[3] In October 1991, his government acquired 2.77 acres (11,200 m2) of land around the "Babri Masjid Complex" under a government notification for the purpose of "promoting tourism". In July 1992, the Sangh Parivar laid the foundation for the proposed Ram temple by digging around the Babri Masjid and filling the area with 10-foot (3.0 m)-thick layer of reinforced cement concrete. Kalyan Singh's government called it a "platform" for performing bhajans while the Vishva Hindu Parishad (VHP) declared it as the foundation for Ram temple.[4]
Kar Seva was supposed to be conducted in Ayodhya on 6 December 1992 and he filed an affidavit in the Supreme Court that as the chief minister of Uttar Pradesh, he will not allow any damage to the mosque.[5] However, Kar Sevaks demolished Babri mosque on that day. Taking the moral responsibility, he resigned from the post of Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh in the evening. Later, Union government dissolved Uttar Pradesh assembly.
Post-Babri politics[edit]
He contested assembly elections to Uttar Pradesh assembly in November 1993 from two constituencies, namely Atrauli and Kasganj and won from both. As Samajwadi Party-Bahujan Samaj Party combine formed the government in the state under the chief ministership of Mulayam Singh Yadav, even though the BJP won the most votes and increased its vote share[6] Kalyan Singh served as Leader of Opposition in the assembly.
He later served as Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh again between September 1997 and November 1999. This government of his "insisted that all primary classes should begin the day with a worship of Bharat Mata and that Vande Mataram should substitute 'Yes Sir' during roll call".[7] In February 1998, his government withdrew cases against those who were associated with Ram janmabhoomi movement and said that a "Ram temple will be constructed at the same site if the Bharatiya Janata Party came to power at the centre".[8] He also promised to create Uttarakhand within 90 days if BJP leader Atal Bihari Vajpayee became the Prime Minister.[9]
On 21 October 1997, Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) withdrew support to Kalyan Singh government. Kalyan Singh, who was already in touch with disgruntled Indian National Congress Member of Legislative Assembly (MLA), Naresh Agrawal, contacted him and Agrawal immediately rushed to his support with 21 other MLAs having hurriedly formed a new party, Vinay Sharam the Loktantrik Congress.[10] For this, he was given the energy portfolio in the new cabinet.
On 21 February 1998, his government was dismissed and Governor of Uttar Pradesh, Romesh Bhandari invited Jagdambika Pal to form the new government when the same Naresh Agrawal withdrew support to Kalyan Singh's government and became deputy chief minister in Jagdambika's short-lived government.[11] The order was stayed by a division bench of the Allahabad High Court which directed the status quo ante bellum to be maintained thus reinstating his government.[12] After this decision, Atal Bihari Vajpayee, who had gone on fast unto death in protest against the governor's order called off his fast and said that the court's verdict was a "well-deserved slap in the face of the governor".[13]
Naresh Agrawal, who had become deputy chief minister in Jagdambika Pal's government, returned to BJP fold after the court order. When Kalyan Singh successfully proved his majority on the floor of the assembly with the support of Agrawal as well as some BSP rebels, Agrawal claimed that he had succeeded in proving that only his party could provide a stable government.[10] The BSP rebels were to be rewarded with ministerial berths[14] and this was duly done within days.
He left the party in December 1999 and rejoined in January 2004.[15] He contested the 2004 Lok Sabha elections on the BJP ticket from Bulandshahar. Before the LokSabha election of 2009 he left BJP and contest election from Etah LokSabha seat as an independent and subsequently won it.
It has been reported that Kalyan Singh is expected to join BJP and is to be appointed as a Vice-President of Bharatiya Janata Party.[16] His son Rajveer Singh have also been a Member of Legislative Assembly for a term.
The Liberhan Commission gave clean chit to then PM Rao but criticized CM Kalyan Singh and his government for pre-planned mannered events, misuse of power, attracting youth for support, and allowing Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh to run the state government directly.[citation needed]
Singh resigned his post and party membership on 20 January 2009.[17] After meetings with Samajwadi Party leaders Mulayam Singh Yadav and Amar Singh, Singh announced that he would campaign for the SP in the 2009 Lok Sabha elections.[18] Meanwhile, his son Rajveer Singh, one of the main reasons of his disenchantment with the BJP, joined the Samajwadi Party.[19]
On 14 November 2009, Mulayam Singh Yadav said that the poor performance of the party at the Firozabad Lok Sabha by-election was due to the loss of Muslim support because of Kalyan Singh.[20] In January 2010, he announced the formation of a new Hindutva-oriented political party, the Jan Kranti Party, but chose to take the role of patron while his son became the leader.[21]
Governor of Rajasthan[edit]
Singh was sworn in as Governor of Rajasthan on 4 September 2014.[22]
See also[edit]
- ^ "Press Releases Detail - The President of India".
- ^ https://in.news.yahoo.com/kalyan-singh-wants-the-word--adhiyanaka--removed-from-the-national-anthem--what-say-you-095454388.html
- ^ "Ruling on Ayodhya charge-sheet soon". Indian Express. 26 April 1998. Retrieved 3 May 2009.
- ^ "The 'Ram temple' drama". Frontline. July 1998. Retrieved 3 May 2009.
- ^ "Lessons of December 6, 1992". Indian Express. 6 December 1998. Retrieved 3 May 2009.
- ^ Kalyan Singh, Ayodhya and Hindu resurgence Niti Central - 25 November 2012
- ^ "Goodbye to Akhand Bharat". Indian Express. 5 January 1998. Retrieved 3 May 2009.
- ^ "Quicktakes". Indian Express. 3 February 1998. Retrieved 3 May 2009.
- ^ "Uttarakhand rhetoric fails to please". Indian Express. 22 February 1998. Retrieved 3 May 2009.
- ^ a b "Sultan of somersaults". Indian Express. 1 March 1998. Retrieved 3 May 2009.
- ^ "Kalyan Singh sacked, Jagdambika Pal CM". rediff.com. 21 February 1998. Retrieved 3 May 2009.
- ^ "Court reinstates Kalyan Singh". rediff.com. 23 February 1998. Retrieved 3 May 2009.
- ^ "Vajpayee calls off fast, asks Bhandari to quit". rediff.com. 23 February 1998. Retrieved 3 May 2009.
- ^ "BSP rebels may get berth in UP cabinet". Indian Express. Retrieved 3 May 2009.
- ^ Srivastava, Rajiv (17 December 2012). "Kalyan Singh's homecoming to BJP after January 14 - The Times of India". Times Internet. Times of India. TNN. Retrieved 14 February 2015.
- ^ "Kalyan Singh's homecoming to BJP after January 14". Times of India. Retrieved 3 May 2009.
- ^ "Politics/Nation". The Times of India. 20 January 2009.
- ^ "Kalyan to campaign for SP". Hindustan Times. Chennai, India. PTI. 21 January 2009.
- ^ Updated Tuesday, 19 August 2014 12:08 AM IST. "Manorama Online | Home". Week.manoramaonline.com. Retrieved 2014-08-18.
- ^ Khan, Atiq (16 November 2009). "Kalyan Singh calls Mulayam an 'opportunist'". The Hindu. Chennai, India.
- ^ "Kalyan's son to lead new party". The Hindu. Chennai, India. 6 January 2010. Retrieved 30 April 2012.
- ^ "Kalyan Singh sworn-in as 20th Governor of Rajasthan". The Indian Express. PTI. 4 September 2014. Retrieved 14 February 2015.
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I've got loaches that are now approaching 6 inches in length. Martin was kind enough to email me the information about how someone in England bred these fish when they were 11 to 13 inches long. Now I find out that they can live for at least 40 years. I don't know how good I'll be at water changes when I'm 80!!! If I even get there. These creatures might even outlive me. Kind of like Parrots and Galapagos Tortoises!!!!
Does anyone out there have big loaches, i.e. got them small and are now over 6 inches? If so, what did you feed them so that they grew big, what do you feed them now, how large is their tank and what is their present behaviour? Do you have them in a tank with any other fish? What about plants and substrate?
The breeding article was interesting and scary. It seems these "cute" loaches turn into carnivorous monsters. It would be quite the challenge to get them to breed, but then what does one do with these monsters? They belong in the aquariums of Ripley's Believe It Or Not.
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I'm with the Beasties on this one [2]. Yeah, the Goldiebox commercial is admirable in spirit but they've got the nerve to rip off music for their own purpose and then hide behind their politics.
Cool product, and at this point, they've accomplished their mission because the video has gone viral, but still: they get the Gas Face.
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I am such a chocolate and peanut butter junkie and these cookies hit the spot when I was looking for a yummy treat (I must admit- I probably ate tons more dough than I did actual cookies! We are actually big cookie dough fans in our family. When we were growing up, my mom would save my dad a blob of cookie dough when she made cookies so that he could have a little bite of dough when he got home from work. Is that true love or what?!)!
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Revealed: 1 in 3 WWI British Naval Heroes Were Underage
Analysis of over 380,000 digitised historic naval records reveals that nearly a third of the sailors who helped Britain achieve naval supremacy in World War I were 'underage' volunteers. The Royal Navy Registers of Seaman's Services, 1900-1928 detail each sailor's name, birthdate, birthplace, vessels served on, service number, and other service details. Additionally, the records include Read More


text: Lars, You are using the display opcode for its intended purpose, that is, accomodating different embossers and braille displays. My point is that tables should not be written to require a .dis file. The character-definition opcodes should be used for the preferred dot patterns. The segmentation fault has been fixed. This also fixes the problem with the file definitions being clobbered under some circumstances. Hyphenation has also been fixed. I'll put out a bug fix soon. Hopefully it will be on both www.jjb-software.com and the Google projects. With regard to those, it seems that once the license sype has been chosen it can't be changed. The license type for liblouis should be LGPL. When I try to change it on the liblouis project I am told that it has been disabled. The same with the liblouisxml project, but on the latter I set the license to LGPL at the beginning. John On Tue, Oct 07, 2008 at 09:10:39PM +0200, Lars Bj�rndal wrote: > Hi, John! > > Sorry for the delay. > > "John J. Boyer" <johnjboyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > > I'll have to get back to you on these things. The segmentation fault > > should be easy to fix. You might consider getting rid of the .dis file. > > Dot patterns should be defined with the character-definition opcodes. > > That might simplify things. > > Yes, I know. But I personally need two different character sets out. > With the .dis file, it's easy to just use another one, and then I have a > different character set. > > Lars > > > On Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 07:41:08PM +0200, Lars Bj�rndal wrote: > >> Hello, John! > >> > >> I have two issues with the backtranslator: > >> > >> 1) Every time I use the backtranslator, e.g. xml2brl -b, I get > >> "Segmentation fault". > >> > >> 2) I have a strange issue if I try to backtranslate '#fe-1ring' (the > >> character 1 before r, is a Norwegian å while using no-no.dis). The > >> meaning is a person, who is 65 years old. It's backtranslated to > >> '65-år9n7', e.g. the i is translated to 9 and g to 7. What can I do > >> in the tables to get rid of this problem? > >> > >> Best regardss, > >> Lars > For a description of the software and to download it go to > http://www.jjb-software.com -- My websites: http://www.godtouches.org http://www.jjb-software.com Location: Madison, WI, USA For a description of the software and to download it go to http://www.jjb-software.com