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The appointment of Nandan Nilekani as chairman of the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) with the rank of a cabinet minister is part of the trend of appointing apolitical persons to positions with political authority. This is a trend that has gained some momentum in the last two decades. It augurs well for India.
In any well-run democracy, political authority rests with elected representatives. In India, as in other democracies, the tasks of governance have become increasingly complex. Even relatively simple tasks such as maintaining law and order require complicated mechanisms to be effective. For example, Nilekani's task is part of the bigger picture on law and order: Unique identity cards are part of the solution to tackle big problems such as terrorism, illegal migration and crime. As a result, the link between political authority and professional ability needs to be updated. Bureaucratic advisers cannot substitute this.
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By Lance Dunham
My timing of this month's article is a bit off and way late but I wanted to wait until the very last of June before I sat down to write because of a very special guest I had coming to fish with me. His name is Steve Parks, "Big O" to his friends, the creator of Rage Tail lures, produced by Strike King Lures. To the non fishing person I'm sure his name doesn't ring a bell, but to the fishing community, if you haven't heard of him or his lures you must be living under a rock! Over the last several years his lures have been on national TV with many of the fishing pros and popular TV shows. Why? Because they work and work well, but more on that later. Through my friends and sponsors, Matt and Nissa Wilson of Moaner Hooks, Steve and I had learned about each other last January, while at the Wild Pennsylvania with Alan Probst's Outdoors Expo. Steve had sent various packages of his lures to me when the Wilsons came to visit. I started to use them as soon as I could get back on the water in the spring and they worked amazingly well. I've never had plastic lures with so much vibration! I started to catch some really big smallies and better still so did my clients. We were also catching many walleyes with them and a couple of muskies to boot! I posted photos of the fish on my website and Facebook as I often do and through the power of the internet Steve had noticed them also from his home in Texas. He gave Matt a call in early June and said he'd like to fly up to fish with me for a couple of days in June and film the trip for a future TV show. When Matt told me this I scrambled to find the open days in my schedule. I had a cancellation the last week of June and a personal day right behind it so the dates were set. I e-mailed Steve to tell him that I had a place for him to stay and I also had a good freelance outdoor camera man in Jerome Sulkoski ready to go.
Everything was ready and now all this old guide had to do was produce the fish that brought Steve up here in the first place. As you know we have had constant afternoon thunder storms all over the Susquehanna water shed making the river rise and get more and more dirty every day. Plus, the easy spring fishing for big fish had been over for some time now and we had to find the better fish the hard way in the dirty water using Rage Tail lures. Having never met Steve before, I had about a hundred questions for him about himself and his lures, such as the obvious, how did you get the name "Big O"? Well that comes from him being called by his friends "Big Old Steve" and shortened down to "Big O" because if you saw him, he's about 6ft 5in and in great shape, not round like yours truly. His patented flange tail design on his lures that gives off all that fish attracting vibrating movement came from his start as a fishing guide and wanting to improve the standard plastics we all have used in the past. Steve pays great attention to detail when designing a lure and to the packaging for the fishermen. His lures are packaged in a clamshell style so that each lure is secure and will be in its very best shape when we get ready to use it no matter how hot it gets in the boat. Now I have only had the chance so far to use a few styles on my charters but my favorites at the moment are the Baby Craw, the 4" Grub, and the Twin Tail Menace. The colors depend on the water and sunlight conditions of the day. To use the Rage Tail plastics as a jig I used the stand up Predator jig from Moaner Hooks which has the bent wire fastener on it to hold the plastics. I cut off most or even all of the weed guard because I have a tendency not to set the hook very hard and I use light weight rods. I sometimes will also put a rubber skirt on the jig to enhance the profile and slow down the fall rate of the jig. A slow lift is all that's needed to make the claws or tail vibrate like crazy in the river current and just pick up the slack on your reel as your rod tip points back down to stay in constant contact with the jig. There are many other ways and jigs to use with the Rage Tail lures that we can get into at a later date.
We started off the first day maybe a little late for the end of June at about 7:30AM. I suggested we start with a spinner bait tipped with a 4" white Rage Tail grub over the shallow rocks. With the second cast I had a medium size smallie and on the third a 23" walleye. Steve immediately had a bass on the next cast and a sigh of relief came over me for I knew we would catch fish in the dark stained water that day. Steve brought with him two heavy 7ft plus flipping stick Rage rods made by St Croix to Steve's specifications. Flipping with a jig is what Steve does best and does a lot in Texas and Mexico for those monster 10 to 15lb largemouth bass they have. For those that don't know what flipping is, it's an underhand cast made so a soft quiet landing or presentation of the lure can be made in the rocks or under those lure eating trees we all know about. I have since ordered a flipping stick rod from my sponsor, All Pro Rods, and Steve gave me his rod to use in the meantime. We went on to catch many smallies during the day but not some of the real quality ones I had been getting used to catching. So the next day we were on the water at 5:30AM in a different part of the river that should produce better fish and it did. Steve landed some very nice quality smallmouth bass and I managed to land one or two nice fish myself. With my light rod I will have to admit that when it came to lifting the nice fish into the boat I had several come off at the boat. I had the wrong weight rod for the job at hand and the fish won. It got so bad that Steve was going for the net anytime when I got a nice fish on and those of you that know me also know that I never use a net to land my own fish.
We had a great time fishing and Steve is a great guy to fish with. His attention to detail shows not only in his fishing ability but also in the fishing lures he created. If you're ever around to catch me with my truck and boat, I'd be glad to show you what we were using and may even have a spare lure to give away. However, if you'd like to see them in action, come with me on a charter and I'll show you how it's done.
Well that's all for this month and remember to practice catch and release fishing for the future of our sport, boat safe, and I'll see YOU on the water. For further reports, photos, and charter information, please visit me on my web site at www.ldguideservice.com or on my Facebook page.

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Tony Hoare has always been a leader in writing down and proving properties of programs. To prove properties of programs automatically, the most widely used technology today is by far the ubiquitous type checker. Alas, static type systems inevitably exclude some good programs and allow some bad ones. Thus motivated, we describe some fun we have been having with Haskell, by making the type system more expressive without losing the benefits of automatic proof and compact expression. Specifically, we offer a programmer's tour of so-called type families, a recent extension to Haskell that allows functions on types to be expressed as straightforwardly as functions on values. This facility makes it easier for programmers to effectively extend the compiler by writing functional programs that execute during type-checking. This paper gives a programmer's tour of type families as they are supported in GHC. Source code for all the examples is available at
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National Asian Pacific Women's Forum (NAPAWF)—Research Issue Briefs and Factsheets on Reproductive Justice and Leadership Development
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Asian/Pacific-Islander Domestic Violence Resource Project (DVRP)—Common Myths on Domestic Violence
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Citizen Of Glass is the follow-up to Obel's UK breakthrough album 'Aventine', which yielded the 6Music playlisted singles 'Dorian', 'Words Are Dead', and title track 'Aventine', and saw the Berlin-based Dane headline gigs at Somerset House, Shepherd's Bush Empire and Barbican in 2014. The album was recorded, produced and mixed by Obel at Aventine-Neukölln and BrandNewMusic-Studios in Berlin.
"The title comes from the German concept of the gläserner bürger, the human or glass citizen," says Obel. "It's actually a legal term about the level of privacy the individual has in a state, and in health it's become a term about how much we know about a person's body or biology or history - if they're completely made of glass we know everything. There's an increasing sense in this world that you have to make yourself a bit of glass. To be willing to open up, use yourself as material, and not just if you're an artist or a musician."
"I worked with the title from the very beginning to push myself to do new things," she continues. "I wanted to push myself conceptually from the starting point, to push the glass theme throughout the songs in different ways – in the lyrics, in the instruments - to do things in a very new way. As an album, it feels bigger to me, a lot bigger."
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What a long week waiting for this game. It's homecoming, a blackout, a night game, and it's against Michigan. I'm about to hit the road and make my trek to Kinnick. I'm pretty excited to say the least. If you are stuck at home today, sorry, but here's at least a little something to read while you are waiting.
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What: #12 Iowa vs Michigan
Where: Kinnick Stadium, Iowa City, IA
When: 7:12 PM October 10, 2009
TV: ABC (National Coverage)
Scouting Michigan:
Michigan, like Iowa, has been plagued by injuries on offense. Starting center, David Molk, is out causing the offensive line to struggle in the past couple of games. Also, runningback Carlos Brown is likely out with a concussion sustained in practice this week. The other back, Brandon Minor has been battling an ankle sprain this year, but should be fine to start. Also, QB/"Anointed One" Tate Forcier hurt his shoulder a couple weeks ago against Indiana.
All that said, though, Michigan has a very potent offense. Watch out for the zone read in the run game and bubble screens in the pass game. Sash and Greenwood are going to have to tackle well especially against the bubble screen is Norm insists on having Hunter and Edds cover the slot receiver. Also, watch out for a set with Forcier and Robinson (the speedy backup QB)...they could have a lot of options out of that set.
The key will be to pressure and contain Forcier. He can beat you with his feet and makes amazing plays when he rolls out of the pocket. Hopefully this cold and snowy weather will hurt the Californian's performance. I'm sure he'll be feeling it the first time Clayborn or Binns gets a hit on him.
Michigan runs a hybrid 3-4/4-3 type defense where the outside linebacker plays on or off the line. The front 7 are pretty good and the rush defense is led by Brandon Graham. Obi Ezeh (awesome name by the way) is also pretty strong up front. However, if Michigan is content with only keeping those 7 in the box, Iowa should have some success running the ball.
The secondary of Michigan has been particularly bad. Donovan Warren, kind of like Spievey, has been a lock down corner, but the rest of the defensive backs have been bad. They are shuffling around a little this week as Troy Woolfolk (a safety) is moving to corner. The secondary plays pretty soft as well, so hopefully Stanzi can hit those short routes all day long.
This is probably the only week this year, were the opponent has better special teams than Iowa. Zoltan Mesko is a fantastic punter...probably better than Donahue (I know that's blasphemy). Their kicker has been a little bit more consistent than Murray this year going 5/6 on field goals (Murray is 6/9).
Iowa should have a slight advantage when on offense and on defense, but Michigan is very capable of the big play and has proven it can come from behind. If Iowa can establish the run, take advantage of the Wolveriene's somewhat suspect secondary, and contain Forcier, then Iowa should win by a couple of scores.


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Intex, world leading brand in the smartphones technology, is just comes up with its new Aqua View smartphone and here it comes with the company's first virtual reality (VR) cardboard, or we can say, the Eyelet. The phone is available in India with two colors, Grey and White. The brand new Intex's new Aqua View will available in India with an affordable price of Rs. 8,999 so anyone take the great experience and can use the latest technology in a low price.
Intex Aqua View will be available on various online shopping platforms as well as in the official offline stores. It comes up with an availbility of dual-SIM , and Intex Aqua View runs Android 5.1 Lollipop, and the size of the screen is good and it featuring a 5-inch HD (720×1280 pixel) IPS display with a pixel density of 294ppi.
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- Haldi Ubtan
Very popular with the name of Ubtan in North India this mixture of Turmeric and Yoghurt is a great combination to remove tan. All you need to do is take 1 cup yoghurt and mix about 2 tbsp turmeric in it. Look for a bright yellow shade in the mixture. Apply it generously on your hands, legs and face. Leave it for about 15 minutess or till it dries. Wash it off. Use it regularly for best results.
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Take a ripe papaya. Crush it in the mixer grinder after removing the seeds and the fruit peel. It will be a semi solid, just massage it on the tanned area for a few minutes and wash it off. Make sure it is washed properly or else it attracts ants very soon. Do wash the towel after use.
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I am a teen living in the state of Illinois. It will soon be my seventeenth birthday. While I'm excited for my birthday, I am also worried about a recurring dream that I am having. The first time I had the dream was on the night of my fifteenth birthday. The dream was questionably realistic, even though it was so different from anything, human. In the dream I seem to be a very tall man, and I am always in a forest, each time looking different. Sometimes I can control whatever it is that I am in the dream, but only for short moments before being taken control of. When I can control what I am in the dream I often look down at my lower body, or bring my hands up to see what they look like. My lower body was very long, and had a suit on. My hands, being the most disturbing, were a pitch white.
Each time in the dream when I can't control anything, I often pursue somebody, trying to kill them. Instead of running after them, I just watch them, waiting for them to turn around. If the person sees me, but runs off before I can catch them, I seem to, teleport closer to them. Each time I teleport, I get closer and closer until eventually, when the person turns around, they will have immediately been caught. The worst thing about this dream is the way the victims are killed. Once I catch them, several tentacles come out of my back, wrapping them up, squeezing tighter and tighter until eventually, their spine, and several other bones snaps.
The first time I had the dream I just shook it off as just a nightmare and went back to sleep. A couple days later, however, I had the dream again. I asked my parents if they had ever experienced anything like this. They told me that it was just a recurring dream and that it would stop eventually. I am of course typing this story two years later, and it only got worse, much worse. I began having the dream every other night, then every night, then several times a night, then during the day until now when I have parts of the dream every time I close my eyes.The last time I could control the dream was eight months after the first time I had the dream. I was chasing a victim into a house in the middle of the forest. The victim ran into the bathroom and as soon as I teleported into the room, I felt the I was in control and turned to the mirror as fast as I could. I was horrified. The thing that looked back at me in the mirror was a white face. Only instead of having features of a face like eyes or a mouth, it was just a plain, white face. After that I was no longer able to control the dreams.
I am beginning to lose control. I find myself in a forest killing some poor victim every time I close my eyes! I need help! There are now very few moments in my life where I am myself, and I have no idea what to do. I feel like eventually I will lose control, for good... Please. HELP ME


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I did a quick search in the forum and think this is linked to the Hero Medals? I did get a high caliber. I thought I read somewhere the medals don't give anything extra though. Can someone point me in the right direction?
noob question: "XP Awards"?
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#1 Posted 20 March 2017 - 11:51 PM
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#2 Posted 21 March 2017 - 12:16 AM
I just noticed I got XP awards again, this time I got a Sniper medal. Not op related, just something I've noticed today in the post match details. My 30.01 is not elite yet, so not sure what else it could be. Except maybe both times I also got Mastery badge 2?
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#3 Posted 21 March 2017 - 12:23 AM
I am guessing you lost the matches. If you get a Hero medal you get the xp like you won. Unfortunately with blowouts you won't get as much team xp.
Almighty and most merciful Father, we humbly beseech Thee, of Thy great goodness, to restrain these immoderate rains with which we have had to contend. Grant us fair weather for Battle. Graciously hearken to us as soldiers who call upon Thee that, armed with Thy power, we may advance from victory to victory, and crush the oppression and wickedness of our enemies and establish Thy justice among men and nations.
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#4 Posted 21 March 2017 - 12:43 AM
Yup, lost both. Maybe that's the ticket!
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Lance Armstrong, the Boston Red Sox and my 2012 fantasy football team. What, you might ask, do these 3 things have in common? Well, if you guessed, "they can all be described as 'one nut and a bunch of drugs'", you're wrong. But I like where you're heads at. Nope, they're just this week's topics de jour. And needless to say, I've got some strong opinions to share on them...
I'm also getting confused as to who is running this team. Larry Lucchino seems to get all the blame when things go wrong, yet now that things are going "right", GM Ben Cherington seems to be getting all the credit. Yet another reason why this trade doesn't solve all of my ills. A major part of the problems created up there over the past 5 years have come from lack of communication, or at the very least, a muddled and confusing power structure. And if that doesn't straighten itself out, I'm sorry, but I won't have anymore trust in that group to do the right thing than I did when Josh Beckett was still killin' Keystone's in the locker room...
So, yeah. I like this trade. It's definitely a step in the right direction, but merely taking steps in the right direction don't get anything accomplished. I know they can't take all of those steps at once, but it's going to take more than once fancy move or two for my faith to be fully restored in this ownership, this management and their goals as a franchise...
And it has nothing to do with the common notion among reporters and competitors that Lance was a complete dick. I've never disliked him because of those allegations, and I wouldn't use them as a jumping off point for a personal vendetta. I don't like him because he cheated, prospered and did it all while masquerading as one of the world's foremost charitable figures and success stories. See, I can take the cheating, and I can take his being a massive prick while putting on a public front that he's the nicest guy around. I just can't take it when he's held up as a hero and a role model...
As for whether he's the victim of a 'witch hunt', as many have proclaimed? That's just an improper use of a term. A witch hunt is when someone is looking for something that they know isn't there to begin with, and I'm sorry, but I don't buy the fact that the various agencies have investigated him so thoroughly simply in an attempt to bring him down. I mean, what sport forcibly removes it's greatest moneymaker and ambassador? OK, I guess if any sport were to do it, cycling would be it. But still. It's just not a sound business strategy, and I find it hard to believe the powers that be would intentionally gut their sport merely to punish someone they may not like. People like money too much for that to happen, something that was proven by Lance doing what he did in the first place...
It's unfortunate, though. Because with so little compelling evidence, and nothing but shady bastards like Roid Landis to testify against him, his image as a charitable champion will always remain. Something that's already been proven with the increase of LIVESTRONG donations on the day the Armstrong dropped his appeal. And that's cool. People can support whomever they want. I just think it makes us as a culture, as fans of sport, look gullible and naive. We're simply better than that. Better than covering up for a cheater in a sport nobody cares about, and buying into conspiracy for the sake of conspiracy. Call me naive and idealistic, but we deserve better heroes in sports than a guy that cloaks his deception behind his charitable acts. You know who else gave a lot of money to charity? Bernie Madoff. And I don't see anyone rushing to his defense anytime soon. Except for maybe his new big house boyfriend...
So, yeah. Please stop defending Lance. Just consider the millions he raised 'found money', and move on as if he never happened. I know he's not the only dirty athlete on the block, but he is dirty. And with the chances so few and far between to properly punish and vilify a cheater that actually gets caught, we can't let this one slip away...
Oh, and it's slightly important to know that this isn't your "average" league. Naturally, there are a few "fantasy fish" to fill out the 'ole pool, but we're dealing a solid selection of fantasy nerds with dozens of fantasy football titles under their respective belts. Nobody wins this league by accident, and nobody wins it because they happened to 'back into' a good draft. That being said, I hope I backed into one. Couldn't hurt...
|OMG It's Bags Munman
|Julio Jones(Atl - WR)
|Larry Fitzgerald(Ari - WR)
|Hakeem Nicks(NYG - WR)
|Antonio Brown(Pit - WR)
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|Jacquizz Rodgers(Atl - RB)
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Hopefully, you noticed a few things about my picks. The foremost being that I took pass catchers with my 1st 6 picks, and my running backs seem more primed for a milk carton than a fantasy squad. Seems slightly unorthodox, but with the league trending more and more towards passing to win, I prefer the strategy of stocking up on premier pass catchers than the one that ties my success to a few top running backs...
Why then, didn't I get a better QB? Eh, I just didn't think the value was there. I certainly would have selected one had I been higher up in the 1st round, but outside of that there just wasn't anyone that I really felt I needed to 'have' on my squad...
It also shouldn't be overlooked that I have the #2 waiver claim, meaning I'll have a great shot at acquiring one of fantasy's top un-drafted surprises.. Between that, and my extra assets at WR, it shouldn't be difficult to fill any holes that my team may have. And it's my belief that the RB spot will be the easiest to fill once the season gets started, simply due to the rate at which so many of the league's top RBs seem to go down...
So feel free to use this information however you'd like. Just remember the infamous words of Bricktop from Snatch, when you do. "When I throw a dog a bone, I don't wanna know if it tastes good or not." Yeah, no guarantees. This is a text book 'grain of salt' situation. So take that salty treat, and get to draftin' the team that will lead you to the promised land. Or at least to some very useful bragging rights...
I'd feel remiss in ripping a fraudulent Armstrong without giving props to perhaps the greatest man ever to take that name. Neil Armstrong passed away this week, and his contributions to our world will never be forgotten. Truly one of the great adventurers this universe has ever seen, and one of a small group of men that helped bring pride to our country at a time when that actually meant something. RIP, Mr. Armstrong. Your one small stepped changed the world, and for that, we're forever grateful...
Have a good week, friends. And don't forget to keep your browser tabbed here for all your football picking needs. Yep, football is back, and so are my picks, We'll win, we'll lose, we'll laugh, I'll curse my luck and how the universe is set against me. It should be good times. So you won't wanna miss it. And at the very least, it will help me begin to make up the fact that I very well could have just thrown your fantasy season into an unrecoverable tailspin before it even got underway. So there's that...
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