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The National Association of Realtors says sales rose 9.4 percent to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 5.57 million in September, from a downwardly revised pace of 5.1 million in August. Sales had been expected to rise to an annual pace of 5.35 million, according to economists surveyed by Thomson Reuters.
The median sales price was $174,900, down 8.5 percent from a year earlier, but the smallest annual drop in 13 months.
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Update - 5:17 p.m. - Dominion Virginia Power released the following statement late this afternoon:
"Dominion Virginia Power expects to restore service by Tuesday night for 80-85 percent of customers whose power was disrupted by two days of severe storms at the end of last week. The company expects to restore service to 90-95 percent of affected customers by Thursday night, and virtually all remaining customers by Saturday night. However, it is expected that in areas of the most-severe damage, service may not be restored fully until next Sunday."
Dominion has brought in line crews and other assistance from Texas, Florida, Kansas and 10 other states plus Canada, officials reported in a press release.
Updated storm restoration information is always available through Dominion's Storm Center website.
A list of crew work locations is available here.
Dominion Virginia Power estimated more than 250,000 customers remain without power in Northern Virginia as of Sunday afternoon — and it could be nearly a week before electricity is completely restored in Northern Virginia.
Dominion Vice President Rodney Blevins said additional storms on Saturday knocked out power to 55,000 more customers, making this the third-worst power outage in Virginia history.
Nearly 2.5 million people (1.5 million Dominion customers) in Virginia were originally affected
Blevins said more than 100 lineworkers are here or en route from 13 states and Quebec, but the restoration effort will take time. The storm cut a path from Indiana to North Carolina, and many workers in Virginia the company could usually call on have to stay and aid efforts in their own states.
"Of the 1 million that were originally affected, we expect 80 to 85 percent to be operational by Tuesday night," Blevins said. "Ninety to 95 percent should be back by Thursday. Nearly all remaining servers will be restored by Saturday and all by Sunday. We would like to thank customers for their patience. We will be continuing to work around the clock."
Gov. Bob McDonnell said "the scope and scale of power outages affect virtually every region of the state."
"It's going to be many days before some of the power is back on," the governor said in a media call on Sunday afternoon. "I know it is a horrible inconvenience, but it is critical our citizens work well together. Please know we are doing everything we can at the state level. Power companies are doing everything prudent in order to get everything back on. But there is risk of storms that could lead to more outages, so the situation could actually deteriorate."
Temperatures will be in the high 90s, with the heat index of up to 105, through Wednesday, according to the National Weather Service.
The governor said seven fatalities can be attributed to the storm, and more are possible as people cope with the heat. The state has opened 25 shelters and 110 cooling centers.
The state has contacted the Federal Emergency Management Agency to see about assistance but has not made any official plans yet.
State officials also will be meeting later Sunday to discuss possible traffic control situations as people return to work or hit the road for a vacation during the holiday week.
Some possibilities include staggered leave times or lifting HOV restrictions. More information will be available after 5 p.m. Sunday.
The governor said he will be briefed later Sunday on why the Fairfax County 911 system was out of order this weekend. Fairfax County Supervisor Chairwoman Sharon Bulova called the outage "unacceptable."
"I flew up to Fairfax to meet with Supervisor Bulova on Saturday," said McDonnell. "We made immediate inquiries with Verizon." The system was fully restored by 3 p.m. Saturday.
"Verizon had their own storm-related challenges," McDonnell said. "911 is the lifeblood of our emergency system. You don't ever expect it to go down. We just don't know at this point. I want the answers as well. The good news is it working now."
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BIOGRAPHYI was born in Tabriz, Iran and received my high school diploma in that city in 2006. Then I moved to capital city of Iran, Tehran, and became B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering, Electronics, from Sharif University of Technology in 2010. Afterwords I was admitted to Microsystems and Microelectronics M.Sc. program in University of Twente in Enschede, Netherlands and finished there in 2012. Then I decided to pursue for a Ph.D. degree in USA and joined Prof. Bernhard E. Boser's research group from August 2012 working on optoelectronic systems.
MEMS-Electronic-Photonic Heterogeneous Integration (MEPHI) System Demonstrator: High Resolution FMCW LADAR [BPN665]In recent years we have seen a growing demand for 3D cameras for applications such as gaming, entertainment, and autonomous vehicles. Present solutions suffer from high power dissipation and large size. This project leverages wafer-level assembly of standard CMOS electronics with high performance optical components including lasers, photo-diodes, interferometers and waveguides to reduce size, cost and power dissipation.
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MONOGAMY should be merely a tool in one's sexual repertoire, says an outspoken author in our town.
Holly Hill – also known as Jenny – has been an other half, other woman and cougar on the prowl.
The stunning 46-year-old has written two best-selling memoirs revealing her experience of dating older and younger men.
She has just sold the rights to her third book, The Velvet Pouch, to publishing giant HarperCollins, which will be released in April next year.
Holly says her latest work would make best-selling series Fifty Shades of Grey "look like the sugar plum fairy".
Without giving too much away, The Velvet Pouch is a warts-and-all account of Holly's experience of an open relationship.
Living with a former boyfriend in Sydney, the couple led the high life, fully aware each had other lovers.
"He would come home with a woman and I would be typing away about their conversation, what she was wearing and how I felt about it," Holly says.
The daring diva caused a "media furore" in the US when her first book, Sugarbabes, hit the shelves two years ago.
Diarising her reflections of churning through countless sugar daddies she snagged through placing personal advertisements in newspapers, Holly came up with the concept of "negotiated infidelity".
"I believe monogamy shouldn't be a life-long commitment," she says.
"Perhaps new relationships need exclusivity, while each gets to know the other but, after 20 years with the same partner, you're likely to get bored."
Her controversial concept earned her guest appearances on US TV programs including Larry King Live, Fox News, 60 Minutes and Dr Phil.
Holly says monogamy should be used alongside other "tools", including pornography and – at the more extreme end – swinging.
She describes her second book, Toy Boy, as a darker read, which appealed more to men.
Conducting another social experiment using herself as the guinea pig, Holly took out a newspaper advertisement, this time seeking younger men she offered to pay in exchange for pleasure.
Now living in Port Macquarie, and with a new partner, Holly is somewhat relieved to be rid of documenting every move she makes.
The writer grew up in Canberra and scored a cadetship with the Port News straight out of high school.
"I loved meeting people, and you're treated like a bit of a spectacle, which suited me," she says.
After two years dealing with countless "crazy people" who would ask to speak to a journalist at the Port News' former premises, where Hog's Breath Cafe is now found, a natural progression was the study of psychology through the University of Southern Queensland.
Holly worked in clinical psychology for a while, then moved to public relations.
Her world was shattered when her father, Geoffrey Hill, was killed in his Gold Coast home in January, 1999, by his estranged wife, Erlinda Rosal Hill.
Holly's stepmother was found guilty of manslaughter on May 29, 2001, and the judge said the killing was mostly sparked by jealousy.
While this tragic ordeal played out in court, Hill broke her right leg and ankle in a skydiving accident in 2000, and fought much of her father's case from her hospital bed.
Holly spent two years on crutches and gained employment in 2003 with her rehabilitator, CRS Australia.
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Prerequisite/Credit: EQc7.2 - Thermal comfort - verification
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The project is an 80,000 sf K-12 school located in the pacific northwest. A majority of the building is being conditioned by "standard" mechanical means and can demonstrate compliance accor...
The project is an 80,000 sf K-12 school located in the pacific northwest. A majority of the building is being conditioned by "standard" mechanical means and can demonstrate compliance according to ASHRAE 55-2004 Figure 22.214.171.124., however there are portions of the building that will be thermally regulated by natural ventilation and with extensive radiant systems.
The purpose of this request is to determine whether the more passive, naturally ventilated portion of the building may be considered "naturally conditioned" with their thermal comfort criteria evaluated according to ASHRAE 55-2004 Figure 5.3 rather than being evaluated according to Figure 22.214.171.124.
The northwest climate is considered heating dominated with narrow diurnal temperature variations and as a consequence has limited cooling needs, especially during the school year. The need for cooling is isolated to only brief time periods at the beginning and end of the 9-month school year when potential thermal comfort concerns would arise. To mitigate thermal comfort concerns during these isolated times, the design incorporates occupant-controlled operable windows and ceiling fans to allow comfort control within the classrooms. In addition to the operable windows, the design also includes utilizing the thermal massing properties of the concrete floors to better modulate the release of cooling within the space(s). The cooling will be supplied by evaporatively-cooled water via hydronic loops in the floors during the nighttime periods when the building is unoccupied. The intent is pre-charge the thermal mass of the floors with enough cooling to offset the effects of internal heat gains and eliminate the need for active mechanical cooling during the day. Since the charging is taking place during the evenings, there will not be any ability for the occupants to directly call for additional cooling to be added to floor or space and the mass will in essence be allowed to release it cooling naturally trough out the day. Lastly, we are interpreting that this approach of pre-cooling the mass without the need of compressor-based mechanical cooling could be construed as a assisted passive approach, however it is unclear whether the USGBC will recognize these spaces as "naturally conditioned" for the purposes of IEQc7.1.
ASHRAE 55-2004, Section 5.3, states that "occupant-controlled naturally conditioned spaces are those spaces where the thermal conditions of the space are regulated primarily by the occupants through opening and closing of windows". We believe that the definition is still being satisfied with the mass pre-charging strategy described previously, since the regulation of the thermal conditions will still be controlled by the occupants through the opening and closing of windows.
Can the thermal comfort criteria in these rooms be evaluated according to "naturally conditioned" rather than "typical" criteria and if so, is modeling an acceptable means of documenting compliance?
The applicant is asking whether a space that meets the ASHRAE Standard 55-2004 definition of "naturally conditioned spaces, occupant controlled," but is also served by an in-floor radiant cooling system that is in turn served by an evaporatively-cooled water tower that will be utilized at night to pre-charge the high thermal mass concrete floors, may be evaluated according to ASHRAE Standard 55-2004 Section 5.3 - Optional Method for Determining Acceptable Thermal Conditions in Naturally Conditioned Spaces in lieu of the requirements of Section 5.2 Method for Determining Acceptable Thermal Conditions in Occupied Spaces.
Section 5.3 of Standard 55-2004 states, "there must be no mechanical cooling system for the space (e.g. refrigerated air cooling, radiant cooling, or desiccant cooling.)" in order to use the Optional Method for Determining Acceptable Thermal Conditions in Naturally Conditioned Spaces. If the radiant cooling system is operated during the day, the project would be considered mechanically cooled and not eligible to use the Section 5.3 method. However, if the system is operated as described in the Interpretation Request and the radiant cooling system is only used at night as a pre-cooling strategy then the intent and spirit of the conditions for using Section 5.3 are met.
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1. For times when active mechanical cooling OR heating is used during occupied hours, Section 5.3 does not apply and Section 5.2 Method for Determining Acceptable Thermal Conditions in Occupied Spaces shall be used.
2. In the Cooling season when the night-time pre-cooling strategy is used, the minimum design operative temperatures in the morning shall be evaluated compared to the allowable minimum operative temperature based on Section 5.3 to ensure comfortable conditions throughout the day. Applicable internationally.
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Words With Friends: Jeff Talks About A Few Comics
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I promised myself if I ever got caught up, I'd do one of these. The last couple of podcasts, we've wrapped up with a one or two books that I'd read still left unmentioned. Hmm, I thought to myself. If only there was a way I could actually share my thoughts on these books without ceaselessly cutting off Graeme just as he was saying something sensible and well-reasoned. Via some kind of…written medium, maybe… After the jump: the miracle of the written word!


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It's not a new idea, but it's one that's floating around with increasing regularity: would the Lower Mainland be better served by a regional police force?
As it stands today, a half dozen cities have their own independent departments - New Westminster for example. The rest, including Burnaby, are served by RCMP detachments.
The disconnect between these various bodies was just one of many points raised in Wally Oppal's report on the Missing Women Commission of Inquiry in December. Vancouver police chief Jim Chu brought the question back to the front pages this week with a response to Oppal's report in which he backed the concept of a Greater Vancouver force.
To many, it's a black-and-white question, with just one solution: you either come together as one force covering the entire zone, or you leave things as they are, with different approaches in different cities.
In truth, there's a spectrum of possibilities: how about one force for north of the Fraser and one for south of it? Or, three forces running from west to east; and the third taking the Fraser Valley portion up to Hope?
Alternatively, why not leave the departments as they stand now but create sub-units specifically aimed at creating collaboration - like the Integrated Homicide Investigation Team - in which police members from different areas could come together across city lines to work on common projects and efforts?
The only solution that should be dismissed outright is the one currently in place: ignore the debate till it goes away.
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Late night, lone groovin' or cookin' up, in company, these Dub tracks'll get you higher. Peace.
Can You Hear The Silence stream
Can You Hear The Silence QT link
Slick and Stylish Dub outing, and good for the soul.
Trackin' Away (Voodoo brother) stream
Trackin' Away (Voodoo brother) QT
Listen to anything by RootCat - I love this Dub track (on the track, on the track)
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"I wanna find out what it's like to be somebody else" - this man has his finger on the pulse. I Dub thee Sir Sp3ccylad!


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Performances of the complete Schubert Lieder in NYC
"I am so excited to hear about the Schubert & Co. project. It is wonderful to hear more than the 100 songs that we regularly hear. There are so many hidden gems, particularly from his earlier years. Schubert for me is the song Shakespeare and seems, like Shakespeare, to understand everything there is to know about what it is to be human. We can all be excited, cheered and consoled by his genius. Bravo, guys, for embarking on this remarkable project!"
- Malcolm Martineau (www.martineau.info)
"Schubert & Co. is a unique project in its ambitions - to present the complete songs of Schubert in a single season - and its origins. While it's rare in the New York concert scene that collaborative pianists invent and inspire a concert series, Lachlan Glen and Jonathan Ware have the passion and artistic vision to bring together dozens of talented young singers to bring this huge treasure trove of songs to life. The eagerness with which singers have responded to the idea suggests that they are hungry to explore this vast repertoire. Presented simply and directly, the concerts will bring the songs to life in the environment they were created for: intimate, unpretentious and apart from the commercial trappings of the larger concert world."
- Brian Zeger (www.brianzeger.com)
"Schubert is my Shakespeare: every age and stage of man, woman, child (and a few supernatural creatures as well) appear in 600-plus of the richest songs in the art song repertory, and "Schubert & Co." will put them all beautifully on display."
- Susan Youens, Ph.D. (Internationally renowned and sought-after scholar, author and educator; author of eight books: "Heine and the Lied", "Schubert's Late Lieder: Beyond the Song Cycles", "Hugo Wolf and his Mörike Songs", "Schubert, Müller, and Die schöne Müllerin", "Schubert's Poets and the Making of Lieder", "Franz Schubert: Die schöne Müllerin", "Hugo Wolf: The Vocal Music" and "Retracing a Winter's Journey: Franz Schubert's Winterreise")
Meet Schubert & Co., a group of artists committed to furthering the art of song, presenting the complete solo Lieder of Franz Schubert in New York City in a series of 31 recitals spanning from September 2012 to May 2013.
Schubert's influence on the art song repertory can be likened to that of Shakespeare on the English language, and this presentation will be a truly monumental event, being the first NYC performance of all 603 of his completed solo songs.
This project is a labor of love for Artistic Directors Lachlan Glen and Jonathan Ware, who together with 53 world-class singers and five outstanding guest pianists will explore Schubert's contribution to this art form and bring these extraordinary works to New York's musical stage. This venture has been met with enthusiastic support from eminent musicians and scholars including Malcolm Martineau, Graham Johnson, Brian Zeger and Susan Youens.
We invite you to join us on this musical journey and encourage you to further explore our website (www.schubertandco.org) to discover more about the participating artists, the songs themselves, our calendar of performances, the sponsors who have made this possible, and the venues in which these recitals will take place.
Everyone involved with this project is doing it out of love and without any financial reimbursement, but we still have expenses. (Sheet music, advertising, program printing, travel expenses for singers, etc.) Please consider giving even $1 to help cover these expenses! Anything and everything is truly appreciated.
Thanks for visiting and helping us fund this project!
Lachlan, Jonathan and all the artists participating in this project:
Julian Arsenault - baritone
Jim Barbato - tenor
Fleur Barron - mezzo-soprano
Rachel Bate - soprano
Lacey-Jo Benter
Kyle Bielfield - tenor
Benjamin Bloomfield - bass
Jesse Blumberg - baritone
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John Brancy - baritone
Julia Bullock - soprano
Brandon Cedel - bass-baritone
Jeong-Cheol Cha - bass-baritone
Tammy Coil - mezzo-soprano
Katharine Dain - soprano
Charlotte Dobbs - soprano
Dimitri Dover - pianist
Simone Easthope - soprano
Jonathan Estabrooks - baritone
Ying Fang - soprano
Mary Feminear - soprano
William Ferguson - tenor
Liza Forrester - mezzo-soprano
Wallis Giunta - mezzo-soprano
Raquel Gonzalez - soprano
Devon Guthrie - soprano
Lilla Heinrich Szász - soprano
Evan Hughes - bass-baritone
Pureum Jo - soprano
Michael Kelly - baritone
Sungji Kim - soprano
Spencer Lang - tenor
Abigail Levis - mezzo-soprano
Alexander Lewis - tenor
Talya Lieberman - soprano
Will Livermann - baritone
Jazimina MacNeil - mezzo-soprano
Samantha Malk - mezzo-soprano
Kate Mangiameli - soprano
Kelly Markgraf - baritone
Nathalie Mittelbach - mezzo-soprano
Nils Neubert - tenor
Naomi O'Connell - mezzo-soprano
Takaoki Onishi - baritone
Jarrett Ott - baritone
Edward Parks - baritone
Elena Perroni - soprano
Susanna Phillips - soprano
Sarah Shafer - soprano
Tyler Simpson - bass
Lauren Snouffer - soprano
Christopher Tiesi - tenor
Karen Vuong - soprano
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Still another way to do Bach
"If one manages to be convincing, the interpretation sounds authentic: if one strives to be authentic, one will never be convincing."
Those words from the Dutch harpsichordist and organist Gustav Leonhardt, quoted by the late Lionel Salter in The Guardian's obituary for Leonhardt, might sound odd coming from an artist known for his scholarly and self-effacing way with Bach and other Baroque composers. But they draw us closer to an answer for one the most perplexing questions about classical music, one which American pianist Byron Janis has also perceptively commented on in recent writings (see reprints on his blog of his Wall Street Journal articles): How can the same music still sound right when played in wildly different ways? A Bach performance coming up Friday morning on WFCR, and which couldn't sound more different than Leonhardt's way with the same music, better illustrates his quote than do his own performances.
Since her self-produced 2005 recording of the "Goldberg Variations" became the talk of the classical world and a surprise best-seller, pianist Simone Dinnerstein has often been mentioned in the same breath as such past Bach specialists as Rosalyn Tureck and Glenn Gould. Well, other than the fact that it's played on the piano, Dinnerstein's Bach sounds nothing like the sober and scrupulous Tureck or the crisp, harpsichord-like Gould. To call it "Romantic" would be an understatement as well as, possibly, a slur at a time when the "R" word is never, ever to be mentioned in the context of the Baroque. If you tune in Friday morning for Dinnerstein's rendition of the Partita No. 1 in B-flat major, from her new "Something Almost Being Said" album, listen to the immense rubato (the push-pull rhythmic quality usually applied to Romantics like Chopin) of the opening Praeludium, the long, arching melodic phrases of the Allemande, the substantial tone she applies to the sprightly Corrente, the hushed and halting Sarabande, the restraint of the Menuets and the Debussyan water-color wash of the concluding Gigue. Does it sound like anyone else's Bach? No. Is it "authentic" in the way that word is usually applied to Baroque music? No. Is it convincing? Please -- you tell me.
P.S. Simone Dinnerstein plays this and other works by Bach and Schubert at Smith College on May 16.


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This famous sister got her breast implants removed because her biggest customer likes her to have a more natural look. If he ever stops paying, the sister says she wants to go back to a bigger size.
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Ali Lohan
Definitely Ali. I noticed it in her recent pictures with Lilo. Her latest customer must like them super flat.
That Family is all sorts of messed up.
Yay for boobies!
Who pays her? Butt-ugly.
Until I looked at the link I thought she was underage:( how time flies and she looks disgusting.
Ali. I was wondering why she got them removed.
Ali for sure.
I agree she is fugly as hell, but there is someone for everyone.
It is amazing to me that there are apparently so many rich guys looking for an ego fuck when it only makes them look like idiot douches!! They are so worried about what people think that they feel then need some celeb on their arm but anyone that reads People ect and are in the know are aware that these chicks are, for the most part,just down and out prostitutes with a rep. With their $$ these guys could find any number of perfect 10's without the disgrace.
The poor girl was adorable before White Oprah forced her to get plastic surgery and starve herself.
If it's Ali I'm betting her patron is Japanese with a serious schoolgirl fetish. Ick.
This is really sad, can't nana Lohan save Ali? Bad enough LILO is such a mess.
Amen. Tricking men are the worst
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BILLINGS - Billings police have arrested a woman who is accused of hitting her ex-husband with her vehicle and then leaving the scene.
Shawna Smith, 34, of Billings, was arrested at 11:11 a.m. Monday morning. She is facing the charges of assault with a weapon and leaving the scene of a serious injury accident, according to Billings Police Lt. Kevin Iffland.
Shortly after 3:30 p.m. Sunday, Smith allegedly struck her ex-husband, Steve Furlong, 42, of Billings, with her Chevrolet Tahoe and left the scene on foot.
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Jodhpur, Aug 31 : Supporters of Asaram Bapu on Saturday allegedly attacked two television journalists in Jodhpur for reporting updates on the self-styled godman,who has been accused of sexually assaulting a 15-year-old daughter of a devotee.
"Self-styled godman Asaram's supporters on Saturday allegedly attacked CNN-IBN sister concern IBN7's reporter Bhawani Deora. Another IBN7 video journalist have also been injured in the attack," reported CNN-IBN.
The news channel said though bleeding, the two are out of danger now.
Meanwhile, the Rajasthan Police on Friday said its team might visit Bhopal city in Madhya Pradesh to quiz Asaram.
Asaram on Friday failed to appear before the Jodhpur Police for questioning in connection to the sexual assault case.
The police earlier rejected the self-styled godman's plea to be granted more time to appear before them, reports said.
The police said he Asaram might be arrested in case he failed to provide adequate defense.
Asaram's deadline to appear before the police ended on Friday.
Asaram's son Narayan Sai earlier in the day said his father was unwell.
"He is unwell. We have cancelled tickets to Delhi, which we had for this morning," Sai told media.
A team from the Jodhpur Police on Tuesday served summons to him in the case of sexual assault here.
The team reached Bapu's ashram in Madhya Pradesh's Indore city at around 8 am on Tuesday and served summons at around 2 pm after they were told that the self-styled godman was meditating could not be disturbed.
A 15-year-old girl, who was staying at Asaram's hostel in Rajasthan's Jodhpur, has filed a First Information Report (FIR) at Kamla market police station in Delhi alleging she was sexually assaulted by the godman.
The case was referred to Jodhpur Police for investigation and relevant action.
On Wednesday, Asaram pointed his finger at Congress top leaders Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi for framing him.
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§ 36. Coventry Patmore.
The first writer of poetic importance between 1820 and 1830 was Matthew Arnold;
but the years immediately succeeding the decade added to the list a fair number of poets who were to be of note, especially Coventry Patmore, William Allingham, Francis Turner Palgrave, George Macdonald and the very remarkable writer known as a poet chiefly under the name of Johnson and as a prose writer under that of Cory. To this group some, perhaps, would add the rather younger Gerald Massey, whose birth drew towards the thirties, William Caldwell Roscoe, Thomas Woolner and Walter Thornbury. But none of these excite either personal enthusiasm or a sense of historical importance in some minds.
Thornburys ballads are spirited, but too often, if not always, give one the depressing feeling that if Macaulay, Maginn, Thackeray and Aytoun had not written neither would he; and they constantly sin by exaggeration. Gerald Masseys considerable bulk of war, love and miscellaneous poetry has, sometimes, been commended on the ground that he was a self-made man, sometimes on the other ground that, like Eliza Cook, he appealed to strictly popular and uncultured tastes. But nothing that the present writer has read of Masseys work seems anywhere near poetic proof. Roscoe, coming of a family distinguished (not merely by the historian) in letters, had his work ushered to the world with strong recommendations from a well-known critic, Richard Holt Hutton, who was his brother-in-law; but it has no inevitableness whatever and no very special poetic qualities of any kind. Thomas Woolner, the sculptor, was a member of the early pre-Raphaelite group and had many literary friends outside it. His
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was received with a round of applause which did not last very long, and has seldom been echoed since. His blank verse suggests an imitation of Tennyson, conditioned by an attempt to give roughness and originality to phrase, and generally unsuccessful; his lyrics are unimportant. Whether Allingham deserves to be given any higher place than these is very doubtful. He had the fluency and ease of verse which has been again and again noticed as common in Irish poets; and some of his lighter songs and ballads, such as
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are really pretty. But he has been allowed by patriotic and competent critics to be dull, tame and uninventive; one of his best shorter things,
Up the Fairy Mountain,
borrows its first and best stanza from one of the most beautiful of Jacobite ballads and entirely fails to live up to it; while he constantly indulged in banalities like
A thing more frightful than words can say.
Not thus can the others mentioned above be dismissed. Coventry Patmore, though a recent and comparatively accidental coterie admiration has sometimes exalted him too high, was a very remarkable poet in more ways than one. That he was one of the few poets who have given careful attention to the mechanism of poetry is the least of these ways; nor were his prosodic speculations, though interesting and ingenious, very happy. It is of more importance that his actual verse was not only of great merit as a whole, but of two kinds exceptionally different from each other. The kind of criticismscholastic, in the worst sense onlywhich has never been absent when there was any criticism at all, and which has recently been present to an intolerable degree, would, no doubt, if it had the chance, decide that the same person could never have written
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The Unknown Eros,
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The Angel in the House
first appeared in 1854 and may be said to belike Matthew Arnolds nearly contemporary work in one direction and that of the spasmodics in anothera kind of half-conscious, half-unconscious revolt against both Tennyson and Browning, but especially against the former. Revolt, indeed, may seem too fierce a word for the mild domesticities of Patmores poem; some critical stand might even be made for the contention actually made, that it is a direct development of more than one of Tennysons poems, especially
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as to another matter, often something of the nature of revolt; it indicates, at any rate, want of complete satisfaction. The poem contained, even at the first, much very pretty verse; as it went on, it was to contain not a little that is positively beautiful. But its ambling versificationsomniferous to some of those whom it did not merely please, and positively irritating to othersthe deliberate banality of the subject; and the equally deliberate adoption of language outgoing even Wordsworth, even Crabbe, in its avoidance of poetic diction, though they conciliated a large part of contemporary taste, produced a by no means conciliatory effect upon another part which, in the long run, has prevailed. When a man writes
Our witnesses the cook and groom,
We signed the lease for seven years more,
it is not unreasonable to think that Apollo, if he thought it worth his while, must have twitched the poets ear rather sharply and that attention should have been paid to the twitch. The scornful allusion idylls of the dining-room and the deanery, though its author, Swinburne, was courteous enough not to name the idyllist, expressed a good deal of the younger and youngest opinion of the time. Many years later, after changes of family, faith and circumstance, Patmore produced a book of odes, entitled
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poems, abrupt Pindaric measures were tried, challenging, and sometimes attaining, splendour but, at the same time, riskingand sometimes falling intoharshness and dissonance. The simple, almost lisping language was changed, likewise (indeed, some hint had been given of this in
The Victories),
into a grandiose diction, sometimes violent and bombastic, but, at other times, really grand; and the subjects, instead of being those of ordinary and domestic prattlepersonal talk of the most commonplace kindwere always elevated or deeply pathetic, at least in intention. It was as if someone who had threatened to sink to the level of Ambrose Philips had changed his models to Donne, Vaughan, Milton, even Aeschylus. It is true that, as Patmore had seldom fallen into actual silliness, so he rarely rose to actual sublimity; but he did reach it sometimes and often came very near it. And it must be admitted that such a combination of parts and scales in poetry is a curious and, perhaps, a unique thing.
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Stephenie Meyer's Twilight series has been one of the biggest influencers of baby name trends in recent times, propelling Bella, Edward, Cullen, Esme, and a host of other names up the charts. Here, nameberry intern DANIELLE MIKSZA, a Twilight fan, analyzes the Twilight baby names.
There's been a vampire epidemic going on ever since Twilight hit theatres. Everywhere you look there's Rob Pattinson's face or Taylor Lautner's abs, not that I'm complaining. But what's even more interesting are the names author Stephenie Meyer chose for all the characters.
Although Bella is a klutzy, plain, and moody teenager, Stephenie Meyer chose a name for her heroine that means beautiful. Also, she gave her the elegant surname, Swan. It's difficult to see why a powerful and handsome vampire like Edward would fall in love with a boring human when he's surrounded by immortal beauties like Rosalie and Tanya. I guess aside from the floral scent of her blood, Edward sees something lovable in Bella that no one else sees.
The name Edward is suitable for Meyer's other main character because it is an old-fashioned name that means "wealthy guardian." Edward, Bella's immortal love, is so protective of her that it becomes annoying. He sneaks into her room at night and once followed her all the way to the bookstore to make sure she was safe. He sees himself as a dark version of her guardian angel and tries to buy her lavish gifts like a new car. I guess being over a century old and never having to worry about buying groceries, he has a few bucks stocked away.
Esme is another name that seems to be from a more elegant age. It means "beloved," which is perfect when paired with Edward's sweet and charming foster mother.
Bella's mother, Renee, became fed up with her mundane life and left in search of a more exciting one. Renee left her husband, Charlie, and took off to Phoenix, where she married a young baseball player man named Phil. The name Renee fits the character's personality because it has a young and spunky feel to it. Bella's mother may have a few laugh lines here and there, but her spirit is anything but ancient.
Jacob Black is my all time favorite Twilight character. The only thing I wasn't too fond of was his name: too good boy for a motorcycle rider whose sole purpose is to kill vampires. But after learning that the Jacob means "supplanter," I once again applaud Stephenie Meyer for choosing an appropriate name. A supplanter is something that takes the place of something else, fitting for a human who changes into a wolf.
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Decorate your laptop with GelaSkins
GelaSkins aren't new. In fact, I wrote about the ones made for the iPod a while back, and I had no trouble recommending them. And for the record, the Toxicity skin is still stuck on the house iPod to this date, over nine months later. Whether that's meant to be a testament to its stickiness quotient or my tolerance of the design, I'm not sure.
Anyway, GelaSkins recently released an array of stickers for Apple laptops, and although that's not exactly my department, I couldn't pass up the opportunity to dress up my iBook when … Read more


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Theater Of The Absurd
Pablo Sandoval's three blasts. Raul Ibanez's pinch-hit shot. Hunter Pence's physics-defying double. Yeah, it all happened in a wild and wacky October. Jayson Stark » Regular-season weirdness »
ESPN.com IllustrationThe Seahawks are the rage in Seattle, but Robinson Cano and the Mariners hope they will have the last laugh.
Even after a busy week in the hot stove league, there's plenty of baseball business left to do.
The monster Robinson Cano contract with the Mariners is Jay Z's first salvo in his splashy entry into the agent game.
Now that a champion has been crowned, it's time to fire up the hot stove.
It's that special time of the year when sensible thinking takes a back seat and teams simply can't stop themselves from throwing money around.