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I don't know what project to start next.
I'm bored with DH's sweater, so its on hold right now.
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Since you said for baby....
I am sure you are going to get tons of blankets so unless you want one you make yourself, skip that for now.
Since the baby is due in July, it is kinda warm then so you might want to try lighter weight yarns. I have an April little one and I know I used a lot of booties but not so much the hats.
You might want to try your hand at a 6 month plus sweater for the fall/winter. I also saw that the lion brand web site had some patterns for onesies and VERY cute hats for the winter (when the baby is a bit older)
Do you sew? Maybe you'd like to try your hand at making your own sling (not sure if you are playing to use one) My handmade slings are my favorites out of all of them (knitting one is NOT recommended btw)
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I've been lurking here for about a week or so. In that time I've also caught some of your posts on the cloth diaper board. If that's something you're interested in you could always use your wool yarn to knit a few soakers for your baby to go over the cloth. :) There are tons of free patterns out there for knitting and crocheting. Most are very easy and knit up quickly. Be careful though, soakers are addicting.
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The Lilly Restaurant With RoomsBy the sea, on Llandudno's west shore, Lilly Restaurant with Rooms has an upscale restaurant, a brasserie and spacious, modern rooms with private bathrooms.
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This central Victorian hotel is on the edge of central Llandudno and 220 yards from the seafront. The Broadway Hotel is a family run hotel that has been renovated in most areas.
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The owners are very friendly. They even upgraded me to a double room (I booked as a single room). Very good breakfast.
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Most of the stay was good but more interaction with staff/owners as you did not see them after breakfast
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This is such a nice hotel. Staff are most helpful and made great recommendations for restaurants. The hotel is very clean. Breakfast was so tasty with really good quality ingredients. Would highly recommend!
We had a fantastic time in Llandudno which was made even better by the wilton there staff and room. We had no issues at all and felt welcome and well look after. The breakfast was lovely and whenever seeing the staff they alway looked happy and ready to help. We are planning on coming back soon and will be booking again without a second thought. Thank you for the wonderful experience.
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very clean and tidy,room spotless,staff very helpful,breakfast quality,honesty bar well stocked,lovely lounge.
the 56 steps to our room,as I am suffering from back problems,and my husband is out of condition,not the hotels fault.
Great place to stay Great value for money Even has parking at rear of building just don't turn up in a Humber or a large Range Rover as parking may be difficult. But with small car no problem.
Very well maintained, clean and well presented building. But being of that era where it has three flights of stairs to top floor. Fine for most people, but would expect some older people may struggle on occasion.
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SEAiq Pilot at Port Miami
On June 4, we were excited to have the opportunity to accompany members of the Biscayne Bay Pilots in Miami, Florida. The purpose was to watch how SEAiq Pilot was used by the pilots and discuss opportunities for improvement.
Port Miami is the Cruise Capital of the World because of the huge number of cruise ships that operate from it. It is also a major cargo port. The port is undergoing massive changes to prepare for the larger vessels after the Panama Canal expansion is complete.
Captain Chris Marlow hosted the trip. Captain Bill Reyelt and Captain Peter Curtiss were the pilots on duty while Captain Marlow was able to focus on how SEAiq Pilot is currently used by the Biscayne Bay pilots.
|Captains Marlow and Reyelt
|Northern General on her way out of Port Miami
We also joined the Carnival Victory Cruise Ship as she headed from Miami for the Caribbean. You can see several iPads on the bridge using different PPU hardware combinations.
|Navicom Dynamics ChannelPilot (left) and Marimatech CAT ROT (right)
Here you can see the latest Navicom Dynamics Channel Pilot (left) and the Marimatech CAT ROT (right). Both are magnetically mounted on the bridge wing of the Northern General. The Biscayne Bay Pilots demonstrated use of both devices with SEAiq Pilot.
The ChannelPilot operates as a stand-alone device with its own AIS antenna, high resolution GPS, and gyro compass. The ChannelPilot does not rely on the ship's AIS plug at all so when using it the pilot is totally self contained.
The Marimatech CAT ROT device is the external GPS sensor which communicates with a second device that is plugged into the AIS Pilot Plug port inside the bridge. Both devices transmitted their sensor data and worked great with SEAiq Pilot.
We were impressed with the ease of setup for both ChannelPilot and CAT ROT, and the high quality of the sensor data they presented using SEAiq Pilot.
The new Post-Panamax vessels that are expected to soon be prevalent are a tight fit in Port Miami. Capt Marlow showed how even on smaller vessels you could not see from the bridge how the vessels were exactly positioned in the turning basins, for instance. Using SEAiq Pilot gives them an extra reference point to compare with what they could see from the bridge. The Biscayne Bay pilots make heavy use of the Docking Aids in SEAiq Pilot to display distances from their vessel to the edge of navigable areas. Occasionally, rain in Port Miami can be so heavy as to obscure visibility and it is very valuable to have tools such as SEAiq Pilot to refer to.
Thanks again to the Biscayne Bay Pilots for hosting us and sharing their expertise with us!
|Capts Reyelt and Curtiss referring to SEAiq Pilot
|Aboard the Pilot Boat leaving the Cargo Ship Northern General
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SAIL Magazine: "SEAiq is rapidly becoming my favorite nav app"
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Recommendation: Anker iPad mount for Pilots
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Estero's Zeke Pietryzk wasn't even one of the Wildcats' top pitchers as a sophomore. The lefty wasn't even on most college recruiters' radars.
But the kid who grew 3 inches in the last year has always considered himself a big-game pitcher.
Nine days ago, Pietryzk proved it.
Facing a lineup loaded with six Division I recruits, he put on a clinic. Spotting his fastball and a devastating change-up, Pietryzk struck out 10. The junior tossed a complete-game, three-hit masterpiece against heavily favored Plantation-American Heritage in the regional championship game.
The 3-2 victory placed the Wildcats in the state semifinals for the first time in school history. Estero takes on Jacksonville-Creekside on Wednesday at JetBlue Park.
"That was the best game I've ever seen a kid pitch at the high school level," Estero coach Frank Turco said about the regional championship. "When you have all your pitches working, that makes it tough, even against a great hitting team like (American Heritage). Good pitching beats good hitting every time and he really pitched a gem for us."
Pietryzk allowed a run in the bottom of the first before eventually settling into a groove, at one point retiring 14 consecutive hitters.
"My mentality was just win every inning, don't think past that," Pietryzk said. "If I did that, I knew we'd be in good shape."
Pietryzk never wavered, even when American Heritage's C.J. Chatham led off the bottom of the seventh with a home run, cutting the Estero lead to 3-2.
"I actually think that was better than him getting a base hit," Pietryzk said. "I got the chance to refocus and get myself gathered up and get the next three outs. After (the home run), I forgot about it and just got back to what I was doing the whole game."
The determination and self-confidence along with his natural ability have made Pietryzk a Division I recruit. The junior has already verbally committed to FGCU, and his pitching coach Troy Beall said he's got the game to thrive in the Atlantic Sun. Beall would know, since he pitched for Eagles coach Dave Tollett from 2004-06 and was a teammate of current Triple-A pitchers Casey Coleman and Richard Bleier.
FGCU assistant coach Rusty McKee first saw Pietryzk pitch at a Perfect Game showcase last summer and immediately contacted Beall.
"I got a text from (McKee), he was watching Zeke pitch and asked me 'where did this kid come from?'" McKee said. "I told him he was with us all year, but we had two outstanding pitchers (Matt Pearce and Kyle Miller) ahead of him, so he didn't get to pitch much for us. He loved him and set up a visit for Zeke. They did a casual walk-through, Zeke met with the coaches and immediately committed to them."
Pietryzk said the allure of Division I baseball while also staying close to home was too good to pass up. That, and the Eagles' penchant for developing pitchers, including All-Star White Sox hurler Chris Sale.
"When you see (Sale) and the success he's having, it's exciting when I think the same thing could happen to me," Pietryzk said. "I love the way they run things over there, their work ethic is outstanding. And they're already a quality D1 program. They've beaten high-ranked teams and were in the Top 25 earlier this year."
Pietryzk's fastball sits in the 84-86 range right now, also mixing a quality change-up and curveball. Beall foresees Pietryzk hitting 90 by the time he's in college.
"He's still growing. He went from 5-foot-11 last year to 6-foot-2 and you can see the development in his chest, arms and shoulders," Beall said. "Against American Heritage, Zeke was a in a zone that I've never seen any pitcher at the high school level be in. If he takes that competitiveness with him, he'll be fine at the next level."
Beall loves the way Pietryzk handles pressure situations.
"Last year, there was no pressure on him with the pitchers we had in front of him," Beall said. "This year, he knew he'd be relied upon and he's really relished in that pressure. He wants the ball in those big spots."
Look no further than his demeanor before the American Heritage game to prove Beall's point.
"I never said a word to him," Turco said. "It was really eerie. He had this look about him, the eye of the tiger. He just kept saying 'this is my game' and it was."
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Topic: World Microliterature & Short Film
Class Number: 70079, Lec 202, Online (Momcilovic)
The recent surge in social media and mobile technology has opened us onto new views of artistic inspiration and modes of literary production in the digital era. Novelists are taking to Twitter to release novels in 140-character "bursts," or chapters, while short story writers are turning increasingly to "flash fiction" challenges to tell a story under the constraint of a 500-, 100-, or even a 10-word limit. But "microliterature" has a surprisingly long and international history that predates the advent of the digital era. This course will introduce students to a variety of literary forms and genres, from classical antiquity to the contemporary age, that shape our view of literature "in brief" and allow us to theorize its key points and unique interpretive challenges. Our survey will include Aesop's fables and other fairy tales from around the world; assorted poetry, including Sappho's poetic fragments, Matsuo Basho's haiku, Charles Baudelaire's prose poems, and imagist poems by William Carlos Williams; assorted Sufi tales, Zen koans, Christian parables, and Hindu sutras; theoretical and philosophical micro-writings, including Friedrich Nietzsche's aphorisms, Walter Benjamin's "Theses on the Philosophy of History," and Susan Sontag's "Notes on Camp"; micro-stories by modern masters like Ernest Hemingway, Jorge Luis Borges and Franz Kafka; short films, including early cinema "shorts" by Luis Buñuel and Fernand Léger, the anthology film Paris, Je T'aime, and contemporary music videos from around the world; and assorted digital texts from the Twitterverse. No foreign language training is necessary. Satisfies L&S Int'l req.
Spring 2015
Comp Lit 133: Contemporary Imagination in Literature & the Arts 3cr (U; HU)
Class Number: 41656, Lec 001, MW 11am-12:15pm (Momcilovic)
Class Number: 43602, Lec 202, Online (Momcilovic)
From Gothic terror to modern alienation, the artistic impulse and the human imagination have been prominent themes in literature and the visual and performing arts for the last 200 years. This course, which is taught in online and face-to-face sections, is an introductory survey of some of the most gripping, imaginative narratives, images, and performances from around the world. Our survey will include bewildering short stories by Franz Kafka; popular detective fictions from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle; decadent poetry by Charles Baudelaire; various folk tales and oral epic songs from around the world; Mozart's enchanting opera The Magic Flute; Tchaikovsky's timeless ballet Swan Lake; musical masterpieces from Beethoven to the Beatles; Fritz Lang's sci-fi classic film Metropolis; Salvador Dali and Pablo Picasso's revolutionary art; Madonna's controversial concert performances; Marjane Satrapi's contemplative graphic novel Chicken with Plums; and so much more. Satisfies GER(HU) and L&S Int'l req. Affiliated with Cultures & Communities.
Comp Lit 135 Experiencing Literature in the 21st Century 3cr (U; HU)
Topic: Literature, Film, and the World Wars
Class Number: 43601, Lec 001, TR 11am-12:15pm (Paik)
The world wars of the last century, with their horrors of trench warfare, concentration camps, and aerial bombings, have left indelible marks on the contemporary imagination. In this class, we will read literary narratives and view films that examine various aspects of these historical experiences: the effect of modern weapons on the psyche of the front-line soldier, the atrocities of the concentration camps, the resistance against Nazi occupation, and the clash between Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia. Books may include Storm of Steel by Ernst Jünger, Night by Eli Wiesel, The Skin by Curzio Malaparte, and A Woman in Berlin by Anonymous. Films may include Army of Shadows, which is about the French resistance to Nazism, Fires on the Plain, focusing on Japanese troops isolated and cut off by American forces in the Philippines, The Cranes Are Flying and Come and See, which depict the Second World War from the Russian perspective. Satisfies GER(HU) and L&S Int'l req.
Comp Lit 208 World Literature in Translation: The 71st to the 21st Century 3cr (U; HU)
Class Number: 41657, Lec 201, Online (Pitt)
This course approaches modern world literature through the lens of cultural contact and exchange. Beginning with literature written just under a century after Columbus' first voyage, this course explores intercultural contact as one of the defining features of modernity. As such, it is also one of the defining subjects of modern literature and one of the defining influences upon modern literary forms. In order to undertake this study, we will examine some of the cultural components of globalization. What are the possibilities, the difficulties, and the conflicts associated with cross-cultural contact and exchange? We will also examine the literary techniques employed to communicate and frame these cultural relationships through a survey of literature from the 17th to the 21st centuries and from a wide range of global perspectives portraying the negotiations, understandings, and misunderstandings of "contact zones" and other sites of cultural exchange where we have constructed notions of what constitutes literature as well as what constitutes the world. Works studied will include the literary forms of novel, poem, play, essay, autobiography, short story, novella, and film. Satisfies the GER(HU) and L&S Int'l req. Affiliated with Cultures & Communities.
Comp Lit 230: Literature and Society 3cr (U; HU)
Topic: The Historical Novel
Class Number: 48405, Lec 001, MW 2-3:15pm (Russell)
Since the publication of Walter Scott's first novel, Waverley: Or, 'Tis Sixty Years Since in 1814, historical fiction has played an important social and political role in defining the relationship of the past to the present through the realm of the imaginary. In this course, we will read examples of historical fiction beginning with essential Romantic historical novels of the mid-nineteenth century, when the genre became very popular among the reading public. The success of these works provide contemporary artists a framework by which they might reconstruct our relationship to the past and question the veracity of accepted historical truths. We will read books that use the genre of historical fiction to reconstruct times of revolution and historical change, as well as re-imagine of the past (through the "steampunk" genre and graphic novels). Throughout the semester, we will try to sort out the contradictions and tensions inherent in historical fiction in order reflect on broader, theoretical issues related to the representation of the past and our relation to history. Texts may include Rob Roy (Walter Scott); Hunchback of Notre-Dame (Victor Hugo); The Three Musketeers (Alexandre Dumas); The Leopard (Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa); The General in his Labyrinth (Gabriel García Márquez); In the Time of the Butterflies (Julia Alvarez); The Difference Engine ("steampunk," William Gibson and Bruce Sterling); From Hell (graphic novel), Alan Moore; and The Last King of Scotland (film; dir., Kevin MacDonald). Satisfies GER(HU) and L&S Int'l req.
Note: This course will provide an excellent basis for students interested in a proposed Summer 2015 Study Abroad course in Scotland, "On the Trail of Sir Walter." We will visit and discuss the significance of many of the famous sites associated with Walter Scott's novels and their relationship to Scottish history.
Comp Lit 233: Literature and Film 3cr (U; HU)
Topic: The Gangster Film in the East and West
Class Number: 44455, Lec 201, TR 2-3:15pm (Xu)
This course approaches modern world literature through the lens of cultural contact and exchange. Beginning with literature written just under a century after Columbus' first voyage, this course explores intercultural contact as one of the defining features of modernity. As such, it is also one of the defining subjects of modern literature and one of the defining influences upon modern literary forms. In order to undertake this study, we will examine some of the cultural components of globalization. What are the possibilities, the difficulties, and the conflicts associated with cross-cultural contact and exchange? We will also examine the literary techniques employed to communicate and frame these cultural relationships through a survey of literature from the 17th to the 21st centuries and from a wide range of global perspectives portraying the negotiations, understandings, and misunderstandings of "contact zones" and other sites of cultural exchange where we have constructed notions of what constitutes literature as well as what constitutes the world. Works studied will include the literary forms of novel, poem, play, essay, autobiography, short story, novella, and film. Satisfies the GER(HU) and L&S Int'l req. Affiliated with Cultures & Communities.
Comp Lit 233: Literature and Film 3cr (U; HU)
Topic: Global Food Narratives
Class Number: 49399, Lec 202, Online (Momcilovic)
We all love to eat—and talk about what we eat. We post "food selfies" on Facebook, we express concern about the nutritional value of our food and farming practices that bring our food to the table, and we share recipes and stories about the way food influences the way we see ourselves and the rest of the world. What is this strange and powerful fascination we have with food, beyond its role as biological fuel? What kinds of stories do we tell about our relationship to cooking, cuisine and taste? This online course takes a trans-national and inter-disciplinary look at food and its relationship to rituals and hospitality; social and personal identity; health and disease; graphic food fantasies and painful food realities; and industry and the environment. We will watch a variety of films and read a selection of literary and theoretical texts that address the many different faces of food and cuisine. Our selection of texts will include Laura Esquivel's enchanting magical realist novel Like Water for Chocolate; Hemingway's existential "café" stories; Franz Kafka's "The Metamorphosis" and "A Hunger Artist"; selected vampire and cannibalism tales; Jonathan Safran Foer's memoir Eating Animals; and films including Mildred Pierce, Bitter Rice, Julie & Julia, and the controversial "haute cuisine" film The Cook, The Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover. Students will also have an opportunity to write a restaurant review and a food memoir as part of their required coursework. Satisfies the GER(HU) and L&S Int'l req. Affiliated with Film Studies.
Comp Lit 309: Great Works of Modern Literature 3cr (U/G; HU)
Topic: The Truth of Others
Class Number: 44856, Lec 001, TR 11am-12:15pm (Xu)
In this class we are going to study an experience of modern literature that is often mediated by a narrative encounter with otherness. This otherness can be cultural, social (e.g. class), racial/ethnic, religious, or sexual. We will focus on a range of influential works from different parts of the world and examine how in these works the encounter with otherness unsettles our normal ways of looking at the world, bringing to crisis our value systems, moral compasses, cultural identities, and sense of a stable and coherent self always in control... Central to our study are various textual formations that condition our experience of the encounter and produce an array of literary subjectivities answering to the truth of others. We will examine how modernist, postcolonial, and postmodern texts (including their many variations) posit different epistemological relations to this truth and in what sense our experience of otherness through literature can be one of authenticity. The goal of the course is to enable students to experience the transformative power of literature and to equip them with interpretive tools to make sense of a number of influential works produced in diverse cultures under different social conditions so that they can discuss and critique them comparatively and in a theoretically informed way. Satisfies the GER(HU) and L&S Int'l req.
Comp Lit 365: Literatures and Cultures of the Americas 3cr (U/G)
Topic: Border Narratives
Class Number: 49253, Lec 201, Online (Pitt)
This course examines narratives and theories of borders and migration within the Americas. How are national and political borders defined, conceptualized, and experienced? How do narrative constructions of borders shape border experience, and how do borders shape narrative representations? What does it mean to cross the border and live as an immigrant? How is this process represented in literature and film? Through our investigation of borders and migration, we will also deepen our understanding of a wide range of contemporary discourses, including nationalism, exile, diaspora, security, human rights, hybridity, transnationalism, globalization, race, gender, community, and identity. While the U.S./Mexico border will serve as a starting point for many of our theoretical and literary engagements with the concepts and representations of borders, our collective readings will take into account other border experiences as well. Satisfies L&S Int'l req. Affiliated with Latin American, Caribbean, and U.S. Latino Studies.
Comp Lit 461: Film-Fiction Interactions 3cr (U/G)
Topic: Holocaust Testimony in Literature and Film
Class Number: 44857, Lec 001, TR 12:30-1:45pm (Momcilovic)
Writers seeking to "document" the suffering and memory of the Jewish Holocaust in literature, philosophy and cinema continue to struggle with the Shoah's traumatic and seemingly un-representable nature. How do writers, film makers, and theorists use their experience, training, and imagination to "revisit" scenes of personal and cultural devastation, and introduce newer generations of witnesses to a history of representation that urges them to "never forget"? This course introduces students to a wide variety of literary, theoretical, and cinematic texts that explore the ethical compulsions and aesthetic limitations of writing and film that works as testimony, texts that reconstruct an experience of bearing witness—always from the outside. We will study a selection of literary works—including Primo Levi's memoir The Drowned and the Saved, Tadeusz Borowski's short story collection This Way for the Gas, Ladies & Gentlemen, selections from non-fiction writings like Anne Frank's diary and Hannah Arendt's coverage of the Eichmann trial, Art Spiegelman's graphic novel Maus, and Albert Camus' allegorical novel The Plague—and films like Schindler's List, Night and Fog, Triumph of the Will, and Shoah. We will also read a selection of theoretical writings about trauma and the testimonial impulse by thinkers and critics like Giorgio Agamben, Maurice Blanchot, Theodor Adorno, Shoshana Felman and Dori Laub. Satisfies the L&S Int'l req. Affiliated with Film Studies and Jewish Studies.
Comp Lit 464: Seminar in Contemporary Literary Criticism 3cr (U/G)
Topic: Democracy and Literary Criticism
Class Number: 49398, Sem 001, TR 2-3:15pm (Paik)
What are the standards and values that govern literary criticism? What makes one interpretation better - i.e. more insightful, more profound, or more persuasive than another? Is the practice of literary criticism democratic, in that it cultivates the independence of thought necessary for active participation in civic life? Or is it aristocratic, in preserving the values and hierarchies of previous ages that provide an alternative perspective to the utilitarian calculation and conformity to opinion that defines modern mass society? Or could it be anarchic, disrupting the conventions and traditions that characterize the status quo in order to break through to new modes of thinking and thereby to transform society? In this seminar we will examine debates over the nature and function of literary criticism but also analyze the works of philosophers and political theorists in order to deepen our understanding of the social dimensions of the act of reading. Readings will be drawn from the work of Alexis de Tocqueville, Friedrich Nietzsche, George Santayana, John Dewey, Irving Babbitt, Kenneth Burke, Hannah Arendt, Philip Rieff, Jacques Derrida, Richard Rorty, Allan Bloom, Pierre Manent, Martha Nussbaum, Boris Groys, John Milbank, and Catherine Pickstock.
Comp Lit 704: Seminar in Cultural Studies 3cr (G)
Topic: Anthropology and Literature
Class Number: 48717, Sem 001, W 4:30-7:10pm (Seymour-Jorn)
The concept of culture has become a complicated and vexed one for scholars in the humanities, in anthropology and sociology. Scholars in these fields have looked to other disciplines in order to think about representing and defining cultures. The "literary turn" in anthropology has concerned itself with the modes and politics of ethnographic representation. At the same time, literary writers have been experimenting with ethnographic approaches in their writing. Increasingly, anthropologists and other social scientists look to literature as a way of knowing about culture. This is particularly true as scholars attempt to think not only about representing the "other" but also understanding how the "other" looks back. This course will examine the convergence of literature and anthropology and will examine questions such as: To what extent is anthropology now literary? To what extent is literature ethnographic and what does this mean for our growing intercultural understandings? This course is jointly offered with MALLT 704.


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HOCKEY: Burnham drop points on the road with stuttering display
BURNHAM'S stuttering form continued as they dropped more points on the road.
BURNHAM'S stuttering form continued as they dropped more points on the road.
PIRATES increased their lead at the top of Division 1 in the Puriton Skittles League to three points after a close away win at Knowle Otters.
THE Ladies' Gruesomes event at Enmore was won by the pairing of Carol Howe and Jackie Woodman with 17 points.
BREAN Golf Club captain elect, Stuart Wills hit the shot of the day in the Turkey Betterball at Brean as he holed out his four iron second shot on the par five 14th hole for an albatross.
HIGHBRIDGE & District Skittles League Division 4 side Athlectico Madritz caused the biggest upset in the KO Cup last week, defeating division 1 side and cup holders The Steamers by a massive 50 pins at Highbridge Social Club.
THE Avenue Tennis Club in Burnham staged a festival of tennis for juniors last month.
IN Division One of the Puriton & District Skittles League, Pirates are top of the table after a close win against Nomads.
WITH wins for both Pirates and Nomads and a defeat for last week's leaders Stop- Outs, there is a threeway tie at the top of the Puriton & District Skittles League's Division 1 table.
THE Avenue Tennis Club staged a festival of tennis for the junior players at the club over the weekend of October 18/19.
MONARCHS Acrobatic Gymnastics Club in Highbridge are taking a team of 35 gymnasts to compete in an International Competition in Mainz, Germany next week.
ANDY Thomas and Barry Fisher joined forces to win the Pairs Aggregate Stableford at Brean Golf Club after late pull-outs saw them paired together.
OF the three teams sharing top spot in Division 1 of the Purtion and District Skittles League, only Stop-Outs managed a win, defeating Wanderers by 31 pins, and therefore remain top of the table two points clear of Nomads and Farmer Boys.
THIS match was a lot closer than the scoreline suggests but Burnham came up against a well organised, young, pacy team that eventually wore away their resolve.
THE trio of Simon Baunton, Dave Porter and Stuart Wills always looked to be a pretty formidable team for the Bowmaker Trophy and it proved true as they claimed a two shot victory on Saturday.
THIS being the final match of the season, Burnham looked to finish with a win, but the visitors were too strong, winning on four of the rinks, two by big margins.
IN the first round of the Highbridge & District Skittles League's four-a-side competition, Radio Social A's Kevin Cheeseman scored a superb total of 85 at the Basonbridge Inn to help his side to a 24-pin victory over The Poachers A.
HAWKRIDGE is still fishing well, with plenty of fish showing on the surface all over the lake, and anglers averaging 2.4 fish per rod.
A SUPERB gross level par 70 by Dave Porter on Saturday brought him the top spot in the September Medal at Brean.
BREAN Golf Club Members Secretary Mike Carter and his predecessor Graham Exton teamed up to win the Captain's Charity Open on Saturday.
GAIL and Steve Mason were the winners of the 2014 Husband and Wife Greensomes competition on Saturday at Brean, after scoring 39 stableford points.
Farmer Boys, Stop-Outs and Wasters have all won for second week running, Wasters winning by 15 pins at Somerset Vaults, who have lost both their opening matches.
Wessex Water fisheries performances for the weekend ending August 17
Avenue Tennis Club in Burnham concluded the 96th annual Burnham-on- Sea Open Tennis Tournament on Saturday after a week-long festival of tennis.
BARRIE Tucker excelled in the wet and windy conditions which greeted the competitors in the Seniors November Medal on Thursday morning.
Rafascals A skittler Ollie Barnes had a fourth hand 26 double flopper at the Ritz Social Club, and along with two more spares he finished with 87 – enough to give them a three-pin victory over Crown Criminals A, for whom Rob Pomeroy top scored with 77.
GYMNASTS from Monarchs Acrobatics Gymnastics Club returned from Germany showered in medals following a hugely successful time at a three-day spectacular international competition.
LIGHTBULBS took over top spot in the premier division of the Burnham, Highbridge & District Ladies Skittles League after beating Blinders by ten pins at the Orchard Inn.
THE Avenue Tennis Club's coach, Craig Phillips, has spent the past month training in Spain in a top performance tennis academy run by Rafael Nadal's former coach.
FOUR teams head the Premier Division of the Burnham, Highbridge & District Ladies Skittles League.
THE bottom teams in the Burnham, Highbridge & District Ladies' Skittles League's Premier Division all had something to smile about after this week's matches as they finally got points on the table.
RICHARD May scored 92 at the Ritz Social Club for his team the Rouges in Division 2 of the Highbridge & District Skittles League.
PGA Board member David Haines recorded his first event win since becoming the Head Professional at Burnham and Berrow earlier this year.
BURNHAM got back to winning ways this week with a 6-0 victory against a young Winscombe side.
FOUR teams head the Burnham, Highbridge & District Ladies' Skittles League's Premier Division with maximum points from two games.
POACHERS' Chris Jays racked up a total of 90 which included five spares at the Lympsham Pavilion in Division 1 of the Highbridge & District Skittles League.
BREAN club champion Steve Bateman added another win to his year of success as he added the Tom Childs Memorial Flag competition to his list of 2014 successes.
BURNHAM took the honours in Saturday's top of the table clash with Taunton Vale, winning 5-2.
ENMORE Park's David Dixon needed just 65 strokes to win the second Gloucester and Somerset PGA Medal of the season at Brean Golf Club.
VICTORIA Vixens, last year's runners-up in the Burnham, Highbridge & District Ladies Skittles League's Six-A-Side Cup went out in the second round to Country Girls at Highbridge Social Club by 30 pins
ON the first day of rain for what seemed like many weeks, Pete Barton took the top spot in the October Stableford.
BURNHAM BMX rider Liam Phillips says "it feels great" to have become the first British man to win the UCI BMX Supercross series world title, after the 25-year-old rode to glory at the fifth and final round in California on Sunday.
A KING ALFRED'S boxer will be going head to head with some tough opposition in October after being selected for the Western Counties Boxing Team.
BURNHAM Harriers' runner Jason Vickers completed Sunday's Great North Run in an impressive time of 2 hours 28 minutes.
Pete Douglas produced a stunning nett 63 to win the Seniors August Medal at Brean Golf Club with shots to spare.
At the annual fixture at Barnstaple some of the Burnham rinks found things rather difficult, but the match was played in the usual friendly spirit.
In recent weeks 41 points would have been a winning score in most events at Brean, but not in the August Seniors Stableford - but not this time.
SOMERSET Rebel's rider Brady Kurtz opened his Australian season with victory in the New South Wales Under-21 State Championship staged at Loxford Park, Kurri Kurri on Saturday.


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Vermont women earn more than national averageFebruary 19,2013The Associated Press
Women's education and salaries have increased over the years, increasing their share of household income, but women on average still earn just 77 cents for every dollar a man makes.
In Massachusetts, where more people have bachelor's degrees than in any other state, the wage gap between men and women is the 13th largest in the nation.
Women in Massachusetts earn 77 cents for ever dollar a man earns, the same as the national average, according to the American Association of University Women, an advocacy group in Washington, D.C.
In Vermont, by comparison, women earn 87 cents for every dollar earned by men.
Counterintuitively, the wage gap expands as women move up the corporate ladder because there are fewer rules about compensation in upper management, said Victoria Budson, executive director of the Women and Public Policy Program at Harvard University's Kennedy School.
"It's incredibly important for people to understand that women's wages are key definers of a family's economic life," she said. "For the health of families, communities, and the state, it is imperative that women are paid fairly for their labor."
In households in which men don't have a college degree, women's financial contributions play an even bigger role. Men with lower levels of education were hit hardest by job losses during the recession, and wives' share of family earnings income surpassed husbands in these households, according to the Carsey Institute at the University of New Hampshire study. Women married to men with a high school diploma or less provided 51 percent of the household income in 2011, a jump of 4 percentage points from 2009.
More educated men, on the other hand, tend to marry educated women, and these couples' earnings took less of a beating during the downturn, further widening gap between the highest and lowest incomes, said Andrew Sum, director of Northeastern University's Center for Labor Market Studies.
"At the bottom, women's share is going up largely because men's earning are going down," he said. "At the top, wives are both working more and earning more relative to their husbands, but their husbands' earnings are not declining."
Caitlin LoCascio-King, a lawyer in Auburn, Maine, quit her job in 2011 after she had a baby and started a part-time solo practice.
But she ramped up her hours last year when her family's health care costs increased and her husband's pay raises were not keeping up with the cost of living.
"My plan was just to bring in a little money to help my family," said LoCascio-King, 28, who has a 2-year-old and a 9-month-old and trades off child care duties with her husband, who works nights. "It has grown much bigger than that in large part because of the economy."
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We have examined the carbohydrate structure of thyrotropin (TSH) secreted in vitro by pituitaries from prenatal, perinatal, and mature rats using concanavalin A (ConA)-agarose chromatography and anion-exchange high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC). [3H]Glucosamine-labeled TSH was immuno-precipitated and treated with either Pronase to generate glycopeptides or a mixture of endo-beta-N-acetyl-glucosaminidase F and peptide:N-glycosidase F to release oligosaccharides. The percentage of secreted TSH glycopeptides not bound to ConA was greater in mature animals (47 +/- 3%) than in either prenatal (29 +/- 3%) or perinatal animals (29 +/- 6%), suggesting more multiantennary oligosaccharides in the older animals. These structural changes were characterized further by performing anion-exchange HPLC on released oligosaccharides. Secreted TSH from prenatal rats predominantly contained oligosaccharides with 1 and 2 negative charges, while TSH from mature rats contained these structures as well as 15% with 3 negative charges. In addition, the ratio of sialylated to sulfated oligosaccharides was greater in mature compared to prenatal animals for species with 1 negative charge (1.9-fold) as well as for species with 2 negative charges (4.3-fold). We also correlated the structural alterations noted by ConA analysis with anion-exchange HPLC. Oligosaccharides that bound to ConA and were eluted with alpha-methylglucoside, when analyzed by anion-exchange HPLC, consisted of species with 1 and 2 negative charges, whereas oligosaccharides that were unbound to ConA were predominantly species with three negative charges. Together, these data suggest that with maturation of the hypothalamic-pituitary-thyroid axis secreted TSH contains more negatively charged multiantennary oligosaccharides with increased sialylation and decreased sulfation.
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Tupelo Hassman graduated from Columbia's MFA programme. Her writing has been published in the Portland Review Literary Journal, Paper Street Press, Tantalum, We Still Like and ZYZZYVA, among others. Girlchild is her first novel. She lives in Oakland, California.
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The Red Sox rotation represented a potentially glaring issue at the trade deadline. With Clay Buchholz' lower back stress fracture, the Sox featured a pair of stalwarts in Jon Lester and Josh Beckett but plenty of questions behind them.
Daisuke Matsuzaka was long done for the year. John Lackey was starting to put together some solid outings but had endured a horrendous first half. Tim Wakefield had been serviceable but hardly dominant. Andrew Miller had shown signs of promise in inconsistent bursts.
By the end of July, the Sox had a 4.11 ERA that was worse than average in the AL. It wasn't necessarily a fatal weakness, but the potential lack of starting depth represented enough of a risk to the team's October ambitions that the Sox felt they had to do everything in their power to make at least one move – and perhaps more – to bolster their rotation at the July 31 deadline for non-waiver trades.
The Sox sought the sort of pitchers with dominant, swing-and-miss stuff who could make the rotation more than two deep for the postseason. While a July 30 deal with Rich Harden and the A's fell through, the Sox snuck just under the 4 pm EST deadline to complete a pair of deals, the net effect of which was the acquisition of left-hander Erik Bedard.
Four weeks later, the Sox rotation has a different shape. In part due to the acquisition of Bedard, the rotation has enjoyed a far more impressive stature.
In the first 27 games of August, despite the fact that the offense endured one of its lengthier slumps of the year, the starting pitching permitted the team at least a chance to win almost every night.
In a month when rotations typically hit a wall, Sox starters have a 3.87 ERA in August, a mark that ranked second in the American League entering Sunday, behind only a Rays staff that had a ridiculous 2.99 mark.
The starting staff had 7.3 strikeouts per nine innings, fourth in the AL. Its combined WHIP of 1.29 ranked fifth among AL teams.
Consistency has been the hallmark of the rotation in August. Only once all month has a Sox starter allowed more than five runs in a game all month (Tim Wakefield's eight-run yield on Friday). The team has made 12 quality starts, a number that is tied for fifth in the AL, but there have been four additional starts (three by Bedard, one by Miller) in which either pitch counts or weather cut short an outing before it could qualify for the designation.
More significantly, the rotation looks better built for the postseason than it did a month ago. Lester (3-2 with a 2.78 ERA in August) continues to perform like one of the best pitchers in the game. Beckett (2-1, 3.60 ERA, 26 strikeouts and 5 walks in 30 innings) has continued to look like a front-of-the-rotation starter who will anchor the Sox' postseason rotation hopes with Lester.
But it is the rest of the rotation that has looked different in important respects.
Lackey has continued to show the sort of power stuff that was rarely in evidence during the first half. While his 5.34 August ERA does not suggest a significant improvement over his first half performance, he has punched out 7.0 batters per nine innings and walked just 2.8.
In a broader context, that represents the continuation of an impressive turnaround for what had seemed like a lost season. Over his last nine starts, Lackey is now 7-1 with a 4.11 ERA, 7.3 strikeouts and 2.1 walks per nine innings.
But the difference has been more than statistical. Whereas Lackey was living in the high-80s and low-90s for the first half and his breaking stuff lacked bit, he has shown more of a power arsenal since early July. His fastball is regularly checking in at 93-94 mph, he's shown a swing-and-miss breaking ball and a cutter that has played as a weapon.
Rays manager Joe Maddon, who was a member of the Angels' coaching staff for Lackey's first four big league seasons, suggested that there was an apparent difference in the pitcher's stuff when he faced the Rays this month.
"[Lackey had] probably the best fastball I've seen him have in a while since I've seen him back here," said Maddon. "It was more reminiscent of his days with the Angels, the fastball with the hard cutter."
Bedard, meanwhile, remains winless with the Red Sox, having been denied a victory most recently on Saturday night by an hour-long rain delay that arrived after Bedard had tossed four shutout innings.
"You're just trying to pray to God that the rain stays away so you can finish at least three more outs and have a decision. We won the game. The bottom line is we won the game," said Bedard. "You always want wins. But as long as the team wins, that's the good part. It's coming. Eventually, I'll get one."
Bedard's confidence seems like more than bravado given his performance. He has a 3.46 ERA and has struck out 26 batters in as many innings while walking nine.
For the most part, he's shown a low-90s fastball, a terrific curveball that he can throw for strikes at will and a changeup that can expand the plate against right-handed hitters.
That said, it was notable on Saturday that Bedard started the game pitching at 86-88 mph. Both the pitcher and manager Terry Francona suggested that the left-hander, who missed almost all of July with a knee strain, was dealing with soreness in the same joint in the early innings, a fact that, combined with caution while pitching on a wet mound, resulted in the decreased velocity.
Yet while that will be worth monitoring, there were two notable corresponding developments. First, he ended up picking up his fastball to his customary low-90s velocity as the game progressed. Secondly, even before he regained his velocity and fastball command, Bedard found a way to get outs.
That, in turn, suggests an ability to work through adversity and be a reliable contributor even when not armed with his best stuff. While he has yet to pitch more than six innings in any of his five Sox starts, the Sox believe that Bedard has shown plenty of promise in his first month since joining them.
"I've faced him. I've seen him pitch. He's good," said catcher Jarrod Saltalamacchia. "That curveball, he can throw it for a strike when he wants. He's got a fastball. He's deceptive. If he's healthy, he's good."
That, at least, is the initial impression they've gotten from the left-hander, resulting in a degree of comfort with the rotation for the Sox that may not have existed in the days entering the trade deadline.
In fairness, neither Bedard nor Lackey has performed at a level that has suggested dominance in August. But both have pitched respectably, and shown the sort of stuff that would permit the Sox to entrust them with postseason starts without reluctance. In its own right, that represents a significant shift from where the Sox stood a month ago, when they felt like standing pat at the deadline was not an acceptable option.
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text: No stepped nose on 2013 Williams reveals Bottas 9 January, 2013 Newly promoted Valtteri Bottas has revealed that the 2013 Williams – the FW35, will not feature a 'stepped' front nose. Following the public's reaction to the aesthetics of last year's cars, the FIA has allowed teams to install a "structurally irrelevant" laminate over the step in 2013. The 'modesty panel', however, is not mandatory, which had raised doubts about whether teams would actually take up the option. Bottas, Williams' rookie driver for 2013, told Finnish broadcaster MTV3: "As far as looks [are concerned], the [2013] car is pretty much as it was last year. "With the new rules, the step nose is straightened. That is the biggest difference in appearance. "The new car is a development version of last year's. There are certain improvements in aerodynamics. "We have tried to focus on getting more traction in corners," added Bottas. He said that he did not know whether he or Pastor Maldonado, Williams' Venezuelan driver, will give the FW35 its track debut at Jerez early next month. "Pastor and I will share all the test dates, so six days [each]," said the Finn. (GMM) Subbed by AJN. Tweet Related NewsWilliams celebrate best finish for 11 yearsGlock says Williams duo are Rosberg's best hope for titleAbu Dhabi Grand Prix: Williams preview Yas MarinaTodt: Massa happier after leaving FerrariMassa will not help Rosberg win title in Abu DhabiMassa: Difficult to explain the emotion – it's amazingNasr deal with Sauber stuns Formula 1 worldSymonds says Alonso would not be right for WilliamsBrazilian Grand Prix: Williams preview InterlagosSusie Wolff to extend Williams deal beyond 2014


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Revisiting Nehru's India
India's Congress Party is in soul-searching mode after its unprecedented loss to the BJP in the last elections. Its favoured option is to try and revive the memory and legacy of Jawaharlal Nehru as the great freedom fighter and founder of modern India. A recent conference in New Delhi presided over by Mrs Sonia Gandhi attracted VIP delegates from all over the world to commemorate Nehru's fiftieth death anniversary, extol his virtues and stress how he had laid the foundations of a great democracy on the basis of an independent economy, a non-aligned foreign policy and an assimilative secular ideology of the state. It is significant that Narendra Modi, the BJP superhero who has taken India's rich and poor alike by storm, is opening up the Indian economy to foreign investment, aligning with the West and is publicly hostile to the notion of secularism.
Most Pakistanis see Nehru through the angry prism of Kashmir. He is the villain who annexed it forcibly and then reneged on his pledge in the UN to hold a plebiscite to determine its future. It is the "unfinished business of Partition" that remains the root cause of conflict between the two countries. But we also grudgingly acknowledge that without Nehru India would not be the enviable democracy it is today, while we are still struggling to anchor ourselves firmly in it. After all, in 1947 both India and Pakistan were "fraternal twins", in the sense of an overlapping genetic and linguistic heritage, a common struggle against colonialism, a post-colonial state-bureaucratic system and a common Anglo-Saxon jurisprudence. Both started off in quest of democracy. But India is a democracy today because it was a democracy yesterday, and the day before, and the day before. Each year of uninterrupted democracy has strengthened it. And it is Nehru who laid the foundations of freedom and democracy in India. But we in Pakistan have, from Day One, floundered on the rock of military-bureaucratic rule and autocracy. And that has made all the difference.
Broadly speaking, the choices made by Nehru in the first critical months and years sowed the seeds of democratic India. As prime minister he governed with a cabinet of elected civilians. In Pakistan, we opted for a non-elected, military-bureaucratic oligarchy. Nehru laid the foundations of an independent India on the basis of an independent economy (the Mahanalobis model). In Pakistan we opted for a free-market economy (the Harvard model) and became dependent on US aid. Nehru built a politically independent India without becoming part of the Cold War. Pakistan joined various defense pacts with the US and gave it military bases against the USSR.
Nehru scripted the story of India as a multi-ethnic, multi-religious, multi-regional, multi-linguistic state comprising many "nations" and peoples. The bedrock of the state was secularism. The bedrock of the nation was assimilation – internal unity in diversity. The bedrock of democracy was a consensual constitution, free and fair elections, regional state autonomy and economic and political independence externally.
But we were unlucky. The Quaid, Mohammad Ali Jinnah, didn't live long enough to practice his vision for a secular Pakistan in which Hindus and Muslims and Christians would cease to be Hindus and Muslims and Christians, not in the religious sense but in the sense that all citizens of the new state would be equal. The bedrock of the new state became centralization under a military-bureaucratic oligarchy. The bedrock of the new nation became a form of non-assimilative and exclusivist Islam in which Muslims were more equal than non-Muslims. The bedrock of the new political system became a "guided constitutional democracy" with rigged elections and a dependent and indebted economy.
Modern Indian generations take India's democracy and economic and political independence for granted. Therefore the Congress is not likely to cut much ice with them by harping on Nehru's achievements fifty years after his death. Nor will he serve their purpose if they deliberately choose to block out the core element of his democratic vision – empowerment of the masses through alleviation of poverty, disease and illiteracy. This is precisely the "development agenda" that has caught the imagination of half a billion Indians on the margins of society no less than its middle classes and catapulted Modi to center-stage.
Another Nehru legacy has also fallen by the wayside. That is an enduring settlement on Kashmir. In 1962, Nehru sent Sheikh Abdullah to Pakistan but nothing came of it. In 1973, his daughter Indira Gandhi signed the Shimla Pact with Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto but bilateralism didn't get anywhere. The BJP tried to smoke the peace pipe with Nawaz Sharif and then General Musharraf (1999-2004) but Nehru's Congress blocked progress despite the promise of an out-of-the-box solution that tilts in India's favour. Now Modi's BJP has frozen the process all over again.
Nehru's Congress Party remains wedded to the Nehru dynasty. The irony is that this core strength of yesterday has become its core weakness today.
Welcome President Ghani!
Afghan President Ashraf Ghani's visit to Islamabad is critically important for one reason: given the burden of geography and history, there can be no peace, security and stability in Afghanistan without the active support of neighbour Pakistan. Therefore the visit should be aimed at ending the mutual distrust and hostility that has marred their relationship and paving the way for truth and reconciliation in cobbling a peaceful and stable Afghanistan.
On Islamabad's part, it is clear that without a stable and neutral, if not friendly, Afghanistan, there will be no end to the scourge of terrorism that overflows the Af-Pak border and poses an equal existential threat to Pakistan. The new civil-military leadership in Pakistan understands this imperative and is keen to negotiate mutually beneficial solutions to national security problems with President Ghani.
There are some positive signs. Both countries have newly elected leaders who do not uncritically subscribe to the policies of their predecessors that sustained an environment of distrust and hostility. Pakistan has a new military leadership that is more responsive than its predecessors to the terrorist threat to Pakistan originating in Afghanistan. That is why Pakistan's foreign minister, Sartaj Aziz, and army chief, General Raheel Sharif, were the first to visit Kabul and meet President Ghani. President Ghani has returned the compliment by visiting Pakistan before visiting India. President Ghani has also toured two of Pakistan's closest friends and allies – China and Saudi Arabia – before going to India, clearly with a view to activating all the important variables in the equation. Most significantly, he has not tripped over himself in accepting the offer of Indian weapons for his army by India's new national security advisor, Ajit Doval, who met him in Kabul last month.
Clearly, both Pakistan and Afghanistan have legitimate security concerns involving the policies of the other. So there has to be give and take, step by step.
President Ghani wants an end to the civil war and foreign intervention that has plagued his nation so that he can stabilize, unify and rebuild his country; he wants foreign investment to tap his country's natural resources and fund his development budgets; and he wants a strong army to provide the framework for his country's security. On the plus side, he has won an election to gain legitimacy, shared power with Abdullah Abdullah, a Tajik (Chief Executive) and Rashid Dostum, an Uzbek (Vice President) and is on the lookout for a new head of Afghan Intelligence who can start on a new slate with his new Pakistani counterpart. He has succeeded in persuading China to launch massive development projects worth billions of dollars in the next ten years. He retains the support of the international community, especially the US, in terms of economic aid and military umbrella. What is critically missing is a plan to end the civil war and terrorism that has laid Afghanistan low.
This is where a solid relationship with Pakistan is critical to President Ghani's mission. The Taliban want to fight, not talk. They control large swathes of Afghan territory. And they have sanctuaries in Pakistan's borderlands with Afghanistan. The Pakistani national security establishment has protected them for political leverage in Afghanistan aimed at forestalling any significant Indian footprint in Afghanistan that would put the East-West border squeeze on Pakistan. Efforts by the Afghan government and US to erode and break-up the Afghan Taliban/Pakistan "alliance" have failed to yield fruit. In fact, Indian and Afghan support for Baloch insurgents/separatists with sanctuaries in Afghanistan have hardened Pakistan's resolve to "use" the Taliban to hurt Indian interests in Afghanistan. Pakistan's refusal to help Afghanistan's broken economy by way of opening trade corridors between Central Asia and India is also a direct result of its "enemy-India" outlook.
The problem is that until now the US and Afghanistan have refused to heed Pakistan's India-related security concerns, which has made Islamabad all the more desperate to hang on to the Taliban as a means of redressing them. This is accentuated by the fact that India refuses to move forward on conflict resolution with Pakistan even on less contentious issues than Kashmir.
However, the outcrop of Taliban terrorism inside Pakistan has compelled a rethink of national security strategy by the new civil-military leadership. This is based on establishing better relations with India as a prelude to better relations with Afghanistan.
Unfortunately, the Modi government has dashed hopes of forward movement by heating up the Line of Control and calling off the foreign secretary talks scheduled last August. This has compelled Pakistan to hold off giving MFN status to India. Under the circumstances, any attempt by India to buttress its leverage with the new Afghan regime is bound to antagonize Pakistan further. President Ashraf Ghani knows that foreign relations are all about quid pro quos. If he wants to reset ties with Pakistan to his advantage, he has to start by making sure that Afghanistan's ties with India will no longer be to Pakistan's disadvantage.


text: Kobe Bryant Meets with Trayvon Martin's Parents, Speaks at Rally Print article Send a Tip by Breitbart News 20 Jul 2014 post a comment Los Angeles Lakers superstar Kobe Bryant met with Trayvon Martin's parents and spoke at a Los Angeles rally on Saturday that honored the slain teenager. The event was described as an "an anti-gun violence and racial profiling rally" at Crenshaw "on the one-year anniversary of the controversial George Zimmerman verdict." "When you look at those challenges in a vacuum, you feel like they're the most important, the most significant things in the world that are going on when you look at them in isolation," Bryant said. "However, when you step outside of that, and you look at Sybrina and Tracy and what they had to go through as a family, and what they've come out of, that's true adversity. And that's responding to true conflict and being true inspirations." Bryant got himself into some controversy when he initially said that blacks should not defend other blacks just because of their skin color when asked about the Martin case. "I won't react to something just because I'm supposed to, because I'm an African-American," Bryant told the New Yorker. "That argument doesn't make any sense to me. So we want to advance as a society and a culture, but, say, if something happens to an African-American we immediately come to his defense? Yet you want to talk about how far we've progressed as a society? Well… then don't jump to somebody's defense just because they're African-American. You sit and you listen to the facts just like you would in any other situation, right? So I won't assert myself." As Breitbart Sports reported, Bryant walked back those comments a bit after he was called everything from "cornball" to "jerk" by tweeting, "Travon Martin was wronged THATS my opinion and thats what I believe the FACTS showed. The system did not work #myopinion."


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