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Charlotte 49ers men's basketball: state of the team
As hard to believe as it is, March Madness is right around the corner. Soon we will all be filling out brackets and aimlessly predicting which teams will advance in the NCAA Tournament and how far they will go. The question is, will Charlotte be included in those brackets?
The easy answer is, well, possibly. The last time a 49ers team went dancing was the 2004-05 season when they finished 21-8 (12-4 A-10). This season's squad is currently sitting at 16-4 (4-2 A-10). At this time in 2004, Charlotte was 14-4 (5-2 A-10).
I didn't have the pleasure of watching the 2004-05 team, so I can't adequately compare them to this year's squad. However, I have had the opportunity to observe this team and witness their development throughout the season. There are things Charlotte is good at and things they are bad at. Some players have overachieved and some have not met expectations.
Let's start with Charlotte's strengths, and they're easy to spot. Defense and rebounding are two of the most over-looked yet critical numbers on the stat sheet of a basketball game. Charlotte fortunately excels in both categories.
Freshmen forwards Darion Clark and Willie Clayton have been a big reason the 49ers are out-rebounding opponents by 3.2 a game. Both players are big, strong and physical and do a great job positioning themselves under the basket when shots go up.
Clayton leads the team in rebounding with 7.4 per game. He has recorded an impressive 71 offensive rebounds which is almost half of his total. Clayton's efforts on the offensive glass have helped Charlotte beat most opponents in second chance points.
Defense is the other strength of Charlotte, and it is more of a concerted effort. The 49ers play outstanding team defense. They are great at rotating to help out on double teams and typically defend the pick and roll to perfection. A lot of this has to do with the team's overall quickness, athleticism and toughness.
One of the first things I noticed about this team is how they pass the eye test. The squad is loaded with tall, athletic players that also come equipped with the quick feet that are vital to playing effective defense. The 49ers are holding opponents to a .378 shooting percentage this season and give teams a lot of trouble on the perimeter.
Specifically, Pierria Henry is a joy to watch on the defensive end of the floor. Without too much contact, he is always in the face of his man, bothering him and swatting at the ball. It must be working because Henry leads the team in steals with 54.
Defense and rebounding has saved Charlotte in a few games this season. It makes up for shooting and turnovers, the team's weaknesses.
Overall field goal percentage has not been bad (.446). However, Charlotte is one of the worst three-point shooting teams in the country. As a team, the 49ers only make about 26 percent of the threes they shoot. This may have a lot to do with Charlotte's lack of three-point shooters on the roster.
Freshman guard Denzel Ingram seems to be the purest shooter on the team. Ingram trails only E. Victor Nickerson and Ivan Benkovic in three-point shooting percentage, but has shot twice as many threes as both of his teammates.
Terrance Williams is a talented scorer, but has only seen two of his 29 three-point attempts connect. Pierria Henry is a great ball handler, passer and leader at the point guard position, but has only made six of his 31 threes.
Free throw shooting has been another Achilles heel for Charlotte this season. As a team, Charlotte only makes about 65 percent of their free throws while opponents are connecting on just over 70 percent.
Clark and Clayton's superior athletic ability and physicality may come back to bite them when they get fouled in the process. Both players have struggled from the line all season. Clark is shooting just under 40 percent and Clayton is shooting just over 51 percent from the charity stripe.
Both of these players are freshmen and free throw shooting is a practice-makes-perfect aspect of the game, so I expect their numbers to improve over the next few years. Fortunately for Charlotte, senior Chris Braswell has been a solid free throw shooter. He has gotten to the line 77 times this season and makes about 73 percent of his foul shots.
Transfer graduate student JT Thompson leads the team in FT percentage. He has made 18 of his 19 attempts (.947).
Charlotte's turnover problem is difficult to put a finger on. There's no one player that seems to have the "turnover bug" all of the time. Pierria Henry has the most turnovers with 51 but that goes along with his team-high 66 assists.
Eight players on the 49ers roster have 21 turnovers or more on the season. As I mentioned before, this is a young team that has not even played together for a calendar year. For this reason I expect the assist to turnover ratio (0.8) to improve.
All of these statistics beg the question: what is this team's destiny?
This Charlotte team has unbelievable potential and I believe they will finish the season with a record well above .500, something an Alan Major-coached Charlotte team has not yet done. In order to make the NCAA tournament, the 49ers will probably need to win the A-10 tournament in March. This will be a challenge but is a feat that is certainly possible, given the fact that the conference is as unpredictable this season as ever.
I think Alan Major and the 49ers have done a remarkable job at playing to their strengths and at the same time, not hiding from their weaknesses. Charlotte shoots about half as many three-pointers as their opponents, but they still shoot them to keep the defense honest. They may be making only 65 percent of their free throws, but Charlotte still gets to the line more than their opponents do on average.
The beauty of March Madness and the NCAA Tournament is that virtually nobody can predict the outcome. I'm not sure it will happen this season, but this young squad is equipped with the building blocks that are necessary to make a tournament run in the future.
Free throw shooting must improve, turnovers will probably improve and three-point shooting, well, if you can't shoot you can't shoot.
However, this team is athletic, physical and deep. Defense and rebounding has been Charlotte's bread and butter all season and it has carried them to an impressive 16-4 overall record. As the A-10 conference schedule heats up and we begin to figure out who is who, it will be interesting to see where the 49ers fit.
It will be interesting to see if their impressive defensive numbers are effected by tougher competition. It will be interesting to see if shooting and turnovers improve simply because of time.
With only a third of the season remaining, the 49ers have an NCAA Tournament birth in their eyesight. Soon, we will find out if Charlotte will be included in those brackets we all aimlessly fill out.
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Really, really cannot believe most of this thread. Pamestiques response was really over the top. 18 is legal, move on and out.
Really, really cannot believe most of this thread. Pamestiques response was really over the top. 18 is legal, move on and out.
Ignore her.
About all the other advice, about the only thing else I can offer is that you need to have a heart-to-heart talk with your mom about her fears. Try to remain calm when doing so.
Deut 6:5
"Ha ha! You fool! You fell victim to one of the classic blunders - The most famous of which is 'never get involved in a land war in Asia'".
- Vizzini during his "battle of wits" with the Man in Black
be respectful, but do your best to allay any fears she may have. Maybe take her for a drive along the route as has been suggested.
She loves you ... which is why she worries. She still sees you as your little boy, which is why she protects you.
Be grateful for those things ... cherish the fact that she's still doing those things. You'll miss them when she's gone
Work with your mom a little...but enjoy your rides too.
My Mom bought me my first motorcycle. When I got a sportbike and she overheard me telling my brother that I had it up to an indicated 186mph, she asked me to be more careful. I thought about her plea and got some leathers and went motorcycle racing. She got a trailer hitch put on her car and drove me to the race track. I cannot say that motorcycle racing was more safe, but it was controlled and ultimately I was more careful in my quest for speed. I got more experience and skill and used that knowledge to "control" myself and my speed in situations where I would have blasted through without a care before.
So, fast forward 25 years and I am in a similar predicament but with road cycling and racing. My Wife used to worry about me going on long rides every day but never said anything. It was not until we were on a ride together and she watched me get hit head by a motorcycle, and nearly killed, that she really came out and told me how much she worried and that she just could not take the stress if I continued to ride on the road every day.
Of course, all I wanted to do is to heal up and go out for a ride, but I had to seriously consider the degree of danger I was put myself in and how much stress I was willing to put my Wife under. After some soul searching, I decided that putting myself into the path of every passing car started to look pretty silly. That being said, I want to live my life without fear and enjoy many things that are considered dangerous, but in this instance, I modified my riding and have taken up cyclocross, WITH MY WIFE. I have included her in my sport and she sees the effort and can experience my "danger" levels. It has helped her so much. I know I have not taken my last road ride but can keep busy riding off the roads until some of the emotional scars heal for my Wife and time fades her fears.
I would suggest getting your Mom involved and out there with you for a ride. Choose roads that you feel safest on and I am sure she will benefit in multiple areas and better understand your passion for the sport, your health, and your focus on safety.
My wife was like that. What I told her was that 67% of accidents involving cars and cyclists are the cyclists fault. (I got that stat from a safety class run by LAB-League of American Cyclists)
Why should that make her feel better? Because you then explain to her how so many cyclists are really unsafe. They ride against traffic, ride on sidewalks, run lights and stop signs, choose bad routes, etc. I am not one of those.
As much as you paid for that Beemer [Mercedies, Audi, Escalade], I'm surprised it didn't come equipped with turn signals.
Assume nothing; Question everything
Also I like the advice about being a little more quiet about your riding. Stop talking about it with her since she is not being supportive. Give alot of vague noncommittal answers to her questions... "Where you riding today son?"... "I dont know I havent decided yet"... "We'll see"... "I'm not sure" "around"... stuff like that. Establish some boundaries.
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Ah moms. I haven't lived at home in nearly 20 years and she still zips up my jacket until it bites my chin when we go out. I don't share too many details about my bike rides because she grumbles and once started sniffling back tears. We have a deal... I listen to her odd stories about spirits living in her apartment and I pretend that I ride my bike around the baseball diamond at the park. yeah, it's a pretty one-sided agreement but she loves me, worries about me, and not about to stop either activity anytime soon.
I do draw the line at wearing any of the crochet horrors she makes.
The difference between "Mothering" and "Smothering" is one letter...
Take it from someone who's been there (and still goes through it even though I moved out of my parent's house years ago), mom's have a very hard time letting go and coming to terms with the fact that their children are adults and can make their own decisions. In my case I had to shame my own mother in front of the family before she stopped trying to run my life (it's a long story, but let's just say that it involved me doing something that my mom didn't approve of until it was in her favor, then in front of the family I told her "no" since she didn't approve of me doing it earlier).
The bigger unsaid problem here isn't that she's worried about you getting hurt. The bigger issue is that she's having problems coming to terms that you're an adult that's capable of making your own decisions. Like others have said, just go out and do it on your own without seeking your mother's approval. If she questions it you don't have to give a lengthy explanation; just say you're going out. If she starts to complain (or give you a guilt trip), simply say something like "Thanks for your concern but I'll be alright. I'll see you in a few hours".
There comes a point in everyone's life when you have to take the reigns away from your parents and start steering your own way through life. You don't have to be a jerk about it to them, but sometimes you do have to be assertive though.
You can also point out that we loose FAR more people to not moving then by moving. You're riding adds to your lifespan (all risk factors included) whereas sedentary living shortens as well as increases sick days. Basically, we're safer on the roads, then we are on the couch.
Congratulations on your motivations to ride your bike. A 10 mile commute is a long one and should be plenty to give you great physical results - especially with an occasional longer ride on the weekend.
"I've let her tail me a few times..."
It's hard for me to understand this "mothering." This might not be popular but this is what I did when I was a teenager and my parents did not understand my working out and they didn't support my sport (albeit in the less-than-parental-nannyistic 1980s). What a parent doesn't know won't hurt them - my parents didn't know how long I was riding or what cycling events I was entering (or that I blew $10.00 on upgraded SKS Campy copy pedals). Is it possible to go on longer rides that your mom does not have to know about? I'm not suggesting lying to her but take a longer route to or from school. Be creative. Can you go on an extra "errand?" When you ride to the store, can you go to the one that is three mile farther away? You're not lying, you're just getting more miles on your bike which is your goal, right?
Also, would your mom be supportive of a group ride - a weekend ride with other cyclists like you? Safety in numbers? Anyway, we all know that with all of our commutes and all of the miles ridden per day by all of us in most/all communities cycling accidents are statistically EXTREMELY rare. (I know, I know, we all have anacdotal comments supporting the contrary - I'm just relaying statistical facts and we all wouldn't ride our bikes if we thought we were in undue danger)
Cody, commuting 10 miles a day can be difficult enough without support of your family. Good luck on that and keep it up when you can.
I think back to the years I lived with my father and how he would worry. As teens we dealt with it by just not letting him know what we were doing. But, your mother knows so all you can do is be mature, let her know you are going to ride, and do what you can to ease her worries.
I am sorry about your grandfather. You sound like a good grandson. However, be sure to look out for yourself as you will have to be self sufficient one day. Do the very best you can in school. When you are home with your grandfather you can study, study, study. And do the very best to live a healthy life. This is your time to make habits that will serve you well through life.
--signed, old enough to be your grandma.
as a defense of the OP's mother treating her 20 year old son like a child. Part of becoming an adult is learning to deal with conflict with other adults. I don't know of very many 20-somethings who haven't had a parent upset with them at some point. Yes, it is his mother's house and therefore she has the right to set reasonable rules, but respect goes two ways. At 20 years old, she should be able to expect him to act like an adult but she also needs to treat him like one.Big boy pants? You live at home. As long as you do, you ARE her little boy.
Lead, follow or get out of the way
A few things to never tell your mom:
1. You ride a road bike IN THE ROAD.
2. You're dating a stripper
3. You got a tattoo
4. Your thinking of buying a motorcycle
5. Pots not really that bad
6. You missed church...oh the past 15 years since you moved out.
Thank me later.
Everyone's a roadie, they just might not know it yet.
You live in her house, so have to respect her, but she needs to respect her 20 y/o son to make smart decisions too.
Or just tell her, I'm going out for a ride! and not fill in the details.
There has been some good advise and some not so good advise given here. Bottom line is that she is your mom and is concerned so you need to alleviate any fears that she may have. Ask her to go for a drive with you to see the route and hopefully she will see for her self that the route is not as bad as she is thinking. Slowly increase the mileage so that the time you are out gradually increases and she wont notice as much as if you hit the road for a 3 hour ride after having only been out for an hour or so in the past.
Most of all respect her as she is your mom and will come around and support you.
It really does make a lot of sense, especially in a large city like mine with narrow streets. Such a law would help me to legally stay ahead of motor vehicle traffic, thereby decreasing comingling. It would also allow me to more easily switch lanes to get around vehicles that are stoped in the street to make deliveries. A third benefit is that I could clear the lane for vehicles waiting to make right turns on red. I once actually got honked and yelled at by a cab. I was at the intersection waiting for the light to turn green. The cabbie, which was behind me, was pissed that I would not run the light so he could then make a right on red.
Just go. The more times you go and come the back alive the easier it will get for her to believe you can do it safely. She will not stop worrying, but might stop harassing you about it. If it is easier let her think you are going to the middle school and just doing lots of laps. It sounds like it is in the same area as you want to ride anyway. The main reason I say this is if something did happen you want people to start looking for you in the right place. Generally if I am going more than 15 miles round trip I let someone know where I'm headed. Otherwise I just tell them I am going riding and will be back around X:XX time. One thing you may wish to bring is a cell phone. If you have one. She might feel better knowing you can call 911 if you need to. Also you can tell her I have ridden over twice that far many times and am still here with all limbs, features, and faculties intact. I do wear bright clothes and a helmet. I also always expect to not be seen. That way I'm ready when it is true.
Dear Cody - I have read the whole thread. I originally read "big boy parts" instead of "pants" - somehow seemed more fitting.
I take it that time for reasoning has came and gone, she is not going to change. Some women are like that - they do not see the difference between a finger on the pulse and noose around the neck. You are her baby, in her mind she owns you (pardon me for asking - is Dad in the picture? Does Mom have a stimulating career? If not, her babies are her sole focus and you are on the receiving end of it).
Stop being what you think is a "good son", you need to have a nice blowout, never mind the guilt trips, just do it. You owe this to your brother.
Speaking of brother - if he is not far behind in age, stick it out for a while, until high school is over and MOVE THE EFFFFFF OUT TOGETHER!!!!!! Believe me, people pressed hard against the wall will find the way out of the sticky situation. There are social services to take care of your Gramps, there is Medicaid, there are trained people. All it takes is doing research, picking up the phone and doggedly staying with it. Dealing with bureaucracy is never easy, but riding the backs of younger generation in their formative years out of convenience is just reprehensible.
Go, study, get stellar grades, get a good job and with your second paycheck buy your Mother a couple sessions with a good therapist. God knows, she needs it.
Signed - a mother of 18 yo, moved out and in community college by choice; and 16 yo, avid bike commuter. And yes, I have a husband and exciting career to keep me from going off the deep end.
I take great pride in my humility.

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A nightclub in Smithfield, London, formerly owned by Killian and Zachary Jones. Killian transferred ownership of the Red House to Aiden Cavannaugh under extreme duress, shortly before Aiden killed him. Aiden is now the owner of the club, under the fake name "David Cullen". Killian's wraith now haunts the building.
The nightclub used to be a cold storage warehouse, dating back at least as far as the Victorian Era, and was a central part of the Smithfield meat and poultry market (where a market has stood for over 800 years). The building (even then known as the Red House) was briefly granted Grade II Listed Building status in 2005, but this was revoked in a mildly scandalous exchange of funds that saw the building reopen in 2007 as a nightclub. This placed it in direct competition with Fabric, but Killian and his associates soon carved a niche for themselves, catering to a less-discerning breed of clientele.
The Butterfly Effect cabal have now taken possession of the club, having come to terms with Aiden's unusual method of acquisition, and use the club building (including the apartments above it) as their Chantry. They have reopened the nightclub under the name Fall from Grace, and it enjoys rising popularity in the city.
At present, the Chantry has the following statistics:
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Investigations of the building revealed a hidden sub-basement, accessed through a covered trapdoor beneath the preparation area in wing 1. This area ran the full length of the club, and its far end sported a bricked-in archway. Once the bricks were removed, this archway led onto a broad set of stone stairs leading to a subterranean remnant of a Regency-era Hellfire Club.
The caverns that formerly housed the Hellfire Club boast an active Node in the form of an angelic statue of Priapus. Node is watched over by a spirit known as the Rakehell Bastard, awakened by the cabal after a suitably bachanalian revel.


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Not sure if its been posted yet. kinda disappointing. Was really loking forward to watching his highlights on Fri. nights. The only reason to watch HS football anymore is to watch recruits play to me.
Not sure how to respond yet, but i will say this, at least its not a facebook of cash and gangsigns....
Don't mean either that academics will be looked at lightly by our coaching staff...
Jake get your head on straight, you got the position if you treat it right - Right now your now doing such a great job!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Oh yeah, life outside of college athletics isnt as easy as what you've had to endure, realize the gift, and cherish it - Vick, Douglas, Bowman, Berryman, Pierce didnt!!!!!
If a player doesn't get good enough grades in high school to play football, that doesn't sound promising. Can't you just show up in high school and get a C?
I heard some scuttle butt about another reason for the academic ineligibilty is related to cheating on a paper/test or something along those lines.
If he did do that it could be a reason for the low grade in the class. I don't want to speculate but its just what I heard through the grapevine.
read the article. it says something about an surgery (dental?) that had some complications and kept him out of school. This may not be something that will re-occur in the college setting.
i beleive that he attended Oskaloosa's summer camp because he was going to transfer.
when i took Osky's football picture, all the kids were asking where McDonough was?
McDonoughs father wanted him to transfer to Oskaloosa, but it didn't work out. I think part of the reason why is so he could play more games, knowing that he would have to sit out if he came back to Valley.
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Kansas HIE connects with CDC outbreak tracking program
Kansas' Health Information Network is the first health information exchange directly connected to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's BioSense program, which tracks public health threats, outbreaks and epidemics.
The BioSense program was started in 2003 as part of the Public Health Security and Bioterrorism Preparedness and Response Act of 2002. It tracks 89 reporting categories, which when done in the aggregate can reveal different trends and possible outbreaks by symptom, such as asthma or hemorrhage.
"This has a lot of potential for us to get information that we have not really had access to before, or information that we've collected in a manual process," Charlie Hunt, Kansas' state epidemiologist said in an announcement.
For instance, during the 2009 H1N1 flu outbreak, hospitals had to manually comb through their electronic health record systems to locate relevant information for submission to the CDC, according to the HIE's announcement. Now, the data is fed to the agency automatically in real time.
Kansas' HIE program has hit a few obstacles in the past. The state's quasi public HIE voted to dissolve and turn its operations over to the Kansas Department of Health and Environment in September. This new development appears to indicate that the transition was a good move for the state.
Other state HIEs also have been making inroads in data sharing through their networks, according to recent research by the eHealth Initiative.
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- read this article from the Kansas City Star
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One aspect of Johnsons personality thats often overlooked is his humor. I get it. The mans built like a small mountain. You want to see him butting heads with Vin Diesel or fighting alongside Bruce Willis. But The Rocks genuinely funny, and a collaboration with Johnny Depp could showcase that side of the performer. We know a fifth Pirates movie is in the pipeline. Wouldnt you like to see Capt. Jack Sparrow locking rum-soaked horns with a pirate legend played by The Rock?
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455 Buick RehashWritten by David Freiburger on May 2, 2005 Contributors: Wesley Allison
Chevy 383 buildup? About $4,000. Ford SVO 514? Seven grand once you get it running. Same for the Mopar 500 show in this issue. Pretty spendy stuff, so we wouldn't feel like Car Craft if we didn't throw in at least one big engine for small bucks: a Buick 455 treated to an easy cosmetic and mechanical restoration for way under $1,000. It's just a spray-can rebuild, but there's nothing wrong with that if you start with a healthy engine, spend a lot of elbow grease cleaning it up, and add a few well-chosen power parts. This story will show you how to do just that and be proud of it.
The Buick 455 is a particularly good choice for a budget buildup like this, as we've seen even the low-compression '72 motors (like ours) run 13's in A-body Skylarks with perfect daily driveability and freeway-friendly rear gears. We'll put that theory to the test once we get this sucker running in our '65 Special wagon, and you can look for that story in a few months. We've had too many car buildups lately (like the budget Buster and El Cheapo) where the initial story didn't include drag testing because we thrashed too hard against the deadline, so we're not gonna run the Buick swap article until it posts a good number. Besides, that tricks you Buick guys in buying the mag for the next few months. Until then, dig how we made this greaseball shine.
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1. You might be familiar with this 455's smoky burnout prowess if you witnessed it in action under the hood of our "Insane Fun with a Total Beater" (June '98) '72 Electra 225. The four-door deuce-an'-a-quarta relinquished its power before heading to the boneyard, but not before we took it to the coin-op car wash and squirted off 26 years of oil spooge. Once the engine was on the stand, we threw away all the junk we'd never need, like the A/C compressor, power steering pump, and all the smog garbage.2. We knew the 'Bu motor was good enough to clean up and swap into our '65 without a rebuild because it ran well in the Electra, and the original owner swore it had never been rebuilt. A compression test verified that nothing was too wasted, and all the plugs looked pretty happy too. However, check out how the 4, 3, 6, and 5 plugs are kinda dark. Funky.3. Next, we removed all the accessories we'd eventually reuse and kept track of which bolts went where. The desconging process began by using a gasket scraper to peel off the thick layer of caked-on Pennzoil frosting. The fun ended after the first hour of scraping, but the key to making a dirtball mill look like a fresh resto is in making it as clean as possible before painting. Scrape every nook and cranny over and over, and catch the crud in an inverted garbage can lid or you'll get it all over the ground, track it into the house, and your mom will yell at you.4. Castrol Super Clean is the nastiest commercially available degreaser we've ever used--and that's a good thing! This stuff'll burn your skin, so we squirt it with latex gloves on and wear full facial protection. No kidding. Note that we've left on all the parts that will seal water from entering the engine and stuffed any open holes with rags. Between several dousings of Super Clean we still had to pick grease boogers from the crannies of the block and keep at it until it was spotless. Time spent now is crucial to the engine's final appearance. After the final hose-down, we unbolted the intake, valve covers, timing cover, and oil pan, then gave all the gasket surfaces a double-duty scraping. The freeze plugs were pretty much gonzo, so we removed them too. Our new kit from PAW didn't include the freeze plugs for the cylinder heads, so be forewarned that an extra trip to the parts store will be needed.5. Here's some new goop we just came across: Eastwood's PRE Painting Prep. Just squirt it on the surface to be painted, then wipe it off to remove any oils and other stuff or paint won't stick well. In the past we've used brake cleaner for this purpose, but the PRE prep seems to leave no residue, and Eastwood claims that it prevents flash rust for a few weeks. Works good--just use a lint-free rag.6. Before painting, we threw on the oil pan with a few bolts and went nuts with masking tape. Tech tip: Stick the tape right to the machined surfaces, then use a razor blade to trim the tape to the desired shape. Stuff wads of tape in the spark plug holes, and don't worry about masking the exhaust ports.7. We fogged the engine with Eastwood's Engine Paint in Ford/Chrysler Red, which is just a bit darker than the stock Buick Red (not available), but who's gonna notice? Our technique is to lightly mist the entire engine with paint before adding heavier layers; it seems to prevent fisheyes and runs. The sheen of the paint will be altered by how you spray it: A final thick coat sprayed close will give a smooth, shiny appearance. Spray from a bit more distance and you'll get a slightly flatter texture. We prefer the former.
8. While the engine was drying, we spent about an hour in front of a wire wheel on the bench grinder cleaning up the threads and the heads of all the old bolts. To finish 'em, we punched the bolts through a chunk of cardboard and squirted the heads with a few light coats of Eastwood's Underhood Black. The company's Chassis Black offers a shinier, more durable finish, but it's an epoxy and we're too impatient to wait for it to dry. Making the bolt heads black gives the engine a much more detailed look, far superior to painting the bolts engine color once they're in place.9a&b. We also spent lots of time with our Eastwood sandblaster--if you don't have a 'blaster, trust us, you need one. After chunking all the greasy, grimy gopher guts from these accessories, we blasted them and painted them with Underhood Black. The before-and-after is much more dramatic in person than in these photos.10. This motor will use stock iron exhaust manifolds for improved convenience, price, fit, and sound over headers for this mild driver. We rescued them with, again, the Eastwood sandblaster, then used a disposable foam brush to paint them with Eastwood's High Temp Coating in a new color: Cast Iron Gray. The coating gives a long-lasting as-new finish that cures with heat once the engine is running.11. Now for the techincal part of the rehash: The stock timing chain was floppier'n a puppy-dog's ear, so we threw on a new Speed Pro unit. The Speed Pro performance chain was actually cheaper than the same-as-stock version, so guess which one we bought. The PN 220-4115 chain set is single-row but with four-degree-advance-and-retard keyways; we installed it straight up. Speed Pro PN 220-3115 is a double-row chain, if you prefer. According to Buick Performance Engines by Steven L. Dove (available through Poston Enterprises, and mandatory for any first-time Buick builder), all curent Buick three-keyway timing chains are mismarked: the 0-degree, straight-up keyway is actually 4 degrees retarded, so you have to install the chain on the keyway marked as 4 degrees of advance for it to actually be "straight up." We found this out too late to verify it with a degree wheel.12. Whomever designed the Buick timing cover was sniffing glue--similar to an AMC design, the steel oil-pump gears in the soft aluminum housing were not a great idea. Again according to Buick Performance Engines, acceptable oil-pump-gear-to-wall clearance is 0.004 or less. If it's 0.008 or more, chuck it. You'll also find that corrosion has probably eaten the aluminum in the water passages. As a result, all the good housings were already harvested from our local junkyards. Buick specialist Poston Enterprises sells expensive new timing covers and cheaper good used units like the one we got (right).13. To save the oil pump, we used Speed Pro gear kit (PN 224-519) and plate kit (224-518TP). The first kit includes new pump gears, check-valve springs, and gaskets, and the second is a steel plate that can be added if the aluminum thrust surface of the oil-pump cover has too many grooves worn in it. Buick specialists also offer several styles of long-gear pumps and deep covers for high volume. The arrow points to an oil-pump-cover-bolt location under the filter that you may overlook if you don't know it's there. Also, this type of oil pump should be packed with petroleum jelly (Vaseline) during assembly to make sure it will self-prime when the engine is fired.14. To install a new Speed Pro neoprene front seal in the timing cover we had to file off the tangs that hold in the original rope seal. When installing the timing cover, we aligned the mark on the balancer with the timing mark that indicated 12 degrees BTDC, making sure the number-one cylinder was on the compression stroke. That way, all we had to do was install the distributor such that the rotor was pointing directly at the number-one terminal in the cap to set the initial timing at 12 BTDC for initial fire-up. Easy.15. Here's a new thing we learned about Buicks: Through '69 models, the 400/430 engines used a short-style water pump shown on the left; the '70-and-later 455s have the long style shown on the right. We converted our '72 engine to use the short pump, which makes the 455 fit better into early A-body cars. We asked an auto parts store for a '68 Riviera 430 water pump and got the right one. The old long-style alternator adjuster bracket can be maintained, but we needed to buy short-style pulleys.
16. Before installing our new Edelbrock Performer intake, we found that Speed Pro had two listings for 455 intake gaskets. At left is the PN 260-4013 gasket, typically used with '70 blocks and heads without smog passages; at right is the smog-style gasket (PN 260-4023) that was required for our '72 engine. While we didn't need to remove the heads on our engine, also note that 455 water passages changed from '72 to '73, and the '73-and-later heads will leak water when used on a '72-and-earlier block unless you make some mods outlined in the Buick Performance Engines book.17. Here's the view of the intake surface of the '72 smog heads with the air-injection holes indicated by arrows. The instructions with the Edelbrock intake indicate that these 5⁄16-inch holes need to be plugged when installing the Performer, which does not incorporate the cast-in injection rails as the stock manifold did. However, the holes only need to be plugged if using the early-style gasket with the late smog heads; if you use the later PN 260-4023 gasket, the smog holes will be sealed sufficiently.18. This will give you an idea of where the smog injectors are in the '72 intake, and also reveal why we couldn't bear to reuse the stock intake. It's huge, heavy, and ugly. The Edelbrock unit will save pounds and add performance.19. As with most intake swaps, we needed a few extra things to complete it. Foremost were new shorter bolts (the Buick uses overkill 9⁄16 intake bolts), plus a few 1⁄2-inch pipe plugs and a heater-hose connector. We normally prefer brass plugs instead of steel, because the steel eventually rusts and looks bad. Please don't use that pink heater hose either. It's bogus. Get black. Since the stock aluminum thermostat housing was corroded, we dug around the boneyard for a good one and found a clean iron housing on a '73 model.20. All those trips to Pick Your Part failed to net us a Buick HEI distributor from a '74-and-later car, so we made sure the shaft wasn't too loose in our old points distributor and threw in some new points, a condensor, a cap, and a rotor. For the stock look, but with added performance, we had to have Jacobs Electronics' Energy Core resto wires. It's tough to find spiral-metal-core wires in black, but these are them. Not only that, the Jacobs Uni-Clips used to terminate the distributor end of the wires make them the easiest-to-assemble cut-to-length wire we've used.21. We also got a new Speed Pro fuel pump. If you got a double-roller timing chain, expect it's added width to rub on the arm of the pump. You may need to clearance the arm a bit, or just eliminate the manual pump and get an electric one. For a clean sleeper look that also helps keep the engine NHRA-legal, we were able to reuse the stock fuel hardline from the pump to the carb. It had to be rebent a bit to fit with the taller-than-stock Edelbrock intake. The carb is the stock 800-cfm Q-jet (note that '70 models used a smaller 730-cfm unit) that we simply cleaned up with Gunk carb cleaner since it ran fine.22. We converted the engine to use a 12SI, internally reglated 66-amp alternator instead of the wimpy externally regulated unit that came on our '65; Poston offers a conversion wiring harness to fit both the 455 engine and the newer alternator into the older car. We used the stock upper alternator bracket, but cut off about an inch that had a hole in it for the A/C compressor mount. Pep Boys had cut-to-length alternator spacers that we used for the lower mount. Those spiffy pulleys are March units from Poston designed to work with the short water pump.23a&b. Further tricks from Poston include the beefy, tall-style, cast-aluminum valve covers and the double-trick, two-piece, finned-aluminum oil pan. The valve covers require machine work to install a breather or an oil filler, and the cool pan was overkill for our stock engine. We intalled this stuff to make the motor look zoomie for the cover. (By the way, can you believe there's a Buick on the cover of Car Craft?) In reality, our sleeper mill uses the stock valve covers and oil pan that we sandbasted and painted.


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Cambodia: Information on the protection, services and legal recourse available to women who are victims of domestic violence (2004 - December 2006)
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Domestic violence is a "widespread" and "serious" problem in Cambodia, according to Violence Against Women: A Baseline Survey, the report of the first "systematic national survey" to address attitudes about domestic violence in Cambodia (GTZ, HRCP and UNIFEM, 7, 1). With the support of various international organizations, including the United States (US) Agency for International Development and the United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) (ibid., iv), independent experts undertook research to gain an understanding of the survey respondents' awareness and experience of violence against women and to assess the level of services available for victims of violence by surveying 3,000 people from the general population and 300 local authorities all spread out across Cambodia's 13 provinces. (ibid., V, XI – XII). The researchers found that 64 percent of those sampled knew a husband who was violent towards his wife, while 22.5 percent of the women in the sample reported that they had been victims of violence at the hands of their husband (ibid., 2).
In the foreword to the report of the national survey, Cambodia's minister of women's affairs, Dr. Ing Kantha Phavi, explains that domestic violence is viewed as "a family issue," as opposed to "a social issue or a public issue," a position she regards as unfortunate (ibid., III; see also LICADHO July 2004, 8). She also says that "assistance for victims is inadequate due to lack of support services and because outsiders are reluctant to become involved" (GTZ, HRCP and UNIFEM 2005, III). As the survey shows, key resources – including counselling, health centres and legal aid – are unavailable in most areas of the country (ibid., 86). A report published by the Cambodian League for the Promotion and Defense of Human Rights (LICADHO) similarly states that there is an "urgent" need for more trained counsellors to treat victims of domestic violence, as well as more shelters (LICADHO July 2004, 9).
The country enacted a law on the Prevention of Domestic Violence and the Protection of Victims in October 2005 (UN 20 Jan. 2006). In comments to the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), on this law and other legal and administrative measures addressing women's rights, Ing Kantha Phavi said that the measures were not always "fully effective because gender issues were still not deeply understood" (ibid.). She also said that "implementing the domestic violence law would be difficult," adding that many people in Cambodia believe that men have "the right to discipline women and children with violence" (ibid.). She further commented that various gender-protection policies and programs require more effort from the government (ibid.).
Laws prohibiting violence against women are not enforced by local authorities and police, according to Violence Against Women (GTZ, HRCP and UNIFEM 2005, 86). In fact, the report states that 71 percent of police surveyed told researchers that it is appropriate for a husband to subject his wife to the most extreme forms of violence – including those which can cause death – if she does not "obey or respect" him (ibid., 70).
The International Federation for Human Rights reporting on the comments of CEDAW as it considered Cambodia's report under its Convention, quoted the Committee as saying that it is concerned that women who are victims of violence face "'significant obstacles in accessing justice'" (22 Mar. 2006). CEDAW identifies these obstacles as:
"a lack of trust in the judicial system, the arbitrary interpretation of the criminal law by judges in favour of perpetrators, the prevalence of impunity of perpetrators, the limited availability of legal aid and the high cost of medical certificates that are required in cases of rape and sexual assault." (FIDH 22 Mar. 2006)
Likewise, the 2004 report produced by LICADHO states that the police and courts are "reluctant" to take domestic violence "seriously" since it is generally perceived as a family problem (July 2004, 8). The same source also reports that petitioning for divorce is a time-consuming process and that abused women seeking divorce are required to undergo a mandatory period of reconciliation (LICADHO July 2004, 8).
The government of Cambodia is reportedly planning an information campaign on the domestic violence law in order to inform judges, law enforcement officials, and the general public of the criminal nature of domestic violence (UN 20 Jan. 2006). No further information about this campaign could be found among the sources consulted by the Research Directorate.
This Response was prepared after researching publicly accessible information currently available to the Research Directorate within time constraints. This Response is not, and does not purport to be, conclusive as to the merit of any particular claim for refugee protection. Please find below the list of additional sources consulted in researching this Information Request.
Cambodian League for the Promotion and Defense of Human Rights (LICADHO). July 2004. Cambodian Women Report 2004: A Brief on the Situation of Women in Cambodia.
German Technical Assistance (GTZ), Human Rights in Cambodia Project (HRCP) and United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM). 2005. Violence Against Women: A Baseline Survey.
International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH). 22 March 2006. "Domestic Violence, Rape, Trafficking: A Prevailing Culture of Violence Targeting Women."
United Nations. 20 January 2006. Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW). "Women's Anti-discrimination Committee Considers Cambodia's Report; 'Code of Conduct,' Trafficking, Quotas Among Issues Addressed." (WOM/1530)
Additional Sources Consulted
Oral sources: A representative from the Cambodian Women's Crisis Center was not able to provide information within the time constraints of this Response.
Internet sites, including: Amnesty International, Cambodia Defenders Project, Factiva, Freedom House, Human Rights Watch, United Nations Development Fund for Women, United States Agency for International Development, Voice of America News, Worldpress.org.


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Furry Pillow
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This furry pillow is a comfortable, contemporary addition to any home. The Crochet Furry Pillow is on the right in Champagne.
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SIZE: One Size
12" [30.5 cm] square
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Smith-Lemli-Opitz syndrome
Other Names for this Disease
- Smith Lemli Opitz syndrome
- SLO syndrome
- 7-Dehydrocholesterol reductase deficiency
- RSH syndrome
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- Action Medical Research is a British medical research charity that funds research into rare diseases affecting children. This group has funded over £100 million in research projects. Click on the link to access information about their research into Smith-Lemli-Opitz syndrome.
- ClinicalTrials.gov lists trials that are studying or have studied Smith-Lemli-Opitz syndrome. Click on the link to go to ClinicalTrials.gov to read descriptions of these studies.
Patient Registry
- The Sterol and Isoprenoid Diseases Consortium (STAIR) is a team of doctors, nurses, research coordinators, and research labs throughout the U.S., working together to improve the lives of people with this condition through research. The Steroid and Isoprenoid Research Consortium (STAIR) has a registry for patients who wish to be contacted about clinical research opportunities.
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Microsoft Most Valuable Professional, Author and Speaker. Nominated several times as "MSDN Featured Developer of the Fortnight (India)". Winner of Community Credit Awards at www.community-credit.com several times. Authored numerous books and articles in Microsoft .NET and its related technologies.
Personal Web Site: www.joydipkanjilal.com
Received the Microsoft MVP Award for 2011!
Received the Microsoft MVP Award for 2010!
Selected as a Speaker at Spark IT 2010
Received the MVP Award for 2009!
Selected as MSDN Featured Developer of the Fortnight (India) in November and December, 2008
Entity Framework Tutorial is a new book from Packt that is a clear and concise guide to the ADO.NET Entity Framework and Data Services. Written by Joydip Kanjilal, this book will help users explore the Entity Client data provider and ADO.NET Data Services, and will learn how they work with the Entity Framework.
The ADO.NET Entity Framework is a framework for providing services on data models from Microsoft. It is a new way to build the data access layer of Windows or web applications. It's an Object Relational Mapping (ORM) technology that makes it easy to tie together the data in a database with the objects in an application.
This book starts with introducing the users to the ADO.NET Entity Framework and builds on their skills to speed up their application development by constructing a better data access layer. Users will also learn to write programs against the Entity Data Model to perform CRUD operations with complex data in their applications.
Through this book users will explore the features of the ADO.NET Entity Framework and understand the concepts of entities and their relationship. Users will be able to create an Entity Data Model using the ADO.NET Entity Data Model Designer as well as the EdmGen tool. Developers will learn how to create statements in Entity SQL.
This book targets C# developers who want to create their data access layer in an easier way. This book is out now and is available from Packt. For more information, please visit http://www.packtpub.com/
Entity Framework Tutorial - my latest book published!
My book titled, "Sams Teach Yourself ASP.NET Ajax in 24 Hours" has been published!
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My latest book ASP.NET
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created by John Resig that is being widely used these days in web application
development. The book Instant jQuery Selectors from Packt is a quick and concise
guide to jQuery Selectors. The initial pages of the book provides an overview
of the basics and then the author discusses advanced concepts that include
creating custom selectors, optimizing script performance, etc. The book is
written in a lucid language and contains many interesting concepts well
Overall, a good book and I would recommend it for all web developers who
would like to explore more on jQuery. However, it would have been great if
the author could have provided a few more real-life code examples.
Here is the link to this book: http://www.packtpub.com/learn-how-to-use-jquery-selectors-effectively/book
Automated testing is an integral part of Agile Development
Methodology. QUnit is a popular testing framework for testing JavaScript code.
The book "Instant Testing with QUnit" by Dmitry Sheiko (Packt
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fast guide to learn cross-browser testing with QUnit, learn how to use the
popular QUnit plugins and develop your own plugins. There are hands-on code
examples aplenty.
It is written in a lucid language and covers almost all the important aspects
of testing applications using QUnit. It is a nice quick guide to developers
using JavaScript and looking for a powerful, but easy-to-use testing framework.
A per-requisite (though not mandatory) for leveraging the most out of this book
is a good knowledge of automated testing.
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My article "Security Considerations and Best Practices for WCF 4 Apps" is live. Here is the link: http://visualstudiomagazine.com/articles/2013/08/01/security-considerations-and-best-practices-for-wcf-4-apps.aspx
It all started with the launch of Sputnik in 1957 by the then USSR. The USA then with a view to advance the country in the technology race, started the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA). One of the most important of the projects funded by ARPA was ARPANET - the World's first operational packet switching network. ARPANET led to the development of protocols that enabled networks to be joined into networks - this yielded to the emergence of the Internet of today.
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MediaWatch: August 1989
Table of Contents:
- MediaWatch: August 1989
- Study: Eric Engberg: Spin Doctor of CBS
- NewsBites: Cuomo in '92
- Revolving Door: Writing Reagan
- Celebrating the Sandinistas
- The Time - RNC Saga Continues
- Newspeak on Abortion
- Janet Cooke Award: TBS: Abortion Advocacy
Janet Cooke Award: TBS: Abortion Advocacy
The Supreme Court's Webster vs. Reproductive Health Services decision has sent abortion proponents and opponents scurrying to the grass roots in an effort to persuade local constituencies of their cause. But pro-abortion forces, with huge financial backing and a media sympathetic to their cause, now have cable guru Ted Turner and his vast, supposedly objective telecommunications empire behind their cause. Through Cable News Network, Headline News, and Superstation TBS, Turner stands to make a significant impact on the debate.
His new 30 minute documentary Abortion: For Survival (which aired July 20, 22, and 23 on TBS) is the latest of many Turner programs supporting abortion. Its blatantly pro-abortion stance earns Turner the August Janet Cooke Award.
Turner has crafted a clever way to spread his political views through his media outlets. By chairing the Better World Society (BWS), Turner has aired more than 35 leftist and pro-Soviet documentaries and commercials on TBS and CNN. Through contractual agreements BWS produces these advocacy programs, which are then aired free of charge on Turner networks. In cooperation with the International Planned Parenthood Federation, BWS produced and TBS aired Increase and Multiply? in 1987.
BWS is so committed to abortion that Zhou Boping, Vice Chairman of the China Family Planning Association (CFPA), sits on its Board of Directors. The CFPA enforces the regime's one-child-per- family population control program which has led to more than ten million forced abortions per year. Nevertheless, BWS awarded CFPA one of its 1988 Better World Medals.
Abortion: For Survival is the most recent BWS initiative to promote abortion. Explaining the need for the program, Turner stated recently: "I am alarmed that forces opposed to birth control are growing in strength, even while explosive population growth overwhelms the developing world. Political efforts in the United States to block family planning assistance, including legal access to abortion, adversely affect vitally needed family planning and population stabilization programs throughout the world."
The program was co-produced with Eleanor Smeal's Fund for The Feminist Majority. The video opens with an actual abortion. Once the minute-long procedure is completed, the woman declares: "To lawmakers, I would like to say that there are hundreds of thousands of women whose lives are being affected. It's not a political thing, it's not a philosophical thing. It's women's lives."
The abortion documentary viciously attacks the pro-life movement: "In what could be termed a rash of domestic terrorism, factions in the anti-abortion minority have turned to tactics of increasing violence and harassment."
By twisting and distorting the facts, the video also attempted to translate the goal of abortion on demand in America to the world arena: "The World Health Organization estimates that 430 million people do not have enough to eat and suffer from malnutrition... Abortion is a necessity for millions of women world-wide....In a civilized society we owe women the right to make this decision safely. It is a matter of survival....We have forgotten that this is a moral right."
BWS put together an hour-long discussion to follow the documentary including abortion opponents Congressman Robert Dornan and Nellie Gray, and abortion supporters Smeal and Planned Parenthood's Faye Wattleton. But were Turner and BWS really interested in an unbiased, balanced presentation in its panel follow-up? Turner certainly wasn't, commenting: "We'll give the other bozos a chance to talk back. They look like idiots anyway."
BWS hired liberal commentator Martin Agronsky to moderate. He weighted the panel to the pro-abortion side, repeatedly asking leading questions such as "If abortion and birth control become illegal in more countries, and birth rates go up, how will we handle the increased competition for finite resources?" Between panel segments, actress Margot Kidder, in free ad time, told television viewers BWS "believes that all women must have access to all available methods for controlling their own fertility, including abortion."
To balance Abortion: For Survival, Gray asked BWS to also air a pro-life documentary, either Eclipse of Reason or its predecessor The Silent Scream. Gray's request was denied, according to BWS Associate Director Victoria Markell because "We had already determined the format of the program." TBS publicist Kirsten White was not aware of the request but said that TBS Executive Vice President Bob Levy, "in conjunction with Ted Turner," would have the "final say so." White claimed: "At this point, we feel that the panel discussion that is being produced to follow it up will give ample opportunity to both sides to discuss the issue."
TBS officials jockeyed to paint the presentation as balanced through ads on TBS and CNN, but Turner admitted at a recent shareholders meeting that his personal feelings play a role in what is aired. Turner, who controls 61 percent of Turner Broadcasting stock, proceeded to defeat a proposed resolution that would guarantee "equitable" distribution of free airtime.
That's in keeping with Turner's "no holds barred" attitude toward broadcasting and public opinion making. It's also allowable in a free and democratic society. But while Turner can propagandize, viewers can also refuse his propaganda. When you view Abortion: For Survival, keep in mind the Better World Society's goals. Remember that Turner and his networks may be the greatest asset ever to the pro-abortion forces. Remember that you control your television sets, not Turner.


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Chennai: Tamil perayam an out fit of the SRM University today released 7 books published by it at its Kattankulathur campus. Retired Justice Mr P R Gokulakrishnan President of the Tamil Isai Sangam, was the chief guest.
Dr M Ponnavaikko Vice Chancellor SRM University in his address detailed about the activities of the Tamil Perayam and thanked the patron Dr T R Pachamuthu for his genrous contributions to the Tamil world. According to researchers, Tamil is the root language for various international languages like Latin, Chinese, Korean etc., and now people call the Tamil Language has emanated from Sanskrit.
He also said that the Tamil Perayam is planning to release more rare Tamil works by various litterateurs including the Maruthava Agaraathi which would be released shortly.
Dr T R Pachamuthu, Chancellor SRM University who is also the patron of the Tamil Perayam in his address said that SRM University is well known for Engineering Medicine streams and now it is becoming slowly known for propagating Tamil language.
Anointing the Vice chancellor Dr M Ponnavaiko to be president emeritus of the Tamil Perayam he added that the Tamil Perayam should grow to leaps and bounds. He further added that Tamil Perayam would be called as 5th Tamil Sangam by the future generation. He also advised that Tamil Perayam should launch a Tamil Magazine to kindle the creative literary thoughts among the youth.
Honouring Thiru Muthukrishnan of South Africa a person of Indian Origin who has his roots in Tiruvannamalai District over 150 years before said that Tamil language unites people from every where and I am proud to honour him.
Congratulating Dr Daniel Selvaraj who was accorded the Sahithya Acadamy award for his Tamil book 'THOL' which depicts the pathetic lifestyle of the workers of the leather industry he said that more such literary works should be honoured and hoped that Tamil Perayam would become a bigger alternative to Sahithya Acadamy in future.
Releasing the books Justice P R Gokulakrishnan said that I am happy that the Tamil feeling is inborn in Dr T R Pachamuthu and feel elated that Tami Perayam is doing a wonderful work in the Tamil field of Tamil literature.
He also noted that the Tamil Perayam is doing yomen service to the society by introducing the Tamil Diploma courses for Odhuvars and Aruchanaivars and hoped to see that M A Tamil and M Phil Tamil is launched by the University.
Lamenting the status of Tamil Literature among the young generation today, Justice Gokulakrishnan said more youth should be drawn to read Tamil books and congratulated the idea of launching Tamil Magazine to draw the youth.
The books released were Tholkappiar kaattum kudumbam - Dr Ira Ilangkumaranar, Tholkaapiar vilakkum thirumanapporuththam - Thamizhannal, Tholkappiyaththil veera nilaikkaala echangal - Ku Ve Balasubramanian, Ondre ulagam - Thaninayaga Adigal, all in Tamil.
The books written in English were Studies in Classical Tamil Literature - Dr S N Kandaswamy, Paththuppaattu - Dr A Dakshnamurthy, Ainkurunuru Vol 1 - Dr S N Kandaswamy.
Dr T P Ganesan Pro Vice Chancellor ( Planning ) and Dr P Thangaraj Pro Vice Chancellor Medical S R M University received the first copy of the books. Prof N Sethuraman Registrar, SRM University felicitated the authors on the occasion.
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The name of this village near the Minas de Riotinto is believed to derive from that of the Roman emperor Nerva, or from a tombstone bearing his name that was found in the local area. The surrounding landscape is almost lunar in appearance, with slag heaps standing beside pools of reddish water which give off an acrid, sulphurous odour.
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Hotel Vazquez Diaz
Calle de la Cañadilla, 51 E - 21670 Nerva
This hotel is located in Nerva, just a short drive from the Castillo de las Guardas Nature Reserve and the Riotinto Old Mines Park. It features a restaurant and free Wi-Fi is available throughout All air-conditioned rooms at Hotel Vazquez Diaz have ..