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SEO Keyword Research to Massively Increase Traffic & Grow Your Business
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- Introduction
- A Five-Step Framework to Increase Website Traffic
- Going Deeper into Keyword Research
- Useful Checklists for Optimizing Your Website
- Categorizing Keywords to Identify Intent
- Content Strategy for Products With Many Keyword Synonyms
- Getting Traffic for Low-Volume Technical Keywords
- Can You Sell a Product With No Search Volume?
- Impact of Product Schema on SERP Rankings
Tristam Jarman: And we are live. Good afternoon. Today, we will be talking about SEO Keyword Research and How To Massively Grow Your Business through that.
We've got Ross, who is based in London, and Tommy today, who is actually in Hawaii. I'm Tristam Jarman. I'm the co-founder of Purple Smudge, a digital marketing agency based in Brighton. I'll let you introduce yourself, Ross, so I won't mess anything up.
Ross Tavendale: Thank you very much, Tristam. For everyone watching, my name is Ross Tavendale. I'm the managing director of Type A Media. We're a search company based in London and our mission is to help brands find the optimal route to finding more people to talk to online.
Tristam Jarman: Excellent. Tommy, over to you.
Tommy Griffith: My name is Tommy. I'm previously SEO manager at PayPal and Airbnb. I run a digital marketing training course called ClickMinded. I'm excited to nerd out with you guys on keyword research today.
Tristam Jarman: Awesome. I don't know if you guys could just give us a little bit of information of kind of how you discussed with SEMrush and where you came to creating this webinar today. Let's throw that back over to you, Tommy.
Tommy Griffith: Yeah. I mean, keyword research is actually how I first got into search engine optimization, absolutely vital to everything we do it ClickMinded, but also stuff I did the enterprise-level as well.
We use it in search engine optimization, but there's a ton of kind of non-digital marketing, non-SEO reasons to do this. There's plenty of companies that use keyword research to sort of as a proxy for demand.
We'll talk a little bit more about how to use this to not only implement your digital marketing strategy but to also actually make really comprehensive business decisions as well.
Tristam Jarman: Excellent. It looks like we're ready to get started with the presentation. Once you're ready, Tommy, pull your presentation up and then we'll hand it over to you.
Tommy Griffith: Okay, cool. I'm going to take some kind of the theoretical, more very top of the funnel, and kind of strategy stuff, and then switch it over and we'll talk more technical stuff later in the webinar.
A Five-Step Framework to Increase Website Traffic
We're going to talk about how to find out what your ideal customers are searching for and then make your website the very first place that they visit. Then when Ross presents, he's going to be doing an overview on workflows to get keyword research done as effectively as possible, so you can have those epic four-day weeks, which I am very jealous of.
We've developed this framework, it's incredibly simple. It's a five-step process that you can use to optimize your site or your business for any search engine that you could reasonably drive traffic from:
Searcher intent and the user demographic
The digital asset you use
The digital medium you use
Optimization of those assets
The nudge to the next stage of the funnel
We're going to go through all of these.
Next, two quick important things to keep in mind before we jump fully into this five-step search framework process. The first is that search isn't just Google on your desktop anymore. A lot of people say, "Oh, SEO is just Google on your desktop." It's actually not true. These days there's a ton of ways to optimize different assets for different web applications.
You can do YouTube, you can do Amazon, Pinterest, or mobile search, Google Places, the App Store, Yelp, or LinkedIn, eBay local search. Anything with a search engine, any modern web application with a search engine has this SEO problem.
You can actually apply keyword research and search engine optimization tactics to a number of modern web applications that you can build a business on.
A lot of advanced SEOs are going to know this, but just for anyone who might be more entry to this: being on the first page isn't enough. The vast majority of clicks are going to the top five results. You really start to see the gains in your search engine optimization after doing keyword research when you move your document up to the top five.
This is why we do search engine optimization. Sometimes if you, unfortunately, there's a handful of less savory and shady people in our industry. A lot of the times they'll take on a new client and they'll say, "Hey, we have you on page two for 100 keywords." But the reality here is that you're not going to see the majority of your wins until you get into that top five results.
If you're not in the top five, you are effectively invisible. Just keep those two things in mind as we go through this whole process. Cool.
The search framework. Searcher intent and user demographic. The first thing we're going to ask is: who is the user? What are they searching for? Why are they searching for it?
Next is the digital asset. What type of content we're going to give that user? The digital medium, where is it going to live? The optimization and then the nudge.
This is the first thing we're going to do before we do our keyword research. Who is the user? What does the user search for and what stage of the funnel are they in?
Next is the digital asset and the digital medium. Okay. We know who we're targeting, how are we going to capture them? What type of content are we going to give this user and which platform will that asset live on?
Your digital asset, it can be a number of different things. Like I said before, SEO is not just Google on your desktop anymore. It can be a blog post. It might be a page on your site. That's fine, but it also might be a blog post or a forum response. It might be a social media post, a video, digital tool, image review, webinar, or product demo. It can be a number of different things.
The next is the digital medium. Maybe it's your website, or maybe it's YouTube, maybe it's Google Places, Yelp, Amazon, Quora, Pinterest, or the App Store. The medium you choose is up to you, it depends on your business.
The next step of this is optimization: is the document as relevant as possible for users? Every single platform is going obviously going to have a massive number of things to do. We're not going to cover all these things, of course, today, we don't have the time.
But the way you would optimize a page for Google is different from how you would optimize it for YouTube; it's different for how you would optimize it for Pinterest. The basic idea we're going to ask ourselves is, have you maximized traffic? What would it take to maximize it? Is it worth the effort?
With Google and search engine optimization, do you have the primary keyword in your title? Is it mentioned throughout the copy? Do you have a good number of internal links to the page? Are you using maybe latent semantic indexing keywords?
With YouTube, maybe is the keyword in your title again? Is the keyword in your description? How many likes and fully 100% completed views do you have? How many subscribers do you have? With Pinterest, it's how many pins do you have? Broadly, just how much popularity do you have to this document?
Last, and most importantly, is the nudge. What is the next action we want the user to take? What is the next thing that we want them to do? A lot of people make this mistake. They sort of haphazardly start creating a bunch of content and they don't know what they want the user to do next. Make sure that's very clear when you have that in mind.
If it's the top of the funnel, maybe it's view more content or view another video. If it's middle funnel, maybe you'd say, "Enter your email or enter your phone number," "Follow us on social," something like that. Or if it's towards the bottom of the funnel, maybe it's, "Buy a low-dollar product," or "Sign up today."
You always want to make sure there's a very clear next step with everything you do when you're creating this content.
This is just kind of a high-level overview of how the funnel works. With keyword research, we wanted to sort of lay that out there. If you're an absolute pro, this is probably fairly entry level for you. But I just want to get everyone on the same page before we get rolling.
One quick thing before we talk more about the sales funnel, as a reminder, you want to treat this like a regular human relationship. That means when you meet someone new, instead of driving all that traffic right to your checkout page, it's more like, "Hey, how are you? Nice to meet you. Tell me about yourself. What do you like, and not like?"
You want to treat your sales funnel like a regular human relationship and not like an insurance salesman at a party pushing people right to your checkout page right away.
Now, let's dig into the nerd stuff. We just have a couple of resources for you all that you can use to do this on your own. We're going to drop the first link into the chat now.
Going Deeper into Keyword Research
The first is our keyword research template. This is the way that we like to do our keyword research. I'll just quickly go through how some of this works. The link we're going to be dropping in is actually a direct link to copy the sheet in Google Drive, so just go ahead and make a copy, if you'd like.
The basic idea here is, let's say, we were doing this for a client or for ourselves, we would list all the possible keywords that we're doing research with SEMrush and list them out here along with the monthly volume.
In this particular case, I'm doing, let's say, a website on how to make a cake, cake recipes and things like that, and I list all of that out here. Then, I would list out a click-through rate chart.
I could start to lay out my document say, okay, cake recipes, we have a number of keywords related to cake recipes. There's a number of things you can do here once you've kind of put all this data in the same place.
Let's say, we were going to create a page on how to bake a cake. The URL might be /howtobakeacake. We have a number of different keywords here that are all sort of the same type of intent. One URL you create can rank for a number of different keywords, sometimes hundreds of different keywords.
This particular URL, we might be trying to rank for all of these keywords: how to make a cake, how to make a cake from scratch, how to bake a cake. We can add them all up here. Then, we can apply a click-through rate percentage to these.
Let's say, we're ranking number two for all of these keywords, this is saying then, "Okay. We get 15% of all clicks if we were ranking number two."
That means we would be driving 5,000 visits a month just to this page, and you can start to play with these numbers. If we're getting 5,000 visits a month to this page, let's say we had an opt-in rate for our email list of 9%, we'd be getting 454 leads a month. You can change these numbers as you see fit.
Same with your business, you can take these same numbers and modify them a bit. If your product is $497 and your conversion rate is 3% right, you're driving $11,000 worth of revenue to that page. It's going to really depend on your business. There's a lot of different ways to do this, but we just wanted to give you this sheet so you can have it as a takeaway and use that five-step framework we just talked about.
Useful Checklists for Optimizing Your Website
We have a couple of other checklists for you as well that we're going to drop in. We're just going to quickly go through these. These are SOPs. SOP stands for standard operating procedure. It's just a fancy way to say a really comprehensive checklist.
We have a number of digital marketing SOPs on our site. The first one is on-page optimization. Once you've done all your keyword research, you can optimize all your content with these SOPs. This one takes about 10 to 20 minutes to do. The goal of SOP: optimizing each page or blog post on your site.
What's the ideal outcome? Every page or blog post on your site is properly optimized. Any of the prerequisites you need. Why it's important. Where it's done. When this is done. This is our on-page optimization SOP, you can have that for free.
We have two more recipes for you. The first is keyword research and mapping. This is kind of what we just talked about, again how long it takes to do, it's listed up here, the goal of the SOP, the ideal outcome, any prerequisites you need, why it's important, where it's done, when this is done, and who does it. This is again a big one, 18 pages, make a copy of this and you just sort of follow along the steps. This is the way we like to do keyword research at ClickMinded. You can go ahead and take this.
Finally, last one and then I'll hand it over to Ross is our page-level SEO audit. Again, this is a monstrous one, 19 pages of how to do a complete SEO audit. This one's usually more helpful for past content, so if you have URLs or pages that are already live, maybe you haven't optimized them in the past, you can go through and follow this checklist sort of optimize everything as you go along.
Ross, if it's cool with you, I will hand it back over to you and swap over my screen.
Ross Tavendale: Fantastic. All right, guys. Ultimately, what we want to do is get you to a place where we can essentially, from everything that Tommy's just been over, I want to get a big, ugly list of keywords like this.
We've actually taken all of SEMrush's keywords. We're taking the top 5,000 of them. I want to categorize them or at least show you how to begin to categorize them, work out the intent of them as well, and then do something we call opportunity analysis.
Categorizing Keywords to Identify Intent
Of all the things that SEMrush.com actually rank for, here is the difficulty, along here. That's where we want to be in this particular one, high into the right. You'll see that the highest search volume is up the top there and the lowest competition. No surprise, the biggest keyword opportunity for SEMrush is writing about things around Google.
Similarly, I want to also show the actual intent of these keywords and the potential revenue they can make. Typically, clients will come to you and say, "I want to rank for transactional terms."
Gone are the days when actually getting the data was the hard bit. The hard bit is now once you've got the data, deciding what to do with it. We use this lovely little plugin called Supermetrics using the SEMrush API. As quick as you like, that is the top 5,000 keywords that SEMrush currently ranks for with URL position, search volume, the whole thing. Absolutely fantastic.
The thing is, if I was doing a bunch of keyword research, this is kind of all over the place. I don't know if any of you know this, but the secret to being good at SEO is to have really nice-looking sheets that are all nicely organized and color-coded. Of course, that's not the case, but I'm a bit anal, so let's do that.
Okay. We want to pull in the average difficulty for the term SEMrush. Let's get the search volume over here and the difficulty over there.
Tristam Jarman: There are a few questions which we'll cover up later, but just asking what super metrics is and I think some people are finding this possibly a bit complicated. But just for everyone watching, what you can do is take the sheet, as Ross said, and watch this again, follow through step-by-step.
Ross Tavendale: Fantastic. Absolutely, guys. One other thing I'd like to show you how to do is how do you actually categorize these keywords. Because it'd be really useful if I could take all 5,000 of these and actually categorize them according to something top level and also categorize them according to intent.
So what I'm going to introduce you to here, again it's in your sheets. It's something called an IF statement, which essentially says, "If you find this, call it this." Really simple and we've nested something in there which is a search statement, which essentially says, "Look for the keyword which is over here. Look for the keyword Google. If you find it, I want you to label this as Google." Really nice and simple.
What we want to be doing here is, once we've added up all of the different intent types, so from conversational to informational, to transactional. Conversations are very top of funnel stuff. Once we take the total volume, we can look at how physically difficult it is, so that by taking a SEMrush core for keyword difficulty, we can apply an average collectively.
What I'd really want to see here is I want to put these together in these graphs here. Because when we actually plot the difficulty against how much revenue we could potentially make, we can start to see some really interesting things. One of those things is, in the case of the SEMrush business, actually changing to transactional terms, which you can see down here in the bottom left, would be a terrible idea.
Reason being it's incredibly competitive and they're not going to make a lot of money out of it because the volume of people looking for that and the rate at which they convert customers does not make it worthwhile.
Whereas most customers of ours would think, "Oh, no we want to rank for, say, audit tool and things like that" Actually according to the data, you really don't. You want to rank for these informational terms here because they're much more lucrative and they're considerably easier to rank for.
Now, if we can imagine taking your intent and your opportunity and putting them together, that's going to start getting really interesting. This graph tells us that, "Yep, we can see that trying to rank for informational based terms is a good idea." But what informational terms? I want to combine the topics and the intent together and I want to get keyword intelligence on each of them. How do we do that?
Well, rather simply what we're going to do here is create something called data validation. All we're doing is literally going up to your data, and then we're going to click on data validation here, and then we're going to select our original table, and we're going to turn that into a nice little drop-down list. We literally just select all of these and, as if by magic, hit Save and it will create your lovely little drop-down list.
This is one of the ways that we can actually just start looking at our content in a much more structured way and our keyword research in a more structured way. When we're actually getting main stakeholder buy-in, we can say that..."This is why we want to rank for them (keywords) because this is the potential revenue upside, not only for the keyword type but their purchase intent depending on where the person is on the funnel."
This is key information that helps win the argument or the conversation, doesn't it? It's brilliant.
Content Strategy for Products With Many Keyword Synonyms
Tristam Jarman: Someone asked, "How do you handle a product with many, many synonyms. I don't know if I said that correctly. My case is TV stand, TV console, media Console, AV cabinet, et cetera." What are your thoughts, guys?
Ross Tavendale: It depends. That's the classic SEO response. It really depends. I imagine this person sells TV stands and they want to know how they should look at, how to build out pages if it should be one big one or multiple ones, et cetera.
Using Tommy's SOPs, I'd look at how you can build that stuff in to understand the intent, first and foremost. Is TV stand itself right at the top of funnel or is it right at the bottom of the funnel? That's really going to make me decide one way or another.
If it's bottom of the funnel and it's a transactional page, I don't want loads of content on there. I want it snappy. I actually want to think more about conversion rate optimization than I do about SEO at this point. But if it's things like best TV stands or TV stand to mount a Samsung 70-inch television, that will be its own thing.
One of the great tools you can use for this, and we're on the platform so I feel like in my shell for SEMrush right now, but their on-page SEO checker is phenomenal. You essentially just get your URL and the keyword you've mapped it to.
What it will then going to do is a TF-IDF, which is term frequency inverse document frequency look up. It will google the term and it'll peel the top 10 out and look at all the different keywords and all the different phrases that you should have on there, and you've actually got a plugin for WordPress and for Google Docs. I would start there. They've done it for you.
Tommy Griffith: The first thing, and I'd mentioned this briefly when I was speaking, is a lot of people who are new to this forget that any one page can rank for dozens or hundreds of keywords. I think the first step is looking at the whole universe, you mentioned TV stands, TV console, media console, AV cam, entertainment console, and actually trying to figure out what Google thinks is the same thing.
The really easy way to do this, the really simple way to do this is to Google it. You start to see, "Okay, wait. What other keywords are appearing together? What is Google bolding the suggested search for additional terms at the bottom?" It's a really good sort of synonym validator as well.
What you want to do is you want to start to bucket things based on what it looks like Google is determining. What has Google decided is a synonym relationship with another keyword and what is totally different?
The other way to do this is, yeah, you do your entire universe of keywords using tools like SEMrush. But then when you're doing your analysis, who is ranking and how often are those documents continuing to appear? If you google TV stand, TV console, media console, and it's the same one, two, three results every single time, those are probably sort of similar relationships.
Keep in mind what Google is bolding in the meta descriptions, what they're suggesting in the search down at the bottom, and then whether or not the search changes a lot when you do each search. If the searches are changing entirely between TV stand and TV console, it's different intent.
If they're kind of saying the same and like two's moving to three's and three's moving to two's it's roughly the same, it's probably similar intent. That's sort of the first step.
Getting Traffic for Low-Volume Technical Keywords
Tristam Jarman: Fantastic. Another question from Sherry is, "I have a client with very technical terms for food ingredients for B2B. How would you approach this?" What are both your thoughts on sort of how to approach that and especially from the B2B kind of perspective?
Ross Tavendale: I mean, Sherri, the first thing I'd be doing there is don't really worry about the keyword research as much as you're worried about the schema and the markup so that they actually know what the page is physically about. If you go to schema.org and put the product type in there, there should be a schema for what you're talking about.
Regardless if it's really technical B2B stuff, you're going to find that there is literally no search volume for it. We don't keyword research for blood plasma gen B2B technology provider. I know a ton of people looking for things that separate blood particles at scale.
What you want to do in that instance is have your landing page for that, because when they do search for it you need it to be there, but think of secondary things around what the audience searches for. If they are scientists or food scientists or caterers, think about what their day-to-day problems are and design content around that.
If they're like technical foods people, like scientists, go into one of their science journals and look at the articles that people are writing about and then start looking at maybe run that through SEMrush and see what keywords they rank for. So you're getting them an informational term and maybe you can do something like a lead capture to get them into your funnel, and then slowly push that out. but I would take a sidestep into something bigger.
Can You Sell a Product With No Search Volume?
Tristam Jarman: Excellent. Just taking a step back, because we've obviously been talking to a degree a quite high-level today, which is pretty awesome, but what if you do keyword research and there's no search volume for your product you're selling?
Tommy Griffith: Yeah. I have strong opinions on this one. This is where I turn into a jerk when I get asked this question and keyword research becomes actually, it's effective, it's efficient, but it also can become this very brutal moment in time for your business. Because the data doesn't lie.
A lot of people do this. They say, "I've got this new idea. It's Tinder for dogs, or it's like jet skis with flamingos on them or some kind of crazy idea, and they do the search volume and they say, "No one's looking for this. What should I do?"
Sometimes the answer is "this is a bad idea." No one was googling for Uber before Uber existed. No one was googling for exactly what Airbnb was before Airbnb. Of course, there are once-in-a-generation ideas that behaviorally change people. But SEO is not that.
SEO is much more boring and transactional in that. SEO is looking at the state of the world, understanding what they're searching for, and then answering their needs, solving their problems.
Keyword research can go in one of two ways. It can be absolutely devastating if you've invested a bunch in your business or created a new product and then you go look at Query and you say, "Oh my god, nobody wants this. This isn't solving any problems." That can be absolutely devastating.
But it can go in the other way as well. It turns out it can be hundreds of times more important than you thought, whatever your product is. We highly recommend doing keyword research before starting a new business, before launching a product line, before determining the color of a new product you're launching because it gives you a really good proxy for demand.
We get this question all the time. It's like, "Okay. I'm doing this new thing. There's no one searching for it, but there's like a related business. How should I go about doing this?" I don't want to be too discouraging but the data doesn't lie and so there are many times where you should look at the query and honestly look in the mirror and say, "Should I actually go through with this? Is this solving anyone's problem?"
Impact of Product Schema on SERP Rankings
Tristam Jarman: I think we probably got time for maybe one more question. "For ecomm, how does the schema for products help or have an impact on SERPs?" Anyone will take that one?
Ross Tavendale: It helps with your click-through rate, ultimately. If you've got schema around all of your products, it's going to show up and it's going to help with the click-through rate. One of the things I would look at, if you go down to entities and you want a really good deep dive, go over to a wikidata.org or wikidata.com, I can't remember, type in any put any person's name, scroll down, and look at the identifiers.
Those are all the databases inside of the knowledge graph that power the knowledge panel. Not only if you're not in those and you relate to a particular keyword set, regardless of you know traditional SEO stuff like links that you've got and all the rest of it, as far as we can see there's a dampening effect. If you're not in these identifying databases, you're not trusted, so, therefore, you're not ranked.
Tristam Jarman: Wicked. Tommy, anything to add?
Tommy Griffith: Yep, exact same thing. This is always how it works. Google incentivizes some behavior for webmasters, the webmasters then adopt it again an early advantage, everyone tries to chase them, everyone suddenly does what Google wants, Google takes over that part of the internet and moves on. Unfortunately, that's how it works.
I agree, if you're doing an e-commerce site, you generally want to mark up your product pages with as much schema as possible. Most content management systems do a lot of the work out of the box, Shopify can do this really well, there are WordPress plugins that do this really well, but you usually get quicker rate increases when Google uses it.
You don't always know when Google will use certain schema, stars, pricing, all these sorts of things. Google seems to change their mind a lot on what's relevant and what's not. But in general, if you're in e-commerce site, mark up your page with as much schema as possible.
Tristam Jarman: Awesome. Fantastic. I think we probably need to wrap up now. Also, this webinar will be posted up afterward. I think you're going to be notified if you registered. Tommy's awesome links will be in there to the SOPs. Ross's spreadsheet will be in there. I believe with that, if there's anything else you need, then just drop anyone message.


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Omar Sharif, the Egyptian-born actor who gained international fame for his roles in "Lawrence of Arabia," "Doctor Zhivago" and "Funny Girl," died in Cairo on Friday, July 10, 2015. He was 83.
A popular figure in Egyptian cinema, Sharif made his English-language film debut in David Lean's 1962 epic "Lawrence of Arabia. He later starred in Lean's 1965 romantic epic, "Doctor Zhivago" (left).
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Left: Omar Sharif in the 1950s.
Born Michel Shalhoub in Alexandria, Egypt, Sharif was the son of a Lebanese father and a Lebanese-Syrian mother. Raised in a wealthy family, he studied math and physics at the University of Cairo, before studying acting in London. He became a star of Egyptian cinema, and married his frequent costar, actress Faten Hamama (converting from Catholicism to Islam in the process).
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Omar Sharif with Peter O'Toole in David Lean's "Lawrence of Arabia" (1962).
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Omar Sharif as Sherif Ali in in David Lean's "Lawrence of Arabia" (1962). He received an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor.
"I think it is a great film, but I am not very good in it," Sharif told The Independent in 2012, on the occasion of the movie's 50th anniversary. "I also never thought anyone would go to see the film - three hours and 40 minutes of desert, and no girls!"
Sohaemus, the King of Armenia (Omar Sharif), encounters the Roman general Gaius Livius (Stephen Boyd) in the 1964 epic, "The Fall of the Roman Empire."
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Omar Sharif played a priest and Gregory Peck a former guerilla fighter out to capture a Francoist police officer in the drama "Behold a Pale Horse" (1964), directed by Fred Zinnemann.
Anthony Quinn, Omar Sharif and Gregory Peck in "Behold a Pale Horse."
In the anthology film 'The Yellow Rolls-Royce" (1965), directed by Anthony Asquith, Omar Sharif played a Yugoslavian fleeing the Nazis who uses a traveling American (Ingrid Bergman) to make his escape.
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In David Lean's historical romance, "Doctor Zhivago" (1965), based on the Boris Pasternak novel, Omar Sharif played the idealistic Yuri Andreyevich Zhivago, a doctor and poet whose writings are considered dangerous by the Bolsheviks rising to power.
Geraldine Chaplin as Yuri Zhivago's wife, Tonya, with Omar Sharif in "Doctor Zhivago."
Yuri Zhivago (Omar Sharif) and Lara (Julie Christie) have an affair in the midst of war in David Lean's "Doctor Zhivago."
Omar Sharif later said he came close to a breakdown from the stress of playing the role of Zhivago.
Nonetheless, the film was one of MGM's biggest hits ever, and his performance won Sharif a Golden Globe.
Omar Sharif played the Mongol conqueror in the 1965 epic, "Genghis Khan."
In "The Night of the Generals" (1967), Omar Sharif played a Nazi officer charged with solving the murder of a prostitute in Warsaw, in whose death three German generals (including one played by Peter O'Toole) are suspected.
Omar Sharif played the dashing gambler Nick Arnstein who romances vaudeville star Fanny Brice (Barbra Streisand) in "Funny Girl" (1968).
Images of the Arabic actor kissing the Jewish actress caused a stir in some quarters on the heels of the 1967 Six-Day War.
Omar Sharif, as the married Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria, has an affair with a baroness (Catherine Deneuve) in the historical drama "Mayerling" (1969).
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Catherine Deneuve and Omar Sharif in Mayerling" (1969).
Gregory Peck and Omar Sharif starred in the 1969 western, "McKenna's Gold."
Omar Sharif starred as the Marxist revolutionary Ernesto "Che" Guevara in the 1969 film, "Che!"
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Michael Caine and Omar Sharif starred in "The Last Valley" (1971), an historical drama set during the 17th century, directed by James Clavell.
In Sidney Lumet's "The Appointment" (1970), Omar Sharif plays a lawyer whose relationship with his new wife (Anouk Aimee) falls prey to suspicions about her fidelity.
Omar Sharif played the captain of an ocean liner threaten by a bomb plot in the 1974 thriller, "Juggernaut."
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Omar Sharif returned to the role of Nick Arnstein in the 1975 sequel, "Funny Lady," also starring Barbra Streisand as Fanny Brice.
Omar Sharif gets on the wrong end of an exploding cigar in the comedy "Top Secret!" (1984), directed by "Airplane!" creators Jim Abrahams, David Zucker and Jerry Zucker.
Omar Sharif played Prince Feodor Romodanovsky in the 1986 TV miniseries, "Peter the Great."
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Omar Sharif won acting honors at the Chicago and Venice film festivals, as well as France's version of the Oscar, for his performance in the 2004 drama, "Monsieur Ibrahim." He played a Turkish Muslim in France who befriends a young Jewish boy (Pierre Boulanger).
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Omar Sharif played a horse breeder in the 2004 adventure, "Hidalgo," starring Viggo Mortenson.
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Omar Sharif, as Prince Memucan, is pictured with Luke Goss, as King Xerxes I of Persia, in the 2006 film, "One Night With the King," a retelling of the Biblical story of Esther.
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Actor Omar Sharif on stage at an American Film Institute tribute to the actor, at the Arclight Thetre on November 11, 2003 in Los Angeles.
In addition to acting, Sharif had a passion for bridge, and was ranked among the world's best players.
"I'd rather be playing bridge than making a bad movie," he was once quoted as saying.
Sharif died of a heart attack at a hospital in Cairo on Friday, July 10, 2015, his agent told CBS News.
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other purposes, as the manufacture of buttons and as a stuffing material in the manufacture of sausage. The Louisiana Station has found the digestibility of commercial rice bran to be similar to that of wheat bran and polish to that of maize meal when fed to steers.
528. Production of Rice in the World.—While it is estimated that rice enters more or less into the dietary of 800 millions of people, or half the people of the world, the production of rice is not known accurately. It is estimated that Asia produces 72,387 million pounds, Europe 1,507 million pounds, and North America 284 million pounds. According to this estimate, which includes the principal rice producing countries, the production of rice is about one-half that of maize or wheat, somewhat less than that of oats, and somewhat more than that of barley. While rice has been estimated to constitute the principal food of at least onethird the human race, it is probable that other foods, such as sorghum seed and the seeds of legumes, enter largely into their dietary.
The countries of Central America produce rice somewhat extensively, Honduras being especially favored, while the countries of northern South America produce rice sparingly. Italy and Spain are the chief rice producing countries of Europe and Egypt of Africa. Rice is produced throughout the warmer parts of Asia, China, Japan and India being especially noted for its production and the high state of its cultivation.
529. Production of Rice in the United States.—Rice is a secondary crop in the United States, occupying, in 1899, about one-five-hundredth of the area in cereals. The production, however, has increased somewhat rapidly during the past decade on account of the development of the prairie regions
1 La. Bul. 77, p. 436. 9 Inter. Encyc. Vol. XIV, p. 1049.
of southwestern Louisiana and southeastern Texas. Marked changes have taken place in the production of rice in the South Atlantic States, due to changes in economic conditions, and to some extent to increased variations in the water supply, caused by the removal of forests from the headwaters of the streams. In 1899 sixty
1850 1860 1870 1880 1890 1900 one per cent of the crop
200 of the United States was raised in Louisiana, seventeen per cent in South Carolina and twelve per cent in Hawaii. The only other States raising more than one per cent of the Chart showing production of rice in million pounds total production were by decades in South Central and South Atlantic
States. Georgia, North Carolina and Texas. While Hawaii produces twelve per cent of the rice in the United States, this is not sufficient to supply the consumption of the islands. The Philippines also raise a considerable quantity of rice, but not sufficient for domestic consumption.
530. Yield per Acre.— The average yield of rough rice per acre in the three census years, 1879, 1889, 1899, has been 746 pounds. In Hawaii the yield per acre in 1899 was reported as 3,663 pounds. In the Southern States a yield of ten to twelve barrels of 162 pounds each on irrigated land is considered satisfactory, while twenty barrels, and even thirty barrels, in exceptional cases, have been reported. The average price of rough rice in 1899 was three cents, and the value per acre was $22.46.
531. Marketing.—The weight of a bushel of paddy or rough rice is forty-five pounds. Paddy is, however, usually put up in barrels or sacks weighing 162 pounds, and commercial quotations are usually by the barrel, rather than by the bushel.
Quotations of milled rice are usually by the pound. The New Orleans Board of Trade recognizes the following grades: extra fancy, fancy head, choice head, prime head, good head, fair head, ordinary, screenings, common, inferior, No. 2. All grades between extra fancy and fair are for whole grains or head rice.
Grades between ordinary and inferior include broken grains ; while No. 2 is composed of fine particles, which are sold principally to brewers. The wholesale price of rice of the highest grade is somewhat more than three times that of the lowest grade. Variations in grade of head rice depend principally upon the size of the kernel, the brilliancy of the polish and the pureness of the color.
The export of rice from the United States is insignificant, but the import is fully one-half as much as the domestic production. The principal sources are Japan, China, Germany and Great Britain.
III. HISTORY. 532. History. In the annual ceremony of sowing five kinds of seeds, instituted by the Chinese Emperor 2800 B. C., rice is considered the most important, since the Emperor must sow it himself, while the other four species may be sown by princes of the family." (192) Rice was not known to the ancient Egyptians. It was introduced into Spain by the Saracens, and into Italy in the fifteenth century A. D. It was introduced into the Virginia Colony in 1647; but its cultivation cannot be said to have begun until 1694, when a small bag of rice seed was presented to the Governor of South Carolina by the captain of a trading vessel bound from Madagascar. The garden in Longitude Lane, Charleston, where the industry originated, so far as this country is concerned, is still pointed out." 1 Origin of Cultivated Plants, p. 385:
Ramsey: History of South Carolina ; U. S. Dept. of Agr., Div. of Stat. Misc. Ser. 6, p. 8.
533. STUDY OF THE RIce Plant.—The plant may be studied in the laboratory, or partly in field, as opportunity offers. Compare Honduras, Carolina and Japan varieties, 1. Height of culm: average of ten culms to tip of upper flowering glume ... 2. Diameter of culms : average of ten culms just below raceme ... 3. Vigor of plant: strong; medium; weak, 4. Wall of culm: thick; medium; thin. 5. Foliage : scanty; medium; abundant. 6. Length of raceme: average of ten racemes from base of lower spikelet to tip
of upper flowering glume, not counting awn, if any... 7. Compactness of raceme: very open ; open; medium; crowded. 8. Shattering: badly; medium; none. 9. Color: hull ...; cuticle ...; endosperm ... 10. Density of endosperm: vitreous; mostly vitreous; partly vitreous; largely
white. II. Dimensions of grains: average of twenty-five : length ...; width ...;
thickness . . . 12. Dimensions of kernel: average of twenty-five: length . . .; width ...
thickness . . . 13. Weight: average of twenty-five: grains . . .; kernels...; per cent
of hulls to grain ... 14. Weight per bushel: obtained by weight of one pint ...
534. COLLATERAL READING. Rice: Its Cultivation, Production and Distribution in the United States and Foreign
Countries. By Amory Austin. U. S. Dept. of Agr., Div. of Stat, Misc.
Ser. 6, pp. 7-24. The Present Status of Rice Culture in the United States. By S. A. Knapp.
U. S, Dept. of Agr., Div. of Bot. Bul. 22 (1899), pp. 21-33. Rice: Preparation, Cultivation, Flooding, Harvesting and Noxious Weeds in the
Rice Fields. By Wm. C. Stubbs and W. R. Dodson. La. Bul. 61, 2d ser.,
pp. 385-392. Irrigation of Rice in the United States. By Frank Bond and George H. Keeney.
U. S, Dept. of Agr., Office of Expt. Sta. Bul. 113, pp. 14-20 and 60-68.
1. STRUCTURE, COMPOSITION AND VARIETIES. 535. Name.—There is no common name which is applied generally to the different cultivated forms of Andropogon sorghum vulgaris Hackel, A. sorghum Brot., Sorghum vulgare Pers. The cultivated forms may be divided into three groups : (1) Those varieties whose juice has a high per cent of sugar which is used for making sirup and from which sugar is sometimes produced, known as sorghum (Sorghum saccharatum Pers.), sometimes probably incorrectly recognized as a separate species; (2) those varieties cultivated for their grain, known as Kafir corn, African millet, Indian millet, durra (spelled also dura, dhura, doura, dourra), milo maize, Jerusalem corn, Guiana corn, and Egyptian rice corn; (3) those varieties cultivated for the production of their spikes which are used for making brooms, known as broom corn.
The first form may be distinguished from the second and third forms by the quality of the juice, the first being known as sweet or saccharine sorghums and the second and third being known as nonsaccharine sorghums. In this book the word sorghum will be used to apply to all cultivated forms, and statements made are to be taken as applying to all unless otherwise stated.
536. Relationships.--Sorghum belongs to the same tribe (Andropogoneae) and to the same genus as Johnson grass (Andropogon halepensis Sibth.), which is believed by Hackel to be the original form of sorghum.'
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Minuial nodded to her companions and set off into the wood and the rain. Shale settled himself against a tree, waiting in silence, while Eristed glanced about in a futile attempt to regain his bearings. With no way to contribute, their unfortunate travelling companion simply did his best to his bide his time and stay dry.
The wait was long. As if untouched by any sense of urgency, Shale had immediately set about filling the time. His backpack sat beside him, oil and cloth and other weapon care items placed upon his generous lap, he set about the oft-done practice of maintaining his weapon. Any spec of rust was filed or polished away, and a generous polish of protective greases were applied.
It took longer before Eristed settled, finally accepting his failure. Unlike his companions, who did their best to take shelter against a sturdy trunk, Eristed instinctively found a nearby clearing in the canopy overhead. He sat upon the bed of leaves and twigs, the rain coming down unhindered at a shallow angle. He cleared away a small patch of detritus before him, revealing the moisture-laden fertile soil, and ran his fingers through it. The presence of near all five Elements so plentifully was soothing and a rare experience.
The wait was finally broken when a signal whistle cut through the downpour. Eristed and Shale gathered their gear and made a brief attempt to locate the direction. However, they abandoned the effort quickly - tracking and orienteering were not their forte. Minutes passed before the image of a somewhat perturbed Minuial appeared barely visible in the haze. With a clear direction, her companions made their way towards her.
Reunited once more, Minuial led them purposefully forward. She'd located the fresh trail of a Namegiver as well as traces from countless other woodland creatures. Now, her focus on the Namegiver, the path shown before her as an unmistakable trail of shimmering light. The energy floated just above the ground, a slight meandering tenor to it. Brilliant lingering bursts of light appeared where the Namegiver's feet had touched the ground or its body had brushed vegetation.
Minuial was confident that the tracks were from the Beastmaster. Where normal Namegivers forge their way through terrain, bending it to their will and pressing it aside, these tracks were different. This Namegiver moved much like an animal might, snaking through and around the plants, following natural valleys and ridges, and avoiding obstacles rather than simply climbing over them.
Eventually, they came upon the edge of a small clearing. A lone tree stood near the clearing's center, a small but well-made wooden structure built into the boughs. No doubt, this was the Beastmaster's home, and the four strode forward, glad to have reached their destination.
Through the grey veil of rain, they could see a lone figure standing near the tree. A Windling, no doubt, with its incredibly short stature. Eristed smiled warmly and strode forward ahead of his companions to make introductions.
The Windling turned to meet Eristed's gaze almost lazily, its head cocked at a slight angle. Oozing sores of various sizes and purple shades covered his exposed flesh. Large black feathers, each near in length to the Windling's forearm, had been thrust into his skin, sometimes in rough clusters, often through its filthy travelling garb. From his shoulders, the Windling's own wings hung limp and shredded.
Eristed slowly backed away from the twisted Namegiver. He only barely rejoined the ranks of his companions when the Windling let loose a raspy cry and hurled himself upon them.
Shale took the initial assault upon his massive shield while freeing his war hammer from its clasp. Meanwhile, Eristed and Minuial backed further away, allowing their Warrior companion to engage freely. Minuial drew her bow and readied an arrow for an opportune shot. Eristed began weaving a spell to help harry the Beastmaster and aid his friend.
After the initial blows, a raucous cacophony of caws rose up from the tree behind the Beastmaster. A half dozen large black crows took to the sky and circled just overhead in the clearing, filling the air with the sound of beating wings and throaty cries. Below, Shale traded blows with the Beastmaster alongside the occasional punctuation of arrow and ice from the others.
The murder of crows descended upon the battlefield with arcing dives from all angles. They split their numbers, doing their best to aid the Beastmaster by engaging all his foes. The birds tore at their prey with razor-edged talons that seem to burst with crackling blue electricity in their frenzied attack.
Minuial shifted her strategy and traded bow for sword. The blade shone with a faint luminescence as it was pulled free form its scabbard, and Minuial hefted it aloft before her in a fighter's stance. She met the onslaught of talons with crystal shield and glimmering edge, a firework display of blue energy arcs and brilliant white star bursts. On the other side of the clearing, Eristed continued throwing spells upon his attackers, translucent chains of ice entangling crows and dropping them momentarily to the ground.
The melee stretched on, but the adventurers emerged victorious. The crows fell motionless from the sky one after the other, overcome by sword and spell. Shortly after, the Beastmaster succumbed to the pounding blows of the war hammer. Finally, the sounds of battle gave way to only wind and rain.
It was a mixed blessing that the Beastmaster had been fatally wounded in the fight. No doubt, he suffered grievously under some Horror's influence. However, with his death, the adventurers were once again rudderless.
Eristed carefully examined the Windling corpse while Minuial climbed up into the tree-held abode. The Windling itself was a miserable thing to behold - unhealing and infected wounds seeping black-red blood and sickly white cream beside sucking puncture holes where the feather shafts cut deep into the flesh. No possessions of note were held upon him, only the occasional coin and gear one would expect of a well-traveled Namegiver.
The sounds of rough search marked Minuial's time in the home. She emptied drawers and overturned furnishings, hoping for something they might use. Eventually, she leapt down from the wooden structure, landing gracefully upon the ground with a bundle of loose items in her arms. She walked forwards and dumped the goods unceremoniously before the others.
"Nothing" was all she said as Eristed and Shale knelt down over the odd assortment. A crumbled heap of papers and scrolls lay in no discernible order, their off-white fibers steadily darkening brown with soaking rain upon them. Eristed lifted up one parchment and attempted to examine the scrawling text. If there was any wisdom to be had, it had died with the Windling, for no sense could be made of the not-words that seemed scribbled upon the pages.
Eristed sighed and let the parchment fall away form his open hand. "Such a shame."
Minuial made a final glance down at the heap and then marched purposefully towards the woods again. "We'll follow the tracks." Shale nodded silently, and the group followed behind. With luck, the various comings and goings of the twisted Namegiver would lead them to the source of the corruption that plagued the village.
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3. Et prudentes fulgebunt quasi fulgor expansionis, et qui justificant multos, sicut stellae in seculum et seculum, id est, in perpetuum.
The word |prudent| means endued with intellect. Some take it transitively, and in this passage their opinion is probably correct, because the office of justifying will soon be assigned to these prudent ones. But the former sense suits chapter 11 better, and in verse 10 it will be put absolutely. Hence it means those who are endued with understanding. The angel here confirms what I have lately expressed concerning the final resurrection, and shews how we shall enjoy its fruits, because eternal glory is laid up for us in heaven. We ought not to complain of being treated unworthily, whenever we seem to suffer harshness at God's hands, because we ought to be satisfied with the glory of heaven, and with the perpetual existence of that life which has been promised to us. He says then, the teachers, or those who excel in understanding, shall shine forth as the light of heaven If the word |teachers| is thought preferable, there will be a figure of speech, a part being put for the whole, and, therefore, I follow the usual explanation. He applies the phrase, |endued with understanding,| to those who do not depart from the true and pure knowledge of God, as will be afterwards explained more fully. For the angel contrasts the profane who proudly and contemptuously rage against God, and the faithful whose whole wisdom is to submit themselves to God, and to worship him with the purest affection of their minds. We shall say more on this subject to-morrow. But he now says, those who retained sincere piety should be like the light of the firmament; meaning, they shall be heirs of the kingdom of heaven, where they shall enjoy that glory which surpasses all the splendor of the world. No doubt, the angel here uses figures to explain what is incomprehensible, implying, nothing can possibly be found in the world which answers to the glory of the elect people.
And those who shall justify many shall be like stars, says he. He repeats the same thing in other words, and now speaks of stars, having formerly used the phrase, the brightness of the firmament, in the same sense; and instead of |those who are endued with understanding,| he says, those who shall have justified Without doubt, the angel here especially denotes the teachers of the truth, but in my opinion he embraces also all the pious worshippers of God. No one of God's children ought to confine their attention privately to themselves, but as far as possible, every one ought to interest himself in the welfare of his brethren. God has deposited the teaching of his salvation with us, not for the purpose of our privately keeping it to ourselves, but of our pointing out the way of salvation to all mankind. This, therefore, is the common duty of the children of God, -- to promote the salvation of their brethren. By this word |justifying,| the angel means, not that it is in the power of one man to justify another, but the property of God is here transferred to his ministers. Meanwhile, we are as clearly justified by any teaching which brings faith within our reach, as we are justified by the faith which springs from the teaching. Why is our justification ever ascribed to faith? Because our faith directs us to Christ in whom is the complete perfection of justification, and thus our justification may be ascribed equally to the faith taught and the doctrine which teaches it. And those who bring before us this teaching are the ministers of our justification. The assertion of the angel, in other words, is this, -- The sons of God, who being devoted entirely to God and ruled by the spirit of prudence, point out the way of life to others, shall not only be saved themselves, but shall possess surpassing glory far beyond anything which exists in this world. This is the complete explanation. Hence, we gather the nature of true prudence to consist in submitting ourselves to God in simple teachableness, and in manifesting the additional quality of carefully promoting the salvation of our brethren. The effect of this our labor ought to increase our courage and alacrity. For how great is the honor conferred upon us by our Heavenly Father, when he wishes us to be the ministers of his righteousness? As James says, We preserve those about to perish if we bring them back into the right way. (James 5:19.) James calls us preservers, just as the angel calls us justifiers; neither the angel nor the apostle wish to detract from the glory of God, but by these forms of speech the Spirit represents us as ministers of justification and salvation, when we unite in the same bonds with ourselves all those who have need of our assistance and exertions. It follows next: --


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One of the most fruitful, certainly the most enduring, of these relationships was with Gene Sarazen who joined Wilson as a member of the Advisory Staff in 1922 and would retain his links with Wilson Sporting Goods until his death in 1999.
Just a decade into that 77-year relationship Sarazen struck on an invention that made golf a whole lot easier and almost certainly won him the 1932 Open Championship. Gene Sarazen's idea for a sand wedge was taken up by Wilson: 50,000 of the R-90 Wilson wedges were sold in the first year of production.
It was Sarazen who kick started one of the most enviable records in world golf. His wins at the 1922 US Open and at the US PGA the same year were Wilson's first majors. By the time the dust had settled on Padraig Harrington's double major glory in 2008, Wilson could boast that they had powered 61 major champions to victory.
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Reflecting on both Gilbert's all too short life and all the terrible conflicts in the World today, the owner of Gilbert's portrait recently said to us that "Mankind is an appallingly slow learner". We couldn't agree more.
We now leave it to English poet, writer and friend of Ranken, Siegfried Sassoon (1886-1967) who was also a soldier in The Great War, to close this special tribute with his incredibly moving poem, 'Aftermath'.
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Have you forgotten yet?...
For the world's events have rumbled on since those gagged days,
Like traffic checked while at the crossing of city-ways:
And the haunted gap in your mind has filled with thoughts that flow
Like clouds in the lit heaven of life; and you're a man reprieved to go,
Taking your peaceful share of Time, with joy to spare.
But the past is just the same-and War's a bloody game...
Have you forgotten yet?...
Look down, and swear by the slain of the War that you'll never forget.
Do you remember the dark months you held the sector at Mametz-
The nights you watched and wired and dug and piled
sandbags on parapets?
Do you remember the rats; and the stench
Of corpses rotting in front of the front-line trench-
And dawn coming, dirty-white, and chill with a hopeless rain?
Do you ever stop and ask, 'Is it all going to happen again?'
Do you remember that hour of din before the attack-
And the anger, the blind compassion that seized and shook you then
As you peered at the doomed and haggard faces of your men?
Do you remember the stretcher-cases lurching back
With dying eyes and lolling heads-those ashen-grey
Masks of the lads who once were keen and kind and gay?
Have you forgotten yet?...
Look up, and swear by the green of the spring that you'll
never forget.
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High Court of Rajasthan
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RAJ KUMAR v STATE & ORS - CW Case No. 2403 of 1996 [2007] RD-RJ 5329 (5 November 2007)
CIVIL WRIT No. 2403 of 1996
Mr VASUDEO, for the appellant / petitioner
Mr. RK SINGHAL, for the respondent
Date of Order : 5.11.2007
Heard learned counsel for the parties.
By this petition, the petitioner seeks to challenge the orders of the learned Board of Revenue, learned Revenue Appellate Authority, and the learned
S.D.O., whereby the mutation recorded by the Tehsildar, being mutation number 866 dt. 21.12.83, has been set aside.
The facts of the case are, that the husband of the private respondent no.2, hereafter referred to as the respondent, and the petitioner were real brothers, the husband of the respondent executed a registered relinquishment deed in favour of the petitioner on 22.9.1983, relinquishing all his rights in the suit land, which admittedly devolved on the two brothers by inheritance. On the basis of this relinquishment deed, proceedings were initiated for mutation, and the mutation was sanctioned on 8.11.83. The executant of the relinquishment deed expired, and thereafter in the year 1986, the respondent filed an appeal against the mutation before the learned S.D.O. The learned S.D.O. by order
Annexure-3 allowed the appeal holding, that under the
Rajasthan Tenancy Act transfer of khatedari rights is not contemplated by any document like relinquishment deed, and therefore, on the basis of relinquishment deed the mutation could not be sanctioned. The learned Revenue Appellate
Authority also endorsed the findings, by concluding, that
Khatedari Bhumi can only be alienated by gift, sale, mortgage, or subletting, and the transfer made by relinquishment is not valid, and upheld the order of the learned S.D.O. vide judgment Annexure-4, and the learned
Revenue Board also dismissed the revision vide Annexure-5.
Assailing the impugned judgment Annexures 3, 4, and 5, it is contended by the learned counsel for the petitioner, that under the Rajasthan Tenancy Act, khatedari rights are transferable, and heritable, with certain restrictions, like prohibition of transfer by a person like
SC/ST in favour of person not belonging to such caste, or tribe, or imposing restrictions about subletting, or mortgage, not to be for a period of time beyond the one specified, but then there is no prohibition on transfer of rights by way of relinquishment deed, thus the impugned orders are liable to be set aside.
Learned counsel for the respondent, on the other hand, supported the impugned orders, by reading the provisions of Section 42, and contending, that this section contemplated transfer only by way of sale, gift, or bequest, and by Section 43 transfer by way of mortgage is permitted, then by virtue of Section 44 right to sublet is permissible, and therefore, no other type of transfer is contemplated by the provisions of Rajasthan Tenancy Act, and therefore, the impugned orders are perfectly alright.
I have considered the submissions, and have gone through the impugned orders, so also the provisions of the
Rajasthan Tenancy Act.
In my view, the impugned orders can possibly not be sustained, as they are contrary to the basic provisions, even of the Rajasthan Tenancy Act. In this regard I may refer to the provisions of Section 41 of the Rajasthan
Tenancy Act, which reads as under:-
"41 Transferability of Khatedar's interest- The interest of a Khatedar tenant shall be transferable, otherwise than by way of sub-lease, subject to the conditions specified in sections 42 and 43."
A bare reading of this section is enough to conclude, that the conclusions arrived at by the learned authorities below are wholly untenable. Section 41, in unequivocal terms, enacts the interest of the Khatedar tenant to be transferred, and only prohibits subletting, and transferability is circumscribed by certain conditions, enacted in Section 42 and 43. Section 42 as noticed above, prohibits transfer by person belonging to SC/ST to a person not belonging to such caste or tribe, about the extent of the land, to prevent fragmentation, while Section 43 imposes restrictions in case of mortgages but then from these provisions, to read, as if the Tenancy Act only permits transfer by way of Sale, Bequest, Will, or mortgage etc. does, to say the least, amounts to doing violence with the language of Section 41, which in equivocal terms enacts the transferability of interest of Khatedar's right. The matter of transfer of interest of immovable property is a matter covered by other legislations, including Transfer of Property Act, or the Stamp Act, or the Registration Act, and transfer by way of relinquishment is one of the recognised modes of transfer. In that view of the matter, no exception could be taken to a transfer of interest of
Khatedari Right, to be effected by relinquishment deed. Of course, subject to existent rules, or other requirements, whereunder property can be transferred by way of relinquishment, which are not shown to be existent in the present case.
The other aspect of the matter also is, that the appeal before the S.D.O. was barred by limitation, as the appeal challenging mutation of the year 1983, was filed in the year 1986. May be that the application under Section 5 of the Limitation Act was filed; but then, it is not shown, that that application was considered on merits, and was allowed. Simply by making mention of the fact of filing of such application, and then considering the case on merits, cannot be sustained, on the face of clear language of
Section 3 of the Limitation Act.
Thus, considering from any stand point, I do not find the orders Annexures-3, 4 and 5 to be sustainable.
The result of the above is, that the writ petition is allowed. The impugned orders Annexures-3,
Annexure-4, and Annexure-5 are quashed, and the order
Annexure-2 is restored. The parties are left to bear their own costs.
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Indulge your taste buds in a menu of Western and Asian cuisines, where you can sample delectable dishes made lovingly by the students who run the application restaurant.
What to experience ?
Lotus Blanc Restaurant provides a quality dining experience combined with the friendly service of the Khmer people. Apart from their service being of a consistently high standard (and of course with that infectious smile) the food is also delicious.
The restaurant draws a regular crowd of locals and travellers to indulge in its popular set lunches. Their daily lunch and dinner salad buffet gives hungry and inquisitive stomachs the chance to try a variety of delicious food. With dishes such as deep-fried prawns with tamarind sauce, glass noodles with seafood, seafood amok and duck confit, they can please even the fussiest palate. Open for breakfast, lunch and dinner, from Monday to Saturday, there's no reason to miss out such a treat.
Every Friday and Saturday night, the restaurant hosts a traditional Khmer dance show, and a series of original events.
How does it help ?
Part of a growing chain of non-profit restaurants across the city, Lotus Blanc restaurant is part of the activities of 'Pour un Sourire d'Enfant' (PSE litterally meaning For the Smile of a Child). This NGO was started in late 1995 by a couple who saw it as their mission to reduce the extreme poverty they witnessed in Cambodia.
They started by serving food to scavenger children living off garbage collections, then they opened a school, providing food and/or revenues through part time jobs to the families so they don't send their kids back to the garbage mountains,.then they developed classes from primary to high school, and eventually vocational trainings. Over the years, they've supported more than 8000 students with education, food and health care, social protection and vocational training. The staff is 96% Cambodian and some current managers were former disadvantaged children.
In the vocational training centre of PSE, there are 7 schools (hospitality, business, gardening, mechanics, construction, home and food management, hairdressing and beauty care) where 19 skills are taught.
Their two application restaurants provide real training and experience to students in the kitchen and restaurant environment that will provide them with the necessary skills and experience to find a job elsewhere when they graduate.
In keeping with the present-day trend of environmentally conscious businesses, most of the vegetables served in Lotus Blanc come from an organic farm in Areikat Commune.
In Siem Reap and Sihanoukville they have created 'integration centres' for students pursuing an internship or starting their professional careers. These have been established to designate contact people and assistance, and secure a safe environment for the female students in an unknown city, far away from their families.
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Here are some pictures from the Father/Son Dinner put on by the Women's Ministry! A huge thanks to all those who worked so hard to make this happen and be such a special evening forl all!
Awesome Family Festival, Neighborhood BBQ & Concert! Perhaps 500-600 people came for this spectacular event and delicious food! Thanks to all who worked hard, gave generously and put in much time to make this happen! If you attended the event as a guest, we thank you, too! Thank you for participating in this special time! We hope you can come back soon!
An awesome group went down for the March for Life at our State Capitol, Olympia, on Tuesday, January 18th, 2011! It was a peaceful way to take a stand for the value of life at every stage! Over 7,000 people flooded the steps of the Capitol to stand for life!
Did you know...
• Washington State spends more than $7 million a year aborting it's youngest citizens.
• In Washington, a 14 year-old cannot go to an R rated movie, get a tattoo, go to a sun bed, or get hear ears pierced without her parent's permission. However, she can get an abortion without her parent's awareness.
Praise God that $3800 was raised for the Girls Brazil Mission Trip at the Gospel Benefit Concert at Atonement on November 7th at 6pm! Various groups and individuals shared some classic Gospel pieces that left a song in our heart and a spring in our step! 4ThisTime Girls Chorus is preparing for a mission trip to Brazil in the Spring serving in many churches with Missionary/Pastor Paul and Becky Abel! Thank you to ALL who gave SO generously! Continue to pray for this mission opportunity!
Bible camp is a unique and powerful experience! It takes an investment of time and money but it is well worth the investment as it is a time to "unplug" from our fast-paced world and take opportunity for spiritual refreshment from God in His Word! Around the theme "How Great Is Our God", this year was no exception! It was a powerful week of challenge as we focused on our Creator God!
There is also a lot of fun in a week of camp! From lasertag to rock climbing, from the incredible zipline to the big swing, from mini-golf to basketball...there was swimming, hiking and much more!
Begin planning and saving now to make this a personal or family tradition that grows you in your faith and further equips you for where God has called you.
Click "Read More" to see some pictures from some of the activities...
Wow! What an awesome week at Bible Camp!! We had an awesome group out there this year! The theme was "Illuminate Your World For Christ" and we looked at how that realted to faith, witnessing, compassion and purity! There were some great morning studies, delish food, awesome activities, wonderful fellowship and challenging evening services! God worked in many of our lives through the week! What was your favorite part of camp...or something God taught you...or a fun memory, etc? Click the "read more" link below to see some pictures from the week and post responses.
Atonement partnered with Crossroads Christian Fellowship recently to put on the second annual Family Fest! Family Fest was an awesome afternoon of FREE food, inflatables, games, prizes, contests, giveaways, activies and fun for the whole family! Click the title or the "read more" button to see some pictures from the awesome event!
The Annual Atonement Couples Retreat was held the first weekend of February at Cedar Springs Retreat Center in Sumas, Washington, way up by the Canadian boarder. It was a BEAUTIFUL location, amazing food and powerful weekend of challenge, growth, fellowship and deeping of the marriage relationship!
CDs are available from the re-scheduled Christmas Concert on January 18th, 2009! It's a FULL CD of the musical program offered that night from many different vocalists, ensembles, soloists and instrumentalists!
Bible camp was an awesome time for special focus on God's Word and extended time connecting with others members of the church family as well as the AFLC Pacific Northwest District!
Many came out for evening services, afternoon activities, the whole day or the whole camp week! The theme was "Breaking Free!"
The Family Fest was a combined outreach effort of Atonement Free Lutheran and Crossroads Christian Fellowship! We were excited to partner with other churches in our community for prayer and outreach! This outreach will resembled the "Fun Day" that


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During July 4th weekend, we surprised kids with a trip to Chicago from Memphis in Amtrak. I had packed ahead of time and we kept the suitcase in the car previous night. I made sure that they didn't nap on the day of our travel. Closer to time, I told them to take shower and get ready in their best clothes as we will take them out for dessert to a very fancy restaurant. As per our expectations, kids fell asleep in the car pretty soon and we drove to Memphis.
When we reached Memphis downtown, kids woke up and kept saying that they have never seen this part of Tupelo. Very interesting! We had to finally tell them that we are in Memphis and not Tupelo. We had pizza and then we went inside Amtrak. My kids thought that we are just visiting the train. They were ecstatic when they found out that we were going to take a trip in Amtrak. Now they assumed that this trip must be like Polar Express train. Finally, we told them that we are traveling overnight to Chicago. I wish I could frame those two little faces!
We took sleeper car and it was very comfortable for us. We were offered nice breakfast on the way to Chicago and dinner on the way back. Traveling in the train was so painless and restful that I don't want to fly to Chicago anymore. I prefer to take Amtrak to Chicago. We reached Chicago so rested that we were ready to start the day. In Chicago, we visited Navy Pier and Field Museum. We had a spectacular view of the July 4th fireworks from the apartment of Amit's cousin, Dhanesh Gupta. It was so much more comfortable to be in his apartment than on the ground with such a huge crowd! Of course, no trip to Chicago is complete without Ghirardelli and Garrett Popcorn!
I will definitely recommend traveling in Amtrak to Chicago from Memphis!


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Edward L. Keenan died on March 6, 2015. Known as "Ned" to intimates and colleagues, he served as the sixth director of Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, from 1998 to 2007, and as the fourth consecutive to be appointed from the ranks of Harvard's Faculty of Arts and Sciences.
Keenan's multifarious contributions to Dumbarton Oaks include a thoroughgoing capital renewal project that resulted in a five-story library, a central heating and cooling plant, and a building for the gardening staff, as well as renovated quarters for administration, facilities, security, the museum, publications, and most other departments. With equal measures of pride and melancholy, Keenan joked that the library would likely be the last built in North America. The architect for the multiyear project was the celebrated Robert Venturi, and obtaining the permissions necessary for its fulfillment was a story that Keenan told vividly in an oral history interview preserved in the virtual archives of the Dumbarton Oaks website. Keenan also acquired for the institution a former home of Elizabeth Taylor, which replaced as the director's residence what is now the refectory. Keenan's projects and acquisitions brought the research center into the twenty-first century, and fellows, staff, and directors of the institution will benefit from his foresight for countless decades to come.
Keenan arrived at Dumbarton Oaks with a long rap sheet of administrative experience at Harvard, where he served as associate director and director of the Russian Research Center, master of the present-day Pforzheimer House (then called North House), dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, and director of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, among other posts. He fulfilled most of these roles in phases of wrenching transitions, and he handled them all with great skill. Upon taking his final assignment for his alma mater at its elegant outpost in Georgetown, he deployed this background to excellent effect by rationalizing a reporting structure that in his words had resembled "a bowl of spaghetti." After retirement, in 2008, he moved primarily to Deer Isle, in Maine, where he lived with his wife Judith ("Judy"), who survives him, as do his sons and her daughters.
Within the large and famous university of which Dumbarton Oaks forms but a small and remote part, Ned Keenan was a consummate Harvard man—but in his own distinctive fashion. Born on May 13, 1935, he resided in Cambridge continuously as an undergraduate (with a 1957 honors AB in Slavic Languages and Literatures), graduate student (PhD in 1965), and junior and senior faculty member (tenure in 1968), except for a couple of years in the Soviet Union in the early 1960s, until he took up the directorship of Dumbarton Oaks. While he was Harvardian through and through, he clung proudly to his background as an outsider, originally from western New York.
Keenan's craft was history, and his specialization was medieval Russian history. Within his field he became prominent and controversial for various studies that sought to analyze and ultimately to disprove the supposed authenticity of major sources in East Slavic history. Two books, published more than thirty years apart, argue that two texts were not medieval at all, but were, in fact, from the seventeenth and eighteenth century, respectively: The Kurbskii-Groznyi Apocrypha: The Seventeenth-Century Genesis of the "Correspondence" Attributed to Prince A. M. Kurbskii and Tsar Ivan IV (1971) and Joseph Dobrovsky and the Origins of the "Igor Tale" (2003). He also authored a number of seminal articles. His first article appeared in 1958, and his bibliography had already extended to twenty-two pages by 1997, when he joined Dumbarton Oaks.
Ned Keenan's linguistic abilities were renowned, notably his native-level fluency in Russian, but also his facility in Spanish, an early love of his in foreign tongues. Beyond languages, he was also known for belonging to the first generation of early adaptors to digital technology, since he switched to using personal computers long before many of his colleagues even reached the point of asking secretaries to do the same instead of them.
A memorable raconteur, Ned expressed himself colorfully. Often he came forth with formulations that sounded proverbial. In fact, his interest in paremiology reached back to his undergraduate thesis on Russian proverbs. All the same, listeners might often be nagged by uncertainty as to whether the original of his wording was Russian, another foreign language, or his own creation. Ned Keenan was himself an original, with strong and shrewd convictions that he expressed with memorable wit, and he will be much missed by all those who had the occasion to benefit from his skill, erudition, and humor. With his death we have lost a person who not only liked to talk about where the dog lies buried, but who also knew the exact location of many such canine skeletons that will now pass forgotten.
—Jan Ziolkowski, Arthur Kingsley Porter Professor of Medieval Latin, Harvard University, and Director of Dumbarton Oaks


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How to Manually Control an Automatic Sprinkler
Automated sprinkler systems water the lawn when you're on vacation, at work or asleep so you can focus on other things. If you need to turn on a sprinkler line manually -- whether to test it, perform maintenance or flush out debris -- there are at least two ways to do it on every system. One is from the control box, which is usually in a garage or on the side of the house, and the other is at the valve itself.
From the Control Box
Open the cover of the irrigation control box. Make sure the dial or switch is set to the "Run" position.
Press the "Manual" key and use the arrow keys to navigate to the type of manual irrigation desired. Most models have the option of running though all zones in sequence, running one of the irrigation programs manually, or turning on a single zone. Some controllers also have a "Test" button or function that will turn the sprinklers on.
Press "Enter" to activate manual operation after making a selection. Most models have the option of selecting the duration of manual operation, as well, but the zone can be turned off when needed by turning the dial to the "off" position.
From the Valve
Check to see if the valve can be turned on and off with the solenoid. This is the black cylindrical object on top of the valve with wires coming out of it and will have directional arrows with on and off printed on the base if it can be used to control the valve. Otherwise, the bleed screw can be used to activate the valve. This is a plastic screw head 1/4 to 3/8 inch in diameter located below the solenoid.
Turn the solenoid or bleed screw a quarter to half turn in a counterclockwise direction to open the valve.
Turn the solenoid or bleed screw the other way to close the valve, tightening only until snug.
- Do not over-tighten the solenoid or bleed screw on the valve. This can damage it.
- Some sprinkler systems have a remote control, making it possible to open or close valves from anywhere in the yard.
- Turn off the main valve that controls water to all the sprinkler valves if you need to make repairs.
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