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Pavitra Rishta 29th January 2014 Written Episode Update
Pavitra Rishta 29th January 2014 Written Episode, Pavitra Rishta 29th January 2014 Written Update
The episode starts with Mansi thinking that Raunaq's truth is known to Kinnari now and she can live her life happily. Ankita is happy to see Mansi happy. Mansi says, I could not tell you anything. She says, I was tensed about Shashank's aayi and baba. Ankita asks, is everything alright? Mansi says yes. Naren says, she is lying? He says, I knows everything. He says, your smile is because of Shashank. Mansi says, I am happy for you both. Naren pulls her leg jokingly. Mansi smiles. Naren says, when two people love each other then they do smile looking at each other. He says like Ahana smile at me. Ankita says, we shall not disclose our secrets infront of anyone. Naren compliments Ankita's smile and says next time I will take your photo. Ankita blushes. Naren goes to bring Shashank.
Ovi is talking to Pia and she says I am going to do internship soon. She says everything is cool but you are not here. Arjun comes. Ovi disconnects the call and asks Arjun, why you are tensed? Arjun says, Purvi is not doing the right thing. Ovi asks, what happened? Arjun says, I came to know about Rishabh Kapoor. I went to meet RK. I came to know from Chadda that RK framed me in the drug case and then freed me. He says, Purvi is connected somewhere. Everything is planned. RK was calm when I went to meet him. Purvi is not listening to me. I don't know what to do. Ovi asks him to tell the truth to Purvi inorder to save her from RK. Arjun says, I can't tell her anything. I don't want her to come back in my life. I want her to be happy with someone but not RK.
Naren brings Shashank to Mansi and asks him to look at Mansi carefully. He says, Mansi's smile is exclusively for you. Shashank says, I am not understanding. Naren says, Mansi smile is for you and she is blushing. Shashank says, you are experienced and you are right. Naren counts his experience period and asks Shashank to follow him. He says, I have revised all the wedding vows and emailed to myself. He says, girls are very clever. They make us made the promise during the wedding. He clicks Ankita's photo and then Shashank and Mansi's pic. Pavitra Rishta music plays.
Raunaq comes to Mansi's sangeet and peeps through the curtains. He says, you have spoiled my wedding night and enjoying at your sangeet. I will ruin you. But can't do. You are looking very beautiful and I want to love you. You are looking beautiful in my dress. Mansi is enjoying her sangeet function with others. Soham falls down in inebriated state. Raunaq is hiding behind the curtains. Ankita asks Prashant to take Soham inside the house. Prashant takes him inside with his friend's help. Raunaq smirks evilly.
Mansi gets Raunaq's message from Ankita's mobile. The message asks her to come to the terrace as their father Soham is drunk and Ankita wants to talk to her. She asks her not to tell anyone. Mansi tells Shashank that she will be back in a minute. Shashank holds her hand and asks her to come soon as he is waiting for her. Mansi smiles and looks at him while the song plays….Prashant takes Soham inside and asks his friend to take care of his dad. His friend agrees. Pranav sees Ankita's phone outside and wonders. Raunaq comes to the terrace and awaits for Mansi. Mansi doesn't see Ankita and passes by her. Pranav gives the phone to Ankita. Mansi comes to the terrace and calls for Ankita. Raunaq comes infront of her and smirks evilly. Mansi is shocked.
Mansi tries to leave but Raunaq stops her. Mansi says I will shout. Raunaq says, everyone are dancing and no one will hear your voice. He says, I got married today and might be enjoying wedding night with Kinnari but you spoiled it. My wedding night will be with you. Mansi tries to slap him but he holds her hand. It starts raining. Everyone wonder about the unsuspected rain. Shashank asks his parents to go and he will come later. Raunaq says, I will not let you go with my insult. I will return the insult with interest. He laughs. Mansi is crying. Raunaq says, I will enjoy wedding night with you. He says, you will remember all your life. He asks her to shout and scream. Prashant take everything inside. Naren asks Ankita to sit. Ankita says, all the guest left. She says, I am tired. Naren offers to massage her legs. Ankita refuses. But Naren is adamant. He massages her legs. He says, I remembered something and tells about their favourite restaurant in London. Naren says, you forgot everything. Ankita thinks to know about his past to brighten his future.
Mansi comes inside the home. Ankita asks, where were you? She hugs her and cries miserably. Ankita says, I know why you are crying.
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Ohio's medical marijuana program was supposed to be up and running by early September. But none is yet available and program officials on Tuesday said that only limited supplies will be available through the remainder of the year and possibly through early 2019.
The process to provide medicinal marijuana has had some hiccups, including complaints early this year that grower's licenses were improperly awarded. But Tuesday's update said that "work to stand up all portions of the medical marijuana program continues at a rapid pace." Among the progress:
• Ten cultivators have received certificates of operation and some are growing.
• Five testing labs, 14 processors and 56 dispensaries have received provisional licenses.
• Three hundred nineteen physicians have received certificates to recommend medical marijuana.
The marijuana program said some should be available soon, but before it can, a testing facility and a dispensary must be up and running.
"Once product initially becomes available, it is important to be aware that the supply, variety and statewide availability of medical marijuana products will be limited for the rest of 2018 and possibly into the early months of 2019," the Medical Marijuana Program said in a written statement. "Initially, the only product available to purchase will be in plant form, and not all announced dispensary locations may yet be open for business."
Meanwhile, voters in neighboring Michigan last week passed a sweeping legalization of recreational marijuana. Pot possession is expected to be legal there in a few weeks, but pot stores aren't expected to be operational until early 2020.

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Sara Belleau: Holy Land
Today's submission is by Sara Belleau, a Minneapolis based photographer. She graduated with her BFA from Minneapolis College of Art and Design in 1983, and an MFA from Tyler School of Art at Temple University in 1987. While looking through Sara's work, the incorporation of set design was an interesting alternative to today's use of digital manipulation. I appreciate the handmade details that went into each photograph, which reminded me of large-scale dioramas. The use of tableau is painterly, and for me provides strength in singular narratives.
Sara's work plays with revisiting old religious text and mashing it into a contemporary mindset. Her photographs are seemingly fun yet hold some darkness. They embrace the use of religious symbolism while putting up an illustrative façade.
Holy Land
As an American artist, I am both the product and chronicler of that uniquely American urge to find, name or create both our individual and collective potential. Who we are and who we want to become is a never ending source of frustration and fascination for me. Although I am not a religious person, between 2006 and 2010 I called upon the ancient stories of the Torah, Qur'an and Old Testament and re-imagined them in an American, vernacular context. The series, titled Holy Land, includes twenty photographs created with painted backgrounds and constructed sets made in the basement of my Minneapolis home. While it may be surprising to see these stories brought to life in constructed prairies and farm fields, it brings them an unexpected sense of familiarity and possibility. These ancient Jewish, Muslim and Christian texts share many of the same stories and at a time in our history when we are at war in the Middle East over real estate, oil, and values the recognition of how much we hold in common is a profound source for evaluation and reflection. How much has our civilization grown and changed in the six thousand years recorded in these books? How much should we hold on to or reject? Who is divine? What is still sacred? It has been a huge challenge to reconsider these ancient stories and juxtapose them against today's psycho-social-political present. In doing so I have found that the children of Abraham continue to question, transform and illuminate the world we live in.
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text: News Social Networking Zong Zong 4G offers free, unlimited access on WhatsApp to Any Network By TPRO TEAM Posted on November 16, 2017 0 Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Google+ Share on Reddit Share on Pinterest Share on Linkedin Share on Tumblr Following the free messaging and calling offered by Jazz on Veon recently, Zong has gone one step ahead with providing similar offer on the rival but more popular and most used service – WhatsApp. Zong has now announced an un-paralleled offer for its customers to use WhatsApp for free of cost. Zong 4G Customers can now enjoy unlimited access to world's largest messaging, voice and video calling platform – WhatsApp for absolutely no charge. Through this offer Zong 4G has catered to the ever-growing data needs of its new-age customers. By providing free access to all WhatsApp services, Zong 4G allows its customers to stay connected and make unlimited calls through WhatsApp, to all networks, anywhere in the world, even without any balance, provided that you have activated data services on your subscription. The offer extends to both video and voice calls and further includes multimedia sharing/downloading, voice and text messages, through one of the most widely used smartphone applications in the world. How to avail the offer? Any Postpaid, Prepaid, Internet SIM or Mobile Broadband subscriber can simply dial *247# to start availing this service. After activation, all WhatsApp services continue free of charge, without any data caps or limits, till the continuation of the offer. Zong 4G's partnerships with some of the most widely accessed platforms in Pakistan such as Facebook, WhatsApp & Daraz, reflects its core desire to seamlessly integrate all subscriber preferred applications into its state-of-the-art, high quality network, for the best & most optimal user experience. Press Release This year, Zong has made some major announcements that are poised to transform the industry landscape. The company is expanding its 4G footprint to all of Pakistan, making 100% of its network 4G enabled. Zong's management has also recently stated that "all Pakistanis are our customers" displaying a far-sighted approach that transcends the traditional boundaries of subscribership. Through its relentless focus on customer-centricity, Zong 4G continues to build its network and services around the unique requirements of its subscribers. This is also reflected by the fact that more than 70% of 4G users in Pakistan prefer to use Zong 4G's super-fast network. Powered by the fastest 4G network in the country, Zong continues to balance affordability with seamless connectivity, as it continues to expand its 4G data coverage to all corners of Pakistan.


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Michael has worked on a wide variety of projects valued from under $1 million to over $250 million in Australia, Singapore and USA. Roles have included construction management, site architect, project architect, project superintendent and project director. Michael has a wide range of project experience including complex industrial, aquatic leisure and secure environments. Several of these recent projects have occurred within operational facilities bringing with it additional issues of complexity, co-ordination and planning. Michael prides himself in maintaining close interaction with his clients, consultants & contractors to ensure the best project outcomes.


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Roasted Vegetable Pasta Salad with Tahini Dressing
Serves: 4
- 6 oz whole wheat shaped pasta such as rotini
- 1 lb eggplant, cubed*
- 2 small zucchini, cubed
- 1-1/2 TBSP EVOO, divided
- salt, to taste
- 2 TBSP tahini
- juice of 1 lemon
- 2 TBSP water
- 1 clove garlic, minced
- parsley for finishing (optional)
- Pre-heat oven to 425 degrees F.
- Prepare pasta according to package directions.
- Toss eggplant and zucchini with 1/2 tablespoon olive oil and a few dashes of salt. Transfer vegetables to baking sheet and place in the oven. (You can peel the eggplant if you want (the skin can be a bit tough), but I chose to peel about half of it, leaving wide stripes. That way you get at least some of the fiber from the skin.)
- Bake for 25 minutes, stirring once after 10 or 15 minutes.
- Meanwhile, prepare the dressing in the bottom of a large mixing bowl. Combine remaining olive oil, tahini, lemon juice, water, and garlic with a whisk. Add pasta once it's cooked (and still hot!).
- Remove vegetables from oven and add to the mixing bowl with pasta and dressing. Stir well to coat with dressing. Serve warm or place in refrigerator for at least 2 hours to serve chilled.
- Finish with parsley if using.
Per serving: 1/4th recipe (about 6.5 oz): 279 Calories, 10.7g fat, 1.6g saturated fat, 0mg cholesterol, 148mg sodium, 38.3g carbohydrate, 6.7g fiber, 2.7g sugars, 9.7g protein
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West Ham ramps up marketing to counter sales dip
West Ham United is ramping up its marketing activity to maintain match attendees and appeal to new supporters, following the club's relegation from the Premier League to the Championship.
The heightened focus on marketing is being led by Tara Warren, who became the club's first ever marketing director this year, reporting directly into vice-chairman Karren Brady.
Warren says the club has become "much more customer focused" since the arrival of its new owners David Gold and David Sullivan in 2010 and also under the leadership of Brady.
She adds: "Karren has brought about a complete cultural change at the club: now everyone is brand and commercially focused. That doesn't mean we're not fan focused, it's much the opposite, as we need to retain fans and attract new ones [following relegation]."
The club currently has more than 800,000 fans worldwide registered to its database, who are being contacted regularly via a CRM e-mail programme to encourage them to attend games with price and experience-led incentives.
West Ham's average match day attendance has dipped slightly from 33,426 in the 2010/11 season to 28,390 so far this season – still the highest in the Championship – according to the Premier League and Football League figures.
Part of West Ham's marketing strategy for the remainder of the season will focus on "making football affordable" and includes seasonal cut-priced games and special regional campaigns focused on demographics who may not be able to afford full-price tickets.
West Ham is also set to launch a new product for overseas fans, dubbed Official Supporter Clubs, which will include tailored membership packages featuring customised pennants to hang in club houses, a mobile app containing match day programmes and prioritised access to tickets.
The club's first Facebook shop will open this month in a bid to drive merchandise sales from fans at home and abroad and encourage further supporter engagement.
Warren says marketing creative is focusing on "moving forward with an eye on the past and [the club's] roots and values", to reflect the regeneration of East London due to the Olympic Games and also West Ham's close proximity Canary Wharf, which homes many of West Ham's corporate partners and customers.


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Abilene Balloon Festival 2010
So, who would have thought it - we drove to Abilene last weekend for the West Texas Book and Music Festival, and found - when the books were packed up and the music had ended, there was still a lot going on in Abilene. There was the Abilene balloon festival going on as well; and late Saturday afternoon, balloon owners, pilots and crews were arriving every minute in the park, pulling in with their pickup trucks, towing small trailers and setting up their balloons. A whole forest of classic tear-drop shaped balloons sprouted at anchor - gaily multicolored, bobbing gently in the air as jellyfish bob and sway in their element.
The weather was chancy in Abilene last weekend, so they could only actually launch two balloons; the evening was fine, mild and clearing, but apparently if you are going for a balloon ride, best to launch before 4 PM; it seems that landing and folding up the balloon in the dark are not a process eagerly embraced by the average recreational hot-air balloon pilot.
It was fascinating, watching how deftly and quickly a balloon can be deployed, though: first the basket came out of the storage/travel trailer: always a heavy-duty wicker rattan basket, although many of the ones I saw had bottoms which appeared to be reinforced with plywood. Attached the metal supports at the corners of the basket, attach the propane burners across the top of the frame, and then bring out the fabric envelope, unrolling it across the grass, and attaching the lines to the basket frame, which lays on it's side.
They inflate the envelope using a gas-powered super fan, first - and only when it's filled enough to stay open, that's when the propane burner comes into play with a roar like a thousand blow-torches. The blast of super-heated air from it inflates the envelope farther, to the point where it lifts off the ground; that's when the ground crew tips the basket upright . . . and the point when the balloon needs to be firmly tied up to something large and heavy.
The sun was setting, as the last of the balloons were filled and made ready for an evening static display. The propane burners, lit occasionally to keep them upright and properly deployed made the balloon envelopes glow from the inside like Japanese paper lanterns. There was a live band playing all this time, mostly covers of old rock hits, like the Doors "Love Her Madly" and a whole fairway row of food vendors' trailers: everything from hot dogs, to smoked turkey legs, and cheesecake onna stick. (Cheesecake onna stick? What will they think of next - chicken-friend bacon? Oh, wait.)
Kids were playing on the grass, running for tee-shirts being shot out of the tee-shirt cannon, dogs and their people were also wandering around . . . I couldn't help thinking that there was something still right with the world, that enthusiasts could still bring their balloons to a park in Texas, and that kids could still get cotton candy on the fairway, and the sun could set in a clear sky after a day of rain.


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Information Literacy
We might also grow our network by making new connections to people, organisations, services and (non-media) information sources (on and offline).
This means we should consider:
- How to find new connections (to people and information)
- How to trust those connections (critically evaluate and assess the reliability of them)
To do so, the American Library Association suggests we need to:
|Search for information effectively and efficiently
|Evaluate information and its sources critically
|Understand the economic, legal, and social issues surrounding the use of information
|Access and use information ethically and legally
We have already seen the dangers of our filter bubbles, so we need to ask ourselves:
Am I searching widely enough, or am I stuck in my filter bubble?
Are Google, or even Google Scholar searches enough to find the most useful information, or are alternative search engines and Open Access search engines, such as the Directory of Open Access Journals worth investigating?
Can I find richer information from Library Catalogues, Open Access journals (journals you do not pay to read), and databases?
You may also want to consider how you will store and reuse anything you find, and whether you will need to access the new information sources from multiple devices. If so, free Web-based or Cloud-based storage services be of help, such as:
Zotero (Open Source software)
We may also choose to grow our network by joining new communities, such as forums, groups or new social media platforms. Joining any new group, on or offline, can be beneficial, but also a bit daunting, so it's worth checking out these questions before getting involved:
Who are the administrators and/or owners of the online community? Is there a 'Contact Us', 'About Us' or 'Help' button somewhere on the page?
How active is the community? How many posts are there from how many different members per day?
How can you assess and trust the people you are interacting with in the community (are there many anonymous members, or are members identifiable by name or photo)?
Are the community 'rules and regulations' easily accessible and easily understood?
Can you see any examples of flaming (heated, personal online arguments), trolling (posting controversial comments online intended to provoke an emotional reaction) or other types of online abuse?
How authoritative and trustworthy is the 'original poster' and the information in their posts?
What methods do you use for finding and assessing information and checking out online communities?
Share any specific examples of good practice that you know of in the comments below.
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Ferguson Grand Jury Decision: The Morning After
An update on conditions in Ferguson, Mo. and the surrounding region. Plus, what is the legal future for Officer Darren Wilson and the family of Michael Brown? Photo: AP
This transcript has been automatically generated and may not be 100% accurate.
... but there's at least a dozen buildings that then the set on fire ... most of those are two losses ... I know that I had to settle Scottie police cars that basically meant that we had a lot of incidents with the oft repeated by Iraq's batteries ... for things like that I can say that closely about a hundred fifty shots fired ... this morning after and five is and Mazar a ... mind of writing binding and loosing the following a grand jury decision ... not to indict please officer Dan Wilson who shot dead the gone aam Michael Brown the sum up ... will have back and mall right here right now on the new sub ... I'm Simon Constable with more on this with joined now by Jeff ranks but he is the chief of staff Susan Lewis map Francis slay thank you Brian much for joining us up the such a troubled nights ... conditions comes down now ... well ... um ... we had an air Dai and appreciate just went down one of the areas in the city and remember for ... for your viewers that certain Ferguson is a summer received was when the central city ... we went down to ... an area where there were protests last night and we are in the street sweepers out ... there were up ... twenty one broken windows a very good boarded up ... this morning that Nairn IRA economic development to expand dramatically down period ... to ... help the business owners recovers so ... in the year in South Korea and which is in the city where a weekend of protests last ... these their head ... back to normal this morning ... that's ... why it was last night when was the the decision released at such a late now basically ... that night so aam was was that in retrospect a wise decision ... so it is remembered that that was an incident was County suburb and an essential cities in its latter prosecutors anything I'm doing is conjecture ... but I think that the ... county prosecutor fell one c headed decision ... for the sake of transparency he could sit on and wait for the right time to release it ... so I think he really stood for his own purposes which I think of June at once ... which is to get information out people as quickly as possible ... I do think it had the unfortunate benefit of making it ... to call ... to do what they think a lot of the one you know we've met a lot ... of good hearted people who are upset by our criminal justice system and I think are upset by what happened with the meeting with them ... over the last few months and you clearly you know they are what I call ... the protesters and I think a lot of them because of the late twenty oh I think we saw Ferguson day conjecture Meckler ... as I don't think those are protestors who did the looting and burning and any shots fired ... at those criminals used on use this situation you know basically you go out into their own criminal behavior ... anything to do with Michael Brown ... to get anything to do justice to the coastal criminals don't criminal acts ... when people see this being the slams the burning buildings on on the news that it's been a wall of the Newspoll of the world and I've been hearing the song on the right here from other countries ... as such the fact investment in the city and the city meets investment because investment creates jobs and handed it doesn't end up doing a downward spiral ... well what we all ... remember is this is a relatively small part of a region of two point eight million people the city of Ferguson is a small supper ... and that seems county ... in the area that has impacted while it was horrible what happened it's heartbreaking what happened ... it's just scary watching on TV what happen it's a relatively small part of a community ... it's not in the central business district of our suburbs or the central business district ... are state ... employees will take a ... lot of meaning that were to have you in St Louis and would have to convince ... people in the country and world this is up in place ... we are good hearted people that we do have a strong resilient economy and we are worthy of the ten contestants ... but ... we've got some work to do that's explaining that it ... long knife EU we have ... a ... quiet SEC continues to slide and on what side you're a much to write that if the staff to see Lewis math crisis like ... X rayed ... there will be back in thirty seconds ... welcome back the new sub I'm Simon Constable on coverage of the fallout in Ferguson Missouri continues and have a national news the vehicle and a whole ... rules of thumb for filling my life ... equity risk of re unites it ... aam you know they haven't that were very ... sad circumstances ... with ... all the things that you've seen them annual John was in Korea it isn't anything like this in terms of of of prosecutorial announcements I mean when a ground to makes a decision ... this is in the mobile ways ... this was a highly unusual Simon ... to see that the prosecutor on national television revealing the local grand jury's decision ... that shows the high profile nature of this case ... and the other thing I was unusual is how he carefully and over a long period of time ... spelled out the often contradictory witness testimony and the challenges to the grand jury face trying to walk people through the decision so they'd understand what was coming up with a nasty listen to him now let's let's take a look ... however once the autopsy findings were really showing Michael Brown had not sustained any wound to the back of his body ... no additional witnesses made such according ... to several witnesses adjusted their stories and songs and subsequent statements ... some even admitted that they did not witness the event and all but merely repeated with the herd ... in a neighborhood or others ... or is ... alma Culottes Louis County prosecutor effect ... on the ... globe roll rolling out that the reasoning behind this was something is very important trends transparency ... I've but very often that prosecutors say that if in the city that we're in now you can buy a ham sandwich ... to get just the big comes out sandwich ... this ... must've been quite unusual to have eight eight death and then knowing diamonds ... well that ... seems to be the case it's not so true ... when it comes to police officers using force in the line of duty ... aam are are are ... justice system seems to bear on the side of believing that the offices did it for good cause ... and rarely do we see an indictment or prosecution of an officer who ... shoots in the line of duty even when there is a death like this and that's an unfortunate challenge ... for the whole aftermath of Ferguson to understand whether the jury did the right thing ... aam ... and in the context of people feeling like justice wasn't in the first place because of the altercation ... now that the jury what when where Ian on to the jury room um I've I've been in didn't rooms I'm actually have to make any big decisions but that does owe ... a tremendous weight on people's shoulders they must've known that this was going to ... aam gonna have a reaction long way it'll be up ... there's no doubt that they felt a lot of pressure and a lot of responsibility to do the right thing whatever that might be a mystery ... we have to bear in mind was seated before the incident even occurred ... so they've been called to this task and then this was that that the case that they were confronted with ... they must've felt enormous pressure you know be listened to more than seventy hours of testimony from sixty witnesses and that doesn't include examination of all the material evidence so they they work hard to come to what they you think I'm sure is a fair decision ... in in ... in the media or on social media I've I've seen the law records is the most militarized police ... is that something is can be looked at a Nov for one of the U K it's a small community please please come to flee homes ... aam this is the little cajoling and then you know that any people to come down and off the waist and then force is that something that ... will be disgusted do you think ... that was hard to know but ... I know that has already been a part of the discussion ... that is ... part of what the Brown family is trying to bring to bear ... raising awareness about how there's a perception that this country and is present Obama said last night often a reality where there are two different standards of of police behavior aam and a certain type of profiling and an racial concerns ... and this is what the this case really reveals in what we are going to have two addresses the nation ... what one other things the cam up in the city offices so they will was we're trying to restore strain ... Michael Bryson was Lewes Limpopo then I he was that that that they command ... that that's um quite a statement I mean I'd you know and and ... that one of the of the questions is this when do we get to a situation when everybody feels safe ... the um saying you know ok please MoMA to stall stall ... you know there probably is never such a day ... you know there are criminals out there what we saw last night is that ... it's the it's the assistant and in tennis was saying for criminal behaviors alongside on this ... peaceful protesters trying to raise awareness ... and I think the criminal element is something that police forces will always have a challenge dealing with ... can ... my son ... so someone's can you think you're a much clan whole national news that it will be covering this as we can afford will be back with him on the legal issues after the break ... welcome back to the new sub I'm Simon Constable on coverage of Ferguson Missouri in the fall of that continues ... what is opposite down Wilson's legal future in the aftermath of the Ferguson grand jury decision and the legal future Michael Brown's family ... with joined by Stephen fast ... all the will Street gentle thank you so much for being mess up ... I really tumbled very well I was he satisfied the bounce last night ... let let's all with of the office of the Dow will send what is his legal feud Jay Z off the hook now ... he's not off the top but he survived the most difficult part which is the local grand jury ... so there's a separate department Justice federal civil rights investigation ... that still ongoing ... but as the attorney general said last night ... you know there's a high legal Barbera I think I think it's fair to say it's unlikely that that will result in criminal charges affect a still ongoing and they will probably will make a decision on that for weeks if not months ... it so that that will be lingering with them ... now what about Michael Brown's family all the sleeping bag anyone who loses ... a son ... the trial that is is gonna be to be saddened by this what are they what are they did next ... the general expectation is that there'll be a lawsuit against both the city of Ferguson and about Wilson as an individual ... I'm you know those suits can can take a long time to sort out I'm it assuming that tickets file ... I would not expect a quick resolution that's to ... be the other illegal sort of cloud hanging over this whole process is just our as a separate investigation going ... of the entire Ferguson Police Department ... to see which are the changes should be made to the police culture they're not like to take months wants to come and and well below the civil rights suits him involved in the US ... well that the lawsuit that that the Brown family could file could very well be be some sort of wrongful death suit ... I'm the Justice Department is looking at the issue of did Wilson shooting of brown ... violate Brown civil rights ... that is a high legal Barnett as though the hard case to make up in some ways under the law ... so I think there's there's a fair bit of skepticism is probably ... deserves skepticism ... that that will result in any civil rights criminal charges against ops are Wilson ... ok thank you Brian much really that that ... the devil and that we appreciate time ... thanks ... when I look of mock it's now legal some breaking news and Tomi Kilgore is safer MarketWatch to help the Stony thanks that they have a thing ... so the breaking news we have is the second raid on first-quarter gross domestic product GDP forty point nine percent while ... that is a lot more than we thought it was the blue Opal was in the three point three percent this is ... this is bigger and healthy I was saying that Treasury yields rise ... yet mean this is ... great news ... 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After another abrupt halt in Chinese stocks today (Thursday), investors were left wondering if a stock market crash is coming. China's stock market troubles led the Dow Jones Industrial Average to fall 300 points (1.8%) in early trading.
While markets were extremely volatile today and more losses are likely, there will not be a stock market crash today.
A stock market crash is defined as a sudden dramatic decline of stocks across a significant sector of a stock market. The result is a substantial loss of paper wealth. Stock market crashes are driven as much by panic as they are by underlying economic factors.
On the economic front, worries continue to mount about a slowdown in China. The Asian nation has the world's second-largest economy and is a chief consumer of commodities. Emerging market currencies are in a tailspin, oil is trading at a 12-year low, and the Eurozone economy remains fragile at best.
Behind the panic was the second halt this week in Chinese stocks.
Just 29 minutes into Thursday's session, Chinese stocks were halted for the day after a 7.32% plunge. It was the shortest trading session in history for Chinese stocks after newly installed mechanisms to limit volatilely were again triggered.
The aftershocks rattled markets worldwide.
Hong Kong's Hang Seng declined 3.09%. Japan's Nikkei 225 sank 2.33% to a three-month low. The Stoxx Europe 600 was down 3.4% in midmorning trading, and Germany's export-heavy DAX sank 3.2%.
Stocks in the United States also tanked.
Minutes after Wall Street's opening bell, the Dow, S&P 500, and Nasdaq were lower by 1.4%, 1.4%, and 1.8%, respectively. While those losses are significant, they are by no means the cataclysmic drops that many investors associate with a stock market crash.
Fears about China also spilled into commodity markets. Brent crude prices fell 2.4% to $33.40 a barrel.
Here's what's next for the markets and how investors should act as fears of a stock market crash mount…
Stock Market Crash Fears Mount: How to Invest Now
It's been a brutal opening for U.S. stock markets in 2016.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average has logged its worst three-day start to a year since 2008. The S&P 500 and Nasdaq Composite posted their worst start to the year since 2001.
Most of the blame goes to China, deemed the biggest threat to U.S. stocks this year.
Investors expect further volatility to hit global markets as they look into Beijing's response to the rout for clues to the gravity of the country's economic problems.
Also weighing on U.S. equities is the uncertain pace of the U.S. Federal Reserve's interest rate tightening. The central bank raised interest rates for the first time in nearly a decade in December and telegraphed additional hikes in 2016.
Adding to investor angst, the World Bank on Wednesday cut its global growth forecast for 2016. It predicts emerging markets will struggle amid China's slowdown and the plunge in commodity prices.
The international development institution downgraded its forecast for global growth in 2016 by 0.4 percentage points to 2.9%. That's down from its 3.3% forecast in June.
Money Morning Global Credit Strategist Michael Lewitt warns that more losses could be coming for U.S. investors as these tensions mount. But that doesn't mean you should flee stocks.
In fact, leaving the markets is one of the worst decisions an investor can make. And Lewitt has picked out four stocks that investors need to own when the markets are volatile like they are now…
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Solid state lighting, the use of electron to photon conversions in semiconductors, has proven itself an extremely efficient and robust avenue for the realization of many miniature display needs. Unfortunately, due to the nature of semiconductors, only the generation of individual colors is possible. One must, therefore, design with several different materials for each color desired. Also, for higher energy light (blues) it becomes increasingly more expensive because material growth of the necessary semiconductors is a far younger science. It, therefore, becomes necessary to develop a new way to generate visible light of all colors while containing costs, and simplicity of design, to feed the blossoming need for robust and colorful displays.
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It is known that by illuminating rare-earth doped materials, such as ytterbium, erbium, and thulium, with invisible infrared light, they re-radiate at specific visible wavelengths (colors). This process, known as frequency up-conversion, has been applied here to the above problem by researchers at UCF. By designing a device with up-converting materials in a resonant LED cavity, a versitile and efficient process that enables red, blue, and green generation from the same well established, and cost effective, infrared LED.
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Fertilize often for best summer performance.
Late July and August is when plants should be at their best, but there is only one problem: The plants have run out of energy and the gardeners realize it too late to help the plants recover. This is especially true in raised containers and hanging baskets. Here is the best way to keep your Petunias in the Super category.
1. When you buy them in the spring, buy a slow release fertilizer to top dress the basket or container. If you plant your own basket, incorporate some of the slow release fertilizer in the soil as you plant. Follow the package directions.
2. In May fertilize with a water-soluble fertilizer once every two weeks. Mix up the fertilizer and water the plants just like you would if you were using clear water. It normally takes a good half of gallon of water to really water a 10" wide basket or raised container.
3. In June as the weather starts to get warm to hot, fertilize weekly, again with a good soaking. If the weather turns really hot as it sometimes does in Late June you may need to fertilize every third watering. By now the Supertunia is really growing and starting to tumble down from the basket or fill out across the flowerbed.
4. July is when the cutting back occurs. Around the 4th of July, (after your big party) get some of the slow release fertilizer that you bought in spring and re-apply across the top of the planter. At the same time, trim back some of the longer branches just enough to bring the plant back in line with the bottom of the pot or basket. Don't remove too much at the maximum cut back 20% of the branches or 1 in five shoots. You can also just give it a general light trim. Your plant will be out of flower for a few days, but will come back stronger than ever. By now with July's heat you should be watering at least every other day and begin to fertilize every other watering. I know it sounds like a lot, but if you want a plant to grow like an elephant and be the most it can be, you got to feed it like an elephant!
5. August is, hot, humid, & sometimes with monsoons. Keep up the water and fertilizing, and again, if the plant starts to look straggly remove a few more branches but never more than 20% or give it a general trim as before.
6. It is September and the plants should still look good, start to back off the watering and the feed, but shape the basket with the last pruning of the season.
I know it sounds like a lot of work, but it really is a labor of love. I fertilize my baskets and my garden every time I water, and I water daily from mid July through August. I recently invested in the WaterWise irrigation system and let me tell you it really works. You will find that your Supertunias, along with all the rest of your plants will keep looking fantastic through September and perhaps with the luck of a gardener and a late frost maybe even into October.
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First season growing any Proven Winners & I am thoroughly impressed. These are the perfect inground mounding flower for me. The area gets sun from 3pm-8pm most of the season and perfromed perfectly. Zone 5a.Jillian Angstrom, Iowa, United States, 8 weeks ago
Just Beautiful! We have these in ground and in a container. The container seems to be growing slightly faster for now. Paired with supertunia white and a blue lupine in front of fire power nandinas in ground/supertunia vista bubblegum and sweet potato vine in container. (our nandinas get full sun and have very little red in them-mostly chartreuse) Very pleased with all supertunias so far. Very excited to see them evolve. Zone 7b.Heather Cole, North Carolina, United States, 19 weeks ago
Tinika, New York, United States, 24 weeks ago
Absolutely amazing. I planted 4 each in 20" x 20" pots on my front porch and they mounded beautifully and also trailed more than 3 feet all the way to the ground. I paired them with other pots of Limoncello that did equally as well. All the neighbors complimented them, I even had people that were driving by stop and comment on how beautifull a display it was.Raymond Scott, Tennessee, United States, 39 weeks ago
I planted 6 different varieties of Supertunias this year. Unfortunately, the Bordeaux struggled the entire season. The other varieties outperformed Bordeaux in spades. We had an exceptionally cool, wet spring followed by a hot and dry summer. I think the slow arrival of any warmth was a contributing factor to its poor performance so I will probably try it again in future.Sally Andrade, Ontario, Canada, 1 year ago
As the cherry on top of this magnificent performer is the lovely fragrance it had this year!Georgayne Appleton, Iowa, United States, 2 years ago
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Some things you can't learn in the classroom. On Monday, 91 Texas A&M Mays Business School MBA students will engage in a unique and highly stressful learning experience — one they'll hope never happens in real life.
On Nov. 3, the second-year MBA class will participate in a gauntlet of exercises at the world-famous Disaster City® to learn to deal with demanding emergency situations. The Texas Engineering Extension Service's (TEEX) Disaster City® — located about two miles from Texas A&M's campus — is 52 acres of devastation and destruction used to teach first responders the skills necessary for search and rescue.
"This terrific collaborative effort between the MBA program and TEEX provides a valuable enrichment experience that is unique to the Texas A&M MBA program," said Kelli Kilpatrick, director of the MBA Program. "This one-of-a-kind enrichment experience requires students to act quickly, adjust the plan as necessary, and solve problems as a team. These are skills directly applicable to real-world business. It is an experience which we believe will equip our MBA students with leadership qualities necessary to succeed throughout their careers."
TEEX specializes in training first responders in all disciplines and, in conjunction with Mays Business School leaders, developed a day of training the MBA students will never forget. Exercises include rescuing a live person from an overturned train car, lowering a live patient from the top of a two-story building, extracting a live victim from a confined space, moving a concrete panel with only ropes and pipes and a scavenger hunt using GPS technology.
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Within the last decade, more and more people have started to consider solar power. As environmental damage caused by mankind becomes more apparent, more folks are seeking ways to protect the Earth but still get power. The tips you need to start using solar power lay below.
Start small when you want to start using solar energy. For example, solar path lights are a great start. You can locate these at quite a few retailers, like home improvement businesses and big box retailers. They are as easy to install as any other garden light.
Using solar power to heat the water you use is a terrific method of protecting the environment. Water heating systems can have tanks or be tankless, both able to be powered by the sun. You can install these in bright location or on your roof.
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By Sadri Hassani | 6 April 2016
Skeptical Educator
Mystics and some religionists try desperately to unite science and religion. Dave Pruett, a regular contributor to Huffington Post, refers to science and religion as "soulmates, each grounded in the experience of awe." Pope Francis, in Laudato Si', laments that technology depicts "nature as an insensate order." Deepak Chopra, the modern "prophet" of consciousness, claims that "Jesus, the Buddha, and other enlightened sages were scientists" (see here page 6). An op ed in The Wall Street Journal propagandizes that "at its heart, science is faith-based too." There is even a $1.6-million incentive to lure scholars to the idea of justifying the unification of science and religion.
Evolution is not confined to the physical development of our species. Our intellect also has its evolutionary history. Just as we had a common origin with monkeys in the remote past, science and religion also had a common origin eons ago. While monkeys have developed very little from our common ancestors, homo sapiens have no resemblance to those ancestors. Likewise, while religion has developed very little from its common origin with science, the latter has no resemblance to that origin. What is that common origin? This post shows that science and religion both started as mythology.
Understanding the past commonality of religion and science is crucial for appreciating the present contrast between them. Without considering intellectual evolution, the God of religion becomes an authority whose words are as true as the words of science. On the other hand, studying how science and religion evolved from mythology reveals that God itself evolved — only slightly — from mythical characters, and that mankind created God, not the other way around!
The evolution of religion can be summarized in one sentence:
Religion is mythology with a sociopolitical arm.
What about science? How did it evolve from mythology? The gods of all religions reside in the sky (or on top of a very high mountain peak): Ra, the supreme god of ancient Egypt, rides on the Sun; Brahman, the god of Hinduism, lives above all the celestial bodies; Greek gods traveled between the sky and Mount Olympus; Yahweh lives in the heavens; Jesus rose to heaven to meet his father. There is another human activity connected to the sky: Astronomy, the first science, is the study of objects that reside in the sky. Is there a connection?
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Open your mind's eye for a moment and let it begin a journey in space and time! Far away and long ago. … Look at those construction workers laying down the foundation of the Eiffel Tower. As you pass over Jerusalem, see how the ruins of al-Aqsa turns into a new mosque as the workers reconstruct it brick by brick after a devastating earthquake. … You are now leaving behind the Flavian Amphitheater, the playing field of brutal gladiatorial games in Rome. You are passing the times when King Khufu commissioned the building of his tomb, the Great Pyramid at Giza, and when the Sumerian king Aannipadda built his temple at Ur. Watch how the pyramids are fading away, the temples are disappearing, the huts and mud houses leaving your sight! Do you see a savanna approaching you? Stop there. Now you are somewhere in east Africa or Eurasia some time between 50 and 100 thousand years BCE; eons before any towns or villages existed on the face of our planet.
Can you see the silhouette of those men trudging wearily in the savanna at dusk? They are returning to their cave after a long, laborious day of hunting, each proudly carrying a part of the carcasses of the boars they had killed earlier. The big smile on their faces speaks of their immense joy for having been able to provide a few day's supply of food for their clan.
Their smiles are not to last long, however, because they notice that the wind is picking up speed, and the clouds in the sky are turning dark gray. They look at each other in fright. One of them quickens his pace; the others follow. By the time they are within a few yards from their cave, the wind is so strong that they have to bend forward and exert great pressure against it to be able to take the next step. "Big Serpent hiss," utters one of the men as they enter the cave.
The mental capacity of our ancestors was sufficiently developed at this stage of our evolution to try to find a cause for every effect — the "scientific" disposition. All disasters were characterized by motion, severe unpredictable motion, and they originated from sky, which was also the seat of regularity and calm such as the motion of the Sun and Moon and the beneficial rain, soothing breeze, and fair weather. As our ancestors looked around, they saw that motion — both capricious and calm — was invariably associated with animals and humans. They quite naturally concluded that the source of all disasters must be mighty — possibly human-like — moody creatures residing in the sky. And when they looked up above on a partly cloudy day, they could actually see those creatures as the clouds morphed into human and animal shapes.
Was there any way that they could alleviate the disasters sent by those creatures? Conceivably, after some unsuccessful confrontational attempts, our ancestors decided to open a dialog with the whimsical and overpowering beasts up above. A direct communication seemed ineffective as the sky was too far away. On a stroke of genius, our ancestors came up with the brilliant idea of creating statues of the heavenly creatures and communicating with those statues! "If each statue is a sincere replica, then surely our words will reach the creature it represents," they thought. And the statues began to multiply and spread from one community to another.
And thus man, in his own image, created gods to explain the natural phenomena! And with that creation, science and religion were born as twins!
The creatures sent not only storm, hail, deluge, or gentle rain and fair weather, but also an invisible entity which made its presence known whenever our ancestors imagined a dead relative, dreamed of a ferocious beast that gratefully disappeared when they woke up, or the scent of a flower that wasn't there. In other words, the powerful imagery of our ancestors' mind was associated with another form of a mighty invisible creature — a force or a spirit — that was present everywhere. This force exists in almost all societies. In the South Sea Islands, they call it mana; the Latins experienced numia in sacred groves; Arabs felt that the landscape was populated by the jinn. (See here page 4.)
Priests Were Scientists Were Priests
Communication with the creatures was not the task of ordinary men and women. Only the brightest and most devoted members of society were chosen to communicate with the idols, and they received the support and encouragement from the rest of the community. These were the first generation of priests.
With large resources pouring in, the priests erected magnificent temples, in which to congregate, to communicate with gigantic statues of their gods, to meditate, and to pass on the content of their experiences to each other and to the next generation of priests.
As the temple statues were only representations of the creatures in the sky, the priests inevitably turned their attention to their sources as well: they found it necessary to look at the heaven with an inquisitive eye and follow the motion of objects on which their gods were presumably riding. The first priests were also the first astronomers. (See here for the connection between religion and astronomy in ancient Egypt.)
The degree to which priests emphasized celestial observation depended on the importance they attached to the two features of their belief: the statues or the spirit (mana, numia, jinn). This emphasis varied from region to region. In Egypt and Babylon, for example, celestial observations were an integral part of the religion, to the point that later, the temples in these two countries became the Mecca of knowledge for the ancient Greek scholars such as Pythagoras.
The Separation
The knowledge accumulated in the temples heralded two different destinies for the humans' intellect. On one hand, the Greeks took the astronomical findings from Egypt and Babylon, stripped them from their religiosity and turned them into theoretical astronomy as well as abstract geometry, trigonometry, and mathematics. (See here for an account of how Eudoxus studied astronomy in Egypt.)
Greeks initiated the separation of science from religion.
On the other hand, the Egyptian and Babylonian priests' observation of the sky, which was motivated by the intention to persuade their gods to bestow upon the earthly population health, prosperity, and long life, seemed to lead to little result, despite multitude of adjustments and fine-tuning of the idols and higher and higher price tags attached to the gifts and sacrifices intended for the gods.
Eventually, there emerged the idea that perhaps the priests were worshiping the wrong objects; that people might be better rewarded if they turned to the other manifestation of the powerful creatures: the spirit. This was the course of events that shaped the religion of East Africa, Eurasia, and the Middle East. Borrowing from their sociopolitical structure — headed by an Egyptian Pharaoh or a Sumerian King — the "spirit" was eventually abstracted into the notion of a most powerful omniscience and omnipresent God. (See pages 40-78 of this book for an account of the emergence of monotheism.)
In contrast to the Middle East, India and the Far East, focused on the spirit from the very beginning. Buddhism and Hinduism taught that the universal spirit was inside every animate and inanimate object. So, there was no need for idols to represent something that is present in everything we see and touch. The idea of statues came, in fact, in the first century BCE, long after the death of Buddha, when a kind of personal devotion and humanization of religion, known as bhakti, was integrated into the religion and the first statue of Buddha appeared in Gandhara in northwest India. (See here pages 83-84.)
Regardless of its later development in the Middle East or in East Asia, religion was left behind by science once the Greeks secularized the astronomy that they inherited from Babylonian and Egyptian priesthood. And although science was temporarily suppressed by the rise of the Roman Empire and its eventual surrender to Christianity, it emancipated itself after the Renaissance and has left its once twin sister farther and farther behind. So, despite the attempt of Dave Pruett, Pope Francis, Deepak Chopra, John Templeton, and other scientists or religionists,
Today, religion is as much connected to science as Mayan (flat-earthed colorful) cosmology is to the big bang theory!
Reprinted with permission from the author.
Sadri Hassani is a professor emeritus of the Illinois State University's Physics Department.
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Biographical entry Swallow, Thomas (1827 - 1890)
- Born
- 1827
Reading, Berkshire, England
- Died
- 26 June 1890
Cairns, Queensland, Australia
- Occupation
- Manufacturer
Thomas Swallow began manufacturing ships' biscuits in 1854. In the same year he went into partnership with Thomas Swallow and by 1880 they had a large factory making a range of cakes and biscuits.
He also founded a sugar plantation in Cairns in 1881. It was taken over by the Colonial Sugar Refining Company in 1897.
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Born Reading, Berkshire, England, 1827. Died Cairns, 26 June 1890. Arrived Australia 1853; sold Colt revolvers, Ballarat goldfields; ships' biscuit manufacturer 1854; took in Thomas Ariell as partner 1854 and F.T. Derham 1877; public company from 1888; founded Hambledon sugar plantation near Cairns 1881 (taken over by the Colonial Sugar Refining Company 1897). Mayor of Sandridge (Port Melbourne) for several terms till 1875; Volunteer Artillery, retiring with the honorary rank of major October 1884.
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- Bolton, G.C., 'Swallow, Thomas (1827-1890), manufacturer' in Australian Dictionary of Biography, Bede Nairn, ed., vol. 6 (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1976), p. 230. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A060247b.htm. Details
- Swallow, Thomas, 'A New Powder for Refining or Clarifying Saccharine Juices (Patent No. 1,774, 16 February 1886)' in Index to New South Wales Letters of Registration of Inventions, 1854 to July 1887 (Sydney: Government Printer, 1891). Details
- 'Swallow, Thomas (1827-1890)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1465272. Details
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- Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering, Technology in Australia 1788-1988, Online edn, Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre, Melbourne, 3 May 2000, http://www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au/tia/index_s.html. Details
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Lawyers for the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have begun a bid in a French court to stop the sale and distribution of topless pictures of the duchess.
Their lawyer called for French magazine Closer to hand over the digital originals or face a daily fine, during a civil hearing in Nanterre near Paris.
A lawyer for Closer claimed the couple's reaction was disproportionate.
Meanwhile Irish Daily Star editor Michael O'Kane has been suspended over its publication of the photographs.
The Dublin-based paper's co-owners, Independent News and Media, confirmed that he was suspended while an internal investigation takes place.
The three magistrates presiding over the civil case in Nanterre are expected to announce whether an injunction will be granted at 11:00 BST on Tuesday.
After first appearing in Closer last week, the pictures were used on foreign websites, in the Irish Daily Star and most recently, in Italian gossip magazine Chi.
At the court Aurelien Hamelle, the lawyer representing Prince William and Catherine, was first to speak when the civil action began, shortly after 17:00 BST.
Mr Hamelle said the scenes captured were intimate and personal and had no place on the front page of a magazine.
He said the couple could not have known they were being photographed, adding it would only have been possible to see them with a long lens.
He said that if the original digital images were not handed over, the company that owns Closer should face a fine of 10,000 euros (£8,000) for each day of non-compliance.
'Not shocking'
In response, Delphine Pando, representing Closer, said that topless photographs were no longer considered shocking in modern society.
She added that the couple's reaction had drawn further interest from the press.
Ms Pando denied that the chateau where the couple were sunbathing was inaccessible to public view. She also said the magazine did not hold the rights to the pictures, so it could not be proved that the magazine intended to republish them.
The BBC's Paris correspondent Christian Fraser said there was no name listed in the criminal complaint because the royals do not know the name of the photographer.
He said most lawyers seemed to agree that under strict French law the pictures represented an undisputed breach of privacy - an open-and-shut case.
The action did not stop Closer's Italian sister magazine, Chi, from publishing the same photos but the speed with which the royal couple have acted may deter others from publishing the pictures.
Chi printed a special edition featuring more than 20 pages of the photographs.
It carries a picture of the duchess, topless, on its front cover with a headline that reads: "The Queen is Nude!"
In an editorial the magazine's director, Alfonso Signorini, attempted to justify the decision to print the images by saying he considered them to be "normal and up to date with the times".
He said: "Why, I wonder, Kate Middleton, for now Duchess of Cambridge but future queen of the United Kingdom, should be different from girls her age?
'More likeable'
"In the end, the royals are people like any other. Of course they have obligations, duties - but also privileges."
Mr Signorini said the series of pictures were "not particularly sensationalistic nor damaging to her dignity" and "surely makes her more likeable" and "less distant from all of us".
Closer and Chi are both part of former Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi's Mondadori media group.
Under French law, the damages related to legal proceedings could run into tens of thousands of euros and, in theory, the magazine editor and photographer could be sent to jail for a year.
Closer editor Laurence Pieau has already defended publication, insisting the photos were not in the least bit shocking, and has suggested that she has more intimate photos not yet published.
Before the announcement of an investigation at the Irish Daily Star into its use of the pictures, the paper's co-owners - Britain's Northern and Shell group and the Dublin-based publisher Independent News and Media - had condemned the decision, saying they had no prior knowledge of it.
Richard Desmond, chairman of Northern and Shell, said he intended to withdraw from the Republic of Ireland, and had begun steps to close down the joint venture.
A source at the Irish Daily Star said the belief there was that Northern and Shell would pull out of the publication on Tuesday, when a board meeting of the paper is scheduled to take place.
Independent News and Media has described plans to close the publication as "disproportionate", while acknowledging that the paper had made a "poor editorial decision".
No British newspaper has printed the pictures, with the Daily Mail saying it had been offered similar pictures last week but had rejected them and the Sun saying that no responsible newspaper "would touch them with a bargepole".
Solomon Islands visit
A palace spokeswoman said: "We can confirm that a criminal complaint is to be made to the French Prosecution Department.
"It concerns the taking of photographs of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge whilst on holiday and the publication of those photographs in breach of their privacy."
The photographs were taken while the duchess was sunbathing on a private holiday with her husband at the French chateau of the Queen's nephew, Lord Linley, in Provence.
Meanwhile, the royal couple have been in the Solomon Islands representing the Queen on their nine-day Diamond Jubilee tour of South East Asia and the South Pacific.
On Monday, they travelled to Marau, about 60 miles from Honiara, where they watched a warrior dance before going to the nearby island of Marapa.
After watching local women perform a shark dance in the water, the couple were taken in a traditional war canoe to the remote island resort of Tavanipupu, where they will spend the night before continuing on to Tuvalu, the last destination on their tour.


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Spirostachys africana is a medium-sized (about 10 metres tall) deciduous tree with a straight, clear trunk, occurring in the warmer parts of Southern Africa. Its wood is known as tamboti, tambotie, tambootie or tambuti. This wood if used in guitar making, would possibly be used for a bridge, however, the wood has a very high natural oil content and sometime poses some gluing problems. Normally in furniture making, a joint with some kind of a locking system, like a pinned mortise and tennon joint in conjunction with the glue.
It prefers growing in single-species copses in deciduous woodland, often along watercourses or on brackish flats and sandy soils.
The leaves are small, elliptic with crenate margins, and turn bright red in winter before dropping. The petiole has 2 small glands at the distal end. The grey-black rough bark is distinctively split into neat rectangles. The catkin-like flowers appear in early spring before the leaves. Male and female flowers are borne separately on the same tree (monoecious). The small 3-lobed capsules or schizocarps split into three equal indehiscent segments (mericarps or cocci) when ripe; on a warm day this splitting (dehiscence) can sound like a distant fusillade of shots. The seeds are globose with a chartaceous testa.
Wood and toxicity
Despite its being prone to heart-rot, it is prized in the furniture industry for its beautiful, dense and durable timber, which is reddish-brown with darker streaks, a satin-like lustre and extremely fragrant sweet, spicy smell. The underbark exudes a white, poisonous latex when freshly cut, and campfires that burn tambuti fuel give off noxious fumes contaminating meat or other food grilled on the flames or coals. The latex can cause severe illness if the wood is used as fuel to cook. The latex is used as a fish poison, is applied to arrow-tips and is used as a purgative by indigenous tribes.
Links with animals - The fruit is eaten by crested guineafowl, francolin and doves. Black rhino eat the young branches. Dry fallen leaves are eaten by kudu, nyala, impala and vervet monkeys.
Human uses - The wood is very valuable and used to manufacture exceptional furniture. The poisonous lates is used to stupefy fish, for easier catching, and the sap to treat toothache.
Jumping beans (africana mericarp with Emporia melanobasis larva).
The fruits while green are frequently parasitised by the small grey moth Emporia melanobasis (Pyralidae: Phycitinae). Larvae develop within the growing fruits which show no external damage. When the fruits are mature each splits into 3 cocci. The larvae jack-knife inside the fallen segments, causing them to move about erratically and vigorously, to the surprise of the uninitiated. This has led to the name "Jumping Bean Tree".
Best places to see the Tamboti in Southern Africa
The Tamboti is found in the Kruger National Park in the Mixed Bushwillow Woodlands, Pretoriuskop Sourveld, Malelane Mountain Bushveld, Sabie Crocodile Thorn Thickets, Delagoa Thorn Thickets, Riverine Communities, Alluvial Plains, Tree Mopane Savannah & Mopane / Bushwillow Woodlands ecozones.


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It is a measure of the American Churches blindness that it cannot discern what is going here with Paula White and Rick Hawkins. Having successfully dodged a storm over her "amicable" divorce from Randy White, with no loss of following from her "fans". Still able to appear on TBN as if she has not done anything to violate minimal Biblical Standards for those who proclaim to be Christian Leaders.
It appears now that Paula White feels comfortable to move on to the next step in her fleshly desires and that is to "shack up" her "ministry" with another so called minister! It would seem the next big announcement will be that she and Rick Hawkins have "married".
These two people are an absolute disgrace to Christianity! In fact I would be so bold to say that they are not followers of Christ at all as they reflect the works of their true father: Satan himself!
How many thousands if not millions will her behavior have an affect upon? How many millions will look to her behavior as justifiable and the "norm" for not only a supposed Christian Leader, but Christians in general!
The continuing damage this Jezebel does to Christianity is incalculable!
TV evangelist and motivational speaker Paula White, whose high-profile ministry is under review by a Senate committee, has forged stronger connections to a San Antonio church, having joined its board of directors and scheduled monthly visits throughout this year.
The nondenominational church, formerly called Family Praise Center, recently changed its name to San Antonio Epicenter, and founder Bishop Rick Hawkins remains its leader.
The Epicenter's Web site reflects the church's makeover and highlights White's branding, including her monthly appearances and use of the church's stage, remodeled to turn into a TV studio, for her recordings.
"From this stage, a potential 2.3 billion households will be touched throughout the world," the narrator says in an online video.
The revamping of the church follows several controversies last year, including Hawkin's divorce, the divorce of his son, Dustin, whom Rick had designated as pastor, and a WOAI investigation in which former church members questioned Hawkins' integrity as a minister, including his spending of church money.
It alleged he paid former church members to keep quiet, which Hawkins has denied is improper or illegal, given church policy about severance packages for departing staff.
At the first service after the report aired, Hawkins praised the congregation for remaining loyal and reminded them that he already had apologized in church for past "sins and mistakes."
White co-founded a megachurch in Tampa with her now-former husband, Randy White. The couple announced an amicable divorce last fall, saying no infidelity took place but sparking a debate among evangelicals about whether the breakup was appropriate.
Her expensive lifestyle, which includes a Trump Tower condo and a ministry jet, also has been fodder for public comment. She and her ex-husband are among six multimillion-dollar ministries that Sen. Chuck Grassley is individually reviewing in an inquiry about their compliance with non-profit tax policy.
White has defended her high-dollar ministry income as a blessing from God to accomplish his work, noting her donations to the disadvantaged worldwide.
White's ministry spokeswoman Sheila Withum and her public relations agency WDC Media said White was not available for comment. Calls and e-mails to Will Norris, Epicenter's spokesman and a staff pastor, were not returned.
All six TV ministers, including White, espouse some form of the so-called prosperity gospel, which emphasizes a message that God provides financial rewards for those committed to regular donations to their churches and ministries.
The Whites are among four of the ministries that the committee has reported as not cooperating with its requests for financial information, prompting the committee recently to prepare another round of requests and fueling speculation that subpoenas eventually could be sought.
The committee's inquiries have intensified an already active debate about how open tax-exempt churches and ministries should be with their financial records.
One side is suspicious that the Senate committee could be interfering with religious freedom.
Others say the government is enforcing nonprofit tax laws that might be abused by church leaders in the name of charity.
"We're just saying enough with the funny business," said Lee Grady, editor of the popular Christian magazine, Charisma, based in Florida.
"We have now entered into a new season. It's a season of accountability. It's a season of disclosure, and I've been saying that God Almighty is auditing the church."
White, who has lived in Tampa, bought a home near Boerne six months ago and has set up a "media headquarters" for Paula White Ministries at the San Antonio church, according to the Epicenter Web site.
Hawkins, who owns a ranch outside of Boerne, serves on the board of White's PWM Life Center, a nonprofit organization created last year.
In keeping with White's national profile, the Epicenter this year has scheduled notable Christian musicians and speakers for regular services and special events.
Among the changes is a new Saturday service led by a couple with ties to nationally known ministries, according to the church's Web site. John and Jan Cruse are said to be leading "The Gathering" service.
John is described as the brother of Cindy Cruse, noted worship leader for Lakewood Church in Houston, the nation's largest Protestant church pastored by best-selling author Joel Osteen. And Janice Cruse used to sing with the Archers, a longstanding contemporary Christian music group.
This week, the church will feature Bob and Audrey Meisner who will speak about marriage. The Meisners are known for giving a message about restoring marriages, including telling their own story of overcoming issues of infidelity.


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