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Busy days are ahead.
This week the girls got registered for AWANA. They started dance and gymnastics classes.
Next week we start Girl Scouts. The good thing is, I think I got them both into the same troop (a mixed Brownie-Junior troop!) This will make it so much easier for me.
Next week we are going to be starting schoolwork. I'm still not quite ready. I have copies to make, the office to clean, and a schedule to put together.
Thankfully, the kids are enthusiastic about starting again. They have already cracked open their math books and finished the first 4-9 lessons, because they just can't wait! I'm glad that they are ready to go. This has been a long summer off for us. I hope they haven't forgotten too much :)
We have a lot of things to do before the deployment. We have our checklist and are busy marking things off as we go. Andy has been working on fixing various things around the house. We have had a tune-up done on the truck, powers of attorneys made, etc. There are a lot of thigns to think about and prepare for.
I have a lot of things to get done through our FRG (Family Readiness Group). We have a fundraiser coming up in a couple of weeks. I have a newsletter to write. We are also trying to get ready for our first "packing party" in October so that we can mail out packages of essentials to the guys. We are also trying to procure enough Christmas stockings for each of the soldiers in our troop before we send the Christmas packages out in November. Anyone own a stocking factory??? :)
All of this AND trying to keep up with the housework and take care of the kids is getting hard.
Well, I had better go and get to work!!
Monday, August 25, 2008
Busy Days
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Hundreds of tribals from various corners of the state today held a demonstration in Odisha capital demanding right over forest produces, allocation of land records and employment in local industries.
Geared with their traditional musical instruments, and in cases with traditional arms, the men and women were seen performing on the streets in a bid to draw focus to their cause.
"Businesses come and set up industries. That destroys our forest, water and environment. The government earns tax, but what do we get? We demand right of the forest produces. We also demand land records for us and employment opportunities in the nearby industries," said Gendu Ikka, a demonstrator.
"Hundreds of tribals from different areas and different organisations have come together today to fight for their rights. The big and the powerful live here in Bhubaneswar. That is why we are here," he added.
Speaking to reporters, forest rights activist Sudhanshu Sekhar Deo said that the village boards are yet to have control over the forests which is a major source of concern for the tribals.
"The Forest Department officials continue to oppress the tribals in districts including Rayagada and Kandhamal. Forest Rights Act is yet to be implemented. Hundreds of beneficiaries are yet to receive their land records," he added.

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happy! remember my aloe vera? i decided to name her 'Vera' for ease of reference going forward =) whoever said that plants cannot have names? =Pp
happy! remember my aloe vera? i decided to name her 'Vera' for ease of reference going forward =) whoever said that plants cannot have names? =Pp
the stubborn mule in me decided to take a bus to work on monday. even though i was still on crutches and the walk to the bus stop from my home and from the destination bus stop to office was very long. well, i thought i could make it ma! =Pp
it has been a tough 3 weeks. my parents, vin and i, got into a traffic accident on 31 jan. out of the 9 people involved in the accident, vin was the worst hit. his upper jaw was fractured and 4 of his teeth are very shaky, with 3 of them badly chipped.
my parents still have chest pains now. i still am walking with a limp and there is a lump on my upper lip cos of the bad stitching by the A&E doctor.
after the collision, my dad kept saying 'gone, gone' and my mum repeated 'die, die'. think vin and i must have looked horrible. i kept asking vin if he was ok while waiting for the ambulance to come. think i asked so often cos he finally spoke and asked me 'do i look ok?'. although he did look terrible, but i told him 'no, you look ok!' cos i didnt want to scare him with all the details of how much blood there was on his face and body.
my mind was a total blank cos of the shock and also cos of vin's bloody face and body (i mean literally bloody, but sounds like im speaking vulgarities haha)... vin's eyes couldnt focus cos he was seeing stars and feeling dizzy and he even vomitted blood. many thoughts raced through my mind but i kept casting them out and kept praying out loud. at that point in time, i forgot all the scriptures that vin and i always claimed on healing. only kept repeating to vin, 'God is with us, He will send His holy angels to watch over us and heal you. He will protect us and watch over us.'
thinking about that night, i shudder still. at times, the sound of the horn and the collision still run through my head. its something you never ever would have thought could happen to you in your entire lifetime. we are all safe drivers, but you can never control how others drive on the road.
only after we reached changi general hospital and watched vin being rushed into a room, did i realise that my whole face and body was also covered with blood. interesting how much blood can pour out from your upper lip.
too many things about that night and these 3 weeks to share with you. some thanksgivings:
1) God's protection over all of us
thank God that all of us dont have internal injuries else it would lead to complications. vin said its good that its him that suffered the broken jaw, not me. and the harder hit ones are us, not our parents. the surgeon said that if the fracture was just slightly above where it was, then the operation would not be in his mouth, but on his face. so thank God! my husband is forever handsome! =)
2) dear friends
lyn was the first to come on mon morning. shianni came all the way with kay huat to pray with us, just for that 5 min. vin's colleagues rushed over during lunch time, but couldnt come up to see vin before he went for operation, cos there was not enough passes. joyce took half day urgent leave to be with me on monday while vin was in his 3.5 hour operation. if not for joyce and francis, who comforted me, talked rubbish to me, i would just be sobbing all 3.5 hours. my mum and i were just so worried and helpless by ourselves. many dear friends also rushed over on monday and tuesday just to show their concern. it really means alot.
it was a traumatising time. on sun night, or rather mon morning (we got home around 3am), i couldnt sleep at all. ok maybe for 1 hour from 5am to 6am. thinking about how vin was suffering cos his face was super swollen and he couldnt breathe through his nose cos it was clogged with blood, and about his operation under general anesthetic. what made it worse was that i couldnt move around myself, couldnt eat cos of the 5 stitches on my lip. felt so lost.
3) Importance of family
this accident; spending 3 weeks with vin at my parents' home recuperating; vin's dad driving us to and from the hospital so frequently - these made me understand so much more that family is so very important. i want to love my family more and more each day. make more and more effort to show them concern and to love them. just before this, vin was working till 11 plus, and i was working till 10 plus quite often. yes, work is important cos we want to do our best for God, with the talents He has given us. but yet, it also drains us, such that we just fulfil our weekly routine visits to my parents' and vin's dad's homes. this got slightly tiring occasionally in our busy schedule, but there must be more!
Psalm 23:4 (NIV)
'Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me.'


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The global economic system now faces a sustainability crisis, Jeffrey Sachs argues, that will overturn many of our basic assumptions about economic life. The changes will be deeper than a rebalancing of economics and politics among different parts of the world; the very idea of competing nation-states scrambling for power, resources, and markets will, in some crucial respects, become passe. The only question is how bad it will have to get before we face the unavoidable. We will have to learn on a global scale some of the hard lessons that successful societies have gradually and grudgingly learned within national borders: that there must be common ground between rich and poor, among competing ethnic groups, and between society and nature ...
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Welcome to kahina.org
For imperative programming languages like C or Java there exist comfortable debuggers that visualize the execution of programs in much detail and dramatically ease searching for bugs. For logic programming languages like Prolog, such graphical tools are hardly available. The aim of our project is to develop a graphical debugger that visualizes the complex processes in executing logic programs using a novel, intuitive graphical depiction as multidimensional trees.
Our first use case is the development of unification-based grammars. Those are mathematically precise models of natural language assigning words and sentences syntactic structure and meaning representations. Using software like the TRALE system, they can be implemented as logic programs and tested. Since the analysis (parsing) of even short sentences can easily comprise several thousand programming steps, there is an urgent need for a graphical debugger that makes parsing processes more easily traceable.
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- Kahina's precursor trale-sld is a working prototype and available at Google Code.
- The name Kahina, with emphasis on the first syllable, is Finnish for rustle, a metaphor that lends itself well to describing the visual dynamics of Kahina's multidimensional control flow tree. More often, the word occurs in the sense of quarrel, evoking the picture of a logic programmer wrestling with control structure.
- Kahina is being developed by Johannes Dellert and Kilian Evang with the help and supervision of Frank Richter of the Department of Linguistics at Universität Tübingen. It is funded by the MFG Medien- und Filmgesellschaft Baden-Württemberg through a Karl-Steinbuch-Stipendium. The preliminary Kahina logo is based on Spring leaves by Grant MacDonald.
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Come and enjoy in exciting sailing competition...
Ex Tempore
Painting manifestation accompianed with rich artistic
and cultural program. This event becoming traditional
artistic event in Lovran. Very interesting event
offering varoius painting techniques and styles.
Come and enjoy...
International brass orchestra festival
Lovran and famous Lovran Brass Orchestra
(as for last 11 years) organized International
Brass Orchestra Festival. Beside Lovran
Brass Orchestra, there was orchestras
from Italy (Filarmonica "Giuseppe
Verdi" di Lecco) and Hungary (Balatonfüredi
Koncert fuvos zenekar). Great event, brilliant orchestras.
events was as follows:
- Friday, 07.05.: 20.00h – Lovran
– Opening concert
- Saturday, 08.05.: 17.00h –
Opatija (Villa Angiolina) – Concert
- Sunday,
09.05.: 10.00h - Opatija - Hotels Imperial,
Millenium, Palace - Concerts, 10.30h - Slatina
- Promenade concert, 12.30h - Lovran - Promenade
Lovran: "Asparagus Festival 2004".
The Liburnia area acknowledged great value of
Asparagus long time ago, during which period a
rich gastronomic skills of preparation a delicious
Asparagus meals are developed. This is why this
event is all about.. Come next year in Lovran
and taste a various Asparagus meals; Frittata,
Risotto of Asparagus, Asparagus soup...
The main event this
year (2004) happened on
April, 24th (Saturday) on main Lovran
square with Asparagus
Frittata of 1000 eggs and 25 kilos of asparagus...
Find more information on Asparagus
Festival pages...
Lovran Municipe Day (18h)
The day of Lovran municipe which celebrates every year together with day of St. Jurja (George), Saint, protector of city Lovran.
Hotel Exclesior: Asparagus Festival
National dinner for all Lovran guests with folklore ansamble "Zora"...
Lovran, Church Sv. Jurja (20h): Eastern
Concert: Mixed Choir
Great music event in Lovran, eastern concert with
soprano Bernardina Kolar and with conductor Franjo
Bravdica. Free entrance...


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Recently I had to review a quantitative risk assessment for a pipeline. QRA is not much used for pipelines in Australia, apart from WA, so I only see such reports infrequently. I am consistently underwhelmed by the approach taken and conclusions drawn. It is possible to do a thoughtful pipeline QRA, such as the work done for the study reported here. That QRA report was a lengthly document that openly explained the methodology, assumptions and limitations. However it was the exception. Most pipeline QRA reports I have seen look as if they were produced by a recent graduate given some input data and black-box software from which they generate probabilities of fatality with lots of digits after the decimal place. (I emphasise that this comment relates to those I have seen – maybe I've just been unlucky and other analyses are better.)
The apparent precision in the results rings immediate alarm bells for me. I think there is a dangerously seductive appeal in crisply precise calculation results. It is dangerous because the results are only as good as the input data and the assumptions of the model, and if one or both are dubious then all those decimal places are misleading fiction.
Classical QRA relies on historical failure rates to predict future failure rates. For process plants there is reasonable historical data on flange leaks, valve failures and other mishaps, and provided that the plant is well maintained it seems fair to expect that failure rates will be much the same around the world. However pipeline failure rates are totally dependent on the environment of the pipeline. That environment includes the level of third party activity, the type of activity and (most importantly) the procedural protection measures put in place by the pipeline operator. We already know that pipeline failure rates vary wildly around the world, with Australian rates being at least an order of magnitude lower than those in North America and Europe. So how can the QRA analysts present, with a straight face, failure probabilities to three significant figures when they are based on northern hemisphere data that we know is wrong by an order of magnitude? It gets even worse than that, because I have also seen QRA reports that apply UK incident rate data to pipelines in the remote outback where there is essentially zero third party activity.
Planning Bulletin 87 of the WA Planning Commission specifies setback distances from pipelines that are based on QRA. It seems that the QRA was used to develop profiles of fatality risk versus distance from the pipeline. The semi-standard criteria for the probability of fatalities were then applied to determine the distances that are "safe". In residential areas the risk criterion is a probability of fatality of 1E-6 per year, and in sensitive locations it is 0.5E-6 per year – widely accepted values for risk around hazardous industries. As a result the Bulletin determines that it is "safe" to have a residential area within, say 65 m of the pipeline, but sensitive land uses (schools etc) are not "safe" until they are 70 m from the pipeline. 5 m makes all the difference? Based on an analysis that may contain errors in the input data of an order of magnitude or so?
The AS 2885 approach would look at the possibility of rupture and can recognise that rupture might not be a credible outcome from the threats that exist in the area. It would also look at the radiation distances from the hole caused by the maximum credible threat, which is enabled by a fine-grained identification of all possible threats in the location. It happens that the particular segment of pipeline I was looking at did indeed meet the "No Rupture" criteria, and had a radiation distance from the maximum credible hole that was less than the setback distance in Planning Bulletin 87.
One other fundamental difference between QRA and the AS 2885 approach is that the former has very limited scope for mitigating risk, other than saying "keep away". On the other hand AS 2885 is underlain by a tacit "cause and control" model of risk which requires that every threat be identified and mitigated; a fine-grained analysis as mentioned above. Those threats that present the greatest risk deserve the greatest mitigation effort. Philosophically this is very different to the virtually all-or-none approach of QRA.
Despite appearances my mind is not (quite) completely closed on the subject of QRA for pipelines. But many of those who try to use it are not helping their cause by blind formulaic application.


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Judge's MAFIA & Loya Murder
DALIT ONLINE – e News Weekly
Spreading the light of humanity & freedom
Editor: Nagaraja.M.R.. Vol.14..Issue.07........18 / 02 / 2018
Editorial : Was Judge Loya Murdered by Judicial Mafia ?
- An appeal to H.E.Honourable President of India
The actions & Inactions of Government , Police & Supreme Court of India points towards MAFIA of Police – Criminals – Judges – Doctors murdering a honest judge and covering up the crime. Transparent investigation is the need of the hour. H.E. Honourable President of India Must order an enquiry into the whole crime.
Jai Hind. Vande Mataram.
Nagaraja Mysuru Raghupathi.
Judge Loya death: Top forensic expert rules out heart attack as cause for demise
Dr RK Sharma went through the documents, accessed through an RTI, and said there was possible trauma to the brain and poisoning.
A top forensic expert in the country has dismissed the official claim that Special CBI Judge BH Loya died of a heart attack, Atul Dev of The Caravan reported.
Speaking to the publication after examining medical documents relating to Loya's death, Dr RK Sharma, former head of Forensic Medicine and Toxicology Department, AIIMS, and president of Indian Association of Medico-Legal Experts, also stated that the documents show signs of possible trauma to the brain, and that there is also a possibility of poisoning.
The Caravan obtained some of the documents through Right to Information applications, whereas others, which rule out suspicions regarding Loya's death, were submitted to the Supreme Court by the Maharashtra government.
"There is no evidence of myocardial infarction in the histopathology report. The findings in this report have no suggestion of a heart-attack. They show changes, but not a heart attack," Sharma said.
According to the post-mortem report, the probable cause of death was "coronary artery insufficiency". Countering it, Sharma said, "There are changes observed in heart in these documents, but none of them are conclusive enough to show 'Coronary Artery Insufficiency'. Every patient who goes for a bypass surgery will have these symptoms."
Sharma said that the documents also suggest that Loya could have suffered trauma to the brain. "More importantly, dura is congested according to the post-mortem report. Dura mater is the outermost layer that surrounds our brain. It is damaged in cases of trauma, which indicates some kind of an assault on the brain. A physical assault," he said.
Some of the members of Loya's family, including his father and two of his sisters, had earlier told the publication that they remember seeing bloodstains at the back of his shirt when saw his body.
However, the reason for why dura was congested was not written in the report, something that Sharma said he found strange. "There is a possibility of poisoning. Every single organ is congested," he said.
Sharma also said an investigation should be carried out into the matter. "The situation presented in these documents necessitates an investigation."
The Caravan report also points out several contradictions in the medical documents pertaining to Loya's death. Read the full report here.
It was in November last year that The Caravan published an investigative report pointing out several explosive details and raising unanswered questions pertaining to the death of judge Brijgopal Harkishan Loya in a suspicious manner in Nagpur in 2014.
Loya was at the time hearing a high-profile case relating to the alleged staged encounter of Sohrabuddin Sheikh in 2005. BJP national president Amit Shah, who was then the Gujarat Home Minister, was the prime accused in the case.
Less than a month after Loya's death, a CBI court discharged Shah from the case observing that the charges were politically motivated.
However, in January this year Loya's 21-year-old son Anuj at a press conference said that his family has no suspicions about his father's death.
While several wondered if the statement had been made under duress, others were quick to point fingers saying that the death had been unnecessarily politicised.
Judge Loya's Death: 13 Questions That Remain Unanswered
(In light of four sitting SC judges saying their letter to the CJI expressing concerns about the functioning of the judiciary is related in part to the Judge Loya case, The Quint is republishing the following article originally posted on 24 November 2017.)
The Caravan this week published a series of stories on the death of CBI special judge BH Loya in December 2014. Journalist Niranjan Takle has spoken extensively to the family of Judge Loya, who, before he died, was presiding over the high-profile Sohrabuddin Sheikh encounter killing case – in which a prime accused was BJP President Amit Shah. Shah was discharged by the judge who succeeded Judge Loya.
The revelations made by Judge Loya's sisters, father and others form the basis of the stories. These, along with Takle's own investigation, who spoke to officials in Nagpur who dealt with Loya's body after he was found dead, raise several grave questions.
1. Why was Judge JT Utpat, Judge Loya's predecessor in hearing the case, transferred from hearing the case despite a 2012 Supreme Court order specifying that the same judge should hear the matter from start to finish?
2. Were Bombay High Court Chief Justice Mohit Shah or the principal accused Amit Shah aware of any alleged inducements offered to Judge Loya to ensure a favourable judgment in the case?
3. Does Justice Mohit Shah deny the allegation by Judge Loya's sister Anuradha Biyani, that he himself made an offer of Rs 100 crore in return for a favourable judgment?
[Takle had received no response from Justice Shah at the time of publication of the article mentioning this allegation]
4. Who made the arrangements for Judge Loya's transportation to Dande Hospital on the night of his death, and why was this not in a vehicle from the government guest house or an ambulance?
5. Do Dande Hospital and/or Meditrina Hospital have records indicating what medication was provided to Judge Loya while in their care, and who was with him at the time?
6. What was the time of Judge Loya's death according to the records of Meditrina Hospital and when do call records show this was intimated to Judge Loya's family? Did the death occur at 6:15 am or before 5 am on 1 December 2014, or did it in fact occur before midnight?
[Judge Loya's family says they received calls informing them of his death from 5 am in the morning onwards, but the post-mortem report specifies the time of death as 6:15 am, and other sources informed Takle that Judge Loya passed away before midnight]
The Quint has not conducted an independent corroboration of the claims made in the articles, and therefore does not affirm the truth of such claims. These include alleged discrepancies between the post-mortem report and the condition of Judge Loya's body and clothes, as well as allegations that the then Chief Justice of the Bombay High Court offered monetary inducements to Judge Loya to give a favourable judgment.
Nonetheless, the gravity of these claims (several of which are made on video here), which strike at the very heart of the judicial system if true, necessitates that they be investigated properly at the very least.
7. In what circumstances can a person die of "coronary artery insufficiency"? Is it possible for a person in good physical health without any cardiac history or other markers of this condition, experience "coronary artery insufficiency" and lose their life?
[Judge Loya's sister, a doctor, claims that Judge Loya had no medical history consistent with the condition, and that this raised doubts as to whether this could be the cause of death]
8. Why was a post-mortem report ordered into Judge Loya's death when no panchnama or FIR was filed terming it a suspicious death, and why was Judge Loya's family not informed about the performance of a post-mortem? Alternatively, were any reasons for performance of post-mortem report recorded, where were these recorded and who recorded them?
9. Who signed the post-mortem report pages as "maiyatacha chulatbhau" (ie paternal cousin brother of the deceased) when no relation of Judge Loya was present in Nagpur? Does the countersignatory, the senior police inspector of Sadar police station, recollect who this was?
10. What was Ishwar Baheti's relationship with the deceased and on what basis was he coordinating the funeral arrangements for Judge Loya, including contacting the family? Why was Judge Loya's phone returned to the family by Mr Baheti rather than the police? Alternatively, did the police ask Mr Baheti to return the phone to Judge Loya's family?
11. Does Judge Loya's family still have the allegedly bloodstained shirt worn by Judge Loya at the time of death which the post-mortem report claims was dry?
12. Is it true that the CBI was only given 15 minutes to argue against the discharge of Amit Shah in subsequent hearings of the case before Judge Loya's successor in hearing the case, Judge Gosavi, as against three days for the defence lawyers?
13. Who made the decision to announce MS Dhoni's retirement from test cricket on 30 December 2014? Was this decided by the player or the BCCI and did any external source suggest the specific date?
[Judge Loya's sister alleges that Judge Loya was informed that if he would deliver the judgment in the case before 30 December 2014, it would not be under focus because another news story would dominate the headlines and distract focus from the judgment]
Loya's Death Was Premeditated Murder, Says Late Judge's Friend Uday Gaware
At a public meeting, Gaware said many of Loya's friends, including judges, had had their suspicions when the CBI judge died of a sudden heart attack.
The story of Loya's death has assumed greater proportions in light of the recent historic press conference by four Supreme Court judges. Credit: The Caravan
New Delhi: Justice BH Loya's friend from law college, Uday Gaware, while speaking at a public meeting organised by the All India People's Forum, an association of different civil society and political groups, stunned everyone when he said that the judge's death was "premeditated murder".
The meeting, held at at New Delhi's Indian Social Institute, was called "Suspicious Death of Judge: Implications for Democracy". It was addressed by Caravan Magazine's Niranjan Takle, the journalist who broke the story, the magazine's political editor Hartosh Singh Bal, former judge of the Bombay high court BG Kolse Patil, senior advocate Indira Jaising and Gaware, who is a member of Latur bar association.
Speaking in front of a packed house, the speakers demanded a probe and raised concerns over whether the executive was trying to influence the judiciary in any way.
The series of events
Loya, who in official records died in December 2014 because of a cardiac arrest, was presiding over the CBI court in the Sohrabuddin Sheikh fake encounter case in which BJP president Amit Shah was one of the accused. However, in November, 2017, Caravan broke a story that revealed that there were signs that multiple hospital documents related to his death may have been tampered. The family of Loya expressed its suspicion over various developments before and after his death.
It should be noted that Justice MB Gosavi, who replaced Loya in the CBI court, discharged Shah less than a month after the judge's death. He found that Shah's name had been dragged in the case for political reasons.
The much talked-about story on developments around Loya's death has now assumed greater proportions in light of the historic press conference by the Supreme Court's four senior-most puisne judges who accused the chief justice of India, Dipak Misra, of allocating work to judges "selectively to the benches "of their preference", bypassing senior judges in the process. Justice Gogoi told journalists that the press conference was prompted by issues surrounding the death of special CBI judge Loya.
Questions galore
"I was working on a different story when Nupur Biyani, Loya's niece, approached me in mid-2017. She gave me details of his death which, she said, made the family suspicious. I knew these are hearsay accounts," Takle said.
"I asked her whether her mother, Anuradha Biyani, would come on record as only she could give a first-hand account. When her mother agreed, I started working on it. I could understand that the family was quite frightened. I met Anuj, Loya's son; he was completely silent and scared. He did not answer any of my questions. His grandfather said he has lost in belief in everything. He doesn't believe in law, police, media, and the system. His hopelessness triggered me to get into the story in detail," Takle said.
"All the questions I raised in the story still remain. And now new questions have emerged for which we all will have to find answers. I wrote many stories against the corruption during the Congress government too. When I set out to uncover the details of Loya's story, it wasn't meant to be against the BJP. As a journalist, without any fear or favour, telling the truth is the most important thing," he added.
According to Gaware, everyone in power did their best to suppress the story until Caravan published it.
Gaware said, "If the worshippers of the pen sleep, then worshippers of the nation will sell off the country. Loya was my friend. Both of us finished our law degrees together. All his judgements were impartial. He came from a very ordinary family. He embraced death but never sold his integrity."
"The day Loya died, the same day, people, including many judges, started telling me that Loya has been cheated. The matter was so sensitive that no one dared to file a complaint. Now I feel, we should not have been so fearful. Loya's death was a premeditated murder," he said, adding that if the judicial system gets paralysed, then democracy cannot be sustained.
"Loya died on December 1. On December 15, MB Gosavi replaced him, and within 15 days, he read the 10,000-page CBI chargesheet and discharged the president of a party. This (Sohrabuddin encounter case) matter was going on from 2005, but the new judge understood the case within 15 days. That is surprising," he adds.
'Heart of the rot'
The Caravan's political editor, Hartosh Bal, said that exactly like the Radia tapes "dealt with the heart of the rot in the previous UPA regime" , the Loya story deals with the heart of the rot of the current regime. He said that corruption during the UPA regime involved three of the four pillars of our democracy – political class, executive and media, communal hatred and violence during the NDA regime involves all the four pillars, including the judiciary.
"To come to the Sohrabuddin trial, you have to go through a series of links that connects directly to the 2002 anti-Muslim violence in Gujarat under the watch of Narendra Modi. The first step to this was the murder of the state's home minister Hiren Pandya and that happened because he was privy to certain details about how the administration acted during the 2002 violence. Questions over his death still remain unanswered. Questions related to his death led to the murder of Sohrabuddin and Tulsiram Prajapati. And it is in this context, the suspicious death of judge Loya becomes so important because if the judiciary cannot be seen as delivering justice in this case, then the very core of democracy is under question."
"A judge dies under circumstances which are at best questionable without a clear answer or without a probe being set up is just unacceptable. A judge who dies hearing a case in which the BJP president Amit Shah was an accused is even more unacceptable… After watching the press conference by senior SC judges, the first person who should step forward to go to the SC and say that there should be an impartial probe should be Amit Shah."
Former high court judge Patil said, "An environment of fear in our country exists today. And this has been deliberately manufactured. Judge Loya's death gives a message to the other judges that either accept Rs 100 crore or die. This case can open a Pandora's box but people in power do not want that. I want to say that if a judge of such a sensitive case dies in suspicious circumstances, why should a probe not happen. Why is it so difficult for the government to get a probe done? What restricts it to initiate a probe on its own?"
Judicial independence
Senior advocate Indira Jaising raised a central question. "Is the executive interfering with the functioning of the judiciary? I have only this question to ask. If the government interferes in its functioning, then judiciary will collapse from within."
"I had represented the CBI in the Sohrabuddin's encounter case. Not a single accused person could get even bail at that time. I did my duty. Today, I am told that I am an UPA agent. I reject that allegation," she said.
She then stressed on the importance of an independent judiciary. "The four (SC) judges have done us a big favour by coming out in front of the press, recognising our right to know. It is a huge step on their part to make the judicial functioning transparent. I condemn those who are condemning the judges because they have vested interests. Who will protect the independence of judiciary. The lawyers and bar associations must stand up to protect it. It is not the government which can protect it as all governments want a loyal judiciary."
She added that the the SC should have taken a suo motu notice of the case immediately after suspicious details about Loya's death emerged. She alleged that SC's Justice Arun Mishra, who has been allotted the case by the chief justice of India, should not be presiding over the case as he had a history of giving favourable judgements for the state of Gujarat, where the BJP has been power for more than 20 years.
She also invoked the medical college bribery scam to point out corrupt practices in higher judiciary and added that the civil society should come together to protect its independence and impartial nature.
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Talking about girls rights over lunch with the Queen
May 17, 2015 by Sumaiya Haque
17-year-old Tania Akhter was preparing for her final year college exams when life had a pleasant surprise to offer. A member of BRAC's adolescent club, she was quickly acknowledged for her leadership skills. Tania joined the club when she was in class 6, and since then coordinators have kept an eye on her development. Tania also received training on livelihood skills as part of the club's activities.
However, one day, like scores of adolescent girls in Bangladesh, Tania came face-to-face with a reality that threatened to overturn all that she was familiar with. Her father, unable to support the family of six single-handedly, decided to marry her off, as the eldest of four children, when she was only in class 9. It was in Tania's nature to revolt. She took it upon herself to persuade her parents into changing their decision. She was lucky enough to get the support of some of her teachers and local BRAC staff, who intervened at the nick of time.
Her parents gave in alright, but her father made it clear that he will no longer support her education and that she was on her own. Tania wasn't disheartened at all. The grooming sessions at the club gave her enough confidence to start tutoring local kids and take care of her own expenses. A couple of years later, when her younger sister was about to face the same fate of early marriage, she duly intervened and began financial supporting her as well.
Over the years, Tania has been able to gain the trust of her parents. She says, "My father now tells me that he is proud that I am earning for myself, and after he retires, he would enjoy being taken care of by his daughter, before I actually decide to get married".
Tania rose to become a peer leader at her club, and was selected to receive an intensive training on ICT and English that BRAC offers its club members. This January, BRAC was invited to attend the Prince Mahidol Award Conference 2015 in Thailand, and was asked to arrange for an adolescent girl who would be one of the keynote speakers at the main event. For a fair selection, the girls who were attending the ICT and English workshop from all over Bangladesh were screened and Tania was an easy choice.
Tania spoke in front of global leaders in health, as an advocate of adolescents around the world who are forced into early marriage. The video below is a reflection of the amazing journey Tania undertook. She shares her visions with the world and we hope one day, they will come true.
Sumaiya Haque is a deputy manager at BRAC Communications.


text: The Bulletin reads: Seek the Lord when he can still be found. Isaiah 55:6 The striking image of the clock on the church at nighttime with snowflakes falling, along with this verse from Isaiah will help your congregation ring in the New Year. Bulletin is 81/2 x 11 unfolded, and 51/2 x 81/2 folded; regular size only. Abingdon s Advent-Christmas 2012 Seasonal Bulletins and matching pieces provide a beautiful array of designs to enhance seasonal worship services and special communications with your congregation. This annual series includes bulletins, letterheads, and offering envelopes for all four Sundays in Advent, and several options for Christmas Day as well as bulletins for special services such as Hanging of the Greens, Candle Lighting, and Watch Night. To see our full selection search by typing keywords: Abingdon s Advent-Christmas 2012, and click se


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Members of Congress and consumer advocates are hopeful that the new health care law requiring drug companies to disclose payments made to doctors for research, consulting, speaking engagements, travel and entertainment, will lower the risk of potential medical malpractice claims.
The overall goal of this legislation is to have doctors make decisions based on the best interest of the patient without regard to any relationship that doctor may have with a particular drug or medical device company.
It's well-known that many doctors receive some form of compensation from drug and device companies every year in exchange for providing medical advice or by giving lectures. The dollar amounts vary, but in some cases the figures have been in the hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars. According to analysis by The New York Times:
- About a quarter of doctors take cash payment from drug or device makers.
- Nearly two thirds accept routine gifts of food, including lunch for their staff or dinner for themselves.
- Doctors who receive payments may practice medicine differently than those who are not willing to take such payments.
It is estimated that more than 1,100 drug, device and medical supply companies will have to file reports under this new law. All the data from these reports would be inspected and audited for accuracy. Manufacturers of prescription drugs and devices will also have to report any payments they've made to doctors who may have helped develop, assess or promote new products. Payments made to teaching hospitals that may have researched or developed inventions, will also need to be reported, especially if a royalty payment was made to a doctor.
As part of the health care law, any company that has at least one product covered by Medicare or Medicaid, will have to disclose all of its payments made to doctors other than its own employees. The federal government will post this payment data on a website, making it available to the general public. Penalties for failing to report this information could range from $10,000 up to a $1 million a year depending upon the offense.
This legislation will take effect as soon as established payment reporting procedures are in place and Medicare officials finalize the rules. It's the hope of the Obama administration, that this will greatly reduce the number of medical malpractice and medication errors of the American people.
Source: The New York Times, "U.S. to Force Drug Firms to Report Money Paid to Doctors," Robert Pear, Jan. 16, 2012


text: We report for the first time a gamma-ray and multiwavelength nearly periodic oscillation in an active galactic nucleus. Using the Fermi Large Area Telescope we have discovered an apparent quasi-periodicity in the gamma-ray flux (E > 100 MeV) from the GeV/TeV BL Lac object PG 1553+113. The marginal significance of the 2.18 +/- 0.08 year period gamma-ray cycle is strengthened by correlated oscillations observed in radio and optical fluxes, through data collected in the Owens Valley Radio Observatory, Tuorla, Katzman Automatic Imaging Telescope, and Catalina Sky Survey monitoring programs and Swift-UVOT. The optical cycle appearing in similar to 10 years of data has a similar period, while the 15 GHz oscillation is less regular than seen in the other bands. Further long-term multiwavelength monitoring of this blazar may discriminate among the possible explanations for this quasi-periodicity.


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Papers Authored
Does replacing coal with wood lower CO2 emissions? Dynamic lifecycle analysis of wood bioenergy published in Environmental Research Letters
Research reveals that displacing coal with wood for power generation can make climate change worse for decades or more. Read more…
Linking models of human behavior and climate alters projected climate change in Nature Climate Change
This research combines social and climate modeling to reveal how interactions between perceived climate risks and greenhouse gas emissions influence projected climate change. The results suggest that policies emphasizing the attribution of extreme events to climate change and infrastructural mitigation may reduce climate change the most. Download the pdf.
Other Projects
US Subnational Climate Action
After President Trump's withdrawal from the Paris Climate Agreement, hundreds of cities, states, and other entities committed themselves to reducing CO2 emissions in line with the Paris Agreement's goals to limit climate change. We added up those commitments and put them on the map. This tracking effort was concluded in 2017.
Resilience in the Horn of Africa
Climate Interactive and the Internal Displacement Monitoring Center built a livelihoods and displacement tool for the Horn of Africa. When floods and droughts occur, pastoralists can lose their livelihood resulting in a displacement. This tool modeled that effect and could be used for humanitarian responses to disasters as well as evaluating climate impacts and development interventions. This project was concluded in 2016.


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AC OCEAN WALK today announced the acquisition of the former Revel Casino Hotel in Atlantic City for$ 200million. The property will be renamed Ocean Resort Casino, taking advantage of the 20-acre location along the famous Atlantic City Boardwalkwith its 1,399 rooms overlooking the ocean. AC OCEAN WALK will begin the project immediately so that the resort is scheduled to open in the summer of 2018.
When fully operational, the property will provide between 2,500 and 3,000 jobs for Atlantic City , contributing greatly to the city's economic resurgence.
"We are extremely excited to have seized the opportunity to acquire this wonderful property at a time when Atlantic Cityis making a major breakthrough. Now the city has countless interesting projects like our property and Hard Rock, as well as the new campus of Stockton University and the expansion of the medical center, "said Bruce Deifik , president of AC OCEAN WALK.
"We thank the wonderful staff at JP Morgan and others who have helped us through this eight-month journey, and we would especially like to thank Atlantic City and the state of New Jersey for their hospitality, consideration and professionalism. residents when the Ocean starts operating, "added Deifik.
The Revel Casino Hotel was originally opened in April 2012 with a total investment of approximately $ 3 billion and has become a landmark on the Atlantic City Boardwalk not only for its height but also for the attention dedicated to tower and casino details.
"The old Revel was inaugurated at a time when Atlantic City's economy was still recovering and operationally failed to meet customer needs. However, due to the quality and investments made during its development, the new 'Ocean' will represent one of the hotels and casinos currently in a favorable market that has demonstrated strength and resilience, "Deifik said.
The newly designed Ocean Casino Resort will take full advantage of the 6.4 million square feet of property with 138,000 square foot planning space for gaming, featuring 100 gaming tables and 2,200 slot machines designed to be the " Marketplace".
" Atlantic City is back with revenge, and based on the legalization of gambling, we are predicting a great opportunity to bring a next-generation casino to a city that serves a broad and diverse sports market," Deifik said.
The Ocean Resort Casino will feature 165,000 square feet of meeting and convention space as well as a 5,700-seat showroom for potential future expansion. The property offers a parking lot with 7,700 seats making the hotel, casino and entertainment venues within easy reach for all guests.
"It is our mission and our vision meet customer of Atlantic City . To this end, we are striving to bring back some of the restaurants that were successful in the property and working diligently to create new specialized areas, including a" noodle bar " refined Asian and a high-level player club.Our property investment will ensure that everyone will find something interesting to do at Ocean, "Deifik said.
In addition to the casino tower and hotel, the property includes a central power facility that is designed to meet the current, future and potential thermal and electrical needs of the site, which, according to Deifik, "adds great added value to the property" .
"Personally, this is a dream come true. Without the support of my family, who understood my vision and my faith in Atlantic City as a resurgent market, today would never have happened and therefore thank them immensely," added Deifik .
Integrated Properties is the principal owner and managing partner of AC OCEAN WALK. Integrated Properties is a Denver- based commercial real estate developer established by Bruce and Nancy Deifik in 1990. The company manages assets, properties, leasing and distribution of commercial portfolio of Deifik and its investing partners. Since its inception, the company has acquired more than 103 commercial properties including mixed use, offices, retail, hotel / casino, apartments and warehouses in California, Colorado , Florida, Massachusetts , Nevada and Texas. The company's portfolio spans over 8.5 million square feet and specializes in mixed-use urban projects.
AC OCEAN WALK announces acquisition of Revel Hotel and Casino in Atlantic City
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Sri Siddhartha Medical College and Sri Siddhartha Dental College announces opening of their admissions for 2016 – 2017 sessions for SSAHE University MBBS and BDS Admissions 2016 courses. Only those who have qualified the NEET are eligible to apply for the seats. This year, like most medical colleges, SSAHE University as well cancelled its AIUGET for MBBS and BDS course and are taking admissions only on basis of NEET 2016.
Candidates are to fill the application from the official university website only. It is mandatory for all applicants to submit the filled forms along with all required enclosures and demand draft. Every candidate must read all the terms and conditions properly and the documents with the form is to be submitted by registered post or speed post or courier to the official address which is "Office of the Registrar, Sri Siddhartha Academy of Higher Education, Agalakote B.H. Road, Tumkur – 572107 Karnataka."
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- The last two years of study shall of Physics, Chemistry and Biology and English as a compulsory subject.
- General category candidates must have passed PCB with minimum of 50% marks. The SC/ST candidates must have minimum 40% marks.
- Qualifying NEET 2016 is mandatory for all the applicants. The General Merit candidates must have a score of 50% while SC and ST candidates must secure 40% aggregate in CBSE NEET. The candidates provide the score card of the NEET 2016 exam while applying for MBBS, BDS course.
Total 130 seats available where 111 seats are available at SSAHE counselling under NEET 2016 results.
Reserve seats for MBBS course admission
General categories reserve 65 seats,
SC category reserve10 seats,
ST category reserve 2 seats.
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The Merit counselling admission card will be available on the University website from 10th September 2016 onward. Please take a print of the merit list counselling admission card from website.
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IRA Contributions: The contribution limits will not change next year: $5,500, plus a $1,000 catch-up contribution for workers aged 50 or more. Again, this is per person, not per account. The income levels at which you can deduct some or all of your traditional IRA contribution have also inched upwards. The income levels at which you can directly make Roth IRA contributions are not inflation adjusted; they remain the same.
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Bigg Boss 2 seems to have knack of upsetting political groups. First it was the Republican Party of India activists who went on a rampage at the Colors' office in wake of their party president being snubbed by Bigg Boss. Now, it's the Mumbai Youth Congress Committee who have lodged a complaint of indecency against Bigg Boss.
Following their complaint an FIR was registered by the Lonavala Police Station against three contestants – Rahul Mahajan, Payal Rohatgi and Sambhavna Seth.
Mumbai Youth Congress Committee president Sunil Ahire says, "We lodged a complaint on October 4 against the channel and the production house at Andheri police station. This is not a personal decision, but I've been informed by people around me that they find the show very obscene and they wanted us to take some action against it. This show is mainly watched by the youth and even 5-10 year old kids watch it. Exposing them to vulgarity will only have a detrimental effect on our younger generation. The likes of Payal, Rahul and Sambhavana have been behaving in a shameless manner.â€
Did Congress spokesman Sanjay Nirupam, an evictee from Bigg Boss 2, influence this move? After all, he too refused the wild card citing that the show had got very vulgar. The MYCC president though refused to accept it.
"No, Sanjay Nirupam has absolutely nothing to do with this move. This is a decision taken by us. Our objection is against the channel and especially the show's editors. Through the 24 hours that they spend in the house, why is it that you want to show only the vulgar content,†said Sunil Ahire.
However, there is no reason to worry for Colors or the production house (Endemol India). Today, the producers of the show and the channel had filed petition in Mumbai High Court seeking orders for quashing of FIR filed for the alleged offence of obscenity in relation to the show Bigg Boss 2. Senior advocate Mr. Ashok Mundargi along with Mr. Ameet Naik appeared for the producer and channel.
"Hon'ble High Court judge Mrs. Justice Tahilramani was pleased to pass interim order directing state (including police) not to take any coercive measures including arrest against either the participants of show or against officers of production house or the Channel. Therefore, the show "Bigg Boss 2" will not be affected in any manner and will go on as per planned schedule. Matter will come up before High Court on 24 October 2008 for quashing of complaint. We are hopeful that the complaint would be quashed on the next date,†said the two lawyers.


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Gustav to make landfall Tuesday
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As I said at first I only offered 125x125 ad spots, because those were popular in blogs. But my sites are not even blogs! And plus 125x125 is small. The standard sizes you want to provide to the advertisers are 468x60, 120x600, 160x600, 300x250, 720x90, etc.. provide as many as you want, but me I limit myself to 125x125, 300x250, 720x90 and 160x600 but I should also offer 468x60 since it is THE original standard. That's something I'll add to my arsenal.
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The following ad units have been retired as they are no longer commonly bought and offered throughout the market. Dimensions listed are the original (collapsed) dimensions of those previously used for for both standard and expanding ad units. Publishers may continue to offer and promote these ad units, however the IAB will no longer provide guidance on their use.
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"You're going to do what?" "You're nuts!" "Must be gluttons for punishment!" Just a few of the reactions we received after revealing our plans for this Grand Adventure. Apparently travelling with kids is not necessarily equated with joyous living. After completing the journey, and surviving it, many told me I should write a book, a "How to" book. Honestly I don't feel qualified to give expert advice on that subject. I believe that all people are different, some enjoy travelling and some prefer to stay at home. I believe that applies even to children, and I believe that our children were born to roam! Having children who enjoy watching the world roll by outside the car window, who scream with disappointment when a 10 hour-long journey is over and we are finally home, who begin each morning with "Where are we going today?" certainly makes travelling easier. Who am I to give advice to the vast majority with... More > "normal" kids? Having said that, I may just have a few tips to offer anyway.< Less
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Norwegian Jade, 2nd June 2017
NORWEGIAN JADE 2nd June 2017
Goodness, here I am again off to sea for two nights. I took a train along the South Coast of England to Southampton Central station and then shared a taxi to the latest Ocean Terminal building. I remember using the 1950-built old Ocean Terminal, when I was at sea with Union-Castle Line, with its wonderful Art Deco styling and the Boat Trains from London arriving alongside. Passengers sailing to the United States would use the terminal to embark on their liners to the USA. I know that I arrived at the same quayside on the CAPETOWN CASTLE, when she was unexpectedly pressed into service again in 1966 for voyages to Cape Town in South Africa (see "Union-Castle Line Purserette"). The terminal was closed in 1980, due to travellers using jet aircraft to get quickly to the States and cruise ships starting to become so much bigger. After that moment of nostalgia, I met my travelling companion and we checked in for our weekend re-positioning voyage from here in Southampton to Hamburg in Germany. We were soon on board and I headed for my inside port side forward cabin 8519, on deck 8.
This Norwegian Cruise Line ship is fresh out of dry dock and this is a great opportunity to sail on her and sample her Freestyle Cruising. She was built in 2006 by Meyer Werft in Pappenburg as the PRIDE OF HAWAII for NCL's America division, and is 93,558 gross tons. Needs changed and she became JADE, then NORWEGIAN JADE with appropriately-coloured hull art. The ship can carry 2,402 guests in double occupancy, with a crew of 1037. There are 16 dining options and 15 bars and lounges plus many other facilities to be enjoyed on board, so I'm looking forward to more fun time at sea.
We decided to go for lunch in the Grand Pacific main dining room and were delighted to be placed at a window table. The artwork and furnishings really appealed to me and I'm told they are reminiscent of the Matson Line's luxury liners MARIPOSA, MONTEREY, and LURLINE built between 1930 and 1932. I enjoy knowing that during the early 1970s Union-Castle Travel in the UK held the General Sales Agency with Pacific Far East Line Inc., United States Line and Matson Lines. Just to add to life's coincidences, at present I'm reading about the last cruise on board Matson's MARIPOSA ("Nothing can go Wrong" by John D. MacDonald & Captain John H. Kilpack) in 1977 and it is fascinating to be able to imagine events happening in locations similar to this Grand Pacific Main Dining Room here on NORWEGIAN JADE. Many events mentioned in the book will probably not feature on our two-night trip to Hamburg!
We later found a glass builder's plate on display showing her PRIDE OF HAWAII details from 2006.
We could see several other cruise ships at the other Southampton passenger terminals including NAVIGATOR OF THE SEAS, SILVER WHISPER, SILVER EXPLORER, AURORA, and MARINA, and also the newly-painted Hythe Ferry HYTHE SCENE, previously GREAT EXPECTATIONS, with her blue hull, plus tugs, ferries and fast craft to the Isle of Wight, and the venerable tug CALSHOT berthed nearby. Those of us who have taken the little ferry to Hythe, just across the water, will have happy memories of disembarking from her and then taking the ancient train which still runs safely along the pier into the village. The afternoon spent in the spacious Spinnaker Bar was a very enjoyable time.
We attended the mandatory Lifeboat Drill held in the theatre, then went for afternoon tea in the Great Outdoors Bar, enjoying the sunshine and watching ship movements out on the water.
Late afternoon meant it was time to change for dinner and the evening's entertainment; we went for the first half of the Show because we wanted to be on deck for the 8 o'clock departure from Southampton. A glass of something deliciously sparkling appeared as if by magic in front of me, and then it was time to head to the Grand Pacific Dining Room for dinner. The surroundings really were lovely, but there were so many venues all over the ship to choose for dinner. This evening we were placed at the small window table again and as well as a delicious meal, I do remember that I enjoyed Cherries Jubilee for dessert.
Then it was time to head back to the Spinnaker Bar and enjoy the music and dancing as we sailed out into the English Channel. This evening the clocks will go forward, and then tomorrow we have a sea day, before we arrive in Hamburg on Sunday morning. There are lots more lovely things to see and do here on NORWEGIAN JADE.
Ships seen: Norwegian Jade, Navigator of the Seas, Silver Whisper, Silver Explorer, Aurora, Ocean Scene, Hythe Scene (the Hythe ferry), Marina, Red Jet 4, tugs ZP Boxer and Smit Tiger, Red Jet 3, Red Jet 5, Red Osprey, Red Falcon, Red Eagle Calshot, Orion Highway, Wightlink ferries St. Clare and Wight Sun or Sky
To be continued...
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