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But his fears were allayed when she put on her Herrera gown.
"I cannot tell you how much it meant to me and how in awe I was when my wife walked down the aisle after she had been lying on that gurney, on those fluids, and it was all such a credit to this Carolina Herrera wedding gown she was wearing," he said. "She was completely transformed."
A politics based on democratic welfarism could offer a political alternative. The Bahujan Left Front in Telangana comprising communists and Ambedkarites may show the way.
Last week, I attended the inaugural session of the 22nd party congress of the CPM in Hyderabad as a guest for the first time in my life. In my student and post-student days, I had worked with the CPI-ML Nagi Reddy group. Most ML groups are small groups who claim to be a party. Though working with that group gave me a theoretical and ideological base, it did not provide me the feeling of associating with a party that has a national presence. The CPM is a party with a national presence and experience of parliamentary rule. That it has run governments in three states and had a substantial presence in Parliament gives me the impression of a communist party that could even rule India from Delhi if it re-positions its ideology.
In 2004, the communists influenced the national economic and political policy. It led to the enactment of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee and the Right To Information acts. In my view, the first UPA government that worked with the support of the communist parties improved the rural economy quite significantly. Communists in any government can be a check on individual and institutional corruption. During their 34 years in office in West Bengal, 25 years in Tripura and running coalition governments alternatively in Kerala since 1956, they did not leave any record of corruption.
The problem is they have not yet completely given up their path of non-parliamentary struggle. They still hang on to the theory that the parliamentary path is tactical, whereas the revolutionary path is strategic. This leaves enough space for the Congress and the BJP to remain as ruling parties in Delhi.
However, the tone and tenor at the 22nd congress was different. It gave the impression the CPM could work towards building a third alternative through the electoral path itself. The general aura of the CPM party congress was of discipline. The banner on the podium had a beautiful sketch of Karl Marx, the cover pages of the Communist Manifesto and Das Capital. But for Marx, the modern welfare democracies in the world would not have been what they are today. All the capitalist countries, including India, today implement democracy with social welfare of people as an integral part of the system.
The Marxists are better read and have more training in writing than other politicians. So, if they get to a position of influence at the Centre, they can bring in the knowledge of global trends in welfarism. They can do it much better than those from the Congress. There can be no comparison with the BJP leadership since the latter has little exposure to global systems. Besides, BJP leaders are exploring inward-looking Indian mythology, which does not contain theory or practice of people’s welfare. Democratic welfarism has to be advanced by studying all the global experiments.
For the first time in the communist movement (including the CPI and other small parties and groups), a communist party leader — CPM general secretary Sitaram Yechury — said the new experiment of building an alliance involving the communists and the Ambedkarites called the Bahujan Left Front (BLF) is the politics of the future. The Telangana CPM has formed BLF with several small Ambedkar-Phuleite SC/ST/OBC parties. These parties have on the banner figures such as Mahatma Jotirao Phule, Savitribai Phule, Ambedkar and Karl Marx. In other words, it is an experiment in Marx-Ambedkar theories of democracy and welfarism. Though Yechury did not go into the theoretical relationship between Marx and Ambedkar, the party affirmed the new experiment as a positive initiative, which could be expanded nationally.
If the communists reformulate their position that they should come to power in Delhi through electoral means, as the Nepali communists did by giving up the ultimate armed revolution agenda, that itself is acceptance of Ambedkar’s idea of democracy as change agent. Some radical changes could be brought about by combining Marxian welfarism with Ambedkarite socio-economic reform. The avoidance of violent revolution and coming to power through vote with a manifesto of time-bound welfarism for people is one of the key ideas of Ambedkarism.
It also means that the communists recognise that India is a caste-class society. Through a gradual means of democratic welfarism, both caste and class oppression and exploitation could be tackled. Though many eulogise Ambedkar today — including the Congress and BJP — they do not accept the core theory of Ambedkar that caste should be annihilated.
But the communists have the potential to work out a process of annihilating caste and abolishing class inequalities by formulating a new theory and praxis. In my view, this is the best way to follow, given the Indian specificity of caste and the global weakening of class revolutions and “pure socialism”. The BSP winning power in UP was a case of Ambedkarite caste-centered path, but it did not become a creative experiment at the operational level. There was no theoretical rigour in that experiment. No democratic transformation can be achieved based only on pure Ambedkarism because democratic welfarism is a universal experiment. The communists are better suited to combine the universal with the native if only they seriously examine Ambedkar’s thought. The BJP’s intellectuals study Ambedkar only to attack Muslims, not to deepen democracy or annihilate caste. The Congress thinks that Nehruvian democracy is inclusive of Ambedkarism. It is not, though there are many meeting points between Ambedkar’s thought and Nehru’s ideas.
The BLF has come into existence in Telangana with the aim of achieving this broader goal by transforming the political and ideological discourse. It is meant to bring out the communists and Ambedkarites from their shells. It has initiated a discourse for Marx-Ambedkarites to capture power by transforming the social justice agenda and with a goal to deepen democratic welfarism. It is meant to address the school and college and university education system in terms of annihilating the caste mindset and class exploitation relations from childhood onwards. It is aimed at taking the discourse on secularism beyond religion and tackling caste class, religion, race and so on.
Marx and Ambedkar have given us enough theoretical tools to handle caste, class and gender inequalities. Reading one in the light of the other is very essential for the committed people working in communist parties as well as Ambedkarites working in the BSP and other organisations.
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Broward Sheriff Scott Israel said 17 people were killed in a shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland.
When it opened in 1990, the school was touted for its state-of-the-art campus that cost $27 million to build.
Amenities at the school, which has Spanish tile roofs, included hospital beds for medical classes, an emergency shower in chemistry class for toxic spills and built-in whirlpools in locker rooms.
At the time of its opening, the school was a prototype for the county’s new high school schools. The open air complex was built to meet the demand of the growing population of Coral Springs and Parkland, an affluent municipality with about 31,000 residents.
The school was named after the famous South Florida environmental activist when she was 100. She fought to preserve the Everglades and died in 1998 at the age of 108.
Famous alumni include Chicago Cubs star Anthony Rizzo, former Major League Baseball player Mike Caruso, and Dave Aizer, a news anchor for Fort Lauderdale-Miami The CW affiliate WSFL-Ch. 39.
Last November, the Marjory Stoneman Douglas Eagle Regiment won top honors at the Florida Marching Band Championships, according to the school band’s website. Douglas High also ranked 50th among Florida high schools last year by US News and World Report.
Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School is seen after a shooting at the school that reportedly killed and injured multiple people on February 14, 2018 in Parkland, Florida.
Vice President Mike Pence delivered a solemn speech honoring the victims of the 1983 Marine barracks bombing in Beirut, Lebanon, on Monday, just hours after President Donald Trump renewed his public dispute with the widow of a fallen U.S. soldier.
Speaking at a ceremony in Washington, D.C., to commemorate the anniversary of the Beirut bombing that claimed the lives of 241 service personnel — the deadliest attack on the Marine Corps since World War II — Pence offered his condolences to the families of the Marines who lost their lives over three decades prior.
“When heroes fall, America mourns, and today 34 years on we still mourn with those who mourn and grieve with those who grieve,” Pence told a crowd of Marine Corps personnel and the families of those lost in the 1983 attack.
The vice president, the father of one marine and brother to another, recalled first hearing of the bombing after it occurred and wondering whether Gregory Pence, his brother who was stationed overseas at the time, had been affected.
“All we could think about as a family was that our brother was there. I called my parents immediately to ask if my brother was okay. They didn’t know,” he said.
Pence said that after a few days passed they heard word that his brother had shipped out just days prior to the attack. “Gregory was able to come home,” he said.
“But I promise all of you, just like our brother, we’ll never forget, we’ll never forget the 241 who never had that chance,” the vice president said.
Pence’s remarks at the D.C. Marine Barracks came just hours after Trump reignited the controversy over his condolence call to Myeshia Johnson, the widow of a soldier killed earlier this month in Niger. Johnson told ABC Monday that Trump “made me cry even worse” during the call following the death of her husband, Sgt. La David Johnson.
The comments drew a refutation from the president on social media. “I had a very respectful conversation with the widow of Sgt. La David Johnson, and spoke his name from beginning, without hesitation!” the president wrote, responding to Myeshia Johnson’s claim that the president had struggled to remember her husband’s name.
Trump’s response marked the second week in which the White House had become ensnared in the controversy surrounding the president’s response to fallen soldiers.
While Pence did not address the controversy directly on Monday, the vice president repeatedly reiterated the president’s commitment to honoring slain U.S. service members.
“Today it’s my privilege to speak to you on behalf of your commander and chief, Donald. J. Trump, and I bring the presidents greetings. I bring the president’s heartfelt condolences,” Pence said.
Opioid epidemic, the emerging public health crisis in the United States, enhances rates of few infectious diseases like HIV/AIDS, hepatitis, heart infections, and skin and soft tissue infections and health professionals of infectious disease and substance use disorder should work together to decrease the burden, according to a new commentary in the Journal of Infectious Diseases.
The article was co-authored by officials from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health, and the Institute of Human Virology at the University of Maryland School of Medicine in Baltimore.
Since 1999, nearly 400,000 people in the United States have fatally overdosed on opioid-containing drugs, with 47,600 deaths in 2017 alone. Many people with opioid use disorder (OUD), who initially were prescribed oral drugs to treat pain, now inject prescribed or illegal opioids. High-risk injection practices such as needle-sharing are causing a surge in infectious diseases. Additionally, risky sexual behaviors associated with injection drug use have contributed to the spread of sexually transmitted infections.
Infectious disease professionals can play an important role in addressing the problem by not only treating a patient's injection drug use-associated infection but also connecting the patient for treatment of their underlying OUD, the authors write.
For example, coupling opioid agonist therapy, such as methadone, with treatment for HIV or hepatitis C, can prevent further transmission of those viruses and reduce opioid use. Comprehensive treatment will result in improved outcomes for both the infectious disease and the underlying OUD, according to the authors.
Conversely, substance use disorder health providers should screen their patients for unrecognized infectious diseases and consult with their infectious disease colleagues regarding a comprehensive treatment plan. Substance use disorder professionals also should be aware of and direct patients to needle and syringe programs, which can decrease injection risks and provide an opportunity to provide other services as well.
New federal resources made available to address the growing opioid epidemic can assist health professionals in improving and implementing coordinated, evidence-based strategies to prevent and treat OUD and opioid-associated infections. These efforts will be key to stemming and ultimately ending the intertwined problem of OUD and infectious disease, according to the commentary.
Encephalitis is the inflammation of the brain, mostly caused by viruses. Though rare, it is a serious condition and needs urgent treatment in a hospital.
Police have identified the driver who died following a hit-and-run crash in Mesa on Wednesday as 29-year-old Jefte Daniel Boll.
According to witnesses and evidence, police say Boll initially rear-ended a vehicle that was stopped on Guadalupe Road at the Loop 202 overpass before fleeing, losing control and then crashing into a tree.
Police said speed was a factor.
The driver of the rear-ended vehicle was taken to a hospital with minor injuries.
Boll died at the scene.
Martyr who is known mostly through legends. According to tradition, he was the first bishop of Lucca in Tuscany, Italy, and the city's patron saint. He was supposedly sent to Lucca by St. Peter and was martyred about 67. He died with a soldier, a priest, and a deacon.
What follows are seven tweaks gaming site IGN made to its homepage. Employing the A/B testing methodology, IGN is constantly modifying its site looking for those small changes in wording, placement, even color and form that will yield huge increases in click-through rates.
RESULT: Moving the “videos” nav to the left resulted in an almost 93% drop in clicks on the “videos” nav link. Clicks to the rest of the nav items were either unchanged or improved slightly.
THOUGHTS: This was a huge surprise to the IGN team, and raised further questions about how IGN users behave. Are they simply accustomed to the “videos” link in its old location? Would the click-through-rate have improved given more time for the users to get accustomed to this change? Are most of the users clicking on the “videos” link return users, or new users?
RESULT: A 5% drop in clicks.
THOUGHTS: IGN believed its population of committed iPhone-haters would be put off from clicking on “iPhone” in the nav. Turns out they weren’t.
RESULT: IGN found that almost any headline with “exclusive” in it had on average 5.2% fewerclicks.
THOUGHTS: IGN isn’t giving up on using “exclusive” for other types of content. The lesson is, it really needs to be exclusive.
4. CHANGE: The “Subscribe on YouTube” button in the right rail START unit was moved to the top right of the unit, next to the START logo.
RESULT: A 65,000% increase in clicks, but by the time the test finished, the improvement was almost 264,000%.
THOUGHTS: Don’t question why, just make the change. This was such an incredible increase in clicks the change was implemented permanently.
5. CHANGE: The thumbnail for the top blog roll story went from an abstract image to an image with a human figure in it.
RESULT: The art with the human figure in it performed 11% better than the abstract image.
THOUGHTS: Perhaps the human eye is more attracted to images containing human figures.
RESULT: The jetpack took off with a 50%-plus higher click-through rates.
THOUGHTS: Snappier copy does make a difference. IGN has seen headline changes boost click-through rates as much as 150%.
RESULT: More than a 34% increase in click-through-rate, with a 31% increase in subscriptions through those link clicks.
THOUGHTS: People love free and exclusive. Just as with the YouTube subscription button test, this change was so positive that it was implemented permanently.
Candidates are unleashing their final ads in Iowa, but also one last effort toward framing the choice in the minds of caucusgoers. On Sunday Mitt Romney chose a curious analogy in making the case that he is the best person suited to beating President Obama: The Kardashians.
Obama the candidate was attacked in 2008 as being nothing more than a tabloid celebrity, with a McCain campaign ad that compared his appearances to that of Paris Hilton.
Slamming SOPA: David Carr of the New York Times comes out against the pending anti-piracy legislation in Congress. He writes, “I like my movies (and music and television) as much as the next couch potato, probably more. And I wouldn’t steal content for any reason, in part because I make a living generating a fair amount of it. But it’s worth remembering that the film industry initially opposed the video cassette recorder and the introduction of DVDs, platforms that became very lucrative businesses for them and remarkable conveniences for the rest of us.” He notes that although Hollywood has a extensive list of connections to influential politicians to draw upon for supporting the legislation, the Web has the full force of the online community.
Where Should NASA Send a Space Probe Next?
Going to Pluto was incredible, but as we continue to soak in the glorious images, NASA’s already trying to figure out which celestial target to hit next. The space agency revealed five finalist concepts this week, including missions that would take us to Jupiter’s asteroids and the surface of Venus.
I’ve been pondering NASA’s choices for the last couple of days and I honestly can’t decide which one would be the coolest. Should we return to Venus, a Soviet-era haunt that still harbors plenty of unsolved mysteries? Should we strike out for the bizarre space magnet of an asteroid Ria Misra described this week? Perhaps we should stick to our own backyard, and begin prospecting near-Earth objects in the hopes of striking it rich. After all, we’ll need to start mining those asteroids if we ever hope to become a spacefaring society.
Or should we be heading somewhere else entirely? Personally, I was a bit disappointed that Saturn’s moon Enceladus—which probably harbors a global ocean beneath its icy surface—didn’t make the shortlist. Let us know where you’d like NASA to explore in the comments below. Illustrative space pictures and GIFs are, of course, encouraged.
In this draft guidance, sent to National Park Service officials across the U.S. Wednesday, Interior outlined how they could maintain significant public access to parks even during a lapse in appropriations. Access should continue unless it "presents a serious and imminent threat to human life, safety or health, or a serious and imminent threat to the condition of a sensitive natural or cultural resource.
for the enjoyment of future generations.?
notifying the public of the cessation of operations and securing government records and property.
not be considered excepted or continue to work.
0 Communication with employees and the public.
exceptions and furloughs based solely on whether an employees? activities are essential or not.
funded by multi-year appropriations will remain on duty.
collection, facilities and roads maintenance (including plowing), and public information.
plowing and ice melting), or provide visitor information.
maintenance, janitorial, bathrooms, showers, check-in/check-out and reservations.
will be ready and available should they arrive during a government shutdown.
remain on duty to conduct essential activities.
condition of a sensitive natural or cultural resource.
Access to leased facilities is permitted.
shutdown will be allowed to complete their trip.
obligations in violation of the Antide?ciency Act.
monitoring and regulatory oversight in the short term.
result of its operations during the government shutdown.
unavailable, and emergency and rescue services will be limited.
provide for commercial, concession or partner operations.
operations during a shutdown if doing so will allow them to remain open.
basis, no advance payment is necessary.
- The activity does not require access to a closed NPS facility.
postponed or suspended. In addition, the NPS will issue no new permits during a shutdown.
submitted an application, either before or after the shutdown that were not denied.
number of excepted employees will continue to ?uctuate throughout the shutdown period.
My child does not attend this daycare but my best friends little girl does and I have picked her up a bunch of times. Everytime Ive walked in the staff was so nice.They greeted me as soon as i walk in. The place is very clean and smells good unlike most daycares Ive been to! When I have my child he/she will most definitly attend!