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Celebrity birthdays for the week of Aug. 2-8.

Aug. 2: Actor Nehemiah Persoff (Some Like It Hot) is 101. Keyboardist Garth Hudson of The Band is 83. Singer Kathy Lennon of The Lennon Sisters is 77. Actor Joanna Cassidy is 75. Actor Kathryn Harrold is 70. Actor Butch Patrick (The Munsters) is 67. Music producer and Garbage drummer Butch Vig is 65. Singer Mojo Nixon is 63. Actor Victoria Jackson (Saturday Night Live) is 61. Actor Apollonia is 61. Actor Cynthia Stevenson (Men In Trees, Hope and Gloria) is 58. Actor Mary-Louise Parker is 56. Director-actor Kevin Smith (Clerks, Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back) is 50. Actor Sam Worthington (Terminator Salvation) is 44. Actor Edward Furlong is 43. Today meteorologist Dylan Dreyer is 39. Actor Marci Miller (Days of Our Lives) is 35. Singer Charli XCX is 28. Actor Hallie Eisenberg is 28.

Aug. 3: Singer Tony Bennett is 94. Actor Martin Sheen is 80. Singer Beverly Lee of The Shirelles is 79. Lifestyle guru Martha Stewart is 79. Bassist B.B. Dickerson of War is 71. Movie director John Landis is 70. Actor JoMarie Payton (Family Matters) is 70. Actor Jay North (Dennis the Menace) is 69. Actor Philip Casnoff (Strong Medicine) is 66. Actor John C. McGinley (Scrubs) is 61. Bassist Lee Rocker (Stray Cats) is 59. Actor Lisa Ann Walter (Bruce Almighty) is 59. Singer-guitarist James Hetfield of Metallica is 57. Singer Ed Roland of Collective Soul is 57. Actor Isaiah Washington (Greys Anatomy, Soul Food) is 57. Keyboardist Dean Sams of Lonestar is 54. Guitarist Stephen Carpenter of Deftones is 50. Musician Spinderella of Salt-N-Pepa is 49. Actor Brigid Brannagh (Army Wives) is 48. Actor Michael Ealy (Think Like A Man, Barbershop) is 47. Violinist Jimmy De Martini of Zac Brown Band is 44. Actor Evangeline Lilly (Lost) is 41. Actor Mamie Gummer (The Good Wife) is 37. Singer Holly Arnstein of Dream is 35. Actor Georgina Haig (Once Upon A Time) is 35. Bassist Brent Kutzle of OneRepublic is 35. Rapper D.R.A.M. is 32.

Aug. 4: Actor Tina Cole (My Three Sons) is 77. Actor-comedian Richard Belzer (Law and Order: Special Victims Unit, Homicide) is 76. Actor Billy Bob Thornton is 65. Actor Kym Karath (The Sound of Music) is 62. Actor Lauren Tom (Joy Luck Club, Men In Trees) is 61. Producer Michael Gelman (Live with Kelly and Ryan) is 59. Actor Crystal Chappell (Guiding Light) is 55. Drummer Rob Cieka of Boo Radleys is 52. Actor Daniel Dae Kim (Hawaii Five-O, Lost) is 52. Actor Michael Deluise (Gilmore Girls, NYPD Blue) is 51. Rapper Yo-Yo (Miss Rap Supreme) is 49. Singer-actor Marques Houston of Immature is 39. Actor-turned-princess Meghan Markle (Suits) is 39. American Idol runner-up Crystal Bowersox is 35. Singer Tom Parker of The Wanted is 32. Actors Dylan and Cole Sprouse (The Suite Life of Zack and Cody, Grace Under Fire) are 28. American Idol runner-up Jessica Sanchez is 25.

Aug 5: Actor Loni Anderson is 75. Actor Erica Slezak (One Life to Live) is 74. Singer Rick Derringer is 73. Actor Holly Palance (Under Fire, The Omen) is 70. Singer Samantha Sang is 69. Guitarist Eddie Ojeda of Twisted Sister is 65. Actor Maureen McCormick (The Brady Bunch) is 64. Guitarist Pat Smear of Foo Fighters is 61. Actor Tawny Kitaen is 59. Country fiddler Mark OConnor is 59. Actor Mark Strong (The Imitation Game) is 57. Director James Gunn (Guardians of the Galaxy) is 54. Actor Jonathan Silverman (The Single Guy) is 54. Country singer Terri Clark is 52. Actor Stephanie Szostak (A Million Little Things) is 49. Cellist Eicca Toppinen of Apocalyptica is 45. Drummer Whit Sellers of Old Dominion is 42. Actor Jesse Williams (Greys Anatomy) is 40. Actor Albert Tsai (Dr. Ken) is 16. Actor Devin Trey Campbell (Single Parents) is 12.

Aug. 6: Childrens music performer Ella Jenkins is 96. Actor-director Peter Bonerz is 82. Actor Louise Sorel (Days of Our Lives) is 80. Actor Ray Buktenica (Rhoda) is 77. Actor Dorian Harewood is 70. Actor Catherine Hicks (Seventh Heaven) is 69. Singer Pat MacDonald of Timbuk 3 is 68. Actor Stepfanie Kramer (Hunter) is 64. Actor Faith Prince is 63. Singer Randy DeBarge of DeBarge is 62. Actor Leland Orser (ER) is 60. Actor Michelle Yeoh (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon) is 58. Country singers Peggy and Patsy Lynn of The Lynns are 56. Actor Jeremy Ratchford (Cold Case) is 55. Actor Benito Martinez (American Crime, The Shield) is 52. Country singer Lisa Stewart is 52. Writer-director M. Night Shyamalan (The Sixth Sense) is 50. Actor Merrin Dungey (Summerland, Alias) is 49. Singer Geri Halliwell Horner of Spice Girls is 48. Actor Jason OMara (Life on Mars) is 48. Actor Vera Farmiga (Up In The Air, The Departed) is 47. Actor Soleil Moon Frye (Sabrina The Teenage Witch, Punky Brewster) is 44. Actor Melissa George (Alias, Greys Anatomy) is 44. Singer Travis McCoy of Gym Class Heroes is 39. Actor Leslie Odom Jr. (Hamilton, TV: Smash) is 39. Bassist Eric Roberts of Gym Class Heroes is 36.

Aug. 7: Humorist Garrison Keillor is 78. Singer B.J. Thomas is 78. Actor John Glover (Smallville) is 76. Actor David Rasche (Sledge Hammer!) is 76. Country singer Rodney Crowell is 70. Actor Caroline Aaron (The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel) is 68. Actor Wayne Knight (Seinfeld) is 65. Singer Bruce Dickinson of Iron Maiden is 62. Actor David Duchovny (Californication, The X-Files) is 60. Actor Delane Matthews (Daves World) is 59. Actor Harold Perrineau (Lost, Oz) is 57. Jazz pianist Marcus Roberts is 57. Country singer Raul Malo of The Mavericks is 55. Actor David Mann (Madea films) is 54. Actor Sydney Penny (The Thorn Birds, All My Children) is 49. Actor Greg Serano (Power) is 48. Actor Charlize Theron is 45. Drummer Barry Kerch of Shinedown is 44. Actor Eric Johnson (Fifty Shades Darker, Smallville) is 41. Actor Liam James (TVs Psych, films The Way, Way Back) is 24.

Aug. 8: Actor Nita Talbot is 90. Actor Dustin Hoffman is 83. Actor Connie Stevens is 82. Country singer Phil Balsley of The Statler Brothers is 81. Actor Larry Wilcox (CHiPS) is 73. Actor Keith Carradine (Madam Secretary) is 71. Drummer Anton Fig (Late Show With David Letterman) is 67. Actor Donny Most (Happy Days) is 67. Keyboardist Dennis Drew of 10,000 Maniacs is 63. Actor-turned-investment banker Harry Crosby (Friday the 13th) is 62. News anchor Deborah Norville is 62. Guitarist The Edge of U2 is 59. Drummer Rikki Rockett of Poison is 59. Rapper Kool Moe Dee is 58. Singer Scott Stapp of Creed is 47. Country singer Mark Wills is 47. Guitarist Tom Linton of Jimmy Eat World is 45. Singer J.C. Chasez of N Sync is 44. Singer Drew Lachey of 98 Degrees is 44. Actor Tawny Cypress (Heroes) is 44. Singer Marsha Ambrosius (Floetry) is 43. Actor Lindsay Sloane (Sabrina the Teenage Witch) is 43. Actor Countess Vaughn (The Parkers, Moesha) is 42. Actor Michael Urie (Ugly Betty) is 40. Actor Meagan Good (Think Like a Man) is 39. Guitarist Eric Howk of Portugal. The Man is 39. Actor Jackie Cruz (Orange Is the New Black) is 36. Singer Shawn Mendes is 22. Actor Bebe Wood (The Real ONeals) is 19.

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Everywhere and nowhere: The many layers of ‘cancel culture’ – Las Vegas Sun

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NFL football quarterback Colin Kaepernick applauds during W.E.B. Du Bois Medal ceremonies at Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass. on Oct. 11, 2018. Kaepernick has been condemned by President Donald Trump and others on the right and had not played an NFL game since 2016, when he began kneeling during the National Anthem to protest a country that oppresses black people and people of color. But he has appeared in Nike advertisements, been honored by the ACLU and Amnesty International among other organizations and reached an agreement with the Walt Disney Co. for a docuseries about thislife.

By Hillel Italie, AP National Writer

Sunday, July 26, 2020 | 10:30 a.m.

NEW YORK So you've probably read a lot about "cancel culture." Or know about a new poll that shows a plurality of Americans disapproving of it. Or you may have heard about a letter in Harper's Magazine condemning censorship and intolerance.

But can you say exactly what "cancel culture" is? Some takes:

"It seems like a buzzword that creates more confusion than clarity," says the author and journalist George Packer, who went on to call it "a mechanism where a chorus of voices, amplified on social media, tries to silence a point of view that they find offensive by trying to damage or destroy the reputation of the person who has given offense."

"I don't think it's real. But there are reasonable people who believe in it," says the author, educator and sociologist Tressie McMillan Cottom. "From my perspective, accountability has always existed. But some people are being held accountable in ways that are new to them. We didn't talk about 'cancel culture' when someone was charged with a crime and had to stay in jail because they couldn't afford the bail."

"'Cancel culture' tacitly attempts to disable the ability of a person with whom you disagree to ever again be taken seriously as a writer/editor/speaker/activist/intellectual, or in the extreme, to be hired or employed in their field of work," says Letty Cottin Pogrebin, the author, activist and founding editor of Ms. magazine.

"It means different things to different people," says Ben Wizner, director of the ACLU's Speech, Privacy, and Technology Project.

In tweets, online letters, opinion pieces and books, conservatives, centrists and liberals continue to denounce what they call growing intolerance for opposing viewpoints and the needless ruining of lives and careers. A Politico/Morning Consult poll released last week shows 44% of Americans disapprove of it, 32% approve and the remaining 24% had no opinion or didn't know what it was.

For some, "cancel culture" is the coming of the thought police. For others, it contains important chances to be heard that didn't exist before.

Recent examples of unpopular "cancellations" include the owner of a chain of food stores in Minneapolis whose business faced eviction and calls for boycotts because of racist social media posts by his then-teenage daughter, and a data analyst fired by the progressive firm Civis Analytics after he tweeted a study finding that nonviolent protests increase support for Democratic candidates and violent protests decrease it. Civis Analytics has denied he was fired for the tweet.

"These incidents damage the lives of innocent people without achieving any noble purpose," Yascha Mounk wrote in The Atlantic last month. Mounk himself has been criticized for alleging that "an astonishing number of academics and journalists proudly proclaim that it is time to abandon values like due process and free speech."

Debates can be circular and confusing, with those objecting to intolerance sometimes openly uncomfortable with those who don't share their views. A few weeks ago, more than 100 artists and thinkers endorsed a letter co-written by Packer and published by Harper's. It warned against a "new set of moral attitudes and political commitments that tend to weaken our norms of open debate and toleration of differences in favor of ideological conformity."

The letter drew signatories from many backgrounds and political points of view, ranging from the far-left Noam Chomsky to the conservative David Frum, and was a starting point for contradiction.

The writer and trans activist Jennifer Finney Boylan, who signed the letter, quickly disowned it because she "did not know who else" had attached their names. Although endorsers included Salman Rushdie, who in 1989 was forced into hiding over death threats from Iranian Islamic leaders because of his novel "The Satanic Verses," numerous online critics dismissed the letter as a product of elitists who knew nothing about censorship.

One of the organizers of the letter, the writer Thomas Chatterton Williams, later announced on Twitter that he had thrown a guest out of his home over criticisms of letter-supporter Bari Weiss, the New York Times columnist who recently quit over what she called a Twitter-driven culture of political correctness. Another endorser, "Harry Potter" author J.K. Rowling, threatened legal action against a British news site that suggested she was transphobic after referring to controversial tweets that she has written in recent months.

"The only speech these powerful people seem to care about is their own," the author and feminist Jessica Valenti wrote in response to the Harper's letter. "('Cancel culture' ) is certainly not about free speech: After all, an arrested journalist is never referred to as 'canceled,' nor is a woman who has been frozen out of an industry after complaining about sexual harassment. 'Canceled' is a label we all understand to mean a powerful person who's been held to account."

"Cancel culture" is hard to define, in part because there is nothing confined about it no single cause, no single ideology, no single fate for those allegedly canceled.

Harvey Weinstein and Bill Cosby, convicted sex offenders, are in prison. Former television personality Charlie Rose has been unemployable since allegations of sexual abuse and harassment were published in 2017-18. Oscar winner Kevin Spacey has made no films since he faced allegations of harassment and assault and saw his performance in "All the Money in the World" replaced by Christopher Plummer's.

Others are only partially "canceled." Woody Allen, accused by daughter Dylan Farrow of molesting her when she was 7, was dropped by Amazon, his U.S. film distributor, but continues to release movies overseas. His memoir was canceled by Hachette Book Group, but soon acquired by Skyhorse Publishing, which also has a deal with the previously "canceled" Garrison Keillor. Sirius XM announced last week that the late Michael Jackson, who seemed to face posthumous cancellation after the 2019 documentary "Leaving Neverland" presented extensive allegations that he sexually abused boys, would have a channel dedicated to his music.

Cancellation in one subculture can lead to elevation in others. Former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick has not played an NFL game since 2016 and has been condemned by President Donald Trump and many others on the right after he began kneeling during the National Anthem to protest "a country that oppresses black people and people of color." But he has appeared in Nike advertisements, been honored by the ACLU and Amnesty International and reached an agreement with the Walt Disney Co. for a series about his life.

"You can say the NFL canceled Colin Kaepernick as a quarterback and that he was resurrected as a cultural hero," says Julius Bailey, an associate professor of philosophy at Wittenberg University who writes about Kaepernick in his book "Racism, Hypocrisy and Bad Faith."

In politics, Virginia Governor Ralph Northam, a Democrat, remains in his job 1 1/2 years after acknowledging he appeared in a racist yearbook picture while in college. Sen. Al Franken, a Democrat from Minnesota, resigned after multiple women alleged he had sexually harassed them, but Lt. Governor Justin Fairfax of Virginia defied orders to quit after two women accused him of sexual assault.

Sometimes even multiple allegations of sexual assault, countless racist remarks and the disparagement of wounded military veterans aren't enough to induce cancellation. Trump, a Republican, has labeled cancel culture "far-left fascism" and "the very definition of totalitarianism" while so far proving immune to it.

"Politicians can ride this out because they were hired by the public. And if the public is willing to go along, then they can sometimes survive things perhaps they shouldn't survive," Packer says.

"I think you can say that Trump's rhetoric has had a boomerang effect on the rest of our society," says PEN America CEO Suzanne Nossel, who addresses free expression in her book "Dare to Speak," which comes out next week. "People on the left feel that he can get away with anything, so they do all they can to contain it elsewhere."

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Group: Yemen rebels should be sanctioned over moored tanker – Las Vegas Sun

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CAIRO (AP) A leading international rights group on Monday urged the U.N. Security Council to impose additional sanctions on Yemens Iran-backed Houthi rebels unless they provide U.N. experts access to an oil tanker moored off the coast of Yemen and in danger of leaking.

The FSO Safer is loaded with 1.1 million barrels of crude. The Houthi rebels, who control the area, have denied U.N. inspectors access to the vessel.

The U.N. warned earlier this month of an environmental, economic and humanitarian catastrophe from the ship, which hasnt been maintained for over five years. Experts fear the tanker could explode or leak, causing massive environmental damage to Red Sea marine life.

Human Rights Watch says the impact of an oil spill on livelihoods, access to water and food, and on fuel prices could significantly exacerbate Yemens humanitarian crisis. An oil spill could also shut down the port of Hodeida, a lifeline for millions of Yemenis who depend on commercial imports and humanitarian aid.

The tanker threatens to destroy entire ecosystems and demolish the livelihoods of millions of people already suffering from Yemens war, said Gerry Simpson, associate crisis and conflict director at HRW.

Internal documents obtained by The Associated Press last month show that seawater has entered the engine compartment of the tanker, causing damage to pipes and increasing the risk of sinking. Rust has covered parts of the tanker and the inert gas that prevents the tanks from gathering inflammable gases, has leaked out. Experts say maintenance is no longer possible because the damage to the ship is irreversible, according to an AP report June 26.

The Houthis have signaled they would approve a U.N. mission to the ship, but so far, that hasn't happened. Human Rights Watch also urged Iran to encourage the rebels to cooperate.

The rebels control western Yemens Red Sea ports, including Ras Issa, located 6 kilometers (3.7 miles) from where the Japanese-built tanker has been moored since the 1980s, when it was sold to the Yemeni government.

In the conflict in Yemen, the Houthis are at war with the internationally recognized government, which is backed by a Saudi-led coalition and the United States.

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Federal agents in Portland opposed by some conservatives, libertarians – Washington Times

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President Trumps deployment of federal officers to quell rioting in Portland, Oregon, and possibly elsewhere is seeing pushback not only from Democrats but also from conservatives and libertarians who say the federal government cant indiscriminately throw its weight around and trample on constitutional rights.

The White House insists the federal forces are necessary to stop the marauding mobs in Portland, but civil libertarians object to reports that unidentified officers are sweeping people up and detaining them.

Its pretty straight-up unconstitutional, said Nicholas Sarwark, a former chairman of the Libertarian National Committee. I wish I could nuance this one its just all garbage. Theres nothing good there.

The White House said the law that created the Department of Homeland Security after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks gives the agency authority to protect federal property, which is the administrations reason for the deployment in Portland to protect a federal courthouse.

Mr. Trump has said he might send federal agents into Chicago and other big cities wracked by violent crime in the wake of the racial justice upheaval and calls to defund police departments.

The federal government does have disturbingly broad authorities to send law enforcers anywhere in the country if it chooses, said Walter Olson, a senior fellow at the Cato Institute, a libertarian Washington think tank.

That doesnt mean that there shouldnt be a political fight about it, he said.

White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany said the protests, which have lasted nearly two months in Portland since touched off by the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis, escalated into violent attacks and mobs hurling feces and batteries at law enforcement officers.

When a federal courthouse is being lit on fire, commercial fireworks being shot at it, being shot at the officers, I think that falls pretty well within the limits of the law, Ms. McEnany said.

Federal officers also sprayed protesters with tear gas, and there was at least one instance in which questionably identified law enforcement reportedly whisked someone away in an unmarked minivan.

Sen. Rand Paul, Kentucky Republican, objected to the Trump administrations sending unidentified federal agents to Portland.

We cannot give up liberty for security, Mr. Paul said on Twitter. Local law enforcement can and should be handling these situations in our cities, but there is no place for federal troops or unidentified federal agents rounding people up at will.

Rep. Justin Amash of Michigan, a Libertarian who quit the Republican Party last year, said on Twitter: Donald Trump is deploying unmarked federal police, decked out like a paramilitary force, to grab Americans off the streets. Hes not protecting liberty; hes practicing tyranny.

Federal officials do have less-publicized powers such as the ability to assist agents from other agencies if they need help.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection has jurisdiction of areas in the U.S. that are within 100 miles of an external boundary.

That gives broader authority for Customs and Border [Protection] in particular to operate than folks may realize, said Jonathan Adler, a professor at the Case Western Reserve University School of Law.

But there is no generic federal police authority, he said. Nor should there be there is no general police power in the federal government. Thats the sort of power that was reserved to the states.

Mark Morgan, the acting chief of Customs and Border Protection, said deployed officers wear clearly marked uniforms that have personal identifiers.

He said he has supported removing officers names from their uniforms because many have been doxxed and their private information targeted.

In each and every instance when we approach somebody who we have probable cause who has committed a federal crime, we do identify ourselves as either police or a federal agent, Mr. Morgan told reporters Tuesday. Thats the truth.

Mr. Morgan also said the use of unmarked vehicles is standard practice and pointed out that marked patrol vehicles have been targeted by rioters elsewhere.

Mr. Olson said that from a practical perspective, it can be difficult for a member of the public to tell the difference between a federally authorized officer and a random freelancer trying to bark orders at them.

Aside from the question of whether or not federal troops or federal law enforcement should be sent in the first place, if they are going to be sent, lets get some understanding of what practices we want them to follow so that people can be sure, if they are inclined to comply with law enforcement, who they are, he said.

Some of Mr. Trumps Republican allies say its well within the federal governments authority to protect federal property.

It makes sense to defend federal facilities, said Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham, South Carolina Republican. Theyve taken the courthouse out of operation, so yeah, he should be defending federal property.

Sen. Ted Cruz said there are not federal troops in place.

Theres federal law enforcement thats protecting courthouses and federal buildings that are under assault right now from violent rioters, the Texas Republican said. Federal law enforcement has not only the authority but the responsibility to protect federal facilities.

Mr. Sarwark said that people backing the presidents actions cant seriously defend the situation from a constitutional perspective.

This will separate the sheep from the goats, he said. If you dont oppose secret police disappearing people off of American streets because theyre leftists, then youre not really opposed to secret police youre just opposed to it being used against people you like.

Alex Swoyer and Dave Boyer contributed to this report.

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David DeGrazia: Maybe you have a right to put your health at risk, but not that of others – Lompoc Record

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Why do I claim that Americans who resist mask-wearing in public embrace faux libertarianism, a disfigured version of the classic liberty-loving philosophy? Because they miss the fact that a compelling justification for mask-wearing rules is not paternalistic at all - not focused on the agent's own good - but rather appeals to people's responsibilities regarding public health. This point is entirely consistent with libertarianism.

Consider your right to freedom of movement. This right does not include a right to punch someone in the face, unless you both agree to a boxing match, and does not include a right to enter someone else's house, without an invitation. Rights extend only so far. They do not encompass prerogatives to harm others (without their consent) or violate their rights. Once we appreciate that rights have boundaries, rather than being limitless, we can see the relationship between liberty rights and public health.

Your rights to freedom of movement, freedom of association, and so on do not encompass a prerogative to place others at undue risk; to endanger others in this way is to violate their rights, which you have no right to do. This idea justifies our sensible laws against drunk driving. So even a libertarian can, and should, applaud Starbucks and its barista for insisting on mask-wearing during the coronavirus pandemic. Whether or not the woman who said she didn't need a mask had a right to ignore her own health, she had no right to put other customers and Starbucks employees at risk _ either directly, by possibly spreading infection, or indirectly, by flouting a norm of mask-wearing that is reasonably related to public health and protecting other people from harm and rights violations.

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A summer of gentle evolution as Liverpool invite rivals to catch us if you can – This Is Anfield

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Premier League title trophy handed over on Wednesday evening, Sundays trip to St James Park, to take on Newcastle United, was one last chance to see these incredible champions strut their immortal 2019/20 stuff.

These lads, these utterly incredible lads in red. The champions by an 18-point chasm.

Sunday was all about thinking back over the course of the previous, incredulous, 37 Premier League games; Sunday was all about embracing the day and savouring the moment.

A job well done, it was also about casting an eye upon the horizon, potentially saying a few goodbyes along the way.

In a world of footballing evolution, Jurgen Klopp will not allow this Liverpool to stand still, in the same way it didnt stand still despite winning the 18/19 Champions League.

While we didnt go into the 19/20 season with an influx of new signings, we did go into it with a new tactical approach. A higher defensive line compressing the pitch further still and making Trent Alexander-Arnold and Andy Robertson the most offensive full-backs football has ever seen, upping their attacking contribution beyond what were already startling numbers in 2018/19.

Adam Lallana has bid the club a fond and tearful farewell, Dejan Lovren has followed him out of the exit door, as is likely to Xherdan Shaqiri.

Divock Origi stands at a crossroads with the club, as much as the club does with him. Hes off on holiday now, to mull over whether he should stick or twist, come or go?

Origi can as easily reach out for a regular game elsewhere, as he can stay at Anfield as a useful but perplexing figure, that sits on the periphery of the action, interjecting here and there with the occasionally, stunningly, vital goal, while still being a player that elicits the suspicion that there are better options out there.

Other potential departures are mooted or feared. Many expect Leeds United to offer James Milner the opportunity to see his career go full circle, with a return to Elland Road that smacks of two and two being thrown together, in a mathematical conundrum that might just add up to four.

Beyond all this, a standoff over a new contract remains in situ between the club and Gini Wijnaldum and decisions on the futures of the likes of Harry Wilson, Rhian Brewster, Marko Grujic and Loris Karius will be arrived at.

Less than seven weeks until the start of the new season, Liverpools short summer of champions could be a busy one, considering no major arrivals are thought to be lined up.

Yet, I doubt that Klopp would want it any other way. Blessed with the best team in the world, it is the backing dancers that will require rearranging.

Neco Williams, Curtis Jones and Harvey Elliott will likely figure in higher numbers of games if any or many of the above do depart Anfield.

Football has been a squad game for well over a generation now, but there is a balancing act to be settled upon and there will still be a core of players that are Klopps go-to eleven, in games where the stakes are high.

It is no coincidence that throughout this Premier League-winning campaign, only 12 Liverpool players started a total number of games that stretched to double figures.

Alisson, Trent Alexander-Arnold, Andy Robertson, Virgil van Dijk, Joe Gomez, Jordan Henderson, Georginio Wijnaldum, Fabinho, Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain, Roberto Firmino, Sadio Mane and Mohamed Salah.

Of course, there were others that could or should have done likewise, but this where Klopps brand of collectivism is crucial in making his Liverpool tick. Making everybody feel important isnt an easy task.

Today, probably every day throughout lockdown even, while the 12 names above largely speak for themselves, Klopp will have been considering and reconsidering the composition of his shadow squad for next season.

Who to retain, who to cut loose?

In coming to these decisions, the paternal side of Klopp will have played its part too. It would have been the easy option to keep a player like Lallana for instance, yet at 32, with only 40 league appearances in the last three seasons, he is a player that deserves an Indian summer elsewhere, to join a club where he can play more games and spread the Liverpool feelgood factor.

In potentially choosing Brighton, he is also heading closer to home.

Seeing a player like Lallana depart, also means more elbow space in the Liverpool squad for Curtis Jones to find his natural place. It is the reassuring evidence of footballing evolution at play.

The easily derided Lovren is another. He leaves Anfield as an English, European and World champion, making way for somebody else who will be hungry to emulate those highs, be that a talented Netherlands under-19 international, or an experienced Senegalese international.

It will be the same, should Milner, Shaqiri or Origi find new challenges too. Fresh heroes will emerge, either from within or as new recruits.

You will likely fret throughout the transfer window, as other big six rivals strengthen their options, more so when those new signings are ones Liverpool have been linked to.

It was no different back in the 1980s. Big money would be splashed elsewhere, and a mild sense of panic would engender, as we occasionally missed out on transfer targets. It was all just shadow puppetry though, as when youre the team on top, it is up to everybody else to find the final piece of their respective jigsaws.

Liverpool are now the team to catch however, chased by a set of rivals that are led by an increasingly paranoid Pep Guardiola and a cluster of managers who are a clear class or two below the top two.

Enjoy the limited summer and put your trust in Klopp and his team to be ready for the challenges ahead.

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Evolution wins ‘Live Casino Supplier of the Year’ for 11 consecutive years – Yogonet International

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Evolution beat 12 other shortlisted suppliers to win the Live Casino Supplier accolade on day one of the virtual ceremony held on 21 July.

Speaking after the ceremony, Martin Carlesund, Evolution Group CEO commented: The past 12 months have seen Evolution once again push the boundaries of what is possible in Live Casino. In terms of the way Evolution has continued to develop and introduce ground-breaking new products, it has been a most encouraging year and all despite a very challenging global situation brought about by the Covid-19 pandemic.

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The 15 Best Zombie Movies of All Time – Men’s Health

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Zombie movies have been an important part of the horror field for a very long time, but the sub-genre has expanded to include picks that are comedic, action-heavy, and even romantic.

But if you're wondering just why people find zombie movies so fascinating, Stanford literary scholar Angela Becerra Vidergar once explained that, "We use fictional narratives not only to emotionally cope with the possibility of impending doom, but even more importantly perhaps to work through the ethical and philosophical frameworks that were in many ways left shattered in the wake of WWII [when the genre became popular]...In a way, survivalism has become a dominant mode of self-reference for a greater number of people. You see that in the obsession in apocalypse and disaster in the fictional stories we tell."

And while the current coronavirus pandemic has led many people to reach for happier, lighter movies to watch, there's also a good reason why you're reaching for your favorite post-apocalyptic flick: "There is this glimmer of hope that I am really interested in," Vidergar explains. "Even if as a society we have lost a lot of our belief in a positive future and instead have more of an idea of a disaster to come, we still think that we are survivors, we still want to believe that we would survive."

So if you're looking for a new zombie flick to watch, we have some picks for youhere are the 15 best zombie movies of all time.

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1Train to Busan

This South Korean film takes place on a train to Busan as a zombie apocalypse suddenly breaks out both in the country on the train, and the passengers have to figure out how to stay alive while also trying to find a safe station to stop the train. The movie's sequel, Peninsula, will be released this year.

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2World War Z

World War Z's power is in its realism, and the zombie outbreak is portrayed in locales worldwide from Newark, New Jersey to Cardiff, Wales. However, Brad Pitt is there to save the day as United Nations investigator Gerry Lane.

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3Zombieland

Woody Harrelson, Jesse Eisenberg, Emma Stone, and Abigail Breslin star in this comedic zombie tale about a group of survivors that try to find a sanctuary free from the zombies ravaging the nation. Expect funny gags, lots of zombie killings, and a cameo from a beloved actorand if you need even more zombie in your life, check out the sequel Zombieland: Double Tap.

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4Little Monsters

What do you get when you mix together Academy Award winner Lupita Nyong'o, a bunch of kindergarteners, and a sudden outbreak of zombies? Movie magic!

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5Night of the Living Dead

George A. Romero's 1968 film revitalized both the horror and zombie genre and in 1999, the legendary film was added by the Library of Congress for preservation in the National Film Registry. However, there was a lot of controversy when Night of the Living Dead first premiered in theaters, primarily due to its realistic gore and scary plot line. The movie follows seven people who are trapped in a farmhouse in rural Pennsylvania while facing an attack from a group of undead corpses.

6Dawn of the Dead

The classic 1978 film is the second entry in George A. Romero's Night of the Living Dead series, and it follows a group of survivors as they barricade themselves inside a suburban shopping mall amidst a zombie outbreak. Unfortunately, the 70's version isn't available for streaming online but you can also check out the 2004 remake.

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728 Days Later

This film was ranked on the top 100 list of the best British films ever, and it follows a group of four survivors as they struggle to cope with their new reality after a zombie outbreak starts when a group of animal activists release a chimpanzee infected a contagious rabies-like virus. It was later followed by a sequel titled 28 Weeks Later.

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8Warm Bodies

Warm Bodies will truly make you believe that you can find love anywhereeven in the middle of a post-apocalyptic zombie-infested world.

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9Shaun of the Dead

This film is definitely for viewers that like some laughs with their zombie flicks, and Shaun of the Dead includes references to Night of the Living Dead, Dawn of the Dead, and 28 Days Later.

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10The Cabin in the Woods

This movies follows a group of college kids (including Chris Hemsworth and Jesse Williams) as they spend a weekend in a remote forest cabin. What they don't know is that engineers are remotely controlling the cabin from a secret lab, and they soon fall victim to the zombies surrounding the property.

11Maggie

Maggie follows Arnold Schwarzenegger as father that finds it hard to cope after his daughter (played by Abigail Breslin) is bitten by a zombie during a countrywide zombie outbreak.

12Resident Evil

Based on the video game franchise of the same name, Resident Evil films follow former security specialist and covert operative Alice (Milla Jovovich) as she fights against the Umbrella Corporation, whose powerful bioweapons have triggered a zombie apocalypse. Fun factThe Resident Evil film series has grossed over $1 billion worldwide, making it the highest-grossing film series based on a video game.

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13The Dead Don't Die

Hold on, we need this movie's extremely stacked cast first: Bill Murray, Adam Driver, Tilda Swinton, Chlo Sevigny, Steve Buscemi, Danny Glover, Caleb Landry Jones, Rosie Perez, Iggy Pop, Sara Driver, RZA, Selena Gomez, Austin Butler, Tom Waits, and Carol Kane. Whew. The Dead Don't Die follows a small town's police force as they combat a sudden zombie invasion.

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14The Cured

After a plague-like virus that turns its victims into zombies sweeps through Europe, 75% of said victims are captured, treated, cured, and then released back into society. However, 25% of the infected are resistant to treatment, and the government is eager to get rid of them.

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15Return of the Living Dead

The 1985 film follows a group of people in Louisville, Kentucky, (including some rowdy teenagers) as they deal with the accidental release of zombies in their town. Return of the Living Dead is notable because the zombies in the film eat brains instead of flesh, and its the first known film to show zombies that can run and speak. The movie also led to four sequels, with the most recent one being released in 2005.

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neXt Trailer: It’s Not Paranoia If The Threat Is Real – Bleeding Cool News

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Viewers are hoping that good things come to those who wait, with FOX releasing the official trailer and premiere date for its upcoming sci-fi/tech thriller neXt.From creator and executive producer Manny Coto (24: Legacy) and executive producers and directors John Requa and Glenn Ficarra (This Is Us), neXt is a fact-based thriller starring John Slattery (Mad Men) that looks at what would happen if a deadly, rogue Artificial Intelligence found its way into every aspect of our everyday lives. Have we become so bonded with our technology that we're losing our humanity?

Silicon Valley pioneer PAUL LEBLANC (Emmy Award nominee John Slattery, "Mad Men," "Veep") built a fortune and legacy on the world-changing innovations he dreamed up, while ignoring and alienating the people around him, including his own daughter, ABBY (Elizabeth Cappucino, "Jessica Jones," "Deception"), and his short-sighted younger brother, TED (Jason Butler Harner, "Ozark," "Ray Donovan"), who now runs Paul's company. After discovering that one of his own creations a powerful artificial intelligence called neXt might spell doom for humankind, Paul tried to shutter the project, only to be kicked out of the company by his own brother, leaving him with nothing but mounting dread about the fate of the world.

When a series of unsettling tech mishaps points to a potential worldwide crisis, LeBlanc joins forces with Special Agent SHEA SALAZAR (Fernanda Andrade, "The First," "Here and Now"). Having escaped crime, poverty and a deadly criminal father to remake herself as a force for good, Salazar's strict moral code and sense of duty have earned her the respect of her team a talented but contentious group held together by her faith in their ability to defy expectations and transcend their differences, including GINA (Eve Harlow, "Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.," "Heroes Reborn"), a high-strung cybercrime agent; BEN (Aaron Moten, "Disjointed," "Mozart in the Jungle"), a straight-laced, buttoned-up hard worker, who is boring to the point of being interesting; and CM (Michael Mosley, "Ozark," "Seven Seconds"), an ex-con hacker with a genius IQ. But the demands of Shea's challenging job have taken their toll on her home life, where Salazar's young son, OWEN (Evan Whitten, THE RESIDENT, "Mr. Robot"), has been raised primarily by his father, TY (Gerardo Celasco, "How to Get Away with Murder," "The Haves and the Have Nots"), a recovering alcoholic.

Now, LeBlanc and Salazar are the only ones standing in the way of a potential global catastrophe, fighting an emergent superintelligence that, instead of launching missiles, will deploy the immense knowledge it has gleaned from the data all around us to recruit allies, turn people against each other and eliminate obstacles to its own survival and growth.

neXt stars John Slattery (Paul LeBlanc), Fernanda Andrade (Shea Salazar), Michael Mosley (CM), Jason Butler Harner (Ted LeBlanc), Eve Harlowe (Gina), Aaron Moten (Ben), Gerardo Celasco (Ty Salazar), Elizabeth Cappucino (Abby), and Evan Whitten (Owen Salazar). Written by Manny Coto, the series' pilot episode was directed by John Requa and Glenn Ficarra, and executive produced by Coto, Requa, Ficarra, and Charlie Gogolak. From 20th Century Fox Television/Zaftig Films and FOX Entertainment.

Serving as Television Editor since 2018, Ray began five years earlier as a contributing writer/photographer before being brought on board as staff in 2017.

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Author Louis Belmont announces new article series on the Spirituality Industry – PR Web

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LOS ANGELES (PRWEB) July 21, 2020

Author LouisBelmontannounces an urgently neededexploration and revelation of what can only be called the "Spirituality Industry."Beginning as a series of articles that will developinto a book, the project will examine inner workingsof enterprises that are outwardly spiritual but are also -- and even primarily -- million dollar cash cows for gurus,"thought leaders," "influencers,"shamans of all kinds, Ayahuasca retreat centers, Iboga retreat centers, and mushroom retreat centers.

Most importantly, this series will rely on the first-hand experiences of individuals who have been emotionallyharmed, financially exploited, or both, by improper business practices under the guise of spiritualenlightenment. If you or someone youknow has had this experience, contact LouisBelmont at:

belmontlouis4@gmail.com.

https://louisbelmontwriter.com/

LouisBelmontis a widely published editor andghostwriter -- author of "Kabbalah For Teens" and many other books and articles. He is anauthority on all aspects -- good and bad -- of the Spirituality Industry.

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Underground Seven Room Khankah Cave Of Kashmir Discovered At Shah Nugri Mawal Handwara – 5 Dariya News

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Khawaja Farooq Renzushah has felicitated Sufi Scholar Jenab KHURSHID Dar sahib for the first time discovering underground Khankah of Kashmir in Shah Nigri Mawar HANDWARA forests. It is from the period from 1321 to 1370. It has seven rooms (khanas) underground still existing. It is of the Sufi era of Hazrat Bulbulshah RA & Mir Syed Hamadani RA 1321-1370 Ad. According to witnesses one great Sufi Buzarag Hazrat Abdul Wahab Aitqaadi had mediated in this spiritual underground KHANKAH in the 14th century and recited 99 names of Allah. At present, with timely action, this first underground seven-room KHANKAH can be saved from crumbling. Khwaja Renzushah said that the Research team headed by scholar Khurshid Dar Sahib who had gone on the spot made this Spiritual Discovery. He said it is part of spiritual voyage chanting 99 names of Allah & 99 names of Ishiq-e-Rasool (SAW) and Bandaye Parwardigaram preamble of Jamaat aAtqaad that our esteemed Nigraans have identified various abodes and underground places of many Buzargaan-e-Deen, Sufi scholars, Authors, mystic personalities of last seven hundred years. It is part of a big spiritual task to identify all 7777 BUZARGAN DEEN of Kashmir.Khurshid sahib while visiting on spot has found that from underground Khankah walls echo of 99 names emerge after sitting in meditation for some period.Khurshid Dar Sahib along the team has intimated that it is for the first time that such significant discovery has been made where first underground Sufi KHANKAH has been explored deep in the forest. He has submitted an underground picture of the underground Khankah.

North Kashmir scholar Jenab Khurshid Dar (Handwara) head of spiritual research team in the area of Jamaat Aitqaad International along with witness research team of Jamaat Aitqaad at the abode of first underground Khankah.Where Hazrat Abdul Wahab Aitqaadi has mediated in chillah. This Khankah is at Shah Nigri Mawar Handwara of the period between Hazrat Bulbulshah RA 1321 to the period of Mir Syed Ali Hamdani RA 1370 Ad in Seven underground rooms caved deep underground.Unfortunately at present Research team was dejected to see this astonishing spiritual marvel at Shah Nigri, Mawar Handwara Crumbling, and in shambles.The Seven roomed cave where a towering and high ranked Wali Kamil Of Rab-i-Jaleel, Hazrat Shiekh Syed Abdul Wahab RA, mediated for years is crumbling.The cave is just a few hundred meters away from this Ziarat Sharif. From its internal structure and style of construction, it is clear that the Mystic powers used to meditate here. There is also a spring at a short distance from the cave, which has now dried up.The approximate length of this cave is 30 ft. 2.5 ft wide and its height is 6 feet approximately. Although the cave is crumbling and is in shambles yet a corridor is seen there and there are 7 strange rooms. When we enter the cave there are two small rooms one left side and the second one is on the right side the last portion of the cave is down and there seems the seventh room.It is said that when this high ranked mystic reached there. No habitation was there. A cowherd was feeding his cattle there. Impressed by the iconic mystic powers Rab-i-Jaleel bestowed to this high ranked Syed, the cowherd became his helper.Hazrat Shiekh Syed Abdul Wahab RA belongs to the period between 1321 AD to 1370 AD when the Sufi mystic era of Hazrat Bulbulshah RA & Hazrat Mir Syed Ali Hamdani RA was dominant in Kashmir.Was this cave used by the Spiritual and divine powers to get enlightenment?

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How Staying Away From Sex and Masturbation Helped Me Become a Millionaire – VICE

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Sarvesh Shashi is a 28-year-old Mumbai-based entrepreneur with a yoga and wellness empire worth about $15 million. He has established more than 35 yoga studios across India under the name of Sarva, and designed 25 yoga styles including basketball and paddle boat yoga.

Even before turning 30, this yoga mogul, often referred to as the CEO among monks, has done a lot: from flying in a private jet with Jennifer Lopez to chilling at a private screening of Rampage with Dwayne Johnson and Naomi Campbell for company. Theres just one thing he hasnt ever done: had sex.

Sarvesh Sashi posing with Jennifer Lopez, who has invested in his company Sarva. Photo courtesy of Sarvesh Shashi

And while being a virgin is not really the story, it becomes so when one attributes their glory in this capitalistic world to the swearing off of what many of us consider integral to healthy living.

Shashi, who is devoutly dedicated to his yoga discipline, lives by a set of prohibitions advised by his yoga guru: no drinking, smoking, lying, stealing, having sex or masturbating.

According to his guru, cutting out these distractions were essential for Shashi to attain enlightenment and success. No matter how horny hot yoga enthusiasts potentially made him.

Semen retention is a core principles of Taoism, an ancient Chinese philosophical practice that preached how controlling or delaying ejaculations could help a person increase their spiritual energy and improve their sex drive. From 500 BC to present day, the practice of holding in semen has evolved from a yogic tradition to subreddits with 44,000 members swearing off sex, porn and masturbation.

Other, slightly more indulgent and tricky methods of staying clean of the cum include injaculation, which is a special technique to achieve an orgasm without actually ejaculating.

The celibacy and semen retention vow that Shashi has lived by for the last 13 years doesnt quite cross swords with the No Fap movement, which is largely a support group for recovering porn and masturbation addicts. For Shashi, the premise of his promise to swear off all things sex was to seek enlightenment.

Now we get the whole clean living philosophy, but how is professional success connected to celibacy and semen retention? Isnt jerking off supposed to be a therapeutic form of stress release that fills your body with happiness-laden endorphins? How could being a veteran virgin help make someone a millionaire in their 20s?

So, we decided to ask Shashi how he came to this conclusion.

VICE: Hey, Sarvesh. So, why did you decide to swear off what many might say are among the best things about life?Sarvesh Shashi: I guess I was looking to find some kind of enlightenment and fulfilment. Growing up, I was very arrogant, and would always get into fights with people who hurt my ego. I wanted to be a cricketer and got into yoga because my father believed it would help me play the sport. But I could see how learning from my guru taught me to be calm and took away so much of my anger and ego. This helped establish a sense of trust and belief in my guru. So when he asked me to live under five presets, including celibacy and semen retention, I followed his advice because I had already experienced his presence making a meaningful change in my life.

I dont see any harm in having sex or masturbating, and nobody should ever force themselves to swear off it without having a clear motive. You dont become a vegan because a celebrity or your friend is doing it. You do it because youre against animal cruelty or want to feel clean from within. Its the same principle that applies here.

So, how did staying away from sex and self-pleasure accelerate your career?Semen emits an energy whose course can be changed from downwards to upwards by not masturbating and not having sex. Semen is powerful; it is responsible for all creation of life because its what leads to babies being born. So when you channel that creative energy into your brain through a mix of meditation, celibacy and semen retention, it has the potential to take away all distractions and help you focus on your goals. My guru taught me that when you concentrate that energy on achieving desires beyond sexual gratification, it gives you the strength to achieve everything you set out to.

Ejaculating drains your energy for a few moments of pleasure, but through my abstinence, I have been able to divert that energy to my mind.

But unless youre asexual, isnt feeling sexual desire natural? Isnt its conscious withholding distracting?Im not asexual. Its not that I dont have urges. I just know how to control those urges. Its all about being aware of your feelings, and channeling them into productive activities instead. Making a mistake isnt wrong, not acknowledging that you have made the mistake is. By being aware and mindful of what youre feeling, it helps you see the world in an absolutely objective and unbiased way.

But how does one control their urges?Its probably not something that a person can do overnight. You have to discipline yourself and make a lifestyle change. I built up my discipline by doing sadhanas, which is a practice of cutting yourself off from all material and physical connections by doing yoga. I started by doing these for 11 days, and eventually was able to do it for 40 days.

The other aspect is to change your perspective on sexual desires and thoughts. Instead of objectifying a woman you find attractive and thinking only about getting physical with her, one should think about how you can make a meaningful connection that can improve your life. Not giving in to sexual desires disciplines your mind by not letting any short-term urges distract you.

Shashi doing yoga with Indian actor and model Malaika Arora, who is also an investor in his start-up. Photo courtesy of Sarvesh Shashi

Are there any side-effects to keeping it all in?Yes, there are going to be side-effects to bottling up your urges. Initially, you may feel suppressed and irritable when you deny yourself. But as you discipline yourself, you realise that you feel less drained, more energetic and more mindful. Its like after you take a vow of silence and realise how unnecessary talking about things that dont have any takeaway is.

So youve never had an orgasm?Essentially an orgasm is a time of semen release that makes you reach a stage of samadhi or thoughtlessness. It is momentary happiness that you can only get from external stimulation. But through my disciplined yoga and meditation practice, I can reach the same level of samadhi. Its driven by self-care and self-love instead of a temporary trigger of happiness. So its not that Ive never had an orgasm, I just have a different way of embracing that release.

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What about wet dreams or nightfall?Of course there have been moments where Ive involuntarily ejaculated at night or had a wet dream, but thats fine. Fortunately, I havent had a wet dream in at least six to seven years. I think one of the reasons for this could be because our dreams are influenced by the thoughts in our subconscious. Because I rarely think about sex or physical intimacy, it doesnt spill over into my dreams.

Is watching porn allowed?My vow isnt about being allowed or not allowed to do something. I have watched porn, and generally watch movies or read books which may have erotic scenes. But the whole purpose of my celibacy and semen retention is to be more aware and mindful of my thoughts and gain something more from life. People dont watch porn to figure out how smart the porn star is or how to have an emotional and spiritual connection with them. I dont shy away from watching or feeling things, its just that Im seeking something beyond sexual satisfaction.

How has your celibacy affected your dating life?It hasnt had much of an effect on my dating life because I havent had a dating life in 13 years! But Im happy nonetheless because Im surrounded by fantastic friends and people who are in my life for the right reasons.

Do you think youll ever have sex?

I can neither say Im looking forward to having sex, nor say that I never plan on having sex and starting a family. My guru had asked me to stay celibate for seven years. Ive done it for 13, and I dont see anything lacking in my life.

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Vice President asks students not to get disturbed by the Covid induced disruption in academic schedule – India Education Diary

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New Delhi: The Vice President of India, Shri M. Venkaiah Naidu today emphasised the need to teach children how to navigate through the misinformation and fake news that infest the media landscape, especially the new media environment these days.

Addressing over 200 young participants at the Times Scholars Event through video conferencing today, the Vice President asked them to develop the ability to analyse and courage to accept the truth and discard the lies. The event was hosted by The Times of India and focused on promoting reading, especially reading of newspapers among students.

Expressing disappointment over the fall in the reading habit of children, the Vice President highlighted the need to teach them to be intelligent and discerning readers amid the limitless information available today.

A well-read student is definitely better prepared to overcome challenges in life, he said.

Quoting the former President Dr. Kalam, Shri Naidu asked the students to aim high and dream high. Further describing the qualities required to realize ones dream, VP listed self-discipline, hard work, sincerity, perseverance and the ability to maintain equanimity in all situations as very important among others.

Observing that Covid induced disruption in academic schedule has caused anxiety and stress among many students, the Vice President advised them to not get disturbed by events which are beyond ones control.

All of you are young and need to develop a strong emotional quotient and the ability to weather ups and downs in life, he told students.

He also advised students to practice Yoga regularly to improve their physical fitness, mental equilibrium and overcome stress and anxiety.

Emphasising the importance of Yoga and meditation to boost immunity in the wake of pandemic, Shri Naidu wanted it to be included in school curriculum from a young age.

Yoga will also help youngsters to improve your concentration levels and inculcate discipline, he said.

Drawing attention towards the tough competition in every field in present times, the Vice President advised the students to develop confidence and try to overcome all odds by striving to achieve excellence.

Please remember that there are no short-cuts to success, he told them.

Asking the students to not look upon education as a vehicle to merely acquire degrees and take up employment, Shri Naidu opined that the education is meant for enlightenment and empowerment of an individual.

Education should not only equip the students with the requisite knowledge, but must necessarily develop them into good human beings, he said.

Maintaining that our ancient education system placed great emphasis on moral values, VP called for inculcating the human values such as empathy, honesty, integrity, humility, gratitude, forgiveness and respect for elders among the children.

Expressing the need to make the youngsters aware of Indias glorious past, the Vice President wanted them to take pride in their heritage and history and serve as ambassadors of Indias lofty cultural and civilizational ideals in the world.

He exhorted the students to strive for excellence in whichever career path they chose and keep pushing the boundaries and find new frontiers.

Never be satisfied with the status quo. Always set higher benchmarks and create new and better systems wherever you go, he said.

The Vice President also wanted the students to understand the problems being faced by the world such as poverty, inequality, violence and climate change and asked them to come up with new solutions for these.

Reminding the students of the powerful Talisman given by the Father of Nation, Shri Naidu hoped that they will always remember the plight of those who have been less fortunate.

Let Sarvodaya and Antyodaya be your guiding principles, he said.

He called Indias youth power as its greatest resource today and expressed faith in the ability of youngsters to take the country to greater heights.

Shri Sanjeev Bhargava, Director-The Times of India and Mirror Brands, Shri Vikas Singh, Associate Executive Editor, The Times of India and others were present on the occasion.

The following is the full text of the speech:

I am extremely delighted to participate virtually in this event hosted by The Times of India and share my thoughts with bright young minds.

As a matter-of-fact, it would have given me immense pleasure to meet with all the participants and interact with them. Unfortunately, the pandemic has created a new normal and all of us need to get accustomed to virtual meetings for some more time.

I understand that you are among the best and brightest among the students of India, chosen by Times of India through a rigorous process. I am told that nearly 3 Lakh aspiring youngsters participated in the competition and from whom 200 were selected. Let me convey my appreciation to Times of India for this unique initiative.

I am happy to know that at the heart of the program is an endeavour to promote reading, especially reading of newspapers among students. I have always believed that a well-read student is definitely better prepared to overcome challenges in life and seize every opportunity that comes his or her way.

It is with great disappointment that I note the fall in the reading habit of children today. In todays world, where limitless information is available to us at the click of a button,it is crucial that we teach our children to be intelligent and discerning readers.

We must teach them to gather in-depth information and inculcate in them the ability, the sagacity to analyse, critique and the courage to accept what is good and categorically reject the bad.

Circumstances also demand that we teach them to navigate through all the misinformation and fake news that infest the media landscape, especially the new media environment today. Like the legendary bird, the hamsa, our children must be able to assimilate and absorb the truth and discard the lies.

I am certain that initiatives like the Times Scholar will certainly help mould a generation of scholarly youngsters who read to broaden their horizons, raise their aspirations and discover that reading and learning can be truly pleasurable activities.

Dear youngsters,

You are the future of our nation and will be playing a crucial role in the growth and development of the country in the coming years. Of course, all of you will be choosing different careerssome might become doctors, while others might prefer to be engineers, lawyers, chartered accountants, architects, journalists and so and so forth. Some might also enter the political arena.

Irrespective of the path chosen by you, always remember to set high goals and work hard to realize them. As the former President, Dr Abdul Kalam often used to say aim high and dream high. However, mere goal-setting will not be enough. You need to come up with a concrete roadmap to achieve those goals. It requires self-discipline, hard work, sincerity, perseverance and the ability to maintain equanimity in all situations.

For instance, the pandemic-led disruption in the academic schedule must have caused anxiety and stress among many students. It is in such circumstances that one should remain imperturbable and not get disturbed by events which are beyond ones control. All of you are young and need to develop a strong emotional quotient and the ability to weather ups and downs in life.

Dear students,

One of the most effective ways to improve physical fitness, maintain mental equilibrium and overcome stress and anxiety is by practicing Yoga, the ancient Indian science and art. There appears to be common misconception that Yoga consists of only physical exercises. It is a holistic mental, physical and spiritual activity for the overall wellbeing of an individual.

In fact, there is a need to include Yoga in school curriculum across the country to enable children learn it from a young age. In the wake of the pandemic, it has become all the more important to practice Yoga and meditation to boost immunity and protect ones health, both physical and mental.

Yoga will also help youngsters like you to improve your concentration levels and inculcate discipline.

Although, these are the days of tough competition at all levels, you should not get daunted by any situation. Develop confidence and try to overcome all odds by striving to achieve excellence. Please remember that there are no short-cuts to success. Diligence, discipline and single-minded devotion are essential to realize your dreams.

Dear students,

Do not look upon education as a vehicle to merely acquire degrees and take up employment. Education is meant for enlightenment and empowerment of an individual. As the Father of the Nation, Mahatma Gandhi had said : By education, I mean an all-round drawing of the best in child and man in body, mind and spirit. Education should not only equip the students with the requisite knowledge, but must necessarily develop them into good human beings.

Education is not merely a transaction in knowledge and information. It must also be a relentless endeavour to inculcate morals and values in our youngsters. It is important to inculcate the values of empathy, honesty, integrity, humility, kindness, gratitude, forgiveness and respect for elders among children.

India was once the Vishwaguru or the teacher to the world. Our education system placed an unwavering emphasis on developing righteousness and moral fibre in our youngsters. We must keep up this grand tradition.

Our history is also replete with stories of outstanding scholars, both men and women, who led scientific discoveries that were much ahead of their time, authored enduring classics and created timeless works of art and architecture. Our youngsters must be made aware of the stories of these heroes and must be encouraged to explore and learn from the various facets of Indias glorious history.

You must take great pride in our heritage and history and serve as ambassadors of Indias lofty cultural and civilizational ideals, wherever in the world you decide to live and work. Irrespective of where you live, you must never forget mother, mother tongue, motherland and Guru.

My dear young students,

As I said earlier, in this brave new world, you have the opportunity to pick any career of your choice. But whichever career path you choose, you must strive to excel.

If you choose to be a doctor, be a highly skilled, efficient and empathetic doctor. If you choose to be a soldier, be courageous and a person of integrity, honesty and self-control. If you choose to build a business, let it be an ethical, humane one. If you wish to be a teacher, go beyond teaching and strive to impart enlightenment and help your students to be better human beings.

Whatever you choose to do, keep pushing the boundaries and find new frontiers. Never be satisfied with the status quo. Always set higher bench marks and create new and better systems wherever you go. Never hesitate to innovate to the best of your ability.

I also want you to be aware of the problems that the world faces today, from poverty and inequality to violence and displacement to climate change. I want you to observe keenly and understand the true nature and cause for these problems and come up with new solutions.

The world is interconnected today more than ever before and therefore it is simply not enough to solve the problems of your country alone. You must be truly global citizens in the sense that you must seek to solve problems that affect humanity. Only then will you truly realize the great mantra of our civilization, Vasudhaiva kutumbakam. To us, the world is and has always been one big family, interconnected and interdependent in the great web of life.

I also hope that you will always remember the plight of those who have been less fortunate than you. Let me remind you of the powerful Talisman that the father of our nation gave us, which asked us to recall the face of the poorest and the weakest man whom we may have seen, every time a decision eludes us.We must keep asking ourselves if we have succeeded in restoring control over his destiny. We must keep asking ourselves if we have succeeded in bringing swaraj to these hungry and spiritually starving millions.

My dear young friends,

Let Sarvodaya and Antyodaya be your guiding principles.

Let your conscience be an ever-flowing fountain of empathy and compassion for those less fortunate than yourself.

It was Swami Vivekananda who once said that The great secret of true success, of true happiness, is this: the man or woman who asks for no return, the perfectly unselfish person, is the most successful.

I hold great faith in the ability of our youngsters to take this country to greater heights.

Indias youth power is its greatest resource today. I am confident that each one of you will grow up to be educated, knowledgeable, dutiful, responsible, compassionate citizens of incorruptible integrity and unbreakable moral fibre.

I wish each and every one of you all the very best in your future endeavours.

Thank You!

Jai Hind!

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History will judge us Have Progressive Rabbis reached the end of the road on Israel? – Patheos

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Progressive rabbis in the UK have written to the Israeli embassy in London to express their concern over the Israeli governments plans to annex parts of the West Bank. The letter has been sent from British Friends of Rabbis for Human Rights, an organisation which supports the work of Rabbis for Human Rights working in Israel and the West Bank. It draws its members from both Progressive (Reform and Liberal) as well as Masorti and Orthodox rabbis. However, the forty signatories to this latest statement are dominated by Reform and Liberal rabbis, including the outgoing Reform senior rabbi, Laura Janner-Klausner, and former Liberal senior rabbi, Danny Rich, whose communities make up around 20% of UK Jewish synagogue membership.

The anti-annexation letter reads powerfully and asks rhetorically:

If Judaism teaches us not to oppress, not to disenfranchise, not to stand idly by the blood of our neighbour, then where do we all stand?

Its a stronger statement than you would find being made formally by the Reform or Liberal movements themselves, so in practive its an outlet for the rabbis to speak out as individuals rather than representatives of the organisations which employ them. That reflects the hypersensitivity, professional risk, and fraught communal politics generated by Israel.

The wording of the letter is significant in what it reveals about the condition of Progressive rabbinical thought on Israel. But before diving into the exegesis, let me offer some personal history on Reform Judaism.

I grew up in the Reform synagogue movement in the UK and it remains my spiritual home. I use the Reform Judaism prayer book to welcome in the sabbath with my family each Friday night, and during lockdown Ive been following the services conducted via Zoom from the shul in which I was raised, Bromley Synagogue in South East London.

In my youth I dont remember support for Israel being the focus of division in synagogue life that its become today. In those days, the main external preoccupation of Bromley synagogue was the plight of Soviet Jews facing cultural, economic and religious persecution by the Soviet Russian authorities.

Led primarily by women in our synagogue, we campaigned, protested and adopted Jewish families in Moscow, offering what practical and emotional support we could. I remember international phone calls being set up at the synagogue and relayed via loud speaker to the gathered community. We listened to our refuseniks on the crackly telephone line telling their experience of being denied permission to leave Russia for Israel and the consequences for their daily lives.

The motivation for this work fitted well with Progressive Jewish concerns for justice, compassion and for the victims of oppression. Little did we know how this story would play out and how it would influence politics in Israel thirty years later.

After the collapse of the Soviet Union in the early 90s, a million former Soviet Jews migrated to the Jewish State welcomed with open arms by a government looking for an influx of Jews to bolster Jewish demography (against rising Israeli Arab population growth). Politically, the Russian Jews making their new home in Israel turned out to be less concerned with universal rights and compassion for the oppressed than we had been in Bromley. The majority of Russian Jews have voted consistently for right-wing Israeli parties opposed to peace deals and enthusiastic for Settlement expansion. Broadly speaking, they are secular and highly nationalistic in behaviour and outlook. Its an ironic consequence of all that Progressive Jewish action that took place on their behalf in the 70s and 80s. Perhaps, its a metaphor for the entire relationship between Israel and Reform Judaism: mismatched visions, conflicting agendas and compromised values.

The co-author of this months anti-annexation letter, Rabbi Sylvia Rothschild, became the rabbi for Bromley Synagogue in the late 1980s while I was completing my undergraduate degree at Manchester University. By that time, I was already on a journey to Palestinian solidarity driven by my roots in Reform Judaism, influenced by the motivations behind the Soviet Jewry campaigns, and by a determination to understand what had caused the outbreak of the First Palestinian Intifada.

Ever since those student days, Ive followed the statements made by Reform and Liberal rabbis concerning Israel. Im sorry to say, theyve been consistently disappointing. On each occasion they failed to address the enormity of Palestinian dispossession and the on-going injustices committed against them. They pulled their punches on the moral questions for the State of Israel, and as rabbis, they shied away from publicly examining the ethical consequence for the global Jewish diaspora and for Judaism itself.

I long ago understood that however critical of specific Israeli actions these rabbinic statements might be, Progressive rabbis would avoid the most serious implications of their concerns. Their public letters and press releases would begin with a preamble of fidelity to the Jewish State, intending this to give them permission to speak out. The statements would invariably conclude with expressions of even-handed compassion and desires for peace. No doubt they appeared bold, radical and controversial to some, but to me they were mired in denial about the true power dynamics and immorality at work in Israel/Palestine.

A good example of this rabbinical genre of Israel related handwringing was a letter sent to The Times in August 2014 as the Israeli assault on Gaza was taking place. During those summer weeks, 500 Palestinian children were killed by the IDF, mostly by Israeli aerial bombardments using the most sophisticated and precise weaponry available. Meanwhile, one Israeli child was killed by a Hamas rocket. Heres how the Progressive rabbis began their letter:

Sir, We write as passionate and proud supporters of Israel. This past month we have witnessed devastating loss of life on all sides, so many of whom are civilians, as Israel has again been thrown into conflict with her neighbours and tried to deal with the missiles and tunnels used by Hamas. We have watched with great sadness as communities in the region and beyond have become embroiled in anger and hatred towards the other.

The letter concluded with the affirmation that the rabbis remained dedicated to Israels character as a Jewish and democratic state along with the values of social and political equality for all citizens, alongside freedom, justice and peace as envisaged by the prophets of Israel, and as enshrined in its Declaration of Independence.

That appeal to Israels Declaration of Independence as being the true soul of the Jewish State crops up time again in Liberal Zionist discourse, even though the document was never enshrined in constitutional law and contains plenty of historical airbrushing out of diaspora Jewish history whichProgressive rabbis ought to object to.

I like to think that behind the composition of these weak texts (which always ended in both political and ethical failure) there were some spiritual and intellectual struggles that went on in the hearts and minds of those who composed them.

Theres always been a tension at the centre of Reform Judaisms relationship with Zionism. That was bound to be so. Reform Judaism, as it developed in 18th and 19th century Germany, was a response to enlightenment thinking, the social emancipation of Jews in Western Europe, and a Jewish theology which looked to emphasise a universalistic mission for Jews and Judaism based on themes of biblical prophetic justice. The Jewish people were understood as being a religious community with a shared historical experience, commissioned by God to build a just society wherever they lived. Religious practices were guided by reason and ethics.While Reform Judaism would speak of a Jewish people or a Jewish nation, this was understood as broad and transnational in character, rather than narrow and territorial.

These ideas continued as the movement spread from Germany to north America (where it became a dominant Jewish denomination) and to the United Kingdom. Before the Second World War, Reform Judaism did not favour Zionism as a response to the issues of Jewish modernity in the early 20th century. All that began to change after the Holocaust, as it did for all Jewish institutions.

The universalistic mission of Reform Judaism, with its belief in working towards of messianic age of global justice now had to accommodate an inward looking and less ambitious agenda. The safety and security of the Jewish people became the post-Holocaust preoccupation, and the modern State of Israel became the accepted vehicle for achieving that security.

Over time, the narrow purpose of tribal physical security has grown from political theory to religious tenet, merging seamlessly with scripture, liturgy and religious festivals so that Zionism appears entirely consistent with centuries of Jewish self-understanding. In truth, it was an abrupt break with past rabbinic understanding of religious exile and spiritual redemption. For Reform Judaism, Israel created a tension between defending the fledgling Jewish State, seen as existential for Jewish survival and future growth, and Reforms previous ideals for the humanistic and ethically grounded role which Jews could and should play in all societies.

But have Progressive rabbis now recognised the ethical cul-de-sac theyve led their communities down over successive decades?

This months letter to the Israeli embassy in London starts to look like Progressive rabbis are finally confronting the Jewish implications of the entire Zionist project. Although the layers of denial and ethical dissonance are still on display, its the strongest and most despairing expression of criticism Ive seen.

Once again, the rabbis letter lacks any historical context or political analysis concerning whats brought us to this point. The authors see the prospect of annexation as a pivotal moment when in fact its just the latest stage in a long drawn out process of colonisation of Palestinian land. If the problem is this serious today, what made it any less serious yesterday?

But heres the key paragraph, which implicitly acknowledges a collective Jewish (certainly rabbinical) responsibility, which goes far beyond any specific Israeli government or Prime Minister:

The moral integrity of the Jewish people is at stake. History will judge us and ask us: have we been faithful to the prophetic teachings of justice, compassion and peace? Or have we created a mockery of our Jewish tradition and of the founders of the State, by standing on the wrong side of Jewish teachings and our history?

The questions are asked rhetorically but they demand actual answers. The obvious response to the rabbis is: No, you have not been faithful to Jewish teaching through your mild-mannered criticism of Israel. And Yes, you have created a mockery of our Jewish tradition by failing to centre your teaching on Palestinian suffering. I would also caution them against their on-going moral confidence concerning the founders of the State since the greatest single moment of Palestinian dispossession was not the Six Day War of 1967 but the Nakba of 1948.

The rabbis letter once again drags Israels Declaration of Independence into service as evidence of a righteous past that has been lost, but could yet be found again:

And where do we stand in relation to Israels Declaration of Independence? The State of Israel that was created was to be based on the principles of liberty, justice and peace. These plans deny those foundational principles of the Declaration.

But the Declaration of Independence was never enacted, its never been a legal document. There has never been social and political equality for Palestinians in Israel. For the first 20 years of Israels history, its Arab citizens were ruled under military law as a fifth column; internally displaced, their homes and land were confiscated through government legislation; their friends and relatives who had fled their homes in fear and crossed borders, were never allowed to return even when the fighting ended.

Palestinian Israelis remain socially, politically and economically disadvantaged to this day. They are not a small minority, they are 20% of the countrys population. Its not an accident. Its not their fault. Its institutionalised discrimination thats existed since the day David Ben-Gurion read the Declaration out loud in the Tel Aviv Museum more than 70 years ago. Israel as a Jewish and democratic state of all its citizens was always a myth. As all Progressive rabbis will tell you, religious myths serve an important function in the development of morality, this though is a political myth, which serves only to prop up a false narrative that denies another peoples lived experience. The rabbis need to let go of the Declaration rather than continue to use it to obscure the truth.

This letter, even with its failings, is setting up a watershed moment for its Reform and Liberal signatories and the congregations which they lead. Even if annexation is delayed indefinitely, something has changed in Progressive rabbinical thinking on Israel. And if the rabbis are serious about the moral integrity of the Jewish people and how history will judge us, then some big changes are required.

Whats needed is a return to the bolder ambitions of religious purpose that characterised the first century of Reform theology. A Jewish mission of universal justice thats applied to Israel as well as every other nation on earth.

In practice what must that look like?

Any understanding and teaching of Zionism must embrace the experience of Palestinians. Zionism has been a national project of self-determination for Jews and an act of brutal settler colonialism for Palestinians. Both experiences are true and valid. One cannot be told without the other. In this century, the Jewish and the Palestinian stories have become entwined and interdependent. Our future wellbeing is locked together. This is what we must teach ourselves and our children if we are serious about respecting the heritage of Progressive Judaism.

In making that educational commitment, Reform and Liberal rabbis must abandon their support for politicised definitions of antisemitism which end up silencing Palestinian solidarity and denying Palestinian history. Many of the same rabbis whove signed this months letter on annexation, including Sylvia Rothschild, Danny Rich and Laura Janner-Klausner, also signed a letter to the Guardian in July 2018 supporting the deeply problematic IHRA definition of antisemitism.

The rabbis need to understand the damage such documents are doing to the prospects of a genuine Jewish/Palestinian dialogue. Anti-Palestinianism is as bad as antisemitism.

Support for Israel from Reform and Liberal movements must become conditional on equal rights and equal security for all who call the Holy Land their home. How can a Jewish religious movement call for equality and justice for all, while making an exception in the very place where we claim our Jewish origins?

Jewish education about the Holocaust needs expanding and reframing too. Today, we are in danger of merely passing on to future Jewish generations an on-going, unprocessed, collective trauma. Its a trauma that informs our understanding of Israel/Palestine and what constitutes Jewish safety and security. A Sparta State dependent on superpower backing and endlessly suppressing an indigenous population will never deliver Jewish security. Progressive Judaism must reclaim its universal principles and apply them to a Jewish understanding of the Holocaust which recognises that our security will always be dependent on promoting a common humanity, based on justice, equality and mutual responsibility.

And heres my final challenge to the rabbis.

In Judaism there is a tradition of collective responsibility, which the rabbis letter on annexation alludes to. On Yom Kippur, the most solemn and holy day of the Jewish religious calendar, we stand together in the synagogue and ask for forgiveness for the sins we have committed, not just as individuals, but as a community, as a people. When our Reform and Liberal rabbis have the courage to lead us in asking for forgiveness from the Palestinian people and offering them restitution, then we will have finally arrived at a place from which we can move forward with a genuinley progressive Jewish agenda.

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Olis claim that Ram was born in Nepal highlights dangers of mixing pop nationalism with pop history – Scroll.in

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What could have got into Nepals Prime Minister Khadga Prasad Sharma Oli, to have to want to claim earlier this month that Lord Ram was born in Ayodhya, the place in question being not in present-day India but in what is today Nepal?

So many questions to try to answer. But to start with the obvious the claim was considered impolite towards the Hindutva brigade south of the border whose proponents have constructed a political ideology around a mythological character of historical and archaeological uncertainty, though a god. This absence of civility comes from a head of government who should know the potential economic and geopolitical consequences, having led Nepals stand against the 2015-16 Blockade with a Big B.

But Oli went ahead anyway and did it. Why? Mostly, he has begun to like hearing his own voice, and gets carried away when people titter appreciatively at his banter. He engages in baithak guffgaaf even when he knows the cameras are recording. This time, on July 13, it was the birth anniversary of Bhanu Bhakta Acharya, the aadi kabi of the Nepali language and translator of the Balmikis epic Ramayan. Oli got carried away and replaced one Ayodhya pop history with another.

Oli is an organic leader if nothing else, who resists prepared texts to be read off teleprompters and the state-managed events his Indian counterpart shields himself with. But a head of government prone to extemporaneous take-off must be careful as faux pas are sure to be picked up by combative media and cynical influencers. Oli wades in where others fear to tread perhaps conditioned by his more than dozen years in jail under harsh conditions during the Panchayat royal autocracy, or his boldness may be the audacity of a man who has skirted death more than once, including the second-time kidney transplant of barely four months ago.

When it comes to New Delhi, Oli has enough to be peeved with. He waited for months for India to agree to foreign secretary-level talks on the disputed territory to the northwest, and sat for four months on the new map produced by his government cartographers until domestic pressures forced him to issue it and amend the Constitution to accommodate the change. But even as the bilateral relationship has hit the rock at the very bottom, New Delhi has not halted construction of the road that breaches the disputed territory, which was the trigger to the bilateral tailspin to begin with.

Oli had thought matters were on the mend as the memory and impact of the Indian Blockade of 2015-16 began to fade, and he was in easy telephonic contact with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi Modi at 7 Race Course. Then came the link road to Lipu Lek, Indias subsequent message that it would not talk until after the Covid-19 pandemic, and then Nepals new map with its curved sword-tip angling over Kumaon.

Things are so bad between Nepal and India that the only back channel for diplomacy remaining was the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh contingent, but that is the very cohort that has now been ticked off by the Thori-as-Ayodhya claim. Meanwhile, Oli raises the ante through his unrehearsed remarks. Before he got into debating the janmabhoomi of Ram, he told Parliament pointedly that Nepal followed the precept Satyameva Jayate (Truth will Prevail) rather than the reliance of brute power represented by Singhameva Jayate (Muscle Power will Prevail).

One assumes there are many Indian citizens who would agree that the Modi-Amit Shah rule reflects the singhameva attitude, but it was hardly Olis brief to point this out. There may be some heroics attached to being the only government head in the whole wide world and the subcontinent who takes on Modi, but such bravado is not a good idea when representing a whole people and nation.

The North Indian TV channels added vitriol to their pre-existing prejudice as they covered Olis recent utterances, as if he were Ravan personified, dangerous but not so dangerous as not to be vilely ridiculed. The Goswamis and Chaudhuries of television went after him without civility and the phenomenon was a thing to watch, never applied against neighbouring prime ministers or presidents, even the worst dictator.

Olis response has been to convert all this television venom into elixir for himself Nepalis watch Indian television, and the popular reaction was the polar opposite of what was intended as entertainment for the Indian audience.

While Oli seems to have the required support in Parliament to survive pustch attempts from within his own party, for over the four months of the Covid-19 pandemic kaal he has been staving off a majority in the CPN supreme secretariat, led by the Maoist Pushpa Kamal Dahal as head commissar, who eyes the prime ministerial throne. Oli accused Dahal and his cohort of doing the bidding of New Delhi, a charge that has great currency in Kathmandu politics, but the anti-India plank has heretofore been used by politicians in opposition, not the sitting prime minister.

Meanwhile, the Chinese ambassador, a diplomatic rookie handed the task of upping Beijings influence in Kathmandu corridors after decades of watching-and-waiting, sought openly but not very successfully to engineer a ceasefire within the ruling CPN her attempt at political interventionism more reminiscent of the adventurism of Indian ambasadors of days past.

Some North Indian TV producers and anchors looked upon the youngish lady ambassador, salivated and went into sexist, mysoginist hyper-ventilation. They reported a titillating relationship between the Nepal prime minister and the plenipotentiary like a trashy YouTube channel sponging off the unfulfilled desires of Indian maledom. Enjoying all the saliva roiling their palate, the news anchors were not about to consider New Delhis own diplomatic positioning vis--vis the neighbouring country, whose stability and wellbeing is vital for Indias own poorest, most densely populated Ganga belt.

It was around then that Oli unleashed his Ayodhya arrow, surely knowing that he was putting his hand into Hindutvas piranha pond. You will have to concede Oli his chutzpah if not his good sense, to dare to descend thus into the molten core of Hindutva politics of India represented by Ram Janmabhoomi, which keeps Narendra Modi in power and the entire Bharatiya Janata Party-Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh machinery running on the fuel of faith-based populism.

The claim of Ayodhya as birthplace of Maryadapurush is hardly something geographical, it is not even a matter of belief, but of make-believe. Step-by-step, the movement towards the Ram Mandir in Ayodhya was built up, first the courts acceptance of the infant Ram Lalla Virajman as a divine juristic entity in December 1949, the destruction of Babri Masjid in December 1992 by hundreds of pick-axe wielding kar sevaks, and a compromised Supreme Court that cleared the way for the temple to be built in November 2019 a Rashtra Mandir as the RSS would have it, to rival visitations to Mecca and Bethlehem.

The foundation laying and bhoomi poojan is slated for August 5 with Modi and Lal Krishna Advani in attendance, the latter being the person who blessed the Babri Masjid demolition before being ultimately sidelined by the shooting star from Gujarat. The string of events leading to the final Supreme Court verdict in November was the exercise of creating facts on the ground, backed by the sheer weight of India-wide, faith-laced populism.

Oli was taking on an ideological movement back-stopped by RSS shakhas around India, buffering Modis rule over the people and control of state machinery. Nepals prime minister is not one to take suggestions, and so his putative advisors cringed as he took off extempore, claiming that the authentic Ayodhya was not the one in Uttar Pradesh, but existed southwest of Kathmandu, west of Birgunj, in the village of Thori next to the great jungle of Chitwan, where Balmiki would have walked.

As Oli warmed to the subject at the Prime Ministers residence in Baluwatar (sand plateau), he argued that Uttar Pradeshs Ayodhya was just too far from Janakpur, home of Raja Janak and daughter Sita, to allow logistics for an arranged marriage. How would they have communicated between Janakpur and the Uttar Pradesh Ayodhya to carry out the betrothal back then when there were no phones or mobile phones?

Much more logical, said the prime minister, was for Ayodhya to be in Thori, from where Janakpur was barely 150 km to the east and sage Balmikis ashram just around the bend. Someone else did a calculation and announced that it would take chariots (considerately allowing time for the horses to be fed and rested) 15 days to traverse the distance from Janakpur to the Uttar Pradesh Ayodhya, a return trip making up a month. Throughout history, of course, men have gone further and spent more time that pursuing their chosen ones, but we have by now arrived at a point beyond time, place and logic.

If placenames were to be proof that Ram was walking the jungle trails of Thori, while conceding that Ram turns up everywhere in the subcontinent, a part of the Maadi village municipality (Wards 7 and 8) has been known as Ayodhyapuri. There is a Ramnagar just to the south of the border in West Champaran, a Ramgram to the west in Parasi (with an unexcavated stupa containing the Buddhas astu), a Rampur to the north across the Rapti river, and a Ramghat further north on the Kali Gandaki river.

But, other than the fact that the Uttar Pradesh Ayodhya claim is backed by the power of mass-based populism of the second-largest country on earth, there is no reason to accept the fait accompli represented by the Shri Ram Janmabhoomi Teerth Kshetra Trust, all set to build a temple of 280 feet by 300 feet, height 161 feet.

Tens of millions may believe the Uttar Pradesh Ayodhya proposition, but the silent majority may not be convinced, and there will be other believers Ram bhakts, indeed who do not buy the idea. They believe that Ram came came forth to Dasharath and Kausalya somewhere else that the true Ayodhya is in Banawali in Haryana, or Herat in Afghanistan, of Rehman Dheri in Pakistani Punjab, or Ayuthhaya in Thailand, or Thori near Birgunj, in Nepal.

It is one thing to concede Ayodhyas Ram mandir as a fait accompli, and for the Muslim fold to maintain a sullen silence along with millions in the rest of the population who disagree, and quite another thing to concede that Ram was indeed born 869,000 years ago in the Treta Yug in Uttar Pradeshs Ayodhya.

Speaking of Treta Yug, there is the matter of historicity for both Oli and the Vishwa Hindu Parishad to answer in the 5th Century BCE (generally considered the Ramayan era) when human settlement had not spread from the Ganga-Jamuna doab eastward into the Ganga heartland, how could the nativity site be either the Uttar Pradesh Ayodhya or Thori Ayodhya? If it is spiritual conviction that guides you, then you can have it your way, either way, and why not let a thousand Ayodhyas bloom?

Back in Baluwatar, Oli did not mention that the earliest surviving Ramayan document was a 11th-century palmleaf manuscript discovered in Kathmandu. But he did go on to remind the Bhanu Bhakta Jayanti gathering that Balmiki Ashram, too, was right there in Thori, where Sita went into her second exile and begat Lava and Kush, and where the sage would have conceptualised the epic.

Besides Sita, then, might we say that Balmiki, too, was born in Nepal even considering that present-day India is full of Balmiki ashram sites? Sita herself was born to Raja Janak in the part of Mithila that is in the Nepal Tarai, though there is the claim that she was discovered in a field furrow in Sitamarhi in Bihar. Why stop there? How about Shiva with his penchant for the heights, and Parbati, daughter of the peaks, as her name suggests?

Nativity nationalism can get out of hand, and Nepalis can never seem to get enough of it. The long-time staple of Nepali pop-nationalism is to claim (the louder the better) that Buddha was born in Nepal! The message rather the slogan is ubiquitous, from t-shirts, tourism brochures, wall graffiti, political sloganeering to truck art.

Some exasperated Indians will retort: Buddha may have been born in Nepal, but Buddhism was born in India, at the site of enlightenment in Bodh Gaya in Magadh, which is now in India. To which the argumentative Nepali responds: The formation of Buddhist philosophy actually began in Siddhartha Gautams brain before he left Kapilvastu, Nepal, at the late age of 29 to become an ascetic.

The suggestion that Buddha was born in India is based on loose reference to ancient India in most instances, and ignorance in others. But the fact that the Sakyamuni Siddhartha Gautam was born in the grove of Lumbini in 623 BCE was authenticated by Emperor Ashok, who lugged a 30-tonne pillar all the way from Chunar, south of the Ganga near Benaras, and erected it here to make the point. So there is really no question that the Sakyamuni was born in what is today Nepal, which boosts the tourism and pilgrimage pamphlets and websites.

In Kathmandu, there is confusion about the very nature of the controversy among some brothers and sisters for there is no argument at all about the birthplace of Sakyamuni Buddha, who incidentally was a historical figure unlike Ram. There is the Ashok Pillar and even a marker stone within the Mayadevi Temple said to point to the exact spot of birth. What controversy there is has to do with the location of Kapilvastu, ruled by Suddodhan and hometown of the Sakyamuni, which is claimed to be the fortified ruins of Tilaurakot by Nepal and Piprahawa by some Indian archaeologists.

Since there was no international border back then, open or otherwise, it may well be that Kapilvastu extended over the entire space, so let the archaeologists dig some more before we continue the quarrel.

As long as we are talking about Ram, may we bring up the matter of his evident mysoginy (ref. his treatment of Sita, more than once) or his excessive moralism? Truth be told, the real Ram was probably an empathetic, affable person, warts and all, a mahatma rather than the elevated Maryadapurush. The supercilious and gender-insensitive traits were most likely added mythology by successive (male) sages. It seems you cant even make fun of Ram anymore in India without first checking over your shoulder, and there may come a time when you cannot even depict him in a political cartoon.

It is unfortunate that the strait-laced Ram has been privileged over other more avuncular deities, even Vishnu of whom he is an incarnation, and Krishna, another Vishnu offshoot. Most importantly, the exclusive propitiation of Ram displaces the diversity and syncretism of the Hindu fold. From the bhakti movement to shakti-puja there has been a silencing across the land as Ram advances politically and other deities retreat, and the historical cultural geography is turned on its head.

If there is one (spiritual if not juridicial) person who has been unjustly treated by the entire Ram Janmabhoomi upwelling, it is Shiva, the indulgent, amorous, fun-loving, substance imbibing and artistically inclined god. And we look askance as the kanphatta mahant of the Gorakhnath Math, currently also chief minister of Ayodhyas Uttar Pradesh, essentially a Saivite, becomes the principal flag-bearer for Ram.

For Nepal, on the whole, Hinduism remains a culture to be lived rather than religion to be followed. The society, as yet, has not come under the thrall of political Hindutva, perhaps because Lord Shiva is the spiritual influencer of the realm, emanating energy from his perch at Pashupatinath Temple. Gorakhnath has commanded reverence since before the founding king of Gorkha (from Gorakh), as does his teacher Matsyendranath, whose guru was the sage Shiva himself. The devis Kali and Durga (avatar of Parbati), and various ajima goddesses, continue to direct affairs, as do the various Bhairavs and Barahis still command allegiance. Not to mention the entire Vajrayanic pantheon, its many Buddhas and Bodhisattvas, the pre-Buddhist Bon deities, as well as animist gods and forest goddesses.

Nepals seems very comfortable with this plethora of deities and near-deities that inhabit its earth and ether, much more exciting than the call of monotheistic Hindutva following a solitary Ram as defined for the masses by Ramanand Sagars television serial. Perhaps for these reasons, the horrific violence that accompanied the Babri Masjid demolition of December 1992 did not cross the open border into Nepal, barely a 100 kilometres away.

While Nepalis seem to have taken their prime ministers vocal excess in stride, not so the societal mathaadhis of the south. The Vishwa Hindu Parishad, the Ram Mandir Committee, the Shiv Sena and the mouthpiece Saamna roundly condemed Oli. Nonetheless, there was the studied silence of the sceptics of the Ram-nam Hindutva political liberals, athiest leftists, and the tens of millions followers of other Hindu sects and panths.

The reaction of the Indian state to Olis unguided ruminations, too, seems muted, when you consider that he was challenging the central tenet of the ruling partys ideology, which requires Ram to have been born in Uttar Pradesh Ayodhya.

There are three ways to read this forbearance: firstly, perhaps the Ram bhakts themselves concede in their hearts that they are dealing with ideology, not history. Secondly, what is one to do blockade Nepal all over again? The third reading is that there may be satisfaction in the fact that a communist prime minister turned out to be a believer and that the number of heads of government who believe in Rams janma (wherever) had just doubled from one to two.

There is no doubt that Nepals prime minister was playing a dangerous game, tickling Indias dark underbelly (not a good idea, given the power imbalance). Oli has likened India to a dominant lion, lays claim to Ayodhya, and blames opponents within his own party of breathing the southern air. Amidst this verbal escalation, Prime Minister Narendra Modi of India keeps nonchalantly silent, letting others tear at their hair and hurl invectives at Kathmandu.

Perhaps Modis imperious silence is a ploy is to get Oli more agitated and less circumspect, to get him stuck deeper in the monsoon mud. But this diplomatic quietude does allow Modi the possibility of resuming contact with Oli at the appropriate time. Oli has two-and-a-half years of his term remaining, and Modi has four.

Both Modi and Oli evidently want to deliver Ram rajya to their citizens. But this will not come from diverting attention of the masses to either Uttar Pradesh Ayodhya or Thori Ayodhya. Besides, when both countries and both prime ministers seek ram rajya, why fight?

Kanak Mani Dixit is a writer and journalist, and founding editor of the magazine Himal Southasian.

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The technology could vastly improve the efficiency of testing.

Funding has been awarded to Bristol researchers in the department of Electrical Engineering to develop a rapid, low cost COVID-19 detection system.

The team, led by Professor Martin Cryan and with funding from the Elizabeth Blackwell institute, will use devices called Nano-antennas to detect fluorescent molecules in the virus. They hope to use these antennas to build a biosensor which is highly sensitive, but small enough to be handheld.

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Rapid detection and diagnosis are vital to controlling the spread of COVID-19. When a person presents symptoms, a rapid response can save not only their life, but the lives of those they would otherwise infect. Without a licensed vaccine, and as lockdown measures ease around the world, successfully tackling the pandemic depends on eliminating unnecessary delays in testing and tracking.

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NORTHAMPTON, Mass. (WWLP) Cancel the rents and end racist police repression! was the message of demonstrators at a standout in Northampton Saturday.

People gathered at city hall on National Day of Action, a weekend protest event that is being held in Boston and across the country.

One organizer said it was time the government changes the way they are handling unemployment within communities of color.

Currently in Massachusetts, they just extended the eviction moratorium until October 1. We would like to see rents be canceled for the rest of the duration of the crisis, Liz Walber of Party for Socialism and Liberationtold 22News.

While holding signs, demonstrators called for the end of evictions and foreclosures to cancel rents and end police violence. Organizers of the nationwide event said millions of people who have lost their jobs during the pandemic especially in Black, Latino and indigenous communities are suffering from police harassment and brutality and are experiencing a growing homeless population.

Working people are being forced to pay for a crisis that isnt their fault and the government needs to provide relief to make sure people are not kicked out of their homes, said Michael Kowalchuk an organizer of the standout.

Saturdays event was hosted by the Party for Socialism and Liberation as well as other local organizations in alignment with the Black Lives Matter movement.

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