Wednesday, October 28, 2009

“President Patil receives Gandhi memorabilia in United Kingdom - Deccan Herald” plus 4 more

“President Patil receives Gandhi memorabilia in United Kingdom - Deccan Herald” plus 4 more


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President Patil receives Gandhi memorabilia in United Kingdom - Deccan Herald

Posted: 28 Oct 2009 01:34 PM PDT

President Pratibha Patil examines a collection of letters written by Mahatma Gandhi as they are presented to her by Sir Gulam Noon (L) and Professor Nat Puri (R) during a ceremony at the Indian High Commission in London on Wednesday. AFPAmong the items were three letters written in Urdu by Gandhi to his close associate and 'Khilafat' movement leader Maulana Abdul Bari, a piece of white Khadi cloth gifted by him to a South African actress and some autographed postcards.

At a function in the Indian High Commission, the rare articles were handed over to Patil by NRI entrepreneurs Sir Gulam K Noon and Nathu Puri, who had procured them in an auction in July. The President had earlier said receiving these items would be a "high point" of her visit to the UK.

Content of letters

"...Please advise people to be calm and carry out swadeshi," wrote Gandhi in one of the letters, asking Bari to work for calming tensions between Hindus and Muslims in Lucknow. In another, Gandhi thanked him for the gift of cotton for spinning.

The hand-woven cloth with a simple border and signed by Gandhi and Sarojini Naidu was a gift to actress Moria Listler.

"Gandhi is not the property of India only but the whole world. His philosophy is relevant in today's world. Even the UN has accepted the relevance of this philosophy by declaring October 2 as International Day of Non-violence," Patil said.

"Gandhiji's ideology can be a very powerful instrument for building a peaceful and a tolerant world," she said at the function, which was attended by the who's who of Indian diaspora including Lord Swraj Paul, S P Hinduja and Indian High Commissioner Nalin Surie.

"His  vision of a participatory democracy, overall development especially of rural areas and building an equitable society, has been guiding the nation. He has a special place in our hearts and articles associated with him has a special meaning for every Indian," the President said.

Vail Valley Bizwatch: Wholistic IntegraCare - Vail Daily News

Posted: 28 Oct 2009 01:34 PM PDT

Business Name: Wholistic IntegraCare.

Date Opened: Oct. 1.

Owner: Dr. Elina Chernyak D.O.

Contact Info:

Web: www.wholisticintegracare.com.

E-mail: DrElina@wholisticintegracare.com.

Phone: 970-306-2737.

What goods or services do you provide? I provide personal healthcare solutions for a wide variety of health issues, using the philosophies of Integrative and osteopathic medicine. In other words, I employ a highly individualized approach, combining the best of traditional and alternative practices.

I work with people who may be dealing with anything from a cold or flu to chronic conditions such as arthritis, autoimmune disorders, weight problems, allergies, migraines, or fatigue. My passion lies in finding interrelated causes of a health issue rather than just treating the symptoms. I also work with healthy people to maintain health and boost immunity, and to improve cognitive and athletic performance through nutrition.

I use low-tech yet elegant pathways to resolution, and high-tech pathways such as individual biochemical analysis and genetic testing. As an osteopath, I also employ manual therapies.

What's new or exciting at your place? What's new and exciting is the kind of care my clients will receive when they walk through the door. I offer a new model of health care, unlike anything found in a conventional doctor's office. It's warm and inviting — you won't have to wait for your appointment, you won't feel rushed, and the care you get will be more holistic, comprehensive and individualized. You'll receive highly scientific, evidence-based treatments that are tailored to your needs and to your life, using alternative and/or conventional means.

And, I always offer tea and cookies (healthy ones) to my clients before we get started! In addition, all my clients receive a 15 percent discount on all nutritional products and supplements they purchase through my Web site. Since I advocate and often administer these high-quality products, I like to offer my clients a more affordable way of obtaining them.

What strategy do you use to differentiate your business from your competition? The healthcare options available today are quite polarized. On one hand we have the conventional medical community that offers wonderfully effective solutions for certain conditions, but is fairly confined in philosophy, and often falls short with many people's expectations. On the other hand, we have the alternative healthcare community that offers solutions that are more holistic and natural, but generally is not backed by extensive, formal medical training.

What I offer brings the two schools of thought together under the little roof in my office. As an integrative, holistic practitioner, I focus my efforts in finding underlying, interrelated causes using biologically sophisticated diagnostics. Then, I administer alternative, nutrition-based strategies as often as possible, along with osteopathic methods and conventional pharmaceuticals whenever appropriate. It's the best of both worlds. I like to have as many tools in my toolbox as possible.

What philosophy do you follow in dealing with your customers? What can your customers expect from you? I like to say that I put the "health" and the "care" back into healthcare. As a physician, I feel it's my duty to educate, motivate and support my clients in building immunity and vitality through healthy lifestyle choices.

I treat everyone as I would like to be treated, as a person and not just a case. "Feeling better" is not just a physical state of being. It means that you feel listened to and cared for in a personal, human way. There is an intangible, yet powerful healing force in that concept.

I provide the time and attention that is required to communicate thoroughly and to treat you comprehensively, especially with chronic cases. I'll spend an hour for most of my initial consultations because I need to get to know the patient in a thorough, holistic sense and determine the most intelligent course of action.

Tell us a little about your background, education and experience: I grew up in Soviet Russia, and spent many of my formative years in a remote village in Ukraine where locals treated each other with folk remedies passed down from generation to generation. I worked with local healers and grew up with the philosophy of preventive medicine.

I came to the U.S. when I was 15, speaking no English, yet managed to finish high school and the University of Florida with top honors. I completed my medical training at Des Moines University, the second oldest osteopathic medical school in the United States, while simultaneously pursuing certifications in the fields of functional medicine. I've also been fortunate to study under some of the most renowned and influential practitioners of Integrative medicine. These experienced, talented physicians were, and in some cases continue to be, enduring, caring mentors.

What is the most humorous thing that has happened at your business since you opened? One day I had a man stumble in and ask rather sharply if I had medicinal marijuana. I almost reached for my gun!

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BYU Cougars backup QB Gaskins steps down - Examiner

Posted: 28 Oct 2009 01:41 PM PDT

Brenden Gaskins, BYU Cougars football backup quarterback, spoke to coach Mendenhall on Thursday and asked to step down "for the good of the program," Mendenhall said, as reported by the Salt Lake Tribune.

BYU football coach Bronco Mendenhall says it was one of the most remarkable conversations he has had with a player in his life.  "I have never, ever, experienced a conversation like that with a young man in my life, and I was more impressed with him than maybe any other player that I have coached, because of that conversation," Mendenhall said.  "It wasn't initiated by me or any other coach.  It was a great day yesterday just to be able to have a conversation like that with a young man on our team who wants to help our program."

According to the Salt Lake Tribune, Gaskins "basically volunteered," Mendenhall said.  Gaskins said, "Why would we wait?  If I can help him now, and we can help him get the experience he needs, I would be glad to do it.'"

So when the second string ran onto the field for their scrimmage time on Friday, it was sophomore Riley Nelson who directed the offense, not Gaskins. Mendenhall said that Nelson is now considered starter Max Hall's backup, while Gaskins is # 3 on the depth chart.

Since Nelson announced he was transferring from Utah State and would return from an LDS Church mission in time for the 2009 season, the goal was to slowly work him in to the backup role because he will have two years of eligibility left after this season, and Gaskins none.  Gaskins' concession Thursday just accelerated that plan, Mendenhall said. 

"And truthfully, I don't know if I could have had that conversation at this age, if I was a player," Mendenhall said. "And I am not sure any of us could at that age.  That a player actually saw that and responded that way, unprompted, it is the philosophy I had hoped for. To see it come to fruition in that one instance, was one of the most humbling and gratifying things since I have coached" as reported by the Salt Lake Tribune

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BYU Cougars give walk-ons a shot at scholarships

Police are looking for WVC Zions bank robber 

Utah student acne medication ate him from inside out

Utes Football – Misi goes down with back injury

 

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Travel and Tourism - Philippine Star Online

Posted: 28 Oct 2009 01:55 PM PDT

Live free or die." This expression epitomizes New Hampshire's spirit and philosophy. (it's the state motto in fact). History proves, after all, that New Hampshirites are known for their fiercely independent nature, born of necessity in the early 1600s when European settlers established outposts in this mountainous and verdantly forested region.

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Research and Markets: Pre-Nuptial Agreements: A Practical Guide - PR Inside

Posted: 28 Oct 2009 11:53 AM PDT

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Research and Markets ( www.researchandmarkets.com/research/e77d11/prenuptial_agreem : ) has announced the addition of the " Pre-Nuptial Agreements: A Practical Guide : " report to their offering.

This book, intended for the practitioner, examines the prenuptial agreement in UK law, its origins, purposes, enforceability and future uses. It contains practical advice as to best practice and gives guidance upon the appropriate

form for prenuptial agreements.

Target Market.

- family lawyers


For a number of reasons the law of ancillary relief in England and Wales has been slow to give effect, even in principle, to pre-nuptial agreements. Forty years ago, when I started in practice, the law was (can one credit it?) exceedingly wary of all agreements, even if reached with legal advice following the breakdown of the marriage, whether as to the basis of its dissolution, or to finance or even as to children; such agreements had to be presented to the court with respectful diffidence, ideally (so I considered) by young and inexperienced barristers. In particular, however, our law has long been proud to stand as a bulwark for the protection of wives from overbearing husbands; and the foundations of the bulwark have been driven deep. The philosophy has also been that, if you elect the status of marriage, you accept the whole package of legal consequences which attend it. There has also been distaste for the practice of catering for the breakdown of your marriage before you have even articulated your mutual vows. Finally our law of ancillary relief has been chauvinistic and thus poorly reactive to the general respect given to pre-nuptial agreements in other jurisdictions.

Now, however, the general approach of family law towards agreements has changed 180 degrees. The social and financial emancipation of women has made the bulwark cast around them by the law generally redundant. The philosophy has become that marriage is more made for man than is man for marriage, with the result that, within limits, people should be allowed to pick out the bits they want. The distaste to which I referred has given way to a perception that entry into a marriage in a romantic haze, oblivious to its likely difficulties ahead, to their capacity often to prove terminal and to the legal consequences which may then follow, is positively conducive to its failure. And the chauvinism of our law has had to be tempered by increasing international mobility and by our membership of the E.U.

In this book Iain Harris and Rachel Spicer have brilliantly charted the law's fitful movement so far towards recognition of pre-nuptial agreements. The movement will surely continue in the same direction and pick up speed. It would be probably be better if the criteria for their recognition were to be spelt out in an amendment to s.25 of the Matrimonial Causes Act 1973 but, in the absence of any current appetite on the part of government to promote or even support reform of s.25, the more realistic hope is for an authoritative pronouncement in the Court of Appeal or, better still, in the future Supreme Court. But the problem for practitioners is that, however the law be finally cast, there will presumably have to be some facility for the court's departure from the terms of the agreement in a residue of cases (and here for convenience I use the label which Baron J recently commended) of "manifest unfairness". I suspect that, where the terms of a pre-nuptial agreement provide a result far removed from that which the principles of ancillary relief would otherwise yield, family judges may fall into two camps as to whether the case should fall into the residue, whatever its label; and it may arguably


Key Topics Covered:

Chapters

- Introduction to the Prenuptial Agreements
- Analysis of Case Law to date
- The Courts' Current Approach to Prenuptial Agreements
- Trying to Make a Prenuptial Agreement Enforceable
- Drafting the Prenuptial - Achieving Enforceability
- Precedents


Author.

Iain Harris has been as a solicitor since 1977 with a significant part of his practice being concerned with matrimonial matters in particular prenuptial agreements and financial relief. He has sat regularly as a deputy district judge on the South East circuit since his appointment in 1998.

Rachel Spicer is a barrister at 1 Hare Court. She specialises in all aspects of family finance including financial provision on divorce and child support. She is a member of the Family Law Bar Association.

For more information visit www.researchandmarkets.com/research/e77d11/prenuptial_agreem :

Research and MarketsLaura Wood, Senior Manager, press@researchandmarkets.com : mailto:press@researchandmarkets.com U.S.

Fax: 646-607-1907Fax (outside U.S.): +353-1-481-1716

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