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Supporters of President Erdogan celebrate in Istanbul on Sunday. Photo: Yagiz Karahan/Reuters/Scanpix

No EU membership for Turkey: Danish politicians

Any talk of Turkey joining the EU is moot after the result of the country’s referendum giving President Recep Tayyip Erdogan broader powers, say Danish politicians.

51 percent of Turkish voters accepted the constitutional changes in Sunday’s referendum, although opposition and watchdogs have already questioned the fairness of the vote.

Nevertheless, the result of the referendum means in all likelihood more executive power invested in the redefined post of president, which Erdogan will now be able to hold until 2029.

Denmark’s prime minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen expressed his concern about the result, writing on Twitter that he found it “strange that democracy is being used to restrict democracy.”

“I do not contest the right of the majority, but am now very concerned about the new system of Turkish government,” he continued.

Krisitan Thulesen Dahl, leader of the populist Danish People’s party, wrote on Facebook that any talk of Turkey joining the EU can be dismissed in light of the referendum.

“Turkey as a future member of the EU? After today even the biggest supporters of Turkey joining the EU have to admit that idea is finally finished!” wrote Dahl on Facebook.

The Eurosceptic party leader added that “maybe it is right after all to say that nothing is so bad that it is not good for anything,” using a Danish expression approximately equivalent to ‘it is an ill wind that blows no good’.

The left wing Red-Green Alliance (Enhedslisten) party also criticised the result.

“Enhedslisten has proposed an immediate suspension of EU membership negotiations with Turkey until democracy has been reinstated,” said the party’s EU spokesperson Søren Søndergaard in a statement, according to news agency Ritzau.’’

“The already-ailing Turkish democracy will now be placed with an absolute ruler,” he said.

According to Søndergaard, the result of Sunday’s vote will make the state of emergency in the country – adopted after a failed coup attempt in July 2016 – will now become permanent, with all power in the hands of the president.

The EU itself has already voiced its concerns about the possibility of Turkey reinstating capital punishment following the referendum, calling it a “red line” for the EU.

EU parliament member and Social Democrat Jeppe Kofod called the result of the referendum a “scandal”.

“Scandal! A parody of a referendum when journalists are imprisoned and democracy is abolished by voting yes,” wrote Kofod on Twitter, where he also retweeted a series of other criticisms of the Turkish referendum, including one referring to US President Donald Trump congratulating Erdogan on his victory.

Just under 50 million Turkish citizens voted in Sunday’s referendum, with 51.18 percent voting yes and 48.82 percent voting no to the constitutional changes, reports Ritzau.

The country’s two main opposition parties have stated their intention to appeal against the result, saying that a number of ballot papers were counted without the necessary validation stamps.

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Chiang Mai Night Bazaar Boutique Hotel offers the best location, just minutes away from Chiang Mai Night Bazaar, the heart of the Lanna people and tourist attractions. The hotel is decorated in Lanna Thai and boutique style. The traditional harmony combined with modern style is stunning and all guests who are visiting are impressed.

The fascinating Chiang Mai Night Bazaar Boutique Hotel has comfortable and spacious ancient Lanna accommodations in gorgeous styles. The hotel offers facilities for all guests, such as room service, laundry service, free Wi-Fi, foot massage service and more. The friendly and sincere hotel staff hopes all visitors will enjoy their stay here.

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When  referring to  Chiang Mai, most people think about Pra That Doi Suthep , Doi Inthanon, colorful Cold – weather flowers, excellent local food, Lanna culture and arts, various temples and monasteries, mountains, forests, waterfalls and the fact  that it is a major tourist city in Thailand.

Here, we would like to present the  “Chiang Mai Night Bazaar Boutique Hotel” There are stands in the middle of "Chiang Mai Night bazaar". You can takes only 2 minute walk to get into the heart of all the action. The land of shopping located to tourist.

The Hotel build in lanna Thai & Boutique style. We providing rooms service Deluxe room, Junior and Suite. Though small in size, the happiness you gain from here will never be minimized.
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The room  located on 3rd  floor and 4th floor accessible by elevator on floor offer double bed & twin bed for 2 people. Our rooms are designed on lanna with boutique style comfortable with lanna furniture too.

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There's More to Mealtime Than Food

Sneak in some learning with your meals!
By Amy Mascott

There's More to Mealtime Than Food

Who says that mealtime always has to focus on what’s on our plates? Sure, we want our kids to eat healthy, well-balanced meals, but mealtime can be more than just a time to refuel. Consider taking the emphasis off of eating once in awhile and instead look around your breakfast, lunch, or dinner table for opportunities to sneak in a little bit of learning.

Use any and all food packaging to talk with kids about letters, words, rhymes, and sounds. At breakfast time, use cereal boxes, milk, and juice cartons as your platform for learning. Lunchtime’s juice-box cartons and snack packs are perfect for playing with language, and you can use the decorations around your dining room or even packaging from foods like pasta, tacos, or sauces at dinnertime.

Take a minute at mealtime to talk about letters:

  • Work with your child to hunt for all of the letters of his name. Begin with the first letter, and work toward finding all of them.
  • Have him count all of the times he sees “his letter,” the first letter of his name.
  • Ask him to point to all of the times he can locate “his letter” in both uppercase and lowercase.
  • Together, identify the first letter of everyone in your family’s name.
  • Go on an Alphabet Hunt with your child — give everyone her own cereal box and say, “Everyone look at their own cereal box. Let's say the alphabet together and hunt for each letter on our boxes. Who can find a letter 'A'?” Then find B, C, D, etc.

You can also chat about words and sounds:

  • Read a simple word and play with it for awhile. Say, “We’re eating Pops. ‘Pops’ begins with letter ‘P.’ Here is the word ‘Pops.’ What other words can we find on the box that also begin with the letter ‘P’?”
  • Talk about the words that rhyme with the words on the package: “How many words can we think of that rhyme with the word ‘pops’?”
  • Examine the beginning sounds of words: “'Honey' begins with the 'h-' sound. What letter makes the 'h-' sound? Who can find the word 'honey' on this box?”
  • Look at the ending sounds of words too: “'Corn' starts with the letter 'C'. What sound do you hear at the end of 'corn'? Think about the letters that begin and end the word 'corn,' and let's try to find it on this box.”
  • Early learners love compound words: “Who can find the two hidden words in 'low-fat' on our milk carton?”

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  • Count the number of times key words like “new,” “healthy,” or “kids” appear on boxes.
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  • Work together to find numbers one to ten on your boxes. The numbers on the nutrition information section are tiny, but little eyes are pretty strong!

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The Suppressive Person is also known as the Anti-Social Personality. Within this category one finds Napoleon, Hitler, the unrepentant killer and the drug lord. But if such are easily spotted, if only from the bodies they leave in their wake, Anti-Social Personalities also commonly exist in current life and often go undetected.

The basic reason the Suppressive Person behaves as he or she does lies in a hidden terror of others. To such a person every other being is an enemy, an enemy to be covertly or overtly destroyed. The fixation is that survival itself depends on “keeping others down” or “keeping people ignorant.” If anyone were to promise to make others stronger or brighter, the Suppressive Person would suffer the utmost agony.

Because of this, the Suppressive Person seeks to upset, continuously undermine, spread bad news about and denigrate betterment activities and groups. Thus the Anti-Social Personality is also against what Scientology is about—helping people become more able and improving conditions in society. As anyone can think of many examples of a Suppressive Person, this concept is not limited to Scientology. However, when such a person is connected to Scientology, for the good of the Church and the individuals in it, such a person is officially labeled a Suppressive Person so that others will know not to associate with them.

To be declared a Suppressive Person is extremely rare and results in expulsion from the Scientology religion. This occurs in instances of serious offenses against the Scientology faith and can also occur when an individual is found to be actively working to suppress the well-being of others. This can be done through criminal acts already recognized by society as unlawful or through the commitment of acts deemed Suppressive Acts in the Scientology Justice Codes—which includes the Suppressive Act of publicly renouncing the faith, an act which in Scientology, as well as almost every religion, is grounds for automatic expulsion.

When someone has been expelled from the religion, that person loses both his or her fellowship with the Church as well as with other Scientologists. The condition lasts until they have been restored to good standing. Once the person has been restored to good standing, the prohibition against fellowship with other Scientologists is lifted. Similar practices have been part of religious communities for thousands of years and have been recognized by courts of law as a fundamental right.


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Country Singapore  - SIR icon SIR Ranking of Singapore
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Subject Area and CategoryEngineering
Control and Systems Engineering
PublisherWorld Scientific Publishing Co. Pte Ltd
Publication typeJournals
ISSN17939674, 17939666
Coverage2006-2007, 2009-2010
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Cites / Doc. (4 years)20070.250
Cites / Doc. (4 years)20080.067
Cites / Doc. (4 years)20090.267
Cites / Doc. (4 years)20100.083
Cites / Doc. (4 years)20110.308
Cites / Doc. (4 years)20120.105
Cites / Doc. (4 years)20130.316
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Cites / Doc. (3 years)20070.250
Cites / Doc. (3 years)20080.067
Cites / Doc. (3 years)20090.267
Cites / Doc. (3 years)20100.125
Cites / Doc. (3 years)20110.263
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Cites / Doc. (2 years)20070.250
Cites / Doc. (2 years)20080.067
Cites / Doc. (2 years)20090.000
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External Cites per document20110.263
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Cites per document20060.000
Cites per document20070.250
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Uncited documents20079
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ACTOR: When Callum Turner was cast by the 81-year-old John Boorman to play the lead in semi-autobiographical Queen And Country, “John told me this was going to be his last film and it was my first”.

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“It felt very special,” says the 24-year-old actor from Hammersmith, west London. “I wasn’t technically playing him but, in reality, I was.

“He told me a lot about his life that he never told anyone else, things he said not to tell anyone else. To have that trust from him, for him to share things with me on such a level — it’s a beautiful thing.”

Boorman’s follow-up to Hope And Glory shows the central character — played by Turner — completing National Service in a 1950s, ration-restricted Britain.

While he was clearly too young to remember that time, or indeed Hope And Glory, which came out in 1989, Turner’s mother did, and the film was one of the things they shared growing up.

“I was a working class kid, grew up on an estate — I learned more through films than I did through life itself,” he recalls.

Turner decided to go into acting at the age of 18, taking some courses and working as a model. He fronted Burberry’s campaign in 2011 in a series shot by Mario Testino.

Cast in Boorman’s film back in 2012 (it struggled to close financing and eventually shot at the end of 2013), Turner worked with acting coaches and played some interesting roles on TV, in series such as Leaving and The Town.

Since the beginning of the year, he has been shooting Eleven Film’s eight-part murder mystery Glue, written by Jack Thorne (Skins) and set for transmission on E4 in late 2014. In it, he plays the central role of a Romany gypsy.

“In February I was scared of horses; by March I loved them,” he says. “By May I was in Cannes. That’s what I love about acting. You never know what will happen next.”

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What is DNA?

DNA stands for deoxyribonucleic acid, the substance that makes up chromosomes and
carries the genetic code that determines the characteristics of all living things. In humans, it
determines such characteristics as eye color, hair texture, skin pigmentation, and the
propensity to develop, of be immune from, disease.
A DNA molecule comprises two long, interlocking chains. The links of the chains are called
bases, and the sequence of the bases is different in each person=s DNA, except in the cases
of identical twins. The bases are too small to be seen even with the most powerful
microscope, so it is not possible to compare one sequence to another visually. However, in
the early 1980s, a renowned British geneticist, Dr. Alec Jeffreys of the University of
Leicester, invented a radioactive probe that did the same thing: It made it possible to
capture a ADNA fingerprint@ on film.
The Jeffreys process used an enzyme as a sort of chemical scissors to cut the DNA chain at
specific points, known as restrictions sites. A restriction site is a specific sequence of six
bases, and there are tens of thousands of restriction sites in each chromosome. Their
distribution is unique for each person, except for, as noted, identical twins.
After the DNA is cut, the resulting fragments of the chain may be subjected to a technique
known as electrophoresis, in which electric current propels the fragments through a gel.
Because short fragments move faster than long ones, electrophoresis sorts the fragments
according to length.
The distribution of the varying lengths of fragments in a sample, similar to the distribution
of whorls and loops in a fingerprint, is said to be polymorphic, which means that it varies
significantly from person to person. Although the fragments are much larger than bases,
they are nonetheless invisible, like a fingerprint before dusting.
Jeffreys discovered that Once the fragments were sorted by electrophoresis, a series of
identical radioactive probes could be introduced. The probes, which Jeffreys patented, bind
only to a specific sequence of bases. Because there are thousands of fragments of varying
lengths in every sample, the specific sequence to which the radioactive probes could bind
inevitably were found in some DNA fragments but not in others.
Photographic film could then be exposed to the sample, and a distinctive pattern would
appear, resembling the bar code used to price items in a supermarket. The pattern showed
the distribution of the fragments, making it possible to compare the pattern in one sample
to that in another.
The pattern would be the same if the samples came from the same person, or an identical
twin, but different if the samples came from different persons. The chance of two unrelated
persons having the same pattern deduced by the Jeffrey=s probes was one in several billion.
The technique, known as RFLP, for restriction fragment length polymorphism, was

extremely useful and veritably infallible in determining the parentage because of children,
who inherit half of their DNA from each parent, but of limited use in forensic applications.
The reason was that RFLP analysis required high molecular weight DNA, or genetic
substance that had not lost mass through deterioration due to moisture, bacteria, or heat.
RFLP worked perfectly with fresh blood samples, normally available for paternity testing.
Trace evidence recovered at crime scenes or from crime victims was seldom pristine,
however, often not suitable for RFLP analysis.
A few years after Jeffreys developed RFLP, the Cetus Corporation of California developed
and patented a different technique of DNA analysis capable of obtaining a result from a
degraded sample and, thus, more amenable to forensic application. Instead of cutting DNA
into fragments, the technique induced a chemical chain reaction, which isolated a specific
sequence of genetic information and, literally, made copies of that sequence.
Known as PCR, for polymerase chain reaction, the Cetus technique initially was far less
exacting than RFLP. At the time it was patented in the mid-1980’s, it was capable of
categorizing DNA into only 21 different types. The probability of a random match ranged
from one in seven for the largest category to one in 100,000 for the smallest. Over the next
decade, however, improvements in PCR raised its discernment significantly. By the mid1990’s, the chance of a random match with PCR was one in billions.
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Ben, who loves football and attends St Hugh's School, was able to watch Thursday's training session as the Iron gear up for facing Plymouth Argyle at the weekend.

His favourite player, Paddy Madden, took time to speak to him during the training intervals of their recovery session before the ten outfield players that started against Middlesbrough on Tuesday posed for a photograph wit him.

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Summary: This message instructs believers to biblically deal with the problems they consider to be "GIANTS" in their home.

1 Samuel 17 • Larry L. Thompson (June, 2002)

There are many people these days that live in a family full of fear. Fearful of health problems, fearful of failure, fearful of physical violence, fearful about relationships, fearful about finances, fearful about the future, fearful about marriage, fearful about our children. Psychologists tell us we are a nation that is riddled with fears. We all have our own GIANT FEARS. Most of the fears we encounter have names…and most of them are some type of phobia. Every kind of fear phobia from autophobia to xenophobia.

Xenophobia is the fear of strangers. Autophobia is the fear of self. There’s monophobia, some people are afraid of being alone. There’s automonophobia - afraid of being alone with yourself. All kind of phobias. Psychologists actually say there’s even chairophobia—chairophobia is the fear of having FUN. The fear of enjoying a good time. Sadly, some think, incorrectly, that Christians have that phobia. Tragically, you can’t tell they don’t just by looking at some of them.

David knew all about fears that face our families! The fears that are so large, they literally become giants in our life. In I Samuel 17 David is facing Goliath and he must have had at least a little bit of FEE-FI-phobia—which, of course, is the fear of giants. God will direct us through His word today regarding facing the challenge of overcoming our giants in our family.

You need to understand that WE ALL HAVE GIANTS in our life. The question today is not “Do you have a giant?” The question is, “How do you conquer the giant?”

Illustration: Bob Larson-Atlas vs. Christ child

Bruce Larson talks about his counseling ministry in his book, “Believe and Belong.” He states that many people come to him and tell them they are defeated by the giant problems in their life. His office was directly across from the RCA building in NYC and he would ask them to take a walk with him to this building. At the entrance of the RCA building there is a GIANT statue of Atlas, perfectly built man, holding the world on his shoulders and yet you can see he is about to collapse under the pressure. Then he would walk his client directly across the street to St. Patrick’s Cathedral and show them a statue of Jesus behind the altar. The statue is when Jesus was a boy, 8 or 9, and he is holding the world in one hand with great ease. “You have a choice when you face your giant. You can carry the burden into battle or you can give that giant to Christ and go in His power and strength.”

I know many of you are familiar with the story of David and Goliath. Let me just recall these essential facts. Israel was at war with the Philistines and Goliath was the Philistine’s #1 warrior. He would stand in the Valley of Elah with the Philistine army on one hill and the Israelite army on the other hill and he challenge Israel to send out their top warrior to face Goliath one-on-one in personal combat. The stakes were high! The loser and his nation people would become servants of the winner.

All the family of God was struck with fear…the fee fi phobia, fear of giants! They had a GIANT PROBLEM IN THE FAMILY OF ISRAEL! For 40 days they faced their giant, Goliath, as he stood in the valley and he shouted, mocked and ridiculed not just the Israelite army, but also the family of God as well as the God of Israel. That was THEIR initial problem. THEY FACED THEIR GIANT DAY AFTER DAY BUT NEVER HAD A BATTLE PLAN TO FIGHT THE GIANT BY FAITH IN THE POWER OF GOD.

One day a shepherd boy named David was sent by his father to bring some food to his older brothers who were soldiers in Israel’s army. He heard the voice of Goliath echoing throughout the valley and said, "How can you let this Philistine mock and blaspheme our God like this?" He said, "I’ll go. I’ll be the Israelite champion! I’ll face this giant and put a stop to his defiling and disgracing the name of our God."

David lived by one simple principle when fighting giants…HE HAD NOTHING TO PROVE AND NOTHING TO LOSE!

Everything he was and everything he had belonged to God. As he stood on the battlefield he was there directed by God and faced his giant in the power of God. David stood to fight, ALONE, because someone was defiling the name of the Living God. He had nothing to prove and nothing to lose. EVERYTHING ABOUT HIM BELONGED TO THE LORD!

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The emphasis here is Nanjing East Road Brand Center’s biggest feature on the interactive space. The interior design and the XL electronic screen in the observation area on the 1st and 2nd floor make you feel like as if you’re inside a stadium. The multifunctional 4D training area in the store can be switched to three different sports scenes: basketball, soccer, and fitness room. Professional trainers are invited to introduce various training courses both for beginners and advanced. In the "RUN LAB" corner, visitors can experience the “marine preservation” theme through a special running machine “RUN GENIE” to sample and find suitable running shoes individually.


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I don't have an open-door policy at my place. But that doesn't seem to stop anybody from trying to get in. I've never had to worry about locking the door to any of the other places I've lived, so every now and then I get lazy and forget to lock it behind me when I come in. I work from home, so I'm always around during the day. I haven't even been here a month, and three times so far I've had unexpected visitors.

The third time, I was ready for it. I heard a hand gently grasp the doorknob and then start to twist it. Alarmed, I silently grabbed the locked and loaded M-4 assault rifle, moved the safety from "safe" to "semi" and set up a hidden close-quarters firing position. When the individual took his second step into the room, I stepped out into the hall, pointed the barrel center mass and asked, "Can I help you?"

He turned ghost white, and at first couldn't speak. When I calmly repeated the question, he answered in Spanish. So I told him to get lost, which he did.

I set the gun from "semi" to "safe" and placed it back under the futon.

The gun was an impulse buy. I'm 30 years old and I bought the plastic replica toy gun for $15 in downtown Los Angeles shortly after I was discharged from the military.

It fires a harmless small plastic pellet. Believe it or not, I'm very anti gun. I guess I bought the toy gun for nostalgia purposes. When I was in the Army I played around a lot with an M-4 that fired a 5.62 lead round, but when I lived in Iraq, where my lease was about a year long, I mostly carried around a fully automatic, open-bolt weapon that weighed 27.6 pounds and fired a 7.62 lead round. (I also had a Beretta 9 mm.)

Being an Operation Iraqi Freedom veteran, it's kind of hard for me to gauge what exactly is a bad neighborhood now, as my view is skewed. But, overall, I feel pretty safe in the Tenderloin, and I don't think I'm the only one who thinks that way, either.

When my father helped me move into my new place on O'Farrell Street, I had him guard the U-Haul as I moved all my stuff into my new place.

As day-shift street hookers tapped by in heels, and people on both sides of the street openly sold and smoked crack cocaine as if it were 100 percent legal, my father asked, "What kind of neighborhood are you moving into?" I told him, "One that would take me."

When I told my friends that I was moving to the Tenderloin, several gasped, "Why?" I told them that I wanted to live alone, which I guess you could do in any neighborhood, but more important I didn't want to pay a whole heck of a lot of rent, and the Tenderloin just seemed to work out perfectly for me in that regard. Though the place I have now is about a grand a month, which is still high, I'd probably be paying twice as much for what I have now if I lived anywhere else.

My friends who live in San Francisco all advised me to get a top-floor apartment in the Tenderloin, not because it's safer up there but because of all the street noise that goes on down below. I listened to their advice and took a place up on the top floor, but I don't really think it matters all that much, because at all hours of the day and night I can still clearly hear all the pimps yelling all sorts of vile things to their girls, as well as all the psychotic crack heads roaming about screaming God knows what at each other.

Which was very entertaining at first, but is now just background noise.

There's an elderly Chinese guy who lives in my building. He rolls his own cigarettes and sits on the front stairway to my building staring out at O'Farrell through the steel front gate. I pass by him daily whenever I go to and from the liquor store, and sometimes I'll do the exact same thing he does, I'll take the elevator up to my room, pull the chair up to the bay view windows and watch.

O'Farrell Street is just one big anti-drug message that never gets old. Once you see up close on a daily basis what that lifestyle does to people, I swear to God, you'll never want to touch or mess around with any hard drugs ever again. (That may be another unforeseen perk to living here.)

Nothing's shocking anymore, either. My first day here I saw an individual using a Styrofoam cup to wash his hair with gutter water, and when I thought to myself how you couldn't get more gross than that, he bent down again to scoop up another cup of water, and proceeded to take a casual drink from it, just as a sightseeing bus drove up Larkin. It was packed with tourists all armed with digital cameras snapping away.

But that pales in comparison to what I've seen since.

Once I got settled into my new pad, I met with several of my friends at a bar over in the Mission District. I told my friend Phil, who lives in the Lower Haight, that I loved the Loin, and honestly didn't see myself ever leaving. He was curious, as I was, if I'd have that opinion in six days, let alone six months from now.

When I came home that evening, I noticed a bunch of police cars parked outside a nearby building. As that's a common sight here, I thought nothing of it until the next morning, when I checked my e-mail. My friend had sent over a link with the message: "Yo, did this happen on your block?"

2 people found stabbed

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Chronicle Staff Report

Wednesday, June 6, 2007

(06-06) 23:47 PDT SAN FRANCISCO - San Francisco police say they discovered two people stabbed to death in an apartment in the city Wednesday night.

The bodies of a man and a woman were found at a home on the 800 block of O'Farrell Street. Police were called to the building at about 8 p.m. Homicide investigators were at the scene.

I e-mailed my friend back telling him that it wasn't, it was the block next to mine, but regardless, I still feel safe here.

Most of the people who live in my building are working-class Mexicans, and entire Chinese families. I met Dave, a white guy, on the elevator to our building. We both live on the top floor, and he reminded me of film Director Jim Jarmusch for some reason. We chatted after we shared the elevator. I came to find out that he's lived in the building since 1993, and we talked about the stabbing the night before. For the first time I've put thought into renters insurance, and I asked him if he's ever been robbed or had his place broken into. He told me no. But he said the building changed a lot over the years. The basement at one time was a squat for homeless people, and many a times people would sneak in through the front door and just take up residency in a hallway.

When my friend from Salt Lake came to visit with his girlfriend, I showed them around the neighborhood, pointing out all the cool little restaurants - dim sum, Indian and Pakistani, Korean barbecue, burrito and pizza joints, Thai food, Old Chelsea Fish and Chips, Sultan Kebabs, sushi and the endless array of Vietnamese restaurants, all the dive bars with clientele, decor and names straight out of the movie "Barfly," as well as the hip lounges and bars with pretentious monosyllabic names.

That night we drank at the Ha-Ra, where Tenderloin treasure Carl poured the drinks and provided the jokes, and after that we polished up a 12 in a nearby alley, then went back to my place to drink some more. My friend's girlfriend made a comment that she really liked the Tenderloin, and would love to live here, but didn't think it would be too practical for her as she was female, personal safety being a concern.

I wondered about that when I went strolling along Geary the next weekend. I came across a street yard sale. Somebody was moving out, there were chairs, rugs, pillows, as well as a bunch of miscellaneous items for sale like a box of CDs that I flipped through. I already had the Mazzy Star and Natalie Merchant albums, and for a second I debated whether or not to pick up the New Order discography, but chose not to. I asked the two girls, who both looked about my age, if they lived here in the Loin. The one who was selling the stuff did for about three years, but had to move out thanks to CitiApartments, who recently purchased the building. Her rent had been $850 a month for a small studio apartment, but now she estimated it would be going up to $1,400 a month. This now forces her to leave, because it goes against the main reason why she moved to the Tenderloin in the first place - the cheap rent. I ask Stacey what kind of people live in her building, and she told me all kinds, "artsy people to like, doctors, as well as loners."

Her friend Lindsay, who was hanging out with her, told me she liked the convenience of the neighborhood, great location, reasonably priced (compared to other neighborhoods) and people here are a bit more resourceful with their money. With what you save on rent in the Tenderloin, you could do other things, like go traveling.

I asked if they've ever had problems or felt unsafe walking around here, and they both told me no. The people here are really "soulful," Stacey tells me, "you can have a conversation with anybody here, they're all really nice."

After I thanked them, I wondered if the Tenderloin would ever become gentrified. On my way back to my place I walked by OSB bar, where several nights before an old weathered lady who appeared to have no teeth approached me and pointed to a building near mine and said she lived there, and if I wanted I could go up there with her and do anything I wanted to with her.

Surprisingly, there are several art galleries in the Tenderloin. The night before a friend and I attended an art gallery opening on Polk, which seemed like more of a beer bash than anything else. I asked several inebriated hipsters, both male and female, if they lived in the Tenderloin, and all of them told me no, though they professed to enjoy hanging out here. When asked if they would consider moving to the Loin, all of them enthusiastically told me "no way."

Why not? One woman, after explaining to me how much she likes hanging out in the Loin because of its diversity, with a pained face said, "Why in the hell would I want to do that?"

The following night at the Whiskey Thieves, a cool little watering hole on Geary, I sat at the bar next to a writer and a book editor named Renee, who lives smack dab in the middle of the Tenderloin with her boyfriend, who's a musician. She told me, "I never thought I would live in the Tenderloin, because of its reputation, but the building I live in is great; great manager, reasonable rent and it's in a great location." I asked if she felt uncomfortable walking by herself here at night, and she thought about it for a second and said no, she's never had a problem. Her friend suggested several other locals bars in the neighborhood for me to check out, and after I thanked them I exited the Whiskey and decided to stalk an attractive woman I had come across walking by herself through the Loin. She was dressed San Francisco style - a black knee-length skirt, layered clothing, black hoodie and a jean jacket with several punk pins on it.

I tailed behind as she walked past the vagabonds, derelicts and tranny hookers who were all out and about. She was headed toward the Tendernob neighborhood, and I finally approached her and and asked her if she felt safe doing that, walking through the Loin by herself at night? She told me she actually felt more threatened hanging out around 16th and Mission than she did here.

With a smile she told me that the only problem that she's had in the Loin was that people here break the spark plugs to her motorcycle all the time so that they can smoke crack with them. As I wondered how that would be possible, she told me to google it later on.

(Note: When I googled it later on that night I came across an interesting post on Craigslist from a disgruntled motorcyclist who's had his motorcycle spark plugs removed several times here in San Francisco. In his post he brings up a very good question:

What I don't understand is, YOU ARE A CRACKHEAD. WHY DON'T YOU OWN A

I am an engineer. Do you ever see me shaking down bums in the Loin for a calculator and slide rule? No, you don't. Because engineering is the main thing I do, I went and bought myself a calculator. The main thing you do is crack. How do you get by without a crack pipe?)

She was 31, and an artist. At one point in the conversation, an older gentleman came by and asked her where the nearest hospital was. She kindly directed him and we resumed our conversation, as cars periodically slowed to a stop on the street to pick up hookers.

Before calling it a night, I decided to check out one last bar. Unlike a lot of the bars and clubs along Polk Street, 21 Club isn't filled with too many people snapping group photos of each other between drinks to throw onto their MySpace profiles. In fact, I'd be amazed if anybody who frequents Club 21 even owns a computer.

I asked Frank, the owner, a Vietnam veteran and longtime veteran of the Tenderloin, how long he's lived here in the Loin. While fetching me a Bud Light, he tells me, "I've lived here since B.C. days."

How long's that?

"Since before crack" he told me while leaning up against the bar. "Right now is the worst I've ever seen it. One side sells it, and one side smokes it."

As he walked away, an Ethiopian woman sitting by herself in the corner told me I looked like some dude in some flick called "Last Geisha." She invited me over and I asked her about the Loin. She explained that she loves it here because it's "jazzy" and reminds her of old New York, with all its hustling and bustling. I asked her what she did for work, and with a huge smile and a sparkle in her eyes she told me, "Nothing."

We drank to that, and for some weird reason we talked about Woody Allen movies. A rugged female then came by and grabbed my left hand. She appeared semi-drunk and demanded that I dance with her, so I did for about half a song, (me dancing is the same basically as me just standing there). Afterward I asked, "What do you do?" Annoyed, she blurted out, "What type of [expletives deleted] question is that?" I told her it's one that journalists sometimes ask. She told me that she sells drugs, and "that's how I make my money."

I then took a seat back at the bar, next to a street hooker wearing a black leather mini-skirt. She didn't talk, but the guy next to me did. He introduced me to a middle-aged lady who was slightly intoxicated. She worked full time at The Chronicle and requested not to be identified in this article. When I asked her if she ever thought the Tenderloin would change, or become gentrified, she told me no way. "It'll never change because of the environment." The guy then directed my attention to the windows. He told me that this is why he loves the Tenderloin, that it's better than watching television.

For a second it looked like skid row Los Angeles at night, but what makes the Loin different is that you'll see hipsters and people all dressed up to go out dancing at the nightclubs walk among and right past them.

When I left the 21 Club to make my way back to O'Farrell, I suddenly came across a middle-of-the-street brawl between four women. I was impaired from all the alcohol I had consumed that night, and out of nowhere these two thick Latino women nearly pummeled me to the ground on their way to charging two skinny white girls. From what I gather, they were upset that they had been dancing with their boyfriends or something. This wasn't my fight, though I did try to break it up because it appeared totally one-sided. In a matter of seconds, several police cars showed up and quickly broke it up.

Standing around bored while the SFPD questioned the females involved, I asked one of the police officers if I could leave.

He said sure.


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The Birmingham office of national law firm Shoosmiths has advised global real estate services firm CBRE on their move to 55 Temple Row in the city.

100 CBRE staff will move from the real estate firm's current Cornwall Court offices on Edmund Street to their new base opposite Birmingham Cathedral later this summer.

55 Temple Row is the former Birmingham branch of the Bank of England and is a landmark building in the city centre. Clad in Portland stone and with copper-clad beams, the offices can be seen from almost every part of Cathedral Square.

Shoosmiths real estate partner Jason Jackson said: 'The move to Temple Row helps to cement CBRE's position as the leading real estate advisers in the city and with such a landmark location I'm sure the practice will continue to go from strength to strength. Myself and the team here at Shoosmiths in Birmingham are proud to have helped them in their relocation.'

CBRE Birmingham's managing director, Martin Guest, said: 'For staff, we will be adopting a new working style, including agile working and paperless systems. There will be showers and lockers for those who commute by cycle or run during the day.

'For clients we will provide enhanced meeting facilities, with wi-fi and a coffee bar. There will be an open invitation to drop in and draw breath with great views of the cathedral.'


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735 Rae Dr, Hartland WI 53029-1151 Sold for $370,900 on 05/31/2017

735 Rae Dr, Hartland BD: 3 BA: 2/1 $369,900 Sold

  • Single Family Home
  • Status: Sold
  • 8 Total Rooms
  • 3 Bedrooms
  • 2 Full Bathrooms
  • 1 Half Bathrooms
  • Est. Square Footage: 2,344
  • Garage Size: 3.0
  • Garage Type: Attached
  • Est. Year Built: 1989
  • Subdivision: River Meadow
  • School District: Arrowhead UHS
  • County: Waukesha
  • Postal Municipality: Hartland
  • MLS#: 1524871
  • Listing Company: Lake Country Flat Fee
  • Price/SqFt: $157

735 Rae Dr, Hartland, WI 53029-1151 - Great home and setting bordering the Bark River in Hartland's River Meadow! Interior features a beautiful design featuring cathedral ceiling great room with large windows and stone fireplace. Adjoining dining room. Kitchen offers hardwood floors, center island breakfast bar, concrete countertops, and SS appliances included. Large dinette overlooks wooded backdrop and river. Main floor master suite has gorgeous master bath remodel with dual sink vanities and oversized tile shower. Upper level offers loft area, 2 large bedrooms, and full bath. Newer roof, furnace, A/C. Very conveniently located!

  • Master BR: 18.0 x 12.0
  • Kitchen: 17.0 x 15.0
  • Living Rm: 20.0 x 16.0
  • Dining Area: 14.0 x 12.0
  • Full Baths: 1
  • Half Baths: 1

  • BR 2: 14.0 x 14.0
  • BR 3: 12.0 x 11.0
  • Loft: 21.0 x 10.0
  • Full Baths: 1
Additional Features
  • Full
  • Heating/Cooling: Natural Gas Central Air, Forced Air
  • Water Waste: Municipal Sewer, Municipal Water
  • Appliances Included: Dishwasher, Dryer, Microwave, Oven/Range, Refrigerator, Washer, Water Softener-owned
  • 1.5 Story
  • Subdivision
  • Exterior: Deck
  • Contemporary
  • Waterfront/Access: Y
Property History
MLS Number New Status Previous Status Activity Date New List Price Previous List Price Sold Price DOM
1524871 Sold Pending Jun 1 2017 11:27AM $370,900 5
1524871 Pending ActiveWO May 23 2017 12:08AM 5
1524871 ActiveWO Active Apr 23 2017 10:23PM 5
1524871 Active Apr 20 2017 9:34PM $369,900 5
1361422 Sold Pending Apr 29 2014 9:54AM $345,000 1
1361422 Pending Apr 29 2014 8:54AM $359,900 1

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W174N9444 Devon Wood Rd, Menomonee Falls WI 53051-1302 Sold for $261,700 on 02/13/2018

W174N9444 Devon Wood Rd, Menomonee Falls BD: 4 BA: 2/0 $259,900 Sold

  • Single Family Home
  • Status: Sold
  • 10 Total Rooms
  • 4 Bedrooms
  • 2 Full Bathrooms
  • Est. Square Footage: 2,418
  • Est. Above Grade Sq Ft: 1,896
  • Est. Below Grade Sq Ft: 522
  • Garage Size: 2.5
  • Garage Type: Attached
  • Est. Year Built: 1963
  • Subdivision: Devon Wood
  • School District: Menomonee Falls
  • High School: Menomonee Falls
  • County: Waukesha
  • Postal Municipality: Menomonee Falls
  • MLS#: 1563984
  • Listing Company: First Weber Inc - Menomonee Falls
  • Price/SqFt: $107

W174N9444 Devon Wood Rd, Menomonee Falls, WI 53051-1302 - Lay your eyes on this GEM!! This spacious home will make you smile! Great layout from the living rm w/natural fireplace & vaulted ceiling to the formal dining rm w/vaulted ceiling & built-in china hutch. Kitchen offers plenty of cabinets & counter space while overlooking the family rm with a wet bar for entertaining. Laundry rm & full bath conveniently located off garage. 4 bedrooms on upper level w/large full bath. Stunning 4-season sun rm w/southern exposure has tile floor, French doors & gorgeous beveled windows overlooking fenced backyard & patio. Many updates & home warranty included.

  • Family Rm: 26.0 x 10.0
  • Kitchen: 17.0 x 11.0
  • Living Rm: 22.0 x 14.0
  • Dining Area: 10.0 x 9.0
  • Utility Rm: 14.0 x 10.0
  • Sun/Four Season Room: 29.0 x 18.0
  • Full Baths: 1

  • Master BR: 13.0 x 12.0
  • BR 2: 11.0 x 11.0
  • BR 3: 12.0 x 12.0
  • BR 4: 12.0 x 11.0
  • Full Baths: 1
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  • Block, Partial, Sump Pump
  • Heating/Cooling: Natural Gas Central Air, Forced Air
  • Water Waste: Municipal Sewer, Municipal Water
  • Appliances Included: Dishwasher, Disposal, Dryer, Microwave, Oven/Range, Refrigerator, Washer
  • 2 Story, Multi-Level, Tri-Level
  • Subdivision
  • Exterior: Patio
  • Contemporary
  • Waterfront/Access: N
  • Lot Size: .23 Acres
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1563984 Sold ActiveWO Feb 15 2018 8:54AM $261,700 6
1563984 ActiveWO Active Jan 24 2018 3:08PM 6
1563984 Active Jan 19 2018 8:44AM $259,900 6

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Here's how to replace Twitter's 'Heart' with your own emoji

Twitter is running out of ideas of how to stay relevant.

Case in point: this week's decision to turn 'Favourites' and its star icon into 'Likes' and its heart icon.

Yep. That's the thing that'll bring new users flooding to your social media model. Hearts.

But with a few tweaks of your web browser, you can change this loved-up façade into any kind of party you like on your own screen - thanks to the Stylish extension, a tool for changing the appearance of websites.

We'll hand over to Twitter user Robert McNees to explain how.

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It only works for Chrome or Firefox - but those are the only internet browsers you'd ever consider using right?

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Open Stylish and click 'Write new style'. You'll want to grab this code and paste it into the main editing window:

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Where you see the [X] above, replace it with your favoured emoji symbol.

At the bottom of the window where it says "Applies to", click "Specify" and add the Twitter URL. Bingo - the heart will now be replaced by a beer - or any other emoji you see fit.

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Salma Hayek has been caught up in a celebrity sex tape video scandal with billionaire husband François-Henri Pinault after being just married on Valentines Day in Paris 2009 and then making the first ever Salma Hayek sex tape video for our viewing pleasure.

The video according to recent scandal reports features Salma and Francois making love on a giant couch with alcohol and candles everywhere. In the video Francois does not seem to be much of a catch as he looks to be out for his jolly only, however Salma is a giver the entire time doing anything he ask her to do. The video run time is about 15 minutes from start to finish and Salma still denies the video is of her and now ex-husband, however the resemblance is just to close to tell, especially with both of them in the same video at the same time says reports.

Salma is one of our favorite celebs after being featured in movies like Desperado, From Dusk Till Dawn and Fools Rush In just to name a few. So if you are a Salma fan like we are and well… most men in America this is a must see sex tape for sure!

Calls to both Salma and Francois reps have gone UN-returned thus far.

[UPDATE] – We were contacted by an anonymous source that claimed and showed us some video of a very young looking Hayek… we are talking like teens. He is saying that he used to be neighbors with Salma and would like to remain anonymous on the entire deal. You can check it out for yourself we are not going to say if it is her either way as we can not tell, but the girl does look like a very young Salma for sure.


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Vanderpump Rules star Stassi Schroeder who also did a stint on The Amazing Race has stuck her foot in her mouth while confronting cast members at a recent taping of the Vanderpump Rules reality show. During the shoot for a reunion show Stassi accused members of talking about her self pleasure masturbation sex tape video that she had made for an ex-boyfriend years ago, (we are going to go out on a limb here and assume it was for Jax Taylor and not her current boyfriend Patrick Meagher). Then during filming of the show the members brought it up putting Stassi on the spot big time. She then called out Scheana Shay as the one who put the entire leak together and that the frenemies where the ones behind the entire ordeal.

The video is simply a video of Stassi masturbating on tape that was made for her bf years ago and the bf supposedly is the one that ended up sharing the video that eventually made it to her peers. We have seen the footage and must say Stassi has a super nice body and gets the shakes easy from what we had seen, we also love her moaning and the crazy looking “O” face she makes at peak. lol No word from her ex-bf as of yet, though we have sent messages to a couple known boyfriends of Stassi and her reps looking for more details… This is a very new leak so we are digging a bit more into the details and will report back with some updates as soon as they become available.

[UPDATE] – Stassi was spotted and asked about the masturbation tape that has leaked and she replied “Yes, it is me and was meant for someone else not the entire world to see… I guess it is something that I will just have to deal with now.”

[UPDATE] – Reports are coming in stating that in fact we were right the video was made for Jax Taylor and he is the one that had leaked the said solo orgasm tape of Stassi… we have sent an email to Jax to try and get some conformation.

[UPDATE] – It has come to light that our previous report of the tape being filmed for Jax was incorrect and that it was in fact filmed for an ex-boyfriend that she will not name nor can you tell by watching the video as of course this is a solo masturbation video, she only refers to him as “scumbag”. The other fact that came out was that Lisa Vanderpump did in fact pay the ransom of $900 in cash in hopes to make the tape go away. It is still unknown whether or not Lisa, Stassi or the ex is the one that leaked the tape to the public.


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Patanjali’s Balkrishna make it to Hurun rich list; Ambani’s wealth 50% more than Yemen GDP

Patanjali’s Balkrishna make it to Hurun rich list; Ambani’s wealth 50% more than Yemen GDP
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NEW DELHI: Acharya Balkrishna, the head of yoga expert Baba Ramdev-run FMCG company Patanjali and Radhakishan Damani of D-Mart have found their place along with Mukesh Ambani’s in the Hurun India rich list 2017.

A massive rally in the stock market and the resultant jump in Reliance stocks saw the wealth of Ambani shooting up by a massive 58% to Rs 2.57 trillion this year, says the report which is into the sixth year.

Ambani retains the richest Indian title for the sixth year running and this year he has climbed to top 15 in the Hurun global rich list for the first time. His wealth is 50 per cent more than GDP of Yemen, the country of his birth.

“Balkrishna, CEO of Patanjali and childhood friend of Ramdev, is now among the top 10 rich people in the country. Damani, the new retail king, of D-Mart is the biggest gainer with wealth increase of 320 per cent. The blockbuster listing of Avenue Supermarts, also added eight new entries in the rich list,” Hurun said in a statement.

Balkrishna rose to the eighth position from 25th last year, after seeing his wealth grow by 173% to Rs 70,000 crore. Patanjali, with a turnover of Rs 10,561 crore in FY17 has been a close competition to major global brands.

The biggest gainer (321%) was Damani, the 62- year-old chairman of Avenue Supermarts, followed by Anurang Jain and family of Endurance Tech with a rise of 286%.

The wealth calculation was as of July 31, when the rate of exchange to the dollar was 64.1, it added.

At 34, Divyank Turakhia of is the youngest self-made billionaire. He joins five other self-made individuals under-40, all from new technology businesses.

The 42-year-old Bengaluru-based Ambiga Subramanian is the youngest self-made woman in the list. She sold her shares in Mu-Sigma, the data analytics unicorn that she co-founded. There are 51 women in the rich list this year.

The cut-off to top 100 has more than doubled to Rs 8,400 crore since 2013. There are 136 billionaires this year, a record since the inception of Hurun Rich List in 2012.

In terms of cities, Mumbai tops the list with 182 individuals followed by New Delhi (117) and Bengaluru (51). Chennai and Kanpur enter the top 10 cities for the first time with 15 and 8 new additions, respectively.

On average, wealth of the listers has risen by 11 per cent over 2016 and at least, 16 in the list saw their wealth double this year. While the number of dollar billionaires jumped to 136 from 126 in 2016 as many as 100 individuals saw their wealth decline.

Till July 31, Sensex gained 16.1 per cent or 23.3x over 19.6x on July 31, 2016, while BSE Mid Cap rose 16.4 per cent and BSE Small Cap rose 2.72 per cent. The rupee declined 3 per cent against the dollar. “The market capitalisation of all listed firms is now equivalent to 84 per cent of nominal GDP- highest in the emerging markets,” says Anas Rahman Junaid of Hurun Report India.

The 24-year-old Eklavya Juneja of Mankind Pharma is the youngest person in the list with a 12 per cent stake.

Kushal Pal Singh of DLF is the richest real estate billionaire with Rs 27,400 crore. Mangal Prabhat Lodha of the Lodha Group is the richest private real estate developer in the list with a wealth of Rs 15,700 crore followed by Jithendra Virwani of Embassy Property with Rs 8,800 crore.

With 26 new entrants, Ahmedabad breaks into top 5 and with 22 and 11 listers, Chennai and Kanpur respectively breaks into top 10 cities. There are 18 new cities in this year’s list. Interestingly, Udaipur has three listers, Vadodara has 2, and Kanchipuram and Faridabad has one each.

The Hurun report is a luxury publishing and events group set up in London in 1998 with strong presence in China.


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Rani to discuss life’s hiccups with Ravi Shankar

Rani to discuss life’s hiccups with Ravi Shankar
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Mumbai: Bollywood actress Rani Mukerji, whose next big screen outing is “Hichki”, will be heading to Bengaluru later this month to discuss life’s hiccups with spiritual guru Sri Sri Ravi Shankar.

Rani has been promoting her forthcoming Yash Raj Films’ production differently as the film’s core message is that of overcoming a weakness by turning it into a strength with focus and determination.

The actress will be part of the inaugural session of the International Women’s Conference (IWC), an annual event on February 23. She will put forward her views on the weaknesses that exist in society and how can people overcome them, said a source in the know of the event.

Rani said in a statement: “Sri Sri Ravi Shankar has focused on the power of positive thinking, of positive actions and of universal love and his message has resonated with countless people.

“It will be amazing to be part of this session and hear him speak. ‘Hichki’ is all about harnessing your positivity and inner peace to bring out the best in you and I’m going to speak about this in his presence. I look forward to this interactive session.”

In the movie, Rani plays the character of Naina Mathur who has a nervous system disorder Tourette Syndrome, which forces an individual to make involuntary repetitive movements or sounds.

“Hichki” focuses on turning disadvantages into opportunities, through the story of Naina, who faces discrimination in a society that believes she cannot be a teacher because of her disorder.

Directed by Siddharth P Malhotra and produced by Maneesh Sharma, the movie will release on March 23.