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Today's assignment: write and publish a "who I am and why I'm here" post.
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You're going to publish a post today. Don't worry about how your blog looks. Don't worry if you haven't given it a name yet, or you're feeling overwhelmed. Just click the "New Post" button, and tell us why you're here.
Today's assignment: write and publish a "who I am and why I'm here" post.
Why do this?
- Because it gives new readers context. What are you about? Why should they read your blog?
- Because it will help you focus you own ideas about your blog and what you'd like to do with it.
The post can be short or long, a personal intro to your life or a bloggy mission statement, a manifesto for the future or a simple outline of your the types of things you hope to publish.
To help you get started, here are a few questions:
- Why are you blogging publicly, rather than keeping a personal journal?
- What topics do you think you'll write about?
- Who would you love to connect with via your blog?
- If you blog successfully throughout the next year, what would you hope to have accomplished?
You're not locked into any of this; one of the wonderful things about blogs is how they constantly evolve as we learn, grow, and interact with one another — but it's good to know where and why you started, and articulating your goals may just give you a few other post ideas.
Can't think how to get started? Just write the first thing that pops into your head. Anne Lamott, author of a book on writing we love says that you need to give yourself permission to write a "shitty first draft" (her language). Anne makes a great point — just start writing, and worry about editing it later.
When you're ready to publish, give your post three to five tags that describe your blog's focus — writing, photography, fiction, parenting, food, cars, movies, sports, whatever. These tags will help others who care about your topics find you in the Reader. Make sure one of the tags is "zerotohero," so other new bloggers can find you, too.
Here's the nitty-gritty on publishing a basic post, and here are instructions for adding tags to a post. Welcome to blogging!
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Here's sharing with you a small tip...I placed the dessert in serving bowls and popped them in the freezer for about an hour or so before serving. The mixture turned a little icy and this became the best dessert especially on a hot and humid day :)
100g sago pearls
150g mango puree**
1 fresh mango, peeled and diced
1/4 fresh pomelo, peeled and separated
200 ml fresh milk** (I used Meiji Low Fat milk)
250 ml evaporated milk (I used low fat version)
120g white granulated sugar**
200 ml water
200g ice cubes
- original recipe calls for 120ml coconut milk and 80ml of full cream milk, I replaced it with low-fat fresh milk.
- I cut down the sugar from 150g to 120g
- I used 150g mango puree instead of 30g)
- To make the mango puree, remove the flesh of 1 mango and blend it in a blender. If you do not have a blender like me, simply mash the mango (use very soft and ripened mango) with a fork.
- Soak sago pearls in water for 5 mins, drain and set aside. Place about 2 litres of water in a large pot and bring it to a full boil. Add the sago pearls and cook until translucent (about 5 ~ 10mins). Keep the water at a rolling boil all the time, stirring occasionally to prevent the pearls from setting to the bottom of the pot. Remove from heat, cover the pot and set aside for about 5 mins. Drain and rinse the sago pearls under running water until cool (this helps to remove any excess starch), drain and set aside.
- Mix fresh milk, evaporated milk, sugar and water in a pot. Heat over low heat and bring to a boil. Remove from heat and add the ice cubes. When the ice cubes are melted, add in mango puree. Stir to combine. Mix in the sago pearls.
- Allow the mixture to cool completely and chill it in the fridge for at least 3 hours.
- Serve with diced mango and pomelo.

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Ringling College of Art and Design is pleased to announce that a short film created by Moonbot Studios, an animation and storytelling studio cofounded by a Ringling College graduate and Trustee, won an Oscar at the 84th Academy Awards.
Press Release from Ringling College of Art and Design
Sarasota, FL - Ringling College of Art and Design is pleased to announce that a short film created by Moonbot Studios, an animation and storytelling studio cofounded by a Ringling College graduate and Trustee, won an Oscar at the 84th Academy Awards®. Nineteen Ringling College Graduates, including Moonbot cofounder Brandon Oldenburg and one Ringling College intern, worked on the film with Moonbot staff. The film, 'The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore' was Moonbot's very first project and was released in conjunction with the launch of the company in February 2011 in Shreveport, Louisiana.
The Ringling College of Art and Design graduates who worked on the Oscar-winning film include Moonbot co-founder and 'Morris Lessmore' co-Director Brandon Oldenburg; Senior Animator Jamil Lahham; Animators Beavan Blocker, Mike Klim, Stanley Moore, Dominic Pallotta, Mikey Sauls, Josh Burton, Sean McLaughlin and Keith Osborn; Art Department Lead Adam Volker; Lead Digital Background Painter Christina Ellis; Digital Background Painter Kaitlyn Landry; Lead Technical Director Bohdan Sayre; CG Generalist Jason Heaton; Lighters / Compositors Shane Cauchi, Megan Deane, Shant Ergenian and Yezi Xue. Ringling Animation Intern Gordon Pinkerton also worked on the film.
"We created our film and our studio at the same time," said Brandon Oldenburg, co-founder of Moonbot Studios, co-director on the "Morris Lessmore" film and Ringling College graduate. "The short is a sort of gumbo of everything we love about film and animation and so is our studio. Ninety percent of our staff comes from Ringling. I'd like to look into getting the other 10 percent honorary degrees. Ringling students are the best from around the globe."
"I had Brandon in my junior and senior illustration classes and he was a super talented and self-motivated artist," said Regan Dunnick, senior illustration faculty member at Ringling College. "He is extremely creative and knowing Brandon, I'm sure this will be just one of the many awards he will amass in his career."
Ringling College President Dr. Larry Thompson was ecstatic when reacting to the Oscar win, commenting "We are absolutely thrilled for Brandon, and all of the Ringling College alumni at Moonbot who helped bring this fantastic story to life. Their success is emblematic of what we mean when we say that Ringling College is 'shattering the myth of the starving artist.' Brandon exemplifies the meaning of 'ARTrepreneur' – blending incredible creative talent with tremendous business sense."
Inspired, in equal measures, by Hurricane Katrina, Buster Keaton, The Wizard of Oz, and a love for books, "Morris Lessmore" is a poignant, humorous allegory about the curative powers of story. Using a variety of techniques, including filmed miniatures, stop motion, 2D, and 3D animation, award-winning author and illustrator William Joyce and co-director Brandon Oldenburg present a hybrid style of animation that harkens back to silent films and MGM Technicolor musicals and is the most cutting edge of today.
The Moonbot team created thousands of hand-painted books and constructed a full city block of the New Orleans French Quarter in 1/12th scale. The entire production of the film spanned a year's time. After the release of the short, Moonbot unveiled an interactive iPad App version of the story which has received worldwide praise as a ground breaking leap forward in storytelling on the iPad. The best-selling, interactive "Morris Lessmore" iPad App is available on iTunes for $4.99 in the App Store. Watch the film at http://www.ringling.edu/campus-student-life/life-ringling/campus-buzz/the-fantastic-flying-books-of-morris-lessmore-captures-academy-award-for-best-animated-short/
About Moonbot Studios
Founded in 2010, Moonbot Studios is an animation and storytelling company based in Shreveport, Louisiana. In less than a year, Moonbot has produced an Oscar nominated short film, two best-selling iPad Apps, "The Numberlys" and "The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore," and two hard copy Simon & Schuster books, "Man in the Moon" and "The Guardians of Childhood." Moonbot Studios was co-founded, by award-winning artists and filmmakers, William Joyce, Brandon Oldenburg and veteran film producer Lampton Enochs. Moonbot Studios' philosophy is to develop our stories as books, interactive applications, games with a compelling emotional narrative and exciting visual aesthetics. For more information, visit http://morrislessmore.com/, www.moonbotstudios.com, and interact with the Bots on Twitter @moonbotstudios, on Facebook at www.facebook.com/moonbotstudios or on their blog at moonbotstudios.blogspot.com/.
About Ringling College of Art and Design
Ringling College of Art and Design is a private, not-for-profit, fully accredited college offering the Bachelors of Fine Arts degree in 13 disciplines: Advertising Design, Computer Animation, Digital Film-making, Fine Arts, Game Art & Design, Graphic & Interactive Communication, Illustration, Interior Design, Motion Design, Painting, Photography & Digital Imaging, Printmaking and Sculpture, and a Bachelor of Arts degree in the Business of Art & Design. Located in Sarasota on Florida's Gulf Coast, the picturesque 48-acre campus now includes more than 100 buildings, and enrolls 1,368 students from 42 states and 53 countries. It is recognized as being among the best and most innovative visual arts colleges in the United States as well as a leader in the use of technology in the arts. http://www.Ringling.edu


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Leahy wants immigration benefits for gay couples
WASHINGTON — Sen. Patrick Leahy want the government to start affording same sex, married couples the same immigration benefits that heterosexual couples now enjoy.
Leahy, a Vermont Democrat, says he will introduce later Wednesday the Uniting Families Act, a bill that would provide spousal immigration benefits to same sex couples. Leahy discussed the bill briefly during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on immigration reform.
Because the federal government does not currently recognize same sex marriages, U.S. citizens cannot sponsor their same sex partners for immigration benefits, including green cards.
The Justice Department is no longer defending the federal Defense of Marriage Act, which defines marriage as being between a man and a woman. The Supreme Court is set to take up gay marriage cases later this year.


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Senators: Student loan interest rates to double
WASHINGTON - Student loan rates will double Monday - at least for a while - after a compromise to keep student loan interest rates low proved unwinnable before the July 1 deadline, senators said Thursday.
Sen. Tom Harkin, the chairman of the Senate education panel, said none of the proposals being circulating among lawmakers could win passage, and he urged lawmakers to extend the current rates for another year when they return from the July 4 recess. Harkin said his colleagues could retroactively restore the current rates after the holiday.
"Let's put this off for a year," Harkin, D-Iowa, told reporters.
Interest rates on new subsidized Stafford loans are set to go from 3.4 percent to 6.8 percent on Monday unless lawmakers take action. Congress' Joint Economic Committee estimates the increase will cost the average student $2,600.
"Neither party wants to see rates rise next week," said Sen. Richard Burr, R-N.C.
But a one-year rate extension isn't an acceptable option, either, he said.
"Last year we kicked the can down the road and passed a one-year extension for only a small group of students. ... Why would we make the same mistake again and just kick the can down the road another year?" said Burr, who was among a group of senators who worked on a competing proposal with Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va.
The Manchin-led proposal would link interest rates to the financial markets. It borrowed heavily from a version House Republicans passed earlier and from principles included in President Barack Obama's budget proposal.
Critics called it a bait-and-switch move that would provide students lower interest rates at first before they climb upward as the economy improves.
"Students across this country would rather have no deal than a bad deal," said Sen. Jack Reed, D-R.I. "We're at the point where we have to do our best to extend the 3.4 percent interest rate while we work on a good deal, not just any deal."
Republicans blamed Democrats and said they would be responsible for the expected rate hike.
"As a result of their obstruction, the Democrat-led Senate will leave town and allow interest rates on some new student loans to increase on Monday," said Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell. "Senate Democrats continue to block reform and insist on kicking the can down the road."
Republicans also noted the Manchin-led proposal had many similarities with Obama's, including a link between 10-year Treasury notes and student rates.
"This agreement is very much like the proposal in the president's budget, it is very much like the proposal passed by the Republican House of Representatives and it will save billions of dollars in interest for all 11 million students taking out loans this year by dropping rates on all student loans," said Tennessee Sen. Lamar Alexander, the top Republican on the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee.
Alexander, a former education secretary, called Harkin's proposal "a short-term, political fix."
"That's no fix at all when we have a plan to help all students that we can pass quickly," he added.
Nothing was happening - quickly or not - before July 1, meaning students who take loans would face higher rates. Senators were heading out of town without a deal, and Harkin said his colleagues would consider a retroactive fix on July 10.
"I think we are nowhere between now and July 1," said Rep. George Miller of California, the top Democrat on the House Education and the Workforce Committee. "It sounds to me like the Senate is going to leave town without dealing with this."
But Democrats promised to turn back to them when they get back to Washington, first with a short-term fix and then a longer-range measure.
The law that governs college and universities expires this fall and lawmakers planned to rewrite it starting in September. Democrats said they prefer to include a comprehensive student loan measure in it, rather than as a stand-alone bill.
"We need a one-year patch to keep interest rates from doubling on student loans," said Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass. "That buys us the time."
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The State of Washington says that early next week it will become the first state in the nation to offer voter registration via Facebook.
In 2008, the Pacific Northwest state became just the second in the union to offer online registration. This week, a new Facebook app created by Microsoft (a Washington company, naturally) will provide a new interface to let voters access the MyVote system.
Today, Washington and 12 other states, including Utah, California, Connecticut, Indiana, counties in Nevada, and others offer online voter registration.
"Facebook has millions of users, and a lot of users in Washington state—half of all Facebook members log on every day," said Shane Hamlin, the state's co-director of elections, in a phone call with Ars on Tuesday afternoon.
He explained that Washington hopes to make it as easy as possible for voters to register. Between March 2010 and March 2011, 60 percent of Washington voters who registered online were 18-34 years old. Since 2008, more than 475,000 new registrations or updated information have been processed.
"Your information is coming to us from Facebook but you can do that without leaving Facebook," he added.
"Your name and date of birth are pulled from Facebook profile, then it operates exactly as it does if you're not in Facebook. Our state database checks to see if you're already registered. If you are, it will take you to MyVote service, [where] you can update registration information. You also need a Washington state ID or driver's license. We do another real-time check to match that this is a real person who is registering."
Hamlin added that not only is online registration more efficient for voters, but it's cheaper, too.
"It saves the county $0.50 to $2 per registration and saves the state $0.25 per registration, as of 2009," he noted. "If this works as we expect, Facebook and Microsoft will be more than happy to work with any other state that has online registration."
UPDATE: Shane Hamlin e-mailed Ars on Tuesday evening to say, "I recall saying that the soonest the app will be available is next week, but that it could be released later."


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Most requirements for corrective action set by regulators in a dispute between U.S. Rep. Jared Polis, D-Boulder, and an energy company drilling near his weekend retreat in rural Weld County have been met, according to a state spokesman.
Still outstanding, however, is resolution of a possible financial penalty against Denver-based Sundance Energy, proposed by the Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission at $26,000.
In the eyes of Polis, who represents Colorado's 2nd Congressional District, that's not enough.
"What I am seeking is that the penalty be increased to $60,000, which we feel would reflect the number of violations, and we would continue to ask that the well that was drilled illegally, that they not be able to extract from that well," Polis said.
His complaint with Sundance Energy erupted in mid-July, when he discovered that drilling, in advance of a presumed hydraulic fracturing operation, was suddenly under way across the road from a property he owns at county roads 5 and 42 in Weld County, east of Berthoud.
Polis has complained that his 50-acre retreat, typically used as the full-time residence of his partner's father and sister, was nearly rendered uninhabitable due to issues such as the noise, dust and traffic associated with the drilling work.
Friday marks a deadline for Sundance Energy, set by the COGCC, to respond to a notice of alleged violation from the state, which charged that Sundance violated setback distances from two county roads and an overhead power line. The state also alleged that Sundance reported inaccurate setback distances on its application for a permit to drill.
State Department of Natural Resources spokesman Todd Hartman had said earlier this month that the COGCC issued what is called an administrative order on consent, proposing $26,000 in penalties for the alleged violations. That required Sundance to meet with Polis and the COGCC to talk about drilling plans and mitigation measures, with all corrective actions to be completed by Friday.
On Thursday, Hartman stated in an email, "We believe Sundance has complied with the Aug. 30 deadline for corrective actions, including meeting with the neighboring landowner and submitting the proper notices through COGCC for changing the surface locations for drilling."
Hartman said Friday's deadline, however, did not apply to an agreement on a proposed penalty.
In an emailed statement, a representative of Sundance said, "While we do not comment on ongoing discussions with Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission, our operation is in full compliance with all COGCC rules.
"Additionally, we have voluntarily implemented a number of mitigation measures to minimize any impacts our operations might have on the property in question."
Polis confirmed he had met with representatives of Sundance late last week.
However, he said, "In the meantime, the fracking has occurred, the active phase of injection of the drilling fluids into the well has begun, and will presumably be completed shortly."
The congressman said the entire experience "is just an example of how little rights that homeowners have; how, without recourse, families can be driven from their homes for weeks or even months, and we really need to change the laws in Colorado."
As for his meeting with Sundance, Polis said, "Frankly, it is the kind of thing that should be available to everybody affected, before the process begins. We were just finding out for the first time, all of these questions that we did not have answers to. We only found out late in the process, as a result of the complaints (filing) process."
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The likelihood of severe thunderstorms and tornadoes increases as temperatures continue to rise. With that in mind, it's time to think about keeping your family safe.
First, you should have a safe place in your home to take your family during a storm. It could be the basement, a central closet or a bathroom with no windows. Once you've determined the best location for your family, you should have supplies handy to ride out the storm. Below you'll find storm facts that parents should know, information to share with your kids, coloring pages, and a kid-friendly checklist for storms.
Storm Facts
- A thunderstorm is considered "severe" when it produces hail at least 1 inch in diameter, has winds gusting about 58 mph or produces a tornado in addition to rain and thunder.
- Tornadoes can happen at any time of year and at any time of day. They happen most often in the spring and summer.
- The United States averages 1,200 tornadoes each year, causing approximately 1,500 injuries.
- Six inches of fast-moving water is enough to knock you off your feet and two feet of rushing water can carry away most motor vehicles.
- Tornado wind speeds can range from 40 mph to over 300 mph. The tornado itself can travel anywhere from 30-70 mph.
- Watch for large, dark cumulonimbus clouds. These are tall clouds that produce lightning and tornadoes.
- Stay away from windows. It's a common belief that opening windows before a tornado equalizes pressure and helps cause less damage. Instead, it puts you near the window, which could break and cause injuries.
What Your Kids Should Know
Help your kids understand the warning signs of a storm. Explain to them that a "tornado watch" means conditions are right for a tornado, while a "tornado warning" means one has actually been spotted.
If they're watching TV and their favorite show is interrupted by a weather report, have them notify you of the alert. TV stations often cover a large viewing area, so you may be able to reassure them that the storm isn't near your house, or you can quickly take action if it is.
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Print this list and put it in a prominent place, like your refrigerator. Go over the list with your kids and talk about why each item on this list is important. Kids may be tempted to play with the flashlight or want to play games on the phone, but remind them they're too important to play with during a storm--you might need that battery power later.
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Beware of pretty little members of Urtica family
Two forms of an unassuming nettle look as innocuous as any weed pushing its way through a driveway crack or appearing unexpectedly in a manicured flowerbed like a party crasher. But the innocence of the herbaceous perennial flowering plants belonging to the Urticaceae family stops there.
There are as many as 39 species of the plant, three of which are found in Florida, with two of those in Marion County: Urtica urens and Urtica chamaedryoides, often called heart-leaf nettle, weak nettle or ortiguilla, according to the University of Florida IFAS website.
The plant is found throughout the United States, Northern Europe and Asia. The two species that grow in Marion County are indistinguishable to most people, said Kent Perkins, the herbarium collections manager at the University of Florida's Florida Museum of Natural History.
The Urtica variations growing in Marion County may not have a threatening appearance, but people who have had a brush with the unassuming plant tell a different story. They convey tales of how the plant's tiny hair-like barbs along its leaves and stems pierced their skin, burned like the bites of angry fire ants and kept hurting for as long as a day.
As cooling temperatures prevail each year, the pesky, low-lying plant will become more abundant, Perkins said.
The plant does best in mild temperatures and rich, moist soils or disturbed earth. Although most often associated with rural settings, Perkins warned that the flowering and seeding plant can also make its home in parks and backyards. It grows from a few inches tall to about 1 1/2 feet in height and tends to grow in colonies, spreading out from a central location, he said.
Laurie Wilson's encounter with the nettle is one she won't soon forget.
Wilson, a professional photographer, was taking family pictures of a mother and father and their 4-year-old son at Sholom Park in Ocala about 10 days ago. She staged them on a patch of especially green grass.
"As I was backing away, they stared screaming. I thought it was an ant pile we didn't see," Wilson said.
She ran to the family and her left foot brushed against one of the nettle plants growing low to the ground and embedded in the grass all around the site.
"It just brushed the top of my foot … and it hurt all night," she recalled.
The irritants that sent Wilson's clients screaming and left her foot burning were the compounds histamines and acetocholines, Perkins said.
"You can easily overlook them," he said of the nettles. "There's nothing that makes them stand out until you touch them. Washing the affected area and applying baking soda paste typically helps sooth the stinging for most people. Other anti-itch crèmes also can help."
Doing nothing to the affected area and letting the burning run its course also is an option, Perkins added.
Some people are allergic to the plant and should seek medical attention.
To say the plant is good for nothing but inflicting pain would be untrue, Perkins added.
Literature shows that some species can be boiled to become a spinach-like food and also can be used in the treatment of arthritis.
According to UF/IFAS, the unrelated Cnidoscolus stimulosus, a common Florida plant that also has stinging hairs, is characterized by white flowers and large leaves and is often referred to as "stinging nettle" or "bull nettle."
Perkins predicts that none of the stinging nettles will be leaving Marion County anytime soon and will be found in more pastures and yards when it begins raining.
His own first encounter with the Urtica nettle was not a positive one, he said.
"I was gardening and I grabbed a handful of it," he said, recalling the episode of about 10 years ago. "The redness went from my hand to my elbow. I got worried I was having some kind of allergic reaction."
A trip to a doctor and a treatment of steroids alleviated the condition, he said.
As for avoiding the plant, Perkins laughed about his encounter, saying that if he couldn't spot it digging in his garden, most people probably wouldn't have much more luck than he did.
To learn more about the nettles, visit http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/hb002.
In Marion County, the UF/IFAS office is located at 2232 NE Jacksonville Road and the telephone number is 671-8400.
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The latest in a series of occasional posts that rate the covers of books reviewed on this site
By Janice Harayda
One of the delights of the syndicated Miss Manners etiquette column is that it has always had a distinctive voice – a bit arch and Victorian yet also witty and commonsensical. You would never know it from the covers of some of its companion books.
Martin's advice finds a deft balance between the ideals of two eras – the years before and after the upheavals of the 1960s, which swept away many traditional etiquette rules. You see that trait clearly in the cover of Miss Manners' Guide for the Turn-of-the-Millennium (Fireside, 1990), which shows of a photo of a fountain pen next to a personal digital assistant. The title floats above them in the John Hancock-ish script that is Martin's trademark. And the harmonious coexistence of the quasi-archaic font and sleek PDA reflects her style perfectly.
You can't say that for the cover of the more recent Miss Manners' Basic Training: The Right Thing to Say (Crown, 1998), part of her "Basic Training" series. The regimental stripes seem intended to carry out the mild joke in the title – Martin as a drill sergeant sending you to the boot camp. This is too clever and clashes with her tone. Martin isn't the John Wayne of etiquette so much as its strict but benevolent headmistress. Worse, the colors of the cover – especially that stop-sign yellow – are shrill, which she isn't. And on a lunch-hour dash through Borders, who would stop to read a nine-line subtitle in white-on-navy-blue reverse type?
Why does a writer with such a steady voice come across on her covers as a teenager who doesn't know whether she wants to wear a lemon-meringue prom dress or a flak jacket to the party? Well into her career as an author, Martin moved from Simon & Schuster to the Crown imprint of Random House, which gave her a new look. The mismatch may have extended beyond her covers. Martin's latest book, Miss Manners' Guide to Excruciatingly Correct Behavior, Freshly Updated, written with Gloria Kamen, was published by Norton www.wwnorton.com.
If you're interested in book covers, check out Rekya's Bookshelf www.rekya.blogspot.com, a site that focuses book design. It has a great blogroll with links to many good book-design sites and designers' portfolios.
The review of Basic Training: The Right Thing to Say appeared on Nov. 21, 2007, before a second post on Cyber Hymnal that appeared the same day. To read it, click here www.oneminutebookreviews.wordpress.com/2007/11/21/.
All cover reviews on this site consider not just aesthetics but how well the cover reflects the contents of the book. That's why the cover reviews don't appear until after the review has been posted (or, if I have only a line or two to say, in the section of extra material that follows the review, not in the body of the review). These reviews aren't just about design but about truth in publishing.
© 2007 Janice Harayda. All rights reserved.


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Local High School Students Learn about International Education at MIIS
In the spirit of expanding horizons and opening minds, the Monterey Institute welcomes local high school students each year for a full day of activities inspired by International Education Day. This year about 130 students from Monterey, Seaside, Carmel, and Pacific Grove attended the celebration organized by the Institute's Student Services Office with the help of numerous students and faculty.
Students from the four schools were welcomed to campus by President Sunder Ramaswamy in the Irvine Auditorium. After being divided into mixed groups they participated in six different sessions led by students and faculty. All sessions were designed to give insight into the amazing diverse world we live in; from the composting and gardening session in the Our Green Thumb community garden, to Professor Pushpa Iyer's activities on conflict resolution, an interpretation demonstration in the Holland Center, and native country presentations by students in the Intensive English Program.
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Registration for the annual Institute of Genealogical and Historical Research will open next week, on 17 January 2012. The Institute will be held at Samford University in Birmingham, Alabama, from 10 June – 15 June 2012.
Registration for the courses will be staggered throughout the day, as it was last year, beginning at 11am EST/10am CST/8am PST. The schedule for registration will be as follows:
Opening at 11am EST/10am CST/8am PST:
- Course 1: Techniques and Technology
- Course 4: Advanced Methodology and Evidence Analysis
Opening at 11:30am EST/10:30am CST/8:30am PST:
- Course 3: Research in the South, Part I
- Course 5: Writing and Publishing for Genealogists
Opening at 12noon EST/11am CST/9am PST:
- Course 2: Intermediate Genealogy and Historical Studies
- Course 7: Virginia's Land & Military Conflicts
- Course 9: Military Records Research III: 1821-1919
Opening at 12:30pm EST/11:30am CST/9:30am PST:
- Course 6: Advanced Library Research: Law Libraries & Government Documents
- Course 8: Researching African-American Ancestors
- Course 10: Tracing Your English Ancestors
Additional details, including a full schedule and instructor profiles, can be examined at the IGHR website: http://www4.samford.edu/schools/ighr/index.html.
If you have never attended IGHR before, please visit the "IGHR 101" page. This site contains a short guide detailing the online registration process.
This will be my third trip to IGHR, and my first as an instructor. I will be teaching four classes this summer:
Course 3, "Research in the South, Part I" (coordinated by J. Mark Lowe, CG):
- "Maryland Resources – Part 1"
- "Maryland Resources – Part 2"
- "State Archives & Other Online Resources of the South"
Course 8, "Researching African-American Ancestors: Slave & Reconstruction Era Records" (coordinated by Frazine Taylor):
- "Records of the Slave Claims Commissions"
I hope to provide more updates on IGHR as the summer approaches.


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1. Commitment to Privacy
- Information technology has brought many ways to do business. It allows businesses and consumer users to interact through electronic means that enables companies to conduct their business efficiently and provide the highest standard of customer service. At the same time, this has brought legitimate concerns about security and privacy of personal information passed from the customer to the business.
- We at Klusster Media Inc. and the service provided through www.klusster.com (collectively referred to as "KLUSSTER") are committed to protecting the privacy of our users. Your personal information is fundamental in the way we conduct our business. KLUSSTER's Customer Privacy Policy provides the principles in which Klusster will adhere to protect your personal information.'s Customer Privacy Policy complies with the provision set out by the Canadian Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act, S.C. 2000, c. 5 (PIPEDA).
2. Privacy Protection in Canada
- The Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA), of the federal government, significantly impacts the way private businesses, corporations, federal agencies, not-for-profit organizations and associations handle the personal information they have collected in the course of their business. At the same time, it will clearly establish a code of privacy practices that will provide Canadians from coast to coast with a mechanism to ensure their personal information is handled respectfully.
- PIPEDA acknowledges the need to protect an individual's right to privacy and also addresses the necessity of collecting private information for businesses in the conduct of their business affair. PIPEDA provides guidelines and principles for businesses for the accountability, purpose, obtaining of consent, disclosure, accuracy, safeguarding, openness of policy and access to personal information that was entrusted to its care.
The PIPEDA principles:
- accountability;
- identifying the purposes for personal information collection;
- obtaining consent;
- limiting the collection of personal information;
- limiting use, disclosure, and retention of personal information;
- accuracy of personal information;
- safeguarding personal information;
- openness about policies and procedures;
- providing access to personal information; and
- challenging compliance.
3. Our Customer Privacy Policy at Klusster
Under the Act, we at Klusster are obliged to demonstrate to our users and to any individual our commitment in protecting one's personal and private information. We have developed our policy to meet the compliance of CSA Model for the Protection of Personal Privacy and PIPEDA.
4. The Personal Information We Collect & How it is Shared
- Business Owners – Klusster collects the name and contact details of each Business Owner who creates a profile in Klusster, along with the contact information of the business they are setting up a profile for. The personal contact details are shared with Klusster Owners but not Consumer Users.
- Klusster Owners – Klusster collects the name and contact details of each Klusster Owner who creates a profile in Klusster and creates a klusster. The personal contact details are shared with Business Owners and Consumer Users. Klusster also collects credit or debit card information from Klusster Owners who pay for the service. This information is stored and only processed once per month, for the sole purpose of payment towards an outstanding unpaid invoice.
- Consumer Users – Klusster collects first name, last name and the email addres of any Consumer User who wwishes to subscribe to the mailing list for a klusster. This information is stored in www.klusster.com but is not shared with Business Owners or Klusster Owners. Consumer Users can unsubscribe from any email distribution list by using the Unsubscribe link on an email they receive.
5. Why We Collect Your Personal information?
Klusster collects personal information only for the following purposes:
- to establish and maintain responsible commercial relations with you and provide you with ongoing service;
- to obtain information for billing and collection;
- to manage and develop Klusster's business and operations to provide its customer the highest level of satisfaction, including the integrity of business and Klusster profiles; and
- to meet legal and regulatory requirements.
- Customer Representatives collecting personal information, as a result of a user support request, can be asked to explain the purposes for which the information is being collected. The purposes shall be stated in such a manner that the customer shall understand.
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- In the event that we want to use your personal information for a purpose not previously identified, consent with respect to use or disclosure may be sought after the information has been collected, but before it is used.
- Is Your Information Accurate? We do our best to keep your personal information as accurate as possible during the collection process. We may from time to time, update your personal information within the limits of the purpose we have mentioned.
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- investigative measures where required to safeguard the interests of Klusster or its users.
- We make the effort to train our employees and make them aware of the importance of maintaining the confidentiality of personal information. Only Klusster's employees with a business need to know, or whose duties reasonably so require, are granted access to your personal information.
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We shall destroy, erase, or make anonymous personal information that is no longer required to fulfill the identified purposes and meeting the required period by law.
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- We will shred paper documents containing personal information and properly dispose them through a federally approved disposal company.
- We will delete personal information from our files.
- In the event that the personal information can not be deleted, we would then make the information anonymous to make sure that the identity of the person having that personal information is not compromised.
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- If you find that your personal information is inaccurate, or have a question on our Customer Privacy Policy, you can contact our Privacy Officer at and ask for the Privacy Officer or e-mail at firstname.lastname@example.com .
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CASL came into effect on July 1, 2014. We are making every effort to comply with the subject legislation. If you determine we are not doing so, kindly contact Our Customer Representatives mentioned in paragrpah 16 below.
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Please read this Privacy Policy in conjunction with our User's Acceptable Use Policy & Terms & Conditions, which is also posted on our website.
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Marius Watz
Sunday, 14 April 2013
Work from his oeuvre
"Marius Watz (NO) is an artist working with visual abstraction through generative software processes. His work focuses on the synthesis of form as the product of parametric behaviors. He is known for hard-edged geometrical forms and vivid colors, with outputs ranging from pure software works to public projections and physical objects produced with digital fabrication technology.
Watz has exhibited at venues like the Victoria & Albert Museum (London), Todaysart (The Hague), ITAU Cultural (Sao Paulo), Museumsquartier (Vienna), and Galleri ROM (Oslo). He is a lecturer in Interaction Design at the Oslo School of Architecture and Design. In 2005 he founded Generator.x, a curatorial platform for the production of a series of events related to generative art and computational design. In 2010 he co-curated the exhibition "abstrakt Abstrakt: The Systemized World" with Eno Henze at the Frankfurter Kunstverein."


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NEW YORK, N.Y. – With its annual meeting looming and its stock on the decline, Apple is facing a rebellion from an activist investor who wants the company to stop stockpiling cash and give it to shareholders instead.
Greenlight Capital said Thursday that it is suing Apple in a New York federal court over the company's proposal to eliminate preferred stock. David Einhorn, who heads the investment fund, said the proposal would close down one avenue for Apple to reward shareholders with more cash.
Apple is still the world's most valuable company, but its stock has lost 35 per cent of its value since September, as it's become obvious that its once-rapid growth has slowed down. The company is fabulously profitable, and Wall Street wants the company to share more of that money with its shareholders rather than tucking it away in low-yielding bank accounts.
"Apple has $145 per share of cash on its balance sheet. As a shareholder, this is your money," Einhorn said in a letter to the company.
Its $137 billion in cash makes up nearly a third of Apple's stock market value. Shares of the Cupertino, Calif., company traded at $459.50 in the early afternoon, up $4.82, or 1 per cent, from Wednesday's close.
Corporations normally don't hoard cash the way Apple does. They keep enough on hand for immediate needs, and either invest the rest in their operations or hand it out to shareholders in the form of dividends or stock buybacks. If they need more cash for, say, an acquisition, they borrow it.
Einhorn told CNBC on Thursday that Apple was acting like his grandmother "Roz," who grew up during the Great Depression. People who've experienced financial trauma, he said "sometimes feel like they can never have enough cash."
Roz was so careful about saving money, Einhorn said, that she never left messages on his answering machine out of concern that she'd be charged for the call.
Einhorn's criticism hints at Apple's lean years in the mid-90s. Former CEO Steve Jobs came out of that experience with a very tight hold on the company's purse strings. Apple has never explained its reasons for hoarding the cash other than to say it is preserving its options. Since his death in Oct. 2011, Apple has begun paying a quarterly dividend of $2.65 per share and started to repurchase some of its shares.
Analysts say the company should be doing more if it wants to lure investors back to its shares. Stuart Jeffrey at Nomura Securities calculates that Apple will generate about another $103 billion over three years to add to the $137 billion it has now, but it has only committed to returning $45 billion of this $240 billion in total cash to shareholders.
Wall Street didn't complain much about Apple's hoarding policies until its revenue growth started slowing. In the recent holiday quarter, Apple's revenue rose 18 per cent from a year ago – a very good figure for a company of its size, but a far cry from the 50 per cent-plus increases it has often posted since the 2007 launch of the first iPhone. Apple hasn't launched a new ground-breaking product since the iPad in 2010, so the company is forced to expand the appeal of its current products to achieve growth.
The slowing growth has scared away investors who focus on fast-growing companies, and the relatively small dividend means the company doesn't get much respect from investors who look for regular income, analysts say.
Greenlight, a shareholder since 2010 with 1.3 million Apple shares worth nearly $600 million, wants Apple to create a class of preferred stock that carries a higher dividend, and give it away to current shareholders. That way, he believes the company would appeal to value investors and those who are risk-averse.
Einhorn said his firm has been talking to Apple over the past several months about the creation of the new share class. Apple, he said, rejected the idea in September. The company doesn't currently issue preferred stock. At its annual meeting on Feb. 27, it plans to ask shareholders to remove the option to do so.
Apple said in its proxy statement filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission that its board does not plan to issue preferred stock in the future and believes it is "appropriate" to eliminate the possibility from its charter. If the proposal passes, the board will have to go through shareholders to get approval for future issuances of preferred stock.
A representative for Apple did not respond to a request for comment.
Greenlight urges Apple shareholders to vote against the proposal. In the lawsuit, it claims that the proposal bundles three distinct proposals that the SEC requires to be separated so shareholders can vote on each one.
Apple has at least one major shareholder on its side. The California Public Employees' Retirement System, the country's largest pension fund, said in an SEC filing Monday that it will vote for Apple's proposal. CalPERS owns 2.7 million Apple shares, nearly three times as many as Greenlight.


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Letters: March/April 2013
Do Demand-Controlled Pumps Save Energy Too?
As I read the article about demand-controlled recirculating pumps ("Demand- Controlled Pumps: Sticker Shock Versus Value," HE Sept/Oct '12, p. 12), I was curious about where the energy savings come from. It seems, though water is clearly saved, that the saved water wasn't necessarily hot. Can you explain?
Thom Knoll
via e-mail
Author Dave Grieshop replies:
The model savings depend on water that is warmer than the ground source being returned to the water heater with each cycle, which occurs with a dedicated, insulated return. In reviewing the retrofit model in my article, I now appreciate that without a dedicated return, heating energy is lost if any cold water gets used between pump cycles. How many such cycles occur depends on occupant behavior. For retrofit, using the cold line for return water, I have therefore revised my annual energy savings down from $105 to $53 for electric, and from $92 to $44 for gas; and I've changed my model accordingly. Continuous improvement is a good thing!
Yet when all is said and done, we should not forget that what consumers want is hot water now, and a continuous flow of hot water at that. The demand-controlled pump can provide the "hot water now," and the water heater has to take care of the rest.
Lighting Your Workshop with LEDs
Can someone indulge me and provide a suggestion for T-8 LED tubes to use in a workshop? Or can someone provide me with a reliable source of info regarding LED tubes? I live in Alaska and am having trouble finding an outlet store where I can see the bulbs to find out how much light is produced, so I can determine what wattage to get.
Thank you for your time.
Doug Hill
Palmer, Alaska
Author, energy efficiency specialist, and fellow Alaskan Todd Hoener replies:
I work for Golden Valley Electric Association, up here in Fairbanks, as the utility's end-use and renewable-energy specialist. I have often encountered your problem myself, and with many customers, both residential and commercial.
There are good LED T-8 lamps on the market. There are also some fly-by-night products. Several years ago I was shown some 4-foot LED T-8 lamps that I thought were great. They were manufactured by Light Squared Labs out of Vancouver, Washington; cost around $50 each; and were being retrofitted in one of the University of Alaska Fairbanks buildings up here. They performed great. I obtained two pairs, with two different color temperatures, and put them in our utility lobby so consumers could see them and compare them to the fluorescent lamps in similar ceiling-mounted fixtures. They are still there, and I think they still are great. Trouble is, the company no longer exists, and who knows who will honor that five-year warranty should anything go wrong with this expensive investment?
Part of the problem these days is that energy efficiency is in on a global scale, and LEDs in particular are really in vogue. That's good and bad. There is a market demand for LEDs, so—according to the economic theory—there are suppliers accommodating the growing demand. Many producer/suppliers are from countries outside the Unites States that are not accountable for any claims they may make regarding reliability or warranty. A lot of those LED lamps are obviously available on the web. LEDs are an emerging technology and a competing technology.
Purchasing LEDs from brand-name manufacturers (such as GE, Philips, and Panasonic) buys a little accountability. At least you have a name you can tie a warranty to, if the quality fails. Such accountability should also hold true if you purchase from brand big-box stores (Lowe's, Home Depot, and others). But brand-name lamps often cost more, and LEDs are expensive. I find that the house brands of the big-box stores have accountability (tied to the box store), are less expensive, and are pretty reliable. CREE is getting a good name, but its LEDs can be pricey, even though CREE has received many federal research grants. The research grants have honed the company's products.
It sounds from your query as if you understand efficacy, but I will touch on it just in case. The efficacy of a lamp is determined by its lumens per watt (Lm/W). Efficacy tells you how much energy it takes to produce the light from its origin or source; the higher the Lm/W the better. You need to know the Lm/W to decide if the lamp you are buying is going to give you the light you desire. Just because you are replacing a fluorescent tube lamp with an LED does not guarantee that you'll get an equal amount of light. My research has shown that some CFLs, for example, have a better efficacy than LEDs, but LEDs are gaining in this important area.
But let's get back to your question. There is no single LED or single outlet I can recommend. I read a lot about products, but I'm more influenced by what suppliers show me in application. I'm lucky that many vendors often want to show me their products. Those vendors and I, however, have no idea if the products they are pitching will be around in the near future.
Here are some resources you can try that are trusted sources of good information—and these folks communicate daily with the lighting world:
- Lighting Design Lab in Seattle.
A nonprofit with no conflict of interest.
- Lighting Research Center out of Troy,
New York, affiliated with Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
- DOE's EERE CALiPER program.
- LED Light Review.
Hopefully this will get you started and result in a satisfactory solution. I know it's work and it's a lot of runaround. Bear with me; we're all learning how to cope with LED evaluations. Please let me know if this helps and what your results are; I'm interested in what everyone finds out.
More On Energy Upgrade California
I would like to take a few minutes to respond to the Energy Upgrade California article written by Steve Mann (Sept/Oct '12, p. 6) and the related letter from Kevin Hanlon (Nov/Dec '12, p. 4).
I am a senior program manager at Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) and have been working on the Energy Upgrade California (EUC) program for PG&E since its inception in 2010. I want to start by thanking Steve and Kevin for sharing their perspective on EUC, and Home Energy magazine for sharing this information with its readers. I am encouraged to hear that others are interested in discussing and sharing the best practices and lessons learned from our experience in California. And I hope that these discussions help drive improved home performance programs here and across the nation.
I would like to clarify a few items discussed in the articles and help provide context for some of the questions that it raised.
Energy Upgrade California is a statewide brand that was created by, and is being used by, investor owned utilities (IOUs) such as PG&E, the California Energy Commission, the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC), and local and regional entities across California to promote whole-building upgrades and related training and financing initiatives. This level of coordination between customer, American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), local government, and private-investment funds required unprecedented cooperation. This also challenged us all to move quickly while making implementation decisions that could encompass all of these organizations and interests into one customer program offering.
In his letter, Kevin asks why we chose to create the EUC brand instead of leveraging the existing Home Performance with Energy Star (HPwES) template. To understand this choice, it is important to know that the impetus for creating a residential home performance program derived from different sources. First, the CPUC, based on the goals set forth in California's Long Term Energy Efficiency Strategic Plan and with knowledge of the impending influx of ARRA funding, guided the IOUs to greatly expand the proposed residential whole-house program for the 2010–12 Energy Efficiency program cycle. Shortly afterward, and in parallel to the IOU program's development, came the influx of ARRA funds to promote residential, multifamily, and commercial energy efficiency programs, most of which went to fund the development, implementation, and outreach for Energy Upgrade California.
The PG&E home performance program, or Whole House program, was launched in August of 2010 and was followed by the creation of the EUC brand in April of 2011. EUC was created to include the IOU rebate programs in addition to workforce education and training, local government incentives, financing, and customer lead generation activities through the statewide web portal (www.EnergyUpgradeCalifornia.org). The designers of both the IOU and the ARRA-funded programs were familiar with HPwES and chose to leverage several best practices. However, since the California program offers both calculated and deemed incentive structures, Workforce Education and Training (WE&T) and financing, it was deemed necessary to create a brand that encompasses all of these activities and provides one location for consumers to access the resources they need to complete an upgrade.
The article also suggests—rightfully so—that a lack of consistency statewide on various program design facets, such as incentive levels, measures, submission requirements, and quality assurance, can make it challenging for program participants who bridge program boundaries. PG&E has heard and internalized this feedback and is working with the other IOUs and regional government entities to improve statewide consistency. In fact, starting January 1, the incentive levels became consistent statewide in an effort to decrease confusion and expand the incentive range to drive additional and deeper retrofits.
PG&E plans to continue to evolve the program in the coming years to drive market transformation and customer value for home performance in California. I welcome additional feedback, questions, and dialogue on how this can be best accomplished. For those who are interested in learning more about the evolution of EUC, I invite you to join my session at the upcoming ACI National Home Performance Conference in Denver, Colorado.
Joanne Panchana
Senior Program Manager
Pacific Gas and Electric Company
San Francisco, California


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Aaja Nachle – a movie review
'Aaja Nachle' (Come, let's Dance) is a happy, feel-good film, the way I like films to be. And it's not boring, not at all, and this leaves me a bit puzzled as to what most reviewers are talking about. Lack-lustre? Oh no, not even in parts. Average music? No, I would say above average. Predictable story-line? Well, this sure isn't a suspense thriller!
Madhuri Dixit as Dia is riveting, with her sex-appeal of yore intact. In fact, it's right in your face. Madhuri may be 40 and a mother of two kids but she can still break hearts.
The story is a simple one. Young Dia (Madhuri Dixit), a dancer, elopes from the small town of Shamli (looks more like a village), leaving her reputation in shreds. The story opens at a point when Dia, a well established dancer and choreographer in New York decides to come back (with her daughter who is a tween) and do the very thing that had got her into trouble in the first place…dance. Not just dance, but revive the tradition of theatre and dance in Shamli, because as she tells Raja, the M.P. of the area (Akshaye Khanna), it's not just money that people need. They need soul food too – they need theatre, dance and music. He is skeptical, wanting to build a mall there, quite convinced that theater is dead in Shamli. There is no way that Dia was going to let a mall come up at Ajanta, the old theater at Shamli. She wants to keep her promise to her dying Guruji.
However, she realises that though Shamli hasn't forgotten her, it hasn't forgiven her – not that this dampens her indomitable spirit. Raja throws her a challenge – do it in 2 months or see a mall come up there. The old theatre is aptly named Ajanta and the symbolism is clear. Ajanta represents the Indian cultural tradition and the mall represents the new consumerist culture of the west. When one of the characters tells her not to bring the 'western' culture of dance and music here to the village she gives it right back – dance and music is our culture she says, not theirs.
In the first half of the movie it is all Madhuri. But the second half has a myriad of characters – Kunal Kapoor, Konkana Sen Sharma and Ranvir Shorey being the most prominent. They come to participate in her Laila Majnu 'drama' which is going to be held at Ajanta at the end of two months. Kunal is Majnu and Konkana is Laila. It is great fun to watch the rehearsals and as for the final show at the end of the movie – it's an absolute joy. I wasn't too impressed with Kunal Kapoor's acting, but Konkana is fantastic as usual. She plays the simple village belle to perfection. It was wonderful watching her with Madhuri and where acting was concerned, Madhuri and Konkana were equally good. I remember that in 'Laaga Chunriya mein daag' Konkana had eclipsed Rani in the scenes they had together, but here inspite of her brilliant acting Konkana doesn't quite manage to eclipse Madhuri.
About the story, what struck me as very odd is that Dia doesn't seem to be too concerned that her parents are missing, that they fled town after she 'shamed' them…in fact Dia doesn't even think about them…so engrossed is she in her upcoming 'show.' There were some other fairly unrealistic parts too, particularly as to how easily Dia manages to roughshod over opposition – in fact it was almost like a fairy-tale. Including the character of the squeaky clean M.P. Raja. The extravagant set was out of a dream too and one is agog as to how Dia manages to create such a mega-set in a small village in such a short time. Realism would have helped the movie a great deal…but then it would have been a brilliant movie, which it isn't.
However the story does manage to carry you along…after all Dia was quite a diva before she left Shamli, and her magnetism pulls them in again…
What I find amusing is the New York Times review which says that the director of the film, Anil Mehta, "denies Dia, who is divorced with a daughter, a love life." True, Dia doesn't have a love life, but does every divorcee (or for that matter, everyone, divorcee or not) man or woman, need to have one every month of their lives? After all the movie takes place in the span of just two months…and the fact that some chemistry is shown between Dia and Raja is good enough. Dia had come to India with a purpose, and that was to revive Ajanta and it was natural that she wouldn't think of romance. And from the audience point of view, the romance between Laila and Majnu is satisfying. In fact the second half of the movie is all about love because of the theme of the play. The director has tried to delve a little into the real-life relationships of some of the actors in the play, but it's a superficial job. And as for Dia, a love-life is very much there for her….waiting in the wings.
Most of the characters in the movie are not properly etched out…although Mohan's (Ranvir Shorey) character is an interesting one. He is the man who Dia almost married before she eloped with a stranger and he carries a torch for her still…
This movie is a musical and you can read a music review by blogger Joginder here. Overall, the movie is a must-watch for anyone who likes Madhuri, Konkana or Kunal. I like all these three actors, and I certainly liked the movie much better than OSO (Om Shanti Om). At least Aaja has a message, a meaning…I think only those who cannot enjoy a movie without suspense or dark scenes will not enjoy this movie…and ofcourse those who do not like musicals. But I must mention – there is a fight scene, done very naturally and fitting in very well with the story. And I'll say one more thing – I loved this movie.
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BruinGirl permalinkDecember 4, 2007 12:51 pm
Indeed the movie is good- it's a simple story line, implemented as a fast-tracked, uncomplicated, feel-good, very trendy musical. And it more than works!
Madhuri Dixit is the extraordinary element in the movie and how !
Apparently, she is causing major jitters for some well-estabilished male actors and the anti-aaja nachle media machinery must be on an overdrive. No wonder despite packed audiences, highest blog rating acroos various sites and good word-of mouth response, some blocks are calling it an underdog. It is amazing and not fair.
I for sure am watching it a second time !
Vipul permalinkDecember 4, 2007 10:33 pm
"OSO on the other hand is below average, but many reviewers gave it 3 stars."
Nita, you would be naive to think reviewers provide 'independent' opinion. Big budgets and marketing can drive a lot of the reviews (especially in widely circulated media publications).
Captain Sharks permalinkDecember 5, 2007 12:43 am
aaja nachle is d best bollywood movie of d year after chak de…..n its nice to see that d movie got a good opening n that too bcoz of madhuri dixit…..maybe i think it is d first time its happening in bollywood that an actress is attracting huge public in d opening itself……
Madina permalinkDecember 11, 2007 4:27 pm
I think this movie was absolutely beautiful in every aspect!I just finished watching the movie and I was reminded why I love indian cinema so much. I am not of south asian decent but I always loved indian movies, but as the yrs went on i merged in with the crowd of people that made fun of indian movies, but with this movie i can proudly say, indian cinema is unique. This movie has the indian culture people love to see with a western twist, the twist is quite minimal though, the culture is still the fundamental part. The dances in the movie were amazing and I believe the movie is quite satirical.I say this because it seems like in a time where all bollywood movies are either comedy based or just cliche shit, she came back from America like a saviour and gave us this magnificent peice of work, once her shoot wrapped up she went back home. The storyline of the movie goes along the same lines. Once again…brilliant..
December 12, 2007 9:36 am
With all due respect Nita, I did watch the movie, against my better judgement (thanks partly to all the reviews!!) and boy was I disappointed. If this movie has received so much negative criticism, I must say, these critics must be as big on the film review scene as I am… I haven't heard any of these ghost negative reviews.
But in the event that I have just been too engrossed in school work to have noticed these reviews, I think it deserves every bit of it.
I would tell you why, but then I might as well take over this blog!!! 😛
December 13, 2007 12:12 am
That is quite true… but I couldn't resist voicing my opinion anyway… I spent two and one half hours on that!! 😦
jia permalinkJune 4, 2010 8:48 pm
i loved the movie but i was so dissapointed at the end, i thought she would marry mohan and live in india, thats so sad, he loved her so much
other than that konkona was fantastic, she isnt as pretty as all the other actresses, but she just has a great personality
Nadia permalinkMarch 27, 2011 3:52 pm
i have seen this movie aaje nachle only about 100 times!! does that tell anyone critic anything at all!!!


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Agency: Camp Lejeune water contaminated in 1953
CAMP LEJEUNE — Tens of thousands more Marines and their relatives could be eligible for government health care for their illnesses now that a federal agency determined that the water at Camp Lejeune was contaminated four years earlier than previously thought.
In a letter to the Department of Veterans Affairs, the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry said computer modeling shows that drinking water in the residential Hadnot Point area was unsafe for human consumption as far back as 1953. President Barack Obama signed a law last year granting health care and screening to Marines and their dependents on the base between 1957 and 1987.
"This is yet another piece of the puzzle that's coming together and slowly exposing the extent of the contamination at Camp Lejeune — and the Marine Corps' culpability and negligence," said Mike Partain, a Marine's son who was born at the southeast North Carolina base and who says he is one of at least 82 men diagnosed with breast cancer. "This is four years overdue."
The Marines were slow to react after groundwater sampling first showed contamination on the base in the early 1980s. Some drinking water wells were closed in 1984 and 1985, after further testing confirmed contamination from leaking fuel tanks and an off-base dry cleaner.
Health officials believe as many as 1 million people may have been exposed to tainted water. A Marine Corps spokeswoman estimated Friday that the time line expansion adds 33,000 to 53,000 to the number of people at Lejeune while the water was contaminated.
The Hadnot Point water system supplied the barracks where the majority of the Marines lived, as well as the Naval Hospital, unmarried officer barracks and some family housing areas. "It is by far the largest exposed population on the base," Partain said.
In a letter to Gen. Allison Hickey, VA undersecretary for benefits, the head of the toxic substance registry noted that a preliminary water modeling report showed that the period covered under the 2012 legislation didn't go back far enough, and that volatile organic compounds exceeded maximum contaminant levels at Hadnot Point as early as August 1953.
"I hope this information is useful as the Department of Veterans Affairs evaluates claims from veterans who served at USMC Camp Lejeune prior to the release of our full water modeling report in the spring," agency Director Christopher J. Portier wrote in the letter, dated Wednesday.
The letter was first released publicly during a meeting Thursday of the agency's community assistance panel at the disease registry headquarters in Atlanta. Former Marines and family members angrily questioned officials about why these studies have taken so long to complete.
During the meeting, a VA representative said the approval rate for claims related to the water contamination has been about 25 percent so far. As of September, the VA had granted 17 breast cancer claims and denied 13 others; not all were males.
Documents show that underground storage tanks at Hadnot Point may have leaked more than 1 million gallons of fuel, a much bigger concern than the off-base dry cleaners, said Partain.
"This exposure had nothing to do with ABC cleaners and was the sole responsibility of the USMC," Partain said in an email.
The Marine Corps "has long recognized its responsibility for addressing contaminated areas at the base," said Capt. Kendra Motz, a Marine spokeswoman. Standard practices for safe water didn't exist at the time of the contamination, and the Marines have addressed the problem in various documents and by informing base residents of it, she said.
Former Master Sgt. Jerry Ensminger singled out the case of a Florida Marine who is dying of a rare case of male breast cancer, and whose claim the VA recently denied.
"We've got veterans out there with life-ending diseases," said Ensminger, who blames the contamination for the leukemia that killed his 9-year-old daughter, Janey, in 1985. "These people are terminal, and they need this information."
That veteran, Tom Gervasi, 76, had his left breast removed in 2003. His service at Camp Lejeune ended six months before the cutoff date.
The VA has denied his cancer claim twice. He learned of the most recent rejection on Wednesday in a call from U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio's office.
Gervasi's doctors have given him at most three years to live. He would like his wife, Elaine, to have VA benefits when he is gone.
"Hopefully, this will work in my favor," Gervasi said in a telephone interview Friday from his home in Sarasota. "I don't know. It's sort of like fighting city hall, so to speak. When you're fighting the federal government, you're not always going to win. Very seldom you're going to win."
"It is my hope that VA will act quickly to amend their policy and review relevant disability claims that have been denied," U.S. Sen. Richard Burr said in a statement. "These men and women have been suffering through no fault of their own and we owe them the care they need without delay."
A VA spokesman didn't respond directly to how the department will handle claims from 1953 to 1957 now. "The VA remains committed to providing the best quality care and benefits for eligible Veterans of service at Camp Lejeune to the full extent authorized by law," the spokesman said.
Ensminger told the group that a fellow Marine had succumbed the day before to kidney cancer, one of the diseases linked to the Lejeune contamination.
"I know you all deal with facts and figures; I deal with the personal aspect of this," he said. "You get to know these people. You cry with them, and every one of them that dies, you die a little bit each time with them. And it's just not fun."


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