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Kerry Ward's presenation will explore transitions between the Dutch East India Company (VOC) and British rule at the Cape of Good Hope between the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. VOC rule created a shifting network of forced migration linking the Cape to the southwest Indian Ocean which was dismantled after British conquest. The Cape was inserted into British maritime imperial networks with a completely different orientation towards forced migration – it became the headquarters for the Royal Navy's anti-slavery squadron for the East African coast. Attempts to include the Cape in British networks of penal transportation resulted in widespread public protest. The development of Simonstown as a British naval base created a lynch-pin in British maritime networks in the Indian Ocean.
Kerry Ward is Associate Professor of World History at Rice University. She is the author of Networks of Empire: Forced Migration in the Dutch East India Company published by Cambridge University Press in the Studies in Comparative World History series in 2009. Ward has published in the fields of slavery and forced migration, Indian Ocean history, South African and Indonesian colonial history, and historical memory and public history. She is currently Secretary of the World History Association and Co-Director of the inaugural Rice Seminar on Human Trafficking – Past & Present: Crossing Borders, Crossing Disciplines.
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Testing on the second generation BMW X5 M continues while the prototypes shed some camouflage. This is the first red F85 X5 M we've seen and as with earlier prototypes, it wears the signature M components – huge front air intakes, more aggressive sideskirts and rear diffuser, blue M brakes, and cross drilled rotors (the first for any X5 model). We also have a better look at the quad exhaust pipes which, unlike the current X5 M, feature a new angled design (same as the upcoming M3 and M4).
We now see double-slatted kidney grilles fitted to the X5 M prototype for first time. This has become another signature M styling bit for the latest M models, including the M5 LCI facelift, M6 and the … CONTINUED
Development of the F15 X5 M continues…
Like the standard F15 X5, the next X5 M should also weigh less than the current X5 M. Expect it to be powered by the S63Tu from the M5/M6 (current X5 M uses the S63 engine), but with a power hike. We should see the X5 M hit dealers by the end of next year – early 2015.
Watch the official launch film for the all-new BMW X5 (F15).
The newly available rear-wheel drive 2014 X5 sDrive35i will start at $53,725 and the 2014 BMW X5 xDrive35i is priced at $56,025. The 2014 BMW X5 xDrive35d price is $57,525 and the 2014 BMW X5 xDrive50i will start at $69,125. All prices include $925 destination and handling.
Two F15 X5s were just spotted during transportation in a cargo plane and while their exteriors remain camouflaged (previously revealed exterior photos below), we get some nice clear looks at their interiors.
As seen in previous spy shots, the F15 X5′s features a multi-layered dashboard design look and is both more driver-centric and upright compared to the current X5′s dashboard.
You can see the black panel display gauges, large free-standing navigation/infotainment LCD screen and new iDrive Touch system.
The US will receive the following models in the first model year: sDrive35i, xDrive35i, xDrive35d, xDrive50i. All of these models will begin production in August 2013, except the xDrive35d which begins production in December 2013. The European models are listed here. The F15 X5 is expected to weigh less than … CONTINUED
The reveal of the all new 2014 BMW X5 (F15) is imminent, but testing continues on the F15 X5 M.
Testing on the F15 X5 M began last year [first sighting], but current mules have now dropped much camouflage. What's revealed are the expected signature M components – huge front air intakes, aggressive sideskirts and rear diffuser, blue M brakes, and cross drilled rotors (the first for any X5 model). We also get a better look at the quad exhaust pipes which, unlike the current X5 M, feature a new angled design (like we've seen on the F82 M4 prototypes).
The F15 X5 is expected to weigh less than the current E70 X5 and ride on a modified version of the F10 5 series chassis. As for … CONTINUED
Have a look at the more exposed 2014 X5 (F15) prototype which has dropped some major camouflage to reveal much more of its styling and design.
We can now clearly see the front bumper design, with its integrated air curtain vents. Also clearly visible now are the tail lights and headlight designs, which connect to the kidney grilles as we reported before. The grilles are larger, wider, and have a thicker surround than those on the current X5. It retains the 7 slat design.
The hoodline has been moved to above the kidney grilles, but conform to the grilles and headlight shapes, instead of the higher (and more unattractive) hoodlines seen on newer BMW models such as the 3, 5, and 7 Series.
We've captured the next generation X5 M prototype on video for the first time and despite all its camouflage and cladding, still impresses with its furious sounds on the Nurbrugring test track. Have a look and listen inside.
It's the start of a big testing week for BMW at the Nurburgring, where we've just spied the next generation BMW X5 M (F15) in testing. Check out the photos inside. Expect the X5M as a 2015 model year.

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In a nutshell, the Marshall all-valve, 2-channel JVM205H 50W tube head is a 2-channel, 50W version of the most versatile Marshall amplifier ever made, the JVM410H. Both channels are completely independent of each other and they boast 3 Modes, all 6 of which are footswitchable and feature their own unique gain structure. It effectively makes the JVM205H 6 Marshalls in one!
The JVM205H has studio-quality digital reverb with a level control for each channel. This is also footswitchable, as are the amp's two Master Volume controls and the Series/Parallel effects loop. Resonance and Presence are also equipped with master controls.
With its ingenious footswitch (UK patent pending) and the fact all the amp's switching (channel/modes, Reverb, Master Volume selection, FX loop) can be done via MIDI, you're looking at an incredibly flexible amp! The 4-way footswitch boasts LEDs and memory, plus it connects to the amp via a regular guitar cable.
From the cleanest clean to the filthiest distortion ever found in a Marshall and all points in-between, the JVM205H all-valve amp head will give you whatever tone you need right when you need it.
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Comments about Marshall JVM Series JVM205H 50W Tube Guitar Amp Head:
I started playing guitar in the early 80's and for some reason I've never been a Marshall fan, and I don't have a valid excuse as to why. I have always tried to find "something better" and thought that new technology trumped the tried-and-true.
I have been using a Blackstar amp for a few years and it just wasn't doing it for me. I looked at other amps to replace it and then I tried the JVM-205H.
I can honestly say this is the best sounding and most flexible amp I have ever used. It's a 2 channel amp, but each channel has 3 "modes" with increasing gain that are programmable using the ingenious 4 button footswitch - so it's really like a 6 channel amp.
The clean channel is awesome and the OD channel has as much gain as anyone could want. I play in an 80's hard rock cover band and use the OD channel in orange mode with the gain set at 1:00 and it recreates the best gain tones of the 80's - think Van Halen, Whitesnake, Scorpions and Priest.
Do yourself a favor and try this amp; you won't regret it. I use a PRS Custom 24 and have it paired with a 1960AV cabinet and it is an amazing combination.
I also cannot think of a venue that anyone reading reviews here on Musician's Friend would play at where the 50 watts wouldn't be enough - gig volume is well below 1/2 on the master!
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Is Marshall! Made in England!
The sound is what most attract me to this amp.
I'm using together a Marshall cab 1936, just for reference. Great combination!
I tried others brands at the store, also great amps, but from my opnion the JVM is the most complete valve amp available in the market nowadays.
All channels have a great and unique sound. From the most clear sound (Marshall clear warmed sound that I like so much) to the most Marshall High Gain distortion.
The Red clean channel is very similar to the green OD channel, but I noticed a slight difference on the tone even using the same settings. I prefer the green OD.
The Orage and Red on the OD channel make some noise. I solve it including the amp on the noise suppresor loop throught amp FX loop.
The 50 watts is really really loud! Too much! More than I expected and i'd like to say more than my last 100 watts valvestate II for sure.
Only one functionality is missing from my perspective, a switch to downgrade to 25 watts and 1 watt. It should be great to have on this amp. Bu again, it is a Marshall!
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I'm stuck with a delicious 80's hair band tone in my head, and I took this amp out of the box and tweaked it for five minutes and haven't touched the settings since, because it gave me exactly what I wanted. It has two channels with six modes, to switch various gain structures, so it's more flexible than a straight two channel amp. It has a programmable foot switch with various capabilities, but even though it has four switches simply marked 1-4, I figured out what did what by default quickly without reading much about it. The MIDI function works slick. It has a nice feature in the power amp insert if you ever needed to use that. The FX loop can be parallel or serial depending upon the mix control. I usually use the OD channel orange & red modes with a 1960A cab (Celestion G12T-75s), and the clean/crunch modes with a 1960TV cab (Celestion G12M-25 Greenbacks). Those two cabs together sound great, depending upon what you're playing. But I've got to admit I mostly leave it on the OD orange mode. A little bump with a Tube Screamer is nice, and a BBE Sonic Stomp in the FX loop sounds awesome. But you don't need those for it to sound good. Some people say it sounds better when you drive the power tubes to get that distortion, but I removed a power attenuator I was using with this amp and started using it on a non-master volume amp, and I didn't miss it on this one. Probably will save my tubes, too. On the OD channel I keep the gain at 4 and the channel volume at 7. That way the amp responds very well to various guitar volume knob settings. I've heard some people playing metal with the four-channel version of this amp, but I don't get that out of this one. I think they usually use cabs with V30s, and I don't dig those at all. Bottom line: if I got rid of my other amps, I wouldn't miss them that much, and I'd be happy to call this one my tone…
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I bought this amp this past summer. I did a boatload of research and had narrowed my choice to Marshall and a couple of boutique amps that are Marshall "clones." I opted for the JVM and I'm very happy I did. I love everything about this amp! Let me say first it's NOT gonna be everything to everybody! It's a MARSHALL! It's designed to ROCK! The end! If you want country- Fender. If you want clean and jangly- Vox. But if you want the tone of classic Rock and Roll played loud- Marshall! I use this amp extensively in the studio. I use it on the gig but as I play mostly in cover bands that do a wide variety, it's not the 'perfect' amp all the time. It's NOT supposed to be. It's supposed to ROCK and when it does it does the gig like no other! I always wanted a 'real' Marshall (I bought a Haze a few years back) but the price tag and the sheer power always made me push it back on the priority list. Well, I made up my mind to get one and like most other things in life, when you prioritize it, it can become reality. I grew up on the tone of the classic players like Hendrix, Page, Clapton and bands like the Allmans, Doobies, etc. This amp nails that tone! I could go on but this amp is made to ROCK and it's made to be played LOUD! If you can meet those two criteria, you'll be very close to Tone Nirvana man!
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Overall a great amp for the money. The 50 watt version will get colored at higher gain levels, but I think it provides a great tone. High gain on the lead channel can create quite a bid of feedback, especially with time based effects involved. Effects loop is cool as it provides the option to blend the effects loop with the dry signal. I keep it all the way wet as I have several swell effects in my loop that sound out of sync with any dry signal coming through. I've paired this head with the Mesa Boogie Rectifier Cab. Sounds huge. Lastly, I actually control the amp head with the Line 6 M13 Midi output. This allows me to simultaneously switch the amp head channels and Line 6 effects. Makes my complicated rig a lot more simple.
Provides two independent tube channels with three switchable gain stages each. Also provides two master volume channels. I use the 2 master channels to switch back and forth between rhythm and lead. Makes it super easy with the foot switcher. (I acquired the 410 switch for more options)
Great value. Relatively speaking
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This is a great amp. I have it paired up with a 1960 4x12 cab from the 90's and it sounds AWESOME. Great sounds from this amp. Very very versatile amp for the cover band guitarist like me. The 3 modes per channel is nice. Two Master volumes so my solos are always right up front! The foot pedal is a vast improvement and uses a instrument cable. They should ALL be like that. You can get this map for a great price and you will LOVE it. I am surprised more people are not using these but I wouldnt mind having the 100 watt either. :-) I have had this map for a year now and simply LOVE it. Highly recommended!!!
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Old school tone freaks seeing the title of this review will know just what I'm talking about. This head delivers "That" sound in spades and offers all the variations you'll probably ever need. Just keep in mind that every channel sounds like a Marshall; you're not going to get several amps in one package here. Rock and blues tones are represented in full, but high gain metal chug and pristine Fender cleans are absent. Also, buyer beware: the cab and speakers you pair with this head makes a huge difference. The Celestion T75s that come in the cabs Marshall is bundling with the JVMs sound terrible and make having this head a mute point. I had two of these speakers in a smaller Marshall cab and wasn't happy with the tone until I dumped the Celestions. I'm running an Eminence Red Fang and Wizard in the same cab now, and it sounds fantastic (and the speakers aren't even totally broken in yet). Other than that, there really aren't any concerns with this head. The reverb is just okay, but that's what you would expect from anything digital. If you want that signature Marshall tone you really can't go wrong with this head; for the price is delivers the goods.
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I've owned a few tube amps over the last several years (including Ampeg & Mesa F50) and the JVM is the best sounding and most versatile by far. The cleans are sparkly and chimey (pretty close to the Ampeg, I?d say) and the crunch and OD sounds are exactly what you'd expect from a Marshall. While not a Plexi or JCM 800, you can get very close to these tones and SOOOO much more. IMHO the high gain tones are an improvement over the JCM 2000s.Some amps take endless tweaking and dialing to sound great (including some Marshalls), but it's hard to get a bad sound out of these amps. However, they are quite responsive to different speakers and can sound excessively bright/harsh with some...I'd recommend trying a few different cabs before buying.My only complaint is that the OD channel on this JVM is based on the somewhat scooped OD2 from the 4-channel JVM, and scooped metal is not my thing. But it's pretty subtle, and an EQ pedal in the loop solves that. The footswitching with this amp is awesome. The digital reverb quite nice, as are the effects loops. The one omission on this amp is a noise gate (the reason I gave 4.5 stars for features), but I don't play with huge amounts of gain so it's not a big issue for me.
Comments about Marshall JVM Series JVM205H 50W Tube Guitar Amp Head:
This amp is awesome,50 watts is all you need!I'm not putting down the 100 watt JVM,come on 100 watts- that alot!I play drop metal through a 1960 cab this head is a BEAST!The two channels with six modes covers everything that is MARSHALL.Anything else is a waste,Marshall should be pushing this head alot more!Because in my opinion it blows away the 100watt JVM.Buy this head and you'll hear what i'm talking about!
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I have been looking for my first tube amp setup after playing a Marshall AVT50 for years. Although that amp has a single tube preamp in it and is a workhorse, I wanted the pure tube tone. I've researched and played various Mesas and the Orange Rockerverb, which is way too expensive. I was leaning towards the DSL 50 which I had gigged with before, but I always felt that amp gave too little gain or too much depending on the settings. So I had heard about this JVM series and thought the 405 was overkill, way too many knobs that most likely are unnecessary. I like my setup as simple as can be, which is when I was turned on to the 205H. This amp sounds better in my opinion than the 405 because it has less to it. I like that all the master controls are laid out in a row, followed by the OD1 row and OD2. It's effectively 6 amps in one, but I really just see it as a normal modern Marshall with less gain or more gain on each channel. I'm still not crazy about the clean tone, but then again, Marshall has never been great with that. I feel like it still has too much grit in it and not enough smoothness. Anyways, the orange setting on the OD2 section of the amp is killer. It sounds exactly like the distortion I love, i.e. the Weezer blue album. However, if you dial down the gain a bit, it definitely becomes more focused for modern stuff. The quality of the amp seems great, and looking inside it, the tubes are nestled in some sort of foam or plastic holder around them. I'm guessing this is so if the amp gets jostled traveling to gigs that the tubes will be less apt to break. I'm running it through a 1960A cab and the distortion is def. excellent. I think for the money this is a great amp that I'll be able to stick with for a long time.
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India Becoming
A Portrait of Life in Modern India
Akash Kapur - Author
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A New Republic Editors' and Writers' Pick 2012
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A Newsweek "Must Read on Modern India"
"For people who savored Katherine Boo's Behind the Beautiful Forevers."—Evan Osnos, newyorker.com
A portrait of the incredible change and economic development of modern India, and of social and national transformation there told through individual lives
Raised in India, and educated in the U.S., Akash Kapur returned to India in 2003 to raise a family. What he found was an ancient country in transition. In search of the life that he and his wife want to lead, he meets an array of Indians who teach him much about the realities of this changed country: an old landowner sees his rural village destroyed by real estate developments, and crime and corruption breaking down the feudal authority; a 21-year-old single woman and a 35-year-old divorcee exploring the new cultural allowances for women; and a young gay man coming to terms with his sexual identity – something never allowed him a generation ago.
As Akash and his wife struggle to find the right balance between growth and modernity and the simplicity and purity they had known from the Indian countryside a decade ago, they ultimately find a country that "has begun to dream." But also one that may be moving away too quickly from the valuable ways in which it is different.
The East Coast Road has changed. Twenty-five years ago, when I was a child growing up at its edge, it was a potholed tar road that meandered across the South Indian countryside, cutting through rice fields and coconut plantations and sleepy fishing villages. The views were stunning—a rippled ocean, the gray waters of the Bay of Bengal, shimmering under the harsh coastal sun.
Sometime in the nineties, government contractors descended upon the road. They surveyed neighboring fields and farms, they bulldozed surrounding huts. Villages were cut in half, families were uprooted. Hundreds of ancient trees were brought down. Activists protested, but they were told the social and ecological disruption was the price of progress.
By the time I moved back to India, in the winter of 2003, after more than a decade in America, the country road I knew as a child had become a 160-kilometer highway. Politicians extolled it as a model for modern India—an ambitious collaboration between government and private companies, the kind of infrastructure the country needed to develop its economy.
The surface of the East Coast Road is now a smooth mix of tar and powdered rock. The road is adorned with dividers that glow in the dark, signs for emergency services, and toll counters that light up the night with their halogen lamps and bright metal booths. Some of the rice fields remain, and the views are still beautiful. But much of the countryside has given way to the promised development—beach resorts, open- air restaurants, movie theaters, and scores of small tea shops catering to the tourists that throng the road on weekends.
At the top of the East Coast Road, outside the city of Chennai, the capital of the state of Tamil Nadu, tourist attractions lead into urban congestion. Traffic is denser, the crowds swell off the sidewalks and onto the streets, and the ocean breeze is obstructed by tightly packed shops and office buildings.
The East Coast Road joins Rajiv Gandhi Salai, Chennai's technology corridor. The change here is even more striking. Twenty-five years ago, Rajiv Gandhi Salai was itself a country road, a little-used path that carried tourists from Chennai to the seaside town of Mahabalipuram. Like the East Coast Road, it was bordered by farms and plantations; well into the nineties, when the software and outsourcing companies began setting up shop, you could see the occasional tractor, maybe even a bullock cart, on the road.
Today, Rajiv Gandhi Salai, also referred to as the Old Mahabalipuram Road—as if to distance it from the present, to demarcate it as a relic from a different moment in the nation's history— is a showcase of the new India. The farmland has become fertile terrain for steel- framed and glass-paneled offi ce buildings. These buildings house the technology companies driving India's economic boom—the Yahoo!s and PayPals and Verizons that have rushed into the country over the last couple of decades, but also local upstarts like Infosys, Satyam, and Wipro that have for the fi rst time put India on the map of global business.
Employees of these companies—men in tightly tucked shirts and khakis, women more likely to be dressed in pants than saris— swarm to work in the mornings, jamming the highway with their motorcycles and scooters. At noon, they break for lunch on well-maintained gardens, expansive lawns adorned with transplanted palm trees, like something out of Southern California. These are the foot soldiers of India's surging economy; with their confidence, their enthusiasm, their willingness to work long hours, they are driving the emergence of a new nation.
It was to this new nation—this country where rice fields were giving way to highways, farmland to software complexes, and saris to pants—that I returned in 2003. I was coming home, but in many ways it was to a home I didn't recognize anymore.
I landed in Chennai on a December morning. It was just before dawn. The sky was a dark blue, the air was cool but heavy. I remember being surprised by the humidity.
Outside the airport, amid the touts and baggage handlers, the commotion of a crowd whose crush I had almost forgotten, I caught an air-conditioned car. I was going to Auroville, the town where I had grown up, about a three-hour drive from Chennai.
I took the East Coast Road. In Chennai, I crawled through congested streets where traffic had once flowed easily, and I drove past the towers of Rajiv Gandhi Salai, their cubicles lit up even at that early hour. Outside the city, with the ocean gleaming on the horizon, I passed through the urban sprawl of gated communities and plotted-out fi elds.
In the village of Kadapakkam, about an hour and a half from the airport, I stopped for a coffee in a tea shop by the side of the road. The owner of the tea shop was a skinny, garrulous man. He stood over a kerosene stove and told me about his life. He said he was born poor, the son of a landless laborer. The road had changed everything for him.
He talked about the taxis and buses that stopped in at his tea shop, about the new house he had built, about the motorcycle he had bought himself. He talked about the private school where he sent his children.
He talked and talked and then, while he was talking, an older man sitting in front of me, a customer, interrupted. He told the owner he was wrong; the road had ruined many lives. He spoke about families that had lost their houses to government acquisition, about all the development that had spoiled the area, about the accidents.
Just last month, the customer said, a boy, the relative of someone he knew, was run over and killed outside this village.
Their conversation turned into an argument; a few others joined in. I listened for a while, and then I turned away. I was jet-lagged, still taking in the familiar yet strangely unfamiliar sounds and smells of my childhood. But I heard enough to know that I was with the owner: I welcomed the change. I found what was going on in India exciting, even intoxicating.
In America, I had been living in New York. I loved New York—loved the nightlife, loved the parks, loved the diversity of the city—but increasingly, I had found life there stifling. America, I felt, was in a kind of fog. The war in Iraq was turning sour, the economy was sputtering. The country was depressed, consumed with forebodings of decline.
India was so different. India was emerging from its depression, a centuries- long misadventure of colonialism, poverty, and underdevelopment. Now, on its way to what was surely a better future, the country was giddy, exuberant. Bookstores were filled with titles like India Arriving, The Indian Renaissance, and India Booms. Newspapers and magazines regularly ran surveys showing that India was the most optimistic country in the world.
In America, my friends were worried about losing their jobs; they held on to what they had. But in India, people I knew were quitting their jobs, casting aside the safety of well-established careers for the excitement—and potential riches—of starting their own business. Every other person I met dreamed of being an entrepreneur; they were willing to take a bet on the future.
It was as if my world had come full circle. I had grown up between India and America, the son of an Indian father and an American mother. I always considered both countries home. In 1991, at the age of sixteen, I moved to America in search of better education and more opportunities. Like so many before me, I was escaping the economic and social torpor of India—the austerity imposed by the nation's socialist economy, the fatalism and bureaucracy that blocked all creative impulse and even a hint of entrepreneurial energy.
The India of my youth felt cut off, at the edge of modernity. When I boarded that plane in Chennai, trading the heat of coastal South India for the bitter winters of boarding school in Massachusetts, I felt like I was entering the world.
Now, twelve years later, India was at the center of the world. It was India, with its resurgent economy, high savings rates, and young, educated workforce, that beckoned with the sense of a brighter future; it was India that offered the promise of a country and an economy on the upswing. Einstein once wrote of America that its people were "always becoming, never being," but it was in India now that I felt that sense of newness, of perpetual reinvention and forward momentum that I had felt when I first moved to America.
Almost half a century ago, R. K. Narayan, that great chronicler of Indian life in a slower, less complex time, traveled through the United States. In a book he later wrote about his journey, he noted the apparently irreconcilable gaps that separated the two nations. "America and India are profoundly different in attitude and philosophy," he wrote. "Indian philosophy stresses austerity and unencumbered, uncomplicated day-to-day living. America's emphasis, on the other hand, is on material acquisition and the limitless pursuit of prosperity."
Indians, Narayan added, cultivate a certain "otherworldliness."
Americans have "a robust indifference to eternity." A typical American "works hard and earnestly, acquires wealth and enjoys life. He has no time to worry about the afterlife."
By the time I returned home, India was determinedly shedding the abstemiousness and detachment that had defined it since independence. "Material acquisition" was no longer the preserve of Americans. The "otherworldliness" of an earlier era—a certain apathy, a charming if ultimately unproductive indifference— was being replaced by the energetic (and often ruthless) ambition of a new generation.
A great reconciliation was taking place. As a boy, my two worlds had often felt very far apart. India and America were literally—but also socially, culturally, and experientially—on opposite sides of the planet. Now, for better and for worse, in ways that both excited and at times frightened me, I felt as though India was co-opting the very qualities that defined America.
India's transformation began in 1991, when a financial crisis forced the government to lower import barriers, ease foreign exchange controls, and allow a greater degree of private investment. These reforms unleashed the nation, spurring economic growth from an anemic 3.5 percent or so (what economists derisively referred to as "the Hindu rate of growth") to around 8 or 9 percent. They transformed a closed, socialist—or at any rate semi- socialist—nation into a country that was far more willing to accept and even embrace global capitalism.
The change was most evident in the cities, in urban metropolises like Chennai and Bangalore and Mumbai, which were the first to feel the impact of the reforms. On the green lawns of software parks, in the corridors of new shopping malls, crowded with young consumers clutching cell phones and bags of cosmetics and DVDs, and in the bars and clubs where men and women mingled freely, I felt that India was being redefined. The nation was widening its horizons, experimenting with fresh ideas and ways of living.
But even in rural India, where I had grown up, and to which I was now returning, the reinvention was palpable.
Auroville is in the countryside; it is surrounded by fi ve villages. In the fields around me, farmers who had once gone to work in bullock carts without tires now drove shiny tractors. Down at the beach, fishermen were trading catamarans for diesel-powered motorboats. Satellite dishes were ubiquitous, and even a couple of ATMs had sprouted up between the older thatch huts and the new concrete buildings.
In both city and country, in shopping malls and on farms, what struck me most about India was not so much the cell phones and satellite dishes and other physical manifestations of change. I was impressed by something less tangible, something in the spirit of the nation.
Middle- class children, sons and daughters of parents who had aspired to nothing so much as a secure government job, were planning careers as software entrepreneurs; they envisioned themselves as the next Bill Gates. Farmers and fishermen were setting up restaurants and guesthouses; their ambition challenged the social order that had for so long pinned them to poverty and illiteracy.
For the first time—the first time in my life, but arguably in India's history, too—people dared to imagine an existence for themselves that was unburdened by the past and tradition. India, I felt, had started to dream.
Later, after I had spent more time in the country, when I had traveled around and met more people, I began to question aspects of that dream. The self-confidence I began to see as a kind of blindness, an almost messianic conviction in the country's future. The unrelenting optimism was often delusional, a blinkered faith that ignored the many problems—the poverty, the inequality, the lawlessness, the environmental depredation—still facing the nation.
I grew less impressed with the shopping malls and shiny office complexes, with the fancy bars and the variety of cocktails they served. I began to feel that the country was being engulfed in its encounter with capitalism, swallowed by a great wave of consumerism and materialism that threatened to corrode the famous Indian soul.
Nothing is free. The more time I spent back home, the more it became apparent to me that India would have to pay a price for its prosperity—that new money was being accompanied by new forms of inequality, that freedom and opportunities were opening the floodgates, too, to disorder and violence.
Millions of Indians have risen out of poverty since the nation's economic reforms. But millions more remain in poverty, and millions, too, are being subjected to the psychological dislocation of having their world change, of watching a social order that has given meaning to them—and their parents, and their grandparents before them—slip away.
Development, I came to understand, was a form of creative destruction. For everyone whose life was being regenerated or rejuvenated in modern India, there was someone, as well, whose life was being destroyed.
This book really contains two stories. One is a story of progress, of the sense of purpose and direction that rapid economic growth can bestow on a nation that had in many ways lost faith in itself. The other is a darker story; it tells of the destruction and disruptions caused by the same process of development.
One process, two outcomes. India is a complex country. Sometimes the creativity and the destruction, the good and the bad, were hard to disentangle.
I didn't see this complexity when I first came back. My understanding of the country I had known only as a boy was superficial. When I landed on that winter morning in Chennai and took the East Coast Road back to Auroville, I saw just the optimistic side of India.
I suppose I saw what I wanted to see. After years of feeling alienated, never quite belonging in America, I was desperate to find a home. This book is in part a story of that homecoming—of how I embraced and found myself revitalized in the new India, of how I rejoiced in the nation's economic progress; and then of how, after a few years, I learned to see the many edges, more than a few jagged, of that strange phenomenon called development.
Most of all, this book is the story of the people I met after returning to India. These people allowed me to glimpse, and at least partially understand, the complexity and nuance of this exceptionally layered country. I have come to know India again through the men and women who shared with me their life stories, who allowed me into their families and their homes. Many of these people have become friends; their friendship has allowed me to write this book.
I have been back in India, now, for a little over nine years. A lot has happened in my life during that time. I have built a house, married, had two children. Sometimes I watch my boys—Aman, age six, and Emil, age four—play in the same forests I did as a child, run through the same fields and villages I knew when I was just a little older than they are. It makes me happy, warms me in a place that I didn't know I had until they were born, that their childhood memories will occupy the same landscape as mine.
But I know, also, that that warm feeling is a little bit of wishful thinking—that though the forests and fields and villages remain, and though my children are growing up, as I did, in rural India, nothing is really as it was. The world I knew as a boy doesn't exist anymore.
Most of the time, I'm at peace with that reality. I celebrate the new India. But there are moments when all I can focus on is the sense of loss—the memory of a time before software parks and shopping malls, the sobriety and moral purpose of a country before it succumbed to the bland homogenizations of twenty-first-century capitalism.
I know that the great transition under way now is inevitable, and probably even desirable. I know, too, that it is unstoppable. The forces at work in modern India are part of the great sweep of history. All I can do is watch them, understand them, and maybe, through understanding, learn to accept them.
I'd like to think of this book as a step in that direction. It represents my effort to come to terms with the forces remaking my home.
"This takes, wisely, a humble approach: instead of trying to encapsulate the entirety of India's changes, it follows a few lives along the idiosyncratic ways they develop. For people who savored Katherine Boo's Behind the Beautiful Forevers."—Evan Osnos, newyorker.com
"[A] lucid, balanced new book . . . Kapur is determinedly fair-minded, neither an apologist nor a scold, and he is a wonderfully empathetic listener."—The New York Times Book Review
"Kapur's strength is in letting his characters display the ambiguity that many feel about the ongoing change. … Kapur offers a corrective to a simplistic "new, happy narrative" of a rising India."—The Economist "There are many virtues of Akash Kapur's beautifully sketched portrait of modern India….The book inhabits parts of India we do not explore often enough, the India of the south and of the transforming countryside. Mostly, it takes us into the minds and hearts of Indians seeking to adapt to a society changing at disconcerting speed…. The book reads like a novel…Kapur's skill is to get people talking and to weave their stories into a necessarily messy debate about India's future."—The Financial Times
"Impressively lucid and searching . . . In his clarity, sympathy and impeccably sculpted prose, Kapur often summons the spirit of V.S. Naipaul." —Pico Iyer, Time
"Kapur himself, with one leg in the East and one in the West, is an excellent ambassador to explain the dynamic of change in India, what the nation is becoming. Any reader who would like to understand the country better would do well to give him a read."—Daily Beast
"Kapur has a fluency that outsiders—even those of us with a genetic tie—lack"—The New Republic
"This is a remarkably absorbing account of an India in transition - full of challenges and contradictions, but also of expectations, hope, and ultimately optimism."-Amartya Sen
"A wonderful writer: a courageously clear-eyed observer, an astute listener, a masterful portraitist, and a gripping storyteller. Kapur's voice is as sure and as intimate as his subject is chaotic and immense, and he proves himself the perfect guide to the enthralling promise and the terrifying menace of a society in the throes of colossal, epochal, all-encompassing change."-Philip Gourevitch, author of We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Your Families
"Marvelous . . . Kapur shows how the old rural cycle of the south Indian village depicted and romanticized by R. K. Narayan is fracturing and breaking apart to reveal a very new, more unstable world where the old certainties are disappearing and everything is up for grabs. Sharp-eyed, insightful, skillfully sketched and beautifully written, India Becoming is the remarkable debut of a distinctive new talent."-William Dalrymple, author of Nine Lives: In Search of the Sacred in Modern India
"Akash Kapur lives in and writes out of an India that few writers venture into. Curious, suspicious of received wisdom, and intellectually resourceful, [Kapur is] one of the most reliable observers of the New India."-Pankaj Mishra, author of Temptations of the West: How to Be Modern in India, Pakistan, Tibet, and Beyond
"Through a series of deft character sketches, Akash Kapur captures the contradictions of life in modern India-between city and country, technology and aesthetics, development and the environment, greed and selflessness, individual fulfillment and community obligation. His writing is fresh and vivid; his perspective empathetic and appealingly non-judgmental."-Ramachandra Guha, author of India after Gandhi
"Beautifully written . . . Akash Kapur celebrates the gains and mourns the losses, conveying a complex story through the ups and downs of the lives of some fascinating individual women and men."-Kwame Anthony Appiah, author of Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers
"India today is in the midst of profound change and Akash Kapur captures the impact of that change on the lives of ordinary Indians with a narrative that avoids all clichés, platitudes, and simplifications."-Gurcharan Das, author of India Unbound
"A fascinating look at the transformation of India, with broader lessons on the upside and downside of progress."—Booklist (starred)
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Fay Hodge, 76, of Roan Mountain, passed away on Thursday, December 27, 2012, at her residence, following an extended illness.
She was the daughter of the late Tom and Legusta Shell. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband, William Hodge; four sisters, Arlene Smith, Gladys Miller, Clestine Franklin and Christine Shell; and four brothers, Carl Shell, Thomas Shell Jr., Vernon Shell and twin brother, Ray Shell.
Ms. Hodge was a homemaker and was of the Freewill Baptist faith.
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Damn Good
- (27 / Jan / 2014)
I decided to buy the Hard Gainer Extreme as I've moved onto bulking up and needed a high calorie shake with equal amounts of protein and carbs. While this fits the bill of the latter, the taste on the other hand is quite bad. I am not joking when I say this is the worst protein shake I have ever tasted, probably due to the flax seed, which gives a disgusting aftertaste that makes me gag every single time (I've literally started to keep a glass of water ready to wash it down immediately after the shake just to get rid of the aftertaste). Won't be buying this again, you are better off going with one of the other shakes and adding Instant Oats into it instead to get your protein and carbs in one. Serves me right for being lazy.Goes Well With:Holding your nose so you don't gag.
Great stuff
- (27 / Jan / 2014)
Being an ectomorph I thought I could do with a helping hand. After caining the gym, personal training and a whole new diet I tried this product to compliment. I've always struggled at putting on weight so thought it can't hurt. Well after two and a half week I've gained 8lbs. I'm well impressed. Bought the mint choc flavour. It is a bit sweet but you get used to it and it doesn't mix 100% but you don't get a mouth full of powder don't worry. Definitely will buy this product again. Thanks MyProtein :)Goes Well With:Milk
Great Purchase
- (27 / Jan / 2014)
I have been purchasing this product or a while and it is great! I as a skinnier mail found it hard to even gain a couple pounds but this product has done the trick or me!Goes Well With:Blue milk
Good protein, terrible mix
- (26 / Jan / 2014)
Whilst the protein tastes relatively good and appears to be effective, regardless of how well you mix the shake you will get clumps of powder in your mouth with every gulp.
- (22 / Jan / 2014)
Great tasting (cookies and cream) and mixes well...I have been using this now for a few weeks with my diet and fitness and I have gained slight weight no fat but can't comment on The long Term results of this but seems promising good product as always from my protein.Goes Well With:Half milk half water
Great tasting and mixes well...I have been using this now for 2weeks with my diet and fitness and I have gained slight weight no fat but can't comment on The long Term results of this but seems promising good product as always from my protein.
Mass weight gain
Mixes well, no lumps of protein like some other protein bulk ups I've used, but what are all the black bits in it? Not been on it long enough to see any benefits yet. A good price for 5kg sack. Banana flavour is very nice.
Tastes and mixes great
- (17 / Jan / 2014)
Bought this product in November 2013 and have just finished a 5kg bag of Strawberry. I've purchased lots of whey protein from MyProtein and i can honestly say that this is the best i've tasted and had the best results. For all those who have trouble mixing may i suggest you buy the myprotein bottle which comes with a metal mixer, this does the job perfect, if your still finding lumps after mixing, may i suggest you that you do some arm workouts :)Goes Well With:Myprotein Creapure, 300ml water
for healing and weight gain
Do Want.
- (16 / Jan / 2014)
I've used a couple of kilos of hardgainer extreme now and what can I say, I can train sooner again and I've gained both weight and strength. Yes this may happen through diet and training anyway but my strength levels had been sticking for quite some time and over the weeks I've managed to build up to a new front squat pb and also rep personal bests on back squat.
This shake fills me up really well and mixes nicely in the small my protein shaker with the mixing ball. I put the milk in first then add one scoop and shake, then another scoop and shake again.
Pretty much did what I expected.
Good stuff!
- (15 / Jan / 2014)
On my 4th bag of this. Had strawberry, chocolate and cookies and cream. All tasted great and mixed as well as you'd expect from a gainer. Using as a supplement to make a calorific excess. Works great! Goes Well With:Water
- (13 / Jan / 2014)
Really good product! I've tried many weight gainers recently but this one is the best. I'm seeing a major difference after only 2 weeks. Would recommend this to anyone waiting to bulk up!
Great product
- (11 / Jan / 2014)
I ordered the chocolate one which tastes good. It mixes pretty well although there are some small lumps (despite how much you mix it) but that's just the oats I think - I can deal with that though. The delivery was fast, overall very pleased once again.
finished first bag it's ok..
- (08 / Jan / 2014)
Finished my first 5kg bag of hard gainer extreme last week, switched over to normal whey protein,big difference noticed already, my original aim was simply to weight on muscle or fat didn't care very skinny to start with whilst at the gym the hard gainer stuff is good , but when compared to normal whey protein i have noticed a huge difference firstly mix ability is easier and the taste is smoother not as creamy, and i'm putting weight on more easily and this time i know it is muscle because i'am noticing a difference after one week in my body shape, if you are looking to simply put on weight like i'am just get the normal whey protein and eat like a pig 6 times a day.Goes Well With:milk
- (07 / Jan / 2014)
It's still to early to say anything for sure, but after one week of using i can say it works great. It's funny but despite i can feel additional calories it also makes me want to eat even more than usually for rest of a day. I feel loads of energy and i can work out harder. It mixes very well and chocolate smooth taste nice but for me is a little too sweet. Goes Well With:milk
- (05 / Jan / 2014)
Bought this product about 10 days ago, been taking it 3 times a day with semi skimmed milk. First of all it tastes great (strawberry flavor). Secondly it has started to work really quickly I've already gained 1.5kg which is incredible in such a short space of time. only things i would say is that just like all mass gainers it will increase your bf% slightly so avoid it if you cutting, and if you mix it with water it can be a little grainy. Goes Well With:Milk
- (05 / Jan / 2014)
Tastes pretty nice and works well for both post workout and/or inbetween meals to get an extra 400kcal when you need. Have got through a bag already taking 1-2 per day aswell as increasing my general intake and have definitely noticed good gains!Goes Well With:water
- (03 / Jan / 2014)
Taste isn't great, but it does what it says on the tin; loads of calories, loads of protein.
great product
- (03 / Jan / 2014)
I had previously used other well known brands that always come in the top 10 recommend products on many sites, I thought to give myprotein a go and its just as good if not better.it mixed great, taste is good and didnt give me cramps or bloating like some other brands.will be buying again.Goes Well With:Whey, milk.
Advanced mixing
- (30 / Dec / 2013)
I have used hard gainer extreme for over a year now and have found if I mix the powder in advance
and put it in the fridge for a period of time, ie overnight, I find the mixture smooth to drink;
I always mix two, then replace the one I have drank and so on, so there is always one smooth drink
ready when I need it, Along side Alpha men daily, it gives me what I need to maintain my weight and protein,
I personally recommend vanilla flavour, I would also like to thank myprotein for supplying a good quality
product at a fair price, Icant eat much for medical reasons, but these products have contributated greatly to
me getting the protein my body requires,
Gain Harder
Mountain Biker
- (24 / Dec / 2013)
I have recently had weight problems due to a very high metabolism and healthy diet that acked in essential fats and proteins.
After a few visits to my GP it was a surprise to learn that although they cannot actively encourage the use of weight gain protein products, my GP said it was worth trying as they had a relative with simiilar high metabolism related health issues and a protein shake a couple of times a day on top of a normal healthy diet was beneficial.
So after a couple of recommendations and some help from the online support at Myprotein I chose the Extreme Weight Gainer to add 2-3 shakes a day to a 3-4 meal plan. (6-7 meals a day equivalent)
This product is very good quality and goes down very well. My personal taste meant that I found the vanilla and strawberry flavours very sweet and a bit too much to stomach with milk but the strawberry flavour was ok with water.
I did however like the Mint Chocolate and Chocoate flavours a lot. I tend to mix them with milk as they taste like milkshake then but water is also good and the flavour remains as well. This is especially helpful if you find this sort of product sweet as the water helps to dilute the flavour a bit.
I'm very impressed with this product and may try similar products from MyProtein for extra benefits. I'm certainly going to continue using the shakes as they are working well and have aided in my weight gain of nearly a stone in a little under a month.
Thank you MyProtein.Goes Well With:Milk or Water and a normal healthy diet of course. :)
Cookies n cream - Delightfully tasting
- (19 / Dec / 2013)
Got my 2.5kg bag last week and must say it tastes delightful which i think plays a huge factor when deciding which shake to choose. Ive had my fair share of gainers in the past but i have to say this is the best taste. There are some bits but i think they taste nice anyway and i even wash all the thick bottom bits down with some water afterwards. Only had it a week but after reading other reviews it seems that fast gains are possible. Will post another review in a few weeks to review its effectiveness. Goes Well With:Milk
- (19 / Dec / 2013)
Tried this after buying similar from shop, was recommended this company. Being cheaper was good including delivery!
I'm new to these products so thought I'd try the hard gainer extreme, I have a physically demanding job and whatever I ate was used by work, with this addition noticeable effects almost immediately, very impressed I'm putting weight on not excessive, visually looking very toned, I have to admit work has got easier, alot of lifting and carrying not getting so tired.
Very happy with all aspects, arrived very quickly. I would recommend and will be buying products regularly from here!!
- (16 / Dec / 2013)
Tastes good and mixes really easily. Really good price. Hard not to recommend Goes Well With:Creatine.
Not flawless
- (14 / Dec / 2013)
The ingredients are of high quality, no doubt. I would like to point out that its 3 SCOOPS to get these 444 cals in 700 ML OF MIXER. That is huge, i typically mix with 300-500ml and dont even have a container that can do a 700ml shake. Therefore I personally use 2 scoops in 500ml, the mixability in this is okay. The taste isn't amazing but who cares, there is bits in strawberry but thats the flax seed which is a good ingredient to get in.
I think pesonally if you can eat real food to gain, that is a much better option.
- (12 / Dec / 2013)
Choc mint taste is lovely and mixes well with 3 scoops to 500ml of full milk. Definitely recommend!Goes Well With:Creatine monohydrate
Taste is horrible
- (09 / Dec / 2013)
Taste is horrible and i always, always get chocolate powder chunks in my drink. No matter how well i mix, there will always be a lot of chunks. I won't buy this again.
- (09 / Dec / 2013)
Since taking the drink I have def notices Muscle mass and bulk up a lot in the arms
It mixes well with milk and water , taste better with milk tho Goes Well With:Milk or water
Don't buy vanilla flavour
- (29 / Nov / 2013)
Quite an effective blend and I'm sure some of the flavours are quite nice but don't think about getting vanilla, it contains cracked up vanilla pods and though it smells great in the bag when it's mixed it feels like grains of sand going down your throat and gets lumpy. Been quite hard to stick to because of how much it makes me gag but even using it just once most/some days I've seen results.Goes Well With:A different flavour
- (29 / Nov / 2013)
At first I didn't really like the taste of the product at all, plus there are many grains even when blended, but I've got the strawberry flavour, with a scoop of vanilla ice cream it taste a lot better! So I've found myself drinking it a lot more. I can see myself buying this again. I can't really comment on its effectiveness yet as I haven't been taking it long enough. But so far so good.
- (27 / Nov / 2013)
Incredible. I love it. Mixes well, tastes better. I haven't used it long enough to comment on its effectiveness, but in terms of everything I can be sure of, expectations have been surpassed. I went with the Mint and Choc one. Goes Well With:Milk
- (19 / Nov / 2013)
Really quick delivery
Taste is excellent, I went for strawberryGoes Well With:water, milk
- (19 / Nov / 2013)
Tastes really tasty, mixes well. Haven't been using it long enough to know how effective it is, but it's supplying calories. So that's good enough I suppose. Goes Well With:Milk, peanut butter, banana, water
Really good!
- (18 / Nov / 2013)
This was the first Mass gainer I've tried and it's really good, great tasting, it mixes amazing and is packed with cals and Protein! I would really recommend this, I had cookies and cream flavor (It doesn't exactly taste like it) but its still pretty tasty. Goes Well With:Water xD
- (16 / Nov / 2013)
Ordered cookies and cream, can't argue with price for 5kg. Haven't had it long but had better flavoured shakes
Great Product
- (14 / Nov / 2013)
I've been struggling to put on weight for a while now, despite eating like a horse, so I decided to give this Hard Gainer Extreme a go. I've been through about 3/4 of the pack and I've put on about 4lbs - not loads but it's definitely a start! It tastes pretty good as well, although sometimes the sediment falls to the bottom - in which case just give it a shake halfway through drinking it. Overall, I would definitely recommend this product for fellow ectomorphs who can't seem to make gains, despite eating loads! Goes Well With:Water
- (12 / Nov / 2013)
Excellent product noticed some good gains. Would definitely recommend if you're looking to add some extra calories to your diet.
- (11 / Nov / 2013)
I think this has been a really good purchase I've been drinking this for about 3 weeks now and have to say I'm seeing results I have the strawberry one and it tastes great without getting that sickly feeling I definitely will be buying this again.Goes Well With:Semi skimmed milk
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Boxing: Selby forced to withdraw
Lee Selby has been forced to pull out of Saturday night's British and Commonwealth featherweight title showdown with Martin Lindsay in Belfast due to illness.
The Welshman was deemed not fit enough to fight after a doctor's inspection, although Lindsay will still be in action at the Odyssey Arena according to promoter Eddie Hearn.
Selby would have started as favourite to retain his two titles after scoring impressive stoppage wins in his last three outings, but Lindsay was confident ahead of the bout.
"I've had great preparation and I genuinely feel in the shape of my life," he said in midweek.
It was later confirmed that Lindsay would fight Renald Garrido - originally slated to take on Scott Cardle - in an eight rounder.


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Maureen and Mike Mansfield Library Digital Collections
congressional Record p. Sl2972
(C(Q)[p)f August 10, 1970
ST~ OF smNATOR MIKE MANSFIELD (D., loJ)!fl'AlfA)
Mr. President:
I.s.at week, the Soviet Union and Western Germany initiated a non-aggr
sion pact. The agreement still awa1 ta tonnal signature and ratification
by both nations.
Nevertheless, the initialing of the pact 1a in i taelt an event or
great importance. That such 18 the case is indicated by the conmenta of both
the West German Foreign Minister Walter Scheel and his Soviet counterpart
Andrei Gromyko when, atter twelve days of negotiations, they concluded the
agre ent.
According to press reports, the pact encompasses the usual provisions
tor renunciation of force in settling disputes. It goes beyond, however, to
include a 1Illltual pledge to accept Europe's current national borden and to work
tor an improvement in East-West European relatic:ms. The pact leaves open the
door to eventual German reunif'icat1on. Finally, it ortera assurance that the
rights of the Western Allies ot World War II in the Berlin situation will not
be impaired.
This agreement seems to me to cperate in concert vi th two decadea or
Presidential pronouncements regarding this nation's policies. It 1a a land·
rk in the detente which has been in progress tor mny years in Europe, between
Eaat and West. It appears to be a link in the evolution or European relatione
towar<1a an all European approach to a stable peace. Theae relatione have emerged
from the tear and hoatili ty ot the il!Jiled1ate post World War II years via the routes
of' commerce 1 travel and cultural interchange between East and West. Bow,
Mike Mansfield Papers, Series 21, Box 46 , Folder 50, Mansfield Library, University of Montana.
CCCOPV the initiating ot this reenent may well point towards a full European
diplomatic reconciliation.
In that sense, t.he German Soviet pact underscores what so 1n
the Senate have been urging for so long. It is urgent thst this nation readJWit
1 policies t.o the changing realt ties in Europe, and notably aa they involve
a s1ve and costly U. s. troop deployment in Western Europe. In great measure
this expend! ture has been more than a needless drain on our dwindling resoureee.
In the rigidity w1 th which it has been maintained, the deployment has acted to
reduce the relevance of U. s. poUey to the flov of events in Europe.
The .14 bUlion annual clrain on u. s. resources is made even more
anachronistic by the latest development in West Oermany-~1et •elations.
It would be ey- hope that the xecutive branch vUl nov be moved o act
prollt)tly to begin an ord.er~· and a planned reduction of the over 500,000
U. s. torcea and dependents in Western Burope, to the end that this excessive
and wastetul expenditure of resources JI8:f be de to serve more useful
purposes, defense and non-defense.
I cannot stress too much the Senate's interest in this m.tter,.-..
is not unrelated to the mill tary authorizations and appropriations vhich are
nov mewing thl"''Ugh th Congress. May I say that it the Pr sident take an
:xecutive initiative which wuld act to redirect the usage of some of this
needlessly excessive elq)enditure in Europe, he can count on the tull eoopera-tion
of the Senate in bringing about the adjWitment.
Mike Mansfield Papers, Series 21, Box 46 , Folder 50, Mansfield Library, University of Montana.
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President Barack Obama on Thursday promised residents of New York and New Jersey hit by superstorm Sandy that they will get a coordinated federal, state and local effort to rebuild their devastated neighborhoods.
After touring damaged areas of the New York City boroughs of Queens and Staten Island, Obama announced he's appointing Housing Secretary Shaun Donovan to lead reconstruction once the immediate relief needs are met.
"We are going to be here until the rebuilding is complete," Obama said after meeting with residents and relief workers on Staten Island, repeating a vow he made to residents of New Jersey in the days after the storm made landfall.
The storm hit Oct. 29, just before the presidential election and the federal response, spearheaded by the Federal Emergency Management Agency, was shadowed by past disasters, particularly that which followed Hurricane Katrina in 2005.
A sign in the bayside township of Broad Channel, Queens, last week read, "FEMA PLEASE HELP US."
The sign is similar to the pleas Katrina survivors spray- painted on plywood seven years ago during what lawmakers criticized as a slow and botched response by FEMA. Eager to avoid such comparisons, the administration has dispatched thousands of FEMA workers to canvass still-dark apartments and tell survivors about the help available to them while the agency coordinates a federal aid effort.
"No excuse is going to satisfy the person who doesn't have power or a place to stay," said Mike Byrne, who's leading FEMA's effort in New York. "We just have to get beyond the obstacles and get to the solution whatever it takes."
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who joined Obama aboard Marine One for a helicopter tour over damaged areas, said earlier this week that FEMA's financial assistance "does not come close to making up" for the economic damage.
He's seeking about $30 billion in federal assistance to help the state recover. White House press secretary Jay Carney told reporters traveling with the president that the administration hadn't yet seen the specific request.
Along with Cuomo, Obama was joined on the tour by New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano and Donovan. The mayor is founder and majority owner of Bloomberg News parent Bloomberg LP.
Obama stopped FEMA disaster recovery center set up in the parking of New Dorp High School on Staten Island. Volunteers from around the country were helping distribute boxes of toiletries, food, blankets and cleaning supplies to about 100 local residents.
"We got the whole country represented here," Obama said. "We're proud of you guys."
The president also toured a street where many of the homes were damaged or destroyed.
"We've got some work to do and I want you to know I'm here to do it," Obama said to a crowd outside a boarded-up church.
As Obama spoke on Staten Island, cameras were trained on microphones in New Orleans where Attorney General Eric Holder was readying to formally announce that BP Plc had agreed to pay the largest criminal fine in the country's history for the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill. It was a split-screen reminder of the lessons Obama has learned in responding to disasters and harnessing the full power of the federal government to react.
While FEMA's response to the storm generally has won praise, there have been snags. Although the agency has helped organize gasoline and diesel deliveries, fuel shortages persist.
The agency is beginning to grapple with some of the biggest problems left in the storm's wake, such as permanent housing for displaced people and debris removal.
The criticism of FEMA lacks the vitriol aimed at the agency as New Orleans residents in Katrina's aftermath endured looting, rapes, days on sun-beaten rooftops and dead bodies festering in the streets. Since then, the agency has overcome congressional calls for its dissolution and reinvented itself.
"FEMA's a very different organization than it was," Sen. Joseph Lieberman, a Connecticut independent who heads the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, said in an email. For Sandy, "it was proactive, and it didn't used to be."
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, a prominent Republican ally of Obama's election opponent, Mitt Romney, has lauded FEMA's attention to the state's needs and the president's response.
The destruction of Sandy, a 900-mile-wide storm, was concentrated along the New Jersey coast and the five boroughs of New York. The death toll is more than 100.
Estimated insured losses are about $20 billion, according to Charles Watson, director of research for Kinetic Analysis Corp., a risk-assessment company based in Silver Spring, Md.
While the scale of Sandy's destructiveness is far less than Katrina, which killed 1,833 people and was spread over 90,000 square miles, the storm has tested FEMA's capabilities, emergency managers said.
The experience of FEMA's leadership, including Administrator Craig Fugate, the one-time head of Florida's emergency-response agency, has contributed to that success, said Ellis M. Stanley Sr., former general manager for the Los Angeles Emergency Preparedness Department.
"The primary difference" with FEMA after Katrina "is leadership," he said in an e-mail. "Not only are storm victims getting assistance quicker, the survivors are better engaged."
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The man accused of carrying a backpack containing a rice cooker near the Boston Marathon finish line on the anniversary of the bombings was arraigned Wednesday. He's being held on $100,000 bail.
The case for separate beds
The other night I slept on a twin bed in the guest room of the house I share with my husband and our two kids.
It was the best night's sleep I've had in years.
Raw oysters spike U.S. rise in bacterial infections, CDC reports
Raw oysters, so good with hot sauce, increasingly can carry something even more unsettling to the stomach: A bacteria linked to vomiting, diarrhea and pain.
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Sleep. Oh, to sleep. A good night's sleep is often a struggle for more than half of American adults. And for occasional insomnia, there are good reasons to avoid using medications, whether over-the-counter or prescription.
Low blood-sugar levels make for grousing spouses
Husbands and wives reported being most unhappy with their spouses when their blood-sugar levels were lowest, usually at night, according to research released this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Missing a meal, dieting or just being hungry may be the reason, researchers said.
VIDEO: Toddler climbs into vending machine
A child is safe after climbing into and getting stuck inside a claw crane machine at a Lincoln, Neb., bowling alley Monday.
VIDEO: From infant to teen in four minutes
Dutch filmmaker Frans Hofmeester's time lapse video of his daughter, Lotte — created by filming her every week from her birth until she turned 14 — has become a viral sensation.
Victimized by the 'marriage penalty'
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One of the biggest mysteries is why the disease comes and goes, and then comes and goes again. People tend to experience intense allergies between the ages of 5 and 16, then get a couple of decades off before the symptoms return in the 30s, only to diminish around retirement age.
VIDEO: A year after marathon bombing, Boston remains strong
The City of Boston came together Tuesday to honor those who were injured and lost their lives at the Boston Marathon on the one-year anniversary of the bombing. While the day was sure to be emotional, those affected by last year's race are showing they won't let the tragedy keep them down.
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"We played better," said Spring Garden coach Jason Howard. "We played hard, played hard. We had a hard time stopping them but we had a chance to win it."
Matters won't be any easier this week as Spring Garden travels to Valley Head (2-0). The Tigers have already defeated Class 1A, Region 7 foes Donoho and Cedar Bluff in their first two games.
"I think they're probably the best team in the region," Howard said of Valley Head. "Collinsville's probably got more athletes than they do but Valley Head is very physical and very, very big."
On the injury front, there is some good news and some bad news.
"We're banged up a little bit from the Gaylesville game," said Howard. "I think Will (Ivey) is going to be back and able to play offense this week but we lost Zach Dobbs. That puts another ninth-grader having to start at center. We've got to get through without getting too beat up this week then we should have a chance to compete and have a chance to win some over our next few ball games."
Against Gaylesville, the Panthers fell behind 7-0 early. Kyle Reece scored on a 24-yard run in the first quarter but the kick failed, leaving the Panthers down 7-6.
The Trojans got the first seven points of the second quarter. Spring Garden knotted the score at 14-all when Matt Mullinax scored on a 46-yard run and freshman quarterback Ben Ivey ran the ball over the goal line for a 2-point conversion.
"Ben played great. He's about three or four weeks ahead of what I thought he'd be. Going into the year, I already was thinking around Week 4 or Week 5 I might go ahead and put Ben at quarterback and move Will to tailback some. Ben's progressed, getting thrown into the fire these past two weeks. He's well ahead of where I thought he'd be," Howard said.
Before halftime, Mullinax added an 8-yard touchdown run and Hunter Bondie booted the extra point. At intermission, the Panthers held a 21-14 advantage.
After the Trojans forced another tie at 21-all, Spring Garden moved ahead again 28-21. The younger Ivey scored on a 1-yard quarterback sneak and Bondie again converted the extra point opportunity.
Mullinax led Spring Garden's offense with 169 rushing yards. Reece ran for 90 yards. Ivey finished with 64 yards passing and 14 yards rushing. Reece had 50 yards receiving and Chris Holcomb contributed 14 yards through the air.
Linebacker Quintin Downey paced the defense with seven tackles and recovered a fumble.
Dalton Kerr made four tackles. Bondie had two tackles and caused a fumble.


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