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Antinori's Guado al Tasso Bolgheri is the last Super Tuscan to get the Wine90 treatment this month. Antinori Guado al Tasso Bolgheri is a blended Cabernet Sauvignon/Merlot wine in almost equal amounts with just a splash of Syrah (usually 5%). These Super Tuscans are ITG wines which means they don't have to follow any particular ratio of grapes or have a certain alcohol limit. So in different vintages, depending on the success of the harvest the ratios can alter. However, most producers try to stick closely to previous vintages to keep some continuity in the brand. Blind tastings would be even more fun if they did not!
As this is the "Italian wine blog" I would like to be able to bash the French vin but actually they were all rather excellent. Reviewed for your pleasure is the Perrin & Fils Chateauneuf du Pape 2005 and the Chateau Leoville Poyferre 2004 .
Lovely deep red in the glass. My bottle came out of the fridge in a tiny restaurant in the Marias so the nose was almost impossible to decipher. Some definite vanilla, cherry and a hint of smoke on the nose. Super mouth feel, really firm and fruity, great tannins, rounded and opulent I can't believe the price on this 2004 Bordeaux and can't stress how much you should be buying this wine esp considering the 2005 prices. 92 Points


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This side dish is so popular that we offer it at lunch and dinner every day. The 3-step cooking process and the use of white corn makes this a different and unique version of this Kentucky classic.
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- 1 teaspoon salt
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- 3 tablespoons butter, melted
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Place in oven for 10 minutes. Remove and stir with long prong fork, disturbing the top as little as possible.
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Democrats, Republicans and political action groups are making their final pitches to voters this weekend, and they're taking a few last swings at opponents, hoping to tip the scales in their favor.
The attacks have some candidates upset.
Democratic Senate candidate Keith Humphrey, who is running against incumbent Republican Sen. Mike Petersen in District 28 in south Wichita and Derby, said the Kansas Republican Party should apologize for an ad it sent to voters that questions why he changed his name and raised questions about his businesses.
Citing the Internet Movie Database and online public records, the ad says "Keith Humphrey doesn't want you to know about his background … or that his name hasn't always been Humphrey."
Humphrey said he was born as Keith Desoto and that his name changed when he was adopted at age 11.
The ad also questions the purposes of his businesses because it's not clear in state filings what two of them do. He owns four aviation-related businesses, one of which is called Desoto Capitol and is a company set up as the owner of the building that houses his jet engine repair company. He said he used his former last name as an homage to his biological father, who he recently reconnected with. He said he also used that name when he wrote screenplays while living in California as a tribute to his father.
The other business referenced does aviation sales consulting work, Humphrey said.
Humphrey said such attacks keep good, qualified candidates from running for office.
"It's a sad commentary for what's happening," he said.
Kansas Republican Party Executive Director Clay Barker said he believes the ad is factually true, and he said it's just part of what both parties are doing to try to win the election.
Barker said he feels that attack ads sent by Democrats have escalated the attacks.
"It's kind of like the Democratic Party declared war, and we're fighting back," he said.
Democratic Party Chairwoman Joan Wagnon called the ad "a new low" because it attacks that he was adopted.
"This is a sad, desperate mail piece that seeks to play on people's worst fears and prejudices," she said in a media release.
Petersen has been attacked too.
The Kansas Democratic Party sent out postcards that say Petersen "is playing politics with women's health."
The ad says Petersen supported Gov. Sam Brownback's rejection of a $31 million federal grant intended to help the state set up an insurance exchange, which is required under the federal health insurance overhaul. It cites a Topeka Capital-Journal article, but that article doesn't mention Petersen.
Brownback — not the Legislature — made the decision to send back the grant. Although he wasn't directly involved in the decision, Petersen said he did support Brownback's decision because he felt there were too many federal requirements the state would have had to meet if it accepted the money.
The Democrats attack ad goes on to say that in Washington D.C., politicians are redefining rape and denying rape victims health services unless they can prove it was forcible. Petersen said he doesn't understand the connection.
"It has nothing to do with me," he said. Petersen said Democrats may be attacking his anti-abortion stances because they used a photo of Petersen at a pro-life rally.
Petersen also said that a Democratic Party ad is wrong. The ad quotes Humphrey saying that "As a lifelong Kansan, I'll never stop fighting for you."
Humphrey said he wasn't aware of the Democratic Party's ad. He said he never said he was a lifelong Kansan. Humphrey lived in several states looking for work after leaving the Navy. He has said he has lived in the district for seven years.
Barker, with the Republican Party, said Kansans will likely see even sharper attack ads across the state this weekend.
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Athletics Nation interviews GiambiBy
If anyone is missing Jason Giambi this spring, you can head over to Athletics Nation where Tyler Bleszinski has conducted an interview with the former Yanks first baseman. It's quite the long one — and it's only the first part. Jason talks about the difference between playing in Oakland and playing in New York, how he views himself on each team, and the adjustments he made to his swing upon coming to the Yanks.
Head over to read the whole thing — I can't possibly do it justice without completely reprinting it. However, there were a couple of parts I found particularly interesting. The first of which is Giambi's reply to the question of how he views himself as a defensive first baseman. I didn't know what to expect after reading the question, but it certainly wasn't this: "I view myself as great." Yeah, right. Tyler's talking about playing first base, Jason, not about chugging Jack. Jay at Fack Youk takes a closer look at this statement.
Most interesting, though, is the revelation that Giambi very well might not have been a Yankee had ownership not intervened. The A's and Giambi apparently had a place in deal before the 2001 season which would have paid Big G around $90 million over six years.
Trust me, I wanted to stay in Oakland. We had a deal done. You can ask Billy Beane. It was my free agent year before the season started. And ownership at the time pulled the deal off the table. I had flown my parents out, my agent, everybody. A lot of people don't know that.
That creates one massive what-if scenario. Looking at the list of free agents that year, there was really only one superstar bat available: Barry Bonds. Would the Yanks have pursued him to fill their left field void? He was, after all, fresh off a record-breaking season. The Giants ended up signing him for four years and $72 million with a $18 million club option, but without another blue-chip slugger on the market perhaps the Yankees would have put their resources towards Bonds.
Barring that, they could have gone forward with a Johnny Damon signing, putting him in left field. Considering the money they would have saved on Giambi, they could have as easily signed Rondell White, too, to play right field.
I love how one little interview sparks so many questions. We'll never know how Yankee history would have unfolded had Giambi re-upped with the A's in 2001. But it's fun to think about for sure.
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break out the delorean. im curious.
Alou was a FA as well..
No matter how often I view myself as a size 4 I'm still not.
Off topic but I have to post it…
Kei Igawa this spring – 9 innings, 5 hits, 9 strikeouts, 0 earned runs
That's clearly a shot at Jeter.
Shit, it auto removed my little picture thing
Heh… I haven't been around much, is that meme finally starting to grate on people? Talk about getting beaten into the ground.
As you can clearly see from my handy little scale, it has officially crossed over the middle point and is well into "omg stfu" territory.
your scale is a shot at Jeter.
Yeah, we need to let that meme slip for a while now and then bust it out in like, 2 or 3 months and use it sparingly from there on.
Dude, I vote for instant meme-death and brutal mocking of anyone who continues using it. That shit was funny for like 10 minutes. Laziest joke since the post-under-someone-else's-name tard-fest.
Cy Young special!!!!
With last years AAA numbers, hopefully pitching himself into a bad contract swap
I want to say i have hope for the guy, but whenever he has hit the pros, he blows up.
He still has too much of a stigma to move. He needs a few solid starts in the majors before someone will take him.
The Padres were interested in him before when he was putting up terrible numbers. There are probably a few teams who feel he just has to get out of NY.
There is definitely a market for him. Some stupid GM will see his spring numbers and think there is something there.
Well Jim Bowden and Bill Bavasi are both gone, so we are running out of options here.
That's crazy.
List of FA that year:
Realistically Bonds, Alou & Damon are the only 3 that seem to make sense as a Giambi replacement
Juan Gonzalez would've looked like a great signing at the time. Would've played out terribly fo course.
I think most of the FA's would've shaken out similarly to Giambino. The one big difference would've been Damon which might have saved us great pain in '04. It does make me wonder though, who would we have picked up at first base via trade or FA?
they would have brought Tino back, i'd imagine
"They could have signed Rondell White, too. . . "
As far as i remember, Joe, they did sign him. . .


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Though the echoes are diminishing with the passage of time, they still can be heard today on the roster and in the transaction column for the Tampa Bay Lightning.
A member of the Bolts top-6 will remain with the club through 2015-16. Does this give you an idea of the window of opportunity fo the club?
Carter Ashton being dealt for Keith Aulie is not the first time the Tampa Bay Lightning and Toronto Maple Leafs have exchanged a power forward for a defenseman.
Oh yeah, all right, darlin' you gonna' be in my dreams tonight? ...And in the end, the puck you take, is equal to the puck you make.
It is that time of year to wonder just what went wrong with the Lightning, but sometimes the laments are overlooking grander problems with the team. Case in point - blaming a lack of acquisition at...
Jeff halpern has been traded to Los Angeles
The Lightning fell down, went boom over the last four games in the Eastern Conference playoff race. Maybe it's time to wave the white flag....?
Tampa Bay players have been told their flight has been pushed back to 3:30 ET and not to be surprised if there are moves made.Bob MacKenzie TSN
"You'd love to help, always. That's the goal. I'm just not sure it's out there with the market the way it is."Lightning GM Brian Lawton
Former Bolt and behemoth wing Evgeny Artyukhin has been traded from the Anaheim Ducks to the Atlanta Thrashers.for Nate Oystrick and a conditional draft pick in 2011. I am not happy with the idea of facing him a bunch of times a season as an opponent.
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crkyolfrt Posts: 2,345Always appreciate real world experiences. Thanks for posting.
I know this info is probably out there, but for some reason I am always confused as to which engine comes in the Titanium. Not sure where/why it confuses me..I think is because when I last checked I have gotten conflicting results. I 'think' it comes only with the 2.0? (ecoboost) ..why they just don't call the turbos a turbo still mystifies me..marketing geniuses always at work trying to justify their presence behind a desk, is my first guess..
It's the 2.0L Ecoboost. The reason Ecoboost was created was to provide V8 power with V6 fuel economy (3.5L). Ford still positions the Ecoboost engines as providing the same power as a larger naturally aspirated engine with better fuel economy. In this case it's replacing the 3.0L and 3.5L engines. And it just sounds better than "turbo" which has some negative connotations for some people.
Kirstie_H Posts: 10,818This is completely possible if one travels for their job, or lives far from work. When I lived in the St. Louis area, I put 1500-1700 miles on my vehicle every month, almost exclusively to/from work travel. Not much a person can do about that, except buy a vehicle that they enjoy spending time in!
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gregg_vw Posts: 2,415Yes, some people have long commutes, or jobs that require more driving than most. 24,000 miles in a year is not the norm but is not that unusual. Highway mileage is not hard on a car, so high mileage, newer vehicles generally remain reliable. If the bugs can't be worked out in 2.5 years of warranty, then maybe you have a lemon on your hands.
Still seems awfully excessive to me. I doubt even a delivery driver puts 2,000 miles a month on a car! If my job was that far from my home, I'd move! What are you gonna do if your car breaks down? Sorry boss, I can't drive like a taxi cab anymore, my car has a problem! If you're gonna drive that much just for work, then you might as well be a taxi cab driver!
m6user Posts: 2,950Don't say what you would do until you walk in somebody else's shoes. It's easy to say you'd do this or that but maybe there are circumstances that you just plainly have not considered. I have a son in law that has to drive his personal vehicle for wor. He covers a very large metro sales area and easily puts 24k miles on a year. He would love to not have to drive so much but that is his job and in his line of work it's a good job with a lot of flexibility and great pay/benefits. But, the downside is driving a lot. And no he is not a taxi driver.
fushigi Posts: 1,232My sister lives where she wants to - in a smaller town where the quality of life matches her desires. She works on the far side of a larger city. So, 63 miles each way is her commute. 126 miles/day, 630 miles/week. That's over 30K/year after subtracting for a 2 week vacation. And add a few more miles for recreational driving and errands.
She recently bought a '13 Elantra with stick shift. She's getting 41-45MPG and is saving about $40 a week in gas over her last car, an '04 Sonata MT that she retired with 196K on the odo.
I live in the Chicago suburbs and while I take a commuter train into the city, there are others who drive it. From my 'burb to downtown is about 40 miles each way.
Long commutes are a fact of life for lots of people.
a few short quotes from the CU review:
"....The new Accord is roomy, nice to drive, well equipped, and very fuel efficient.
Its 2.4-liter four-cylinder engine, when matched with the smooth continuously variable transmission, squeezes out an excellent 30 mpg overall and 40 on the highway. That's as good as a tiny Honda Fit and better than most compact cars. The 3.5-liter V6 is super-smooth and quite powerful, snapping off a 6.3-second 0-to-60 mph time that is competitive with some sports cars. And its 26 mpg overall is among the best in its class.
Inside, you are treated to one of the best driving positions available, comfortable seats, and terrific visibility. All Accords have a standard backup camera, rare among family sedans. Uplevel models include advanced safety features seldom found in this category, including forward-collision and lane-departure warning systems, and Honda's new Lane Watch blind-spot camera system....
In the final tally, the four-cylinder Accord jumped 10 points in our Ratings to take over the top spot among entry-level sedans...
Based on its history, we expect above-average reliability for the Accord.
The Accord is one of the more agile family sedans, with subdued body lean and decent steering feedback....
Honda has finally solved the Accord's longtime problem with road noise; road and wind noise are nicely muted....
The CVT is smooth, quick, and unobtrusive, marking a new benchmark for that type of transmission. You'd be hard pressed to tell that it isn't a conventional automatic, high praise indeed....
Drivers will find plenty of space in the cabin. The cloth front seats are wide and supportive, although the LX model lacks power seats and lumbar adjustment. The powered leather seats provide better support and more adjustments and have two-position seat memory, a unique feature in this class. The rear has a supportive bench that's comfortable for two adults but tight for three.
Fit and finish is generally very good....
The Accord's gauges are a model of clarity, and most controls are easy to use....
All Accords come with standard dual-zone automatic climate control, a nice touch....
The trunk is large and nicely trimmed....
cski West Springfield, VAPosts: 1,177Absolutely. The Altima has been and still is a mid-pack car. It has to meet certain guidelines and goals, and all those goals are achieved by their engineers. It just can't get to the front of the pack for some reason. It's a nice car. Reliable and quick. I just don't WANT one.
Someone else said something here that is totally true. All of the mid-size sedans are great cars. You really can't go wrong to a certain extent.
If they were not such good machines we wouldn't all be here talking about them, and arguing for our choice.
You really can't go wrong to a certain extent.
I agree with that, although IMO there's a few mid-sizers that fall very quickly to the back of the pack, not close to being competitive with the others: 200/Avenger for sure, and possibly the new Malibu. But for the others... really I think it's a question of personal taste, and price.
Case in point: a month ago I jumped at the chance to trade in a 2007 Sonata GLS with a lot of body damage, no warranty left, and new rubber needed in a year or so for a 2013 Sonata GLS with every option except iPod cable for nothing out of pocket and $48 a month for 35 months. It was a surprise for my wife, and she loves it... calls it the Enterprise because of its space-age styling and dash. And I enjoy driving it too, when I get the chance. Lots of power, economical, roomy, smooth and quiet ride, nice controls and displays, lots of creature comforts (heated seats, power seat, Bluetooth, BlueLink, XM radio etc. etc.). Full warranty including no-charge wheel/tire/glass repairs and paintless dent removal (Thanksgiving special). And great looking I think in ruby red and black/tan interior. Yet it's not even considered in the top 4 or 5 mid-sized family sedans, and when the new Mazda6 hits showrooms the Sonata will drop further relative to the competition. But it's a very enjoyable car, and hard to beat for the money.
You know what they say: happy wife, happy life.
Sounds like an awesome deal on a really good car. Congrats!
And my guess is that the Sonata is maybe in the top 3 or so of midsize cars.
Some (including me) would say the new Accord seems to be in first for now.
But which car is in second is tough to say. As you say, the 200 and Malibu are at the bottom. And the Camry has not been highly rated in any test I've seen lately, even though they sell like crazy.
Just from the comparison tests I've read, it seems kinda like a 3-way tie for 2nd place between the Altima, Sonata, and Optima. Maybe the Passat is in there too.
stickguy Posts: 14,148I won't be buying anything new for a long time, and most likely it won't be a largeish 4 door like this, but if I were to be in that market, the Accord would once again be high on the list.
I need to swing by the Honda dealer one of these days to sit in a new Accord and Civic.
actually, 2013 is sneaking up on me, and the Philly auto show is in mid-January. So get to see everything then.
2013 Acura RDX (wife's), 2007 Volvo S40 (when daughter lets me see it), 2000 Acura TL (formerly son's, now mine again), and new Jetta SE (son's first new car on his own dime!)
Why would you think my wife's 2007 Sonata was a stick shift? Any idea how many of those were sold in the USA? Not many. One thing you couldn't know is that sticks don't agree with my wife. :P
Since we've only had the 2013 for 4 weeks and less than 500 miles, I'm sure it's not broken in. And the weather has been seasonable, meaning cold (mostly 20s to 30s). And all city driving so far. So, kinda early to be drawing generalizations about FE, but what I've seen so far is that my wife gets around 20 mpg the way she drives it, which is very short trips, lots of idling, heavy foot on the gas. That's maybe 5-10% better than she was getting on the old car in similar conditions. When the car was brand-new, I got to drive it most of the time for several days and I was getting 25-26 mpg around town, still all short trips (less than 7-8 miles). That was again maybe 5-10% better than the 2007. Given it's a brand-new car with 198 hp vs. 162, not too bad I think. I can't wait to take it on a trip of some distance to see how it does on the highway. Our 2007 was getting 32-33 tops on the highway; I expect to see an improvement with the new car.
Camry and Prius V get Poor ratings in small offset crash test. This is a common type of crash.
The only bestselling midsize sedan to earn a Good rating was the Accord.
Video and story at link:
"....In the Camry, the force of the impact shoved the front wheel back into the footwell, bending the windshield pillar and pushing the parking brake pedal and the left outer edge of the instrument panel rearward into the driver's survival space. Likewise, there was significant intrusion in the Prius v, along with high forces on the dummy's legs and feet. The Prius v is the only car in the midsize test group to earn a poor rating for hip and thigh protection.
The Camry's driver airbag and side curtain airbag deployed, but the steering wheel moved so far to the right that the dummy's head made only minimal contact with the front airbag. The side curtain airbag didn't extend far enough forward to help prevent the dummy's head from hitting the instrument panel. In the Prius v, the side curtain airbag deployed too late in the crash to offer protection.
"Toyota engineers have a lot of work to do to match the performance of their competitors," Lund says....
The Accord sedan shows how safety belts and airbags work together to provide exemplary protection. The dummy stayed engaged with the Accord's front airbag, and the steering wheel remained relatively stable because there was only moderate intrusion into the occupant compartment. That meant that the driver airbag was in the right position to cushion the dummy's head and chest. The side curtain airbag extended far enough forward to prevent the dummy's head from hitting interior components...."


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OKLAHOMA CITY — The revival of Route 66 has led to a fascination with the exterior of the many motels that line the historic highway, but one Tulsa artist hopes a new exhibit will remind people that not everything that goes on inside the rooms should be romanticized.
Western Doughty's Route 66: Room #116 is a collection of about 75 images depicting everyday experiences that take place at a motel along Route 66 that tends to attract an assortment of travelers: transients, cross-country drivers, families and Route 66 enthusiasts.
The show is scheduled to open at Living Arts in Tulsa on Jan. 3 and run through Jan. 23.
"The things that you expect to happen at those places, it's true," Doughty said, later adding: "We romanticize Route 66 motels and we should, but we also know that things go on behind these walls and doors that are part of the American fabric good or bad."
More than three dozen of the images from the project have been posted to Doughty's website, and the images are striking and formidable. Most show a seedy underbelly of society that many people like to think doesn't exist: In one, a woman stands behind a bathroom door, phone in hand, ready to attack a man draped only in a towel who is exiting the bathroom.
But others show more mundane moments in life, like a young boy jumping on the bed.
The project took Doughty three years to complete. It included three one-week installments where Doughty slept and lived in a room at the Desert Hills Motel along Tulsa's 11th Street, which is also Route 66. More than 200 people were photographed, many of whom answered a casting call but some who were also staying at the motel and asked to take part.
As a child in the 1970s, Doughty's mother took him to the Desert Hills Motel to stay after what he now believes was a fight between his parents. The motel, he said, became an emotional "trigger" for him as got older and he wanted to see how others reacted to their own triggers.
The responses were at times emotional. "Sometimes you think someone is a little more rough and they end up being real timid," he said. "I guess some of the emotional responses I got and putting them in the situation, I expected it, but not the magnitude of it."
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OTTUMWA — Health care students say the financial boost they received through local scholarships encourages them to give back in their future careers.
At Ottumwa Regional Legacy Foundation's annual scholarship recipient reception Thursday afternoon, 21 students pursuing careers in health care were awarded a total of $27,000 in scholarships. Since the scholarship program began in 2004, $246,000 have been awarded.
"We focus on specifically those fields of health careers that we have a shortage of in our community and surrounding communities," said Kelly Genners, ORLF's director of community leadership and grant-making.
Southeast Iowa has had a longstanding difficulty in recruiting and retaining health care professionals, she said.
"There are so many opportunities when you come out of school anymore, so they're recruited hard and they look at a lot of things," she said. "What kind of packages could they potentially get, where could they get their loans paid for, quality of life, where they want to raise their family. I think it's difficult with the low reimbursement rate with Medicare, Iowa is at the bottom, which makes it difficult right out of the gate. But we do have great physicians who want to come here, raise their families and they recognize the importance of small towns."
The students honored Thursday hail from several communities in southeast Iowa, and they're attending universities throughout the nation.
One student, Doug Thompson, drives every day to Des Moines from Ottumwa — where he lives with his wife and two kids — to attend Des Moines University's doctor of physical therapy program.
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2012 London Olympics: Cesar Cielo, Cullen Jones Deadheat for 50 Free Top Seed; Anthony Ervin Qualifies Third
August 2, 2012
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LONDON, England, August 2. IN a swim reminiscent of the 2000 gold medal tie between Gary Hall Jr. and Anthony Ervin, Brazil's Cesar Cielo and USA's Cullen Jones deadheated in the first semifinal of the men's 50-meter freestyle to lead the way into finals at the 2012 London Olympics.
Cielo and Jones posted matching times of 21.54. The swims bettered the Olympic textile best of 21.77 clocked by George Bovell in prelims, while Jones' time cleared the American textile best of 21.55 posted by Nathan Adrian at the 2010 Pan Pacific Championships.
Cielo is gunning for a title defense, as he topped France's Amaury Leveaux in 2008. Out of the six times this event has been held, two men have already defended titles. Alexander Popov won in 1992 and 1996, while Hall Jr. picked up the 2000 and 2004 Olympic gold medals.
"The most important thing was not the fact that I was first, but that I did a good time," Cielo said.
Jones, shaking off a disappointing effort in the 100 free, put himself in position for his first individual Olympic medal. He won gold as part of the men's 400 free relay in 2008, and silver this week as part of that same relay. He'd like to join Ervin as an African-American medalist in the event.
"It was much better than this morning, it's better than I predicted," Jones said. "This morning I was a little bit out of it, I was fortunate to make the semis. Tonight I needed to do everything as perfect as possible, and I've done my best time of the year. This is my best time without suit. I am knocking on the door of the American record. I swim my own race. Everyone's trying to get their hand on the wall first. Don't matter who it is, I'm going to get my hand on the wall first."
Ervin, meanwhile, continued to throw down strong times. He posted a 21.62 in semifinal 1 to qualify third. That time nearly beat his lifetime best of 21.60 from the 2012 U.S. Olympic Trials, and easily crushed the time he and Hall used to win gold in 2000 (21.98).
"It feels great," Ervin said. "I came here to race the best in the world, I'm stoked to be racing the best in the world."
Brazil's Bruno Fratus (21.63), Trinidad and Tobago's George Bovell (21.77), France's Florent Manaudou (21.80), Australia's Eamon Sullivan (21.88) and South Africa's Roland Schoeman (21.88) also made the finale. Schoeman took bronze in this event in 2004.
"That's always the way I race, I always rely on a good finish," Fratus said. "I am really satisfied with that time. It will be a really tight race tomorrow. There will be only 100ths of a second in it."
Australia's James Magnussen took 11th with a 22.00, missing finals.
"I feel mentally exhausted and physically not far behind. I did not sleep last night. I had no expectations on myself for this race," Magnussen said. "I was chasing from the start and felt a little bit rusty. It has been a very stressful week, especially after losing in the relay (AUS came 4th in the men's 4x100m freestyle) so I had no expectations on myself."
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BELLINGHAM - Sales of bottled water on Western Washington University's campus will end April 1 - about two years after students overwhelmingly voted for the ban over environmental concerns.
Western will be the largest Washington state college or university, public or private, to do so, thanks to an initiative led by Students for Sustainable Water to get people to turn to tap water instead of buying plain water in disposable plastic bottles.
Sales of bottled water are harmful to the environment, in part because just 13 percent of the plastic bottles are recycled, according to WWU senior Carolyn Bowie, a member of Students for Sustainable Water at Western.
She also cited concerns about water privatization and excessive extraction of water, adding that water was a "sacred and scarce resource" that was recognized as a human right by the United Nations.
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"It's silly to buy bottled water," said Gunderson, 23. "I can understand buying soda, but you spend so much on plastic water bottles when you could just buy one bottle and reuse it."
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Leonard Jones, director of University Residences, called that $40,000 loss a worst-case scenario, adding that someone who can't buy water from a vending machine might instead buy soda or juice.
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Ola Mae Thompson Walden, 91, of 9001 Bill Tuck Hwy., Virgilina died Thursday, Aug. 1, 2013, at The Woodview. She was born in Rowan County, N.C. on Jan. 19, 1922, the daughter of the late Jason M. Thompson and Nina Brotherton Thompson and was married to the late Phillip M. Walden Sr.
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Local Cub Scouts from Pack 62 worked with the Salvation Army on Saturday, Nov. 10 to collect canned food for their food bank. Scouts worked the early-morning shift in an effort to collect as many items as possible to help feed families in need. The food collected will be distributed to locals in the community for the holidays. The boys collected 168 bags of canned food over the course of two days.
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The contrast between Indiana coach Tom Crean and Temple coach Fran Dunphy is the difference between a live wire and a python.
Personality-wise, the two coaches who will face off in today's NCAA Tournament third round game at UD Arena couldn't be more different.
But like a live wire and a python, they're both lethal in their own way. All one has to do is look at their considerable track records for evidence of that.
Crean, of course, took Marquette to the Final Four in 2003, and has lifted IU from the ashes of NCAA violation purgatory to the pinnacle of the Big Ten Conference.
The world is the Hoosiers' oyster as they have a No. 1 seed in the NCAA Tournament for the first time in a generation and all of the trappings (and expectations) that come with it.
Dunphy isn't as well known to Midwest basketball fans, but he doesn't have to apologize to anyone for his coaching resume. Dunphy took Pennsylvania from mid-level Ivy League obscurity in the early 1990s to 10 Ivy League titles in 17 seasons for the Philadelphia-based school.
He then succeeded John Chaney at Temple in 2006 and has led the Owls to four Atlantic 10 Conference championships. Dunphy has a career-record of 468-237, good for a .664 winning percentage, 60 percentage points better than Crean.
So revered is Dunphy in the City of Brotherly Love that he's regularly crossed streets between Philly's famed Big Five schools, which is virtually unheard of.
He played at La Salle and coached at Penn and Temple. He's the only person who's coached at more than one of the Big Five schools.
Dunphy does it with all of the panache of someone who just clocked out at your local bank branch.
The button-down Dunphy lumbers on the sideline with a grizzly-bear gait (and sometimes its growl), but once you get past his book's cover, it becomes crystal clear that he's a thinking man's coach.
It was fascinating to watch Dunphy go about his press conference business on Saturday at UD Arena, especially in comparison to the frenetic Crean.
If lo-fi and droll is what you're after, wait no more.
"These timeouts are — you could take a nap during some of these timeouts. They're long. And for me, I don't have that much to say. I'm not that interesting a guy," Dunphy deadpanned when asked about player fatigue.
He was later asked if he was surprised about IU guard Yogi Ferrell's quick start in the Hoosiers' 83-62 second-round victory over James Madison on Friday.
"It didn't surprise me because he's the Freshman of the Year in the Big Ten, am I right," Dunphy said.
He was then told Michigan's Gary Harris won the honor.
"Oh? Was he? [Ferrell] was on the First Team All-Rookie Team? Is that what I read?" Dunphy queried. "Whatever. He can really play … so I'm concerned."
Crean, on the other hand, was his usual bounce-off-the-wall self.
All you need to know about Crean's loquaciousness is that he spent several minutes talking about a game (Florida Gulf Coast's Friday second round upset over Georgetown) that he admitted he had only seen the score for.
But Crean — who has never coached against Dunphy at IU or Marquette — has an enormous amount of respect for his Sunday counterpart.
"I don't know him great, but we have some mutual friends and he's just an excellent basketball coach," Crean said.
"Watching his teams now, you just see they're not going to get surprised. They're not going to beat themselves. They're going to have an answer for everything. There's a poise under pressure. I think that all stems from him," he added.
In their way, both teams reflect their coach.
Crean is all rah-rah for the press and cameras, but he does it not only to project a certain image, but also, to keep his Hoosiers from having to do the same. He allows the Hoosiers' players to be all-business. And they were on Saturday.
Dunphy's more cerebral approach rubs off on his Owls. There was no demonstrative awe on the part of Temple's players on Saturday. They were calm, showed respect to the Hoosiers, but not without having confidence in themselves.
The coaches might appear different, but really, all they do is take a different path to the same destination, usually, a winning one. Watching them match wits will add to a fascinating Sunday at UD Arena.
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- Peter Pieters (Guitar)
- Richard Wistreich
- Dominique Visse
- Roel Dieltiens (Cello)
- Judith Nelson (Soprano)
- Jeffrey Gall (Countertenor)
- Jill Feldman
- John Elwes (Tenor)
- Isabelle Poulenard (Soprano)
- Gottfried Bach (Organ)
- Jean Nirou�t (Countertenor)
- Guy Mey (Voice)
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"Xerse" was written using the libretto that Handel also used, 84 years later. The text adopted here is that of its premiere in Venice in 1654. "[Xerse] is an undoubted success: a hitherto unheard opera of striking quality, playing and singing that are extremely musicianly and musical (by no means always synonymous!); and an impeccably clean recording."
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Works DetailsCavalli, Francesco : Xerse, opera
- Performers: Jean Nirouët (Countertenor); Guy Mey (Voice); Konrad Junghanel (Theorbo); François Fauché (Baritone); René Jacobs (Countertenor); Agnès Mellon; Peter Pieters (Guitar); Richard Wistreich; Dominique Visse; Roel Dieltiens (Cello); Judith Nelson (Soprano); Jeffrey Gall (Countertenor); Jill Feldman; John Elwes (Tenor); Isabelle Poulenard (Soprano); Gottfried Bach (Organ)
- Conductor: René Jacobs
- Ensemble: Concerto Vocale
- Notes: Composition written: Persia.
- Running Time: 7 min. 58 sec.
- Period Time: Baroque
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A City Council subcommittee is calling for an increase in fines for violations of Gloucester's dog restraint ordinance, and the full council is set to hold a hearing on the issue on Nov. 12, a week after Tuesday's city elections.
But a city councilor who's been at the forefront of the issue says he'll be asking the city to hold off taking that step until officials can take a broader look at the full city ordinance.
Current Ward 5 Councilor Greg Verga said there has been some confusion about what is being suggested, and what was passed years ago. That's why he took to Facebook, a local message board, and has been fielding constituent questions to set the record straight on what the law already states, and what is being suggested.
He said the issue arose when he got a constituent call from a woman who was walking her leashed dog at Stage Fort Park — next to the newly opened the Gloucester Dog Park — when two larger, unleashed dogs started trouble with the smaller canine.
According to the constituent, the owner of the larger two dogs was less than friendly about the incident, Verga related.
With that, Verga requested a review of the ordinance by the City Council's subcommittee on Ordinance and Administration, chaired by Sefatia Romeo Theken, with at-large councilor Bob Whynott and Ward 3's Steve LeBlanc as members. And that panel's recommendation came back calling for an undefined increase to the fines for a variety of violations.
But Verga hopes that all aspects of the city's dog ordinance can instead be brought up for review — including a longstanding, and oft-ignored, mandate that all dogs be kept on a six-foot leash.
"We should take all the testimony from both sides — all the input — have another review, and take it from there," he said.


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Posted by Jason Sizemore on Jan 29, 2013 in Apex Publications Blog: Matters of SF, Fantasy, and Horror | 1 comment
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It's easier on the liberal conscience to believe that the war in the forests is a war between the Government of India and the Maoists, who call elections a sham, Parliament a pigsty and have openly declared their intention to overthrow the Indian State. It's convenient to forget that tribal people in Central India have a history of resistance that predates Mao by centuries. (That's a truism of course. If they didn't, they wouldn't exist.) The Ho, the Oraon, the Kols, the Santhals, the Mundas and the Gonds have all rebelled several times, against the British, against zamindars and moneylenders. The rebellions were cruelly crushed, many thousands killed, but the people were never conquered.
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When it was Bliss to be a Communist
Between 1936 and 1947, the Communist Party of India grew from a base of few hundred cadre to 80,000. During one of the most critical phases of its history, when it supported the British war effort in 1942, the Party actually expanded and brought into its fold people who later became major cultural figures. When the Royal Indian Mutiny took place in 1946, the flags of three political groups were flown on the mutinous ships- that of the Indian National Congress, the Muslim League and the CPI. The then leader of the CPI was also the first person to address Gandhi as the 'father of the nation'. Given the aura that the party built up at that time, its leader at that time is relatively little known. If his comrades in arms in the party who took over immediately after him had their way, his name would have been completely written off. As it were, they almost succeeded.
There has been little or no remembrance on the part of the CPI and CPM for PC Joshi.
After all, the intellectual decline and current mediocrity of the CPM was achieved at the cost of dismantling the heritage of Joshi, particularly by Pramod Dasgupta.
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Robert Fisk created quite a flutter last week with his article on the decline and possible demise of the dollar. Probably the rumours are untrue, but then there isn't a smoke without a fire. Martin Wolf critiques Fisk's views in FT (needs free registration).
The award of the Nobel for literature to Herta Muller confirms that East and Central Europe, along with Latin America, is the happening place for contemporary literature. An extract from one of her novels.
Why did Rama fight the war with Ravana? In his own words, it wasn't for Sita. Read a superb piece by a card- carrying feminist and translator of the Valmiki Ramayana.
The award to Olstrom is path breaking both because she is the first woman to receive the Nobel for economics as well as because, strictly speaking, she isn't an economist. A good introduction to her work on the collective use of common resources.
One may love or hate her, but the fact is that Arundhati Roy continues to give expression to the angst of our age.
This is the first part of an inspiring Hungarian travelogue by a group of Dalit students.
You can also follow these occasional links real time via twitter.
Caste, Racism and the UN Resolution
"There were misconceived attempts by some NGOs to equate racism with caste-based discrimination which is based on birth and occupation and has nothing to do with the race of a person."
Earlier this year in April the Indian government had succeeded in having caste discrimination ignored in the resolution during the World Conference on Racism held in Geneva. Continue reading
IT: The Future is Here, Almost
Trivia: The original article was typed on a PC- XT machine using Word Star 7.
I had used email for just over a month then using a corporate account and the browser I was then using were Mosaic and Gopher !
Anyone remember using these ??
Information Revolution
The Future is Here, Almost
by Bhupinder Singh
(Op Ed, The Tribune, Chandigarh, 19 August 1995)
India formally joined Internet, the real information superhighway- on Wednesday. With a PC and a modem, Indians now have the wide, wild, world of information at their button tips. This article by a computer engineer talks about new vistas and, hidden traps.
While we were not looking, the future arrived.
It did not arrive the way popular science fiction had predicted- with personal trips to Mars on weekends, et al. Instead, it arrived as a social, cultural, informational and technological revolution more world- changing than the futurists could have dreamed. This change is so headlong and profound that it is more than difficult to comes to terms with or even grasp it, let alone understand it.
Within the lifetime of people who have barely got beyond middle age, human society and the relations of people within them have gone through a sort of economic and social earthquake. To a large extent, technological change since the Industrial Revolution, has not much been derived from it as it has driven this cataclysmic change.
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A Pilgrimage
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Mayawati's Iconoclasm and the statues
What is missing in such 'common sense' perceptions is that Mayawati along with Kanshi Ram, like all innovators and path breakers, has been an iconoclast of the highest order. Between the two of them, they have created for the first time in Indian history a successful party representing some of the poorest and socially ostracized masses of the country. Like it or not, it is an unprecedented achievement. This has been done by technique and strategies that have made no sense to many because their politics is of a very different nature.
For instance, a party that claims to represent the socially oppressed, the BSP has never indicated any kind of social reform or advanced any social and economic programme for the Dalits. It's party organization structure unique- it is neither cadre based nor does it have a hierarchy to accommodate aspiring next rung leaders. It has consciously abstained from agitation politics to focus only on creating a political machinery intent on winning elections.1 Indeed, were it not for its operation within a democratic setup, the single mindedness of its leaders is reminiscent of Lenin's insistence on capturing state power.
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Dalits in Punjab: Silent no more
Little over a year ago, this blog had posed the question:
There is a deafening silence on part of dalits in Punjab. One wonders why, and for how long.
To which a naive comment from a reader was:
Presumably if Dalit oppression was blunted by Sikh philosophy, if not absolutely at least comparatively, Dalits might not have felt need for a movement.
Over the last two days, my question as well as the comment to the post have been answered loud and clear.
Dalit Assertion- Not always for the better
Caste studies have gained a lot of academic respectability over the last two decades. It is very rare to find, on the other hand, studies around class. This is quite a dramatic shift since the 1970s- 80s. I think it is not a particularly good omen if studies based on political economy and class are ignored. However, the thrust towards caste studies is definitely welcome.
In a fascinating paper on the change in the condition of Dalits in the Punjab (1947- 2008), Dr Harish Puri touches on a number of points .
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In Praise of Sonia Gandhi
The Hindutva movement has effectively used the same tactics- that Gramsci called 'war of position' and the 'war of movement' to advance its political agenda. Mrs Gandhi, in her own manner, has returned to that strategy. She has extended the possibilities of Gandhism today in context of rabid communal discourse of the sangh parivar.
The BJP- a relatively minor political entity in the 1984 elections, had been long gestating in various garbs for over six decades. It was quick to learn the technique from the Congress's 1984 performance and catapulted itself to seize power at the center by whipping up a frenzy of mass hysteria leading to the destruction of the Babri Masjid in 1992. Rajiv Gandhi was no longer on the scene by then, and it was left to PV Narasimha Rao to be remembered for the infamy of 6th December 1992. Nowadays, it is also often overlooked that the destruction of the Babri Masjid provided a larger fillip to Muslim fundamentalism in South Asia- in Bangladesh and Pakistan.
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Watch TV serial Tamas Online
Even twenty years after it was broadcast, Tamas still touches a raw nerve and, sad to say, retains the relevance of its core message- the human cost of violence in general and of sectarian violence in particular. The last two decades seem to have been a re- enactment of the partition, this time in slow motion.
The more things change, the more they remain the same.
View part 1 of 5 of the serial at google videos (or click on the image above)
Mumbai Links
It is a matter of great shame that these channels simply did not bother about the other icon that faced the first attack from terrorists – the Chatrapathi Shivaji Terminus (CST) railway station. CST is the true icon of Mumbai. It is through this railway station hundreds of Indians from Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Rajasthan, West Bengal and Tamilnadu have poured into Mumbai over the years, transforming themselves into Mumbaikars and built the Mumbai of today along with the Marathis and Kolis
Annie Zaidi's nuanced observations on fear and skepticism in post- attack Mumbai:
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Free Markets: "Never Again!"
He does have a point- even though at that time there was a choice- socialism, the political climate lurched towards fascism In Rosa Luxemburg's apt warning cry: it's a question of 'Socialism or Barbarism'. In the absence of socialism, barbarism is a very real possibility (of course, it is also very much possible that we will see some kind of a revival of neo- Keynes- ism rather than barbarism or socialism).
Hobsbawm attributes the revival of Marx to businessmen in context of globalization and underlines that the level of collective consciousness is not ripe to replace capitalism in the near future.
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What's good for the goose?
The IMF's advice to Pakistan (and its no different for the rest of the third world) is to privatize the government's assets and raise funds from the market. At the same time, the IMF chief wants the markets, in turn to raise money from the US federal government. Why not then give a handout from the US federal government directly to the rich world's 'burden'?
The IMF said it was encouraged that the (Pakistan) government was committed to measures to improve its financial position, including privatizing assets and raising funds from the international markets.
Four days ago, the IMF chief had the exactly the opposite take on the United States's .7 trillion "bail out" plan to stop the free market's free fall:
A "win win" Deal- Private Treaties and the Media
In this report, Clifton D' Rozario unmasks how this "win- win" deal operates, at the trivial expense of reporting the full truth:
On 12th May 2008, the Times of India reported that:
"Lift crash leaves 2 dead, 7 hurt
Two occupants in a lift died and seven others were injured on Saturday after the lift crashed to the lower basement at the construction site of a residential apartment on Bannerghatta Road."
Then, again on 8th June the Times of India reported that:
SHRC chief takes officials to task
The State Human Rights Commission has asked a private construction company to ensure complete and fair compensation to families of two workers who dies and seven who were injured in a lift crash in an apartment building under construction on Bannerghatta Road. The accident took place on May 10.…
The accident occurred on May 10 at the construction site of a multi-storeyed super-luxury apartment on Bannerghatta Road."
Note that the Times of India does not name the company, Sobha Developers in reports unlike all the other English and Kannada newspapers, which explicitly did so.
I began to wonder why. Is it because Sobha Developers contributes revenue to the Times of India in terms of advertising? Or is there something more? And then I stumbled upon www.timesprivatetreaties.com. It talks about Private Treaties and this being an "innovative venture from the Times of India group, India's largest and most successful media conglomerate…" Apparently, Bennett Coleman & Co. Ltd., the publishers of Times of India, has entered into a Private Treaty with Sobha Developers, whereby through this arrangement BCCL picks up law equity stakes in companies, in return receiving long-term advertising and other publicity deals.
Link via email from Girish Mishra
1857- A Dalit Narrative
Although we know that the colonial archive has been created guided by the needs of the colonizers, yet these narratives function as rays of light in the search for the role of dalits in the 1857 revolt. The narratives around dalit identity which the dalits are using to prove their role in the 1857 revolt are also based on the colonial archives that enlist the names of the people who were hanged for their role in the revolt, since the mainstream nationalist Indian history completely ignores the contribution of dalits in the revolt. For example Matadin Bhangi, a sweeper in the British army at Barrackpore, who is claimed by the dalits to have spearheaded the 1857 revolt since he was the first to make Mangal Pandey, the mainstream nationalist originator of the revolt, aware of the fact that the cartridges were greased with cow fat, has been overlooked by the official record of the revolt. However that he was not a figment of the imagination of the dalits can be proved by the colonial archives that show that he was hanged to death for participating in the revolt. In the same vein there is another myth about a dalit hero of the 1857 revolt which is popular in the oral memories of the region adjoining Kanpur and Bithoor. This is the myth of Gangu Mehtar who is also known as Gangu Baba. The people of that region say that Gangu Baba was a Bhangi who worked as a drum beater (nagarchi) in the army of Nana Saheb. He was built extremely powerfully and was also a wrestler. He himself owned a wrestling ring where many youths practiced wrestling under his tutelage. During the 1857 revolt Gangu Baba fought against the British along with his students at a place near Satichaura and killed many of them. After the revolt was quelled he was arrested by the British and hanged to death. The story of Gangu baba has transcended from the real world into the ethereal world and there is a popular story about him that is still circulated among the people in the region where he died which establish his supernatural qualities.
Link to Pratilipi via Publisher's Post.
The March of Neo Liberalism in India
The story starts from 1991 when Manmohan Singh as Finance Minister started hounding farmers by reducing the fertilizer subsidy, cutting development expenditures so sharply that per capita GDP actually fell in one year and the death rate rose in one State, virtually doubling the issue prices of foodgrains from the Public Distribution System over three years in order to cut the food subsidy (which predictably boomeranged since the poor were priced out and the first episode of build-up of 32 million tonnes of unsold food stocks took place by 1995).
During the NDA period, the complete submission of the government to U.S. pressure and rapid removal of protection to agriculture between 1996 and 2001 – before the deadline set by the World Trade Organisation, resulted in farmers being exposed to the fury of global price declines. Between 1996 and 2001, prices of all primary products (cotton, jute, food grains and sugar) fell by 40 to 60 per cent and farmers who had contracted private debts in particular, became insolvent. The syndrome of hopelessly-indebted farmers committing suicides in Andhra Pradesh and Punjab started in 1998 and rapidly spread to other areas where cultivation of cash and export crop was predominant. The crash in pepper, coffee and tea prices came a few years later after 1998 and farmer suicides in Kerala and insolvency of tea estates in West Bengal date from around 2002.
Most alarming is the situation of the Scheduled Castes and Tribes, among whom extreme poverty has increased dramatically during the reform decade, with over three-fifths moving under the lowest level of intake, 1800 calories, by 2004-05 in urban India.
Meanwhile, at Foreign Policy, its editor Moises Naim asks whether the world can afford to feed the growing middle class in China and India.
If they don't find the bread, perhaps they can eat cake, while the children of the poor will be fed via mid- day meals according to the Indian Finance Minister
"If we continue to grow at this rate, India would be among the most prosperous countries in the world" dominating in education, services and goods….
"Next year, thanks to growth, I will provide Rs 15,100 crore for this scheme. Similarly, in 2003-04 we had provided Rs 1,175 crore for the mid-day meal scheme.
The "growth" he is referring to is the 8-10 percent annual growth rate during the "reform" decades, of course. The amounts mentioned for his schemes are drops in the ocean of poverty that may engulf the small islets of "growth" in urban India, sooner than later. Of late, I have been wondering if I need to go back and re- read Mao's thesis on the villages encircling the cities.
As to India soon dominating the world in education, it is a joke in a country with the world's largest illiterate population and the UPA government's continuing disinterest in it.
(you need to register at the outlook site to
eat the cake… read the article in the link)
A Common Indian is a Poor Indian
I do hope this stirs up debate around the jingle of 'trickle down' economics that one has heard over the last two decades and recognize the darkness in the noon of unprecedented growth rates.
Our estimate that a little more than three-fourths of the Indian people are poor and vulnerable in 2004-05, based on a value that is double the official poverty line, is consistent with other estimates. For example, the World Development Report 2006 of the World Bank reports 35 per cent of the Indian population as living below the extreme poverty line of one PPP $ per day.
The notion of an absolute minimum of a basket of goods yielding a calorie value plus some essential items loses most of its significance in a growing economy relative to per capita income. Poverty should be reckoned in relative terms to capture the inequalities in the system. There is nothing absolute about an absolute minimum for a poverty line when the economy is on a growth path of an unprecedented kind. That this point has not been factored, not just in India but even in some other countries with much faster rates of growth (e g, China), perhaps reflects an eagerness to show a declining trend in poverty or, for that matter, the magic of "trickle down" growth. There is no doubt that the case for revisiting the poverty line could become stronger as the economy continues to grow.
Technorati Tags: India, Economics, Globalization, Poverty
Who was Akbar?
How could he become the man he wanted to be? The akbar, the great one? How?
"Make as much racket as you like, people! Noise is life, and an excess of noise is a sign that life is good. There will be time for us all to be quiet when we are safely dead." The city burst into joyful clamor.
That was the day on which it became clear that a new kind of king was on the throne, and that nothing in the world would remain the same.
The change, however, is not straight forward and soon the emperor is on one of his conquests, beheading an upstart, the Rana of Cooch Naheen. It is the remorse after killing the young Rana, that Akbar, like Ashoka after the Battle of Kalinga, faces the existentialist question on how to become great. It is certainly not by beheading small time threats to his growing empire.
The country was at peace at last, but the King's spirit was never calm….
He, Akbar, had never referred to himself as "I", not even in his private dreams.
Evidently, jahanpanah, the shelter of the world, feels that it is not so. He feels that he is as lowly as any other human being who needs the love of the imaginary Jodha, who is not so much a person as an idea of Hindustan and tries to discover his greatness in 'I', instead of we. Only to discover that the 'I' does not exist, it is 'we', but this 'we' is the plural not of the brutal conquests that he has carried out to carve his empire, but the conquest of Jodha's heart. It is the we of pluralism.
The story is certainly not without its faults. At places its is marred by an excessive wordplay and sometimes by unnecessary distractions and convolutions- typical Rushdie fare that is not unreadable, but certainly demands patience. A fascinating character in the story is that of Bhakti Ram Jain, Akbar's stone deaf personal assistant. Also fascinating is the usage of the Akbar- Birbal anecdotes interwoven in the dense story less than 8000 words!
Technorati Tags: Salman Rushdie, India, Short Story, Literature
A Bridge Connecting Heaven and Earth
humsukahn koi na ho aur humzubaan koi na ho (Mirza Ghalib)


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March 2014
The Value Of Commitment
The Value of Commitment
For the past several months you have been reading articles from Nominations Chair Ralph Collinson and from me urging you to step forward and run for an AANR office. You have heard from existing officials why they became more deeply involved and the gratification they receive from their service.
But did you know that it can actually improve your health to serve? A professor of preventative medicine, Stephen Post, wrote a book entitled The Hidden Gifts of Helping. He says that volunteers who devote time to community organizations or who informally help out friends, relatives, and neighbors report greater happiness and better health than those who don't. Volunteering lowers stress levels and rates of depression. It helps one achieve a healthier weight, reduces insomnia, and strengthens the immune system. Now if that won't convince you, nothing will!
According to the Corporation for National and Community Service, men and woman who volunteer report greater life satisfaction and better physical health than non-volunteers.
I remember hearing somewhere the phrase, "Apathy is boring." Well, it's certainly a quality I've never suffered from, so I can't say for sure, but I do have a friend who does not have a passion in her life and she seems to catch more colds, experience more low energy days, and have less fun than I do. So there is probably some truth in it.
A product of my Baby Boomer generation, I've always been a "cause" person. I collected money for overseas children support organizations in grade school, trick-or-treated for UNICEF as a teen, volunteered with the Red Cross in summers, and yearned to join Up With People in high school. I suppose it was inevitable that I took on nudism not just as a recreational experience but also as a cause.
It didn't start that way, of course. Like most of us I went to a beach and it felt good, wonderful, free. I met really terrific people and we did fun things together, including hiking and camping nude. I would have stayed in that euphoric state forever it the local church had not stepped in and closed Assateague to nudists. Okay, then I joined a club—the Potomac Rambling Bares, and eventually Avalon.
Once again, it was lots of fun and we did good things together. Then a man who lived within telescope sight of Avalon (it was in Madison County, Virginia, at that time) raised an objection and the permit to operate Avalon as a conservation club was revoked.
That did it! How dare they tell me that I couldn't do something I knew with all my heart was healthy and happy! I was recruited to run for the Board of Directors of ESA and eventually tapped on the shoulder at my first AANR convention and nominated to run for AANR Secretary/Treasurer. The rest is history.
I was fortunate. My professional experiences working in a political position with the U.S. Congress and carrying out legislative strategies in government agencies were a particular boon to AANR. My 15 years as a public relations professional strategist is another level of experience that I was able to bring to AANR.
AANR particularly needs people with association marketing skills, public relations expertise, government and legislative strategy experience. And you can see for yourself how much more gratifying it is to turn your professional efforts toward a cause than a paycheck!
Despite recent challenges and frustrations I don't regret a minute of my work for nude recreation. This "right" is ours only as long as we are willing to fight for it.
Won't you step forward and become part of AANR leadership? It's worth a lifetime
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I've played my fair share of time management games in my gaming years but I can't remember one that was based on controlling the emergency services during critical situations, unless you count the alien attack in Sim City! This is what you get to do in Emergency, the 13 situations that … Read the Full Story →
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EA Mobile today announced the availability of it's much awaited simulation title for the iPhone and iPod touch called "SimCity Deluxe" . We had published the first screenshots of the game when it was announced in early May. SimCity Deluxe is now available in the App Store for $6.99 [iTunes Store] Sim City is one of the … Read the Full Story →


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With bin Laden Dead, U.S. Should Draw Down in Afghanistan
Are our troops needed in such numbers in places such as Iraq and Afghanistan with bin Laden gone?
Should we stay or should we go?
Although the title of one of my favorite '80s songs, that's not what I'm referring to. I'm referring to Afghanistan.
Since the finding and killing of Osama bin Laden at his compound in Pakistan, the question is being mulled over not only by American voters and congressional members, but by the White House. [See photos of reactions to Osama bin Laden's death.]
Now in his position as commander in chief post bin Laden, the president has great credibility on foreign affairs and Congress will not try to force his hand on Afghanistan; that will be his decision to make.
The president had promised to begin reducing troop levels in July and I believe that he not only will, but he should.
Reports show that our troops suffer lower morale now than in the past five years in Afghanistan. Nearly half of them report having killed the enemy; nearly 80 percent have seen a fellow comrade badly injured or killed. Most have seen bombs detonated; it's nearly a daily occurrence for some. There are soldiers that have done three or more tours of duty in Afghanistan; and the wear and tear is beginning to show. They're stressed, anxious and depressed. More and more soldiers attempt to commit suicide. More and more come home and need to be treated for post traumatic stress syndrome. War is hell and some would say this comes with the job; especially in this part of the world. [See a slide show of six potential terrorist targets.]
The condition of our troops aside, let's look at the condition of Afghanistan, it's people and what our mission there is, or what it was supposed to be. The people of Afghanistan appreciate the overthrowing of the Taliban, but in many areas of Afghanistan, the Taliban are gaining power and control once again. The Afghans perceive the United States as occupiers now more than helpers and most when questioned do not see much of a difference in their own daily lives since we stepped in to help.
As questions arise regarding who will replace bin Laden or if anyone replaces him; the question also arises as to whether al Qaeda is even relevant being that so many people in so many Arab Muslim nations want a Western brand of democracy; as opposed to what al Qaeda preached. The question also must be asked, are our troops needed in such numbers in places such as Iraq and Afghanistan with bin
Laden gone? We must remember, we entered into Afghanistan not only to defeat the Taliban, but to hunt down and capture bin Laden. That mission was accomplished. Now what? [Vote now: Which president deserves credit for Osama bin Laden's demise?] I don't think the answer is pulling all of our troops out this summer. The Taliban is still a threat not only to the people of Afghanistan, but also America, if they were to offer a safe haven to those whose intent it is to attack and hurt us. And of course there is the cost. $119 billion as of this year. Ouch. That definitely makes a dent in our deficit. And curbing those numbers could definitely be considered "cutting spending" as those in the GOP chant daily.
So whether it's to protect our troops' physical and mental health, to place the people and the country in the hands of the Afghan military and their government (take those training wheels off!), to save money or admit we've done the best we could with regards to the Taliban, it's time to say "won't you come home Bill Bailey won't you come home" to our troops in Afghanistan once and for all.


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Windows Server 2003 now contains Automated System Restore (ASR), a utility that allows users to do bare metal restores.
The first step in the restore is to create a floppy. You have two options for this step: ASR or RIS. As part of its setup, ASR automatically creates a floppy disk which contains disk configuration information and disk signatures for the system. This is conceptually similar to the rescue disks created with older versions of Windows, but it works quite differently. If you choose not to use ASR, you can create a floppy using the Remote Installation Services (RIS) server to perform the restore over a TCP/IP network through a network adapter on the client that supports Microsoft's Pre-Boot Execution Environment (PXE).
For the next step, use ASR to read the ASR state file (asr.sif) off the floppy and restore the signatures and volume information on the critical disks, i.e. the ones the system uses to boot up. Since non-critical disks are not normally backed up by ASR, they are not included in an ASR restore and must be backed up separately. Similarly, ordinary data on critical disks (i.e., information not needed by the operating system) will not be backed up by ASR. Once the critical disks have been recreated, ASR installs Windows Server 2003 and automatically starts a restore using the backup media. Any plug-and-play devices are detected and restored as well.
One issue to keep in mind is that for ASR to be effective, backups should be run regularly. Microsoft also suggests performing any needed file conversions before running the first ASR backup. Since the ASR floppy disk is critical to the restoration (unless you use RIS), the files they contain (asr.sif and asrpnp.sif) must be carefully protected and available. Microsoft suggests making an additional copy of the files on the backup media as part of the backup process. The files are kept in the systemrootrepair folder on the system. Before beginning the restoration, make sure you have all the needed resources, including tape backup drives, removable and hard disks available.
The final issue to consider is that some kinds of non-critical disks, especially remote media such as Firewire, USB or Jaz drives, will not be restored if they are not found by the restore process. However, ASR will go on to do the balance of the restore.
For more information:
Advice: Automatic bare metal restores
Tip: Straight talk about D2D2T
Tip: Is switching from NetBackup to BrightStor worth it?
About the author: Rick Cook has been writing about mass storage since the days when the term meant an 80 K floppy disk. The computers he learned on used ferrite cores and magnetic drums. For the last 20 years, he has been a freelance writer specializing in storage and other computer issues.
This was first published in November 2004