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From a balance sheet perspective, we have obvious rating agency momentum and extended debt maturity profile and a significant debt to EBITDA decline to 7.26x on a consolidated basis and 7.74x on a pro rata basis. The bottom line when looking at the DDR story today is that we are still a bit of a contradiction. While our stock continues to trade as a high beta name, our operational performance and balance sheet are increasingly devoid of risk, and we are confident that our operations will continue to improve and our balance sheet will continue to de-risk moving forward.
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Natalie Bass wants to make it clear: her shop Zip-Dang isn't "crafty." She's referring to the alt-craft scene, in which artists repurpose items into ingenious décor and gifts. What Bass and her husband Mike do sell in their "handmade menagerie and vintage boutique" (open since June) is clothing made by indie designers and handmade works by local and national artists—many of whom the couple met at national art shows.
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Of course she sells her own work in the shop, too: her Orangyporangy skirts (look at her hair for the significance) line one wall.
The charming space is also outfitted with shelving that's reclaimed wood from the previous tenants and the fixtures are industrial cast-offs sourced from vintage shops and friends.
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This bilingual blog - 'आन्याची फाटकी पासोडी' in Marathi- is largely a celebration of visual and/or comic ...तुकाराम: "ढेकणासी बाज गड,उतरचढ केवढी" (Tukaram: For a bedbug a bed is like a castle. so much climbing up and down!)... George Santayana: " Everything in nature is lyrical in its ideal essence, tragic in its fate, and comic in its existence"...William Hazlitt: "Pictures are scattered like stray gifts through the world; and while they remain, earth has yet a little gilding."
G C Lichtenberg: "It is as if our languages were confounded: when we want a thought, they bring us a word; when we ask for a word, they give us a dash; and when we expect a dash, there comes a piece of bawdy."
W H Auden: "But in my arms till break of day / Let the living creature lie. / Mortal, guilty, but to me/ The entirely beautiful."
Will Self: "To attempt to write seriously is always, I feel, to fail – the disjunction between my beautifully sonorous, accurate and painfully affecting mental content, and the leaden, halting sentences on the page always seems a dreadful falling short. It is this failure – a ceaseless threnody keening through the writing mind – that dominates my working life, just as an overweening sense of not having loved with enough depth or recklessness or tenderness dominates my personal one."
John Gray: "Unlike Schopenhauer, who lamented the human lot, Leopardi believed that the best response to life is laughter. What fascinated Schopenhauer, along with many later writers, was Leopardi's insistence that illusion is necessary to human happiness."
Art Spiegelman: "You know words in a way are hitting you on the left side of your brain, music and visual arts hit on the right side of the brain, so the idea is to pummel you, to send you from left brain to right brain and back until you're as unbalanced as I am."
विलास सारंग: "संदर्भ कुठलेही असोत, संस्कृत, इंग्रजी, बुद्धिवादी, तांत्रिक, इतिहासाचे, खगोलशास्त्राचे, आधुनिक पदार्थविज्ञानाचे, शिवकालीन व पेशवाईतील बखरीचे, अगणित ज्ञानक्षेत्रांचे, अशा वैविध्यपूर्ण ज्ञानावर लेखन- विशेषत: कवितालेखन- उभं राहत."
Thursday, July 26, 2007
Many Indians surely watched their first lynching in 1947
India's partition in 1947 is one such along with "The Great Bengal Famine".
I was a sincere student of history in my school and there was hardly any information in our text books on them- two of the greatest tragedies of 20th century.
India soon will be celebrating 60th anniversary of its independence.
The Economist (July 21, 2007) has reviewed British historian Yasmin Khan's "The Great Partition: The Making of India and Pakistan".
"…..The break-up of Britain's Indian empire involved the movement of some 12m people, uprooted, ordered out, or fleeing their homes and seeking safety. Hundreds of thousands of people were killed, thousands of children disappeared, thousands of women were raped or abducted, forced conversions were commonplace. The violence polarised communities on the subcontinent as never before. The pogroms and killings were organised by gangs, vigilantes and militias across northern, western and eastern India. They were often backed by local leaders, politicians from Congress and the Muslim League, maharajahs and princes, and helped by willing or frightened civil servants….
Today the upheaval on both sides of the partition line would be described as ethnic cleansing on a gigantic scale. It left two traumatised, injured nations—suspicious and fearful of one another even to this day—where once there had been one country of loosely interwoven peoples….
The decision to divide India on religious lines was taken with regret but little foreboding and carried out with outrageous haste and unconcern by the British government and its viceroy in India, Lord Mountbatten. Asked by a journalist if he foresaw any mass transfer of population, Mountbatten said, "Personally I don't see it...Some measure of transfer will come about in a natural way...perhaps governments will transfer populations."
No preparation or consideration was given to the central issues of citizenship, security and property rights in the division of the country. On the other hand, India's civil servants, the babus of empire, were busy itemising every fixture in their offices down to ink pots and paperweights that were to be divided between Pakistan and the new India. Lack of planning, hubris, confused thinking and a complete void as to the consequences were the fatal flaws in the partition plan, writes Ms Khan.
The announcement that India was to be partitioned and independence would follow not less than a year later was made in the House of Commons on June 3rd 1947. By August 15th the British were gone. They accepted no responsibility for the carnage that was taking place and they refused to allow the British troops still in India to keep order or protect people.
The movement of people and the privations they suffered were extraordinary. Muslims made their way west to Pakistan; Sikhs and Hindus moved east to India in "foot convoys" that involved 30,000-40,000 people, wagons, carts and animals spread out over 45 miles (70km). In one month 849,000 refugees entered India by foot. Trains that were impossibly overloaded, and dangerously targeted by the killers, ran across Punjab from Rawalpindi and Lahore to Amritsar and Delhi and back again as soon as they had refuelled and watered. Many families left for reasons of safety, taking only a few belongings because they expected to return. Not everyone imagined the journey across the partition line would be final.
When Jawaharlal Nehru made his famous speech on August 15th declaring that at the midnight hour, when the world slept, India would awake to life and freedom, massacres were taking place almost daily on both sides of the line. Nehru later wondered if his fellow countrymen knew how close India had come to imploding. The violence was simply uncontrollable.
Despite the pledges of equality for all communities in the new India and Pakistan, the driving force behind the violence was to eliminate or devour the other community, writes Ms Khan."
Reading this, I thought, Iraqis are luckier than Indians. They have George W. Bush and no Lord Mountbatten.
And then we have historians like Ramachandra Guha who claim that Mountbatten helped avoid Balkanisation of India. I am not sure.
Historian Setu Madhavrao Pagdi, who was employed as a senior civil servant in Hyderabad in 1948, claims in his Marathi autobiography ("Jeevansetu" 1969 Continental Prakashan) that Mountbatten was part of the problem and not the solution in bringing Nizam around to sign instrument of accession.
According to historian Indivar Kamtekar: "…For the people who lived through the events of the 1940s, the meaning of the events depended on their experiences. Experiences are notoriously varied and contradictory. They varied in the 1940s with - among other things - region, social class, gender, ideology and political affiliation. For the villages of Bengal, the great famine dwarfed most other events of the 1940s. In north India, 1947 is still referred to as the year of `partition' rather than independence; in South India, the reverse is the case. For businessmen in India, the 1940s were a time of unprecedented war profits; for agricultural labourers, they were years of frightening starvation. For women abducted during the partition riots, and then claimed by the governments of India and Pakistan even when their families rejected them, the period was exceptionally traumatic, with little or nothing to celebrate. If the elation of many Congress politicians in 1947 was visible at one extreme, the grief of the victims of famine, rape and murder was discernible at the other. The past bequeaths to us a rich diversity of memory."
Also, see Ajit Bhattacharjea's "Tryst with Destiny" Economic And Political Weekly Issue : VOL 42 No. 32 August 11 - August 17, 2007.
Conclusion: Many Indians surely watched their first lynching in 1947.
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Kenya needs to develop its informal sector if its to achieve the 2030 goals
By Steve Biko on March 20, 2012
Kenya's informal sector is known by the popular Swahili name "juakali" which means hot sun ('the hot sun' referring to the typical outdoors situation of such entrepreneurs). It refers to the many small businesses and kinds of artisanship which proliferate on sidewalks or in alleys without benefit of offices, factories, or showrooms. Such work, referred to by economists as informal sector production or the "parallel economy," occupies the majority of the productive population in poor countries such as Kenya. Sadly, the government has not taken an initiative of training such entrepreneurs and creating working space for them. This has greatly reduced the potential of a booming industry to develop. Developing the informal sector would lead to faster attainment of most of the estimated projects outlined in the vision 2030 plan.
Firstly, level of basic education and IT compliance will increase. General (primarily academic) education provides a better rate of return than technical education which is far more costly, yet only provides a similar economic benefit. The high cost of technical education is a great drain on educational budgets. Moreover, these costs are typically unsustainable. As a result, equipment is usually out of date, whilst staff salaries below market rates mean that only the most marketable artisans become teachers. Such problems lead the training provided to have little correspondence with work practices in the real world, thus reducing the employability of the graduates from technical schools. This in turn reinforces the popular prejudice against technical education as inferior. Moreover, given limited capacity of most developing country education ministries, technical education programmes are undesirable as they are more complex to plan than purely academic programmes. Coming up with an adequate program to train people technical skills from an early age in schools should be the stepping stone. Most schools should have basic computer training which progresses as one graduates to upper classes. This is the only way Kenya can convert from an agricultural to an industrial economy which has the potential to rapidly expand.
Secondly, unemployment levels will greatly reduce. Workers are unemployed because they lack the necessary skills to perform an assortment of jobs available to them in the informal sector. Since the sector is not regulated, the government is not aware of the workers' need for training. However providing them with adequate training would greatly rectify the unemployment problem. Further, if enough workers were to receive training, it is probable that the problem of chronic unemployment would begin to be addressed in formal terms. Subsequently, crime and poverty will reduce. According to World Bank analysts "Kenya's informal sector constitutes 98 percent of all businesses in the country, absorbs annually up to 50 per cent of new non farm employment seekers, has an employment growth rate of 12-14 percent." contributes 30 percent of total employment and 3 percent of GDP."
The next step for the government would simply be regulating this sector. A proper system of accounting should be developed to earn revenue from taxes. This revenue can be used to offset most of the government's domestic and foreign debt and to realize projects such as free education, health care and create retirement schemes. Regulating the system protects the informal sector from exploitation such as duplication of manufactured goods with fake ones and also controls pollution of the environment among other things.
An area probably similar to the EPZ should be set up for such entrepreneurs with incentives to motivate them to set up businesses. For example tax cuts for the first 3 years of operation so that the business can expand. Such an area has the potential to turn into a industrial area and eventually a city. This goes a long way into making Kenya an industrial economy and a big player in the global markets with countries like Japan, USA and Germany. As it only contributes 3% of the economy's output but takes on 30% of the total work force, it can be established at this juncture that though the informal sector hires a lot of workers it contributes relatively little of the country's output.
Developing this sector would also play a key role in promoting uniform development in all regions of the country. We can establish two key points about the relationship between the formal and informal sectors. First, wage differentials between the agriculture and industrial/government sector cause farmers to migrate to urban areas where they are pushed to find work within the informal sector. Second, a point stems from the first; the bulk of the informal sector is concentrated within urban areas or major cities. A program that enables these entrepreneurs to carry out their businesses anywhere if given government incentives will help curb rural to urban migration, congestion in urban areas, underdevelopment in rural areas and unequal development of regions.
It is therefore a clear necessity that Kenya needs to start paying attention to the informal sector and start working on unleashing the untapped potential locked up in this sector if she wants to attain its dream of being a world class economy by the year 2030.
Steve Biko
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Great stuff. Have you ever seen the designs in colored sand made by monks over many days? Yes, ephemeral and amazing.
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Habitat Quality Assessment and Modelling for Forest Biodiversity and Sustainability
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Safeguarding biodiversity has been one of the most important issues in the environmental and forest policies since 1990s. The problem remains in terms of decisions and knowledge on where to set appropriate conservation targets. Hence, we need detailed and reliable information about forest structure and composition and methods for estimating this information over the whole spatial domain. The approach presented aims to develop a practical tool for conservation planners and foresters to evaluate alternative conservation plans to expand and connect protected areas while identifying key forest habitats and its associated biodiversity value. In order to reach this goal and learn more about habitat quality for woodland species in boreal forests and spatial characteristics of forest landscape, we used a combination of remote sensing and field data derived from the Multi-source Finnish National Forest Inventory (MS-NFI) Habitat quality assessment and suitability maps constitute a useful approach for designing management plans to improve biodiversity conservation. In this chapter, we present an approach and tools for assessing biodiversity values in both managed and protected forest areas. The approach is intended to assist decision-making concerning protection of valuable habitats and management of natural resources. The different habitat quality models presented are used as a surrogate for biodiversity value. The indicators and the models developed reflect a sound scientific basis that can be implemented in other European countries that invest in national forest inventories. Within this framework, focusing on forests in Finland and on end-user needs, this effort constitutes the first attempt undertaken at the landscape level to use National Forest Inventory data for forest biodiversity monitoring and management.
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If you know something, say something. That was the message community members and a police officer put out to the public on Saturday in a joint conference following two homicides on Christmas Eve.
The vacant 8th street home in Little Rock has been the focus of the Quapaw Association since it was placed on the most endangered list in 2007. With help from the city and state the group bought the home.
Unidentified victim called police to report being shot in the parking lot at Park Plaza Mall Saturday, officers have been unable to locate a crime scene and say there is no video evidence to support the man's claim.
DWI Patrols Ramp Up For New Years
Donations Rise After Christmas
Making music together is a passion for one local couple. They met in Los Angelas years ago where they had both moved to make it big.
Today is the first day of Kwanzaa, a week long African American celebration.
Friday is predicted to be the busiest shopping day of the holiday season for returning gifts.
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Thousands of donations come together in a huge distribution center before they're given to recipients in the annual program.
An elected official who left a council meeting to help children stranded in a broken down school bus gets hit with a penalty from the city.
A mother of four was arrested at Walmart for forging stolen checks and leaving her four kids alone in the car while she committed the crime.
The Little Rock Marathon is just over two months away and if you've wondered what the medal will look like for 2015 race, here's your first look.
Today members of Arkansas Stop the Violence teamed up with ¡Hola Arkansas! to give children in the hispanic community bicycles for Christmas.
Arkansas Children's Hospital works every year to make Christmas magical for its patients who will be spending the holiday away from home and in a hospital room.
Cindy Mickan says she is really excited the Vilonia School District decided to stick with its original plan of keeping the new intermediate school a 4th, 5th and 6th grade campus.
A family's Christmas presents were stolen in a Pulaski County town.
Jaquestin Anderson, 20, is wanted by police in the murder of Camden grocery store manager Richard Anders.
Former Gang member gives back to the community
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An 11-year-old is spreading the holiday cheer and putting smiles on the faces of tornado victims in Vilonia.
More than one month after hearing oral arguments, the Arkansas Supreme Court is still weighing a decision on the state's same-sex marriage ban.
The walls, and ceiling for that matter, have come down around All Created Equal (A.C.E.) food bank and clothes closet.
A Farmington woman's effort to show support for law enforcement officers is gaining popularity.
A local gifted and talented program is helping students build character.
Governor Elect Asa Hutchinson is working to fill out parts of his leadership team.
One family directed out of their home after a morning fire at a Little Rock apartment complex.
Jacksonville authorities are investigating a Sunday murder that left a 26-year-old man dead.
A Chicago-based toy drive traveled to Arkansas to bring gifts to tornado victims.
A slab of concrete wall fell on toddlers foot at Benton Motel but doesn't tie to his death.
Austin Hill, 19 faces charges of capital murder and aggravated robbery.
Hogs played Missouri Redhawks at Verizon Arena today making it the most attended home game of the season.
Apple makes a major donation to human rights campaign project with hopes of bringing change to gays and lesbians of Arkansas.
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The Real News Tonight Is Roseanne Barr Took 5th Place!Submitted by Smudge Pot on Wed, 11/07/2012 - 04:38
5th place is what we got last time. Roseanne Barr beat Rocky Anderson!
At first she was really looking good. When the east coast started reporting she had 3rd place! For real! Above Gary Johnson! Then she took a dive going over the heartland and started jumping wildly from 6th to 9th place before the West Coast picked her up out of the gutter and placed her in this very overly respectable 5th.
Now when we elected our fist actor to major office, Ronnie Reagan, I was pretty sick to my stomach and I still have trouble with the election of a professional wrestler and The Terminator to governorships but now...wells, anybody with their mug on camera can at least make a good showing.
Why not ballerinas or concert musicians or painters or other fine artists? Are actors the only ones truly capable of leading this nation? Why not the pizza guy? Everybody loves Luigi the Pizza Guy!
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Roseanne is hilarious.
That said, I still don't think she'd make a good president.
I am a satirist on the Daily Paul Web Forum
and I know for a fact Roseanne and I would be best of friends if we ever met.
Can I be president now?
Defeat the panda-industrial complex
I am dusk icon. anagram me.
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Yes, Roseanne is the woman of my dreams.
Did you say you were the resident satirist?
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either that or a Nobel
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- Jul 17, 2008
Redesigned Mitsubishi Pajero Sport coming to Moscow
Like every other automaker under the sun, Mitsubishi is in the process of expanding its reach into Russia. In 2007, the automaker offloaded over 100,000 vehicles in the world's largest country (size, not population) and is looking to sell approximately 140,000 units this year.
Not surprisingly, it's chosen the Moscow Auto Show in August to unveil the next generation Pajero Sport SUV, before sales begin in South-East Asia, South America, Australia and the Middle East later this year.
The new Pajero Sport (or Challenger, depending on the market) is packing all the "active lifestyle" accoutrements you'd expect, including water-repellent seats, 2- or 3-row seating that can accommodate between five and seven passengers, and a waterproof luggage compartment that will come in handy after you've hiked through the volcanoes of Kamchatka.
Power will be provided by either a 2.5- or 3.2-liter common rail diesel, or if oilburners aren't your taste, a 3.5-liter V6 can send power to all four wheels through Mitsubishi's Super Select 4WD system. However, don't expect to see the Pajero in the U.S. or Europe anytime soon.
The press release is available after the jump.
New Mitsubishi Pajero Sport SUV to be unveiled at 2008 Moscow Motor Show
Tokyo July 17 2008 - Mitsubishi Motors Corporation will unveil its new Pajero Sport*1 SUV model at the Moscow Auto Salon 2008 (The Moscow Motor Show) to be held at the Crocus Expo in Moscow between August 26 and September 7 (opens to the public on August 29). The new Pajero Sport will be phased in selected regions*2 such as Russia, the ASEAN area, the Middle East, Latin America and Oceania starting in the fall this year.
*1 The model will carry a different name in different markets: Montero Sport in South America, Nativa in Latin America and Challenger in Australia.
*2 The new Pajero Sport will neither be sold in Central & Western Europe nor in North America, where other types of SUVs are favored.
The new Pajero Sport features dynamic and sporty exterior lines, complemented by a stylish and vast interior space that engenders a sense of comfort, purpose and safety. This cabin, available in either a 2-row (5-passenger) or 3-row (7-passenger) seating configuration is also very practical with water-repellent seats and a waterproof luggage compartment floor, ideal for leisure use.
Mitsubishi's latest SUV will be powered by a choice of three engines which all deliver outstanding motive performance and fuel economy: 2.5-liter and 3.2-liter common rail direct injection diesel units and a 3.5-liter V6 gasoline unit*3.
In terms of architecture, the body of the Pajero Sport is mounted on a new ladder frame to realize high levels of durability and reliability, consistent with the needs of its target markets.
Mitsubishi's All Wheel Control philosophy, forged through its participation in the Dakar Rally and other contests, informs all of the company's 4WD systems. The new model will use the Super Select 4WD system, also used in the Pajero*4 SUV, which transmits drive torque effectively to all four wheels on all types of surface. The body, frame and driveline not only give Pajero Sport outstanding off-road performance but allow it to deliver excellent drive dynamics over all surfaces.
The choice of the Moscow Motor Show to unveil the new Pajero Sport is a clear indication of Russia's eminent position within Mitsubishi Motors. In fiscal 2007 Mitsubishi Motors sold some 100,000 vehicles on the Russian market, boosted by the ever successful Lancer line-up and a popular range of SUVs.
MMC is confident that the new Pajero Sport SUV will make a strong addition to its SUV range, which also includes the Pajero and Outlander. Coming on the heels of the introduction of the Lancer*5 sports sedan last year, this will allow MMC to expand SUV sales and hit a total sales volume of 140,000 units on the Russian market in fiscal 2008.
*3 Russian-spec vehicle will only be available with the 3.2-liter diesel engine and 2-row, 5-passenger capacity seating arrangement.
*4 "Montero" in Spanish-speaking countries and "Shogun' in the UK.
*5 Galant Fortis in Japan.
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