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Schapelle Corby, an Australian who has spent more than seven years in a Bali jail on a drug smuggling conviction, had her sentence reduced by five years, Australia's Foreign Minister Bob Carr said.
"I welcome the Indonesian president's decision to grant this reduction," Carr said in an e-mailed statement, without saying when she may be freed. "The Australian government has consistently supported Ms Corby's application for clemency on humanitarian grounds."
Corby, a beauty school student, was convicted in 2005 of attempting to smuggle 4 kilograms (8.8 pounds) of marijuana into Bali, a popular holiday destination among Australians. Corby, now 34, protested her innocence, saying the drugs were planted in her surfboard bag by a drug-smuggling ring in Australia.
Indonesian prosecutors had sought a life term for Corby, after telling the court they would not seek the death penalty. She was sentenced to 20 years.
Carr rejected speculation that Corby's clemency was the result of a deal between Australia and Indonesia after Indonesian minors alleged to have been involved in people smuggling in Australian waters were recently freed.
President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has visited Australia three times, more than any of his predecessors, according to the government in Canberra. Two-way trade between the nations reached A$13.8 billion ($13.5 billion) in the year to June 30.
"The relationship with Indonesia has never been better," Carr told reporters in Sydney today. "In President Yudhoyono we've got a strong friend of Australia who listens to our concerns."
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Corby has been front-page news in Australian newspapers since the court case began, with opinion polls showing most Australians believe she is innocent. Her 2005 sentencing was televised live in Australia on three networks.
Corby has been accumulating remissions and may end up serving 11 of the 20-year sentence, earning release in 2015, the Age newspaper said today. Parole could bring that date forward even earlier, it said.
"The next step is for her legal team to work out what can be done about a bid for parole," Carr said.
Bali attracts more than a third of all visitors to Indonesia with a mix of nightlife and surfing in the southern beach resorts. More than 648,000 Australian tourists traveled to the region in the first eight months of last year, five times more than in 2006, according to the Bali Tourism Board.
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Indonesia's drug laws, which can carry the death penalty for importation, have at times strained relations with Australia.
Nine Australians, known as the "Bali Nine" were also arrested in 2005 and convicted of attempting to smuggle eight kilograms of heroin into Indonesia. Three of the nine were given a death sentence and three were jailed for life.
"Clearly we have been making representations to the Indonesians, as we do with anyone in a country convicted of a crime that in that country carries the death penalty," then Australian Trade Minister Simon Crean said in 2010, according to a transcript of an interview with ABC 774 Radio Melbourne. "We make the point we don't support the death penalty."
Australian government officials also stepped in when a 14- year-old boy was convicted of drug possession last year and sentenced to two months confinement. The teenager was arrested with 3.6 grams of marijuana on Oct. 4 and released in December.
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I have been on the run since yesterday. My day started at 6am. I woke up, cleaned house, wrote a couple of blog posts, and headed out with my daughter to the park to meet some other homeschool moms and their kids for a day of relaxation. Before I did though, I had to have my morning breakfast coffee to get myself motivated.
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It's probably something like 'being the couple with the most veneered Hollywood-white teeth,' or 'couple most likely to be involved with your husband. Or wife.'
Happy celebrating?
It's probably something like 'being the couple with the most veneered Hollywood-white teeth,' or 'couple most likely to be involved with your husband. Or wife.'
Happy celebrating?
And no, it's not because ex-husband Dean Sheremet was actually gay, sorry to quash those rumors … for today.
LeAnn, the female half of the Eddie Cibrian-LeAnn Rimes affair — OK, wait, let me reiterate: LeAnn, the blonde half of the Eddie Cibrian-LeAnn Rimes affair (ah, much better) reached out recently to Shape magazine about — what else — her affair with a then-married co-star, Eddie Cibrian, and why she did it:
"I understand why people are disappointed in me, especially since I grew up as America's sweetheart. I think any relationship is hard to get out of, and I don't think the way I did it was right … I did one of the most selfish things that I possibly could do, in hurting someone else."
As to how she let her vulva get the best of her:
"It wasn't a fulfilling marriage for either of us [LeAnn and Dean]. As we got older, we grew apart."
But don't worry, y'all; she's learned from this experience, and girlfriend has grown. Live with love and grow from love or whatever the fuck, I guess.
"There are lessons in it for me to learn … The most important thing [is] cultivating strength from rough situations. After going through this, I know I can face anything."
OK. Is it going to be, like, next year, and we're still going to be hearing about this affair and exactly how it unfolded time and time again? Is this going to be the catalyst of the prophets' end of days? 2012 is fast-approaching … and yes, if you're wondering, I do think Le Ann can continue in this vein for the next year and a half.
Eddie Cibrian is getting away with murder. Lucky him, right? The guy cheats on his wife, Brandi Glanville, and then leaves her for LeAnn Rimes and the press, along with his Brandi, blames her. And over a year later, Brandi is still swiping her claws in LeAnn's direction, saying that while LeAnn thought that she'd successfully taken Eddie away from her, the formerly married couple were still getting it on on the side.
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When Us Weekly recently asked Brandi Glanville, 37, about reports that she hooked up with estranged husband Eddie Cibrian, 37, after he'd already left her for LeAnn Rimes, 28, she coyly replied, "Eddie and I both know the truth."
A source confirms in the new Us Weekly that the two spouses, who filed for divorce in August 2009, were indeed intimate last fall.
"Leann stole her husband, so Brandi doesn't owe her," the source says.
"And Brandi couldn't care less. She's already moved on to another relationship." Indeed, Glanville told Us she's dating an "amazing man."
It's pretty sad to see two beautiful women fight over the same scummy, poorly behaved man. Especially when they're both fighting for the same thing: His fidelity. Neither of them are going to get that at this point, you know?
Brandi's hurt feelings are totally understandable. As the mother of Eddie's children, it must have been heart wrenching to see him in the papers with LeAnn, knowing that they'd started something behind her back. However, Eddie's the one who gave up his family and his good guy status to get some younger ass on the side. Blaming "the other woman" is just so old and unproductive.
Aw, that's funny. I thought that show died.
At any rate, the show is not dead, and LeAnn Rimes actually performed as a guest star this past week, debuting her latest single, Swingin'. So, ah, appropriate, LeAnn! Did Eddie co-write this for you? Produce it? Inspire it? No, I'm kidding. I have no idea what this song is actually about. It could be about, you know, swangin' from rope swings into the local crick. It could be about swangin' on the swangs at the muni park — the one that three counties share.
Who knows. Who cares.
The video? I care about. So much. And you should, too, because it's LeAnn clumsily stumping around the stage with her flat feet and boyshorts bikini, sounding not too awful. Really.
Uh, no? 'Cause she'd probably go all Fatal Attraction on him or something and he'd wake up in a seedy motel room on the side of Route 14 in a bathtub full of ice, missing three or four fingers and toes, and with his anus feeling rather full.
Naturally, the pot-stirrers are surfacing since there's been no Eddie/LeAnn/Brandi drama for the past eighteen days or so, and Exclusive! Sources! spoke recently to Star, a magazine I tend to believe and disbelieve along with the lunar cycles. The Exclusive! Sources! claim that Eddie's gone back to Brandi, but only for the sex, and LeAnn is in the dark (probably hiding with a knife and strapped up with some C4). However, Eddie caught wind of the vicious, vicious lies being spread through such reputable literary publications and went — where else? — to his Twitter account to refute the magazine's claims:
Once again my ex has stooped to a new low attempting to sabotage my beautiful relationship with LeAnn. Not surprisingly the ONLY magazine that decided to run the story shares the same credibility and delusion as my ex. They should be ashamed of themselves.
So, yeah. Slam bang, Brandi, and back the fuck off. No one's gonna mess with little Eddie's little lady, LeAnn, and especially not you, hoss.
Oh, and buddy Ed? You might come across as a little more convincing if you weren't going after Star magazine for crying out loud. It's not as if this shit was published in People or on TMZ. Get your "celebrity" gossip rags straight for fuck's sake. You might look like the bigger person one of these days.
Though the divorce hasn't even been finalized, it hasn't stopped Eddie Cibrian's estranged wife from continually speaking out about her husband's affair with country star, Leann Rimes. Brandi's latest interview emerges from the depths of In Touch, where she calls Eddie and Leann both cheaters. Again. She also insinuates that they both need professional help, but she wants to be friends with the new couple, too:
"They're both cheaters," Eddie Cibrian's soon-to-be-ex, Brandi Glanville, tells In Touch exclusively. "I hope he gets help, but if he's a cheater, he's going to cheat forever."
When Eddie Cibrian left his wife, Brandi Glanville, for singer Leann Rimes, it took her a long time to forgive. But she'll never forget what he did to her — and thinks Leann shouldn't, either.
"I don't know how she deals with it, that he was lying to both of us," Brandi, 36, tells In Touch in an exclusive interview. Brandi, who still lived with her husband for three months after his affair was exposed, adds that until the scandal broke, "there was no lull in our sex life."
"They're both cheaters," she says. "I hope he gets help, but if he's a cheater, he's going to cheat forever. The great thing is, it doesn't affect me anymore. I'm done."
Indeed, though Brandi has definitely moved on and has a new boyfriend, she's confident that she and her ex can have a civil relationship.
"I know Eddie loves me — I'm the mother of his children. But it's a different kind of love now," she says. "I do have resentment toward him, but I still wish him well. I hope we can all be friends one day, to be honest."
What do you think? Will this unlikely trio be sitting down for anything more than a good, old-fashioned hair-pulling anytime soon?
… Nah, me either.
As long as she directly benefits from the result, clearly, it's all good.
Rimes speaks out to People magazine about the heat surrounding her and Eddie Cibrian, the man who some say was "lured away" by the wiles and charms of the woman — the legend! — Leann Rimes. She claims that she's remorseful about pulling Eddie away from what was oh-so-clearly a bad relationship, but feels happy and optimistic about the snafu's general outcome:
"I did one of the most selfish things that I possibly could do, in hurting someone else … I take responsibility for everything I've done. I hate that people got hurt," says Rimes. "But I don't regret the outcome."
Of course you don't, Leann. It's the best thing that's happened to your career since a shitload of your songs were used on Coyote Ugly all those years ago. This is the most publicity you've gotten in eons, girl. So, yeah. Go ahead and own it. It's not like you have a whole lot else to do these days, between filming your Lifetime movies and waiting three years to release new albums or whatever.
Rimes continues on, discussing how emotionally-charged and spiritually-driven the beginnings of her affair was with Cibrian:
"It was very emotionally driven. I never once thought what I was doing was okay."
But clearly, it all worked out in the end. Cibrian and Rimes ended up doing that whole happily-ever-after thing, Rimes' ex-husband Dean Sheremet (you know, the non-gay gay one) is supposedly dating a
decoy woman by the name of Sarah Silver, who happens to be some kind of bigwig NYC photographer or whatever and Cibrian's ex-wife, Brandi Glanville, well … she's still just as crazy.
See? Not much has been turned upside down, nothing has truly changed all that much, and life obviously does go on.
So shut the fuck up about it, Leann Rimes. We've totally heard enough. Go be smitten and schmoopy, while tastefully subdued and solemn, all over some other country's media.


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Amy's career spans over 25 years and stretches from her roots in gospel into becoming an iconic pop star, songwriter, television personality and philanthropist. She has sold more than 30 million albums, had six number one hits and been awarded a star on the legendary Walk of Fame in Hollywood. In addition to her six Grammys, Amy has earned 26 Dove awards and is a four-time Dove Artist of the Year. Her book, Mosaic: Pieces of My Life So Far, debuted in 2007.
Conventional wisdom has it that Amy put Contemporary Christian music on the map. She achieved such breakthroughs as being the first Contemporary Christian artist to have a platinum record, the first to hit number one on the Pop charts, and the first to perform at the Grammys. Perhaps her greatest professional accomplishment was to open the door for a flood of other artists in pop and rock to sing about faith and soul and family and still grasp stardom. With that, her legacy as one of the most influential artists of the past couple of decades is assured.
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Karen Gooding, the North Carolina freelance writer who pens the Athena blog, is a three-time cancer survivor and eternal optimist. Diagnosed with breast cancer at age 34 in 1995, she underwent a double mastectomy, chemotherapy and reconstructive surgery and then got back to her favorite job, raising daughter Elizabeth, then 5, and son Thomas, then 2.
She was diagnosed with ovarian cancer in 2007 and with recurrent ovarian cancer in 2012. After extensive surgery and relatively new methods of chemotherapy, she and her husband, Jim, enjoy spending time with family and friends, as well as living vicariously through their now grown children.
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Peace is the true nature of this universe and it is equally true to each one of us if we care to go deep into each one of our inner-self through su-darshan. Those who face problem in it better learn su-darshan-kriya taught world over by the Art of Living Maestro Sri Sri Ravi Shankar Guru Dev.
The very structure of this universe and its inherent economic is for peace. The peace started eluding mankind with the advent of industrialization and the man getting displaced by machines.
The people of Europe and North America desire peace maintaining their multiplicity of wants and high standard of living. This is now equally true with city dwellers of developing nations including India. Modern fan failed to understand the truth that high standard of living and peace are incompatible. If Mahatma Gandhi's works and teachings are read correctly, his most important message to the humanity was to organize one's own day-to-day life for peace. This went into deaf ears even in India.
Let the message to humanity during this festive season of Christmas and New Year be to take up the cross of simple life and follow the life of a Satyagrahi i.e. truth seeker. After all Truth is God and God is Love. Mahatma Gandhi's promoted Khadi and Village Industries helped one to organize one's own life for peace.
During Mahatma Gandhi's time, Maganwadi, Wardha, presently in the Maharashtra State of India was the capital for Khadi and Village Industries. Hundreds of thousands of workers from all over India got trained at Maganwadi for Khadi and Village Industries.
At Maganwadi at the entrance to the Industries Court there is a beautiful life-size representation of Jesus being taken down from the cross. This sculpture was made by Clara Quien Hopman and presented to the All India Village Industries Association of which Mahatma Gandhi's doctor of village industries J. C. Kumarappa was the Secretary for a very long time. This symbolic sculpture was mounted at the gateway of the Industries Court with the following inscription in English, Urdu, Hindi and Marathi:
"Grama Sevaks who obtain their training in the various departments housed in this Udyog Bhavan are expected to be imbued with the spirit of a true Satyagrahi. They should go out to serve the villagers dedicating all they have to such service. In the pursuit of their ideal they should be prepared to lay down even their lives if need be.
"To symbolize this spirit of vicarious suffering and sacrifice that should be goal of all satyagrahis, this sculpture is erected depicting Jesus being taken down from the Cross on which he was crucified by the leaders of his day, because with his life of purity and unrelenting championship of truth, he proved an unbearable critic of the evil customs and traditions prevalent at that time. He laid down his life to fulfill his ideals."
After Indian independence, Mahatma Gandhi's assassination and J.C.Kumarappa's leaving Maganwadi, its importance got reduced. In independent India when Khadi and Village Industries Commission was constituted, the Government of India chose to have its headquarters at Mumbai instead of at Maganwadi. It should have been quite appropriately be at Maganwadi. Unfortunately that did not happen.
Big powers of the world who literally deprive humanity the peace, always claimed to make schemes for peace. But peace always eluded mankind as no attempts were made to reduce one's own wants and organizing one's own day-to-day life for peace.
In July 1945 while writing on "World Security" in Gram Udyog Patrika, the journal for Village Industries, J.C.Kumarappa wrote the following:
"In Christendom the Church, not content with reserving for itself the moral power consequent on its spiritual leadership but with the help and allegiance of other temporal states and with the sanction of physical force and violence, tried for centuries to play the role of arbiter and restore the rule of reason amongst nations, but the savage and barbaric hordes of Europe reduced its efforts to futility s these recurring world wars have witnessed. The heart of man was not touched.
"The attempt made by Islam was through ethical means. They aimed at making humanity a brotherhood where all distinction of caste, colour and economic inequalities would be abolished. This method was much more successful, but as it confined itself only to the followers of the Prophet it did not naturally attain world-wide dimensions in practice. It has yet great unexplored possibilities.
"In India, the Hindus of old launched on an elaborate plan to sterilize greed and avarice by setting up cultural standards of values, which will reduce the evils of economic competition and lay emphasis on the value of the development of personality. By the Varnashrama Dharma the ones who exercised merely rights were put down as the lowest group. The profit seeking Vaisya had no high social status while the protector of the people, the Kshatriya, had a status all his own, independent of his wealth of material possessions. The dispossessed Brahmin, whose position of influence was based on the service of his fellowmen, occupied the pinnacle of respect. This system has also fallen short of its possibilities because of the course of time these distinguishing ideals were lost sight of and status was attached to birth rather than to the form of service rendered to society."
It is to be remembered that J.C.Kumarappa belonged neither to Islam nor Sanadhana Dharma i.e. so called Hinduism. He belonged to a devout Christian family and he rose to greater spiritual heights under the influence of his Maestro Mahatma Gandhi. Truly J.C.Kumarappa's was "His Master's Voice".
What a misfortune that Islam today is considered a religion that harbours terrorists and terrorism instead of making humanity a brotherhood. Western industrial lobby influenced oil explorations and marketing pushed the believers of Islam towards more materialism. This helped breed terrorists and terrorism. This must change and the truth should prevail.
American led wars in Afghanistan and Iraq killed hundreds and thousands of young American soldiers as well as innocent Afghan and Iraqi citizens. Deadly weapons freely gone into the hands of misguided youths and fanatics of both the countries as well as in the neighbourhood in countries like Pakistan. United Stated of America is solely responsible for this. Thanks to American President George Bush the United States of America is today a shattered economy with increasing unemployment. It is to be seen whether the new President can change this state of affairs.
This reminds this peace lover J.C.Kumarappa's speech at World Congress for Peace at Vienna on January 24, 1953. That time he boldly said the following:
"America attempts to cordon off the awakening of the masses along the political line starting from Korea, China, Burma, India, Iraq and Jordania, etc. going onto West Germany. To this end the U.S.A. is moving heaven and earth to get a foot hold on all these countries by fair means or foul – by wars, by finance, by pretended social service and goodwill etc. Let us be awake to the dangers around us and be forewarned."
No one grasped the above prophetic words of warning. America occupied Afghanistan and Iraq and succeeded in installing its own puppet Governments and continues to rule these countries by proxy. It is quite natural terrorism and terrorists increased the world over.
Peace as Dharma
In order to benefit the present day readers, especially the younger generation I consider it appropriate to quote hereunder the text of J.C.Kumarappa's speech before the World Congress for Peace at Vienna in January 1953.
"As we are meeting here to explore all ways and means of attaining world peace, I wish to place before you for your consideration the methods worked out in India by Mahatma Gandhi and his analysis of the reasons for friction among nations and the way to smoothen international relations.
The philosophy of non-violence and truth of Gandhiji has its deep roots in the way of life developed over thousands of years by the Hindus to lead us to peace. Hence to understand the Gandhian way of peace it is necessary to remind ourselves of this ancient background.
They held Truth is God and Dharma is ht purpose of existence of man. Nay, each creature – sentient and insentient – has its own Dharma. The Dharma of man is to express himself in peace. Dharma is neither religion nor duty as is often indifferently translated. These latter are but expressions of Dharma but not all of it. Just as to produce flowers is the nature of the rose plant and to exude fragrance is of the very nature of the rose, so should the produce of peace be the very existence of man. We may say flowering is the Dharma of the rose and peace is the Dharma of man. Anything that produces conflict is Adharma.
Modern philosophy of life has turned man into an economic animal. It has made production of good the Dharma of man. This is a degradation of the mission in life of man. We may say, if we choose, that the Dharma of the machine is to produce goods. But man is something nobler. Life does not consist in the abundance of things we possess. Man does not live by bread alone and much less by unwanted things made into necessities by artificial pressure of salesmanship and advertising. Thus has man fallen from his Dharma and has brought conflict into the world of humanity by introducing false values and priorities. If we wish to restore peace we have to reorientate our own lives. This may involve foregoing many materials things which we have come to regard as essentials. In the restoration of Dharma lies the hope of World Peace.
The Dharma of the strong is the protection of the weak. The all powerful America fighting small nations like Korea, is Adharma. It belongs to the animal kingdom. The Dharma of the tiger may be to kill but not that of man. We have to diagnose this virus of poison that has entered human life and has produced this phenomenon of nation warning against nation and man's personality being buried under a mountain of consumer goods. This finally leads man to seek a way out by blowing up this mountain by a ceaseless activity of producing instruments of destruction. To a cool thinker production of the atom bomb would seem the height of midsummer madness and what shall we say of hydrogen bombs and germ warfare! Man has thus fallen from his Dharma and wandered into the jungle of violence. Hence it is necessary to restore the values that make for human development and fuller expression of personality. To do this was Gandhi's search for truth and the non-violent way of life.
The malady the world is suffering from today is mainly due to economic factors. We have forgotten the end of man in life and are running after things that do not matter. In the few minutes at our disposal I shall attempt an analysis of the situation from a practical point of view and see how we can remedy it and implement the suggestions.
If the way of Dharma leads to peace then any act that is Dharma will lead to violence. These global conflicts are not isolated incidents. They are the culminations of innumerable small acts performed by simple people innocently. Though the responsibility for wars may immediately by placed on some leaders, yet the real causes can be traced to our daily acts. For instance, city people buy milk without asking whether the calf has been fed or the children of the milkman have had their quota. When the milk we buy is not surplus but has been squeezed out of the mouths of calves and children with prior claims, our acts are Adharmic and we create violence, which, when accumulated, breaks out into world catastrophes. Hence we may see the real remedy lies in the consumer being closely associated with the produced and the distributor. This means decentralization of production and a move towards self-sufficiency. This has been Gandhiji's suggestion for banishing the causes of war.
On the production side today the goods are turned out on a mass scale with standardized methods, from raw materials secured from the ends of the earth from under-developed people. All this is Adharmic. Similarly distribution has no natural urge but is stimulated by all manner of artificial multiplicity of wants. This again is Adharmic and leads to violence.
The pattern of consumption has no relation to real needs of the consumer, nor is it neither related one to another nor based on any priorities. The consumer pattern is calculated to sub serve the needs of the produced and distributor. Hence periodic explosions are called for to set the system on proper lines. These gain lead to wars.
As long as the capitalistic and imperialistic interests persist and production follows centralized and standardized methods, wars will form an integral part of human life and no amount of petitions and protests will bring about lasting peace.
Because of these underlying causes the atmosphere is surcharged with a fear of acquisitive interests being upset by a spreading sense of social justice. The American bloc represents private property and individual profits, while Russia, China and associated countries stand for social justice. The handful of American vested interests desire to stop the ever-growing consciousness of the masses for a square deal. Here is the world situation in a nutshell. America attempts to cordon off the awakening of the masses along the political line starting from Korea, China, Burma, India, Iraq and Jordania etc. going on to West Germany. To this end the U.S.A. is moving heaven and earth to get a foothold on all these countries by fair means or foul – by wars, by finance, by pretended social service and goodwill etc. Let us be awake to the dangers around us and be forewarned.
What then is the remedy? The causes themselves suggest the way out. We have already seen that Gandhiji had suggested self-sufficiency and decentralization of production.
Russia is working out the first by the Government taking over their foreign trade and by producing most of her needs within their borders. This is a healthy move. But they are still adhering to centralized methods of production which is also basically a cause of conflict as we diagnose the situation.
The American way is heading directly towards international conflicts all along the line and their ultimate interest is financial. To call a halt we should resort to methods which are also Dharmic if we aim at permanence. Here also Gandhiji had indicated the way of non-violent non-co-operation with the offender which may finally result in the launching of a Satyagraha movement.
In the economic field this will result in a boycott of all trade transactions with the offender and thus isolating him from the rest of human society. If we apply this sanction all nations should stop dealing in American goods. For instance, India is flood with American goods of all kinds—automobiles, electrical goods, fountain pens, drugs and cosmetic and all kinds of consumer goods. Therefore if an embargo is placed on these it will bring the Government of the U.S.A. to its senses quickly.
In this Congress over 70 nations are represented. If all these countries decide on one common course of action it cannot be long before the U.S.A. authorities can be called to order. On the other hand, a mere threat of armed might will only challenge them to a greater and more rapid production of armaments. This may even be an attraction to the manufacturers and merchants of death as an opportunity for acquiring greater wealth.
This course of action brings promotion of World Peace within the reach of every single one of us. We need not feel helpless before the great ones of the earth. Everyone can contribute his mite. This is a great privilege and a responsibility: It calls for self-control and sacrifice in the cause of peace. Are we prepared to shoulder our share of work?
All this is based on the assumption that we shall have enough basic character to organize each nation into behaving in co-operation with the rest of the world on a high level of more and spiritual standards. The education of the children must be recast to enable us to raise a nation of stalwarts who will depend on character rather than armaments to maintain peace. Only such peaceful relations, founded on co-operation, understanding and goodwill, will lead us to lasting peace.
In such a world there can be no exploitation of the weak by the strong, oppression of the under-developed by the highly organized, or over-powering of the small by the mighty. Such human relations alone can lead to peace of earth and goodwill towards men."
How relevant the above words are even today! It is time to act. Better late than never. Let this not be deferred to or neglected to. Negligence of such things can do irreparable damage to humanity as has already happened.
In India as early as on 16th November, 1947 All India Congress Committee passed the following resolutions:
"The All India Congress Committee was noted with regret that there is a growing desire on the part of some organizations to build up private armies. Any such development is dangerous for the safety of the State and for the growth of corporate life in the nation. The State alone should have its defense forces or police or some guards or recognized armed volunteer force. The activities of the Muslim National Guards, the Rashtriya Swayam Sevak Sangh and the Akali Volunteers and such other organizations, in so far as they represent an endeavor to bring into being private armies, must be regarded as a menace to the hard-won freedom of the country. The A.I.C.C. therefore appeals to all these organizations to discontinue such activities and the Central and Provincial Governments to take necessary steps in this behalf."
"Political independence having been achieved, the Congress must address itself to the next great task, namely and reestablishment of real democracy in the country and a society based on social justice and equality. Such a society must provide every man and woman with equality of opportunity and freedom to work for the unfettered development of his or her personality. This can only be realized when democracy extended from the political to the social and the economic spheres."
The above resolutions remained merely in paper and these were not sincerely acted upon. Subsequent events including the assassinations of Mahatma Gandhi and Indira Gandhi and increasing number of terrorist attacks and terrorisms are history.
Similarly, in the United States of America as early as on 20th January 1993 the then
President Bill Clinton said the following:
"To renew America we must revitalize our democracy. This beautiful capital like every capital since the dawn of civilization is often a place of intrigue and calculation. Powerful people maneuver for position and worry endlessly about who is in and who is out, who is up and who is down, forgetting those people whose toil and sweat send us here and pay our way………………………………………………….
Let us give this capital back to the people whom it belongs."
President Bill Clinton too failed to sincerely act on the above even after holding two terms of the American Presidency. The rest is history.
Such negligences and mistakes have done irreparable damages to Indians and Americans in particular and humanity at large. Let us learn from our past mistakes and take care not to repeat the same, but work and help to leave behind for the younger generation a world worth living and they can be proud of inheriting a peaceful world.
Let Peace be our Dharma. In peace alone all round human development is possible and feasible. Any dispute on this?


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> I agree, we shouldn't change the order of the links. What
> about if the
> green arrow simply moves to whatever domain you are on and
> add a little
> padding around it to make it stand out without actually changing the
> location of the menu item? This would be consistant with the idea of
> "this is where you are" and still satisfy the color-blind
> problem of the
> light purple link color.
Let's try that. I've got a few other ideas in mind, but don't have time to
make a proto right now. If your idea works, we'll just go with it for now.
In any case, it'll be better than changing link orders.
> Sorry, I had the wrong color-code for the purple header. I also
> increased the font size for the green header to make it more
> prominent.
Yup, they look great now. I noticed that the table headers seem to be a
different purple (darker), don't know if it's intentional, but it's ok with
> I didn't notice the body overflowing under the content area
> there (I use
> moz and opera and only test with IE every once in a while). The light
> purple bar under the content area is an IE only bug and I fixed it.
> Ad bar being shifted by 1 pixel? I don't see that in any of the
> browsers. Can you take a screenshot?
Screenshot: http://www.aaronshi.com/gentoo/problems/onepixel.png (also
pointed out the adbar/footer bg difference). The shift is actually large on
some other pages (just discovered after uploading that sshot), e.g. on
it's off by at least 5.
I think it's important that it looks good in IE, since this is more than 85%
of the market share on the net. While Gentoo is Linux specific (where IE is
the minority), I think from a marketing perspective a lot of new/potential
future users might still be on IE/Windows. E.g. 100% of Gentoo users I know
on campus went from Windows --> [some flavour of Linux they didn't like
(while retaining Windows as main OS)] or directly to --> Gentoo (but still
using Windows). The pre-Gentoo OS has a great probability of being Windows,
whose user has a good probability of using IE.
Those who visit from their workplace, i.e. potential future
enterprise/business users are likely to be using Windows/IE as well since
most businesses use Windows as their main platform and for easy maintainence
rollouts they'd probably only use IE which gets updated along with Windows.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Curtis Napier [mailto:email@example.com]
> Sent: Sunday, December 11, 2005 6:36 PM
> To: email@example.com
> Subject: Re: [www-redesign] a couple of comments
> Aaron Shi wrote:
> > Wow, took a quick peek and everything looks much nicer.
> >
> > A couple of things (here it goes):
> >
> > --1--
> >
> >>When I saw the e-mail icon next to the print icon, my first thought
> >>was that it was a "send-a-link" button, since that's pretty
> common on
> >>news sites. Having it represent a mailto:
> >>link instead might be potentially confusing. Anybody else
> think that?
> >
> >
> > It is misleading and counter intuitive. The original reference was
> > that's probably why it was changed to a static mailto: link.
> >
> A little picture of a mail envelope represents a send-a-link?
> If so many people think so then I'll just remove it. To me
> it's pretty intuitive that it means "send a mail" and since
> it's a gentoo page I assume it's sending a mail to someone at gentoo.
> Since the current gentoo website doesn't have that link and
> since it wasn't Aarons orginal intention for it to be a
> mailto link *and* because so may people have mentioned it I
> will just remove it.
> Fixed in CVS.
> > --2--
> >
> >>There are a few other minor changes as well. Link colors have been
> >>made more consistant: purple on white for content areas and
> white on
> >>purple in the menu bar. All links turn green on :hover. These color
> >>combinations pass the color-blind test, look really good and are
> >>consistant.
> >
> >
> > The green was intended for on the dark purple background on the top
> > bar or bolded text headings. It is not intended for unbold
> > non-heading text on white background or on light purple
> background (especially hard to see, e.g.
> > hover ad links on the ad bar). Also, the ad images have dotted
> > underlines under them, they shouldn't.
> >
> I tried to take your repeated advice to be "consistant" and
> apply it to the links. We have purple on white links, white
> on purple links. I think we can both agree that is good(?)
> Having a hover color is important for several reasons. Let me
> explain the full logic of why I choose the colors for the
> links, hopefully you will agree.
> 1. hover color is the standard for links and the green is one
> of the official theme colors. Using it for ALL links is "consistant".
> 2. we are using dotted underlines instead of solid ones. This
> confuses a lot of people who think they are <acronym>'s
> instead of <a href>'s so having a different color on hover is
> more consistant with a normal <a
> href>'s behaviour.
> 3. the light purple on the dark purple is invisible to
> color-blind people (this one is very very important)
> 4. the inconsistancy of links was the number 1 thing people
> had negative feedback on. This current link color theme has
> gotten thumbs up from everyone I have talked to about it.
> Especially color-blind people. The hover color is a great
> visual que that it is an <a href> and not an <acronym> since
> <acronym>'s don't have a hover color by default (the dotted
> line changing to a solid one helps too but isn't enough).
> The green is the normal green that is used for a lot of
> little things around the site so I used it since it's
> "consistant". It looks good on the white and on the purple. I
> agree it may be a *little* hard to read on the light purple
> background but it's a hover color and you only see that color
> if the mouse is over the word anyway. It's kind of hard to
> read with the mouse covering the word anyhow so what's the difference?
> > --3--
> >
> >>The top level menu (main, planet, forums, etc...) had an issue. The
> >>green arrow designates which site you are on. If you are on
> >>planet.gentoo.org then PLANET would be first in line with the green
> >>arrow. I spaced the first word out more to make it more
> obvious. The
> >>link colors were changed to white with green hover to be consistant
> >>with the site-wide color scheme and also to pass the color
> blind test.
> >
> >
> > Hmm...we shouldn't changed the menu order on the users. It creates
> > confusion and slows down the workflow because they'd have
> to double-check
> > the position of the links before clicking due to them
> changing. How about,
> > current site = white link, other sites = dimmer (i.e. light
> purple). Also
> > the green arrow doesn't vertically align with the text as
> in the reference,
> > not sure why merely changing colors would also change the
> positioning. The
> > font looks a tad different, maybe that's why.
> I agree, we shouldn't change the order of the links. What
> about if the
> green arrow simply moves to whatever domain you are on and
> add a little
> padding around it to make it stand out without actually changing the
> location of the menu item? This would be consistant with the idea of
> "this is where you are" and still satisfy the color-blind
> problem of the
> light purple link color.
> When those links were still light purple I had several color-blind
> people ask me "what is that little green arrow doing floating in the
> middle of the top bar?" They *literally* could not see the
> light purple
> links.
> I don't see an issue with the arrow lining up. It seems to be pretty
> consistant for me on every browser, except for IE which moves it up 1
> pixel for some reason I can't seem to figure out.
> It's not that big of a deal and I would say it's an acceptable bug (?)
> >
> > --4--
> >
> >>I like this version much better. It's all coming together, and
> >>I give my thumbs up for a release of this as soon as the minor
> >>bugs are worked out. (Not like it matters, but as an average gentoo
> >>user, I applaud you, and everyone else!)
> >
> >
> >>Yes, let's see this before X-Mas 2005! It would be a nice X-mas
> >>present to the community!
> >
> >
> > I'd strong advise against releasing an unpolished product
> and patching up
> > known-bugs later (i.e. pull a Microsoft). Since this is a
> major event,
> > there will undoubtly be additional coverage and it would
> not look good if we
> > launched it at sub par quality (Gentoo critics would
> totally capitalize on
> > it).
> >
> I do agree that we shouldn't put up a sub-standard piece of work
> *however*, if everyone involved is OK with it and has the
> time why not?
> I would like to see it by at least the New Year. If that
> isn't possible
> then so be it but this project was started over a year and a
> half ago,
> is it ever going to end?
> </chomping at the bit> ;-)
> > --5--
> >
> >>Chapters are the green and a larger font size and sections
> >>are dark purple and a little smaller. It looks good at the
> >>moment and (more or
> >>less) matches the reference design.
> >
> >
> > Looks good, my only concern with this and the other color
> changes is where
> > the colors came from. Are they part of the color scheme?
> The dark purple
> > sub headings, while the text is of higher contrast (is it
> necessary?), it
> > over shadows the green heading (even though the green
> heading is larger),
> > this is because the apparent brightness is inconsistent.
> The purple in the
> > reference looks more balanced. The headings (green,
> purple, and doc heading
> > at top in the light purple box) could be a little bigger as
> our default text
> > is bigger.
> >
> Sorry, I had the wrong color-code for the purple header. I also
> increased the font size for the green header to make it more
> prominent.
> > --6--
> > On the front page, there's a light purple space below
> between the content
> > area and the footer bar. To the right of the line where it
> says "#103610 -
> > yaboot-static claims incorrectly that /proc/device-tree
> broken is in the
> > 2.6.12 kernel series", the ad bar is shifted by 1 pixel to
> the right (this
> > is barely noticeable but very odd).
> >
> I didn't notice the body overflowing under the content area
> there (I use
> moz and opera and only test with IE every once in a while). The light
> purple bar under the content area is an IE only bug and I fixed it.
> Ad bar being shifted by 1 pixel? I don't see that in any of the
> browsers. Can you take a screenshot?
> > --7--
> > The front page looks over crowded, I think this is mostly a
> spacing issue
> > (or lack of). Giving the purple bar headings a padding and
> putting more
> > space between each news item may help a little temporarily.
> The "More News"
> > link needs to be more prominent, right now it just looks
> like part of the
> > last news item.
> >
> The spacing issue is because you are apparently using IE to view it.
> Spacing is not an issue on any other browser. I have added a
> padding to
> the <td>'s of that table to accomodate IE, this increases the already
> existing padding on non-IE browsers though and I'm not sure
> it looks good.
> I increased the padding of the header as you suggested but it looks
> horrible. The reference design doesn't have a padding either
> and I like
> the look of it much better. Look at it now with the increased padding
> between news items and see what you think. Also try using firefox or
> opera and see the difference between them and IE.
> > --etc.--
> > The table borders might look better in a purple (right now
> it appears black
> > or very dark gray).
> Grey at the moment. Which of the purples? Give me a color code.
> >
> > The XML buttons have dotted underlines, within a sentence
> it looks okay, but
> > on its own it looks strange (the underline sticks right to
> the bottom of it,
> > essentially same problem as ad images). This is probably a
> line height
> > issue.
> >
> > The ad column's purple doesn't quite match the light gray
> portion on the
> > footer which connects to it. The purple looks nice too, I
> can probably
> > change the footer graphic later to match the purple.
> >
> We are replacing the normal text-decoration:underline of <a
> href>'s with
> a border:dotted. This makes the line become a "border" instead of a
> normal "text-decoration" and so the border is "below" the text line
> instead of "part of" the text line. I had to increase the line height
> for the entire content area to 1.3em to make the spacing
> consistant with
> what a text-decoration would give us and to remove the overlapping of
> the border with the line below it.
> It's easy to get rid of the text-decoration on images that are a link
> with a simple "a img {text-decoration:none}" but it is more
> complicated
> to get rid of a border on an <a href> that contains an img. I
> would have
> to add a new class to the css and a filter in the xsl that would tag
> every image with that class in order to get rid of the
> border. This is
> overly complicated to do. If anyone knows of a simple way to
> do it that
> doesn't involve adding a new class to every single image contained
> within an <a href> let me know.
> Instead I added vertical-align:text-bottom to "a img" in the
> css. This
> doesn't get rid of the dotted border but it does move the
> border right
> up to the edge of the image. This isn't a perfect fix but it's better
> than nothing. What does everyone think of the way it looks now?
> >
> >
> > Overall good work Curtis, this is coming together nicely!
> The progress has
> > been huge in the last couple of weeks.
> >
> Thanks! :-)
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There is still no progress in NHL labor negotiations after the league and Players Association met for two hours on Tuesday. The two sides met for three straight days Friday, Saturday and Sunday before taking a break on Monday for internal discussions. The splitting of hockey-related revenue remains the key sticking point in reaching a new collective bargaining agreement. No new talks are scheduled. The owners locked out the players after the previous CBA expired September 15th. The entire preseason slate has already been canceled. The regular season is scheduled to begin October 11th.
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