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I like this place. We used to come here to have walks along the river. He would say: "Don't you think it's funny how the sun looks when she mirrors herself in the water? It's like she wants to know 'How do I look today? I want people to see me like I see myself.'" I just notice the glossy sparkle that emerge from the water's ripples. I like that the most. You never know from which angle the reflections hit your eye. Questions like that made me think about us. How do people see us when we are together, strolling like this, hand in hand. Do they see that I am happy? Do they see that he is happy?
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There is one big challenge when taking photos in the park: which of the many photos that you took are you going to present to the public as you feature photo? Ideally, when showcasing your photos you want to tell a story with the shot that you took. What tragedy lies behind those eyes? Which way did I walk to end up where I am now? Closeup portrait shots achieve that to utter fulfillment. It's the subject's eyes that connect with the viewer, telling him about joy, bitterness, pain, happiness, resentment, contentment.
On the other hand, there is something about framing a shot like the above. The feeling of longing and distance has often been a state of emotion that I find myself in. Therefore, right now this type of framing and composition belongs to my shot pattern in my head that I tend to frequent. It's a simple composition, easy to achieve, yet the emotional impact on the viewer remains so strong.


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Cartoons aren't just for television. Sometimes they infiltrate the deep sea and turn serious sea creatures into bulgy-eyed, spiky-haired goofs. Meet Taonius borealis, a species of transparent glass squid that lives up to a kilometre below the surface of the North Pacific Ocean.
With a pair of soulful blue eyes and a cigar-shaped digestive gland visibly suspended in its bloated, sac-like body, the glass squid has got a real look going on. The species is often found with its mass of stumpy tentacles, or arms, floating above its head like a crest, so scientists have given it another great nickname – the cockatoo squid. There are many species of glass squid found all over the world; some have orange polka dots, others have iridescent moustaches, and many have googly eyes, but none look quite as weary and in desperate need of a vacation as T. borealis.
Don't let those under-eye bags fool you though; T. borealis is as spry as the next guy. Those dark red eye bands are actually special light-emitting organs called oracular photophores, which help the squid to disguise itself from its predators. By projecting a steady beam of light beneath it as it moves through the ocean, T. borealis can conceal its shadow from anything lurking below. And for extra control over how and where this light is projected, T. borealis can shift its eyes and its photophores from the front of its face all the way around to sit on either side of it. Known as 'counter-illumination', this is one of the most popular camouflaging strategies in the deep sea.
Another camouflaging strategy T. borealis takes full advantage of is bright red pigmentation. The further you plunge into the depths of the ocean, the less sunlight you'll encounter, and this affects how visible different colors become. The color blue is great at penetrating the deep sea, and so is green, so when sea creatures want to be seen, they'll produce these colors. Exhibit A. Red, on the other hand, needs a lot of sunlight to be seen, so in the deep sea, if you're red, you might as well be black. Like a ninja.
Glass squids range from tiny – some of the polka-dotted adults are just 10 cm long – to colossal. The aptly named colossal squid (Mesonychoteuthis hamiltoni) can grow to three metres long, and that's not including its arms. Add the arms on, and you're looking at a length of around 14 m. With a body that's around 60 cm long, T. borealis is pretty reasonably sized. It feeds on just about anything that it can catch using the hook-like teeth that run along its arms, including small crustaceans and fish.
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Dinosaurs are birds and birds are dinosaurs, and nowhere is this more evident than in the Hoatzin, a mighty bird with claws on its wings, stomachs in its oesophagus, and the lingering scent of freshly laid cow manure.
Found in the swamps, marshy forests, and mangroves of South America, the Hoatzin (Opisthocomus hoazin) cuts a striking figure as it hops through the canopy. Its smoky black, chestnut, and gold plumage is capped off by an elaborate black-tipped crest, and its face is a featherless smear of bright blue flesh.
Growing to around 70 cm long and weighing half a kilo, these birds are about the size of an Archaeopteryx. But unlike their long-dead doppelgänger, Hoatzins are staunch vegetarians. They'll occasionally eat flowers and fruit, but what they really love is leaves. More than eighty percent of their diet is made up of them, which means they've had to evolve a specialized digestive system to cope with all that noxious ruffage.
No vertebrate can produce the amount of enzymes needed to break down and digest large amounts of vegetation on their own. So heavy-duty herbivores like cows, sheep, sloths, and kangaroos house enlarged and highly modified chambers in their guts where scores of microbes accumulate and produce these enzymes for them. This form of digestion is known as 'foregut fermentation' and the Hoatzin is the only bird on Earth that can do it. It's even got structures in its oesophagus that act as extra fermentation chambers.
Life in the wild is a relentless and all-consuming struggle to keep yourself safe and fed, so the ability to live off something as abundant and easily obtained as vegetation is a real boon for the Hoatzin. But it comes at a price. Because the Hoatzin's chest area is filled with digestive organs, there's little room for their wing muscles to develop, which means they're pretty useless at flying. Plus all that fermenting activity makes them emit a strong, musky stench, which is how they got their nickname – the Stinkbird. It's not very dignified by our standards, but being stinky has ended up being a blessing in disguise for these near-flightless birds – locals assume they taste as bad as they smell, so for the most part they leave them well alone.
Like many of the world's herbivores, Hoatzins are highly social and tend to congregate in large groups. They can often be found in tight, noisy groups of up to 100 individuals, these breaking off into smaller family groups when it's time to breed.
The Hoatzin might look badass as an adult, but it's even more badass as a baby. Hoatzins breed during the rainy season, which means there's a good chance their nests will be sitting directly above flooded rivers and creeks. To give them the best chance at survival, young Hoatzins hatch from their eggs with a pair of claws on each wing, which they use to keep a tight grip on their surroundings. Not that they can't swim though – if Hoatzin nests are attacked, often by larger hawks and vultures, the chicks will drop into the water below and submerge themselves while their parents create a flappy diversion. Once the coast is clear the chicks will use their hooked wing-claws to climb back up to the safety of the nest.
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A paleontologist once told me there's no way you can do his job without having a healthy sense of humor. You spend your life literally knee-deep in the bones of some of the strangest creatures to have ever walked the Earth – creatures that have also been dead for hundreds of millions of years – and meanwhile someone somewhere is performing a heart transplant on a nine-year-old girl. Not that paleontology isn't important, of course it's important, but you're gonna have to be ready to laugh it off when someone asks you why you didn't choose a more practical line of research.
People who research extant animals, with their boundless idiosyncrasies, weird body parts, and even weirder sex stuff, are often quick to admit that they're working with some pretty funny material too. And sometimes the only way to get themselves in on the joke is through the naming rights, if they're lucky enough to have discovered a new species.
Take Colon rectum, for instance. That's the formally accepted scientific name of a little species of fungus beetle. First described in 1933 by University of Washington entomologist, Melville H. Hatch, C. rectum was soon joined by Colon forceps, Colon monstrosum, Colon grossum, and Colon horni in Hatch's new Colon genus. Hatch was such a respected figure in the research community that even the most devout prudes had little option but to go with it.
Aha ha, Gelae donut and Kamera lens are all legit scientific animal names too.
Sometimes the joke is hidden in the translation. When you translate the Greek and Latin words that make up the name Osedax mucofloris – which is a tiny marine worm that feeds on whale carcasses – you get "snot-flower bone-eater". Nice.
And that lovely looking fox-dog up there with the shady black eye mask? Its name is Otocyon megalotis, which means literally, "ear-dog large ears."
So yeah, bat-eared fox from the African savannah has ridiculously large ears – they're 13 cm long and its body is only 55 cm long. But the joke's on us because while we have to work jobs and earn money to keep ourselves fed, all the bat-eared fox has to do is listen.
Imagine being able to pick up on the sound made by miniscule termites and beetle larvae as they move about under the ground. That's what the bat-eared fox's ears allow it to do. They can even locate a handful of termites based solely on the crunching noises they make as they feed. Around 80 to 90 percent of the bat-eared fox's diet is made up of termites, and it will eat around 1.15 million of them every year.
Bat-eared foxes display extremely strong social bonds, and are usually found in extended family groups of around 15 individuals. More often than not, they mate for life, and when a litter of pups is born, the females will leave the den at night to find food while the males stay behind to guard the den and groom his progeny. When the pups are old enough to find mates of their own, they'll run around their family's territory and pee on a bunch of grass patches to advertise their scent. If a member of the opposite sex is interested, they'll cover the scent mark up so their competition doesn't get a whiff, and work on getting themselves acquainted.
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Some French cats managed to lock an American woman in her bedroom. She live-tweeted the ordeal.
Pixel (above), the smallest cat in the world measuring five inches tall from shoulder to paw, would not have been able to do that (tweet or imprison).
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"When they took my son, they destroyed me," said Maximina Hernandez, a 44-year-old maid from the Monterrey suburb of Santa Catarina whose police officer son was taken by gunmen minutes after ending a work shift in 2007. "The only thing I ask God is for some news, to know where he is. But there is no progress; there is nothing."
Hernandez has joined other people with missing relatives to push authorities to investigate the cases but said she's been disappointed by the results so far.
She said police took DNA samples from her and her son's father but never followed up on her suspicion that her 23-year-old son's commander was involved in his disappearance. Last year, authorities detained the police commander along with more than 40 Santa Catarina police officers for allegedly working for the Zetas.
Luis Garcia, an investigator with the National Human Rights Commission, said the number of unidentified bodies continues to grow, as has the number of missing persons. The commission listed 8,898 unidentified bodies from 2000 to 2005; that number had since jumped by 80 percent as of June. The number of missing people reported in the earlier period, 5,397, has grown even more dramatically, by nearly 350 percent.
No one knows exactly how many of those unidentified bodies were killed in drug-related violence or how many people are missing at the hands of cartels because such a study has never been done, Garcia said.
"There needs to be an investigation in each case, to put a first and last name (on each victim) so that there is no impunity," he said. "The issue here is that there is no effective investigation."
Government efforts to tackle the monumental problem have produced mixed results. Calderon has tried to reform and professionalize the federal police force, which has tripled in manpower to 35,000 officers, but has had little success improving local and state forces. The government proposed creating a national database with information on missing persons that could be accessed by investigators in all 32 states but is still trying to get it up and running.
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That would be something – since autoharp is used mostly in American folk music. And Choi was raised in Korea and plays mostly in church.
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Age 9 was a turning point for Choi.
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Junior welterweight Marcos Rene Maidana (29-2, 27KOs) is ready for a war. He face Mexican icon Erik Morales (51-6, 35KOs) on Saturday at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas. Maidana takes nothing away from Morales, even though experts believe Morales is a shell of his former self. Maidana is training to go the full distance. Although, the puncher from Argentina doesn't expect a long fight because of their fighting styles.
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The BJD-AIADMK-sponsored Presidential candidate, P. A. Sangma, who is supported by the BJP, wants the UPA nominee, Pranab Mukherjee, to debate (akin to the US model) with him on a range of issues in general, and the economy in particular. However, the Congress shrugged off the suggestion, saying that the first citizen of the country doesn't manage the economy.
Meanwhile, former head of CPI (M) research unit, Prasenjit Bose, quit the party in protest against the decision of the party to support Mr. Mukherjee. In an open letter, he argued that the decision was "against" the line taken by the Party Congress held in Kerala earlier this year.
"I protest against the decision by the Polit Bureau to support the candidature of Pranab Mukherjee... I consider this to be a grave error which will harm the party and disturb Left unity," Mr. Bose said in the letter. He maintained that the stand adopted by the CPI and the RSP to refrain was eminently reasonable, transparent and principled.
Mr. Sangma, while appealing to the Presidential Electoral Colleges, consisting of the MPs and members of the Legislative Assemblies, to vote according to their 'conscience', said his triumph in the Presidential election will be a "big message" to "more than 100 million tribals".
Mr. Sangma said he has sought appointments with Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee and Shiv Sena supremo Bal Thackeray, and he was hopeful of getting their support. TMC is yet to announce its decision, while Shiv Sena has declared support to Mr. Mukherjee.
The former Lok Sabha Speaker, who quit his parent party (NCP) to stay in the contest, maintained that he is standing on behalf of the Tribal Council, which represents the interests of tribals.
Mr. Sangma said that he wanted to correct the historic mistakes the country has committed as "tribals haven't been given their due... I appeal to the conscience of the nation. We have given our land, our forest, our natural resources... please recognise us." Describing Mukherjee as a "great friend" and also his "guru (teacher)" for whom he has "lot of respect", he said that the veteran Congress leader, however, couldn't pay much attention to West Bengal.
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The city's two largest police unions are firing back at critics of the New York Police Department, who have grown louder and more numerous since the death of Staten Island resident Eric Garner July 17, and the subsequent ruling by the city's medical examiner that Garner's death was caused by a policeman's use of a chokehold while he was being arrested.
"You know we've heard a lot in the last number of weeks about what police officers can't do and what police officers shouldn't do," Patrick Lynch, the president of the Patrolman's Benevolent Association, said at a news conference. "No one's telling us what we are able to do and what we should do when we're faced with a situation where the person placed under arrest says,'I'm not going.'"
The PBA has maintained that while Garner's death was a tragedy, it could have been avoided if he had complied with officers who arrested him for allegedly selling illegal cigarettes.
Lynch was joined by members of a fellow police union, the Sergeants Benevolent Association, during a press conference on Tuesday. Both unions accused the Rev. Al Sharpton of politicizing the case. Sharpton has been pushing for a federal investigation into Garner's death.
"He shouldn't have the right to sit at the lead table at City Hall and stir up the streets to where it becomes dangerous for police officers," Lynch said, referring to Sharpton's meeting with Mayor Bill de Blasio on July 31.
In response, Sharpton said in a statement that his National Action Network is a credible organization that President Obama has addressed in the past. He said he would continue to call for a federal investigation for a fair and impartial look at the facts.
Lynch also admonished the city medical examiner for characterizing Garner's cause of death as a "chokehold," which he said is not a medical term, and vowed to have medical examiners reassess the autopsy when it is finally released.
A representative from the medical examiner's office said the report was based on a scientific investigation.
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Police Union has the largest collection of assholes in the US.
My condolences to the family and friends of Eric Garner as I agree dying for selling cigarettes sounds awfully cruel, but we weren't there, aren't the jury, and the guy who took the video is a drug involved criminal and perhaps there's more to it as to the concerns of the Police/responders for their own safety.I was taught to respect an Police(wo)man's authority with "Yes sir, No Sir", follow their directions, and take any issue up with the precinct or politician afterwards. How come the guy taking the video didn't call 911 instead of or before filming? And why was he "allegedly" selling cigarettes while the Police are definitely guilty?
My concern is about all the attacks on and belittling of the police and how it will effect their ability to do their jobs. The Police are just like people and they are being labeled as a group - don't people speak out about racists for labeling groups on the behavior of some. Should the Police just bow and say ok when their authority is disrespected? Should they be shot first and then answer questions?
At a talk given by Al Sharpton many years ago, he explained the truth of the Tawana Brawley incident as not important because he is an activist and his job is to get his issues covered by the press. No wonder he doesn't speak out against present day slavery of trafficked girls and women in the US or crimes against immigrants regarding pay? Where's his outrage there or at the people committing the violence in crime ridden and violent neighborhoods?
Where is all the community outrage against the criminals who shoot babies and young children as collateral damage, and beat and rob the elderly for a few dollars? Why don't their families get picketed and publicly admonished? Where are these people being put in check by their community? Why aren't they being turned in to the Police or as would happen in some other communities getting beaten for their behavior? Safe neighborhoods depend on the support of community members who stick together against crime. In my safe neighborhood if a thief is found in a house or in the process of hurting someone, the neighbors deal with him first, while the Police are on the way.
If we don't respect and stand up for the great job the majority of our Police do every day, who will rule the streets? Criminals!
Patrick Lynch, the president of the Patrolman's Benevolent Association, said at a news conference: "No one's telling us what we are able to do and what we should do when we're faced with a situation where the person placed under arrest says,'I'm not going.'"
Um...so you KILLED the guy, because he "said, 'I'm not going?'" Patrick Lynch, that is some seriously weak sh*t.
The public's adverse reaction is largely due to the NYPD's not providing CPR, and their apparant lack on empathy. They all stood around without considering removing the handcuffs so Garner might be better able to breathe, and made no efort whatsoever to recissitate him.
That is what is most disturbing about the video. Not the initial arrest, but the apathy when another human being was in physical distress.
The police unions do not seem to understand this.
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An English-language film that employs British and North American actors in the leading roles and Hungarians to play everyone else, Sunshine is, for its first 30 minutes, a heavy Euro-pudding, overwhelmed by generic TV lighting and theme park costumes. But it slowly gathers force as the succeeding generations of Sonnenscheins attempt to assimilate into Hungarian society by denying their Jewish identity. Advised by his mentor that no one named Sonnenschein could be appointed to the high court, Ignatz, his brother, and his cousin change their name to Sors. Ignatz's son Adam, who aspires to be on the Olympic fencing team, takes the next step and converts to Catholicism. He wins the gold medal in the infamous Berlin Olympics of 1936, but it doesn't save him from being sent to a concentration camp, where he's tortured and killed. To avenge him, Adam's son Ivan joins the Communist secret police. Ivan thrives on ferreting out Nazi collaborators, but he's forced to reconsider his options when he's asked to investigate his boss as a suspected Zionist conspirator.
Szabó is an intelligent and capable filmmaker, but despite Sunshine's historical scope and multiplicity of characters, it doesn't shed half as much light on its subjectidentity and anti-Semitismas does, for example, Agnieszka Holland's claustrophobic chamber piece Angry Harvest. As the three Sonnenscheins, Ralph Fiennes is most alive when he's angry, which isn't often enough.
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The women in the cast fare better than the men, in particular Deborah Kara Unger and Rosemary Harris. Unger, almost unrecognizable coiffed in a late-'40s blond pageboy, plays the wife of a Communist Party thug who has an affair with Ivan but refuses to give up the security of her marriage for a loose cannon. Unger's trademark narcissistic sexuality is mixed here with a powerful paranoia. Szabó uses the character to show the paralytic effect of living in a police state, and Unger's panicky sideways glances and evasive body language make the point more indelibly than any of the film's big speeches. Harris has the far more crucial role as Valerie, Adam's mother and Ivan's grandmother, who's an accomplished photographer. Valerie survives into old age with grace and equanimity because, as she explains, she hasn't much use for politics or religion and always looks for the beauty in life. Szabó puts Valerie on a pedestal, and he's lucky to have Harris to bring her down to earth.
The Children of Chabannes is a more modest but also more informative and moving film about the situation of European Jews during the Nazi period. Lisa Gossels and Dean Wetherell's documentary uses extensive interview and archival material to depict how the people of Chabannes, a small, relatively isolated agricultural village, resisted the Vichy government, sheltering 400 Jewish children during the war and keeping all but six of them from being deported to the camps. (Among the saved children was Peter Gossels, Lisa's father.)
While most of the French communities credited with saving Jews were strongly religious (either Catholic or Protestant), Chabannes was not. Its citizens viewed themselves as "true Republicans," believers in freedom and the brotherhood of men, inheritors of the spirit of the French Revolution. In the face of massive evidence of French collaboration and anti-Semitism, The Children of Chabannes, among other things, restores the belief that the romance of a France still committed to its revolutionary ideals does in fact exist.
Gossels conceived the film when she accompanied her father to the 1996 reunion of the villagers with the children they had saved. In Chabannes, a remarkable cast of characters presented itself, including many of the teachers whose ingenuity, dedication, and courage insured the survival of the refugees, who were integrated into the village school until the Vichy government started rounding up children for deportation in 1942. George Loinger, a Jewish engineer turned gym teacher, trained the children's bodies so that they could endure the possible hard times ahead; the Paillassou sisters demanded that their German- and Polish-speaking students learn perfect French so they'd be easier to hide. Both teachers and pupils pay tribute to Felix Chevrier, the principal of the school, who defied the authorities on many occasions, risking his own life. Chevrier, who was already in his late fifties during the war, died in 1962, but he left an archive of the children's drawings and compositions in addition to his own journals. Chevrier and the Paillassou sisters managed to find sympathizers in the police and the Vichy government who would warn them when there was going to be a roundup. The police would arrive, find no one in the school, and accuse Chevrier of hiding the children. His response: "I don't know where they are. They can go wherever they want. They're free."
Americans are notoriously more oriented toward geography than history. Unlike Sunshine, which examines a lineage of fathers and sons over a period of 125 years while seldom moving outside of Budapest, Pop & Me, like a pint-size M:I-2, jets around the world in six months on the impossible mission of restoring the tattered relationship between Chris Roe, an aspiring filmmaker, and his father, Richard Roe, a self-made millionaire. The elder Roe is in the throes of a midlife crisis, exacerbated by having just lost most of his money and having been divorced by his wife. The father wants to revisit the happiest time of his lifea 1979 trip around the world taken in the company of his wife and three young sons. Chris seizes on his father's invitation to accompany him as an opportunity to break through the anger that separates them. It's also a way of making a documentary about fathers and sons on his father's dime. The last of Dad's fortune is spent on plane tickets and food and travel expenses, not just for two, but also for the cameraman whose constant presence is a guarantee against the intimacy that the son and father both claim to desire. For the purpose of this indie documentary, the Roes visit families in about 20 countries, but they are so blinded by their own neurotic power struggle that they are only capable of viewing other relationships in terms of their own. Tears flow, but the most revelatory moment is provided not by the spectacle of the Roes clinging to each other on a bungee cord, but by Julian Lennon, who pops up on the beach in Monaco to give a terse evaluation of his father: "He loved the world more than he loved me."
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The Tampa Bay Lightning remain undefeated at home after their 5-2 victory over the Florida Panthers Tuesday night. Steven Stamkos got things going early for the Bolts in the first period with his fourth goal of the season. After the Panthers' Peter Mueller tied it 15 seconds later, rookie Cory Conacher put the Lightning back out in front. Victor Hedman passed the puck from the Florida blue line to Conacher as he raced into the offensive zone and beat Panthers goalie Jose Theodore, putting the Bolts up 2-1. "It was a great play by Hedman to find me in the middle there," Conacher said about his goal after the game. "Luckily I had enough gas in my legs to just beat Weaver." The Lightning would not look back from there as they scored three unanswered goals over the next two periods. One of them being a one-timer from captain Vincent Lecavalier in the third period during a power play. Tampa Bay goaltender Anders Lindback stopped 26 of 28 shots. Lightning were 2/5 on the power play and out-shot the Panthers 33-28. The Lightning have scored five or more goals for the third straight game and lead the NHL with 28 goals. They are now 5-1-0 on the season. (Photo credit: AP) The post Panthers are no match for the Lightning at home appeared first on The Bay Cave.
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Though the Supreme Court decision came on Tuesday, the state government has already exempted aided minority schools from filling up 25% seats in the entry level classes this year.
No directive has been issued by the school education and sports department for these schools pertaining to admission of socially and economically backward children, as mandated under the Right to Education (RTE) Act, while non-minority institutions have been asked to give 25% seats to the poor.
The message for aided and unaided non-minority institutions is so clear that the state also launched an online central admission process for Mumbai schools. On the other hand, none of the religious or linguistic minority institution conducted admission under the quota due to want of a government resolution.
"We kept 25% seats aside and were waiting for the government's circular. The SC order has made things clearer," said Fr Jude Fernadise, principal of St Stanislaus School in Bandra, an aided minority institution. He also claimed that minority schools always admit a large number of poor, share of which exceeds 25%, and, hence, RTE quota shouldn't be applicable to them.
Over 21,600 schools in the state are aided institutions. Nearly 80% of them have got a religious or linguistic minority tag with many of them rushing for it after the Act came into effect. While unaided minority schools are already exempted from admitting students under the quota, many parents were seeking admission in aided minority schools, which are much in demand.
Several parents are doing the rounds of these schools but failing to get a satisfactory answer. Suresh Nair, principal of Vivek Vidyalaya at Goregaon, also a minority school whereparents gathered on Monday, said, "We have been told aided minority schools are also exempted from the quota. But parents and activists are unaware about it. We are asking them to consult the department for clarification."
It's the parents who are in a soup now. "I will go for online admission now as I don't know if my child will get admission in any Gujarati minority school, which was our first preference because it's aided and has more facilities," said a parent.
Interestingly, there is no clarification from the department as to why aided minority schools have been kept out of the RTE ambit. A principal from a non-minority school said, "The state government has clearly favoured minority schools, which are run by education barons."
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The third class town of Donsol in Sorsogon had made a name for itself because of the "butanding" (whale sharks) that congregated in its waters at certain times of the year, so much so that its very name became almost synonymous with the gentle giants.
Local and foreign visitors set out in boats to catch a glimpse of or "interact" with the butanding, the largest of all fish. Some of the creatures became veritable stars: "Putol" with the missing tail fin; "Nognog," a stand-out by dint of being darker than the others; "Kuping" with the folded back fin; and the obviously-named "Puti."
This come-on resulted in revenues for Donsol (pop.: 47,000) and lessons in self-sufficiency for its residents, who not only serve as guides and "butanding interaction officers" (BIO) but who also open their homes to tourists under the home-stay program. The Donsol folk came to rely heavily on tourism revenues of some P35 million a year. And the once-sleepy seaside town enjoyed certain developments in the form of resorts and restaurants to cater to the tourists, as well as a now-paved main road. "We were once a fifth-class town," Donsol tourism officer Nenita Pedragosa recalled at one point during the boom. "Now, we are a third-class town and we are actually applying to be classified as first-class."
That was then. From reports, butanding sightings have been steadily declining since 2011, and the four stars appear to have gone missing. Says Donsol BIO chair Alan Amanse: "The bigger ones measuring 14 meters long are nowhere in sight." What has caused this regrettable turn of events? Pedragosa scoffs at the suggestion that the whale sharks have taken off for Oslob in Cebu, where they are fed by hand: "Those who want to see butanding come to Donsol first. They only go to Oslob when they fail to see one here."
The theory is that the disappearance of Donsol's butanding is due to a killer combination of global warming and bad sanitation. Amanse notes that the sea temperature has risen from 26-27 degrees Celsius in 2012 to the current 29-30 degrees. Donsol Councilor Rey Aquino says fishermen have overgathered the plankton that the butanding feed on, and, more urgently, the waters have been contaminated by the dangerous E.coli bacteria as a result of the building of household toilets on the riverbanks. And one more significant thing: According to Amanse, the butanding are suffering from stress because of too much interaction in BIO-coordinated events from December to May. (During a standard interaction event, some 40 boats loaded with six tourists each come close to the whale sharks.)
Fewer butanding sightings have resulted in fewer visitors. Per Amanse's count, the number of tourists has dropped by 2,000 in the first half of the year, from the average of 25,000. Thus, tourism revenues are slipping.
A review of Donsol's tourism program is clearly in order. The absence of the "regular" butanding is worrisome enough. Donsol BIOs say only two whale sharks—"Curly" and "Lucky"—are regularly seen in the waters. The way things are going, they may also soon vanish.
The Worldwide Fund for Nature Philippines, which had helped build the ecotourism project in Donsol, once sounded the warning that the town's growth required careful handling. "The popularity of Donsol as a major destination for [butanding-watching] needs to be handled with care to ensure the sustainability of the whale shark interaction activities. The unprecedented increase in tourists wishing to experience an encounter with the whale sharks brings with it much risk and potential danger to these gentle giants," it said. It also noted that the increase in the number of visitors had led to a parallel rise in noncompliance with butanding interaction rules, and that the habitat of the whale sharks needed to be managed properly.
The story of Donsol and its star butanding is all too familiar, hewing as it does to the now-common narrative of tourism boom, unregulated development, and neglect of ecological imperatives. Let's hope that it does not end in tragedy: a case of killing the goose that lays the golden egg.
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The Baltimore Orioles have had a hard time -- at a glance -- landing an impact bat on both the free agent and trade market. Spring training is just around the corner for the Birds, and as the weeks go by, fans are wondering: "When will we finally get a middle-of-the-order guy?" "What is this team doing? Why have we not gotten anyone yet?" With Mark Reynolds and his power now in Cleveland, who can fill his spot with the Baltimore Orioles? An intriguing option for the Orioles to bolster the middle of their lineup perhaps would be Michael Morse, who is currently signed with the Washington Nationals. Morse, 30, is a 6-foot-5, 230-pound man whose looks resemble an NFL or college tight end than your conventional baseball player. He is expendable in Washington now as the Nationals re-signed first baseman Adam LaRoche this week to a two-year deal. If you combine that deal with the addition of Denard Span via a trade with the Minnesota Twins and Bryce Harper and Jayson Werth entrenched in outfield spots, he could be dealt before spring training. I've seen him play many times in both Washington and Baltimore since I live between the two cities, and I think he would be the perfect complement for the Orioles' lineup. He has been a productive part of the Washington starting lineup for the past few seasons and has hit for average and power. In 2011, he hit 31 homers with 95 RBIs along with a .303 average, .360 on-base percentage, and a 3.1 WAR in 146 games in his best major-league season so far. >>> Read More
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