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Indian, Carnatic, Jazz, Kolaveri
Hum Raag performs at Bharat Kalachar, Chennai on April 11th at 6:30 pm. Please come.
We are so thrilled to be going to Chennai. Mrs. YGP is a doyenne in the field of education. She started Padma Seshadri School. Her son YG Mahendra is a theatre and film actor. Now, three generations are running the cultural component of the school– called Bharat Kalachar. Madhuvanti Arun is YGM's daughter. If you happen to be in Chennai on April 11th, please come in the evening to attend our show.
16, Thirumalai Road, T.Nagar, Chennai 17; Phone: 28343045/42024304
Website: www.bharatkalachar.com
Cordially invites you for the programme for APRIL 2015
6 30 pm – HUM RAAG by
Shoba Narayan (narrator) & Chitra Srikrishna (carnatic vocalist)
Jayanthi Keshav (violin) & Madurai B. Sundar (mridangam)
HumRaag – a show that explores the classical roots of Indian popular music, from Abhangs, Bhajans, Ghazals and Movie music. A multimedia presentation filled with Carnatic and classical music accompanied by poetry, story-telling and video music
14/04/2015 – ViSHU CELEBRATIONS
6 30 pm – "BHARATHA RATHAM" – Malayalam Drama by
Kaliyuga Theatres & K.P.Samskarika Vedi, Payyanur
Bharatha Ratham – Through the live visuals of the dynamic characters and main episodes of the great epic Mahabharata, the historic events of India's Freedom Struggle are symbolically presented in the play 'Bharata Ratham'. The parallel between the epic and the freedom movement is brought out so convincingly through powerful dialogues and similar events. 'Bharata Ratham' was written by the great patriot, orator .and freedom fighter, Sri K.P.Kunhirama Poduval in 1942.
CO Sponsor : MALAYALEE RECREATION CENTRE (MRC) Chennai 76
Venue for the above Programmes: Sri YGP Auditorium
17, Thirumalai Road, T.Nagar, Chennai 17
Dr.(Mrs) Y.G. Parthasarathy ; Y Gee Mahendra; Smt. Sudha Mahendra; Smt. Madhuvanthi Arun
Chairman Secretary Joint Secretary Cultural Consultant
The joy of a migratory bird going back home
Have been working on our upcoming music shows in Chennai all weekend. We are completely redoing the show, and including more Tamil songs. The Chennai audience is both discerning and has a specific taste. Like the fabled Hamsa birds that can separate milk from water and drink only the milk, the Chennai audience has forgotten more about music that I care to remember.
So it is exciting for me. I feel the joy of a migratory bird that is going back home. The rosy starlings that are currently thronging Ulsoor Lake will go back to Tajikistan at about the same time I will go to Chennai. April 11 and 12.
So Chitra and I are talking every day. Deciding on film songs and classical music composers. It is fun. Speaking of birds, there is a lovely passage in this essay on that fine magazine, Muse India. On birds here
The Music Show goes to Chennai!!
Festival of Sacred Music
My friend, Ranvir Shah and his Prakruti Foundation does The Festival of Sacred Music in Thiruvaiyaru every year. Details here
This year, the festival is from March 6 to 8 and has a terrific line up. The Manganiyars, Kadri Gopalnath on Saxophone and Filter Coffee, a rock band. Imagine sitting under the stars and listening to this music on the banks of the Cauvery.
This festival is open to all. Driving distance from Chennai and Bangalore. Reasonably priced hotel rooms are available and you will be helping village tourism. Details at the website and on Facebook here.
Please share. Please attend.
In Times of India
A concert
My friend, Chitra Srikrishna and I doing a music gig called "Hum Raag." It is a fun project where we link film songs to classical Indian music. Kabir bhajans, abhangs, light songs, carnatic music, hindustani music and the like.
Our next show is on Sunday, January 18th from 5 to 7 PM. At Unnati Bangalore's auditorium. Please do spread the word to music lovers in Bangalore. Details below.
Dear Friend,
This month we have planned a special program as per details attached. Please do not miss the same. Please make a note: 18th January at 5.00 pm
Hum Raag is an experience sure to excite and entertain all of you and take you all through a wonderful journey of music and poetry aided by audio and video presentations.
The performance features audio and video snippets of songs and live performance of the ragas or melody. They are based on a short background of the ragas and their forms, both in carnatic and Hindustani traditions. Smt. Chitra Srikrishna, an 'A' grade artiste with AIR and a carnatic vocalist for over a decade now, will perform with percussion accompaniments, while Smt. Shoba Narayan, an author, columnist and music lover, will weave the story and take us through the entire journey, playing the role of the 'Sutradar". From Bhajans to bollywood all will be covered featuring a variety of languages. On the whole it is going to be an enjoyable, entertaining as well as educative and informative evening, not to be missed.
Smt. Chitra Srikrishna
Sri. Deepak Murthy
Sri. R Adamya
Smt. Shoba Narayan
Unnati Centre, Temple Road, Sadanandanagar, NGEF East, Bangalore – 560038.
Telephones: 080-25384642, 080-25384443
Carnatic Instrumentalism
When Mint Lounge's new editor, Sanjukta Sharma, contacted me with the idea of doing a cover story on the Chennai December Season, I had no hesitation about what I wanted to write: instrumentalists. My previous columns on singers had produced so much ire from instrumentalists for writing "vocal centric columns," that I thought it was time.
Percussionists deserve a separate column– mridangam, tabla, dholak, damaru, and that wonderful Indian sound– morsing.
A source of conflict in writing this story was whether to include the salacious gossip about who was married to who and all the break-ups and make-ups that happen in the artistic world. I know as a reader that it is these pieces of information that will stick; that will make an artist memorable to global readers. But it is irrelevant to the story and not fair to the people in question. In the end, after thinking about it till the last day, I left all that out.
I have a personal link to carnatic instrumentalism
My late aunt, Vijayam Ramaswamy learned the violin from T.N.Krishnan. Her son, my cousin, Vinod Venkataraman learned the mridangam from Palghat Raghu-sir. Vinod's daughter, Aishu Venkataraman is a violin prodigy who graduated from the Berklee School of Music; then went to Stanford for undergraduate and now is in medical school. I have seen her play a bhairavi ragam at home with effortless grace. Aishu's music can be heard at http://www.divinestrings.com
I hope she continues to play in spite of becoming a doctor.
The online version of this story has great links– to music and the musician web sites. Interested readers should go to it.
Mandolin in city
Is Carnatic music's overwhelming focus on vocalists letting down Chennai's gifted instrumentalists? Ahead of the Margazhi season, we find out
Shoba Narayan
The romantic view of music is that it is divine, soul-stirring and above shallow commercialism. Wrong. In today's Carnatic music world, lots of things that have nothing to do with music matter.
Pedigree counts and with good reason: Genetics does have something to do with musical talent. Style, or bani, matters. The fast-paced "GNB bani", popularized by the late, great (and good-looking—M.S. Subbulakshmi was an admirer) singer and composer, G.N. Balasubramaniam, is no longer popular.
Looks matter. Today's musicians, particularly the women, have embraced their stage personas and carried them to lengths that would make a Punjabi wedding planner proud. Singer Sudha Ragunathan flashes rings on all 10 fingers. Saxophonist Kadri Gopalnath wears bespoke brocade kurtas. The Priya Sisters wear matching Kanjeevarams. Sisters Ranjani and Gayatri match the body colour of one sari to the border colour of the other.
All this is a great and pleasant contrast to Chembai Vaidyanatha Bhagavathar appearing on stage with an otha-mundu or single-dhoti. In my view, visual overkill doesn't detract from the music. Indeed, it provides a pleasant diversion when the musician falters. Today's Carnatic musicians are savvy about image, the media, and know how to court controversy as a way of drawing attention to their art. That is not the focus of this piece, however. In this season in Chennai when singers reign supreme, I would like to talk about instrumentalists.
If you are an instrumentalist in Chennai, you work doubly hard to get the same number of stage performances. You have to do everything the voice does and better. This is because you are functioning in a music genre that is entirely lyric-driven. Carnatic music is suffused with sahitya-bhava, or emotions that come from words. Kurai ondrum illai, sang M.S. Subbulakshmi, turning Rajaji's words into a paean for contentment and acceptance: "I have no grievances."
I know the song by heart. Everyone in Chennai does, or seems to. The minute any singer begins this song, the entire auditorium sighs in recognition. The minute S. Sowmya begins singing Papanasam Sivan's Tamil song, Devi Neeye Thunai (Devi, you are my only companion/hope), the audience will shake their heads in devotional fervour. Thyagaraja's Swara Raga Sudha? We know that one too, and can compare versions by different singers. This is the greatness of the Chennai audience.
For instrumentalists, it is their greatest challenge as well. Carnatic music is monophonic, suited therefore to verse and melody. How then does an instrumentalist deal with an audience that expects him to duplicate the pleasures of lyric-based songs?
One way is through collaborations. Pianist Anil Srinivasan interprets Carnatic music in fresh ways by performing with dancers (Anita Ratnam), singers (Sikkil Gurucharan), veena players (Jayanthi Kumaresh) and choral groups. His jugalbandi with Pandit Sanjeev Abhyankar can make today's teenagers, used as they are to rock and pop music, stop in their tracks and listen. Making Carnatic music accessible to a broader population has become the de facto role of instrumentalists.
"Instrumentalists have to work extremely hard to connect to their music and the audience in a way that is both authentic and original," says Srinivasan, who reads the stories behind the song before playing his piano, thus eliminating, or at least reducing, the need for lyrics.
During a performance in Australia, he told the story of Gajendra Moksham, or the "Saving of the Elephant Gajendra by Lord Vishnu", as a prelude to Mirabai's composition Hari Tuma Haro, which Mahatma Gandhi requested Subbulakshmi to sing at what would turn out to be his last birthday celebration. She couldn't make it but sent a tape with a recording of the song.
Carnatic music is suffused with religious fervour. It has a context that is very specific to Chennai. Rasikas (aesthetes) still remember the song, Nagumomu, that Balamuralikrishna sang at the Narada Gana Sabha in 1978, or so I heard from my aunt; it stunned the audience into silence, unusual for a Chennai concert.
Instrumentalists therefore play second fiddle, quite literally, to singers. Even if audiences don't understand the Telugu sahityam (lyrics) of Thyagaraja, or the Sanskrit ones of Muthuswami Dikshitar and Shyama Shastri, almost anyone who has grown up in the Carnatic music milieu knows the lyrics by heart. So singers get the most patronage.
This means that if you are a budding musician, you will most likely try to be a vocalist unless you have a parent or family member who insists that you choose an instrument. The market, perhaps more than passion, muse or mood, drives musical choices. Ranjani and Gayatri switched from being violinists to singers. Akkarai S. Subhalakshmi, a talented violinist, is also fashioning herself as a singer.
It wasn't always this way. The late great Mandolin U. Shrinivas created a flutter by showing Chennai what he could do with this unusual instrument. Kadri Gopalnath coaxes kritis (compositions) from the saxophone in a way that would give American jazz saxophonist Stan Getz pause. The Lalgudi family produces musicians who reach into your marrow and then stir with their bows—beginning with Lalgudi G. Jayaraman, and now his children, G.J.R. Krishnan and Vijayalakshmi. T.N. Krishnan, my favourite instrumentalist, can move me to tears when he plays Mari Vere, in the Ananda Bhairavi ragam. Look for the Maestro's Choice CD or search on iTunes. But the musician who has currently captured my imagination is Jayanthi Kumaresh, described by Srinivasan as a "genius".
Ask anyone in the music circle about Jayanthi and you get to know a few things within the first few minutes. She belongs to the Lalgudi family—her mother was Jayaraman's sister. She deplores the media portrayal of veena as a dying art. She recently toured North America with tabla player Zakir Hussain. She created the Indian National Orchestra (INO) with a host of Hindustani and Carnatic musicians to present music in an ensemble format. She lives in Bengaluru, is married to the violinist Kumaresh Rajagopalan, and enjoys Kalidasa's poetry. As I write this, I am listening to her Paras thillana from the album Jathiswara—compositions of Veene Sheshanna, himself a path-breaker. Before Sheshanna of the Mysore school, veena players held the instrument sideways, like sitar players. Sheshanna played, composed and brought the veena down to its current horizontal position on stage.
How are instrumentalists faring in today's music world, I ask Jayanthi. "If by world you mean the entire universe, including all foreign countries and not including Chennai, I would say that instrumentalists are ruling the roost," she says with a laugh. "If you ask anyone for a list of top Indian musicians, they will list Ravi Shankar, Zakir Hussain, Hariprasad Chaurasia, Lalgudi mama (her uncle), instrumentalists all. Saraswati, the mother of all learning and creativity, plays the veena; Krishna plays the flute; Nandi plays the drums; Shiva plays the damaru. Instrumentalists are part of our music tradition."
The veena is arguably the oldest and sweetest of instruments (my father was a veena player, as was Ravana, not that they are linked).
Earlier, every home had a veena and Balagopala, Dikshitar's majestic composition in the Bhairavi ragam, talks about Carnatic musicians as vainika-gayakas, or "veena players and singers".
In previous generations, every Carnatic musician, including singers, learnt to play the veena because its notes resembled the human voice. There are photographs of Subbulakshmi playing the veena. Playing the notes helped singers see and feel their music in a way that complemented their vocal riyaz (practice). You could watch your fingers go through the swaras or notes; practise the gamakas or vocal quivers that are Carnatic music's signature; and internalize this instrument's tactile feel into your repertoire. The veena, more than the voice, I would argue, is perfectly suited to the gamakas that differentiate Carnatic music from Hindustani.
Even if you know nothing of Carnatic music, listen to S. Balachander's rendition of Raghupati Raghava on YouTube. It is a familiar song, and you will instantly get an idea of how Carnatic music approaches a melody. Jayanthi is S. Balachander's student, but her main guru, she says, was her aunt and Lalgudi's sister, Padmavathy Ananthagopalan, with whom she lived and learnt in the gurukula tradition.
Chennai remains a tough market however. "They want us to play like singers," says Jayanthi. "That's like going to Saravana Bhavan and asking for a pizza." She recounts how her uncle, Lalgudi Jayaraman, played a fantastic Telugu composition, Brocheva by Thyagaraja, on his violin. After the song, an audience member asked him to play a Tamil song. Lalgudi, whose laser tongue was as sharp as his violin's bow, replied, "Sir, in what language did I just play the violin?"
The gifted instrumentalist is still held hostage by an audience that hums Tamil or Telugu lyrics. Just ask Shashank Subramanyam, the flautist who was given the prime evening slot at the The Music Academy, Madras, when he was just 12, a record still unbeaten by any performer. Master Shashank, as he was called then, was a sensation in the late 1980s. Like Krishna (the God not the singer), his flute attracted droves of women who crowded into sabhas (concerts) just to hear the boy.
Shashank is now a senior artiste, married to a dancer. But he is still subject to the brutal calibrations that sabhas make during any music festival or season. "In any season, the sabha chooses 10-12 singers and one-two instrumentalists," he says. "This means that if I get a slot at a certain sabha this year, I won't get a chance there for another five or six years."
It is easy to fault the sabhas for their patronage of singers. It is easy to say these sabhas are bowing to the market instead of promoting musical traditions. But this is a problem with no real villains; no real quick fix. The audience prefers singers, and as an audience member and listener of Carnatic music, I can see why. When a violinist plays a familiar Carnatic song like Dharma Samvardhini or Endaro Mahanubhavulu, our minds automatically fill in the words. For that reason, the future of Carnatic instrumental music may lie outside Chennai.
North Indians have no such baggage when it comes to Carnatic music. They can listen to Shashank's jugalbandis with Rakesh Chaurasia and absorb Carnatic music subliminally, sans its lyrical baggage. They can listen to talented mridangist Patri Satish Kumar and learn about Carnatic rhythms. They can watch (on YouTube) the Mysore violinist brothers, Nagaraj and Manjunath, play Bantureethi in a restrained fashion, reminiscent of Chembai Vaidyanatha Bhagavathar, who popularized the song. They can listen to Ganesh and Kumaresh play a divine Vaishnava Janato on their violins and appreciate the Carnatic way of interpreting this national song.
Carnatic instrumentalists, more than its singers, operate in a global world. They believe that their future lies outside Chennai. "Carnatic instrumentalists are very popular in Europe," says Ghatam Karthick. "You can play Kurai ondrum illai in Paris, but they won't know that M.S. made it popular and that it is an ode to Perumal (the Hindu god Vishnu), or about Tirupati or its laddus or anything." Carnatic music has to be de-religionized or de-contextualized for instrumentalists to hold equal sway. That's not going to happen in Chennai for a while.
Instrumental music suits today's world. When I listen to music while working, it is almost always without lyrics. Words intrude in a way that music doesn't. So what is the future of Carnatic instrumental music?
My quest began with S. Gopalakrishnan, a music connoisseur who sends out a daily email with a song and an explanation—from both the Hindustani and Carnatic genres. Historian Ramachandra Guha introduced me to his mailing list and I've been on it since.
Gopalakrishnan lives in Sarojini Nagar, New Delhi, and is a project director for Sahapedia, an online encyclopaedia of Indian art, heritage and culture. One day, I phoned him to discuss songs versus instruments. We spent a pleasant hour discussing how singers used to absorb influences from the various instrumental schools in the past.
Semmangudi Srinivasa Iyer, who taught Subbulakshmi, was hugely influenced by the nadaswaram schools, he said. Today, nadaswarams have become the south Indian shehnai, generally played only at weddings. The same thing has happened to the harmonium, which once was an important instrument—both for accompanying and for practicing to get the shruti (tone) perfect. Today, it is used mostly in Harikatha (stories accompanied by music). "The supremacy of vocal khayalism limited the growth of instruments," Gopalakrishnan said. "Instrumentalists became prisoners of the literary composition or sahitya."
Shashank agrees. "I think instrumentalists should all get together and come up with a Carnatic music repertoire that is perfectly suited for instruments," he says.
We don't have to look very far. Western classical music is all about instrumental supremacy because the concertos are written for instruments, not the voice. In the West, voice (opera and choral singing) attracts a smaller crowd than a symphony. Instruments are king and singers are queens.
The future of Carnatic instrumental music requires both a stroke of genius and a paradigm shift. How do you end the supremacy of lyrics in what is being performed today? As a listener, even I know and love the lyrics. Why then would l listen to only instruments? For that, several things need to happen. A genius composer needs to write for instruments—either a concerto format with multiple instruments or a song with a long instrumental riff like in Hotel California, where the guitar becomes the melody at the end. The third way is to mimic a Western jazz or rock band, where a group of instrumentalists come together and create a new sort of music. The musician who has gone the farthest in this area is Chitravina Ravikiran with his melharmony (a convergence of melody and harmony).
Ravikiran is a prodigy. He identified 325 ragas as a two-year-old and has received praise from the doyens, including the late sitarist, Ravi Shankar, and Carnatic vocalist, T. Brinda. He performed as a vocalist from ages 5-10 and then switched to the chitravina, previously called gottuvadhyam, an older form of the veena. Since then, he has composed, created new ragas, written operas, and worked with symphonies in England, Europe and the US, to create melharmony.
It is a step in the right direction, but even for an amateur listener like me, it is not there yet. It sounds like a mishmash of Carnatic and Western traditions, without being fully evolved.
Ravikiran disagrees with the argument that a paradigm shift is needed to increase the popularity of instrumental Carnatic music. "I think a lot of instrumentalists are flopping because they are trying to do too many different things in an experimental way that borders on desperation," he says. "Sometimes you chase the extras at the cost of the essentials. Whether you are a vocalist or instrumentalist, if you are playing under the banner of Carnatic music, the music should have some essentials. Lyrics are an essential part of Carnatic music. But lyrics have a joint supremacy, not a solo one. Melody and rhythm are equally important."
Ravikiran believes any instrumentalist who tries to remove the lyricism of Carnatic music is playing "two-dimensional rather than three-dimensional music". You have to play the instrument so that people can hear the words, he says. That is not easy.
As I see it, there are three ways that instrumentalists can gain ground. One, Carnatic music has to gain a global audience, and not just one comprising non-resident Indians. Once you have French or Latin listeners, then the lyrics cease to be important. "Vocal is local," as Ravikiran says. The second method has to do with compositions, and this applies to Hindustani music as well.
Nobody in Carnatic music is composing for instruments. Violinist Lalgudi Jayaraman composed beautiful tillanas (or taraanas in Hindustani) but they included lyrics and have been co-opted by singers. Instrumental primacy requires the harmonic polyphonic focus of Western classical music. Should Carnatic music compositions imitate Western classical compositions just so its instrumentalists will have a bigger role as performers? And how does one even begin to compose a Carnatic symphony? Will that sound like Carnatic music?
So maybe the solution has to come from the same place as the problem: the audience. Ravikiran says the audience has to be taught how to appreciate instrumental music; how to appreciate T. N. Krishnan's masterful restraint; how to enjoy M.S. Gopalakrishnan's amazing aesthetics; and how to venerate the two game changers of Carnatic instrumentalism: Flute Mali, or T.R. Mahalingam, and Lalgudi Jayaraman. And instrumentalists have to perfect their craft to please a difficult audience.
As the singer Gayatri says: "Take it from me. I have played the violin and I have been a singer. To achieve a level of competence in an instrument is hard. To achieve brilliance and perfection is brahma prayatnam ("ridiculously hard" is a poor translation). The audience patronage for an average vocalist is far more generous than (for) a brilliant instrumentalist."
That is the charm and the challenge of instrumentalism. You can listen to truly brilliant instrumentalists if you aren't hung up on the lyrics. So perhaps it is time for Mumbaikars and Delhiites to descend on Chennai and patronize its instrumentalists.
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Guides to the right 'sabha'
These websites can help you plan which concerts you want to attend
Four websites will help you plan your concert- viewing. The top musicians sing at different 'sabhas' every night, so you'll catch them somewhere; for instance, the Narada Gana Sabha, Rasika Ranjani Sabha (RR Sabha), Mylapore Fine Arts Club, and Sri Krishna Gana Sabha.
Or just go to The Music Academy, Madras, because anyone who has been given a slot there, particularly the 7pm one, has to be really good.
If you have four days to visit Chennai, go around New Year's Day so you can catch the dance festival which begins 3 January.
The websites to visit:
Shoba Narayan
Raga Connection show
I will be doing a workshop "The Raga Connection" along with a friend and fabulous singer, Chitra Srikrishna, at the Times of India literary festival this Sunday on the 7th of December (details below) If you have kids who would be interested in attending the workshop or other friends in Mumbai, please let them know.
Details here
Chitra Srikrishna is a classical carnatic singer. She spent many years in the Bay area, which is why you haven't heard of her. She is a fantastic concert-level performer.
Chitra and I collaborate on a show/performance called Hum Raag. The basic concept is "From film songs to classical music."
What's it about? Okay, let me describe the scene.
Chitra is sitting on the stage with a violinist and mridangist (drummer) on either side. I am the sutradhar– standing on the side with my laptop. There is a projector and screen behind Chitra for my Powerpoint presentation.
We start with a film clip from a popular film song. "Yeh dosti," from Sholay. I play the film clip for one minute. Chitra hums the song, and segues into a Kabir bhajan; or a Hindustani song; or a Carnatic composition. She doesn't sing the whole song– just for a couple of minutes. While she sings, I am explaining the raga and concepts of classical Indian music in the background. As a slide show. So the audience is listening to music and watching it being explained in the slide show at the back. At the end of Chitra's singing, I come out in front and do my storytelling bit. I link poetry, music, and drama and do a 30-second monologue. Then we play another film clip. Say it is "Ek tha cholo re," in Bengali. Chitra sings a song based on that raga, which happens to be Shankarabharanam. I explain the raga, and Tagore and his composition in my slide show. Then I walk up and do my storytelling. And so it goes. We pick songs from different parts of India, in different languages: a lot of Hindi songs, but also Tamil, Kannada, Bengali, Malayalam and Telegu.
The show is fast paced and multi-sensory. Music, slide show, storytelling, film clips…… We do this for an hour and it flies by. Organizations have actually come to us and said "One hour is too short. Make it longer."
So we do this as a one-hour OR a 1.5 hour presentation.
Our Facebook page is here
If you "like" us, you can get updates of our gigs. No pressure!!
We did two shows for ISB's Executive Education events. One in Bangalore and one in Hyderabad. Photos here
If you know of a cultural space, corporate group, or event management company that would be interested in a music-storytelling-slide presentation, please point them to us. Email:firstname.lastname@example.com or me.
Here are some photos from the event.
Chitra and the accompanists below, with my slide presentation in the background
Posing for photos with Heemanshu Ashar, the curator of the event, in Hyderabad
Chitra created this nifty photo for our FB page
With the director of the Center for Executive Education and the team


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Condit DIDN'T lose to MacDonald and DIDN'T lose to Diaz. MacDonald got outworked and by his own words embarrassed. Dress it up however you like but that's the reality.
I predict that Diaz will puss out of the fight with GSP again and the actual card will be:
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Condit DIDN'T lose to MacDonald and DIDN'T lose to Diaz. MacDonald got outworked and by his own words embarrassed. Dress it up however you like but that's the reality.
Great fight but tough fight for Hendricks. I hope he doesn't get pushed out of a title shot against GSP because of it, and I am saying that as a huge fan of Condit. The GSP huggers need to stop acting like losing to Condit means Hendricks wouldn't have had a shot against GSP. Styles make fights. I gave Hendricks a solid shot vs. GSP because of his one punch power and wrestling ability. I still felt GSP should have been the favorite, but also felt that guys like Hendricks and to a lesser extent Jake Ellenberger have better shots against GSP than a guy like Nick Diaz, Jake Shields, or possibly even Condit. Just because they lose to certain fighter, doesn't mean that fighter isn't a bad matchup for the champ. Just look at Werdum beating Bigfoot, losing to Overeem, and Bigfoot KO'ing Overeem. Kevin Randleman was a bad matchup for Wand or Tito in their primes, but he kept losing before he was in position to fight them. You can always throw a bad style matchup at someone to keep them from getting to the title. Condit might be that. It doesn't change the fact that Hendricks was the real number 1 contender, and the most dangerous opponent GSP could have faced when he decided he would rather have the money from the Diaz fight.
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Having said that, Hendricks only has a punchers shot at beating GSP. To claim otherwise is not being realistic. Whenever he doesn't KO someone early he goes on to be in very close fights against people not in the realm of GSP's skill.
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When my wife and i went in to sign the contract and bring the truck home we were told that if there were ever any major repairs or tragedies in the family they would allow us to put a payment in the back so we could take care of things. Well what a lie.
Our house burned down to the ground, we had nowhere to live for several months. An account rep kept calling about the county taxes that were owed on the truck. Well they were paid by us as soon as we received the bill. He demanded a receipt....OUR HOUSE BURNED DOWN!!!! And my wife was trying to pull our lives together so she didn't have time to go to the county that minute and get a receipt. Well she did then they shut up for a while.
When I inquired about putting a payment in the back until we could get the clothes and etc that we needed because like I said we lost EVERYTHING I was told that they will not do it for that...Well what do they consider a tragedy? Did I have to die in the fire? When i asked that question to them they said "It's not our fault your house burned down, we didn't start the fire!" Really? that's what they could come up with?
Needless to say I fell behind in my payments and they took the truck! But I feel it is the best thing that ever happend to me. However, when I went to Tifton to retreive my stuff out of the truck there were several things missing. I didn't even have my paperwork to send back to my lessor so i could get my escrow and last paycheck. I called Iowa and they said noone took my things. Well my breifcase was gone with all my paperwork, my change bucket ws gone, my map, my air gauge and who else knows...
I just wanted them to call the driver who drove the truck to Tifton and they would not do anything, they said they don't need my stuff, well I don't think Joe or Derinda went to Tifton themselves and took it I jsut thought they could see if they could get my paperwork back!
Well, here I am with 2000.00 in escrow sitting at a company that I can't get back and out of business. Lone Mountain has the worst customer service I have ever seen Derinda and Joe are a match made in Heaven...or...Hell!
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I in return get to keep my 10%-12% of the cashed money orders. I did not have to invest any money, or give any personal banking info , SS#, etc.
No one would think that money orders would be bad, since you have to have cash to purchase one.
What I didn't think of is this, once the money is transferred they got what they wanted. The money that was wired. I in turn now have to pay this all back, because I cashed it at my bank, and even though I didn't deposit this money, it comes against my bank accounts. The money Orders are counterfeit.
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Katsidis Aims To Continue UK Streak With Ricky Burns
By Adrian Warren
The scourge of British boxers, Australian Michael Katsidis is poised to scuttle the hopes of Scotland's former WBO super featherweight world champion Ricky Burns in a November lightweight world title fight.
The Queensland fighter's manager and trainer Brendon Smith told AAP he had reached a verbal agreement with the management of Burns for a WBO interim lightweight fight on November 5.
Smith said he has received a written contract and just had to finalize a few details before formally committing to the bout.
While there was talk the fight would land in Glasgow, Smith said the fight will take place at Wembley Arena in London.
Two-times WBO interim lightweight world champion Katsidis (28-4, 23 KOs) has already claimed a couple of notable scalps in British rings.
He stopped Englishman Graham Earl in five rounds in a memorable WBO interim lightweight world title war in London in 2007, which was widely regarded as the best fight of that year.
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Burns, 28, dethroned Roman Martinez despite being knocked down in the first round and went on to make three successful defences.
He has won 17 consecutive fights stretching over four years.
Should the proposed bout with Burns not proceed, Smith revealed Katsidis could fight Mexico's former WBC lightweight and super featherweight world champion Humberto Soto (56-7-2, 33 KOs).
Katsidis is back working in his training camp in Thailand.
The 31-year-old Australian fought at light welterweight in his most recent bout against Mexican Michael Lozada, who he stopped in three rounds on the Gold Coast in August.
[QUOTE=PRBOXINGCOTTO;11208903]Kats stops burns wack ass in 9[/QUOTE] Burns' wack ass outclassed your PR hope Martinez :lol1:Comment by lest26 on 09-26-2011
I think Katsidis will make light work of Burns, he is a cut above him and Burns just aint gona be able to handle him, cant wait to see it though gota love a true warrior like KatsComment by alza1988 on 09-26-2011
Burns beat Graham Earl when he was 22-0 and a big underdog at short notice I read :boxing: Styles make fights lets see how Burn's does at lightweight .He was supposed to be a lightwelterweight in the amatuers .Comment by Drunk Punch on 09-25-2011
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Techno Brain Scoops Microsoft 2012 Award
MALAWI| July 19, 2012, 11:49 a.m.
By Gregory Gondwe, Blantyre, Malawi
ICT solutions service provider Techno Brain has, for the third time in a row, beaten 3,000 entrants worldwide from 640,000 Microsoft partners, to win the 2012 Microsoft Country Partner of the Year Award for its Malawi and Tanzania operations.
Kheliwe Murimu, Group Public Relations Manager of Techno Brain, says the ICT firm has always excelled in the sector.
"This has been through our excellence in innovation and implementation of customer solutions based on Microsoft technology," she said.
A statement issued after the award quotes Microsoft's Worldwide Partner Group Vice President, Jon Roskill, hailing Techno Brain for the award saying it has demonstrated commitment to innovation and customer care.
Techno Brain's Group Chief Executive Officer, Manoj Shanker, said being recognised by Microsoft as the Country Partner of the year was a remarkable achievement for Techno Brain.
"And this year, it is not just one location that has made us proud," he said, referring to the operations both in Tanzania and Malawi winning awards.
Roskill said: "…Our strong partnership is core to us winning together."
Shanker agreed, saying their partnership with Microsoft over the years has driven them for the development and delivery of industry best products and solutions to provide better and value added services to their clients across the globe.
Techno Brain was recognised for providing outstanding solutions and services, as well as demonstrating excellent subsidiary engagement in Malawi.
At the 24th Malawi International Trade Fair in Blantyre in May, hosted by the Malawi Confederation of Chambers of Commerce and Industry, Techno Brain was the only ICT firm displaying its services and products.
At that time, Murimu had declared: "We are the ICT Company in this country that helps Malawi's Immigration Department produce passports."
She also boasted that Techno Brain is the only ISO certified ICT Company operating in Malawi.
Murimu noted that Techno Brain is a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner and a master franchisee of New Horizons Computer Learning Centre in Malawi.
Techno Brain has operations in 12 countries, including USA, India, Middle East and South Africa.
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I cannot believe my eyes:
A Defense Against Comment Spam
I cannot believe my eyes:
A Defense Against Comment Spam
I just read SixApart's article on this, and noticed that they already have a plugin (for MT, of course) to automatically change links from comments (or untrusted commentors) to add the nofollow bit.
Now, adding it to the URI field or the actually body of the comments in WP... I'm thinking someone much smarter than I needs to whip up a plugin, as
comment_author_link() has no way to pass a
rel="nofollow" into the "author link", and I have no idea how one would do it for the body of the comment (my PHP skills being limited).
Anyway... that's just some brain candy...
Now comes the task of fixing six million or more blogs to use this functionality.
Quote from the link posted by wpde:
"By adding a
rel="nofollow" attribute to hyperlinks, webmasters and weblog owners can tell search engines that the links are effectively untrusted.
For example, this:
buy now
Becomes this:
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Anybody up for building a WP plugin for doing this?
Some more information at
Of course this does nothing to stop the actual spamming. It will just not increase the pagerank of the spammer. Maybe this will turn off some of them. We'll see. I don't hold my breath.
See also http://annevankesteren.nl/archives/2005/01/nofollow
The problem is, I don't want all my links being treated like they're untrusted.
How about making it so people who are logged in, approved, or have more then x posts in the database don't have nofollow added to their links? This way legit links still get linked/ranked like normal and links from unknown users aren't.
If this is added to WordPress, make sure its optional.
I could probably do this, I might try tomorrow
Yup, this is the solution to another problem, Spammers will take no notice, only a few geeks will ever know that this exists.....
Yes, this is a geek fix which doesn't stop the users having to deal with idiots running scripts. But it does reduce load on yahoo, google, etc, and reduces the benefit of comment-spamming. IMO it should be added as a courtesy.
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U S Work Alliance Inc.www.usworkalliance.com Atlanta, Georgia U.S.A.
U S Work Alliance Inc. Scammed me into buying the exam study guide and practice test for a job at the USPS Atlanta Georgia
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When I called them, they charged me $129.45 to send some study booklets and practice tests to prepare me for the exam I would have to take inorder to get a job at the USPS. Well, I know people that work at the USPS and they have no affiliation with this company and the information they send you has nothing to do with the exam they make you take. This company will not cancel the order and they tell you that the only way to get your money back is by failing the exam or not getting a job offer. Well obviously you will fail with the phony info they send to you.
My bank will not put stop payment on this charge until it clears and then I have to go dispute it. I had to block my debit card and have a new one reissued inorder to prevent them from taking any more money out of my account. It's a big hassle.
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Complaint Review: Steadfast Networks
Steadfast Networks227 Taft St Fond Du Lac, Wisconsin U.S.A.
Steadfast Networks ripoff consumer fraud Fond Du Lac Wisconsin
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Company canceled the server and refuses to give refund, no refund, no service, sounds like FRAUD TO ME. My client also had another server with this company, he alerted them that he would also be terminating business on that server at the end of the pre-paid date. Company decided to revoke access to the server, no refund, no service, sounds like FRAUD TO ME. Charges will be brought about said company on Monday for two counts of consumer fraud. Watch out for these guys
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The customer used service, which was delivered as expected, and prompt support service was issued. A service credit was offered, but refused. The customer then filed a chargeback within 20 minutes of their refund request, while the issue was still being actively discussed. Once the chargeback was issued, they were in violation of the terms of service and all service was suspended.
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Just went to this restaurant earlier this evening and had a lovely time. They have a great offer at the moment which is 5 plates for £15 and this includes two hot dishes as well! To some sushi eaters it may not seem like a lot but when you get prawn katsu curry and chicken gyoza as two of your five plates then it's quite a bit to eat! As well as a varied sushi menu they also do amazing bento...more
I liked our stay here. My wife and I were with some family friends and we had a lovely eating. Of course, the conversation swirled around the interesting food we were served. We ordered almost every kind of sushi just because we liked the variety and wanted to try them all. Excellent place, try it.more
I am quite conservative when it comes to my eating habits but this one times my friends took me to Habibi Sushi and I must confess I was more than sceptical at first. I just stared at the sushi we ordered for like 20 minutes before I became brave enough to try it. Although I my taste buds couldn't decide what I was eating they were definitely positive that it was delicious. Apart from that the...more
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Police say three people entered the home in the Letcher community late Monday night.
The group tied up a man and a woman inside and stole cash, prescription pills and a cell phone before taking off.
Officials at nearby Letcher Elementary also put the school on high alert for a time yesterday due to the break-in.
If you have any information in the case, call police.


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