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Uruguay defender Sebastian Coates is on his way to England to seal a transfer to Premier League side Liverpool from Nacional de Montevideo.
The 20-year-old center-back, voted best young player in July's Copa America, is expected to cost around $11.5 million.
Coates says he has "happy memories" of his time with Nacional and hopes to rejoin the club some time in the future, according to a statement on the Uruguayan club's website.
The tall defender, renowned for his composure on the ball and aerial ability, will undergo a medical with Liverpool ahead of signing.
He will join international teammate Luis Suarez in Liverpool's ranks if the transfer is finalized.


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The Quiet American by Graham Greene
I am a Greene fan, and I've seen both film versions and had wanted to read account of a a careless and naive American in Vietnam in the late 1950s as seen by a jaded British reporter. It is a great book, beautifully crafted and unsentimental, and the politics are right on and immensely relevant today. A strong recommendation for all.
Letter from America by Alistair Cooke
I had high hopes from this collection of transcripts from Cooke's long-running BBC radio program, and the early years were quite interesting and fun to read. He seemed to be able to perceive American culture accurately and without prejudice in the 40s and 50s. Over time, however, Cooke's liberal conservatism became old-man conservatism, and the post-1980 essays seem to be out of touch and self-aggrandizing. I didn't actually finish these -- I skimmed the 90s and 00s looking for obituary reminiscences, which are interesting at least.
Tech panic
from The Smart Set:
There is a really interesting book to be written on how the Internet and technology is changing our way of thinking, but so far we either have foolish optimism — like Steven Johnson's assertion in Everything Bad Is Good for You that video games and sitcoms are actually making us smarter, supported with vague "neurological" and "cerebral" terms and the lack of a definition of what Johnson means by "smarter" — or the aforementioned doom and gloom. Maggie Jackson is so hysterical in the introduction to her book Distracted: The Erosion of Attention and the Coming Dark Age that it's difficult to take anything in the following chapters seriously. That "Coming Dark Age" is not in the subtitle for nothing — Jackson really does believe that our wired world is going to cause a great collapse of civilization.
Happy birthday Annie Proulx
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When someone asked her about her advice to writers, she said: "Spend some time living before you start writing. What I find to be very bad advice is the snappy little sentence, 'Write what you know.' It is the most tiresome and stupid advice that could possibly be given. If we write simply about what we know we never grow. We don't develop any facility for languages, or an interest in others, or a desire to travel and explore and face experience head-on. We just coil tighter and tighter into our boring little selves. What one should write about is what interests one."
thoughts on education and technology
It's really easy to get in the habit of seeing a new shiny piece of technology and just assume that we can dump it into an educational setting and !voila! miracles will happen. Yet, we also know that the field of dreams is merely that, a dream. Dumping laptops into a classroom does no good if a teacher doesn't know how to leverage the technology for educational purposes. Building virtual worlds serves no educational purpose without curricula that connects a lesson plan with the affordances of the technology. Without educators, technology in the classroom is useless.
Yet, when we introduce technology in an educational setting, we often mistakenly assume that students will embrace the technology in the same way that we do. This never works out and can cause unexpected strife.
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Rock Band is the aural equivalent of paint-by-number. It's music-by-number. It's also a fad. Ten years from now, we'll look back on the game with a mixture of nostalgia and embarrassment.
Something Understood
A radio program from the BBC, loads Sundays for a week. Nice.
Poems for Shark Week
Bless you, poets.org. Here's a taste:
In Carl Sandburg's poem "In a Breath," the speaker escapes into the cool of a movie house only to find a film playing out the hunt and death of a shark. The speaker recounts the jarring moment through description: "Its mouthful of teeth, each tooth a dagger itself, set row on row, glistens when the shuddering, yawning cadaver is hauled up by the brothers of the swimmer." The poet, who lived and wrote in a time before people could watch sharks on television, conveys as film itself might what complicated emotions come with witnessing one of the earth's most mysterious predators.
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This little pocket-sized generator runs the kinetics of the robot outside on sunny days, or inside under a 50-watt halogen lamp. The parts go together to form six different shapes of robot: a car, a puppy, an airboat, a plane, a windmill, and another plane that flies around a pole. No screws are involved in the assembly, so it should go pretty fast. And when you get tired of one configuration, just reassemble it into another shape! I'd like to see the puppy walk most of all. I think the cats would really enjoy that.
The 6 in 1 Solar Robot Kit is £12.99 in the UK...
Helvetica Man
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This round-headed man's ubiquitous presence on the visual landscape belies his very particular origin. He was born in the 1920s to Austrian philosopher and social scientist Otto Neurath. A member of the collection of philosophers known as the Vienna Group, Neurath helped develop the theory of logical positivism, a marriage of rationalism and empiricism, of knowledge gained through reason and that gained through experience. For Neurath, the inconsistencies and changing nature of verbal language made it a poor medium for the transmission of knowledge; he sought instead a uniform visual communication system that relied on observation and experience. Working largely with Gernd Arntz — a socialist German artist who depicted the working class in abstract, woodcut figures — Neurath created the International System of Typographic Picture Education, or Isotype, and through it the classic silhouette figure.
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In an effort to push ad sales, Playboy Online has tapped two key executives in its advertising department.
In an effort to push ad sales, Playboy Online has tapped two key executives in its advertising department.
Broadcast design firm 3 Ring Circus has tapped former Paramount Pictures marketing vet Tom Connor to head its new promotion and marketing arm.
Kevin Mayer has been tapped senior veep of Buena Vista Internet Group, a division of the Walt Disney Co.
Shares of Netcaster Broadcast.com jumped nearly $32 Monday on news that Internet giant Yahoo! is interested in acquiring the online broadcaster of video and audio content.
William Hausch has been tapped veep of strategic technologies for the digital studios division of Sony Pictures Entertainment.
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Cybermeals, the online food delivery service headed by former Disney prexy Rich Frank, will change its name to Food.com in April, the company said Monday.
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The best of the Web were honored Thursday at the Webby Awards at San Francisco's Herbst Theater, with silver statuettes in 22 categories going out to winners ranging from online powerhouse Amazon.com…
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Mock CAT Exam – Must Know Tips For Students
Mock CAT
With CAT going online in the year 2009, there are a lot of speculation and more so need of students to give Mock CAT online and otherwise. So what is a Mock CAT? Mock Cat is a simulated CAT that a student gives under the same testing conditions as CAT or at least the manifestation are the same as the original CAT exam. The trick is to give students practice and exposure to the final day exam.
Given the fact that a large number of students wish to give Mock CAT every year, there are many option available on the Internet these days, paid and unpaid, which a student can make use of and get the required exposure in the time of need.
What are the options in front of the student for giving Mock CAT?
Well most of the coaching institutes that prepare students for CAT offer Mock CATs as bundled products with the classroom program or even separately. TIME runs it's Mock CAT by the name of AIMCAT, CL has its own name and others follow suit.
The TIME AIMCAT (as per our knowledge) attract the maximum number of students who take part in Mock CAT in India. This number can be as high as 1 lakh in some cases but hovers around 80Ks in most cases.
The most crucial factor while giving the Mock CATs is not what you score but a thorough analysis of the facet where you failed. This gives the student the area where he should be working on to improve his score. It is believed that if you spent 2 hours giving a Mock CAT then you should spend 5 hours in analyzing your results.
Further Details Regarding Mock CAT
With this regard, the CL MOCK CAT test has a great imbibed feature in themselves. The SIS or the student information system of CL is simply superb and very user friendly. All the stats that the student needs to know about a particular test can be seen by the student.
We are not biased against any particular Mock CAT but these are the two test series that we have interacted with and given you our views.
For success in CAT exam, one should be ready to give Mock CAT at will but there are certain things that should be kept in mind while one gives these Mock CAT.
The first thing is to take these tests seriously and the scores not so seriously. The fact is that your score will fluctuate like anything in the Mock CAT; at least with most of the students, this is normal. The Mock CAT should be taken seriously but do not fret on the scores, use the results as a platform to improve your preparation and do not allow yourself to be affected by the results.
Secondly, do not over do this. Yes, giving Mock CAT is helpful, analyzing it is even more helpful but do not drain yourself and give more than 10 Mock CAT exams. Take regular brakes and work on them.
Common Mistakes While Giving Mock Exams
There is another common mistake that student's make i.e. they wait that they complete the entire syllabus before giving Mock CAT. Do not be fooled by this belief. Give you Mock CAT even if you are not prepared fully, there are many benefits that you will notice, the primary one being that you learn to concentrate for a prolonged period.
It is quite easy to cheat in such Mock CATs so please do not do that. Let the Mock CAT exams reflect your true potential. You are going to fool no one by such methods but yourself.
Then there are many online free Mock CAT that the students can give in order to brush up their skills. One can refer to numerous such sources on the Internet for their studies.
Start your Mock CAT exam 2-3 months before your exam date and finally 'Peak on the FINAL D-DAY'. This is one more reason why we suggested not giving more than 10 Mock CATs. You can always solve questions online for practice but don't overdo your Mock CAT in any manner.
Last but not the least, take it one test at a time, and as someone said …keep mocking.
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EDMONTON, Alberta -- Maybe it's appropriate that West Edmonton Mall was the title sponsor for the inaugural Champ Car Grand Prix of Edmonton because it had a little bit of everything, albeit under sunny skies rather than a roof.
On offer was skillful precision driving, numerous on-track passes for the lead, a few costly bonehead mistakes, and even a bit of shoplifting, in the sense that Sebastien Bourdais basically stole his second victory of the season.
It all took place before an enthusiastic crowd that set an attendance record for a Champ Car race in Canada. More than 78,000 fans packed Finning International Speedway (nee City Centre Airport), bringing the three-day weekend total to 200,052.
"I have to applaud the whole city of Edmonton for everything they have done for Champ Car and our sport," remarked third-place finisher Paul Tracy, who led 30 laps and was one of at least three drivers who were saying they could have or should have won the 88-lap contest. "This was an unbelievable event."
RuSPORT Racing's A. J. Allmendinger and Justin Wilson couldn't believe they weren't celebrating a 1-2 victory after dominating qualifying and much of the race. But both young chargers made crucial mistakes on a high-speed airport circuit that required commitment and consistency from the Champ Car drivers.
"This track bites you hard and if you make a mistake, you're going to pay full price for it," said Bourdais, warming to the retail theme. "I'm sure A.J. is devastated. He probably deserved this one."
To recap, Allmendinger led the first 18 laps from his first career Champ Car pole before a misstep while lapping Marcus Marshall allowed Tracy to nip past into the lead. The Canadian hero held the top spot through the first round of pit stops, but he flat-spotted a front tire a few laps into his second stint and Wilson barged into the lead on the 49th tour.
Wilson drove away from Tracy like he was standing still, but having short-fueled on his first stop, he was into the pits much earlier than his competitors. That allowed Allmendinger to resume at the front in front of Wilson. By the time a yellow flag flew for Bjorn Wirdheim's crash with 15 laps to go, the RuSPORT duo led third man Bourdais by more than 20 seconds.
Bourdais' weekend got off to a bad start when he crashed during Friday qualifying and started a lowly 10th. He picked off several cars early in the race to get to fifth, but after losing a position and getting stuck behind Alex Tagliani for the second stint, Bourdais thought his chances for even a podium finish were shot. But he stretched his second load of fuel far longer than anyone else, and when he finally made his final pit stop, he emerged in third just ahead of his Newman/Haas Racing teammate, Oriol Servia.
The yellow for Wirdheim's minor accident put Bourdais back in the race, and then the RuSPORT pilots handed it to him on a silver platter. First Wilson spun while running behind the pace car on lap 79, dropping him to the back of the pack.
"I made a mistake trying to warm the tires up," Wilson admitted. "I'm disappointed and sorry for the team because I probably gave away a race victory. We'll try to learn from it and make sure it doesn't happen again."
When the green flew, Allmendinger zipped away at the front, but he clipped a curb at turn 8, which pitched his Western Union Lola into the outside wall at the exit of turn 9. A couple corners later, he spun out thanks to a flat left-rear tire and damaged suspension. After trundling into the pits, Allmendinger remained in his car with his helmet on for several minutes before alighting to face the music.
"I just threw it away -- I can't say any more than that right now," stated the Californian, whose fastest race lap was a second and a half faster than any of the podium finishers. "The event was amazing but I can't describe my feelings right now."
Bourdais reeled off the final eight laps to claim his 12th and perhaps most unlikely Champ Car win, leading Servia to the line by 0.596 second for a Newman/Haas 1-2. The defending series champion extended his current championship lead over Tracy to 21 points at the halfway point of the 14-race Champ Car season.
"I really couldn't believe it when I saw Justin spinning under yellow in front of me and then A.J. making a really small mistake," Bourdais commented. "I know how it feels to chase your first win and not achieve it. But we pretty much just collected ourselves today and just took the benefit of everybody's mistakes. That was just unbelievable."
After the first race in a five-year contract, Champ Car and Edmonton race officials were virtually glowing. "We've quickly come to learn why they call this the city of champions," said Champ Car's vice president of promoter relations, Joe Chrnelich. "This event was electric, which is the highest praise I can find. There was a tremendous outpouring of support and it shows that there is a demand for Champ Car's product. Edmonton showed cities that have our races or want our races just how strong they can be."
July and August are particularly strong months for Champ Car, with three highly successful Canadian races and the Grand Prix of Denver, which has grown into one of the top American events on the schedule. Next up is the inaugural Grand Prix of San Jose, where race officials have scrambled to add extra grandstands and suites to meet demand.
"Our plan for downtown motor racing festivals works," noted Champ Car co-principal Kevin Kalkhoven. "These folks have done a remarkable job and San Jose has sold out all its grandstands. If you really want to promote a race, Toronto and Edmonton are pretty good examples. It works, simple as that. People want to come to downtown events."
John Oreovicz covers open-wheel racing for National Speed Sport News and ESPN.com.


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Matthew Van Vessem is a partner in the firm's Labor and Employment Practice Group. He concentrates his practice in the areas of labor and employment litigation, wage and hour litigation, employee discipline, collective bargaining and municipal law.
Matt has represented private and public sector clients in administrative and legal proceedings, including labor arbitrations, agency hearings and state and federal court litigation. He has extensive appellate court experience and has represented municipalities before the New York State Court of Appeals. He has lectured and written on a number of topics of particular interest to municipalities, including the application of the Fair Labor Standards Act to municipal employers and the special rules applicable to public sector police and fire employees.
Professional Affiliations
- New York State Management Attorneys Conference
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I am but one man. Not one man has ever made a difference on other men without other men to help him. Yet, one man has brought together many men to make great change on the lives of all time. As Lemn Sissay wrote, "From butterfly winds to hurricanes, it's the small things that make great change." Let me stop this paragraph here so I don't loose focus.
That's my problem you see - focus. This computer screen doesn't help at all, it only lessens my want to write coherently. It's too much like my own mind; blank, formless and ever changing. One moment, in a fit of anger, or sadness, and I'm a nihilist. Another moment, in a different moment of anger, or sadness, or happiness, and I'm a humanist. It's always unpredictable, and honestly, it would be easier if I could just listen to someone like Soren Kierkegaard, when he wrote, "Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards."
So allow me users of MyIGN, fellow bloggers, readers alike, and perhaps an editor, or employee of IGN incorporated or any of its holdings, to use this little space of internet I have to voice my opinion.
Before I begin, I must make this observation:
If only there were perceptible limits for the internet. If only we could all say where it begins and ends, much like we can on a map. If we could, we would be able to pinpoint the exact precise coordinates of where it all went wrong - or right.
Before the internet, where did people go to voice their opinions? It's rather frightening to think of a time when our existence, and our world, was limited to about a ten mile radius. Thankfully, we have a wonderful contraption, so wide and formless, that allows us to express ourselves all over the world in a matter of seconds.
Take for example IGN's recent Brink review.
One lone review, one lone video game, managed to inspire the nimble fingers and thoughtful minds of 1300 people. I am of course using a hefty tone of sarcasm when using the encouraging and positive words of "nimble" and "thoughtful".
Let me take a step back from this phenomena for a moment, not as someone who judges and condemns others, but someone who uses anecdotes such as these for his own personal adgendas.
What is a video game journalist?
The word is thrown out constantly, among the so called practitioners of this new media trade, and among the legions of video game fanatic with at least the brain capacity to pronounce more than two syllable words. But honestly, what the fuck does that occupation mean? I mean, is it talking about people who enact journalistic practices on the subject of video games? Are there other entertainment industries that have these counterparts? Are there film journalists and comic book journalists?
The content on a website like IGN is as follows: news on various entertainment related industries (such as press releases, announcement dates, industry squabbles and scandals), previews (more indepth coverage of products), reviews (meant on informing the quality of a product to potential consumers), op ed articles (the in depth personal opinions and analysis of the editorial staff), videos (to compliment the other sections), and miscellaneous writings, audio recordings, and visual aids. You already know this, especially if you've taken the time to travel this far into IGN's internet territory.
All of these things, reviews, previews, news, pictures, videos, podcasts, are all designed for marketing. Perhaps not created with the specific intention, a preview or review is nonetheless an act of advertising for any company involved. A good review? Advertising for the game. A bad review? Advertsing for the game - and IGN. A blogging extension such as MyIGN? An enormous idea to keep the consumer enraptured and emotionally invested in the long term survival of the site.
Let not the categorization of advertising deter any love or adoration you have for such features and systems; they can allow for beautiful things.
The point that I am desperately trying to find a way to wrap up neatly here is that there is no such thing as video game journalists. There are critics and entertainment writers. IGN has the unique position of carrying both. An article like Michael Thomsen, analyzing something - y'know in the way a "critic" is supposed to do based on semantics - is the work of intellectual artistic criticism. The analysis of a product for consumption, like the aforementioned Brink review, is still the work of criticism, but on the more superficial scale. Not to diminish it or anything, but a "review" is meant to last for the short term - whereas the work of artistic criticism is meant to last longer. In the wise words of Ezra Pound, "All that the critic can do for the reader or audience or spectator is to focus his gaze or audition". The gap between entertainment and art is merely a question of time, and not of semantics and labels.
The main topic this whole post has been revolving around is that of the Brink review. Northrop Frye once very intelligently and logically said, the difference between a layman and a critic, is that the critic acts like a judge, in the way that he should know the medium he is judging, like a judge would know the law. When he makes this decision, he judging the very soul of mankind. Yes, even though I am paraphrasing, Frye said that critics are the last judgment of mankind (he was an ordained minister, give him a break).
The fine people at Splash Damage worked for more than two years, toiling day after day, sometimes for more than ten hours a day, to build a product that has now scored a metacritic average of 69. Game design is grueling, and it can be even more cruel, when a game being built from the ground up, like gods creating the universe, is released and under appreciated for the amount of creative effort the developers put into it.
Most gamers don't analyze video games. They simply consume them. Which is fine, don't you mind me, but when I see people calling Thomsen a "smarty pants" or saying that he "over analyzed something" it makes me mad. It also makes me mad to see ridiculous comments on the Brink review like "They gave Dragon Age 2 a better score and it was repetitive" even though it was reviewed by a different reviewer, with different preferences, and not including the massively ignorant statement that Brink and Dragon Age 2 are not hugely different video games (when they actually are).
This ignorance is due to the authorial weight the review carries to people's idolatrous minds. Reviews carry scores, a stupid, yet efficient way of judging consumption. Numbers cannot realistically convey complex opinions - unless they are mapped out in algebraic abstractions. The score is an absurdly reductive system of categorization that will forever haunt the world of art history. Should we give the Mona Lisa a score? How about a 8.5?
Honestly, you could easily give a game a 6.5 and write a glowing review completely unrepresentative of that score, and the majority of people would not know any better because they wouldn't read the reivew.
I suppose that you think my humble request to IGN is to remove the scoring system, but don't think of me as a fool, for I am not that foolish.
Any request I make to a group of people will fall on deaf ears, as it should. I am once again, only one person, one man, actually, I am just a boy - a boy of seventeen, what does it matter what I think?
But still, I have a request to make to IGN, perhaps it will be heard. Ditch the review system, and replace it wholly with thoughtful criticism. I know I know, that's crazy! But it would give all those users who bothered to write a comment, either a reason to rejoice, or a reason to complain. It would probably hinder profits, but think of all the future accolades IGN would receive for starting a new trend in gaming journalism - the trend of actually creating it. When gaming art historians (to create my own massively wanky title) are wading through all these foreign numbers like 9.6 and 5.5 to judge the importance of something to the canon of gaming, they will praise criticism that tried to actually be criticism. It saves the historians of tomorrow work.
Just think of all the future profits. Enron once calculated the future profits and became incredibly wealthy - for a time. Think about it IGN. Just think about it.
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Claque: An audience or a part of an audience that is paid to clap after an act/performance.
Setzer was seething. He couldn't believe he was doing this. It was all that damned blond kid's fault.
'You know what to do?' He asked the three teenagers before him.
They nodded, barely able to contain their laughter. Their leader, Hayner, held out his hand.
'Munny first, old man.'
Setzer gritted his teeth and gave the children the agreed sum of munny. As he watched them run off, no longer trying to contain their mirth, he brightened, and winked at a passing girl.
After all, paying crowds to cheer for him was hardly the lowest that Setzer had ever sunk.
A/N: The 'blond kid' can be either Seifer or Roxas, whichever way you choose to read it. I was thinking of Seifer when I wrote this, but it doesn't really matter.


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Accepting the reality of Kashmir
One of the most important, painful, politically controversial, but essential, tasks for the new Indian government of Manmohan Singh is to get relations with its neighbour and rival Pakistan onto a smoother footing for the sake of both countries, as well as for the peace and stability of the region and the world.
Now is an excellent time for more realistic relations between India and Pakistan, given that Dr Singh's government in New Delhi has just won a fresh and clear mandate, and the government in Islamabad has belatedly realised that Pakistan has no future - quite literally - in pandering to extremists masquerading as the True Believers of Islam.
But Kashmir stands in the way. The landlocked mountainous region has already been a bloody battlefield three times as the two countries staked their bitter claims to the region. Even today, Kashmir is the main excuse for India and Pakistan to waste billions of dollars on arms and dangerous nuclear games. It has seen both countries sucked into great conflicts and is a source of continuing tension, with 50,000 people killed over the past few decades in a land that still inspires terrorists.
It would be a brave leader who would dare to extend a hand of peace in Kashmir, and an even braver one who would shake it. Today, still too many vested interests in both countries justify their existence by continuing tension, division, military spending, and death and disruption in Kashmir.
Events of the past week have underlined the continuing tension, with daily riots in Indian Kashmir over claims that Indian soldiers had abducted, raped and killed two women; the Indian army said the women drowned in a stream. Indian suspicions of Pakistan grew when a court released Hafiz Mohammad Saeed, the founder of Lashkar-e-Taiba, who had been under house arrest after the Mumbai attacks in November.
Both countries are also weighed down by the historical baggage going back to their independence from Britain. On the eve of the creation of India and Pakistan from the British Indian empire, Pakistan was confident that Kashmir, with its majority Muslim population, would become part of Pakistan. After all, the 'K' in the word 'Pakistan' was supposed to stand for Kashmir.
But Jawaharlal Nehru, India's first prime minister, had deep family roots in Kashmir and the state had a Hindu ruler who was prevailed upon to opt for India as the best option since neither country would allow the territory what most Kashmiris would probably have opted for: independence. The first war was triggered by guerilla activity encouraged by Pakistan almost as soon as the two countries were created. Kashmir was split across the icy wastes, with India taking the valley and Pakistan enough territory to threaten India from its Azad (Free) Kashmir.
Indians believe that their best chance of solving the question came in 1972 when leaders of the two countries met in Simla to make peace after the brief war that led to the creation of Bangladesh. Kashmir was a sideshow in that war, though some fierce battles were fought in the rough terrain. India had 93,000 Pakistani prisoners of war when prime minister Indira Gandhi met to negotiate with Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, the new civilian leader of Pakistan riding the crest of a popular wave over the defeated and disgraced military.
P.N. Haksar, Gandhi's principal private secretary, and the person closest to the talks, told me some years afterwards that the two leaders had agreed on a secret clause that effectively accepted the Line of Control between the two armies dividing Kashmir as the international boundary between India and Pakistan. The Simla deal pledged the two countries to settle their disagreements peacefully, to respect the Line of Control and not to use force if it is violated.
But Bhutto turned whatever had been agreed on its head and declared subsequently - before being hanged by the vengeful military - that at Simla: 'Happily for Pakistan and the people of Kashmir, India accepted, once again, the existence of the Kashmir dispute.'
To an outsider, it might seem that the sensible thing would be to accept the facts of life, and agree to a split in Kashmir based on the Line of Control. An independent Kashmir is a non-starter, not least because neither India nor Pakistan would accept it, and even if it put up a flag of independence, it would not be a buffer but a bone of contention for the aggrieved forces of Pakistan and India.
Is there a leader brave enough to realise that Kashmir is dragging down both countries? Dr Singh may be. 'India cannot realise its ambitions unless there is peace and prosperity in South Asia as a whole and if our neighbourhood is suffering from instability and turbulence that has a bearing on our own evolution as a democratic polity committed to sustained growth and development,' he said this week.
But Kashmir epitomises the old saying that terrorists in one country are freedom fighters to another. Although Pakistan's president, Asif Ali Zardari, has renewed calls for peace, his prime minister, Yousaf Raza Gilani, promised that political and other support for Kashmir (code words for backing freedom fighters) would be resumed. Pakistan's 'freedom fighters' for Kashmir are from the same fundamentalist branch of Islam that has been causing mayhem and bloodshed in Pakistan's major cities.
Unfortunately, Kashmir offers the rationale for Pakistan maintaining such huge armed forces - 700,000 on active duty plus 300,000 paramilitary and 600,000 reservists - and for other countries, notably China and the US, to make big arms sales. India's army is equally huge but has been maintained under strict civilian control.
This means that it is probably fruitless to try to take the Kashmir issue head on. Dr Singh has to offer better economic and trade ties as a way of persuading Pakistan of the virtue of good and peaceful relations and the futility of war between two nuclear armed states who could blow themselves and much of the neighbourhood to pieces.
Kevin Rafferty was executive editor of the Indian Express newspaper group
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A/N: I do not own Amelia Atwater-Rhodes' Kiesha'ra book series.
Hawksong: Modern Warfare
My breathing was steady, controlled. In and out, in and out. I gripped the barrel of my rifle tightly as I proceeded into the fire zone.
The smell was overpowering. Avian blood, splattered and smeared in the dirt and grass, mingled with serpiente blood to create a ghastly odor. A fire had raged earlier in the forest to my left—the acrid smell of burning wood was strong. Alongside the smell of fire was that of steal, of lead, of charred and broken metal scattered throughout the battlefield. And above all was the smell of gunpowder, freshly ignited just moments ago in the heated firefight.
I heard a strangled cry from the forest to my left, then the sharp crack of a rifle. The crack resounded through the area; it sounded like a high-powered rifle, perhaps a .50 caliber.
I jogged into the trees. After a half minute, I looked up to see an image that would forever be imprinted into my skull.
"Oh, god no! Xavier!"
His body lay there, curled up beneath a tree. Golden hair covered his pale forehead. He was completely pale, the blood leaked out of him through the six bullet holes in his chest. He was dead, just like my sister and father, like my aunts, uncles, and friends. He was dead, and there was nothing I could do about it.
I was the last child.
I had emotional constipation. I should've cried, wanted to cry, needed to cry. Yet my eyes were as dry as the forest underbrush in the summer. I did not cry, or wail, or scream out my pain. Not here. Not on the front lines.
Front lines. I looked up. Lying behind his body was Xavier's rifle. It was huge: a massive, .50 caliber Barret M29 anti-vehicular sniper rifle. The thing stretched six feet from butt to muzzle, completely dwarfing the M14 hunting rifle in my hands. I reached out and stroked the weapon. The barrel was warm. The shot I heard from outside the forest was from this gun.
I gazed longingly at Xavier's eyelids, wishing them to flutter open, wishing my beloved brother to come back to life. Nothing happened. Wishing never got me anywhere.
"Take him home," I ordered.
"You should come home too, Shardae."
I turned around. Andreios stood behind me, his assault rifle in hand, along with an elite flight from the avian army. All of them had their assault rifles ready. We were vulnerable this far behind enemy lines.
"I won't be here long. Just wanna secure the area."
I heard another yell come from deeper in the trees. Andreios caught my arm. "There's no need for that one."
I would have agreed with him under normal circumstances. But, after walking these bloody battlefields for hours and helplessly watching both friends and foes die slow deaths, I didn't want to abandon another soul.
"Why not?" I demanded.
I heaved up Xavier's rifle—damn, it was heavy—and slung it across my shoulder. Then, I started toward the sound, practically shoving Andreios out of the way.
"I'll be back shortly."
I left Andreios and his squad to stare dumbly at me as I proceeded through the trees. I heard a moan come from nearby, and out of habit I lifted my rifle to my shoulder and scanned the area for hostiles. There were none. The only person in the vicinity was a man slumped against a rock.
At first, I didn't recognize him. But when I saw his jet black hair and the deep garnet color of his pained eyes, I immediately identified him. Gregory Cobriana. Serpiente royalty. My enemy.
Right now, however, I felt no anger toward him, toward what his kind did to my people and family. I was tired. I felt like a robot underneath my layer of avian reserve.
As soon as I began walking toward him, the serpiente prince stopped his cries for help and focused his garnet eyes on me. I thought I would've frozen on the spot—all the myths said staring directly into a serpiente's eyes meant instant paralysis. Somehow, though, I continued forward until I was beside Gregory. I knelt.
Aside from a few cuts and bruises, Gregory didn't have any other major injuries except for the gigantic hole in his stomach. The hole that my brother no doubt shot in him while trying to defend himself. I was amazed Gregory was still alive after being shot by the .50 caliber. Xavier's rifle was designed to shoot through the armor plating of serpiente Humvees and tanks. By all rights, Gregory's innards should have been strewn everywhere. Yet the hole seemed pretty clean cut, at least by comparative standards.
Why Xavier's shot didn't kill Gregory was not the main priority. The main priority was deciding whether to kill Gregory now, or let him suffer.
Gregory deserved to suffer and die a slow death, considering all the things his fellow snakes had done to us. But, watching his agony, I couldn't summon the rage to leave him where he was. I was compelled to end his life now, compelled to take him out of this hellish world of war and hatred.
As if reading my mind, Gregory whispered, "End it. Now."
I closed my eyes, gritting my teeth, preparing myself to do the deed. Reluctantly, I reached my right hand to my hip and retrieved the 9 millimeter handgun holstered there. I took it out and put it to Gregory's chest.
The shout shocked me to my legs. I pointed my pistol around, searching for the person who shouted it.
"Hawk," I heard the prince whisper mockingly. I wanted to whip back around, but my reflexes weren't as fast as a snake's. I was a second too late.
While I was searching for the hostile, Gregory had taken out his own silenced pistol. He was pointing it at my chest.
It had been a trap, right from the start.
I barely had time to dive backwards before the bullets started flying. In his near-death condition, Gregory didn't even have the ability to shoot me at point-blank range. Instead, the bullets whizzed past my body and legs as I dove behind a tree for cover.
The sound of a gunfight really got Andreios's attention. He and his squad stormed toward me, firing their guns at the serpiente soldiers I had failed to notice earlier. Andreios was shouting for me to get down, when I heard the returning fire of the serpiente's silenced weapons.
No time to retrieve my rifle, which I had set next to Gregory and forgotten to pick up when the shooting started. I only had my handgun. There were 15 rounds in the magazine. I hadn't packed more ammunition because this wasn't supposed to be a long excursion.
I peaked around the trunk. Gregory was slumped against the rock, his chest already riddled with bullets. Past him, I counted four serpiente firing through the trees. I heard the quiet pings of silenced pistols as well as the louder rapping noises of silenced sub-machine guns. They were armed and fighting back hard. Still, I was thankful that none of them had a shotgun.
Andreios and his squad took cover beside me. A barrage of bullets flew toward us. I stuck my pistol out and fired at the nearest enemy. He seemed about fifty feet away, but it was hard to hit him through the shadows and eaves of the trees and brush. I fired eight rounds. I don't think any of them hit.
I hid behind my tree and stayed there until the firefight ended. It was probably only a minute or two, but it felt like an hour to me. When all I heard was the panting of Andreios's squad, I risked a second peak. All four of the serpiente soldiers were down.
"Dani, what the hell is wrong with you?"
Andreios yelled as he ran up to me. He looked intimidating—an avian man with an M4 Carbine running towards a girl with nothing but a handgun. The worry in his face, however, brought me back to earth.
"You could've gotten yourself killed there!"
"I couldn't just leave Gregory Cobriana to die like that, Andreios. No one should die like that."
"He wasn't dying if he could plan an ambush like that."
I couldn't say anything against that. I had almost joined Gregory.
Still, the pain in his eyes. The hole in his chest—or holes, now. The torture he was going through was palpable.
But, once again, there was nothing I could do. Gregory was dead, and so were four of his comrades.
Somberly, I walked over to his body and picked up my rifle where I had left it. It remained unscathed. I gazed up at Gregory's body, now little more than a carcass. The horrors, the brutalities of the war…
I couldn't even look Andreios in the eyes as I holstered my weapons and said, "Alright. Let's head back."
We took off into the air—a golden hawk, a crow, and several ravens, all with guns strapped to their backs. We turned back toward the capital city, leaving the smoldering front lines in our wake.
A/N: Just to be clear. This story has no connection to the actual Modern Warfare game from the Call of Duty game franchise. Some of the weapons mentioned in this Fanfic are based off of real weapons; however, none of it is solid, proven fact. The "Modern Warfare" title is just a reference to the changed time period of the story from the traditional setting of Hawksong.
Just clearing things up. :)


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While I too find it a bit odd for any Blooming News Source to show any little bit of common sense, we must remember that while Gov. Moon Beam Vetoed the absolute ban of semi autos, he signed a whole bunch of other gun control measures including a ban on lead ammo for hunting(possibly all lead ammo but I have not looked into that closely yet).
Little bites. Baby steps. eventually they will nibble away at it and get what they are looking for, the total domination of their subjects via oppressive regulation and control.
ETA: thread already running about the lead ban.


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clothed or naked, he treated me indifferently.
all i'm most certain of is that whenever i'm with him,
i'm like near the ocean, or under a shady tree on a scorching day.
i spoke to him the way i spoke to myself in my head; careless, familiar, unafraid.
i used to lie in his arms with a selfish grin, knowing i have found something most people never will.
i don't exactly know what, but whatever it is, it's definitely worth every ounce of my sleepless nights.
i think we never really had to talk; because even when we were as silent as death,
we understood eachother well, like how first kisses tell you if it's gonna be sweet or not.
i gave him room to breathe when the thought of him and me got too suffocating for him.
i gave him space. for someone so possessive, i gave him a lot of space.
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- What good is speed if the brain has oozed out on the way? --St. Jerome
- The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it. --Flannery O'Connor
- Coincidences are spiritual puns. --G.K. Chesterton
- The poet only asks to get his head into the heavens. It is the logician who seeks to get the heavens into his head. And it is his head that splits. --G.K. Chesterton
- Calculation never made a hero. -- John Henry Cardinal Newman
- If God can work through me, he can work through anyone. --St. Francis of Assisi
- See how these Christians shove one another. --Fr. James Martin, SJ
- Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
- Drink wine, and you will sleep well. Sleep, and you will not sin. Avoid sin, and you will be saved. Ergo, drink wine and be saved. - Medieval German proverb
- We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. -- Oscar Wilde


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I walked into the Kings office with grace. "May I speak with you?" I ask with so much force it isn't a question it is an order. He nods in a startled manner.
"You shouldn't be attacking the dragon it will just hurt you even more, more of your people will be killed and the times of eating peanut butter would be over" I say in a persuasive voice while watching his expressions become sad,confussed and then angry.
"Why do you want your kingdom to kill it first so you will be known forever more? I will never let that happen and my peanut butter will never end" He shouts patronizingly "Now if you would excuse me I have work to do" He says regaining his calm and collected self while making a shoo motion with his hand. That did it noone talks to me like that and gets away with it I ran behind him,pulled back his hair and put a sword to his throat "You do not treat a princess in that rude manner OK? and you shall do as I say otherwise both our kingdoms shall be destroyed" I whispered in his ear fiercly as he nodded I drew back my sword and swung out the window climbing down as I heard the king call "guards, guards!"


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As I very rarely actually go anywhere, and even more rarely by train, I'm not an expert on the current digital device habits of rail travelers. However, the attraction of a nice comfy seat and table in some wonderful air-conditioned, piped music for free, even has a power socket railway carriage is that you can spend the time being productive. Laptop, tablet, mobile phone, and maybe even a portable printer – you might as well be in the office. The last time I took a long train journey (six years ago) I wrote a complete data access layer for a housing corporation website during the five hour trip.
However, according to a recent study undertaken on behalf of the Department of Transport here in the UK, business travelers now spend only ten percent of the total railway journey time being productive. It seems that the rest of the trip is taken up with reading non-business stuff, looking out of the window, and people-watching. So how come, that last time I went by train, the guy opposite me spent all of the journey from Edinburgh to Leeds shouting into his mobile phone about a customer he'd just been to visit in Pitlochry? Imagine what it will be like when they allow mobile phones on airplanes.
Mind you, next time you are on a 'plane, count how many people extract some hugely expensive laptop from their luggage and settle down over the keyboard. Then, on your way back from the toilet, take a surreptitious peek over their shoulder. You'll find that, rather than compiling their business reports or writing integration components for enterprise software systems, they're all reading trashy novels or watching a DVD.
So is there really any reason for manufacturers to make the fancy laptops we now take for granted lighter, slimmer, faster, and work longer on a charge? By my reckoning, at 10% of journey time on any train trip here in the UK, the most they'll be used is about an hour. Any more than that and you'll have wet feet. Though I suppose you could argue that our intrepid traveler is going through the Channel Tunnel and on to some far-off Europland destination, so needs to read trashy novels and watch DVDs for a lot longer.
Meanwhile, if all goes to plan, I'll actually be in Europland as you read this, but I can guarantee that I won't be laden with all the latest in technical sophistication. OK, so I'll have a mobile phone that has all the whizz-bang modern capabilities. However, after checking the cost of foreign data connections, bankruptcy avoidance mandates turning off that feature as soon as I get on the 'plane. Internet cafe? Probably not – the last time I used one in Cyprus I got home to find my server had been hacked.
So instead I'll be lazing round the pool at a friend's villa enjoying some late-in-the-year sunshine, reading trashy novels printed on real paper, and watching DVDs on a 48 inch screen with 7.1 surround sound. Meanwhile my laptop can rest and recover from endless rewrites of Azure guidance, manipulating multitudes of Visio bendy arrows, and trying to connect to some distant Azure datacenter to run half-finished (and, in my case, mostly half-baked) sample code.
Footnote: "OOF" in the title is not the album by Happy Flowers, slang for money, or the rude word they use in Hawaii. It's Microsoft-speak for "Out of Facility".


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Just a few weeks ago, I penned a piece outlining the reasons why it may be in Ottawa's best interests to listen to offers on Milan Michalek, especially if it could net a top four defenceman in return.
Well, if you believe some suggestions out of Winnipeg, perhaps that market for a top four defenceman could materialize in Winnipeg.
From the Winnipeg Sun's Ken Wiebe:
We're not suggesting the Jets are — or will — be shopping Enstrom.
However, it's no secret the Jets' organizational depth is on the blue-line and it's no secret the Jets need to add to their forward group.
So, you have to figure general manager Kevin Cheveldayoff is going to have to at least listen if teams start calling, to get a better idea of what he could get back.
The 2012 NHL Entry Draft is less than a month away and that's a time where teams historically make blockbuster deals, either for draft picks or other top-end talents.
From where we sit, Enstrom seems like the kind of guy who could bring the top-six forward the Jets' covet, not to mention need, in order to take the next step.Entering the final season of his contract that carries an average annual of $3.75M, Tobias Enstrom will hit UFA in July 2013 and it makes him a logical candidate for a trade, especially since this year's NHL Draft is riddled with defencemen who are projected to be drafted within the top five to fifteen picks. With the ninth overall selection, Winnipeg can parlay some of their current defensive depth and replace it with a selection at this year's draft.
Having posted consecutive 50-point seasons in 2009/10 and 2010/11, his 33 points last season were a step down but he also missed 20 games due to injury. Playing on the team's first pairing with Dustin Byfuglien, Enstrom finished with Winnipeg's second highest average TOI/G (23:50) and the third highest relative Corsi amongst regulars (but first amongst defencemen).
Now with this beign said, because of the uncertainty as to whether or not he would like to test the FA market for his next contract, one would have to imagine that this will hinder his trade value. Without that team control, Ottawa would probably have reservations about moving some of their forward depth to acquire him.
Perhaps, if possible, the Senators would be better suited to ambitiously inquire on Zach Bogosian's availability and as Pierre Dorion told NHL.com today, they have the pieces to make things happen.
"I think our depth is good right now. The main thing that allows you to do is to make deals like Bryan did, like trading [David] Rundblad and a second rounder for Kyle Turris, trading your second rounder next year for a guy like Ben Bishop. That's really what it allows you to do."Bogosian, a RFA this July, is from Massena, New York native and actually grew up as a Senators fan.
When talking to NHL.com about his draft day, he said, "It was a pretty special day. It was in Ottawa, which was an hour and a half from my house so I had a lot of friends and family there. I grew up a Senators fan so it was pretty cool to get drafted in the rink that they play in."
Although he may never be at Enstrom's-level when it comes to driving puck possession, Bogosian would fulfill Bryan Murray's desire to acquire a defensive defenceman. He even played against a higher quality of competition than Enstrom last season.
While the odds of making a specific move for Bogosian may be small, it is the kind of move that fits in with the Turris and Bishop trades and is one that I could see the organization look into pursuing.
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I Am
Where are you from? they ask.
Your mom's from here. Your dad's from there, they say.
I'm from here, from today, same as everyone else, I say.
No, where are you really from? they insist.
I ask Abuelo because he knows everything,
and like me, he looks like he doesn't belong.
Where am I from?
Abuelo thinks. His eyes squint, like he's looking inside his heart for an answer.
You come from the Pampas, the open free land, he says.
You're from the gaucho, brave and strong. From the brown river that cleanses and feeds the land that gives us the grain for our bread, the milk from the cows.
You're from mountains so high they tickle Señor Cielo's belly,
where the condor roosts his family
and the jaguar prowls the night.
But you're also from the warm, blue oceans,
and the elegant palm trees that stretch their fingers to caress the waves.
You're from a tiny singing frog that calls the island people home when the sun goes to sleep.
You're from hurricanes and dark storms.
From the copper warriors that rode the ocean and worshipped the silver moon.
You're from sea explorers, from their courage and their maps.
From two cousins that escaped war in the land that Jesus walked,
From these new shores where they built a home for all of us.
You're from the grandmothers who look for their grandchildren, waiting, always waiting in a plaza, their white handkerchiefs wrapping the sorrow of their thoughts.
You're from Pacific and Atlantic, Mediterranean and Caribbean.
You come from the sunshine that lights our path in this world and the rain that washes away our mistakes.
But Abuelo, I ask, Where am I really from?
Abuelo laughs. You want a place?
Then know that you're from here, he points to his temple,
from my dreams of freedom and books.
He points to his heart,
You're from here, from my love and the love of all those before us,
those who dreamed of you, free to ask questions and have a future.
You're from all of us.
I am.
I'm not from here, and I'm not from there. I'm from dreams and hopes,
from hard work and love.
I am.
Yamile Saied Méndez was born and raised in Argentina, but has lived in Utah half of her life. She's a mother of five, lover of futbol, Irish dancing, and books. She's a free lance writer and a MFA candidate at the Vermont College of Fine Arts. Her musings can be read at www.yamilesm


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People have been emailing me quite a bit about when my SQL Server books will be updated for SQL Server 2005. Good news: they will be in print this Monday. Important details:
1. All three books have grown to over 1200 pages each. This is as much due to an inclusion of a collection of short stories I've written in the first two and a mini-novel in the third as it is to increased technical content. There is also a new photos section in the first book, and some detachable posters in the third.
2. Commensurate with the page count increase, Addison-Wesley has decided to increase the retail price of each book to $109.95. You'll be able to get it for much less at places like Amazon, but that will be the retail price.
3. Buyers of the first 20,000 copies of the book will receive a free signed 8×10 photo of me. This photo was taken on my recent excusion to Gallapogos and features me in a Speed-O.
4. In the interest of time, we have decided not to update the technical details in the books for SQL Server 2005. Releasing the books so early necessarily means we have to cut something, so we decided to cut the SQL Server 2005 coverage. I know this will be disappointing to some, but at least you get the picture if you order early.
One final detail: check your calendar. It's April 1st — Happy April Fool's Day! Now the actual facts:
I don't know when my SQL Server books will out for Yukon. If you look at the history of those books and when they were published (in relation to the SQL Server product cycle), I've never worried about being first to print. I know that sells more books upfront, but I really shoot for the long-term. I want to produce the best books I can, irrespective of what's happening in the marketplace. For me, that means getting a considerable amount of experience with the product and building some real software with it before I write about it. It means learning from how other people are using the product — what works, what doesn't, and what people need to know in order to be successful with it. IOW, I think an author on a technical topic should write from an abundance of knowledge on the subject, and that's difficult to do when the technology hasn't even been released and isn't yet in wide use.
Having a book ready when Yukon ships is really not that important to me. I think long-time readers appreciate this, and I'm grateful to everyone for their patience. Trust me, when the books are ready, you'll know 🙂


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Maids can take online course in care-giving
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By Amelia Tan
MAIDS can now pick up care-giving skills during their free time by taking an online course.
It will also help their employers qualify for a monthly government stipend of $120 to help with the cost of hiring a domestic worker to take care of frail, elderly or disabled family members.
The course, developed by Singapore company BH Institute, has been approved by the Centre for Enabled Living.
There are two parts. The first is a 20-module programme called Medically Informed Minders, which gives the maids basic knowledge of dealing with the elderly, such as spotting warning signs on health problems.
The modules, which each take 20 minutes to cover, can be worked on at any time using smartphones and computers. They are offered in English, Tagalog and Bahasa Indonesia.
The second part of the course involves a series of 13 seminars that cover topics such as preventing falls and tending to wounds. Each seminar is about an hour long, and is in English.
The course costs $200, but it can be offset by applying for a Caregivers Training Grant, administered by the Centre for Enabled Living. A spokesman for the centre said the online course provides an alternative method of learning for caregivers who are Web-savvy and who may not be able to leave the side of the person they are caring for.
The monthly stipend comes from the Foreign Domestic Worker Grant, which is expected to cost $25 million over the next five years. Eventually, more than 6,000 middle- and low-income families are expected to benefit.
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Will Robinson, WVU Hall of Famer and the school's seventh First-Team All-American, returned to Morgantown to aid Huggins and provide a dose of history and sage advice to the program's more recent grads. It wasn't as though this was his first trip to campus since tallying the highest scoring average in school history at 29.4 points per game in 1972, or even since his run as a graduate assistant. But, the Uniontown native noted, he has felt more deeply connected to his alma mater since the return of Huggins.
"It's like basketball, the game, the school and being around it all, just sort of slipped away from me for 20 years," said Robinson, who now lives outside Buffalo after a district coordinator career with Pickway Shoes. "Huggins has really changed a lot of that in the last few years, bringing guys back. Me, getting to work this camp and be a part of this…"
Robinson waves a hand, his gesture encompassing the new $25 million basketball practice facility, one quickly gaining a national reputation as the finest in the business – college or pro.
"This is amazing, all of it," Robinson said. "I've never seen anything like this anywhere. We never had anything like this when I was here. The Coliseum was new, but we didn't even get to keep shorts or a t-shirt or anything. It was nothing like it is now."
But to Robinson, that's not the biggest, most imperative of issues. The most important ideal, he thinks, is keeping former players involved, keeping the "Mountaineer family" just that, and holding events to bring former players and graduates back to campus. It both celebrates and creates new history, and deepens the ties to the program.
"It's great to see all the guys again, the former players," Robinson said. "The fantasy camp helps. The alumni weekends during football. I just kinda got disconnected there for a bit, but Huggins has brought us all back together. He got me to work this camp. He's invited everybody. It's kind of a 'come on in' mentality. It has been great."
Robinson, a 6-1 guard, trailed only Jerry West and Hot Rod Hundley in scoring at the close of his career. He finished second in WVU history in per-game scoring average, third in field goals and 25th in assists. He was a two-year team captain and was selected in the fourth round of the NBA by the Houston Rockets. After Robinson finished his Master's Degree in Safety in 1984, he began his 10-year stint with Pickway. After a one-year hiatus, Robinson moved to his current Grand Isle, N.Y. location and worked for Pickway and Toys-R-Us.
The job, distance, family obligations – wife, Pam and son, Lance – and general timing issues kept him away from Morgantown and West Virginia University for most of the duration of that time. But it's no coincidence that the return of Huggins, and all he has done to embrace former players, has endeared him to many, Robinson included.
"I probably wouldn't be here, at this camp, and coming to WVU as much if it wasn't for Huggins," Robinson said. "He has made an effort. He got this facility built. He has done a lot of good things, and I think West Virginia is in a really good position right now."


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Hammonds has advised consumer electronics business Alba in two recent sell-offs, including a 50 per cent stake in Grundig Multimedia.
The Grundig deal, worth e35m (£26.15m), gives total ownership to consumer electronics brand Beko, which bought a 50 per cent stake in the business from a German receiver as a joint venture with Alba in 2004, when Hammonds advised Alba.
Hammonds also recently advised Alba on the sale of £27m electronics business Roadstar, which owns brands including Bush, Goodmans and Grundig, to former Alba director and Roadstar chief executive Antonio Coda.
On both deals the Hammonds team was led by London corporate partner David Hull, who also advised Alba on acquiring the 50 per cent stake in Grundig in 2004, and on the sale of Alba's leisure division to private equity house Rutland Partners for £51.5m last summer.
Hull said: "Having advised Alba on the original acquisition, Hammonds was well placed to advise on the sale of its investment in Grundig Multimedia for a significant uplift on the value of the investment in the Alba balance sheet."
Grundig and Beko were advised in-house. Antonio Coda was advised by name partner Dr Walter Konig of Zurich-based Konig & Co.


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"You have to take some basic precaution. You can't travel at 2 in night and say that Delhi is not safe. So reasonable precautions are expected to be taken by all citizens of Delhi," said Gupta while addressing an audience at Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry Ladies organisation on Sunday, Jul 10.
Gupta's statement created controversies as he was accused of denying freedom to women at this modern era. Citing the increasing crimes (rape, murder, kidnap), especially against women, anyone can state that Delhi has become a crime hub where women are not safe.
Earlier, OneIndia has reported a statistics which reveal the frequency of crime against women at the national capital. A report, revealed by Delhi police, stated that a woman is raped every 18 hours or molested every 14 hours in the Capital. If that's not shocking enough, most of the attackers fall under the below 25 age bracket.
But if one thought the system was taking all measures to turn around the disturbing statistic, there is no hope around the horizon. The Delhi Police commissioner Brijesh Kumar has said that the crime graph will see a rise in 2011. When there were 459 rape cases reported in 2009, the figures jumped to 489 in 2010. The same, if not enhanced number was detected in the molestation figures as well.
Another shocking statistic was that 56 percent of rape accused were aged below 25 and a whopping 92 percent accused were known to the victims. Police investigations point out that most of the attackers were from the immediate family circle and acquaintances. Apparently, only 4 percent of the accused were strangers, while 96 percent were those known to the victim or her family.
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