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Did you know that Donald Trump washes his hair with Head & Shoulders?
This tidbit -- along with such details as what's in his wallet, how he doesn't wear pajamas and his claim that he's never smoked a cigarette or done drugs -- are contained in a new Rolling Stone piece with the tongue-in-cheek headline: "Donald Trump Lets His Hair Down."
Trump is likely to decide soon whether he'll run for president next year as a Republican. So he's been getting a lot of ink -- even more so for a real estate developer whose businesses have gone through bankruptcy, hosts a reality TV show and has his name on buildings and casinos.
There's a little too much information in the story, but some highlights:
"I actually don't have a bad hairline," Trump is quoted as saying. "When you think about it, it's not bad. I mean I get a lot of credit for comb-overs. But it's not really a comb-over. It's sort of a little bit forward and back."
Trump also talks about his best orgasm. You have to read the Rolling Stone piece to see what he says about that.
Catalina Camia leads the OnPolitics online community and has been at USA TODAY since 2005. She has been a reporter or editor covering politics and Congress for two decades, including stints at The Dallas Morning News and Congressional Quarterly. Follow her at @USATOnPolitics.
USA TODAY's Jackie Kucinich (@jfkucinich) and Fredreka Schouten (@fschouten) also contribute to the OnPolitics blog.


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Sexual selection in a tropical fruit fly : role of a plant derived chemical in mate choice
Raghu, S. & Clarke, Anthony (2003) Sexual selection in a tropical fruit fly : role of a plant derived chemical in mate choice. Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata, 108(1), pp. 53-58.
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The specific mechanisms by which selective pressures affect individuals are often difficult to resolve. In tephritid fruit flies, males respond strongly and positively to certain plant derived chemicals. Sexual selection by female choice has been hypothesized as the mechanism driving this behaviour in certain species, as females preferentially mate with males that have fed on these chemicals. This hypothesis is, to date, based on studies of only very few species and its generality is largely untested. We tested the hypothesis on different spatial scales (small cage and seminatural field-cage) using the monophagous fruit fly, Bactrocera cacuminata. This species is known to respond to methyl eugenol (ME), a chemical found in many plant species and one upon which previous studies have focused. Contrary to expectation, no obvious female choice was apparent in selecting ME-fed males over unfed males as measured by the number of matings achieved over time, copulation duration, or time of copulation initiation. However, the number of matings achieved by ME-fed males was significantly greater than unfed males 16 and 32 days after exposure to ME in small cages (but not in a field-cage). This delayed advantage suggests that ME may not influence the pheromone system of B. cacuminata but may have other consequences, acting on some other fitness consequence (e.g., enhancement of physiology or survival) of male exposure to these chemicals. We discuss the ecological and evolutionary implications of our findings to explore alternate hypotheses to explain the patterns of response of dacine fruit flies to specific plant-derived chemicals.
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A SEVENTH successive home fixture, their fifth in the league reaped another three points for Mark Hurkett's early Division Three table toppers Westwood News, who kept their 100 per cent start to the season intact thanks to a workmanlike performance which earned them a 4-3 victory over Lacock FC who had started in second.
Not for the first time this season Tom Rooney proved to be the star turn for Westwood and it was thanks to his late goal that Hurkett's side kept their unbeaten start to the season going.
Apart from his hat-trick, the hosts were subdued for much of the game despite taking the lead when Rooney netted his first from 18 yards out to put the leaders ahead.
A disputed penalty saw Lacock level with Stuart Tutty scored from the spot to restore parity.
Rooney's second of the afternoon put Westwood back in front only for Lacock to fashion a second equaliser, this time it was Liam Shipman who found the target to square things up before the interval.
After the break Lacock took the game to Westwood and the deservedly took the lead with substitute Jamie Murphy scoring to put the visitors ahead and the hosts on the back foot.
As Westwood struggled to get back into the game they were handed a lifeline when they were awarded somewhat of a soft penalty which Harry Hamlin dispatched to make it 3-3.
With both sides going for maximum points it was Westwood who prevailed and thanks to man of the moment Rooney they bagged what was the winner six minutes from time.
It saw him complete his second hat trick in as many games, but more importantly for Westwood, it secured them a 4-3 success that keeps them in pole position for a few more weeks at least.
Bradford United Reserves 2 Levi's FC 3
A LATE goal from Jason Povey saw him complete a hat-trick and hand Levi's a 3-2 victory at Bradford United Reserves who, with just seconds left looked as if they would get a point from a game which their efforts deserved.
Jason Povey saw his opener for Levi's cancelled out by Aiden Lane, but thanks to a second from the in-form striker Levi's edged back in front before half time.
Bradford got themselves level thanks to a well taken goal from Will Darley and they looked on course for a share of the spoils until Povey popped up with the winner with virtually the last kick of what was a thrilling end to end game of football.
Bratton Reserves 1 United FC 1 - abandoned after 31 minutes
THE match at Leighton Sports Ground, Westbury between hosts Bratton Reserves and United FC was abandoned after 31 minutes due to United player Lukas Konicek suffering a broken leg.
The game which was nicely posed at one apiece at the time was then held up for 30 minutes until the ambulance arrived to take Konicek to hospital.
Bratton had taken the lead through Shane Rendell who had headed in a Liam Griffiths cross to put Fozu Gharban's side ahead.
United leveled through Krzysztof Kopeck before Konicek suffered his leg break which happened with no Bratton player near him.
Bratton's player's and management team of Gharban and Dave Griffin wish Konicek best wishes and good luck for what they hope will be a speedy recovery.
Trowbridge Rangers 4 Trowbridge Town Reserves 2
A DAN Moore hat-trick helped Trowbridge Rangers overturn a 2-1 half time deficit as they came from behind to beat local rivals Trowbridge Town Reserves 4-2 and pick up their first win in three outings.
Rangers got off to the perfect start and led with just two minutes on the clock, Moore finishing well from 16 yards to give the hosts their lead.
Trowbridge Reserves worked their way back into the game and had a few chances to level before they squared things up on 17 minutes, Mitchell Spackman racing clear an hitting an unstoppable drive from 35 yards for 1-1.
With the Reserves now in the ascendancy only desperate defending from the hosts kept them out until another moment of brilliance this time from Josh Ferguson unlocked the home defence for a second time.
Ferguson jinked past three players before firing home from distance to give the visitors to Whaddon Lane their half-time lead.
The second half was expected to be all Trowbridge Reserves but that wasn't the case as Rangers raised their game and got back on level terms thanks to a second from Moore.
Moore completed his hat-trick and regained the lead for Rangers when he beat veteran keeper Bob Arburry at his near post and the victory was wrapped up when Adam Hatch sent Arburry one way while his shot from 18 yards went the other way.
Trowbridge Reserves finished the game with 10 players after Aaron McCaldon limped of injured with what was later diagnosed as a broken ankle.
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Hi everyone! I'm posting this a little early since I'll be traveling all day tomorrow. So if you have questions, I likely won't get to them until Tuesday. But here is the lesson:
Lesson 2: How Do I Look For An Agent?
Now that you've decided if you want an agent, the question becomes, how do you get one? There are hundreds of literary agents out there who represent romance (though only a certain percentage of those hundreds are actually "good" and not rip-off artists... which we'll get to in another lesson). How do you approach them in a way that will give you the best chance to end up an agented author?
1. The Search:
The Blitz versus the Very Specific List.
The Blitz: The Blitz is just what it sounds like. Take a very large list of potential agents and query them all according to their guidelines, of course). That may mean you'll be sending out 30-40 query letters (or query with synopsis or query with first chapters... guidelines again) at once. What are the benefits of this? Well, you'll cover all your bases at once and you'll have a lot of options. If someone does make you an offer of representation, you'll have a lot of other agents to call who have material.
The Modified Blitz: The Blitz is fine, but I prefer the Modified Blitz. Make a list of all the agents you would consider querying. Then you want to split that list into A, B & C. Your A-list are your dream agents. They represent your favorite bestselling author maybe. They got another author a six figure deal on her second book. Whoever. They are the best of the best agents. Agents we'd all give our eye-teeth to get. Send your queries to them first, in batches of five at a time. If you get a rejection, send out another query to your next A-list agent until you've run out of A-list possibilities.
Your B-List is filled with agents who you'd really like to have. These are agents who have success in your particular subgenre. They may have several recognizable clients, as well as some new and upcoming authors. You may know of them through friends who are represented by them and give them high marks. As you run out of A-list, start querying this B-list, repeating your process from above. Got a rejection? Send out a query or two.
And then there are the C-List. These are agents who you'd like to have. They have good reputations, you haven't heard bad things about them, they've had some success in your subgenre. C-List goes next as rejections come in.
By doing this A, B, C process, you will go through a large stable of agents, but you will give yourself first shot at the agents you want the most first. You will be rewarded with feedback throughout the process that may help you strengthen your query letter or submissions. And the rejections won't all come in all at once.
The Very Specific List: The final way to do your agent search is with the Very Specific List. Perhaps there are only a few agents, less than ten, who you are interested in. Maybe you've had good experience with them during past searches. Maybe they represent a friend who is encouraging you to submit. Maybe you just don't want to spend a lot of time looking for an agent. Whatever the reason, you make your Very Specific List, you send out all your queries at once and you wait. If you don't get an offer from any of them, you move on to editors with the project.
The benefits of this is that you only spend your time on a few agents who you like the most. The disadvantage is that if you are rejected by them all, you may have to go it on your own for that particular project.
2. Where do I look, though?
You may be saying, ok, so now I know how to search, but how do I search for agents who are the best ones? There are tons of iffy agents out there, hanging out a shingle and waiting to take advantage of authors just like me.
How do I make a good list to send material to?
Luckily, with the internet and other sources, you have a lot of information to help you with that very question:
RWA (Romance Writers of America) approved agencies -- Every year, the May issue of the RWR (the RWA monthly trade magazine) releases a list of agencies who are approved by RWA. They are agencies that have represented romance during the last 12 months, made SALES in romance in the last 12 months and don't participate in questionable practices. This
information is also available at the RWA website in the Members Only Section. Please be aware that the information is NOT always up to date so you'll want to double check all your info before you submit. But it's a good place to START your search and get a good base list of agents to query.
The Passionate Pen List -- At my site, The Passionate Pen, I have a list of agents who both have a website and take romance clients. Though not all these agents are RWA-approved or AAR members (more on that a bit later), I have checked them carefully to determine if they are doing legitimate business. You'll want to do the same before you query any.
Once you have a list compiled, big or small, you'll want to double check the agents you've chosen for their legitimacy. Here are some good places to do that:
AAR -- The Association of Author's Representatives is a professional organization for agents. To belong, an agent must follow a certain code of ethics and there's a hefty membership fee. If you go to their website you
can search their database with agent names to see who is a member. I personally dislike their new database, but it gets the job done.
Preditors and Editors -- This website has a listing of agents, agencies and publishing houses and gives recommendations and "not recommended" scores. Though their system isn't perfect, and you probably shouldn't base
your entire opinion of an agent on their site, it is a good reference during your search.
Writing email lists -- Email lists like WOW (Women of Writing), the national RWA lists, Charlotte Dillon's RWCList, and your local RWA chapter are great places to ask about specific agents. If you ask politely and have a modicum of discretion, most of the time people will be pretty honest about their experiences with agents or editors.
Google search -- Google is a great search engine! Type in the agent's name or agency name you are interested in and it will list any occurrence where they are mentioned. This is a good way to find out who the agent you're interested in represents, read papers they've written lately or see what conferences they've been a part of.
To close this second lesson, I'd like to give you my personal tips for The
Great Agent Search. They worked for me and maybe they'll help you:
Pitch to agents first, then publishers. -- Even for single title writers, there are very few mainstream options. If you've pitched your work to a bunch of editors before you start looking for an agent, you've significantly reduced her options for pitching your book. My suggestion would be to pitch to agents first, then if you come up empty, pitch your work to editors yourself. That way you don't end up in a situation where an agent loves your book, but ends up unable to do much with it because you've already tapped out her options.
Have more than one project. -- This is just good advice in general. When you type The End on your first manuscript, Type Chapter One on your second. Because very few people sell their first book (it happens, but it isn't as likely), you'll want to have another option out there. Aside from which, if you pitch book one to an agent and they reject you, but with a glowing rejection, being able to send them another proposal right away is just good business. It keeps your name out there and softens the blow of rejections.
Set a time limit. -- Though they are better than editors most of the time, you aren't going to get an immediate answer from an agent. And since there are so many agents to choose from, it's easy to send your material out to agents and just look for an agent forever, instead of moving to editors where your work can actually sell. My advice? Set a time limit. When you start your search say, "I'm going to send material to agents for six months (or nine months or a year), then I'll pitch to editors." Obviously, if your six month time period ends and you have two agents looking at a full manuscript, you might want to give yourself a little leeway time (because of tip 1), but if you feel like there's nothing on the horizon, put that project out to editors on your own.
Keep track of what you send. -- And not just what book you send, but how much of it, to which agency? To which agent at that agency? And what date. Because you're going to get back form rejections that you'll look at and say "Huh?" And you'll want to follow up if your partial has been on an agents desk for six months, just like with an editor. Having a tracking system of some kind, any kind will help. I have an example of my own tracking system at The Passionate Pen http://www.passionatepen.com/trackitarticle.htm
The Next Lesson: So now I'm ready to query, but how do I do it? Examples of query letters.
Feel free to ask any questions!


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New Round of Palestinian Games (FrontPageMagazine.com) by David Meir-Levi 04/30/12)
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On April 17, Mahmoud Abbas, President of the Palestinian Authority (PA), delivered to Israels Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, a letter listing the PAs demands in anticipation of peace negotiations, demands with which Israel must comply or Abbas will eschew further negotiations and instead seek the full and complete implementation of international law as it pertains to the powers and responsibilities of Israel as occupying power in all of the occupied Palestinian territory. In other words, Abbas will go back to the UN and the International Criminal Court to seek redress against Israels putative criminal activities. Much like an obstreperous child on the playground, Abbas tells Netanyahu that either he play the game according to Abbas rules or Abbas will tell the teacher what a bad boy Israel has been. It would be a comical farce were not so many lives at stake.
Abbas goes on to threaten, albeit obliquely, that because Israel has not played the game according to Abbas demands, he might just go ahead and dissolve the PA, throwing back upon Israel all of the responsibilities for administration in the West Bank: For the Palestinian Authoritynow stripped of all meaningful authoritycannot continue to honor agreements while Israel refuses to even acknowledge its commitments. The P.A. is no longer as was agreed and this situation cannot continue. So in addition to tattling to the teacher, he will also take his ball and go home.
Hopefully, Netanyahu will not be moved by such puerile posturing.
None of this is new. After being rebuffed at the UN last year, Abbas floated informal threats about dismantling the PA, and even took the idea to the Fatah Central Committee (FCC). The FCC supported the idea but no decision was taken. When questioned while in Japan about Yossi Beilins open letter in Foreign Policy magazine on April 4, in which Beilin urged Abbas to carry out his threat to dissolve the PA as a way to express his exasperation with Netanyahus intransigence, Abbas quickly back-tracked and told journalists that The PA is an achievement and we must not dissolve it but strengthen it. But if that were true, why would the FCC support the idea? Perhaps because they know that Abbas has no intention of dissolving the PA.
In order to understand what is going on here, we must recognize the perils to Israel that are implied in both of Abbas threats.
Abbas knows that unlike former U.S. Presidents, Obama has already threatened to withhold a US veto in the UN if a Security Council resolution could create an existential threat to Israel. Abbas second try at the UN might work, especially if this timethe PA demand is pared down to recognition with the status of a non-member state (a big step above the observer status that the PA now has, but below full membership), and especially if Obama wins a second term and no longer needs to worry about losing some of his Jewish vote. Moreover, although the PAs attempt to bring war-crime accusations against Israel at the International Criminal Court ended in failure with the decision that the court had no jurisdiction, as the present writer noted earlier, the chief prosecutor outlined for the PA the directions it could take if it wanted to appeal at a later date. By requesting that the UN petition the court to hear the PA case, or by convincing state members of the court to agree to bring the case to the docket, Abbas could do an end-run around the jurisdiction issue. If the PAs attorneys have the brains that God gave a napkin, they are working on both of these issues now.
So the peril to Israel in Abbas first threat is that Israel may be pilloried in the ICC with a re-run of the Goldstone report, especially if Obama wins a second term.
The other threat may imply even greater danger. Following Israels victory over the 2nd Intifada, PA security forces in the West Bank have for the most part cooperated with the IDF in preventing terrorism, even collaborating at times in the hunt for secret Hamas cells. But if those PA forces were to suddenly cease to exist, if all government apparatus for social services and financial controls were to suddenly disappear, the Palestinian organization most primed and ready to take over would be Hamas; and Hamas would jump at the opportunity. It is perhaps not coincidental that Abbas met late last year with Khaled Meshaal, the political leader of Hamas, to discuss the present situation and the prospects of getting out of it and working out a national strategy for the future.
So what Abbas is really trying to tell Netanyahu is that the terms of his letter are the best deal that Israel can hope to get; and if Netanyahu does not play ball, Abbas will step aside and let Hamas mount the 3rd Intifada from the West Bank and the Gaza Strip at the same time. It would take only a bit of stalling by Abbas to interfere with Israels assumption of these responsibilities, during which time Hamas steps in.
It is likely that Hamas would jump at the opportunity to rule all of Palestine and to launch a multi-front terror war-on-steroids against Israel, precisely because it has been weakened by the loss of its Syrian base due to the Muslim Brotherhoods support of the revolution in Syria, it has lost Irans financial support to competing terror groups in the West Bank and Gaza Strip (such asHizb ut-Tahrir) as punishment for Hamas refusal to support Syrias Assad, and its popularity is in severe decline with its rank-and-file in the Gaza Strip and West Bank due to its lack of sufficient qassam rocket attacks on Israel. So expanded political power and greater latitude to attack Israel is just what Hamas needs to get itself back to its position of primus inter pares amongMuslim terrorist groups.
So what are the real options?
The letter itself is obvious bluster and a postured pretense at peace- making. Some have critiqued it noting that it is full of errors, omissions and outright lies; and it is really nothing more than a rehash of PA demands to which the PA knows Israel cannot accede. As Israeli officials have said in the past, if one agrees to all of the other sides demands in advance of negotiations, then what does one negotiate about? PA officials know this just as well as do Israeli leaders. The letter is not an opening to peace negotiations. In fact, it is, in all probability, not even addressed to Netanyahu.
Israeli media sources received leaks from Palestinian leaders about the content of the letter almost a week in advance of the meeting. Yet the Israeli side wanted to keep details of the meeting secret even up to the day of the meeting. For what audienceswere those leaks, obviously in violation of Israels desire for secrecy, intended?
The same question was asked about Abbas op-ed in the New York Times before his UN bid for recognition. He stated clearly and unabashedly that the entry of Palestine into the family of nations and its acquisition of UN status as a bona fide state would not end the conflict. Rather such status would enable the PA to ratchet up the conflict to a higher level of political warfare by giving the new state of Palestine access to the ICC and ICJ (International Court of Justice) wherein Abbas and complicit partners in evil could support the Palestinian attempts to delegitimize Israel, condemn it as the worlds worst violator of human rights and perpetrator of war crimes, and then pressure Israels allies, especially those in the EU, to disassociate from Israel.
Did Abbas think that such threats endeared him to the EU or reduced the likelihood of American pressure against his bid? More likely, his audience for these comments was not those to whom he spoke, but rather those in the Arab world and their collaborators elsewhere who do not want to see the conflict end until Israel is destroyed. For that audience, Abbas anti-Israel credentials have been eroded by his cooperation with Israel, by his PA security forces collaboration with Israel, and by the relatively terror-free calm of the West Bank since Israels defeat of the 2nd Intifada. His statement to the world of Israel-haters was clear: He is still at it, working with lawfare and BDS and delegitimization and accusations of war crimes, rather than with qassams and suicide bombers; but the end game is the same Palestine from the river to the sea.
And this is probably the case with the letter to Netanyahu. By leaking its contents prematurely, he told his constituency and financial supporters and other partners in evil that he is still in a better position than Hamas to bring about Israels demise, despite his temporary setbacks at the UN and ICC. (Copyright © 2012 FrontPageMagazine.com 04/30/12)
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Jay Goltz posed this question and receive definitions all over the place on the New York Times You're the Boss Blog.
This is a subject that is repeatedly coming up in Academia and in Business. Frankly no one really has definition of Social Entrepreneurship that most people can agree upon.
Rutgers University, several months ago, ran a symposium just on this subject. The purpose of the conference was to develop a definition for a Social Entrepreneur and prepare guidelines for a Social Entrepreneurial venture. There were no conclusions.
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Hey there, time traveller!
This article was published 27/6/2013 (1491 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
Penguins sign Kunitz to three-year extension
PITTSBURGH -- Sidney Crosby will keep at least one linemate around for the long haul.
The Pittsburgh Penguins and forward Chris Kunitz agreed to a three-year contract extension on Thursday that could keep him playing alongside Crosby until the 2016-17 season.
General manager Ray Shero says the new deal, which begins in 2014-15, will carry an annual salary cap hit of $3.85 million.
The 33-year-old Kunitz has flourished since the Penguins acquired him from Anaheim in February 2009. Splitting time between Crosby and Malkin's lines this season, Kunitz led the Penguins with 22 goals and finished second on the team with 52 points.
Avs, Flames deal
CALGARY -- The Calgary Flames have sent left-winger Alex Tanguay and defenceman Cory Sarich to Colorado in exchange for right-winger David Jones and defenceman Shane O'Brien.
The 33-year-old Tanguay returns to the team that drafted him 12th overall in 1998. He scored a career-high 29 goals for the Avalanche in the 2005-06 season.
Hossa may need surgery
CHICAGO -- In the aftermath of the Chicago Blackhawks' Stanley Cup championship, more information about players' injuries during the postseason run are coming to light.
The most serious of the injured is veteran winger Marian Hossa, who said Thursday he might need surgery to repair a disc in his back. Hossa played Games 4-6 against the Boston Bruins with his right foot numb and was limited on the ice. Hossa underwent an MRI and was discussing options with team doctors and training staff.
"When I saw (head trainer) Mike Gapski, he said it's not great," Hossa said. "It's not the best. I may need the surgery but also I may need just a shot."
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Beautifully kept example of the popular Hatteras 50' Convertible, fully fish-rigged but mostly cruised in the Chesapeake Bay. You will not find many "deferred maintenance" issues with this one! This yacht was sold new by Bluewater Yacht Sales, and has lived on-site for the majority of her life. To say that she has received the best of care is an under-statement! "White Mist" has the preferred 3-stateroom, 2-head layout with galley up. Powered by 870hp Detroit Diesels 12V71's with after-market single-lever electronic controls, she will easily cruise 26 knots in almost any sea condition. In the last 10 years, this yacht has received multiple upgrades that include: new electronics (see full specs for list), new entertainment system (flat screen TVs, DVD, and SAT TV), new carpeting throughout, new Amtico wood floor in galley and heads (2015), new upholstery in salon (2015), and a new reverse-cycle air conditioning system. On the exterior, she has a new 4-sided enclosure, new canvas awning over the forward end of the cockpit, and is constantly detailed and waxed. Fighting chair is perfect, and is being stored in Owner's garage until sold. This yacht shows extremely well, and should be compared to a much newer model!! This is one of those truly "special boats" that must be seen to be fully appreciated. To find one of this vintage that is in this condition is next to impossible. ***Boat comes with a tremendous amount of new and reconditioned spare parts- inventory too long to list here (priming pumps, switches, duck valves, you name it...).
See "Full Specs" for more details on her recent upgrades.
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"White Mist" has the preferred 3-staterom, 2-head with galley-up arrangement. Entering the salon from the cockpit, it is immediately apparent that this yacht has always received the best of care and has been kept up-dated with new carpeting, new wall coverings, new soft goods, and new entertainment equipment. To starboard aft is the roomy and inviting L-shaped sofa with decorative coffee table. Forward to starboard is the large U-shaped galley. Across from the galley is the dinette and new entertainment center.
Down the companionway steps leading forward, the master stateroom is to starboard. This stateroom features a centerline queen berth with storage beneath, large hanging locker, bedside tables, dedicated air conditioning/heat, drawer storage, new 15" flat screen TV, and a large ensuite head with stall shower and vanity. Across to port is the guest stateroom. This "3rd" stateroom includes over/under berths, large hanging locker, drawer storage, and air conditioning vent. All the way forward is the VIP stateroom. The VIP could easily be mistaken for the master, as it is quite large. The space includes a centerline queen berth with storage beneath, overhead hatch, hanging lockers, drawer storage, dedicated air conditioning/heat (also services the bunk room), full size (new) over/under washer and dryer, and private access to the guest head which is located between the two guest staterooms. The guest head, which also serves as the day head, also has a separate stall shower and vanity.
"White Mist" is fully rigged and ready to cruise or fish. She has an excellent electronics package which includes the following:
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Using an incentive wage program, Carolina Precast Concrete Inc., Dunn, N.C., has found a way to increase production and decrease overtime wages in one category of its products. Company president Bob Hill started by dividing products into four categories and then assigning each catgory a dollar-per-cubic-yard value. Each worker is paid his regular hourly rate, but if his wages for the week are less than what he would net from the products he's manufactured, he receives the difference in his wages versus the value of his cubic yards poured as a bonus. If the crews' wages are in excess of the cubic yards poured they still receive their regular wages. The program has increased production and decreased overtime with no loss in quality.
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Tom Ford is no longer a London resident, as he's sold his Mayfair home for what can only be assumed a tidy sum. The American fashion designer and Oscar-nominated film director is reportedly looking for new digs in the South Kensington area, but won't be in any apparent hurry, as he can always take rest at homes in Paris, New York or New Mexico. Check out these shots of Ford's swanky pad, and if you're not its lucky new owner, you can rest easy knowing that it most likely took at least eight figures to sign on the dotted line.
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Anybody have a list of raffle winners?
tried to contact Jon but messaging cant be accessed. I won a set of umnitza DDE and my ballast went out. Since I don't have a receipt they wont warranty it. They said they might do it if i show them my name on a winners list, can anybody help me? My name is Gino Villanueva
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Neo-Volcánica, Cordillera
Spanish"Neo-Volcanic Axis"
also called
Eje Volcánico
(Spanish: "Volcanic Axis"), volcanic mountain range
relatively young range of active and dormant volcanoes
traversing central Mexico from Cape Corrientes on the west coast, southeast to Jalapa and Veracruz on the east coast. The
nation's cultural–historical centre, the Cordillera
forms the southern boundary of Mexico's Mesa Central and
contains such
includes the
volcanic peaks
as Citlaltépetl (Orizaba;
of Pico de Orizaba (
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Iztaccíhuatl (
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. The mountains enclose numerous basins and plateaus. The
, and Colima (13,451 feet [4,100 metres]). Many of its valleys and basins are used for commercial agriculture, and the
temperate climate and rich volcanic soil
, protected by the surrounding peaks, became the locus of the Aztec civilization in the 13th century. The Aztecs built Tenochtitlán, their capital city, on the islands of Lake Texcoco. When Hernán Cortés destroyed the city in 1521, he established Mexico City on the same site. It rapidly became the economic, industrial, and political centre of Mexico, and by the late 20th century it had over 9,800,000 residents. The
of several larger basins have sustained large populations. The
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South Australia's Treasurer Kevin Foley says he will quit politics at the next election – but his exit might be much sooner.
"I won't be contesting the next election," Mr Foley told reporters in Adelaide on Monday, according to the Adelaidenow website.
The deputy premier recently pledged to be on the first bus out of Victoria Square if his colleagues asked him to go so his announcement has prompted intense speculation that call had finally come.
However, Mr Foley, who is about to leave on a three-week trip to the US, told journalists no one had tapped him on the shoulder.
"I will remain the Defence Industries Minister and that is the exact nature of this trip," he said.
"I am not saying anything about my future.
"I won't be contesting the next election and for Labor to have a strong focus maintained on financial management, a treasurer who will be arguing the case for Labor's re-election needs to be somebody who is experienced in this job for a reasonable period of time."
Premier Mike Rann has not commented directly on the speculation but says Mr Foley will make up his own mind about when to go.
"Kevin is going to make up his own mind ... he's got my support to do that ... he's got the support of a lot of others," Mr Rann said.
"I want Kevin to stay on, certainly want him to stay on in cabinet ... he's made a big contribution."
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Ringwood won yesterday's semi-final against Sunbury by one shot, gaining promotion to the premier division next season as the first of the grand finalists from division one.
It's the first time in its 75-year history it has made it to the elite competition, but it didn't come easily.
Ringwood had blazed away to a 50-25 lead by the 40th end and looked unstoppable until Sunbury's Robert Brown started to steal back the 12-shot lead from Mike Szabo's rink.
Brown got the 12 shots and a few more to take the rink honours by three shots. The match boiled down to the 100th and last end winner of the rinks skipped by Ringwood's Peter Jolley and Sunbury's Chris Jardine with the scoreboard reading 89-89. Ringwood's Ken Walker won the lead contest against Michael Vesikko to hold shot. Sunbury's third, Luke Thornton, turned his own bowl in for a certain shot and the match if it held.
His opponent Ron Davey ran the jack offline for Ringwood's shot, but there was 30 centimetres for Jardine to draw, but he was too heavy and wide.
Ringwood's Jolley then drew the jack-high 20 centimetres wide.
With the crowd spilling onto the green, Chris Jardine delivered a bowl that rubbed through two short front bowls, but stopped an agonising 10 centimetres short.
The win put Ringwood into the grand final at Clayton, and Sunbury back at Richmond Union next Saturday to play MCC, which ended the youthful Hampton team's dreams of reaching the premier division with a 12-shot win. MCC was always in front, always being challenged, but always in control.
Hampton kept chasing but could never get closer than six in the run home. Ian Smith was MCC's major winner taking his match against Steve Moore 32-18, and Hampton's Brendan McCallum beat Norm Whitehead 17-28.
In the premier division semi-finals at Glenroy, the star was Melbourne's Russell Green jnr who led his rink and the club into the grand final with a top performance over the last 11 ends, turning the match from seven-down at the break to a five-shot win.
Yarraville-Footscray tipped out Bundoora with tenacious wins from two of its rinks after being down by 15 shots shortly after the break. Bundoora fought back but could not find the magic.
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Tokyo (AFP) June 08, 2013
Japan's prime minister is expected to sign a nuclear cooperation deal with the Czech Republic this month, a report said Saturday, as Tokyo looks to build up its exports of the technology.
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Czech President Milos Zeman have all but agreed to sign a memorandum of understanding on mutual nuclear technology cooperation when they meet in Poland on June 16, the Nikkei business daily said.
Nuclear power has been a sensitive issue in Japan since a quake and tsunami wiped out the Fukushima atomic plant in 2011, sparking the world's worst nuclear disaster in 25 years, but Abe has been keen to promote the industry since taking office in December.
The memorandum is expected to include a statement that the Czech Republic will use Japanese nuclear technology.
It will also make US nuclear plant builder Westinghouse Electric, a unit of Japan's Toshiba Corp., the top candidate to win a $10 billion contract to build two nuclear reactors in the Central European country, the daily said.
Abe is due to meet the leaders of Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary in Poland while on his way to the June 17-18 Group-of-Eight summit in Northern Ireland, the Nikkei added.
The Czech nuclear project entails adding a third and fourth reactor to the Temelin nuclear power station in South Bohemia.
Czech national power producer CEZ AS is looking to start operating the new reactors in 2020 or later.
The report said that Westinghouse's proposal had received the highest evaluation in a pre-screening process.
Japan has stepped up efforts to export its nuclear technology since Abe's conservative Liberal Democratic Party won a landslide election in December, toppling the centre-left Democratic Party.
The Democrats had been reluctant to restart nuclear power plants and continue with nuclear technology exports after the Fukushima disaster.
In May, Japan and Turkey signed a deal to build a sprawling nuclear power plant on Turkey's Black Sea coast. Japan also signed a nuclear cooperation deal with the United Arab Emirates.
Tokyo has also agreed with India to accelerate talks on civil nuclear cooperation.
After talks in Tokyo on Friday, Abe and French President Francois Hollande said they would cooperate in developing nuclear power technologies and promoting the sector's exports to emerging economies.
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Pete Wentz hearts his new father-in-law, Jessica Simpson reminded she'll never reproduce
The whole Simpson crew partied at the grand opening of the Palm Place Hotel & Spa in Vegas where their new douche-in-law Pete Wentz DJ'd the event. Pete wanted to make sure everyone know that he's fallen hard for Joe Simpson. Hard enough to play some Huey Lewis & The News which technically makes them married in the state of Vermont. I have no actual data to back that up. People reports:
Playing "Power of Love," Wentz said into the microphone, "This is dedicated to my father in law Joe Simpson. I definitely have the power of love for you."
He later dedicated a song to his "baby momma," who was sitting in VIP with her mom drinking water.
And speaking of his "baby momma," Ashlee Simpson officially announced the cancellation of her summer tour. So, condolences to the five people who bought tickets:
"After careful consideration, Ashlee Simpson has decided to postpone her summer tour," the singer's publicist said in a statement Saturday. "She is committed to giving her fans the best show possible, and will be back better than ever and ready to rock in the future."
When I mentioned the whole Simpson crew was present, I, of course, meant Jessica as well who was bombarded by fans asking her to hold their babies. I imagine these photo sessions went a little something a like this: "Oh's y'all, it's Jessica SImpson, y'all. Oh, I just loves y'all. Holds my baby, y'all. I know, y'all, it must be tough, y'all, not having your own baby y'all. Smile for the camera, dear. Oh, y'all, that Tony Romo cheating on you y'all. Smile for Gramma, cutie. Y'alls being dumb as a hammer y'all. Hang in there y'all. Always adopt y'all. God bless y'all. Ooh, let's play Keno, y'all. I hope they have a y'all buffet y'all." It's almost like you're there, isn't it? Yeah, uh, my bad. Gotta stop doing that….


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Have a Tax Question? Ask a Tax Expert
Loss on a sale to a related party (such as your daughter) is not allowed to be claimed. Selling to her for less than you paid will not give you any allowed loss on your return, sorry.
For more information, see for example http://www.csa-accounting.com/Ace/Articles/Relatedpartysales.htm
So, it really does not matter for tax purposes what the sales price is on the home since in either case the amount that would be a loss to you is, basically, deemed to be a gift to her.
Since the advice from the mortgage company is to use the lesser sales price and there is no difference from a tax perspective that seems to be the best course of action.
The difference between the 120,000 sales price and the fair market value of the home at the time of sale is a gift that will be reported (if it is more than the annual exclusion amount of $14,000) and that difference will reduce your lifetime allowed gift prior to having to pay gift tax but no tax will due with that gift tax for the year of the gift.
Sorry if this is not the answer you wished or expected but those are the rules.
Please ask if you would like more discussion or you need clarification.
Thank you.
I feel like i'm getting a yes answer to what conflicting recommendations were getting from mortgage company.
There has to be a difference in how it would be handled, taxwise, is selling price ins$160k (market value and what we paid for it) and $120K (below market value).. if sell at 120k, why would the loss on sale automatically be considered a gift to her? Why does the difference between the market value and sale price, have to be reported? I don't understand that instead of loss on investment
Hello again,
You are getting the tax rules from me regarding sale to a related party. The mortgage company is also using those rules. So, there is indeed some agreement.
As mentioned, and as the linked article discusses, if it were possible for me to sell my assets to family members and claim that loss for tax purposes then all of us would just keep selling assets back and forth to be able to generate losses and reduce our tax due.
Related party sales are not allowed to be claimed as a loss because of the potential for abuse. From the IRS publication at thhttp://www.irs.gov/publications/p17/ch14.html#en_US_2012_publink1000172296
"Losses on sales or trades of property.
You cannot deduct a loss on the sale or trade of property, other than a distribution in complete liquidation of a corporation, if the transaction is directly or indirectly between you and the following related parties.
Members of your family. This includes only your brothers and sisters, half-brothers and half-sisters, spouse, ancestors (parents, grandparents, etc.), and lineal descendants (children, grandchildren, etc.).
A partnership in which you directly or indirectly own more than 50% of the capital interest or the profits interest.
A corporation in which you directly or indirectly own more than 50% in value of the outstanding stock.
A tax-exempt charitable or educational organization directly or indirectly controlled, in any manner or by any method, by you or by a member of your family, whether or not this control is legally enforceable. "
No loss is allowed on sale to a related party. Whether to sell at cost or below cost to a related party there is no gain and no loss. If you sell at a gain that gain is taxable, but it is usually at the ordinary and not the reduced capital gain rates.
Similarly, if I transfer an asset for less than fair market value it must be reported as a gift. Otherwise, rather than giving cash I could just give assets that are later resold by the person getting the gift for less than value and the gift tax would be avoided.
There are some strategies that use owner financing to sell property to a family member at full value and avoid the issue of reporting the difference as a gift. For example see the article at https://www.usaa.idmanagedsolutions.com/news/story?id=18 section called "Full-Price Sale With Seller Financing"
Also it may be possible for a married couple to each give 14,000 for an annual exclusion of 28,000 that will not be a reportable or taxable gift. Another expert assisted to comment on our discussion that "The wife (or husband) are each entitled to give $14,000. or one spouse can join in the gift of the other to get to the 28,000. if only one spouse holds title to the property."
Hope this helps to clarify the reason for these rules on sales to family and gifts.
Please continue to ask if you need more help or discussion.
Thank you.
I replied but have not received an answer.
I have received two different methods of handling from two different mortgage companies: one said purchase price should be 120k, other said purchase price should be 160k (market value) with a gift of 40k that would make the loan only 120k.
IF set price at 120k, won't that cause her to have an additional capital gains of 40k that she'll have to pay taxes on, rather than if purchase price is 160k?
Not trying to be difficult, you answer just assumed one recommendation from mortgage company and that is not the case.
No problem, we can cover the rules for both those cases. Sorry if there was problem with an earlier reply not coming through.
When there is a gift the recipient uses the donor's basis as their own basis when figuring gain or loss (basically).
So, whether there was a cost to me of 160 or a cost of 120 and a gift of 40 in either case my basis for gain will be 160 if I sell the property for more than 160 in the future.
This may help to understand why the donor does not claim a loss since the property and the basis in the property are both transferred with the gift (leaving no basis for loss by the donor). That is also part of why the gift is potentially reportable when more than the annual exclusion amount.
There is no difference or additional possible gain using either purchase price, 120 with gift of 40 or 160 when later sold for more than the value when acquired.
The rules for basis of a gift are a but different if the sales price was later less than 160. For more details please see http://www.irs.gov/Help-&-Resources/Tools-&-FAQs/FAQs-for-Individuals/Frequently-Asked-Tax-Questions-&-Answers/Capital-Gains,-Losses,-Sale-of-Home/Property-(Basis,-Sale-of-Home,-etc.)/Property-(Basis,-Sale-of-Home,-etc.)
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by Karl Utermohlen | February 24, 2014 4:22 pm
Netflix (NFLX[1]) fans will be thrilled to hear that there are 24 new Netflix releases coming out next month.
[2]February has been a great month for movie buffs as 20 new movies[3] were made available this month. However, Netflix is looking to up its game in March by adding 24 movies[4] including several Oscar nominees.
From American Hustle to the new Hunger Games movie, click on the next slide to see what Netflix has to offer in March.
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Photos of Lauren Conrad With Kyle Howard at Crown Bar
Lauren Takes Her Hairy Man to Crown Bar
Lauren Conrad did her best to weave through the crowd outside of Crown Bar in LA last night with a bearded Kyle Howard. This week on The Hills, Audrina apologized to LC about the Justin Bobby drama, but the attitude on her blog post seemed a little bitter. It doesn't sound like everything is completely patched up between the two girls just yet, but now that the show's gossip has turned to Heidi and Spencer's bikini honeymoon, maybe LC and Audrina can quietly continue to work on their friendship.


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Slowness And Sensibility
"The Untouchables have no Press. The Congress Press is closed to them and is determined not to give them the slightest publicity. They cannot have their own Press and for obvious reasons."
—B.R. Ambedkar, 1945
When I was first alerted to Shankar's cartoon on 10 April, it struck me like a whiplash. I am no teacher, nor do I have children of my own; and textbooks are a distant, oppressive memory. In the English-medium textbooks I grew up on in Andhra Pradesh, forget Ambedkar, caste was rarely mentioned. Like most privileged Indians, I was to discover all this shamefully belatedly in life.
When a reporter from a national newsmagazine called me for a 'quote' on the cartoon row, I asked her if she even knew where Ambedkar was born. Silence. One leading cartoonist-columnist, Ravi Shanker Etteth, refers to Balasaheb where he means Babasaheb: "An opportunistic Dalit politician takes a 1949 cartoon drawn by Shankar on Balasaheb Ambedkar as an excuse to whip up the backward vote bank" (19 May 2012, The Sunday Standard). Our textbooks don't tell students that Ambedkar, unlike Gandhi, did not have to travel abroad to realize what it meant to be thrown out of a train; and that after having earned a PhD from Columbia University he had to hide his identity to rent an inn in Baroda, and was kicked out when discovered. Dandi, yes; but neither teachers nor students are aware of the momentous Ambedkar-led civil rights struggle for water in Mahad in 1927; most newspaper editors wouldn't be able to name the four newspapers Ambedkar edited and published. Any small-town Dalit activist would know all this. Forget our MPs, the non-Dalit intellectual classes' collective ignorance of Ambedkar seems pathological.
My concern over the cartoon in the NCERT Class XI Political Science textbook, Indian Constitution at Work, is how would children and teachers in a classroom read it in a society where caste prejudices and stereotypes are still rampant. Given the general hostility towards Dalits and those from socially disadvantaged backgrounds entering elite English-medium schools—as witnessed in the near-racist opposition to the idea of including the poor (read 'lower' caste) in rich people's private schools through the Right to Education Act—my fears are about how the largely upper-caste teaching community (who handle NCERT textbooks in English) would frame the cartoon. A year ago the principal of Delhi's elite Shri Ram School, Manika Sharma, was quoted in Wall Street Journal (4 June 2011) as saying she was "horrified" and "jolted" when the floor-sweeper from her home enrolled her child in the school where Sharma is the principal. When saying, "I can't sit across the table from someone who sweeps my floors," she was just brazenly vocalizing the fear of millions of well-off Indians who think the 'outcastes' should only serve, stand and wait. And remain locked up when you holiday in Thailand.
Now, how would Manika Sharma or students trained by her read this cartoon? How would their reading potentially impact the self-confidence and self-worth of the 25 percent—children of sweepers, shoemakers, drivers, dhobis and vegetable vendors—being coaxed into these elite bastions by the RTE Act? Suppose there was just the odd Dalit student in a classroom, what are the chances of her different reading of the Shankar cartoon getting a hearing from Sharma-type principals? She would likely be shouted down just like voices from the Dalit movement are being booed at by self-righteous upholders of 'freedom of expression'—a term as carelessly bandied as 'merit' was used to attack reservation.
A snail moves tardily and a rotund Ambedkar seems to be slowing it down further. Slowness is something 'undeserving' 'quota' students are routinely accused of. In fact, a graphic novelist who has done a book on the Emergency, said in a Facebook post,
"Everyone's asking: It's been there in the book for 6 years. What took you so long?"
Apparently Dalits are 'slow' to even realise an insult.
Ambedkar's whip is limp; while Nehru's is taut—after all, the latter's the ramrod-erect national patriarch. Ambedkar cuts a sorry figure. Yes, the chapter in question discusses Ambedkar's crucial role several times, yet stops short of mentioning how and why his favourite project, the Hindu Code Bill that gave the rights to divorce and property to women, was defeated both in the Constituent Assembly and later in parliament when Ambedkar was law minister in Nehru's cabinet. While resigning as law minister in disgust, he had said,
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But can we expect one textbook to do everything?
Images and symbols tend to have a stronger and more lasting impact than words. Almost every conscientised Dalit has a picture of Ambedkar in his/her house; they are familiar with his trials and tribulations; the more educated Dalits keenly engage with his key works. Ambedkar is a rallying point, a symbol of hope, of possibilities of exit from the morass of caste. In contrast, finding a picture or work of Ambedkar in an average non-Dalit household would be as rare as finding beef cooked with asafoetida—unlike Dalits, the brahmanical classes have little to gain by embracing Ambedkar's anticaste ideas. Upper-class feminists don't really own up Ambedkar as their 'liberator' despite Dalit feminists highlighting him as an icon of women's liberation, which he was. Brahmin historians writing about beef forget to cite Ambedkar.
Let us not forget that as recently as 2006, at the height of media-fuelled anti-Mandal II mania, students at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences burnt Ambedkar's books in the hostel corridor, made vulgar gestures, shot a video of this, and circulated a CD among fellow students during their annual cultural festival, 'Pulse'. These arrogant and ignorant students would not long ago have been in Class XI or XII taught by some Ms Sharma.
It is understandable how political parties across party lines use this occasion to shower a patently false love for Ambedkar and his iconic status but remain silent about the recent judgement in the 1996 Bathani Tola massacre of 21 Dalits, where all the 23 accused were acquitted. But that shouldn't rankle us much. We live in a country where justice for real crimes is elusive, even impossible; a country where it is far easier to win 'justice' for symbolic crimes. While justice in the 2006 Khairlanji carnage seems structurally impossible, retribution for the symbolic desecration of Ambedkar becomes easier. And when Dalits are forced to take solace only in symbols, who is to be blamed? Hence Mayawati's heavy investment in symbols.
What rankles is how liberal and even left intellectuals, who claim to be fellow-travellers of Dalits, have imposed moral pressure on Dalits and Dalit intellectuals to come out and stand in support of retaining the textbook in all its sanctity. Dalits have been portrayed both in the big media and alternative media such as the blog Kafila as 'emotional-devotional' fanatics, who lose all 'rationalism'—something non-Dalits gleefully point out Ambedkar stood for. What incapacitates non-Dalits from getting emotional about Ambedkar?
I recall ribbing my friend and cartoonist at The Hindu, Surendra, who had the tendency to show his 'common man' seated, reading the newspaper or watching TV, and the woman of the house always serving tea or coffee, standing. He was unwittingly reinforcing gender stereotypes that R.K. Laxman and Shankar had perpetuated; stereotypes that, it could be argued, reflect reality. What if one such cartoon should find its way into textbooks? Should we not seek amends so that children are not fed stereotypes of gendered division of labour?
What makes us think Shankar, Laxman, Surendra, Ajit Ninan or E.P. Unny are beyond prejudices that the Dalit-free media they work for and the society they are part of are saturated with? Here's the late human rights activist and commentator K. Balagopal on a 1990 cartoon in India Today:
"The picture shows [V.P.] Singh and a bunch of Scheduled Caste (SC), Scheduled Tribe (ST) and BC men and women happily lolling in a sea-borne ship with three flags indicating the three categories hoisted on the deck, grinning cruelly at the Forward Caste students, who are sinking all around with their degree certificates held high. It is difficult to imagine a more atrocious caricature of reality, which is almost exactly the opposite, notwithstanding all the laments you hear about quotas."
This was at the height of Mandal-I when many such offensive cartoons flooded the print media. What if this very India Today cartoon were to be used in a textbook to explain the Mandal Commission? Should we say it's a matter of freedom of expression? It's one thing for a newspaper/magazine to feature such a cartoon and quite another for it to be re-used in a textbook.
This is just one part of the story. What has been lost sight of in this debate is an engagement with what the textbook actually sets out to do. On reading it, I realized it was radical in many ways and how it would be unwise to throw the baby out with the bathwater and the sink. Let me highlight some of its salient features. This is a textbook that uses the word Dalit several times unapologetically. This seems a first, given that as recently as in 2008 the Haryana government ordered a ban on the use of the word Dalit interchangeably with Scheduled Caste in all official parlance.
Here's a passage from the textbook that would have made Ambedkar proud.
"As early as 1841, it was noticed that the Dalit people of northern India were not afraid to use the newly introduced legal system and bring suits against their landlords. So, this new instrument of modern law was effectively adopted by the people to address questions of dignity and justice."
In the last chapter, the textbook proffers another strong opinion:
"Is it a coincidence that the central square of every other small town has a statue of Dr. Ambedkar with a copy of the Indian Constitution? Far from being a mere symbolic tribute to him, this expresses the feeling among Dalits that the Constitution reflects many of their aspirations."
Only Dalit aspirations? For now, we shall let that be.
Earlier, Chapter 2 asks its young adult readers to imagine a scenario where one Swadesh Kumar visits his village with his friend. At a roadside hotel when they order tea, the shopkeeper asks Swadesh Kumar's friend's name and after ascertaining his caste serves him tea in a an 'earthen mug' while Swadesh is served in a 'nice mug'. The textbook writers ask the students to reflect on whether they think this involves a 'violation of fundamental rights'.
In another scenario, the textbook makes students imagine that they receive a postcard from Hadibandhu, a 'member of the Dalit community' in Puri district in Orissa. Men from this community refused to follow a custom that required them to wash the feet of the groom and guests of the 'upper caste' during marriage ceremonies. In revenge, four women from this community are beaten up and another is paraded naked. The postcard writer says:
"Our children are educated and they are not willing to do the customary job of washing the feet of upper caste men, clear the leftovers after the marriage feast and wash the utensils."
Then the critical pedagogical import is driven home:
"Assuming that the facts given above are correct, you have to decide: Does this case involve violation of Fundamental Rights? What would you order the government to do in this case?"
Another exercise tells students that caste groups previously associated with scavenging are forced to continue in this job and that those in positions of authority refuse to give them any other job. Their children are discouraged from pursuing education. Students are asked which of their Fundamental Rights are being violated.
Not just this, the textbook boldly underscores the limitations of the first-past-the-post (FPTP) electoral system and how this may benefit majority communities at the expense of social and religious minorities. And then it says unambiguously,
"The proportion of Muslims in the population of India is about 13.5 per cent. But the number of Muslim MPs in the Lok Sabha has usually been less than 6 per cent, less than half of their share in population. A similar situation prevails in most State Assemblies."
It explains proportional representation (PR) and earlier debates about separate electorates, and sows further doubts in the minds of the student-readers when it concludes,
"the FPTP electoral system can mean that the dominant social groups and castes can win everywhere and the oppressed social groups may continue to remain unrepresented."
Who is to take credit for the new radical language this textbook speaks? Of course the Dalit movement and post-Mandal consolidation of OBC interests, which have created enough intellectual, social and political pressure to warrant these long-overdue changes. The textbook ends with a 'request for feedback' and asks readers to suggest 'changes you would like to see in the next version of this book'. Clearly, they would not be averse to rethinking one cartoon that to many seems to paint a poor picture of Ambedkar? Or may be include a counter-cartoon? We could also ask the textbook committee to consider informing students about Mahad, about Ambedkar the newspaper-editor, and tell them how and why Nehru's Congress ensured that Ambedkar could never get elected to the Lok Sabha.
But first we need to acknowledge that neither the textbook nor Ambedkar is above criticism. An online petition called 'In Defence of Critical Pedagogy' signed by academic luminaries—mostly with upper-caste sounding surnames—seems to treat the textbook in question like a sacred text, as if it were the Bhagvad Gita that statues of Gandhi show him holding. If the Ambedkar-conceived Constitution can be amended 97 times in 62 years, can't a textbook, which has to be treated as a work-in-progress, be amended? Suhas Palshikar and Yogendra Yadav, the capable advisers to NCERT who resigned petulantly without even debating the issue, should be brought back on the NCERT board; they only need to place their ears closer to the ground.
Till such time, we can live with this textbook, celebrate its triumphs, and enjoy Unnamati Syama Sundar's fitting riposte to Shankar.
A shorter version of this article first appeared in The Indian Express on 24 May 2012. Anand is the coauthor of Bhimayana, the graphic biography of Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar, and publisher of Navayana. Syama Sundar is a cartoonist and researcher in Jawaharlal Nehru University. His M.Phil in 2009 was on Telugu cartoons in colonial India.)
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Excellent Article by S.Anand, infact its just a continuation of his enlightening articles on various human right issues of deprived section of society...
Though banning a cartoon is wrong but updating it with Shyam sunder's cartoon is the real truimp of democracy...............
Rest of the castist critics only answer would be
Why then do the caste Hindus get irritated? The reason for their anger is very simple. Your behavior with them on a par insults them. Your status is low. You are impure, you must remain at the lowest rung; then alone they will allow you to live happily. The moment you cross your level, the struggle starts.
Meena Kandasami, Kancha Illiah represents the struggle of the Bahujans.Oct 17, 2012 05:54 PM , ,
Many, if not all, have no idea how caste hurts those who stand in the lowest end of the hierarchy. The Columbia University wanted to create in 2004 an endowed Chair after Dr. B. R. Ambedkar in recognition of his contribution to the Indian nation as the Chairman of the Drafting Committe of our Constitution. The New York Times 24 October 2004 reports the that proposal was resisted by "upper caste Hindus" in the Academic Committee. I don't have to elaborate what is there in store for the African-Americans if our 'uper castes' have more free hand and have their way there. Finally, the chair has been created in 2011 along with two Fellowships named after Prof. Jagdish Bhawati. Now it is clear who are the upper caste Hindus to sabotage the Ambedkar chair. By the way, government of India will meet cost of the chair as well as fellowships.
Let me share my personal experience. I was in Calcutta in mid-1980s on deputation in a Council with 10 employess under Government of India. The Council comprising representatives of different stake holders used to advice and formulate policies for the office to implement. I was to recruit few group C & D employees. Initiatives were taken for the same as per rule having due regard for reservation in this behalf. Only the sweeper was a dalit, the rest belonged to upper castes only.
A member of the council, [a Brahman] one day came to my office and wanted me to employ his own men, many of whom were already there to grace the council as employees before I joined. I politely pointed out to him that I would go by the extant rules not exclusing reservation. He flared up and told me out of context, "I know you are a Chandal............"
Nobody would understand my feelings next 10-15 days. Never in my life I have ever been humiliated as such. I was recruited by the UPSC in the top administrative service of the country. [I withhold the name of my service] The hatred and prejudice against the untouchables in India is sky high. Nothing can safeguard their dignity.
May 30, 2012 10:17 PM Adalit Speaks, NOIDA, India
PLEASE SPREAD THIS MESSAGE LOUDLY, WHENEVER YOU SEE THEM SPEWING HATRED.May 30, 2012 09:41 AM , ,
Less said about the hate merchant called Meena Bandasamy, the better ! Sometime back there were some initiatives in some IITs to undertake extra tuitions for students from disadvantaged sections in the evenings, including some classes on training on etiquette. Any normal person would welcome such an initiative. But this jaundice-affected pea brain, who has the knack to see humiliation/disrespect in any and everything, posted on her FB wall to the effect "Earlier they humiliated us by conducting extra classes, now they say we lack in social etiquette too". Dont know what worth Outlook sees in her rabid writings to publish them in their "esteemed" mag ! BTW, we see only Mishras,Joshis, Mehtas, Iyengars, Reddys, Rajus and other upper caste journalists/writers in Outlook. Time to mend its selection criteria to include atleast few journalists from backward classes too. Charity perhaps should begin at home. No ? Or they can only be relegated to occassional writing which appear once ina blue moon on outlook.
May 27, 2012 12:11 PM , ,
SS Nagaraj >> Mr Shandilya @13D,Thanks for your comment that Ambedkar took the name of his Brahmin teacher as agratitude.Whereas the Hindu Maharaja of Baroda(or,was it Kolhapur?) financially helped Ambedkar,the Nizam of Hyderabad offered to help him only on the condition of his embracing Islam
You are absolutely right. Ambedkar was unhappy with the condition of dalits in India but he was a very humane and rational person and did not peddle hatred against any caste (brahmins or others) and he was really a wonderful gentleman. But the same cannot be said of his so called followers who write in Outlook. S Anand, or Kancha Ilaiah or Meena Kandaswamy are not followers of Ambedkar or well wishers of dalit community, they should be more aptly called as professional rabble rousers.May 27, 2012 09:13 AM , ,
Looking at Anand's picture on the home page, he looks like a retard in an asylum.May 26, 2012 09:59 PM , ,
Another hate manger fascist let loose by Hindu hating pseudo secular clever by half OutlookMay 26, 2012 06:32 PM , ,
Anand is a hypocrite. These people miss no opportunity to insult Hindus but when it comes to their icons, cannot tolerate any criticism. Anyway, Ambedkar's contribution is overrated. There were many other people who were part of the constitution drafting process.May 26, 2012 05:14 PM , ,
Mr Shandilya @13D,Thanks for your comment that Ambedkar took the name of his Brahmin teacher as agratitude.Whereas the Hindu Maharaja of Baroda(or,was it Kolhapur?) financially helped Ambedkar,the Nizam of Hyderabad offered to help him only on the condition of his embracing Islam.In our Bangalore,the Dalit educationist,Dr Narasimhaiah of National college was brought up by the Brahmin principal Sampathgiri Rao.Examples like this are numerous.But,with hate filled Christians,calling themselves as Dalits, do not want to recognise the truth.It is shocking that papers like Business Standard encourage such hate filled crap writing.
May 26, 2012 09:50 AM S.S.Nagaraj, Bangalore, India
"If the Ambedkar-conceived Constitution can be amended 97 times in 62 years, can't a textbook, which has to be treated as a work-in-progress, be amended?"
A dispatch of the Press Trust of India (PTI) dated September 10, 1949 states that Ambedkar was among those who sponsored an amendment making Sanskrit as the official language of the Indian Union in place of Hindi. Most newspapers carried the news the next day, i.e., on September 11, 1949 (see the issue of Sambhashan Sandeshah, a Sanskrit monthly published from Delhi, June 2003: 4-6).
Other dignitaries who supported Dr Ambedkar's initiative included Dr B.V. Keskar, then the Deputy Minister for External Affairs and Professor Naziruddin Ahmed. The amendment dealt with Article 310 and read: 1. The official language of the Union shall be Sanskrit. 2. Notwithstanding anything contained in Clause 1 of this article, for a period of fifteen years from the commencement of this constitution, the English language shall continue to be used for the official purposes of the union for which it was being used at such commencement: provided that the President may, during the said period, by order authorise for any of the official purposes of the union the use of Sanskrit in addition to the English language. But the amendment was defeated in the Constituent Assembly DUE TO THE OPPOSITION OF THE RULING CONGRESS PARTY AND OTHER LOBBYISTS.
Mr Anand are you ready to amend the constitution to include Dr Ambedkar's sponsored amendment of making Sanskrit as the official language of the Indian Union in place of Hindi as he did in 1949.
May 26, 2012 07:35 AM gajanan, Sydney, Australia
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