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Tata Group chairman Ratan Tata, who filed an affidavit before the apex court, said the government and its agencies had failed to protect the secrecy of the tapped conversations and an independent probe was required as the wire tap was done at a "fairly high level" in government departments
New Delhi: Tata Group chairman Ratan Tata has sought a probe by a 'skilled' independent agency into the leakage of controversial tapes containing conversations of corporate lobbyist Niira Radia with him and others, saying the probe conducted so far "hardly inspires public confidence", reports PTI.
Mr Tata, who filed an affidavit before the apex court, said the government and its agencies had failed to protect the secrecy of the tapped conversations and an independent probe was required as the wire tap was done at a "fairly high level" in government departments.
"On this account (leakage of tapes), the department, which conducted the wire tap, has been under the scrutiny.
Since this is all done at a fairly high level within the departments, for any inquiry to be fair and transparent, it would have to be by done by an outside agency skilled in making investigations —this has not been done," Mr Tata said in his affidavit.
"The petitioner (Tata) submits that the unauthorised disclosure of the intercepted material is in blatant violation of the provisions of the Official Secrets Act, 1923, whether intercepted by the government directing or by a service provider as its agent.
"The data collected and information contained therein is the property of the government and it is submitted that any unauthorised disclosure thereof constitutes violation of Section 5 (wrongful communication of information) of the Official Secrets Act," the affidavit stated.
Mr Tata also sought a copy of the government's probe report, submitted before the bench in a sealed cover, saying the government is duty-bound to supply a copy to him.
"I am advised to state that any material placed before the court to deny the assertion that there has been violation of such a right by the agencies of the Union can only be so placed after it is made available to the petitioner."
The Centre had filed the report in a sealed envelope before the bench on 31st January.
It had said the tapes broadcast by the media had been tampered with and government agencies were not responsible for its leakage.
The government had said there were eight to ten agencies, including service providers, involved in tapping of telephonic conversation of Ms Radia.
The report said the starting and the end point of the conversations do not match with the original tapes, justice Singhvi had said referring to the report.
He had said the report also stated that officers, who had conducted the probe, did not know who had leaked it.
In 2010, the government, while maintaining that the issues raised by Ratan Tata in his petition relating to the Radia tapes leak requiring a probe, had turned down his plea for taking steps to stop publication of the leaked transcripts in the media.
In February last year, the government had submitted to the apex court a copy of a complaint on the basis of which it had begun tapping Ms Radia's telephonic conversations with several people including politicians, corporate leaders and media persons.
The complaint was given to the court in compliance with its 13 December 2010, order which was passed on Mr Tata's plea for a probe into the leakage of tapes containing his private conversations with Ms Radia and for stopping its further publication.
The government had told the court that it had begun tapping Ms Radia's telephone on a complaint alleging she was indulging in anti-national activities and was acting as spy of foreign intelligence agencies.
The Centre had maintained that conversations were recorded as part of the surveillance ordered by the Directorate General of Income Tax (Investigation) following a complaint received by the finance minister on 16 November 2007, alleging that Ms Radia had within a span of nine years built up a business empire worth Rs300 crore.
The government had given details of as to how 180 days of Ms Radia's conversations were recorded—first from 20 August 2008 onwards for 60 days and then from 19th October for another 60 days. Later on 11 May 2009, her phone was again put on surveillance for another 60 days following a fresh order given on 8th May.
Mr Tata had moved the apex court on 29 November 2010, seeking action against those involved in the leakage of the tapes alleging the leakage amounts to infringement of his fundamental right to life, which includes right to privacy under Article 21 of the Constitution.
Mr Tata had contended as Ms Radia's phone was tapped for the purposes of alleged tax evasion, the tapes could not be used for any other purpose.
Mr Tata had argued making public his conversations with Ms Radia also violated his right to speech and expression under Article 19(1)(a) of the Constitution.
The petition had also asked the apex court to give a direction to the government and its probe agencies to 'retrieve' and 'recover' the leaked tapes.
In the wake of unearthing of the second generation (2G) spectrum allocation scam allegedly involving a loss of Rs1.76 lakh crore to the public exchequer, some journals had published Ms Radia's taped conversations with politicians, journalists and industrialists.
Transcripts of some of these tapes had also come up on various websites, stirring a controversy over the alleged nexus between lobbyists and journalists.
"Some members of the TAC felt that the fiscal pressure would continue beyond 2011-12 as the monetary impact of entitlements such as Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act and oil, fertiliser and food subsidies would be significant," the minutes of the TAC released by the RBI revealed
Mumbai: A top Reserve Bank of India (RBI) advisory panel involved with the monetary policy had expressed concern that the decline in investment would impact the country's economic growth in the next fiscal, reports PTI.
"Some (TAC) members felt that the slowdown in investment would affect the next year's growth as well. Besides, it would also have implications for inflation, going forward," minutes of a meeting of Technical Advisory Committee released by the RBI Friday said.
RBI will put out a formal projection on India's economic growth for 2012-13 in the Annual Policy Statement in April.
However, RBI's baseline scenario is that the economy will exhibit a modest recovery next year, with growth being slightly higher than during this fiscal year.
India's economic growth rate, as per government data, is likely to be 6.9% this fiscal, as against 8.4% in 2010-11.
The members of TAC headed by RBI governor D Subbarao, which met on 18th January ahead of the third quarter monetary policy, felt that the economy was clearly slowing down.
"While high interest rates had impacted investment, the overall investment sentiment was also subdued because of the structural and confidence issues that had not been addressed," the RBI added.
Amid high interest rate regime, credit to industry increased by only 19.8% in December 2011 as compared to 31.6% in the same month of the previous year.
Inflation has started moderating but it is nowhere near the comfort zone of about 5%. TAC members expressed hope that inflation would moderate to around 7% by March-end.
They also expressed concern over the widening fiscal deficit and felt the government will "slip significantly" on the target of keeping it at 4.6% of the gross domestic product (GDP) in the current fiscal.
"Some members felt that the fiscal pressure would continue beyond 2011-12 as the monetary impact of entitlements such as Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MNREGA) and oil, fertiliser and food subsidies would be significant," the minutes revealed.
Concerns were also expressed over the high and widening current account deficit (CAD) due to slowdown in exports and inelastic imports.
"Given the fragility of the global situation and slowdown in capital flows, there was a need to remain extremely watchful insofar as the external sector was concerned," they opined.
Exports grew only by 6.7% in December, year-on-year, while imports were up 19.8% during the period.
The amendment in the FCRA would allow the bourse to expand its product range by offering trading in real estate indices and futures and options on rainfall based-products, MCX MD and CEO Lamon Rutten said on Friday
Ahmedabad: Multi Commodity Exchange of India (MCX) on Friday said it hopes that the proposed amendments in Forward Contract Regulation Act (FCRA) for allowing trading of options and indices in commodities will be soon passed by Parliament, reports PTI.
A Parliamentary Standing Committee, reviewing amendments to the FCRA, has already submitted its report, permitting index derivatives (futures and options) and options in individual commodities.
It has also recommended independence and power to the regulator—Forward Markets Commission (FMC).
"We hope that Parliament will approve recommendations of the standing committee that allows trading of options and indices in commodities," MCX MD and CEO Lamon Rutten told reporters here while announcing that its initial public offer (IPO) that will hit the market on 22nd February and close on 24th February.
The amendment in the FCRA would allow "us to expand our product range by offering trading in real estate indices and futures and options on rainfall based-products", he added.
Mr Rutten said MCX has tie-ups with firms providing weather and real estate related data.
MCX plans to expand network by providing innovative products and introducing new revenue lines such as data vending, he added.
MCX, which aims to raise Rs663 crore, has set a price band of Rs860 to Rs1,032 a share for the IPO.
The offer would comprise of sale of about 64.27 lakh shares, accounting for a 12.6% stake in the company.
This would include 2.5 lakh shares reserved for employees.
Besides the promoter, Financial Technologies (India), shares would also be sold by other shareholders like State Bank of India, Corporation Bank, Bank of Baroda, ICICI Lombard General Insurance, GLG Financials Fund and Alexandra Mauritius in the IPO.
MCX is the largest commodity bourse in the country, with more than 80% market share.
It is the fifth largest commodity exchange globally and figures among the top two positions in gold and silver segments.
It would be the first exchange in India to go public, putting it on par with global markets like the US, the UK, Japan, Australia, Singapore and Hong Kong.
MCX had recorded Rs447.5 crore income and Rs176.2 crore of net profit in the fiscal year ended 31 March 2011.
In the current fiscal, the company has posted a net profit of Rs218 crore and total income of Rs474 crore for the nine-month period ended 31st December.


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Author Tags: Kidlit & Young Adult, Local History, Travel, Women
Anyone who knows about Cuban history in depth can tell you there could not have been a successful Cuban Revolution without the thoroughly admirable Celia Sánchez, Fidel Castro's lover, who handled the organizational aspects of the otherwise chaotic Castro brothers' uprising and, equally important, kept Fidel's monstrous ego in check. In Rosa Jordan's novel The Woman She Was (Brindle & Glass 2012) we meet Celia Cantú, a pediatrician in modern Cuba, named after Celia Sánchez, who scours the island to find her 16-year-old niece Liliana, hoping she can prevent her from turning into one more jintera (prostitute) who gets American dollars from tourists. While present-day Celia searches from popular tourist destinations to the Sierra Maestre range where Celia Sánchez and Fidel first became lovers, she herself must choose between lovers—Luis, a high-level bureaucrat in Havana or her former fiancé, Joe, who has returned from Miami. The situation is complicated by the fact that Joe and Luis are competitive brothers and the Celia feels her mind and body being 'taken over' by Celia Sánchez, the unsung heroine of the Cuban Revolution. Joe's arrival from Miami, with lots of money at his disposal, and Liliana's teenage turbulence, force the contemporary Celia to examine the discrepancy between her country's ideals and its reality. The novel succeeds exceedingly well in evoking the intricacies of everyday life in Cuba.
Rosa Jordan's adult novel Far From Botany Bay retells the historic story of Mary Broom who, at age 21, was sentenced to hang for the crime of stealing a cloak. When her sentence was commuted to transportation "upon the sea, beyond the seas," she was sent to Australia as one of the first European to reach that continent and reside in the prison colony known as "Botany Bay." After two years of extreme privation and near-starvation, she escaped in 1791 and undertook a remarkable journey back to England with the help of eight men under her command.
Born on June 4, 1939 in Ropesville, Texas, Rosa Jordan is an "internationalist" who grew up in Florida and holds a B.A. degree from UCLA (University of California/Los Angeles) and an M.A. degree from the University of Guanajuato in Mexico. She moved to Rossland, B.C. in 1974. She is the author of Rossland: The First 100 Years (Lefevre/ Heritage Trust, 1996) with Derek Choukalos, and two travel books, Dangerous Places: Travels on the Edge (Pottersfield Press, 1997) and Lonely Planet Cycling Cuba (Lonely Planet, 2002) with Derek Choukalos, as well as several works of fiction.
Her first novel for children, Lost Goat Lane, became the basis for a Showtime movie called The Sweetest Gift, broadcast in 1998. Republished by Peachtree Publishers (2004) and (Fitzhenry & Whiteside, 2005), it's an unusual story of racial prejudice in a small Florida town as it's gradually understood over the course of one summer by a white girl, Kate, from a very poor family. Kate's mother is always away at work, her older brother Justin keeps threatening to run away, and Kate's younger brother keeps straying towards the canal that's filled with alligators. Then her goat named Sugar runs off... Together with a glamourous and sophisticated black girl, Ruby, who has returned for the summer from school in New York, Kate tries to operate a fledgling candy business. Ultimately she learns to appreciate the struggles of a tightly-knit black family in the southern U.S. and how close-mindedness can be as destructive as prejudice. Lost Goat Lane was nominated for the 2006-07 Chocolate Lily Award, and was a finalist for the 2005 Silver Birch Award, and the 2005 Red Maple Award.
Jordan's follow-up volumes of juvenile fiction are The Goatnappers (F&W, 2007) and The Last Wild Place (F&W, 2009) about boy's efforts to save a family of wild panthers that has been driven out of their home in the Everglades and dangerously close to human settlement.
In Wild Spirits (2010), a novel for young adults, Jordan tells the story of a young woman who, after a bank robbery leaves her too traumatized to continue work as a teller, retreats to a farm and rescues and cares for injured and orphaned wildlife, including two baby racoons. In the process, she befriends an eccentric and lonely 14-year-old boy who ends up saving her life.
Rosa Jordan has worked for a decade as the social justice program director for Earthways Foundation, which has supported her in developing a jungle cat reserve in Ecuador's Choco rainforest and a food security program in a war-ravaged Mayan village in the Guatemala highlands.
AWARDS: LOST GOAT LANE, Silver Birch Honor Book Award.
THE WOMAN SHE WAS (novel). Brindle & Glass, 2012. 978-1-926972-46-6 $21.95
WILD SPIRITS (novel). Dundurn 2010 978-1-55488-729-3
FROM BOTANY BAY (novel). Oolichan Books, 2008. 978-088982-249-8 $22.95
THE GOATNAPPERS. Hardback: Peachtree in Atlanta, 2007. Paperback: Fitzhenry & Whiteside in Toronto, 2007.
LOST GOAT LANE. Hardback: Peachtree in Atlanta, 2004. Paperback: Fitzhenry & Whiteside in Toronto, 2005.
CYCLING CUBA. Lonely Planet, Melbourne, Australia. 2002.
DANGEROUS PLACES: TRAVELS ON THE EDGE. Pottersfield Press, Nova Scotia. 1997.
ROSSLAND: THE FIRST 100 YEARS. Lefevre/BC Heritage. 1995.
[Alan Twigg BCBW 2012] "Local History" "Kidlit" "Cuba" "Travel" "Women"
Dangerous Places: Travels on the Edge (Pottersfield $18.95)
Rosa Jordan's Dangerous Places: Travels on the Edge (Pottersfield $18.95) is about one woman's journey to places that are anything but safe. Jordan believes danger is an inherent part of life and contributes to our understanding of the world. Her fast-paced autobiographical memoir documents her travels to Mexico, Cuba, Guyana, El Salvador, Belize, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Bolivia, Ecuador, Brazil and Peru. She is currently establishing a jungle cat refuge in the Amazon.
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Far from Botany Bay by Rosa Jordan (Oolichan Books, $22.95)
Thelma and Louise have met their match in Mary Bryant, née Broad. Mary is far more interesting, partially because she's not mere fiction. In real life, 1787, she was a Cornish convict, one of the first to be sent to a fledgling prison colony in Australia, and, four years later she was one of the first to lead a successful escape.
Some escape! At sea for sixty-six days and traveling five thousand kilometers, she led eight men, with her 2 babes in arms, as they rowed and sailed a 20' longboat through the infamous Coral Sea, bristling with the reefs that had wrecked many a boat. Her ultimate goal was Kupang, on the island of Timor in Dutch-controlled Indonesia, and armed with compass and chart, she led them right to it. En route they survived starvation, thirst, aggressive natives, a violent storm, alligators and illness. While doing all this, Mary also had to pander to her insecure husband's sulks at not being leader, do the cooking, wash the dishes and put the children to bed. Sound familiar?
The escape is by far the most gripping part of the book, but most of us (read women) will avidly read on, wanting a happy ending for this feisty young woman, who was shipped off to purgatory at 21, raped repeatedly before and during the voyage, and finally married to a drunken lout she didn't love, in order to protect herself.
The escape is surprising enough, engineered as it was by an uneducated young woman with a chart and a compass, but the fact that a group of convicts in those days even allowed her to be 'captain' is just as surprising. This is Chick Lit at its best. We love to read about a female super achiever who, even though she's victimized and battered, rises up again and again.
No wonder, then, that Mary's story has been made into a musical, a successful play in 1989 (Boswell for the Defense), and a 4-hour TV mini series shown in Australia and England in 2005 and 2006.
She's the subject of at least nine books, but according to Far From Botany Bay author Rosa Jordan, it was the presidential address for the Elizabethan Club of Yale University, "Boswell and the Girl from Botany Bay," that inspired her to write this story. She managed to obtain a copy from the university library, and once inspired, sought out primary sources at the British Museum, including newspaper accounts from 1792.
You may be wondering what the famous journal writer, James Boswell, has to do with all this. He turns out to be the deus ex machina—the badly needed saviour. More I will not say.
Although Jordan has clearly gone the extra fathom in researching facts for her narrative non-fiction, her book appears more heavily weighted toward narrative, especially compared to the other publications. She creates a love interest for Mary, and dreams up friends for this larger-than-life heroine as well —friends like Colleen, and Bados, the flute-playing slave from Barbados. Jordan also fictionalizes a relationship Mary has with a Dutch captain, trading her body for what she needs for her escape.
Jordan has also come up with a far more sympathetic crime for her heroine to have committed. Mary has gone to prison for stealing a cloak so that she can take it to warm her dying mother. In reality, however, Mary was a career thief.
On the non-fiction side, she really did marry Will, a fisher- man and a drinker, and they were both Cornish. The incredibly harsh and frequently unjust punishments meted out are also historically accurate, and the ships involved are all as described. Mary really did have two children called Charlotte and Emanuel, the first by a rapist on the boat, and the second by her husband. What befalls the escapees once they actually complete their amazing journey and reach Indonesia also appears to be factual.
It's a good story, especially for women. How many men, after all, went to see Thelma and Louise without being dragged there?
Jordan, author of Dangerous Places: Travels on the Edge, and Lonely Planet's Cycling Cuba, is clearly an unusual woman herself. She calls herself an internationalist, and in her capacity as social justice programme director for Earthways Foundation, she has helped to develop a jungle cat reserve in Ecuador's Choco rainforest and a food security programme in a war-torn Mayan village in Guatemala. When not traveling, she lives and writes in Rossland.
In addition to presenting us with a strong, Christ-like literary and historical figure, and crafting an un-put-downable plot, Jordan portrays the inhumane way in which prisoners, and especially women, were treated in earlier times. The men we meet are pretty grim, often operating on primeval instincts. It's perhaps to balance this unattractive historical gender portrayal that she introduces Mary's love, John, as an intelligent and gentle Canadian clerk.
Good to know that the male has evolved considerably in the last few hundred years. You've come a long way, baby!
A lot of us will be awaiting the chick flick. 9780889822498
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The Woman She Was (Brindle & Glass $21.95)
Article (2012)
from Rosa Jordan
Now that Fidel Castro has turned into an ailing ex-dictator in sweat pants, courting the blessings of the quivering autocrat, Pope Benedict, perhaps the world is ready to be curious about Castro's lover and advisor Celia Sánchez, a.k.a. "The Mother of the Revolution," a thoroughly admirable social reformer who served as Castro's conscience until her death in 1980.
Sánchez helped liberate Fidel Castro from prison, salvaged his failed invasion and handled logistics for the Castro brothers' uprising. Without her, a few rag-tag intellectuals and peasant soldiers could never have ousted the U.S.-backed and Mafia-serving dictator, Fulgencio Batista. Equally important, it was Celia Sánchez who kept Castro's monstrous ego in check and encouraged him to pursue progressive educational and health policies.
In her new novel The Woman She Was (Brindle & Glass $21.95), Rosa Jordan introduces Celia Sánchez through the life and times of a contemporary Havana paediatrician, named Celia Cantú, as she juggles the complexities of her work in Havana with her fractured love life—two competitive brothers and a secret lover in the mountains.
The Woman She Was provides a vivid and complex representation of what it's like to live inside Cuba, outside the realm of tourism.
The story gains drama when Dr. Cantú goes on a quest across Cuba in search of a missing niece—thereby blending a travelogue into the narrative—as Jordan skillfully blends historical information and the nuances of Cuban manners.
Dr. Cantú is scouring the island to find her 16-year-old niece Liliana, hoping she can prevent her from turning into one more jinetera out to hustle tourists. Simultaneously, Dr. Cantú is being pressured to choose between two would-be lovers who are brothers—Luis, a high-level bureaucrat in Havana, or her former fiancé, Joe, who has returned from Miami.
Joe's arrival from Miami, with lots of money at his disposal, and Liliana's teenage turbulence, force the contemporary Celia to examine the discrepancy between her country's ideals and its often frustrating reality, thereby encouraging her to summon the example of Celia Sánchez to give her strength.
The use of Celia Sánchez's photo on the cover of the novel leads the reader to want more information about Sánchez than has been provided in the book's dense, dialogue-laden 376 pages. And for anyone knowing precious little about Cuba, Jordan's use of flashbacks and hallucinations to evoke the heroism of Sánchez's namesake could be a bit of a stretch. But The Woman She Was is nonetheless an ambitious accomplishment: a smart and convincing novel about the politics of sexuality as much as a panorama of Cuba's countryside and politics.
Having already written two travel guides to Cuba, Cycling Cuba (Lonely Planet 2002) and Cuba's Best Beaches (CreateSpace 2011), Jordan has again highlighted Celia Sánchez in her new non-fiction offering, Cuba Unspun (Oolichan $22.95), a travel memoir due in October.
Jordan has explored the island many times since 1996, camping in a military compound, cycling through hurricane-hit towns, spending a rainy night in the jungle without a tent, picking up hundreds of hitchhikers, once coming face-to-face with Fidel Castro, and visiting various sites that commemorate Celia Sánchez.
So who was Celia? We asked Rosa Jordan for this summary.
Born in 1920, Celia Sánchez Manduley grew up in eastern Cuba. By 1950 she was already organizing for the overthrow of Cuba's undemocratic regime—this while Fidel Castro, six years younger and 1000 kilometres away at the University of Havana, was still embroiled in student politics.
In 1953, when Castro and his followers were apprehended after a botched raid on the Moncada army barracks in Santiago de Cuba, it was Celia Sánchez who organized island-wide protests that resulted in the rebels' release. Fidel promptly went to Mexico to prepare for another challenge to the Batista dictatorship. Sánchez, who was by then communicating with Castro but had not yet met him, remained in Cuba to lay the groundwork for a guerrilla war. By the time of the invasion (December, 1956), she had convinced him to launch the uprising at the end of the island she knew so well: the rugged Sierra Madre.
At the time and place designated for the rebels' arrival, Sánchez was waiting on the beach with trucks to transport Castro and his 81 men to safe houses in the mountains. However, they got lost, not making landfall till two days later and in the wrong place—a mistake that resulted in a bloodbath at the hands of the Batista army. The 16 survivors, scattered, disoriented, and without supplies in rugged, unfamiliar terrain, were rescued by Celia's friends.
Despite Fidel's record of two disastrous military engagements, Celia convinced her co-conspirators that he should command the rebel army—fighters she and her people would have to recruit since most of his had been killed. However, she personally took charge of finances, strategy, organization, community relations, and about everything else essential to a successful guerrilla war.
Dictator Batista confirmed her threat to his regime by putting a $75,000 bounty on her head. Ché Guevara, commenting in his diary on a false report that Sánchez had been captured, wrote, "Celia was our [the guerrillas] only known safe contact… her detention would have meant isolation for us." The CIA reported, "Celia Sánchez is one of the most powerful figures in the 26th of July Movement. All functions not strictly military are under her jurisdiction. All intelligence agents report to her." Tete Puebla, an officer in the rebel army and now a general in the Cuban military, mentioned in her memoir an astonishing array of activities that were supervised or personally handled by Sánchez during the war, concluding simply, "Celia organized everything."
Sánchez's efforts to bring a true social revolution to Cuba continued after the war. While the men in government were dealing with terrorist attacks, economic woes, a US-backed invasion, and other foreign policy issues, she focussed on projects that would improve the lives of ordinary Cubans: housing, hospitals, schools, and much more. Her ideas were highly original and she implemented them with astounding alacrity.
As a doctor's daughter, she knew the effect of parasites on children who ran barefoot in the same mud as pigs. She educated herself on shoe-making and had factories built because, she said, no child, however poor, should have to go barefoot. Free shoes were soon available to all Cuban children, and still are.
She had hospitals designed specially for children. One, on beautiful Tarará beach, would later treat more child victims of the Chernobyl disaster than all G-8 countries together. Today Cuban doctors involved in Operación Milagro use the facility to provide blind children from poor countries with free eye operations and post-operative care.
Celia Sánchez had the huge Copelia ice cream parlour built as a gathering place for Habaneros and she created Parque Lenin, Havana's equivalent of NYC's Central Park, to give urban families easy access to recreational activities among flowers, meadows, lakes, and trees—especially trees, which she regarded as sacred.
She established municipal museums all over the island, and scores of campismos—simple huts in the mountains and on beautiful beaches where families and young people could stay practically free. She designed cottages built of native materials to sit on tiny islands in Laguna del Tesores, a unique retreat still enjoyed by Cuban honeymooners.
These were among hundreds of projects she created, constructed, and completed in the 21 years she lived after the war. In A Butterfly Against Stalin, Celia Hart wrote of Sánchez, "She had the magical power to join heaven
and earth without showing off. She was a perfect mediator between the work of the revolution, its people and
The inflexible Cuban bureaucracy that grew after the war was Sánchez's great enemy. Had she lived longer she might have prevailed over demands for conformity and political correctness that often took precedence over humanitarian considerations. But her death in 1980 left Castro and the Cuban revolution to be influenced by others.
Close friends of Fidel have said that from the time he met Celia in 1957 until lung cancer claimed her 23 years later, he never made an important decision without her concurrence.
Shortly before her death, she advised him to marry a friend of theirs, Dalia Soto del Valle, which he later did. Although he and Dalia have now been married more than three decades and have six sons, Fidel often retreats to the unpretentious apartment he shared with Celia for 21 years, sometimes to prepare a meal for special friends like Nobel Prize winner Gabriel García Márquez and his wife, but more often, it is said, simply to be alone.
In Cuba you can find books and articles about Celia Sánchez, three small museums, some impressive monuments,
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Originally posted by Yvonne PHX View PostI am so glad you didn't feel like talking about food or primal or water retention or stubborn panda flab.
When reading your blog I always wonder what your name for ME might be on here.
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Originally posted by sixpack-rc View PostWhen reading your blog I always wonder what your name for ME might be on here.
I imagine it will be something heroic like "Fights Evildoers" but in reality it would probably be "Fried Twinkie" or "Ostrich Butt Head".
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"Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again but expecting different results."- Rita Mae Brown, though frequently attributed to Albert Einstein, Mark Twain, or Benjamin Franklin...
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A: Read. Four pages, and one was mostly pictures. Thank you, Valhalla. CHECK.
B: Exercise. My neck didn't feel steady enough, so I did some light yard work and left it at that. CHECK.
C: Agents. I am printed and up-to-date on this now, one for each week. CHECK.
D: Floss. Enjoying my night off.
PART ONE: It's going to be one of Those Days.
Benign Poltergeist said something so vile, so heinous, and so reprehensible about Primal Coach Kitty's mother that Gay Panda was awoken at 1:42 to a glass-shattering war cry of utter scandal and outrage. Perhaps you heard it. This was followed by a second war cry at 1:43, and the kitty was unceremoniously deposited outside to watch for pterodactyls. Benign Poltergeist sulked to have lost its easiest target for emotional manipulation, and busied itself quietly for the rest of the night by hiding my ear bud and tracking dirt around the hardwood floor that I just vacuumed.
Gay Panda returned to sleep and had a long nightmare. I was trapped in a creepy old warehouse and being pursued by a homicidal beach ball. Yes, you read that right. I was running in slow motion, the way one does in dreams, with a beach ball bouncing furiously after me with gory intentions. But how was a beach ball going to kill me? Bounce me to death? This beats my all-time Stupid Nightmare of 1999, in which I was being chased by a homicidal seven-foot tall bean-and-cheese burrito. It sprinted after me on tiny white legs and waved its tiny white arms as I fled in terror through the sunlit but empty streets of a city. The dream ended with my death, when the burrito leaped into the air and landed on me, squashing me flat.
I woke early and let a very indignant kitty back in. Benign Poltergeist picked up right where it had left off and the war cries resumed. I cleaned the kitchen and did some laundry while she bellowed and ran around, and now, at a quarter to eight with me tired but fully awake from the ruckus, she has fallen fully asleep. I love my kitty almost as much as I love my laptop, but New York City ASPCA, if you would like to speed the removal process, I am willing to appear on Animal Precinct looking vaguely like a tick. I'll be home all day.
Since it's going to be one of Those Days where I am overtired and grouchy and my neck is tweaking, and the scale will show that two nights ago I dared to eat three fingerling potatoes, you are going to get another story. If you visit my journal for primal tips, skip today. Before I get back to work on my series, I'm going to write about the invitation I just received in the mail pleading with me to come back to Psychic School.
Four years ago, a wonderful but gullible friend of mine presented a two-for-one coupon that she had for a psychic reading. It was being held at Psychic School, which is clearly not its real name so that I don't get sued. Psychics seem to be drawn to the West Coast where I live. Astrologers, palm and Tarot readers, crystal gazers, dream interpreters, ESP masters, past life specialists, and karma cleansers surround my magical bamboo forest. I can't drive in any direction with seeing a giant neon hand in a window or a billboard promising that my answers lie in the stars. Though Gay Panda wants desperately to believe in magic, I do not frequent these places. My love of magic is beaten by my practicality and sense of thrift. Honestly, if Miss Zora were psychic, why the hell is she stuck doing thirty-dollar readings for lonely singles and crashed careerists? Hit the stock market, dumbass!
The website for Psychic School is plastered with pictures of Healing Energy Hands hovering over heads, people laughing and meditating and resting in grass, fire bursting from palms, and oddly, a picture of a tennis shoe next to a water bottle. That last picture appears on two different pages on the site, and I can't figure out what it signifies. If you have a hypothesis, let Gay Panda know. It puzzles me.
Originally posted by anjelevil View PostI am very behind in my gay panda reading..hope all is going well for you!
PART TWO: The school's motto is that the air around you is full of energy and Beings of Light, which distresses me to consider. I don't want to think that ghosts are hovering about when I'm in the can. As a cub, I truly feared that someone would stop time while I was sitting on the toilet, and I would be trapped there frozen forever. How embarrassing. From ages nine to thirteen, I used the facilities as quickly as I could, just in case someone was trying to stop time. One sticky Panda Sibling idiotically took forever in there, but I never explained the danger to him. We lived in a state of constant feud, and if he got trapped on the toilet for all of eternity, that was fine with me.
This school offers workshops and classes and retreats for people paying thousands of dollars to become clairvoyant. It also sports readings for the general public, hoping to garner new students from impressed clients. My friend was a frequent visitor to their Reading Nights, and nothing I ever said convinced her that these people weren't psychic.
"But they know that I'm having problems with my ex-husband!" she cried. "I didn't say that!"
"You go in there and say you have questions about the relationship with your ex!" I cried right back. "Why would you have questions if you were happy? It's not psychic intuition for me to suggest that you are having problems in this relationship then. It's common sense."
"Gay Panda, they are really, really psychic there! I swear. I have a coupon and you're going."
After an argument, which I lost since she is a bossy German Alpha and I'm a French Beta peacemaker, I found myself in her car driving to the school for a Reading Night. Maybe they were really, really psychic there, I allowed myself to hope. But I knew in my heart that this was not going to be the night in which I broke my streak of Magical Fail. Nothing was going to happen. And oh, I was right on one count, and oh, I was wrong on the other.
The school was in a downtown Victorian home, two stories and otherwise non-descript in the dark. We went in the back and were pointed down a hall to a room in the front. Once there, a grumpy woman who looked like a kindergarten teacher at the end of her rope put a finger to her lips and shushed us though we hadn't been talking. In the front room was a circle of chairs and sofas, filled with people meditating while others in the center performed Healing Energy Hands on someone's past-life headache. I fought back a mad urge to laugh at the swooping hands and fluttering fingers dispersing negative energy, and took my seat on a sofa while the kindergarten teacher glared at me.
Once the past-life headache had been eradicated by the power of Healing Energy Hands, we were allowed to speak. Most people didn't, floating blearily out the door. Five of us remained for readings. This was not going to be the typical reading, we were told. Each of us was to be given three psychics, as combining powers created more accuracy. My friend almost danced away with her trio to one of the other rooms. One by one, the others were called away. Then I sat there alone until the kindergarten teacher asked huffily what I was doing. I explained and she stormed off to find more psychics.
PART THREE: Minutes later, a middle-aged man entered the room. He was the image of a forgetful professor in a rumpled brown suit, a faraway look in his light blue eyes behind glasses. On the breast of his jacket was a nametag that read Hello! My name is Tim Tim. I stared. The first Tim was written in neat block with black pen. The second Tim was wobbly, written in pink and blue crayon with a heart above the 'I'. A green butterfly pooping little clouds darted away from the 'M' to the corner of the nametag. I understood after reflection that his name was not, in fact, Tim Tim. It was just Tim. The first Tim had been written by the man in front of me, and the second Tim was written by his inner child. I bit down hard on my lip to keep it together. Frankly, kittens, this world is a hard place to vacation for a lifetime. If someone can swing it better merely by accessing his inner child, then I shouldn't laugh. But dear Valhalla, I almost did.
Tim Tim pulled two chairs to the sofa, and took the one closest to me. A woman floated into the room. She wore diaphanous clothing and had a giant mass of coarse black hair, which stuck out in every direction like she had been recently electrocuted. Taking the second chair, she smiled vaguely in my general direction. Both were students at the school honing their clairvoyance on Reading Nights. Then the kindergarten teacher bustled in and snapped, "Did you get out the crayons?"
Before anyone could answer, and while I sat there worried that I was going to be asked to color, she crossed the room angrily and threw open the doors to a closet. Within were stacks of baskets filled with crayons. Plucking one out, she stomped across the room again and set it down on a podium. Then she withdrew a white pamphlet and waited expectantly. Tim Tim and Electric Shock turned to me and closed their eyes. I squirmed. A minute passed. Another. Then Electric Shock's voice washed around us faintly. "The first level of Gay Panda's aura is blue." The kindergarten teacher dove into the crayon basket for the matching color and began to draw furiously on the pamphlet.
Tim Tim sighed, his eyes still closed. "The second level of Gay Panda's aura is earth brown."
"Oh, yes, it's beautiful," agreed Electric Shock. The kindergarten teacher rustled sharply through the basket as I thought you owe me, German Alpha Friend. You owe me BIG.
"And the third?" the kindergarten teacher snapped. That one was delicate pink. There was no Delicate Pink in the crayon basket, so she went with Cotton Candy Pink. And on it went, through all seven levels of my aura. I didn't know that I had so many, and wondered if this was more or less than other people, and whether I should be proud or worried.
It is very strange to sit on a sofa with two people facing you, their eyes kept closed as they speak about the seven levels of your aura and your spirit guides while a third person colors them bad-temperedly in the background. People went by now and then in the hall, and though they were quiet, the kindergarten teacher glared and shushed them. Gay Panda, for those of you who are interested, has two spirit guides. Tim Tim saw a bright light following me wherever I go, and Electric Shock exhaled in pleasure to see a Fuzzy Yellow Thing living on my shoulder. I did not know what to make of this, and smiled politely until I remembered that their eyes were closed.
Then they asked what had brought me to Psychic School. Wanting to prove that they were not psychic, I said vaguely, "Oh, what direction my career should take."
"Ah," Tim Tim said. "A seeker."
"We should look at Gay Panda's past lives," suggested Electric Shock in a whisper. I dug my nails into my jeans as silence descended upon the room again. In time, Electric Shock revealed that she was seeing a lot of white. It was snow. "You love skiing in this life. That's a hold-over from the last one I'm seeing."
"I've actually never been skiing," I confessed.
"You're picking up on someone else's energy!" the kindergarten teacher scolded. "Disperse it!"Last edited by Gay Panda; 10-13-2011, 11:31 AM.
PART FOUR: For the next three minutes, Tim Tim and Electric Shock performed Healing Energy Hands on themselves and shook off the intruder. They stopped trying to peep on my past lives and returned to the matter at hand: my career. The psychics ruminated on colors, vibrant colors, greens and browns everywhere, and concluded that I love nature. Happily, Electric Shock whispered, "You're such an environmentalist. Oh! Look at all this green! You love being outside."
I told the truth. "My idea of being in nature is getting the mail. I'm an indoors panda."
"You're picking up on someone else's energy AGAIN!" the kindergarten teacher chastised. So the long process of Healing Energy Hands began a second time, and I wondered if I had gotten the Remedial Psychics in this school. I wanted this to be over so I could yell at German Alpha for giving her hard-earned money to this stupid place.
My reading went on for an hour. If you are wondering how it is that I can recall so well what was said, that is because they taped it. Bless their Muggle hearts, Tim Tim and Electric Shock worked their remedial psychic tails off, granting me glorious careers in art (I never got past stick people) and a variety of other subjects in which I have no interest or aptitude. My chakras were assigned numbers at random, one being 47 and needing work, another being 88 and fantastic. By the end I was just bored and wanting dinner, and the kindergarten teacher was drawing roses on my aura pamphlet to represent the Magical Parts of Me. I received the pamphlet to keep for myself, along with the audio-cassette, and had a mailing list thrust at me. I signed it under the stern eye of the kindergarten teacher. I would have signed over my soul just to leave.
German Alpha left her reading thrilled at how accurate it had been, wanting to have readings more often since they were cheaper and more helpful than a therapist. I explained my bad experience and she encouraged me to come back and get a different psychic trio, and has repeated this encouragement over the years since. But I've never gone back, and I get monthly mailings asking me if I want to be clairvoyant for only three grand. I should take myself off the list, but they should know psychically that I want to be taken off the list. Every month that they mail me anyway, I prove that they are not psychic. This pleases me. So I let it continue.
Dumplings, I've now spent three hours writing about Tim Tim when I have ten other things that I should have been doing in that time, and the guilt is getting to me. So I leave you with a wave of Healing Energy Hands, and will eat bacon while watching Glee for one last stab at procrastination before I get to work.Last edited by Gay Panda; 10-13-2011, 11:41 AM.
HAHAHAHA oh man. That was wonderful. I'm sorry for the pain you suffered through to tell such a marvelous tale =PDepression Lies
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We always thought that Mehdi Abeid didn't really get a fair shake of things at Newcastle under Alan Pardew – and after a good season on loan at Greek side Panthinakos in the 2013-2014 and then another season to forget at Newcastle, he was sold for a nominal fee to the Greek side last August.
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If the report is true it will be very interesting to see how Benitez can develop the 23 year-old twice capped Algerian International, who is a good technical footballer and certainly gave his best whenever he played for Newcastle.
Portuguese club Porto are also said to be interested in the player (which explains the O Jogo report) who made only 19 total appearances for Newcastle United in his four years at the club.
Mehdi always had good potential when he signed for us as a free agent from Lens in the summer of 2011 and it would be good to see the 5'11" central midfielder return to Newcastle.
Back in early April the Chronicle reported the midfielder was still fond of the Tyneside club and was still keen to prove himself at St. James' Park.
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Wu-Tang emcee/actor Method Man joined forces with Marvel Comics to create a Christmas-themed issue of Ghost Rider. Fans of hip-hop and comic books can now add Ghost Rider X-Mas Special Infinite to their holiday wish list.
"The conversation between hip-hop and Marvel continues as one of rap's most storied lyricists takes the Hell Charger out for a ride," says Marvel Editor-in-Chief Axel Alonso.
Co-written by Method Man and Anthony Piper (who also illustrated), Ghost Rider X-Mas Special Infinite is about the little brother of Robbie Reyes (Ghost Rider) getting teased in school for having too much Christmas spirit. Meanwhile, the kids of East L.A. are less than excited about Santa Claus' upcoming visit. Of course, the plot includes a villain: the evil Krampus (anti-Santa), who terrorizes the kids.
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Wounded Trees - Poem by Ashwin Alex
I hear my name being called about
guess its my last chance to live about
soon the axe will strike the spot
to leave me wounded once again.
With no soothing wind to blow by,
no climbers upon my trunk
i will be left again to the saw's mercy
waiting to be wounded and wounded again.
Though the axe win or the saw race,
will laugh with each teeth coming by
a million new samplings from my wounded stump
to strengthen my wounded soul.
Once chosen left me wounded
wounded to be healed nevermore-
but evermore i grew to fill the void
again to be wounded once more.
I lay beseaching the axe, the saw,
never tired of woundung again and again,
i give way that i wont
wound the saw, the axe!
coz wound by me willl haunt me,
forgive the wounds,
live for the joy beyond the wounds!
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The modern, air-conditioned hotel consists of a total of 51 rooms spread over 4 floors. The hotel is on a main street and offers a spacious lobby, several lifts, safes, a currency exchange counter, cloakroom, and a 24-hour reception. Free Wi-Fi is available in the whole hotel building including rooms. Further facilities include a caf�, a cosy bar and an air-conditioned restaurant where guests can sample Italian specialities. Rooms are available for conferences and meetings. Guests may also make use of the in-house laundry and room services for an added fee.
This comfortable hotel is situated in the centre of Messina, surrounded by numerous shops, restaurants, bars and nightclubs. It is in a great location and is a popular base for holidaymakers and business travellers alike. The hotel is a landmark in Messina and is ideal for business guests as well as those who seek peace and quiet. Guests can relax and unwind on the beautiful beach (some 2 km away), whilst the nearest bus and train stations are also approximately 20 metres from the hotel. Fontanarossa Airport is roughly 100 km away.
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By car: From Palermo or Catania, take the "Messina Centro" exit, turn left onto Via Cesare Battisti, Next turn right onto Via Tommaso Cannizzaro: at the end of this road, turn left where the hotel is situated 50 m away, on the left on Calle 1� Settembre. By train: Directly in front of the hotel, 50 m away from the train station. From the airport: 100 km from Catania airport, take the ringroad and the Catania Messina motorway. 30 km from the airport: embark on the boat for Sicily, and once dis-embarked continue into the city centre.
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The cruiser, capable of 700mph, would have been the first original jetliner design for 50 years. Its rocket-ship styling included two small wings mounted on the cockpit and two vertical fins in place of the conventional tail and rudder.
Instead, like every other commercial jetliner, Boeing's new design will be a direct descendant of the B47, which first flew after World War II.
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Kanestin is a tall, dark-haired man often dressed in brown robes wielding a warhammer and undoubtedly a follower and priest of Evil.[1]
His search for the infamous tome The Three Hundred and Thirty Incantations of Ssassuzlit led him to Kabesh, where he was chanced upon by a hero. It is known that he found the book, but it is a mystery as to his whereabouts now. It is believed that he had an accomplice who perished in the Deadlands on his way to meet Kanestin. Rumours suggest that Kanestin now dwells in the Mountains of the Giants, where he studies Ssassuzlit's teachings incessantly.
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