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According to ABB state manager – rotating machines, Thomas Lindner, this is not the first time the company has worked on such high-profile rail projects.
"ABB have been working in the rail industry in Australia for many years – in fact many people in our Eagle Farm motors workshop have over 20 years experience and know the problems experienced by rail customers," said Lindner.
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Other rail projects that ABB are involved with are major supply to the Gold Coast Rapid Transit line – a 13km light rail corridor designed to reduce congestion between Southport, Surfers Paradise and Broadbeach in Queensland, due for completion in 2014.
The company are also supplying traction motors and converters for a rail infrastructure system transporting coal, iron ore and other minerals across much of the Australian continent from Perth to Cairns.
ABB is not only active in the rail industry in Australia. The ABB Group has also taken recent orders to contribute to improving rail systems in Brazil, Canada, Poland, Saudi Arabia and Singapore.


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EBacc: the Art-force Dodger?
21 Sep
An article in today's TES, "The fourth R" asks:
"Reading, writing, arithmetic and art? A growing chorus is calling for the subject to have the same prominence as the traditional pillars of school curricula. The education system needs to embrace this argument, says Helen Ward."
"It may sound like a case for ICT learning how to insert a jpeg or upload videos but only if you consider websites to be primarily text-based with supporting images. In fact, in the world of YouTube, Pinterest and Instagram, web pages are overwhelmingly an assemblage of images. Learning to write effectively is not just about learning how to spell – it is about choosing which words will be most effective for your purpose. Similarly, being visually literate, able to choose and create images, is not about how to upload images – it is about what pictures to select and why."
"Barbara Stafford, emeritus professor at the University of Chicago, US, foresaw these changes in her 1994 book Artful Science: enlightenment, entertainment and the eclipse of visual education. She argues that we are increasingly communicating in images, as we have done historically in text, but a high-level visual education to accompany these advances is lacking.
"We are entering an era of 'oral visual culture', as the dominance of text recedes. 'No longer pre-literate, we are post-literate,' Stafford says. But she points out that the educational system is 'image illiterate'. And she calls for the change to be led by art teachers. 'Those of us with knowledge about techniques for making and understanding images, their construction and cognitive role throughout history, had better speak up now or be content to vanish into disciplinary extinction,' she says.
"At a time when the English educational system is rethinking the national curriculum, this could be the perfect moment to overhaul the way we think about art in school. It is important to note that no one is arguing for maths or English to be downgraded, but simply stating that communication is evolving faster than education."
"There are, however, other reasons to take the subject more seriously. Indeed, no essay demanding greater prominence for art in education would be complete without running through the well-rehearsed arguments of how important the creative industries are to this country's economic success. Creative industries now employ more than 2 million people in the UK and this is forecast to grow. Schools need to keep up, say the sector's advocates."
"Marketing. Could there be a better example of how art is infinitely more important as a subject than it used to be? Imagine a modern, successful, multimillion-pound, cross-platform marketing campaign, conceived or consumed by anyone image-illiterate. Impossible."
"But last term, the National Curriculum Review published its first draft programmes of study for English, maths and science. Art and music, it stated, will remain part of the primary curriculum, but it is not clear what status they will have in the secondary curriculum."
However, in his proposed reform of Key Stage 4 exams, Education Secretary Michael Gove refers to "new qualifications in the core subject areas of English, mathematics, the sciences, history, geography and languages English Baccalaureate Certificates Success in English, maths, the sciences, a humanities subject and a language will mean that the student has the full English Baccalaureate."
In a previous Blog post and Voice's press statement, Senior Professional Officer (Education) Ian Toone said:
"Mr Gove said that 'the GCSE was conceived and designed for a different age and a different world' but his proposed replacement for it is from a different age and a different world that of the 1940s and the school leaving certificate!
"Describing such a narrow range of subjects as a 'Baccalaureate' devalues … the important academic subjects that will be excluded such as religious education, music, computer studies, ART etc. A good general education needs to be broad, balanced and relevant, rather than narrow, restrictive and harking back to a golden age that didn't actually exist."
Where does the EBacc leave Art? Do let us know your thoughts…
Cultural Education Review highlights danger of narrow EBacc (February 2012)

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More Demo About Town: This Time at 18th and Christian Sts. Monday, December 12, 2011
The same developer currently building six homes on a terrible block in Point Breeze is getting started on a new project in the Graduate Hospital neighborhood. Roman Mosheyev started demolition work last week at 1801 Christian St., and the place looks like it will be gone within a matter of days.
Replacing this building will be a new, four-story single family homes with a parking space in the rear. Mosheyev originally wanted a duplex at this address, but the community convinced him to go single family.
We're happy to see development at this corner, but have a couple of regrets. The building that's coming down attractively fits in well with the surrounding buildings. The ground floor facade reveals a former commercial use, which would have been nice to see again. According to the developer, the structure of the building was so compromised that it would have been nearly impossible to maintain. Additionally, between the building's residential zoning and the difficulties in procuring mixed-use financing, Mosheyev didn't see a commercial possibility. A shame.
Notably, the property was a pop-up event space as well as a base-of-operations of sorts for BetterBlocks Philly a few months back. That's why the first floor stucco got a paint job. It makes us all warm and fuzzy to know that the building (despite its extremely dilapidated interior condition) got a last little bit of use squeezed out of it before its demolition.


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I WOULD express some agreement with the views of Peter Cross in the Western Telegraph letters page last week regarding the marina development and Fishguard and Goodwick Bay Conservation Group.
I have endeavoured to have some dialogue with this group, but found that they seem to wish to limit their community exposure to anonymous Facebook messages.
However my view is that concerns over this development should fall somewhere between uncritical support and emotive rejection. I put forward this view at the recent planning application meeting and in the very limited time available, tried to contact anybody who might identify relevant issues to enable a broad spectrum response.
A sad aspect is that we lack well identified community channels for responding to such issues. A body such as a Bay Conservation Group might be helpful in that way, but only if it is set up with a will to engage with the community in general.
Yes, we do need investment to improve local prospects and we do need to protect existing features that may appear trivial to developers. Not raised in either of those views are practical matters like already creaking parts of our infrastructure and the potential impact of 530 new dwellings in what could easily be a ghetto and the fact that the development will necessarily cut off, in some ways, the Goodwick community from the origin of its development.
There have been a number of investments in the area over the last 120 years, but today there is probably less evidence of local commercial prosperity than existed before those were made and moreover less desirable outcomes remain, such as the Slimma bombsite.
Major commercial investments need to be considered in the scope of total overall and continuing development and with a sceptical eye open in relation to community amenity and longer-term sustainability, both commerical and environmental – has that yet been truly demonstrated in the case of the marina and was five minutes at the planning meeting a sufficient platform for a local viewpoint of those concerns?
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❑ WE are pleased to see some dialogue appearing in the Western Telegraph regarding the proposed marina development in Goodwick. It is very important that the local people are given more clarity about such a huge environment impact that is intended for our area in the name of employment.
The Fishguard and Goodwick Bay Conservation Group made a six-page presentation to Fishguard and Goodwick town council together with statements from experts.
Mr Cross is mistaken. We are not against a marina and we applaud any jobs it will bring particularly because some existing jobs will have to go to make way for this development.
We do have some deep concerns about the Stena platform which has an undefined use; when fenced in (as the plan states) will most likely come under the port authority, and the County Council will have no jurisdiction over what will be built on it. There are no safeguards against this happening.
The remaining built up area proposal contains tourist attractions – shops etc – which have failed in St Davids, Milford and Neyland.
There are also doubts as to the sustainability of the marina (a small portion of these plans) itself, and what eventual effect the whole project will have on the function of the existing port.
These plans require about 40 acres of concrete, enough to fill the whole bay (getting it there is an environmental issue in itself). If we follow the results of the other towns we could be left with just concrete and irretrievable damage to the beautiful bay.
The area around the Ocean lab is a venue for many tourists and many well attended social and civic functions for the twin towns and also other tourist attractions.
This area will be replaced by some of the 250 so-called luxury flats, if you regard living next to 24-hour industrial activity with its noise, smell and bright lights. We therefore have concerns about their ultimate use.
We have made suggestions on how much of these plans can be achieved on dry land because only the marina needs to be in the sea.
Anything built on dry land can be salvaged as it could be in the unredeemed towns of Neyland and Milford Haven, unlike Goodwick Bay, which cannot be salvaged once it is destroyed by concrete.
The plans presented to us are not conclusive and are mediocre, emulating similar places elsewhere. They are a poor exchange for our unique beautiful bay and the national heritage it contains, and appreciated by so many visitors. They should never have been presented and considered by county council as a multi-purpose planning request, one part industrial, riding on the other recreational part. They should have been submitted as two planning requests and judged on their separate merits.
On April 17th of last year, the county council allowed a mere five minutes for one representative to make a presentation on a matter that will have such a huge impact on our environment, and lives. At the same meeting they voted against making a site visit in order to understand this impact, and then again at the same meeting they voted to permit outline planning.
We need more clarity and more say on what is happening with these plans. Are they really intended to benefit our community, or another imported community? We need assurance that should we have to sacrifice existing employment and our heritage, which is the bay, that it really would be for our own local people.


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This book documents artist Mark Chickinelli's first large scale commissioned painting. "De Semilla A Cigarro" was commissioned exclusively for an up-scale cigar bar in Omaha, Nebraska in the years 1997-1999. Along the way the artist leads you through the creative process step-by-step with everything from artist influences, design concepts, what music he listened to while painting and the kind of cigars he smoke while painting this magnificent picture. Patrons of Cigarro's will tell you that they can look at this picture for hours and you will always find something new.
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As 'True Blood's sixth season prepares to burst forth this summer on HBO, we've heard some impressive casting announcements for the show's upcoming year. HBO has yet to issue any kind of official teaser or photos of the sixth season, likely picking up after the finale moments of 'True Blood' season 5 finale "Save Yourself," but today has given away two new casting snippets. Joining the 'True Blood' cast for season 6 are 'Friday Night Lights' star Jurnee Smollett and one-time '90210' player Amelia Rose Blaire, but who will the lovely ladies be playing?


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Pidedjian: Help Our Musicians in Armenia
By Krikor Pidedjian
As long as God gives human beings the strength and capability to work—and thereby, provide for their families and their families' required needs for a pleasant life—along with possibilities and a special awareness of helping or sharing his bread with needy compatriots, I would ask from these fortunate and blessed people to help our needy musicians and musicologists, old and young, this year too.
Dear readers, these scholars, artists, and those who are studying to become the future torchbearers of our musical culture are neither lazy nor beggars. They are like you and me, people with dignity, who zealously try to preserve our musical culture. The only misfortune is that they've become the victims of the sad reality of our fatherland's miserable situation. These are people who have not benefitted from our big organizations and telethons.
When I mention old musicians and musicologists, these are the professors who are living their twilight years, who dedicated their entire lives to educating new generations of musicians. Due to their efforts and sacrifices, today's Armenian musical culture is alive and vivid. The Gomidas Conservatory's deans, professors, instructors, and teachers have been the students of these professors.
On the list of my young and needy musicians are families that husbands have abandoned. For the moment, put yourselves in the shoes of the mothers. These mothers are musicians. One is a composer and pianist with a teenage daughter, and the other is a singer and pianist with a son who is serving in the army. Both mothers teach a few hours a week in the conservatory. For their service, they receive a meager salary, on which it is impossible to live.
I would like to tell the respected readers of a very moving incident that happened last year. When my wife and I were in Armenia and we made an appointment with the above-mentioned singer and pianist mother to give her monetary help, she told me, "Mr. Pidedjian, God sent me the help of this gentleman. You cannot imagine how much I am thankful to the sender of this help. Early this morning I received a telephone call from the army telling me that my son is sick with pneumonia and that he had been transferred to our neighborhood hospital. This way all the caring will fall on my shoulders. While I was agitated and confused the telephone rang and here you were on the other end of the telephone. With this help, I will buy a bed sheet, pillow and cover, and underwear for my son and run to the hospital."
Yes dear friends, this is the situation of the Armenian soldier's parents. When a soldier gets sick, the obligation of taking care of him becomes the duty of the parents. In these public hospitals, which I have visited, the family must provide drinking water and food as well.
Therefore, as I said last year in my article, your monetary help returns to you as a blessing. For somebody who reaches out and helps the needy, there is no higher spiritual reward and satisfaction than this.
A well-known scholar, whose name I will not mention out of respect for his modesty, a really noble Armenian Ph.D. and professor, had sent me a check to help the daughter of one our most famous kousans of the twentieth century, Kousan Ashot. She was carrying the burden of her son's family with young children on her shoulders due to the untimely death of her son. With her and her daughter-in-law's meager incomes, they were barely surviving.
When I called their home, the daughter-in-law told me of the passing of Kousan Ashot's daughter. Nonetheless, I made an appointment and my wife and I met her in a park and gave her the monetary help of the professor. Suppressing my emotions, I promised to continue this year too. This noble professor wrote in his note, "Mr. Pidedjian, I commend your dedication and I ask you to give this small gift to our precious troubadour Ashot…" For me, the most precious word of the lines was the word "precious." With that word, the professor showed the effect of the art of the troubadour Ashot on Armenian souls. With his gift, the professor expressed his gratitude to the troubadour's family.
Why don't all Armenians think like the professor? Your help would also go to four parentless orphan female students of the Gomidas Conservatory.
Dear compatriots, this is the fourth year of this mission for me and my wife. We will go to Armenia at the very beginning of September. This year too, as in the past, I wish to thank the editorial board of this publication for printing my article and allowing my plea to reach the readers.
I ask all of you to help our needy musicians and musicologists. They are our pride. They must live as humanely as possible. The reader must know that the person who receives help must give me his or her "thank you" note with the mentioned amount, the date of receipt, and signature. When I return to the United States, I will mail this thank you note to the donor.
I would like to finish with the following Biblical prescription: "He who gives to the poor, gives to God."
Please send your heartfelt donations to:
Krikor Pidedjian
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A Keighley man who was a member of Skipton's Escape Healthclub has been banned by magistrates from going near it after verbally abusing the owner.
Perwaz Asghar, 39, was handed a restraining order by magistrates after admitting using threatening, abusive or insulting words or behaviour towards Amanda Quintana-Robinson at the club on December 3.
Asghar, who had originally denied the charge, changed his plea to guilty just before the start of his trial.
The self-employed takeaway owner was also ordered to pay £400 in fines and costs.
The court heard Asghar, who had been a member at the club at Sandylands Business Park for just a couple of months, got into a row with Mrs Quintana-Robinson about potential new members he had brought along.
The row quickly escalated, resulting in Asghar using strong and abusive language towards Mrs Quintana-Robinson and suggesting he would return to "pay her a visit".
Another member of the gym in the changing room had described Asghar as ranting, being aggressive and constantly using bad language. He had thought about challenging him but decided against it because he appeared so aggressive.
The court was told Mrs Quintana-Robinson, the club's managing director for 25 years, had been shaken by the ten-minute exchange and believed Asghar was capable of carrying out his threats.
A claim by Asghar that Mrs Quintana-Robinson had made a racist comment was completely denied, the court was told.
In mitigation, Sarah Wadd-ington said Asghar was a very religious family man with five children. He had thought he was helping the gym by introducing new members.
She said he had thought Mrs Quintana-Robinson had not been her usual self and the argument had been a misunderstanding.
The restraining order bars Asghar from contacting Mrs Quintana-Robinson in any way, including electronically or by a third person, and from entering the curtilage of the club.
He was fined £150 with costs of £250. There was no order for compensation.


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Shawn Tolleson
Shawn Mark Tolleson
- Bats Right, Throws Right
- Height 6' 2", Weight 220 lb.
- School Baylor University
- High School Allen (TX) High School
- Debut June 7, 2012
- Born January 19, 1988 in Dallas, TX USA
Biographical Information[edit]
Pitcher Shawn Tolleson reached the majors with the Los Angeles Dodgers in 2012.
Attending Baylor University, Tolleson sat out his freshman season in 2007 after Tommy John surgery, then redshirted in 2008.
Tolleson was selected by the Dodgers in the 30th round of the 2010 amateur draft. He was signed by scout Fred Costello and made his pro debut that summer with the Ogden Raptors, going 1-1 with an 0.63 ERA and 17 saves. After saving 25 games between three different clubs in 2011, he began the 2012 season with the AA Chattanooga Lookouts, posting a 1.38 ERA and 5 saves in 11 outings. Following a stint with the Albuquerque Isotopes, he was called up by the Dodgers in early June when Javy Guerra was placed on t he disabled list.
He made his big league on June 7, 2012, walking the only two batters he faced in a game against the Philadelphia Phillies. He didn't fare much better in his next outing, giving up an earned run in one inning of work against the Seattle Mariners while striking out two. He went 3-1, 4.30 ion 40 games as a reliever for the Dodgers that season, although he pitched only 37 1/3 innings. In 2013, however, he hardly pitched because of arm problems, making a total of 5 minor league appearances and walking the only two batters he faced in his only major league game, on April 12th against the Arizona Diamondbacks. The Dodgers placed him on waivers after the season, but he was claimed by the Texas Rangers.
Tolleson was one of the few bright spots on a Rangers pitching staff that set a major league record for most pitchers used during a season in 2014. He was the major league team the entire year, making 64 appearances out of the bullpen with a record of 3-1, 2.76. he was used for longer stints than in his rookie year, as he logged 71 2/3 innings, during which he gave up only 56 hits, walked 28 and struck out 69. On May 20, 2015, he picked up his first career save, pitching the 9th inning in a 2-1 win over the Boston Red Sox. The day before, manager Jeff Banister had announced that he would forgo pre-assigned role for his relievers for the time being, after the struggles of closer Neftali Feliz, which explains why Tolleson got a chance to pitch as a closer after being a middle reliever for his first 123 career appearances. He did not wait long to record save #2, however, as it came on the very next day. He settled down into the closer job, successfully converting his first 13 opportunities before allowing a game-winning two-run homer to Yangervis Solarte of the San Diego Padres on July 11th for his first blown save. He went 6-4, 2.99 in 73 games, recording 35 saves in the process. He posted an excellent K/W ratio of 76/17 in 72 1/3 innings. He also pitched three scoreless innings in two appearances in the Division Series against the Toronto Blue Jays.
After his breakout season, Tolleson struggled at the start of 2016. He had been charged with only 2 blown saves all season the previous year, but on May 17th, when he gave up a walk-off grand slam to Khris Davis of the Oakland A's with two outs in the 9th, turning a 5-4 lead into an 8-5 loss, it was already his fourth blown save of the year. His ERA rose to a bloated 9.20 after 18 games, but in spite of that, he was still leading the American League with 11 saves. Immediately after the loss, which was his second consecutive blown save, he was demoted from the closer role in favor of Sam Dyson. He pitched 37 times during the season, his last appearance coming at the end of July, at which point he was demoted to the AAA Round Rock Express. After a month there, he was placed on the disabled list with a lower back sprain, ending his season. His record in Texas was 2-2, 7.68 with the 11 saves; in AAA he had 1 save and a 12.46 ERA in 4 appearances.
Tolleson became a free agent after the 2016 season and on January 23, 2017, he signed a one-year contrat with the Tampa Bay Rays.
After his initial season, Tolleson went on nine-day humanitarian mission to the African country of Zambia along with his wife and teammate Clayton Kershaw and his wife. He and Kershaw are childhood friends from their days playing baseball while growing up in the Dallas/Fort Worth area. Kershaw wanted to build an orphanage near the capital city of Lusaka, and the Tollesons volunteered to help him out.
Notable Achievements[edit]
- 30 Saves Seasons: 1 (2015)
Further Reading[edit]
- T.R. Sullivan: "Zambia relief mission gave Tolleson perspective: Rangers righty spent nine days helping build an orphanage in Lusaka in 2012", mlb.com, January 10, 2014. [1]


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Monday, December 24, 2007
Feministic perspectives in Sashi Deshpande's The Binding Vine
Indo-English fiction owes its origin to the translations of various fictional works from Indian languages into English. It originated and grew up under the tutelage of British. Bengali novelist Bankim Chandra Chatterjee's "Rajmohan's Wife" registered its first appearance in 1864, which created a history whose roots have gone deep enough till this day.
Influenced by the greatness of the audience and fascinated by the global claim, a handsome number of Indian novelists then rendered their creativity into English. One among them was Rabindarnar Tagore who made a great impact on it. He translated his novels, which were originally written in Bengali. His novels, `Gora', `The Wreck', `The Home' and `The World' and his short stories are of this sort. K.S. Ramamurthi observes:
"The rise of the novel as an art form in the Indian literary scene was itself not an isolated historical event caused by the imitative impulses of the writers who had been exposed to the influence of Western art forms but an evolution and a growth brought about by changing socio-economic conditions which called for the emergence of a new literary form" (12).
The subjects of the early pioneering works of the Indo- English fiction were social, historical, detective and romantic. Despite its meager impact on the fiction, they heralded in a new literary form and provided a strong base for the development of the genre.
1.2 Different Terms for Indian English Literature:
The new literary form, in its genesis, has been variously designated as "Indo- Anglian Literature", "Indian Writing in English" and "Indo-English Literature". In ``Indian writing in English'' (1962) K.R. Srinivasa Iyengar includes English translation of Tagore's novels while H.M.Williams excludes these from his Indo- Anglian literature (1800-1970). As Paul Verghese puts it
Indian English is only a variety of English whose characteristics stem from the life and culture of the people of Indian. And the Indianness of it consists in its cultural overtones and undertones and not in a legislation of the ignorant misuse of English. (11)
The term, `Indo-English literature', however, is to mean literature produced by Indians in English. Indians have used it to denote translations from Indian Literature into English.
1.2 Nature and Theme:
The Sahitya Academy has recently accepted Indo-English literature as the most suitable appellation for this body of writing. Nevertheless, by whatever name Indian English literature is called, it remains a literary phenomenon worthy of serious scrutiny.
Indo- English Literature expresses sensibility both thematically and stylistically. There is a harmony in the blend of the modern as well as the post-modern framework. It has its deep root in the tradition beginning from the old civilization. Indo- English Literature is not merely artistic but also of sociological, cultural and philosophic worth.
Enchanted by its special nature and unique situation, scholars and critics from across continents turned their attention on Indo- English literature. The literature has flourished more successfully since Independence than it ever did before. Some prominent writers of the period introduced various techniques of narrating a story in a novel. R.S.Pathak points out,
"It is during the eighties that Indian English novelists and novels earned unheard of honours and distinctions in the western academic world…To a considerable extent the novel in India came to acquire the same importance that it had acquired in the eighteenth century England…" (14)
2.1 Prominent Novelists:
There emerged a few talented writers of this living and evolving literary genre, who could lift this form to international status and universal recognition. The three names usually mentioned in the literary circles in this context are: Mulk Raj Anand (1905), R.K. Narayan (1906) and Raja Rao (1909). They are known as 'The Big Three', an epithet coined by the noted English critic William Walsh.
The credit of bringing a name and reputation to Indo-English fiction goes to a few contemporary writers such as Mulk Raj Anand, Raja Rao, R.K. Narayan and Nirad Chaudhuri. They are the four wheels of contemporary Indo- English fiction.
Suiting themselves for a much greater literary space, the Indo- English writers of fiction are intentional in the choice of the subject matter. In Indo- English novels there are Sadhus, Fakirs, Caves, Temples, Vedanta, Gandhi, Rajahs and Nawabs. These subjects evoke the interests of the Western audience. They essentially represent the Western ideas of India. But they fail not to imprint the elements of Indianness, nationalism and patriotism, glorification of India's past on their works. The themes of the Indo- English fiction are the problems of social, domestic and sex.
The most prominent technique of narration in the Indo- English fiction is the stream of consciousness narrative. Mulk Raj Anand introduced this technique in the Indo- English fiction. Raja Rao adopted the autobiographical form of narration. The technique is seen in many novels such as Raja Rao's The Serpent and Rope and Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things.
2.2 The Role of Women:
Though a western art form has been applied to an Indian mode of story telling in the Indo-English fiction, the content of it seems to be Indian revealing the Indian sensibility and the Indian social and political situations. The comprehensive vision and philosophical insight of the Indian novelist makes him on a par with the writers of international repute. There were also some women novelists who adopted the technique of narrating a fiction.
They displayed Indianness through their characters. Many of them are the anglicized Indians such as Mahatma Gandhi, an Indian prince or Rajah, a sahib or an Englishman, a Eurasian, a Muslim, a Saint or Swami and a suffering woman.
The modern novels of `80s paid attention to the miserable plight of the contemporary middle-class, urban Indian woman. They attempted to reconstruct Indian womanhood, which has been characterized as ideally warm, gentle and submissive and the view that women deserved only to be kept in subordination to the male members of the family. Shantha Krishnaswamy comments on the general lot of women thus:
She is a creature who as a child is sold of to strangers for a bridal price, or when she grows up, serves as a supplier of dowry for her husband's family, or who as a widow, in a final act of obliteration immolates herself on her dead husband's funeral pyre to be acclaimed as 'Sita-Savitri', as an immortal. (Qtd. in Sarbjit K. Sandhu 8)
2.3 Social Status of Women:
The ideal image of woman like the traditional Sita or Savitri was gradually replaced by the realistic one with the introduction of liberal English education. It not only brought significant changes in the middle-class life-style, but also raised a consciousness of freedom in the minds of women. This led to an intense desire for a freedom that was not easy to come by.
The modern age rendered women confused between the opposing forces of modernity and tradition. They found it difficult to reconcile between their romantic aspirations for the freedom of the nation and the realities of life. The women writers used this conflict between tradition and modernity.
Earlier, the problems of women were more of an emotional nature due to her attachment to home and family. But, with increasing consciousness as an individual, she has begun to assert herself within the family and outside as well.
2.4 Women, in View of Male writers:
Women in Raja Rao's novels suffer from domestic injustice and tyrannical tradition, but the writer suggests no way out of their dilemma. His women characters, who are a little ambitious, end up playing the devoted role of wife, like Savitri in the Serpent and the Rope.
Bhabani Bhattacharya's women are tender, charming and virtuous, and play a significant role in effecting the social change. But, in spite of their tenderness and virtue, they are victimized. Kajoli, in So Many Hungers!, undergoes immense suffering and misery, but her spirit remains invincible.
In all these cases, the male writers have either exposed their weaknesses and drawbacks, or placed her on a high pedestal and deified them. They could not pen the delineation of the reality of Indian women.
3.1 Feminist Movement in India:
Since the inception of the feminist movement in 1960s in the West, much has been written on women. The then women writers faced stringent norms in the name of social censure.
Only a few feminist writers made their contribution to the women's movement against this oppression. Margaret Drabble, Doris Lessing, Iris Murdoch, Marilyn French and Margaret Atwood have contributed greatly in the movement and have been internationally acclaimed as feminist novelists.
They announced a rise of a new wave of feminism across the world. Their influence on India resulted in a new breed of Indian feminists. The prominent feminist novelists in the breed are Nayantara Sehgal, Anita Desai, Shashi Deshpande, Namita Gokhale, Shobha De, R.P.Jhabwala, Kamala Markandaya and Arundhati Roy.
They occupy prestigious position in Indo-English fiction. Their writings reflect a variety of shades, colours and visions. The assertion of identity in their writings deserves a better treatment at the hands of their male counter-part. They protested against the cruelty perpetrated on the women by portraying their responses and reactions. The spirit of revolt against mechanical life, mismatched marriages and wayward ways of their life partners was obvious in their writings. The protagonists of their novels are women of a typical Indian society. The plot of their story is woven around the women who negotiate the oppression of a patriarchal society. Fiction written in English in India today, especially by woman writers shows the variety of backgrounds that they hail from. Sarla Palkar Says:
"For a longtime, woman has existed as a gap, as an absence in literature. This is not only true of the fiction who have mostly confined themselves to writing love stories or dealing a superficial manner. (which) represses the truth about the majority of their sisters and their lives" (163)
3.2 Indian Feminism:
Unlike feminism in West, Indian feminism had a different story to tell. Women's role in pre-colonial structures in India was not as bad as presumed. Some of the families during the pre-colonial period exhibited matriarchal tendencies. There were some revered images of women as unique and powerful. But the very idea of woman as `powerful' was accommodated into the patriarchal culture through religion.
Besides, not all women of all castes enjoyed the rare privilege. Even, in the oppressive patriarchal social structures, the women had to negotiate survival through various patriarchal attributes like dowry, kinship, caste, community, sati.etc. Their position as submissive was justified by their male counterparts whose philosophy was that the individual was considered to be part of the larger social collective, dependent for its survival upon cooperation and self-denial for the greater good. This is evident in one of the laws of Manu, which says, "In childhood a woman should be under her father's control, in youth under her husband's and when her husband is dead, under her sons, she should not have independence…" (The laws of Manu 5.148)
On the other hand, there were multiple patriarchies, and so, multiple feminisms due to the heterogeneity of Indian culture. Hence, feminism in India cannot be considered as a singular theoretical orientation. Time and again, it has undergone gradual changes in relation to historical and cultural realities. It has also changed with the levels of consciousness, perceptions and actions of individual women and women as a group.
Thus, the Indian feminist had to struggle to carve a separate identity for feminism in India. They had to define feminism in terms of Indianness sans the imitation of Western ideas.
The story of the male oppressing the female from time immemorial could not be fully true in the Indian context because it was men who initiated social reform movements against various social evils. In many families, women were more adverse among each other. They were pitted against one another.
3.3 Indian Women Novelists:
All these issues could be brought out and explored to the core only by women novelists rather than their male counterparts as they themselves are the experienced and the experience. A few of the Indian women novelists who achieved their ideal through writings are Anitha Desai, Shashi Deshpande and Bharati Mukherjee are of that kind.
They bear a curious resemblance to one another in certain aspects. They belong to urban middle-class, English educated society. They deal with the world of women. They depict their women characters in all their negative and positive traits. For these women novelists, character takes precedence over plot as they could easily depict the inner landscape of their women protagonists. We see in the women protagonists the "power of women".
Among the three novelists, Shashi Deshpande's novels reveal her deep insight into the plight of Indian women, who are smothered and fettered in a male- dominated society. She highlights their inferior position and the subsequent degradation in the male-dominated society. She owes a great popularity in the field of Indian literature.
4.1 Shashi Deshpande's Life and Works:
She was born in Dharwad in Karnataka as the daughter of the well-known Kannada dramatist as well as a great Sanskrit scholar Sriranga. She pursued her education in Dharwad, Bombay and Bangalore. She has completed her degrees in Economics and Law. She completed them with a gold medal.
After her marriage, she was moved to Bombay where she undertook a course on journalism at the Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan and worked for a couple of months as a journalist for the magazine, "On looker".
In 1970, she published her first short story. "Legacy" was the first collection of her short stories, which came out in 1978. Two years later, she published her first novel, "The Dark Holds No Terrors". The subsequent year saw her next brainchild "A Matter of Time", which was published in the United States of America. The Feminist Press of New York brought out that novel for the first time in that country.
Shashi Deshpande has made bold attempts at raising a voice to the disappointments and frustrations of women despite her vehement denial of being a feminist. "Roots and Shadows", was her another novel depicting the agony and suffocation experienced by the protagonist, Indu. She is frustrated with her husband who is no better than less educated and conservative Indian men. The demanding reality of playing a subordinate role of the ideal Indian wife against her frustrates her to a great extent. In her quest of identity, she even develops an extramarital affair to finally realize that it is possible to exercise autonomy within the parameter of marriage. Deshpande, thus, exposes the gross gender discrimination and its fall-out in a male-dominated society.
"The Dark Holds No Terror" was her second novel. It is about the traumatic experience of the protagonist, Saru. Her husband refuses to play a second-fiddle role. Throughout her life, she undergoes a great amount of humiliation. Neglected as a child by her mother, she pins hope on her lover cum wife. In the hands of her husband, her life is shattered like anything. The novelist discusses the blatant gender discrimination shown by parents towards their daughters and their desire to have a male child. After her marriage she gains a greater social status than her husband, Manohar. Her husband develops an inferiority complex and feels humiliated on seeing the reaction of society to Saru's superior position. The novelist clearly portrays the sexual sadism of a frustrated husband's victimization of his wife.
Pande's "That Long Silence" talks about Jaya, who, despite having played the role of a wife and a mother to perfection, finds herself lonely and estranged. Jaya realizes that she has been unjust to herself and her career as a writer, as she is afraid of inviting any displeasure from her husband. Her fear even discourages her from acknowledging her friendship with other men.
In her novel "A Matter of Time", Shashi Deshpande for the first time enters into the metaphysical world of philosophy. Basically, it is about three women from three generations from the same family. Sumi is deserted by her husband Gopal, and she faces her humiliation with great courage and stoicism. Her mother Kalyani was married to her maternal uncle Shripathi. When their four-year-old son gets lost at a railway station, Shripathi sends her back to her parent's house. When she returns he maintains a stony silence for the rest of his life. Manorama, Kalyani's mother, fails to beget a male heir to her husband, and fears he should take another wife for the same purpose. Manorama, to avoid the property getting passed on to another family, gets Kalyani married to her brother Shripathi. Thus, the novelist has revealed the fear, frustration and compulsions of the three women from three generation and the invariable social condition of the Indian women for generation.
The novel "Small Remedies" is about Savitribai Indorekar who avoids marriage to pursue her genius. She has led the most unconventional of lives, and undergoes a great mental trauma due to the opposition by a society that practises a double standard. Even as a child, she was a victim of gross gender discrimination.
4.2 Synopsis of The Binding Vine:
"The Binding Vine", her fourth novel, deals with the personal tragedy of the protagonist, Urmi. Through Urmi, Deshpande narrates the pathetic lives of other victims, Kalpana and Mira. Mira is Urmi's mother-in-law, a victim of marital rape. Mira lives in the solitude of her unhappy marriage. She also narrates the tale of her acquaintance Shakutai, who had been deserted by her husband for another woman. The worst part of her tale is that her elder daughter Kalpana is brutally raped by her sister Sulu's husband, Prabhakar. Urmi takes up cudgels on Kalpana's behalf and brings the culprit to book.
The novel begins with Urmi grieving over the death of her baby daughter. She is treated with a tender affection of her loving mother and her dear sister-in-law Vanna. Despite the efforts of her friends and family members, she clings on to her grief. In spite of her fight for the loss, she feels that forgetting this grief would tantamount to betrayal.
She is married to an insensitive husband Kishore who is a Merchant Navy. Her husband leaves her alone the most of the time. She has also got a son Karthik. It is Urmi who narrates the whole story. There are five pairs of mother-daughter, namely Inni-Urmi, Mira's mother-Mira, Shakutai-Kalpana, Akka-Vanna, and Vanna-Mandira, and their relationships between themselves is based on some sort of misapprehension or dissention.
Urmi's displeasure with her mother was deep-rooted in her separation from her parents. Right from her childhood days' she was sent to her paternal grandmother, she had no experience of the kind of mothering a daughter. But Urmi was neither in a position nor in a mood to find out the cause of her displacement or her mother's predicament. Inni had an early marriage, leading to an early motherhood, and being too young herself, she was unable to take care of her child properly. While trying to vindicate herself she explains to her daughter her position. Towards the end, Urmi becomes empathetic and forgives her.
Urmi's father was a dominant patriarch and a domineering husband, he was the decision-maker and instrumental in her displacement, but Inni, Urmi's mother had to bear the burnt of the consequent blame.
She has to survive the rest of her life to make up for the loss of love for her daughter. She was doting on her indifferent daughter to a great extent whereas Urmi was on the wrong belief that her mother had deliberately sent her to her mother-in-law for her own convenience. Urmi disillusions the wrong notion only after Inni unveils the truth ----"A sense of being vulnerable and naked, as if some armour I've been wearing all there years-against what?-Has been taken off (200). (5)
She feels frightened to think of her father's unkindness to her mother, who went through the pain of child birth, but was deprived of the right to decide what would be best for her baby.
In an aggrieved state at the loss of her daughter, Urmi is drawn into the lives of three different women. She happens to meet Shakuntala, the mother of a rape-victim, whom she meets at a hospital where Vanna works. Her daughter has been admitted to the hospital. Dr. Bhaskar reports that Kalpana has been brutally raped. Shakuntala refuses to believe that her daughter Kalpana has been raped. Her reaction is that of a typical Indian mother bred in an oppressive male-dominated society. She cries in agony and fear. Most Indian mothers would react in a similar way as they are concerned about their daughters' marriage. Shakuntala is in a traumatic state and is sobbing. Urmi escorts her to their home and from there starts her association with her. She pays regular visits to Shakuntala's place to inquire about Kalpana's state.
It is during these regular visits that Urmi comes to know about Kalpana from Shakuntala. Shakuntala holds two extreme views on her daughter; sometimes she is all praise for Kalpana. And, many a time, she puts all the blame on her. She says that Kaplana is secretive in nature as she does not even tell her about her pay. She also expresses her surprise at having given birth to a pretty child like Kalpana. She is full of praise when she talks about her daughter's physical appearance.
Shakuntala is of the view that it is Kalpana's attitude which is responsible for her fate. Urmi fails to convince Shakuntala and is enraged at the fact that Shakuntala's blame game and subjection of will to fate would lead to the rapist's getting away scot-free.
Shakuntala does not want a report to be lodged with the police, as she knows that if she does, a much greater injustice awaits her and her daughter. A victim of rape is a loser on two counts: First, she has been raped; secondly the society looks down upon such a victim as a characterless woman, which ushers in a much miserable plight.
The police officer registers the case as a mere accident to the great shock of Dr. Bhaskar. Urmi wants justice to be done to Kalpana by bringing the culprit to book. She finds herself a lonely crusader in her fight. Despite opposition from Vanaa and Urmi's mother, she takes the matter to the press. She gets the case reopened and with this the identity of the rapist is revealed who is no other than Prabhakar, Shakuntala's sister's husband. Sulu gets so guilty conscience that she immolates herself leaving behind a grief-stricken Shakuntala.
Yet another saga of misery, submission and sorrow is that of Urmi's late mother-law, Mira. Mira has aversion to physical intimacy with her husband and still she has to put up with his obsession for her. She voices to her inner self in her poems.Urmi receives an old trunk full of books and a few other things from Mira's husband's stepmother, referred to as Akka. Among these books Urmi finds Mira's diary which is "not a daily account of her routine life but a communication with herself" (51).
Urmi goes through the poems in Mira's diary and gets a glimpse of her troubled marriage. She comes to know from Akka how Kishore's father had pursued and married Mira, a college student. The poems and entries in the diary are proof enough for Urmi to conceive the forced sexual activity Mira had to undergo in an incompatible marriage.
Through her photographs and poems, Urmi gets an image of her mother-in-law as a lively and intelligent girl snuffed off in a forced, incompatible marriage. Mira's inhibitions about her voicing a desire to become a poet are clear in the lines of her poems. Thus, Mira symbolizes the miserable and hopeless lot of innumerable Indian women, who suffer silently and their voice remains smothered.
In case of Harish and Vanna also, we see Vanna's submission just to keep her marriage intact. She longs for a son and the same is denied to her by her husband. After the birth of a second baby-girl she expresses her desire to Harish for a son. Harish snubs her by saying that she should be one of those women who craves for sons. He also asks her as to how she could think for sure that the next child would be a son.
Despite all these arguments, she is ready to take a chance. Urmi gets terribly irritated at her constant refrain "Harish says". She tells her to assert herself and not to crawl before her husband. She is also critical of her going out to work and also doing domestic chores all by herself, thereby spoiling him and in the process denying love and care to her children. This leads to her daughter, Mandira, to grow with her own notions of the role of a woman as a mother and wife. She thinks that the duty of a woman is to first look after her home and children. Mandira expresses her displeasure at her mother leaving her and her sister in the care of a servant. Towards the end, Urmi seems to be optimistic and gets ready for her usual responsibilities.
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- MiyokoC_Rachal奕玲 said...
Necessity is the mother of invention..........................
- May 28, 2010 at 7:40 AM
- 韋于倫成 said...
Lets cross the bridge when we come to it........................................
- June 3, 2010 at 2:18 PM
- 亦妮亦妮 said...
Poverty tries friends.................................................................
- June 29, 2010 at 8:15 PM
- JasonBirk佳琪 said...
rain before seven; fine before eleven.............................................................
- July 11, 2010 at 9:59 PM
- 方偉白方偉白 said...
Practice makes perfect...................................................
- July 21, 2010 at 6:26 PM
- 盈廖生家秀蔡 said...
We could learn a lot from crayons. Some are sharp, some are pretty and some are dull, Some have weird names , and all are different colors, but they all have to live in the same box .............................................................
- July 24, 2010 at 10:27 AM
- 黃黃莉茹曉元 said...
No one knows the weight of anothers burden. ............................................................
- July 27, 2010 at 2:29 AM
- 毛彥宇毛彥宇 said...
Judge not a book by its cover.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
- July 30, 2010 at 2:04 AM
- 恩宛玲如 said...
Learning makes a good man better and ill man worse.............................................................
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Southern Caribbean Holiday Cruise: Celebrity Constellation Cruise Review by Cruisfan
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Southern Caribbean Holiday Cruise
Destination: Southern Caribbean
Embarkation: Fort Lauderdale (Port Everglades)
We took a shuttle from our hotel and arrived to our ship by 11:15. The embarkation process was a cinch and, as we were early, we were assigned a waiting area for concierge passengers. By noon, we were on board ship. We were greeted with smiling faces and glasses of champagne, a very nice start to our trip.
We headed off to find some lunch and then toured the ship a bit, looking at the pools, the theater, the lounges etc. By 2pm, the rooms were ready. The room was a nice size, compact and efficiently set up. My bag arrived shortly there after but my husband's did not. As the afternoon progressed and the bag did not arrive, we started to be a bit concerned. We spoke to our steward who told us the bag was in "security" and we had to go retrieve it. Off we go to the first floor to find the missing bag. It turns out the bag was More pulled aside because hubby had left his pocket knife in the flap of the bag, a knife which has travelled all over the world and never been an issue before.It was deemed a dangerous weapon and confiscated. This left us with a funny feeling as there are knives all over the ship and anyone could use them to stab someone else. They are way more dangerous than a small pocket knife.
Off we then went to unpack his bag and go to diner. The ship was beautifully decorated for the holidays, the food was amazing and the service exceptional. Of particular note, were the maitre d's, two lovely young ladies, who were smiling efficient and very pleasant to deal with. Princess could learn from this cruise line as their maitre d's are surly and take themselves way too seriously. We had booked select dining and never waited once.
The waiters were all happy, smiling and very eager to help us. We were sat in different areas and hence had different sommeliers. Suzanna was very good, knowledgeable and extremely efficient. Not so with a male sommelier, who made numerous errors with us and others around us.
We did not try the other restaurants as we felt the food in San Marco was fine. We had lunch each day at the Seaside Cafe and found lots of options to please all tastes. The sorbet, made daily is amazing. The Christmas day brunch was fabulous at there were numrous stations to suit everyone. Really aprreciated the full roomservice breakfast in the concierge class which we used several times and ate on our balcony.
The T pool is great as it is adult only. Lots of chairs to be found, rarely waited. To us on this cruise, the ports were less important as we have done them many times before. We were on this trip to rest and get away.
We did go for a tour on Grenada, the spice island,looking at cocoa production, nutmeg and other fruits ans spices on the island. Very informative. In other ports, we simply went to the beach. I forgot that we were caught in a downpour in Curacao,on the floating bridge. We got soaked to the bone but, it was a warm rain so who cares...Orient Beach in Saint Martin was very disappointing. Very crowded, busy with motor sports stuff, para-sailing etc. Not one we would recommend if you want to be quiet and enjoy the sun and the sea. Of course, Magens Bay beach was wonderful.
Activities on the ship. The Christmas eve caroling and the show in the theater were lots of fun because they were informal and all could participate. Otherwise, the musicals were great, the dancers full of energy.The acapella group were wonderful, the Arabesque Trio not quite so,as they were often off key. Beyond the Podium talks were also a nice change. Learnt lots of info about the Caribbean. We skipped many of the other entertainers as the comedy did not appeal to us.
In summary, this was our 10th cruise, Princess, NCL, Carnival and now Celebrity.We would certainly sail again with Celebrity as we would with Princess who compare quite well. Less
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As the strike of the municipal workers in Jerusalem continues through its fourth week, the Jerusalem municipality decided this week-end to ask the Israel Government to hold elections for a new municipal council within the shortest time possible.
The strike, in its 25th day today, broke out over the city's failure to meet its payroll. The city treasury is empty and besides owing its workers wages, it is faced with a threat by the utilities companies to cut off water and electricity because of failure to meet their bills. The sanitation problem is becoming intense since garbage collectors are among the strikers.


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My Keurig was a Christmas gift two years ago. I begged to get one for two years before. We really use it for everything. From winter drinks like apple cider and hot chocolate to #BrewOverIce drinks like Snapple's iced teas, Vitamin Burst, and cold brew over ice coffee additions. If we don't use it for drinks, we use it for ramen. You know those little cups of soup with ramen and vegetables. We use the Keurig to add the water, let them sit three minutes and then they are ready to eat. Condensed soup, just add water, stir and serve. It is just so functional!
I can say I cannot live without my Keurig. Neither can my family. My daughter swears by the brew over ice lemonades. They are a bit strong for me but the teas I love! I haven't been so lucky to find the Snapple Peach tea here but once I do I will have a pantry full; not that I already don't.
Brew your favorite and new found Brew Over Ice flavors on the 6oz (small) or the 8oz (medium) setting for the best brewed taste. I picked mine up at Walmart. They have the box sizes I like for a larger family for iced tea. It is very important that, when brewing over ice, you must be using a plastic cup or tumbler. BPA FREE!
I wanted to share with you one of my favorite drinks to make in the summer with my Keurig. It's pretty simple and full of flavor. I call it the Sugared Strawberry Basil Lemon Iced Tea.
That's why the rim of the glass is coated in sugar for a little extra sweetness. It includes fresh strawberries which enhances the tea. I hope you enjoy it like I do sitting outside by the pool or late night on the front porch. Enjoy!
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- 2 basil leaves; fresh
- 1 tablespoon sugar
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- Turn on Keurig and let it warm up. Wet rim of the plastic cup (do not brew in glass) roll in sugar. Add ice to the rim of the cup. Add in sliced strawberries and brew lemon tea over the top. Add a slice of lemon and a strawberry to the rim. Top with basil leaves. Serve!
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Visit Florida replaces CEO
Visit Florida, the state's tax-assisted tourism promotion firm, is replacing president and CEO Bud Nocera, according to an announcement on Friday from the Richard Goldman, the group's board of directors chairman.
Chris Thompson, Visit Florida's chief operating officer, will replace Nocera as part of a "corporate realignment," Goldman explained in the six-sentence written statement.
The "realignment" also includes the elimination of 17 positions, including five vacant staff slots.
Nocera was the target of legislative criticism earlier this year when lawmakers blasted him for selecting a call center in Kansas to promote Florida as a tourism destination. At the time, Nocera told legislators that hiring a midwestern company made sense because Visit Florida directs mail to would-be Florida vacationers around the country.
"Every organization has a responsibility to ensure that taxpayer dollars are being spent wisely and invested properly," said Sen. Mike Fasano, R-New Port Richey, chairman of the Senate budget committee that oversees tourism spending. "I appreciate Visit Florida's commitment to new beginnings and look forward to working with them in the future."
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Valentine's Day may have come and gone, but love is still in the air. Just when I thought I'd heard everything about our wacky online world… this came in. Are you sitting down? Leading dating site Match.com has partnered with none other than a telecom company.
I'll give you one guess which it is. Yes, it's AT&T Wireless. As of last week, matchmaking became mobile. Match.com and AT&T Wireless launched a new product called Match Mobile. The product provides dating and matching for AT&T customers via their wireless phones.
"The popularity of wireless phones with young adults will expand the reach of our network while providing a matching tool that is convenient and fun to use in their daily lives," said Tim Sullivan, president, Match.com, a unit of USA Interactive and the number one online dating site in the United States.
Here's what it will offer:
- Members will be able to search by location.
- Matches will initially be made with Zip Code as a primary criterion, but eventually location-based technology will enable people to be matched more closely.
- The search engine will never reveal actual physical locations but simply allow users to chat only with matches within a specified radius.
Whether you agree or disagree with this type of service, it's certainly a great example of personalization. It also puts together two very hot trends.
Visits to online personal sites grew 31 percent — 26.6 million visitors — last year in the U.S., according to comScore Networks. Many Web sites have launched personals within the past couple of years. Here's how comScore says they stack up:
- Match.com: 5.7 million users
- Yahoo Personals: 4 million users
- One2Onematch.com: 3.5 million users
- TerraLycos's Matchmaker.com: 3.2 million users
Meanwhile, wireless has been picking up steam. A while back, I wrote a column about mobile commerce (m-commerce), and Accenture predicts it will be a $20 billion market in the U.S. by 2005. Mobile phones have become ubiquitous. Approximately 150 mobile phones are currently in the U.S. today, and seemingly just about everyone is carrying around some sort of mobile device.
Connectivity is top of mind to media folks like me. We look at the opportunity with wide eyes for several reasons:
- Mobility. We want to advertise to those on the go.
- Personalization. Why not have the ability to customize messages?
- Community. Once telecom companies figure out the best way to link up users, the market will have true community-based communication (similar to that of instant messaging).
- Content. Although there isn't room for lengthy text, there is a tremendous opportunity for direct and to-the-point messages, offers, and the like.
- Technology. Mobile devices possess the ultimate cool factor. As technology advances, opportunities will arise to create more online synergies. Many features are being added, including push-to-talk, digital photo capture and display, and ring tones.
Like any other form of advertising there are things to watch out for:
- Spam. Differentiating spam on mobile devices is hard.
- Privacy. It is the number one concern of mobile users.
- Churn. Telecom companies are constantly jumping through hoops to retain customers. Many providers rate cut plans severely to encourage users to switch.
Many advertisers are said to be asking for cell phone information via online registration on Web sites. Man, does this open up a whole can of worms. As I take my marketer hat off and put my consumer hat on, let me say there is no way I'd give up my number. Would you?
It'll be fun to watch the world go wireless. Love seemingly has beaten the CPG companies to it. Go figure.
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James Magnussen. Photo: Getty Images
Commonwealth Games gold medal winning relay teammates on Friday night, 100 metre freestyle rivals the next morning, time for Australian stars James Magnussen and Cameron McEvoy to cue in the mind games.
With a clash to decide Australia's freestyle sprint king expected in the final on Sunday night, Magnussen and McEvoy cruised though to semi-finals with the two fastest times of 48.47 seconds and 49.46 respectively and both insisted that they were keeping plenty in store for when it really counted.
"I had to blow a few cobwebs out in the first 50 after last night," Magnussen said. "I felt fine, pretty relaxed. The skills were a lot better this morning. It's all good.
"I don't need to show too many cards until the finals a few of us are in a pretty lucky position here we've got a bit of room to work with."
To demonstrate his point, the dual world champion likened his 4x100 freestyle relay swim the previous night, when he hauled in a large deficit to help set up the win, to remaining in fifth gear and he was ready to unleashed more speed in the final.
McEvoy said he was also "feeling pretty good".
"I got through to the semi-finals which is pretty much the goal of this morning so I'm happy with that," McEvoy said. "I just did what I needed to do to get through to the next round. Going through second which is good."
However, the pair, who will be joined in the semi-finals by Tommasso D'Orsogna, sixth fastest qualifier, maintain that their rivalry does not go beyond the time they were in the pool.
"I keep talking to them right until we get up behind the blocks," Magnsussen said. "There's no reason to have any animosity between us. We get along really well all three of us."
McEvoy said the friendly approach was the best for him.
"My approach to racing as such is to laugh as much as I can and have a good time beforehand," McEvoy said.
"They're still good mates back in the marshalling area, back in the village they're still good mates. (We) watch 'Breaking Bad' or something like that, just the usual stuff and try and be as normal as possible."
Meanwhile, para-swimmer Daniel Fox broke the world record in the heats of the 200 freestyle (S14). Fox was given an edict from swimming officials that they wanted to see him break a world record at an overseas meeting, and the 23 year-old was only too happy to comply, following the lead of Maddison Elliott, who broke the 100 freestyle (S8) world record on Friday night. He also said he was not finished in lowering the world standard.
"It's amazing. I had my whole race planned and just put my mind to it," Fox said.
"My coach goes to me during training when it comes to Commonwealth Games or Pan Pacs, Swimming Australia wants to see if you can actually break a world record so and I said, 'ok then I'll see if can do that'. I saw the time on the wall and said 'oh my God, I did it'."
"I have to fast tonight and definitely break it again. I broke it twice at trials so I can definitely try and break it again tonight."
In other races, Josh Beaver followed up his 100 backstroke bronze medal on Friday night by qualifying second fastest for the 50 backstroke semi-finals with teammates Ben Treffers (third fastest) and 100 backstroke silver medallist (seventh).
Taylor McKeown, Sally Hunter and Tessa Wallace all qualified for Saturday night 50 breaststroke semi-finals, while Alicia Coutts, Madeline Groves and Brittany Elmslie will be swimming in the 50 butterfly semi-finals.
Australia's women's 4x200 freestyle relay team was the fastest qualifier for Saturday night's final in 7:57.95.


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Dice released a large patch and launched its premium service for Battlefield 3 on Monday, with a deluge of patch notes and some mildly controversial changes to the established Battlefield style of online gameplay.
For an additional $49.99, players could buy the Premium version of the game – unlocking the latest expansion: Close Quarters, unique in-game items such as a new knife, new camouflage patterns and dog tags. On the BF3 Premium website a calendar shows a slew of upcoming item unlocks, strategy guides, developer player-tip-videos as well as other special deals in the works for people willing to pay the price.
Premium players will also get to participated in monthly Double XP Events, suggesting a "pay-to-win" model that many F2P gaming models try hard to avoid. In addition, premium offers two weeks advance access to upcoming expansions such as Armored Strike, coming in September, as well as Aftermath in December and End game in March of next year.


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|Caelian Cuirass
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|Raid damage: 70
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|Caelnarn boasts vast planes suitable for raising great herds of cattle. But it contains few sources of good quality iron. This the Caelian people have become adept at creating hardened leather armor instead of metal cuirasses.
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2 Broke Girls star Kat Dennings will be reprising her role as Darcy in Thor 2.
Due to her popularity being on the rise, it appears as though Kat's role is being expanded for Thor: The Dark World. You may remember, she was simply a friend of the main female lead Natalie Portman in the first Thor film.
In the sequel, her role should see more screen time and may be more integral to the story due to the huge success of her show 2 Broke Girls. Thor: The Dark World will hit theaters November 8, 2013.
We look forward to Kat Dennings' comedic chops being used again in the next Thor film, how about you?
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