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POLLS/VIDEOS: Marco's Tract K site to sit vacant some more
Collier school district, Marco council fail to reach consensus to build school or solar project on land
MARCO ISLAND - Tract K will remain a large piece of grass for the Collier County School District to mow.
Superintendent Dennis Thompson said plans to put a solar project on the 11.6-acre parcel, which is located on the west side of Tigertail Court between Somerset and Century drives on Marco Island, will not move forward following last week's announcement that two grant proposals did not make the short list of energy projects to be funded by the Florida Energy and Climate Commissioner.
The project would have provided solar energy to power Tommie Barfield Elementary School and the Marco Island Charter Middle School.
"We thought it was a good, productive use for the land. It needed the approval of the Marco Island City Council and the Collier County School Board," he said. "We could proceed without the grant money, but there is not the political wherewithal to move the project forward."
The news comes about two months after Marco Island residents vehemently opposed the idea to put the solar project on the property. The project would have used about 4 acres of the land and the school district hoped to deed the remaining 7.6 acres to Marco Island to use as the city saw fit.
"There is a small, vocal minority opposed to the project," Thompson said. "Without a referendum, we won't know how the majority of Marco Island feels about the project. People who are against something tend to come to meetings."
Most of the Marco residents who spoke out against the project during a January joint meeting of the Collier County School Board and Marco Island City Council spoke in favor of what they believe is the true purpose of Tract K — a school.
Marco Island resident Bill McMullan, who opposed the project on Tract K, said he was pleased with the news.
"I was encouraged to see that Dr. Thompson has obliquely acknowledged that the Marco-constituent base should have a say in the use of this property — hence the 3,400 e-mails and letters sent to the Governors Office on Energy — which shut down the superintendent's plan to allow commercial use of this property," he wrote in an e-mail. "The superintendent is a newcomer to the area ... and until now was probably not aware of the passion Marcoites have for Tract K."
Tract K has been sitting vacant since the Deltona Corp. deeded the property to the school district. In March 2006, the Collier County School Board discussed selling the land. That suggestion was met with anger from Marco city officials and residents, several of whom wanted the district to build a school on the site.
The School Board decided against selling, but then there was talk that Marco and the district could find a piece of land owned by the city to swap with Tract K. But an acceptable swap could not be found.
Furthermore, the city and district discovered a few problems with building a school on Tract K. There is an eagle's nest in a tree in the middle of the site. While the district could build its solar panels when the eagles are not nesting, the city would not be able to use the remaining property until the eagles had left the nest and didn't return for six years. A school could not be built on the site until it had been vacated by the eagles for at least six years.
Marco residents argue that the land had been deeded to the district for a school site. The district argues that the deed indicates the land must be used for "school purposes," which would cover things like a solar project to power schools.
Thompson reiterated Tuesday that the district has no plans to build a school on the island. Florida statutes require the school district to submit planning documents that include an educational plant survey, according to the Florida Department of Education. The district must show the need for new facilities based on the number of students or expected number of students as projected by data. "We have 1,588 vacant high school seats in Collier County," he said. "The state will not allow us to build a high school."
But some Marco residents are not looking for another Lely High School or Naples High School on the land. They would like to see a charter high school, similar to the Marco Island Charter Middle School.
Thompson said Tuesday that the School Board is not open to participating in the construction of a charter high school on Marco.
"It is not going to be a project the board undertakes," he said.
The Collier County School Board and the Marco Island Charter School Board joined forces a few years ago to build the Marco Island Charter Middle School. The district provided $17 million to build the school, which sits next to Tommie Barfield Elementary School.
Thompson said a similar situation to build a high school will not happen.
"If someone wants to build a high school on Marco Island, they are going to have to buy the land and find the financing," he said.
McMullan said regardless of ownership, the property should be developed for the use of Marco residents. He said consensus of the community is that the property should be used for sports activities, educational facilities or a park.
Tract K might still go to the city's hands. At a Marco Island City Council meeting Monday evening, council members discussed purchasing the property. It was not an agenda item, but was brought up during council communication.
Councilman Jerry Gibson said he hoped the council could just lay low on the issue for at least a year.
"After what we've just come through, nothing is going to happen right now. I think we're rubbing salt in an open wound," he said.
Some council members indicated that the council and the School Board would have to mend some fences before a true dialogue could happen.
"Right now, we don't have a School Board with open ears," said Councilman Rob Popoff.
Popoff said the city could buy it, but doesn't currently have the money. The city could lobby the School Board for some generosity, but Popoff said he doesn't see it working.
"Even if the eagles leave we have to wait six years before we can do anything." he said.
Council Chairman Bill Trotter added that a workshop should limit public comment so council and city officials can work through options of moving forward without further offending school officials with heated public debates on the issue.
"We don't want to polarize this issue anymore than we already have," he said.
The council will address the issue at a workshop at 3 p.m. Monday, March 16, in the Community Room at City Hall, 51 Bald Eagle Drive, Marco.
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Clean energy is America's future, and Western North Carolina is at the forefront. To support these efforts, economic development, government, business and education leaders are coming together to make the region a clean energy cluster.
Called the EvolveEnergy Partnership, the initiative was launched Monday, Oct. 17, in downtown Asheville. Landof- Sky Regional Council in partnership with AdvantageWest Economic Development Group is leading the 31-county effort. The coalition also includes four other regional councils of government in WNC: the High Country Council of Governments in Boone, Isothermal Planning and Development Commission in Rutherfordton, the Southwestern Commission in Sylva and Western Piedmont Council of Governments in Hickory. It also includes the counties of the former Northwest Piedmont Council of Governments in Winston- Salem.

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James Aiken, Ph.D.'70
David Lyden, M.D.,Ph.D. '86
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James Aiken, Ph.D.'70
James Aiken is President and Chief Executive Officer of Keystone Symposia on Molecular and Cellular Biology, a 40-year-old, educational nonprofit organization that annually conducts 50 to 60 biomedical conferences attended by about 14,000 scientists. Prior to his work with Keystone Symposia, Dr. Aiken had a distinguished career spanning 32 years as a research scientist and research executive in the pharmaceutical industry. He was Senior Director of Therapeutic Area Strategy for Pharmacia Corporation in Peapack, NJ until the company was acquired by Pfizer in 2003. Before that he was Director of Biology in Stockholm and Uppsala for the Swedish branches of Pharmacia & Upjohn, Director of Metabolic Diseases Research for the Upjohn Company in Kalamazoo, Michigan and held various research positions at Upjohn in the areas of atherosclerosis, thrombosis, and diabetes. At Eli Lilly and Company in Indianapolis, he conducted research in the field of smooth muscle function, as it relates to vascular biology and hypertension as well as uterine physiology and parturition.
Dr. Aiken has received numerous honors and served on committees influencing research direction. He was a long term member of the Pharmacology Advisory Committee of the Pharmaceutical research and Manufactures Association Foundation; a former member of the Board of Directors and on various committees of the Michigan Affiliate of the American Heart Association; a member of the Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research Boards for Cardiovascular Diseases and Biopolymers and Biocompatible Materials. He was an adjunct Professor of Pharmacology at Michigan State University and adjunct Assistant Professor of Medicine at Indiana University School of Medicine. In 1998 he received a Graduate College Alumni Scholar Award from the University of Vermont. He is currently on the Board of Directors of the Global Food Protection Institute. Dr. Aiken received his undergraduate degree in Biology from Dartmouth College in 1965 and his Ph.D. in Pharmacology from the University of Vermont in 1970.
David Lyden, M.D.,Ph.D. '86
David Lyden is a pediatric neuro-oncologist at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. He holds a joint appointment at Weill Cornell Medical College and is the Stavros S. Nairchos Chair and Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Cell and Developmental Biology. Dr. Lyden has made several fundamental discoveries which involve the role of bone marrow-derived stem and progenitor cells in tumor vasculogenesis and in metastasis. He and his colleagues showed the first evidence of genetic regulation in vasculogenesis with the discovery of one family of genes called Id1-4 in early blood vessel development in embryogenesis and in tumorigenesis. His laboratory was the first to identify two bone marrow-derived cells, endothelial progenitor cells (EPCs) and hematopoietic progenitor cells (HPCs) that participate in the formation of new blood vessels in primary tumors. In recent years, his team has shown evidence that secreted factors from primary tumors prime certain tissues for tumor cell engraftment. In response to these secreted factors, tumor associated cells such as hematopoietic progenitor cells cluster at 'pre-metastatic niches', creating an environment which is conducive for tumor cell adhesion and invasion. At the pre-metastatic niche, newly recruited myeloid cells collaborate with other cells types residing in the tissue parenchyma. Together, these cells provide a platform of chemokines, growth factors, matrix-degrading enzymes and adhesion molecules that accelerate metastatic niche formation. This model suggests that systemic therapies targeted to the metastatic microenvironment should be used early in treatment of tumors. Most recently, he has found that tumor-secreted microparticles, known as exosomes, induce bone marrow progenitor cells and pre-metastatic niche cells towards a pro-metastatic phenotype (Nature 1999, 2001, 2005, Nature Reviews Cancer 2009 & Nature Medicine 2012.)
Dr. Lyden's honors and awards include: Distinguished Alumnus Brown University (2003) and the Leonard Weill Memorial Lecturer Award (2007). His work was highlighted in "Nature Milestones: Cancer". In 2007, he was awarded a Presidential Medical Distinction Bial Award by President Cavaco Silva of Portugal. He is Co-Senior Editor for "Cancer Metastasis: Biologic Basis and Therapeutics", the first cancer metastasis textbook published by Cambridge University Press (April 2011), and has been featured as one of fifteen cancer experts in the book 'Why Millions Survive Cancer: The Successes of Science" (author: Lauren Pecorino, Oxford Univ. Press). He is also the recipient of the 2011 Duke University Residency Alumni Award and Lecture. He will be honored for his work in metastasis as recipient of the Inaugural I.J. "Josh" Fidler Innovation in Metastasis Research Award, given by the Metastasis Research Society and Anti-Cancer Inc., USA at the International Metastasis Research Society Meeting in Brisbane, Australia in September 2012. Dr. Lyden was educated at the, University of Vermont (PhD 1986), Brown University (MD 1989), Duke University (Residency) and Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (Fellowship).
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The Great Work of Your Life
A Guide for the Journey to Your True Calling
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moreFrom the Senior Scholar-in-residence and Ambassador for the famed Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health comes an incisive and inspiring meditation on living the life you were born to live.
In this fast-paced age, the often overwhelming realities of daily life may leave you feeling uncertain about how to realize your life's true purpose—what spiritual teachers call dharma. But yoga master Stephen Cope says that in order to have a fulfilling life you must, in fact, discover the deep purpose hidden at the very core of your self. In The Great Work of Your Life, Cope describes the process of unlocking the unique possibility harbored within every human soul. The secret, he asserts, can be found in the pages of a two-thousand-year-old spiritual classic called the Bhagavad Gita—an ancient allegory about the path to dharma, told through a timeless dialogue between the fabled archer, Arjuna, and his divine mentor, Krishna.
Cope takes readers on a step-by-step tour of this revered tale, and in order to make it relevant to contemporary readers, he highlights well-known Western lives that embody its central principles—including such luminaries as Jane Goodall, whose life trajectory shows us the power of honoring The Gift; Walt Whitman, who listened for the call of the times; Susan B. Anthony, whose example demonstrates the power of focused energy; John Keats, who was able to let his desire give birth to aspiration; and Harriet Tubman, whose life was nothing if not a lesson in learning to walk by faith. This essential guide also includes everyday stories about following the path to dharma, which illustrate the astonishingly contemporary relevance and practicality of this classic yogic story.
If you're feeling lost in your own life's journey, The Great Work of Your Life may provide you with answers to the questions you most urgently need addressed—and may help you to find and to embrace your true calling.
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"Keep a pen and paper handy as you read this remarkable book: It's like an owner's manual for the soul."—Dani Shapiro, author of Devotion
"A masterwork . . . You'll find inspiration in these pages. You'll gain a better appreciation of divine guidance and perhaps even understand how you might better hear it in your own life."—Yoga Journal
"I am moved and inspired by this book, the clarity and beauty of the lives lived in it, and the timeless dharma it teaches."—Jack Kornfield, author of A Path with Heart
"A rich source of contemplation and inspiration [that] encourages readers . . . to discover and fully pursue their inner self's calling."—Publishers Weekly
"Fabulous . . . If you have ever wondered what your purpose is, this book is a great guide to help you on your path."—YogaHara
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Is This the Cast of 'Celebrity Apprentice' Season 5?
The casting rumors for Season 5 of 'Celebrity Apprentice' have been flying fast and furious! Earlier this week, People reported that 80s singing sensation Debbie Gibson and 'American Idol' alum Clay Aiken have been confirmed as contestants.
Three-time Sports-Illustrated Swimsuit Issue cover girl Cheryl Tiegs is also reportedly joining the Season 5 cast alongside race car driver Marco Andretti.
Deena Talks About Her 'Jersey Shore' Italy Girl Make-Out Session (VIDEO)
Cortese said she found her share of both men and women when she was in Italy. The woman was cute, and Cortese said she's a very open person by nature, and she just did what came naturally. "At that moment, that's what I wanted to try and do," she said. "So I went for it, and you all got to see it."
'Glee Project' Winners Talk About Their Experience on 'Access Hollywood Live' (VIDEO)
The finale taped in April, which means Larsen and McGinty haven't been able to tell anyone about their win for months. "Oh, I told my mom and dad," said Larsen. "No, I mean, when they slap that kind of a contract in your face and tell you the consequences, you keep your mouth shut."
Larsen also said he had been tempted in the past to lose the dreads to get parts and pass auditions, but he's thankful he never cut them. "And I'm so glad I didn't because, you know, now it's kind of become a trademark thing," he said. McGinty was a bit more philosophical about the win. "To come out on top along with Samuel," he said, "you know, it proves the underdog can, you know -- which is what 'Glee's' about, which is even more incredible -- but it proves the underdog can come out on top."
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Leno Weekly: Chelsea Handler, Dr. Phil, Ewan McGregor and more!
Arsenio Hall was featured twice this week. His first appearance was in a segment that had potential called "This Is What They Said/This Is What They Meant." I was expecting to see video clips of celebrities, politicians and the like spouting their same bullcrap, and then having Hall tell us what he thinks they really meant. Instead, it was Leno reading quotes, including historically famous ones like Julius Ceasar's "Et tu, Brute!" The gag didn't make sense anymore, and even worse the bits weren't funny.
Luckily, he came back later in the week with an on-site spot at Yankee Stadium, where he interviewed players from both teams and even set up a bet against a Yankees player and Phillies fan Kevin Eubanks involving Snuggies.
Will Fallon be another Conan or another Magic Johnson? - VIDEOS
But The St. Peterburg Times lumps Hall's show into a group that includes Magic Johnson, Chevy Chase, Pat Sajak, and Alan Thicke. They all hosted late night talk shows that never quite made it. And when I say never quite I made it, I mean they were gone in the blink of an eye. But Hall's show lasted about 6 seasons, and if I remember correctly was quite popular with younger viewers and gave Carson, Leno and Letterman some good competition in that demographic. I also don't agree with another statement, that Jon Stewart's talk show "sucked." I kinda liked it.
So will Jimmy Fallon's show be another short-lived show that couldn't compete? Or is it a different time now? A lot of people thought that another Jimmy, Kimmel, wouldn't last that long either. But it looks like he's here for the long haul.
Woo-woo-woo: Arsenio Hall to host new MyNetworkTV show
Former talk show host Arsenio Hall hasn't been around much the past few years. He was a regular the last couple of seasons on CBS' Martial Law and has made guest appearances here and there, but for the most part he has stayed out of the limelight. Now Hall is coming back to television to host a new weekly reality show.
The show is called Funniest Moments and I'm sure you can guess what the show is without me even explaining it to you. Think about it for a moment while I go grab a cold drink out of the fridge.
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Howie says no deal to syndicated deal of Deal or no Deal
Okay, here's the deal. NBC Universal, known in the industry as NBC U (sounds like a university) is interested in producing a five-day-a-week, 30-minute version of their hit nighttime game show Deal or no Deal for syndication. They had originally wanted Arsenio Hall as host, but that deal fell through. So, NBC U executives decided to ask Deal host Howie Mandel to helm the syndication version.
Howie said no, and this has left network executives in a quandary. You see, stations have refused to commit to buying the 30-minute version of the show until a host is found. In addition, with Deal on the back-burner the fate of two additional game shows, Joker's Wild and Combination Lock, are uncertain.
NBC U can get Howie to be host of the syndicated version of Deal if they agree to his hefty asking price. Meanwhile, there are rumors that comedian Mark Curry is also being considered for host if they can't get Howie back to the table. I hope this all gets cleared up because I'd like to see a revival of Joker's Wild, especially with Arsenio Hall as host. I mean, think about it . . . 'Joker, Joker, Joker! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! (said with twirling fist in the air)'.
American Idol: Ladies First
If tonight's episode of American Idol is any indication of how the entire season is going to be, then I think we're going to see a lot of great female singers and (unfortunately) a lot of gaucho pants. I was prepared for the talent, but I was not prepared for Randy's dawg pound. I hate the dawg pound. I usually hate it when celebrities trademark things unnecessarily, but I really wish that Arsenio Hall would have trademarked that back in the 90s, so we wouldn't have to put up with it now.
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hey kids,
during the crazy hours at the office, i need some tunes to keep me focused on my never ending to do lists and calm through heated conference calls. and when my miles davis, adele and indie rock pandora stations are exhausted, i turn to my trusty ipod "mixtapes."
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happy wednesday!
sylvie b's "cool like that" mixtape
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Old friends, new secrets…Sergeant Cat Forrester lives by her own set of rules. When her childhood friend is murdered, Cat's world is thrown into chaos. Especially because Jay Garrett-a man from her past-is a suspect, and he needs her help to prove he's innocent. After all they once shared, how can she say no?The attraction flares between them, and getting involved with a suspect is a huge risk. But the more time Cat spends with Jay, the stronger the tug on her heart. He is the same caring, irresistible man she remembers. Yet she can't let her emotions interfere with the case-solving it is top priority. And as she digs deeper, she discovers Jay has secrets that may jeopardize any possible future together.Warning: This title is intended for readers over the age of 18 as it contains adult situations and language and may be considered offensive to some readers.
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Fastest Muscle Cars in 2014 | TOP 5
Today I am going to talk about Fastest Muscle Cars in 2014 | TOP 5, so if you are a fan of cars and/or the speed you will love what's coming next.
But first you may ask, what's a muscle car? Well, the muscle cars are considered to be a high-horsepower coupe with an occupancy greater than two people. Some will not agree with the term "muscle car" and they will argue us and say that the word "classic" is more appropriate to describe those big, loud and ultra-powered cars.
They were popular in the 1960's and 1970's but their popularity didn't fade in time, on the contrary, they became more appreciated with time. And the companies who produced this cars got more and more competitive in the production of the fastest, slimmest and with an awesome look, car.
Companies like Ford, Chevy, Chrysler or even AMC because their fearless, their will to succeed and the fact they needed to be better to stay on the market and to be better than the previous they created some of the Fastest Muscle Cars in 2014 | TOP 5.
I have five fast muscle cars for youI am sure you'll love them all.
#5 – PLYMOUTH ROADRUNNER from 1969
A symbol of muscle cars and one of the first to change the game!
Cars were no longer cheap, they came with options and people chose them for their speed and potential!
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Ahalya runs like a carefree deer towards the hilltop. She runs with the wind in her hair, undoing the neatness that her mother had earlier taken so much care to achieve. Ahalya has all but forgotten her mother's irritation, her harsh words and the slap. It doesn't take her long to forget things that don't concern her for the moment. The wind, of course, helps her forget as it sings in her ear.
Kanai watches Ahalya as she scampers up the hill. His goats do not need any watching. They know the hills better than he. So he plays his flute, loiters with the other boys who are out with similar herds, or just spends his day idly looking at the passing clouds and dreaming. Dreaming of Ahalya mostly, and sometimes of the wedding that he secretly plans. But this is a dream that only he and his flute know about. Not even the wind knows what's in his heart; such is the secrecy with which he hugs his desire. Years later, he will wish that he had revealed his secret to someone, anyone. If only he had (and the 'ifs' will stand out like little black-and-white milestones in his life), he could have gathered up a certain life, like a stray wind that picks up a little tangle of hair. But life has a way of picking its course like a river, skirting the rocks and boulders; sometimes cascading over; but always, always meeting the ocean.
Ahalya cannot be bothered with maidenly things. She prefers to play marbles and climb trees and go fishing with the boys. She is better at being a boy than the boys themselves. She can steal mangoes from right under Kartik Dadu's nose; her skilful fingers can bring down any kite that dares to fly across her square of the sky; she can spin the fastest top and run the longest mile. But most of all (and this is what has always kept the boys in total awe of her), she can tolerate the limb-numbingly cold waters of the spring and its skin-wrenching astringent mud even during the winter months, the way none of them ever can.
The springs spout from the hill, not too far away from the temple of Jagadhartri on the hill's peak. Ahalya's home at the foot of the hill is less than two miles away from the temple. This temple is several hundred years old, dating back to a time when Tantriks offered human sacrifices to an earlier deity – the Goddess Kali in her deadliest form. Shrines housing lesser deities surround the main temple. These deities are mostly female goddesses of unknown origin that have sprung up from time to time, literally spat out from the black clay roiling in the heart of the hill. Nobody knows when or how these black clay deities originated. They are not wrought by human hand; instead they are the handiwork of a strange and unknown force, which could either be earthly (few believe that) or divine. The deities have appeared from time to time in the temple precincts, squeezed out like black toothpaste from the thin cracks on the hill that run across its surface like a network of drains to meet the narrow pit flanking Ma Kali's shrine. They bear an eerie likeness to the human form, though grossly exaggerated in shape and size and with badly deformed facial features. However, the black–clay deities have mostly surrendered to weather and vandals till they look like eccentric but natural formations, and new ones have not appeared in the last hundred years.
The clay deities are far from Kanai's mind as he watches the wind undo Ahalya's braids. His heart twitches with love. He and Ahalya have practically grown up together. He reached manhood a few years ago, so he understood when Ahalya suddenly became a woman. But he cannot remember when he began to feel the way he does about her.
"Kanai, you dolt! Stop ogling me," Ahalya throws a handful of dry earth at him. Then she says in the same breath, "Got some guavas on you?"
Kanai smiles. He finds it hard to do anything else in her presence. "I brought some coconut narus with me today. Have those if you like."
"Thhoo! Who wants your sissy narus?" Ahalya runs off, flinging the words at him over her shoulder.
"Wait, Ahalya, wait for me!" cries Kanai. But she is either out of earshot or just does not bother to listen. Kanai runs after her. The wind sings in his ears as he runs up the hill and stirs the nerves below his navel. His eyes follow Ahalya's lithe movements, and his heart aches for her.
They have come near the tourist lodge now. This is a government guesthouse run by a government-aided charity. The guesthouse overflows with pilgrims and tourists during the peak season, but now stands more or less empty. Just a few students of art are here to enjoy the cheap off-season rates and do paintings of the landscape and temple. The locals call these artists the sahari babus because that is what they are – city slicks come to the country for artistic reasons, real or pretended.
Ahalya and other girls of a similar age are not encouraged to mix with these men - the students are mostly bearded youths with unkempt long hair and mouths reeking of cigarettes and liquor – though their presence does provide a bit of income for the boys. The sahari babus, an inept lot, need help with so many things - like getting their clothes washed and ironed, their food, which is mostly chicken or mutton curry, cooked and served, their cigarettes and booze bought and occasionally women brought in for a price, ostensibly to be models. But the townsfolk are not convinced about the innocence of these modeling assignments. So young girls are kept away and the sahari babus have to be content with the leathery-faced whores who are glad to earn something during the off-season's drought of passion.
Ahalya has been strictly forbidden by her mother, Saroma, to hang around the place. Ahalya, for once, is not defiant. The sahari babus do not interest her. She does not understand why they splash pots of paint indiscriminately on stretches of canvas. She has not seen the paintings with her own eyes. Her opinion is based on hearsay, but it is potent enough to prejudice her against these strange men who indulge in sissy activities like painting. The tourist lodge, however, has a wild Indian plum tree with delicious sweet-sour fruits that are coveted by all the locals. Ahalya has tasted them before, mostly thanks to Kanai, who has access to the sahari babus off-season abode. Of course, Ahalya being Ahalya, she has never bothered to express her gratitude in any way other than to mock Kanai for being such a generous fool!
The month of Poush is over, so the plums would have started to ripen by now. But Saraswati Puja is still more than a fortnight away. Ahalya knows that eating plums is strictly forbidden before Saraswati Puja. But she does not care. The boys always manage to get and eat them by the handful, and they are the ones who need Ma Saraswati's blessings the most if they want to finish school at all. So why should she, Ahalya make this sacrifice? Nobody is going to send her to school!
"Kanai, have you checked out the plum tree lately?"
Kanai looks at her in alarm. "You are not thinking of raiding the guesthouse tree, are you Ahalya?"
Ahalya turns on him defiantly. "What if I am?"
Kanai says nothing. He knows that it is of no use arguing with Ahalya once she gets an idea in her head. He is not comfortable being here with Ahalya. Kanai thinks she is too beautiful, eccentric and headstrong. He does not relish the prospect of any of the sahari babus getting to know her. Four or five of them are staying at the guesthouse right now. They are more likely to be inside, drinking their evening tea, and will certainly see Ahalya vigorously shaking the Indian plum tree and gathering the fallen fruits in the folds of her sari. Yet Kanai follows Ahalya helplessly through the open gate into the guesthouse garden. He even helps her shake the tree after she has finished inspecting its bounty from below. Ahalya is intent upon her spoils, but Kanai knows they are being watched. The silence underlying the clamor of homing birds has already warned him. But by now, it is already too late.
Kanai is not afraid of what the sahari babus will say or do when they catch him and Ahalya. The locals have as much right to the plums as the babus. The latter, however, enjoy the servile, simpering support of Haru Buro, the caretaker. That counts for a lot, because Haru Buro is more likely to chase the boys with stones and curses. (Despite Haru's relative youth, the locals added "Buro" to his name because of his old-man's crotchety nature, and it stuck.) Now Kanai's heart gives a start as he hears the distinctly sibilant sound of air being swallowed through a half-open mouth. He turns around with a sinking feeling.
"Ki re, Kanai?" Haru Buro grins at him through betel-nut stained teeth. "The plums are ripe for the plucking, eh?"
Haru Buro's tone is not hostile. That is what makes Kanai more afraid and suspicious. Haru Buro is supposed to fly towards them with a stick. Instead, he stands there grinning like a goblin.
"Who is that with you? Is that Ahalya? Arey, Ahalya, you've grown so big! You'll remember to invite me to your wedding won't you?"
Ahalya looks at him balefully before spitting out a plum seed in his direction. The seed hits Haru's toe with perfect accuracy. "Who said anything about me getting married!" says Ahalya disdainfully.
Haru Buro chuckles softly to himself. "So hot-tempered! But don't mind me. Just help yourself to those plums. There's plenty for everybody."
"Of course I will! As if anybody can stop me!" retorts Ahalya.
Kanai shifts his feet uneasily. "Come on Ahalya, let's go. You've collected enough today." Ahalya shrugs impatiently. Kanai, beginning to get angry, turns towards Haru Buro. "How come you're so generous today, eh?" he says. "You're never one to give things for free, even if they are! So speak up. What's it that you want?"
"There's no need to be so uptight, Kanai," says Haru. "Can't an old man like me give something without rousing your suspicion? Besides, I've seen Ahalya since she was a baby in her mother's arms. Now, you tell me, why are you following her around? Eh?"
"Haru Buro! You mind your tongue! You think I am a fool!" Kanai turns towards Ahalya who is staring at him, startled by his temper. "Ahalya, come away. Right now!"
"Arey! Arey! I was just teasing," says Haru. "Come, come inside, now. Your Kaki has made some lovely plum pickles."
Ahalya's eyes light up. "Plum pickles?"
"Ah yes. She was saying that she would give some to your mother, but now that you're here, you might as well save your Kaki the trouble of going over. You know how her back troubles her. So come now," says Haru Buro, extending a hand to Ahalya.
"Get the right bait and you'll catch the best fish," mutters Kanai under his breath, as he watches Ahalya skip towards Haru.
Haru Buro must be lying about the pickles. The whole community knows how inept his wife is at any kind of kitchen work. The standard joke about that couple is that Kaki is such a bad cook that everything she cooks turns bitter, but Haru Buro can't tell the difference because his taste buds can only detect bitterness. Besides, even if by some quirk of fate her pickles turned out fine, why would these two bad-tempered people want to give Saroma Mashi any pickles? Haru Buro is up to something, of that Kanai is certain. But now, there is little that he can do, except follow them into the guesthouse kitchen. He believes Ahalya will be safer with him around. Haru Buro cannot shoo him away, for that would raise Ahalya's suspicions.
The promised jar of pickles is really there, as if waiting for Ahalya on the kitchen counter, but Kaki is nowhere around. Someone else is there though, a stranger who stands quietly in the shadows. And if he has been looking at Ahalya, he is being so discreet that even Kanai doesn't notice. Ahalya looks about her with idle curiosity.
Haru Buro watches her. "Ahalya, want to take a look around? You've never been in here before, right?"
Ahalya clutches her bundle of plums. This is alien territory, and Kanai can tell she's uncertain. The embers from the coal stove in the corner of the kitchen cast a rosy glow on her face. She is not aware of it, but she looks beautiful. Kanai is aware, and the sibilant breath expelling into the dark room tells him that Haru Buro is also, acutely aware.
"Go on, don't be shy," says Haru. "See the guesthouse. Ei Kanai, why don't you go with her? Our Ahalya's feeling shy!"
"Who said anything about being shy?" says Ahalya, stung by Haru's teasing. She marches out into the rooms beyond with a toss of her dark curls.
Kanai looks around the kitchen. The man he had barely noticed has melted into the guesthouse walls. Haru Buro grins at him vacantly and Kanai follows Ahalya reluctantly. Haru Buro follows a little later. The house is suspended in silence. Kanai does not like it at all. He senses something, lurking in the air. He is not really surprised when Ahalya gives a little scream. But his heart thuds wildly all the same.
"O Ma! Look at this!" Ahalya stands in wonder before a black-and-white drawing propped up on a table.
A large oil lamp throws its amber light on the drawing. A neon tube perched against the ceiling is already dispersing pale light across the room, so the oil lamp isn't really necessary. Kanai realizes with a shock that the lamp has been placed there purposely, to draw attention to the sketch. Kanai stares at the picture while a ball of ice grows in his heart. He has recognized the figure straightaway.
It is Ahalya. Caught in a moment of gleeful abandon under the wild Indian plum tree. The sketch is hasty, but it has captured Ahalya's posture, her strands of untidy hair and her delighted eyes, perfectly. Kanai watches as Ahalya lifts the drawing with rare reverence. He can sense that she is already slipping away into another world.
Haru Buro asks, "Who is that girl in the picture, Ahalya, can you guess?"
Ahalya shakes her head.
"Why, it's you! You crazy girl!" Haru gives Ahalya a friendly push. Ahalya is too caught up with the drawing to notice this impertinence.
"Who drew it?" she finally asks.
"One of the artists staying here," says Haru Buro. "I'm not sure which one. This bunch of sahari babus seems to be very good at figure drawing. You want to see some of their paintings?"
Haru propels Ahalya towards a door the moment she nods her head. Kanai does not get a chance to react. He trails like a nimbus, not knowing what else to do. They examine a dozen paintings in various stages of completion stacked around the room. The paintings are good. They are not abstract art, but realistic figures of men and women. Kanai recognizes Haru Buro's wife in one of them, cutting fish on a rusty bonthi by the tap in the courtyard.
"They can make paintings like this of you," hisses Haru Buro. Ahalya listens with her head to one side; Kanai watches closely, as she looks at the picture of Haru Buro's wife. "Like they make paintings of queens and princesses. Yes, like that!"
Ahalya turns towards Haru with mesmerized eyes. A tiny smile of wonder turns up the corners of her lips. "Really? Haru Kaka, they can do drawings of me like that?" And, then she turns to admire the paintings once more. Kanai watches and watches her, despair chilling his heart. He knows that there is no turning back now.
Back home, Saroma, is furious. "Are you so stupid? You're wicked and stupid! You are not going there back again. As for these pickles," she screams, picking up the jar with a vicious swipe, "I won't have them in my house!"
Ahalya says nothing. But her face has a dreamy look. In the distance, a little beyond the bucktooth verandah, the pickle jar tinkles into shards as it spills its contents onto the cobbled lane. The tiny house sinks back into an uneasy silence. Saroma sniffles into a corner of her sari. Ahalya is quiet. She does not seem to be aware of anything amiss. Kanai, standing outside in the shadows, has heard it all, the words and the silences. A dim moon strokes the tears on his cheeks, making them glisten like the shards on the cobbles.
Saroma does not confine Ahalya to the house. She tells Kanai that it will be enough to keep a close watch on her movements, and she enlists his help, on oath of secrecy. Saroma does not want any gossip. She will have to tell Kanai that once the biddies of their locality get hold of a juicy morsel like this, it will kill any chance of marriage for Ahalya. She has to be very careful. They have to be careful. Very, very careful.
Kanai is glad to be included in her plans. But he cannot say the one thing that could get him his heart's desire, and perhaps save them all. The words are in his throat. Every time Saroma talks to him, mainly to find out what Ahalya has been doing while she has been away at work, Kanai feels the words clotting up deep inside his thorax like phlegm, too far down for him to spit out. Kanai is also ashamed to tell her, that Ahalya always finds ways to escape without being detected. Ahalya has acquired the determined skills of the desperately obsessed. Worse, Kanai finds himself being drawn closer and tighter into her net of deception, till he eventually becomes Ahalya's accomplice, instead of the custodian he had promised Saroma he would be.
How could he possibly not? Ahalya is so sweet now, her newfound gentleness wrapping around Kanai like a muslin sari, pulling him along a painfully sweet path. It is impossible not to believe her, trust her and love her. Kanai does not know whether the babus are really painting her portrait or not. Ahalya has only shown him a few charcoal sketches on scraps of rough drawing paper. That is all. Haru Buro whispers sibilantly that Ahalya will be famous; she will bring pride and prosperity to their town. Old Haru seems to be full of whispers and ideas nowadays.
"You know Kanai, this is art. Art!" he says. "There is nothing sinful about art. And Ahalya is a natural model." Haru Buro rubs his hands together, as if he is expecting a windfall himself. Perhaps he is.
"I want to be there when they are painting her," says Kanai, finally.
Haru's pale brown eyes glint at him in the afternoon sun. "Alright," he says slowly, "I'll ask them and let you know."
Kanai does not get to see the sahari babus painting Ahalya right away. He has to remind Haru Buro a number of times before he is let inside. When he finally does get in, the sahari babus are nowhere to be seen. There is only Ahalya in the room, looking slightly disheveled. She has a sullen look on her face. Kanai looks at her closely. He feels shy in her presence, as if he has suddenly chanced upon her when she is changing her clothes.
Ahalya looks at him irritably. "Don't you have anything better to do than spy on me?"
"Ahalya, Saroma Mashi told me …"
"Saroma Mashi told me!" mimics Ahalya, without even letting him finish. "Stupid goat! Herding goats is what you are good for! If your Saroma Mashi tells you to eat dung, you'll eat it?"
Kanai keeps quiet. He feels like an intruder. He does not quite understand why. He looks about the room searching for the easel and canvas. There are several canvasses stacked against the wall.
"Where's the painting?" he says at last. "You're here because they wanted to paint you …"
Ahalya snorts and gets up to leave. She is wearing silver anklets. They look very pretty on her slender ankles, and they make a seductive tinkling sound when she moves. Ahalya is different now. She used to disdain anklets and other pretty girly things before.
"The painting's there, right under your nose," she says over her shoulder. "I'm going home now, goatherd!"
Kanai stares at the painting before him. It is Ahalya, alright. But he hadn't noticed that before. She doesn't look like herself. In the painting, she is leaning against some kind of a leafy branch that turns into a snake near her head in the picture. She has a satiated smile on her face. She looks older, worldlier. Kanai recognizes the look. He shudders as he desperately tries to shut out the thought.
But he cannot escape it. Days pass into weeks, and still Kanai cannot escape it. Even when he's stretched out on the hill, under the stars, it sneaks up on him. Kanai feels exhausted and saddened. A chilly wind creeps down from the hill, pinching his skin with thin twiggy fingers. In the distance, he hears a woman laugh. The sound brings back memories of stories heard when he was a boy, of she-ghosts and witches and black deities that some said were Ma Kali's Joginis, sent down by her to keep an eye on the temple and its neighborhood. For even though Ma Jagadhartri has replaced the original, bloodthirsty Ma Kali, the Goddess has not really left the temple. An inner shrine, a sort of sanctum sanctorum, still houses a small bronze figure of the Goddess. Few, a very select few, are allowed into this shrine to worship and grovel at her bronze feet, which are, it is said, always moist and dank, with a sickly-sweet odor rising up from the ever-growing heap of offerings of incense, fruit and flowers.
The legends surrounding the temple and its deities have never been allowed to dwindle into obscurity. The town after all owes its existence to the temple. Pilgrims and tourists, and even the painters, provide much needed employment and business to the locals, apart from adding color to their otherwise humdrum lives. Even though some of the sahari babus are godless louts, the temple draws them to her bosom every year. But surprisingly, the priests do not seem to mind their lack of faith. Some of the younger priests even share cigarettes with them. The town comes alive during the tourist season and the annual festival of Jagadhartri. Ahalya used to love the festivities, the fairs near the temple, and the crowds that gathered. Kanai used to love to watch her lose herself in that heady melee of people. But now Ahalya seems to love something else, and Kanai is no longer allowed to watch her.
The woman laughs again. Kanai sits up and looks about wildly. The laugh sounds familiar. He flees down the hill. But the thought that he is about to be haunted by something worse follows him all the way down.
Saroma corners him the next day. "Kanai! You're not keeping an eye on her!" He shuffles his feet, not daring to look at her. "Kanai! Tell me! I know you're keeping something from me!" she hisses. "Ahalya's my daughter. I can tell something's wrong with her. Kanai, please …"
"Saroma Mashi," says Kanai, clearing his throat, "Saroma Mashi, Ahalya's … I mean she is old enough to be married, isn't she?"
"What are you trying to tell me, Kanai? Speak up!"
Kanai's heart thuds painfully against his ribcage. "I can marry her, Saroma Mashi. I swear I can! Before it's too late."
"What! You wretch!" Saroma spits the words out at him. "What do we have here, now? A wolf to tend the lamb? I'll break your legs. I'll pull out your tongue! Too late? What have you been doing to my Ahalya?"
"Saroma Mashi. Oh, Saroma Mashi!" Tears roll down Kanai cheeks. "Please don't misunderstand me. Please, Mashi, hear me out."
But Saroma hurries into her house and slams the door.
Arati Mashi comes hobbling towards Kanai. "Ki re Kanai, what's happened? Why are you crying outside?"
Kanai turns and walks quickly away. He hears Arati Mashi knocking on Saroma's door. Kanai is certain that Ahalya's days are numbered. She will be ostracized. Saroma Mashi will be shamed. His certainty weighs his shoulders down. He must find Ahalya, make a last plea. But days walk past without even allowing him a glimpse of the girl.
Kanai continues to look for Ahalya. She does not go to the guesthouse these days. Haru Buro does not seem to have any clue where she is. He is once again his usual, cantankerous self. Ahalya is nowhere to be found. Sometimes, Kanai believes, he can hear the unmistakable sound of her laughter when he passes by the temple. But that cannot be true. The priests would not tolerate a low-caste girl, however beautiful, inside their temple, would they?
Late one afternoon, Kanai creeps by Saroma's house. Snatches of a heated but whispered conversation float out. Arati Mashi and a few others like her are pressing against the house walls, straining their ears to listen. When they spot him, they look at him with curious, beady eyes, not unlike a bunch of crows ogling a tidbit. The sun's baleful stare does not bother them. It bothers Kanai. He can feel the beginnings of a bad headache throbbing in his temples. But he is determined to get to Ahalya. Kanai slinks away to the rear of the house.
An unpaved open drain runs parallel to Saroma's house. Feces, rotten food and ashes from coal stoves have all but choked the drain as it snakes its narrow way behind the row of houses. The back doors of these houses are rarely opened, mostly only at night when some hapless resident is suffering from acute diarrhea. Kanai picks his way among the cats and stray dogs that always gather along the edges of the drain, and climbs over the little wall with the wooden gate separating the drain from Saroma's house. He stands cowering under the latch of the back door, waiting for an opportunity.
He waits for a long time. The sun is almost down when he finally musters up the courage to scratch lightly on the door. He pokes the door with his index finger. It creaks slightly and opens, just a little bit. Kanai is shocked. The door is open! What is wrong with Saroma Mashi? Anybody could get in and do whatever they liked! Kanai pushes the door a little more, and then some more. He stands in the gloom, squinting to see clearly. Neither Saroma nor Ahalya have seen him enter.
"Saroma Mashi. Saroma Mashi," he calls softly, not daring to raise his voice.
Saroma peers at him. "Kanai! How did you get in?"
"The back door was open Mashi, didn't you know?"
"Know? What do I know? Oh Kanai, the witch has ruined me …" Saroma's voice breaks down as she sobs.
Kanai waits, not knowing what to say.
"I have not ruined anybody," hisses Ahalya. Kanai can see her quite clearly now, leaning against the wall. "I am getting married!"
Kanai's heart jumps at the words.
"Married! Married she says! Girls like you who …who … do stupid things that no respectable girls would do can never get married," sobs Saroma. "They have a different sort of life. Oh God, why don't you kill me now!"
"He said he'd marry me. He said he'll take me to the city, and I will be happy there. What's there for me here anyway? I am sick of this stupid life here in this stupid place."
"Keep quiet, shameless hussy!" Saroma slaps Ahalya hard across the face. Kanai winces. Ahalya does not even flinch.
Saroma turns towards Kanai. "Did you know all this? Did you know what she was doing and who she was mixing with all this time?"
"I … I wasn't sure. Mashi when I thought that things were getting out of hand, I … I tried to tell you … Mashi, I would never let Ahalya down." Kanai trembles with emotion. "Saroma Mashi, nobody need know anything more. I'll marry Ahalya; I'll marry her, Saroma Mashi. I will, no matter what!"
The two women look at him in silence, one in gratitude and the other in shock.
"Kanai, are you sure?" Saroma walks softly towards him. "Are you sure of what you're saying? I am a very poor woman, Kanai. And, after all that's happened, you still want …"
"Yes, Saroma Mashi, yes, yes! It makes no difference to me. None of it."
"I misjudged you Kanai," says Saroma. "I had not imagined …" But the rest of her words are cut off by a short crisp laugh.
Saroma spins around as if she has been stung. Kanai stares at Ahalya. Her hair floats around her face in waves of black rebellion. Her eyes go dark with passion.
"Marry me! Oh. He wants to marry me! Oh! My saintly goatherd!" Ahalya shoves both Saroma and Kanai out of the way as she lets herself out the back door.
"Stop her! Oh stop that wretch," screams Saroma.
Her scream is immediately followed by a pounding on her front door, Arati Mashi and her friends have waited long enough, and now they want in. There is nothing to be done. Both doors are open. Ahalya is lost through one, beyond Kanai's reach. And the women of practically the whole locality pour in through the other, sealing off the possibility of Ahalya's return, forever.
They spend the night searching for her among the hills, with hurricane lamps to light their way. The men from Ahalya's locality grill Haru Buro while the women question his wife. The sahari babus are gone and even beating up old Haru does not yield any clue. They prowl around the temple walls, until the priests come out to curse them. Some of them even walk to the little railway station at the other end of town. Still nothing. Saroma weeps continuously. The women try to comfort her as best as they can. But their words cut her like whiplashes. They cannot get her to eat. For days afterwards, Saroma roams the hills like a mad woman, searching. Long after everybody has given up hope. Every rumor brings Saroma running out. She does not mind the gossip any more. She has nothing else to lose.
Months pass. Ahalya's misdeeds pass into afternoon gossip. The sahari babus do not return to sketch the temple. Mothers are relieved, but they never stop warning their daughters of the consequences of mixing with bad men from the cities. Stray rumors still circulate, adding fuel to the terror in the mothers' hearts. Some tell of Ahalya running up the hill towards her paramour, when the dreaded Goddess pulled her underneath by her hair; others warn of a band of roaming Tantriks that sacrificed her; yet others whisper that she was murdered after she refused money, insisting that she get married. Other stories are less gory, but no less frightening. Old Shibu at the ration shop claims that his mother's cousin's brother's son-in-law's friend had seen a dancing girl who looked like Ahalya entertaining a group of drunkards. Someone else says that a beggar woman looking suspiciously like Ahalya was last seen at a nearby railway station. The stories continue. Saroma seems to live for these stories, whether they are true or not, and the sympathy of her neighbors. But Kanai stays away from the stories. And he still searches for Ahalya, hoping against hope that she will turn up someday, somehow.
The months roll into years. And the years pick their way through time, single file. Ahalya's story gets buried in the dump yard of old gossip. Ahalya's name no longer has the power to frighten the little girls of the town into submission. The town itself grows thin as the younger denizens leave to find better lives in the cities, and then grows fat again as new people creep in from the surrounding villages, where even poverty feels like a queen. By this time, Saroma has died, clutching her bitterness like a quilt to her rheumatic heart, her funeral pyre lit by Kanai, who had been her last source of sustenance after Ahalya left. Now it is Kanai who lives in her house, with his small children and the wife he has dutifully taken to provide heirs for his father.
Kanai no longer chews puffed rice while his goats romp up and down the hills. He works at the railway station, doing odd jobs for the stationmaster. His work is uncomplicated and steady; and though his salary is little more than a pittance, it is a regular source of income and covers his family's basic needs. Indeed, Kanai is better off than many men his age, some of whom have returned embittered from the cities, for he also owns a house, and those who envy him suck on the lemon drops of their gossip.
Kanai, however, is past all that; quieter than before, he is fiercely loyal to his family and even more protective about his daughters. He treats his wife with an aloof kindness that keeps her forever in wonder of the kind of man her husband really is. She is a little afraid of his quiet ways and does not demand more than he feels obligated to give her.
The old guesthouse is greatly changed. Haru Buro, too, has died. His widow blossomed into a benign matron soon after her widowhood. She put on weight and her features softened; she also acquired a nephew who looks after the premises with such gusto that the townspeople, ever on the lookout for possibilities, tell each other that this nephew is none other than the son she hid away before her marriage to that rascal Haru, and that way, triumphed in the end.
The sahari babus who had stopped coming have returned once more. Except that these new babus are a new breed altogether. Some of them are not even babus, but serious-looking bespectacled women in jeans and kurtas who paint ferociously within the temple precincts, detailing the architectural nuances on their canvas with a sharpness that defies photography. Sometimes whole groups arrive along with their teachers and bring a different kind of prosperity for a short time. This new breed of artists needs good food like their predecessors, but little else. The women painters smoke intensely and incessantly. But the men rarely touch tobacco. Drinking is almost nonexistent, except for the occasional celebratory bash, which takes place near the end of their stay and only when the group is large enough. They mostly speak amongst themselves in English, and treat the townspeople with casual courtesy. They do not ask for live models; instead, some of them take random and candid photographs which they use later in their paintings.
The temple stands like an eternal monument, unabashed by the wear and tear on its façade. The number of priests has dwindled. Now there are just three or four of them left. The lamps have diminished into small fuzzy balls, feebly trying to command the night over the temple. The sound of the priests' chanting has receded into whispers of echoes. The number of worshipers has grown smaller and smaller.
Then, one day something happens that brings in the promise of old glory. There is great excitement at the temple.
"A miracle! A miracle has occurred," gushes the head priest. "The Goddess has spoken. Oh a miracle. It's a miracle!"
The whole town rushes up to the temple. The news spreads like wild fire. More and more people pour in, even though the annual festival of Jagadhartri and the tourist season is still a month away. The little town begins to bear a festive air. Special prayer services are held almost daily. Vendors gather around the temple, selling all kinds of things from puja offerings to sweets, toys and balloons. The hill slope begins to look like fairgrounds when some enterprising people from a traveling show put up their tents. Shortly afterwards, Ferris wheels and swing boats bring variety for the temple visitors.
Kanai's community is also caught by the excitement. They have not yet seen the miracle, but they have heard that a black clay deity has sprung up near the inner shrine. The temple priests, in a rare gesture of generosity, have promised to let them have a glimpse, if they can hoist themselves up on the walls of the temple – the untouchables are still not allowed inside the temple. Hundreds have started to throng the temple grounds.
Everybody is excited and eager to see the new deity. Kanai is curious too. So he goes along with his family, everyone in their Sunday best. He finds a good place for himself and his wife, and hoists the children on the lower branch of a shaggy pipul tree just outside the west wall. His wife passes up salted peanuts and roasted grams to her children, for this is an outing for the family. She is hopeful that after catching a glimpse of the new deity, Kanai will take them to the impromptu fairgrounds, where the children can ride the wheels and swings, and she can admire the bangles on sale.
They gaze in wonder at the deity, glistening black, freshly sprung from the innards of the hill. The deity's head is thrown back as if she is looking at something or someone above. Snake-like ropes of black clay uncoil in a petrified cascade down her back, reaching below the waist. Black breasts heave like a pair of frozen peaks. Two arms are extended upwards as if in supplication. She stands there as if cast in the very clay she had been trying desperately to shake free. Priests start to chant and the worshipers walk up to touch the base of the deity, where the feet are supposed to be. The line of worshipers is more than a mile long, winding round and round, till it covers the whole of the temple grounds. Worshipers and the untouchables alike seem to be struck dumb by this divine manifestation, gazing in wonder and reverence.
Kanai too gazes, but neither in wonder nor reverence. Old sorrows and a half digested lump of anguish heaves in his breast. The pain grows intolerable after a while and the bitter tears roll down his cheeks. He knows her. How can he not? Has he not been carrying her inside him like a touchstone that must be kept hidden at all costs, for all these years? How can he not recognize this new deity for who she really is, when the fresh memory of her face touches him into wakefulness every morning and squeezes back into his innards every time he does his husbandly duty towards his wife? Kanai trembles. The pain stabs his heart and whips his loins.
Watching the terrible emotions chasing around Kanai's face, his wife too weeps, quietly into the edge of her sari, so that nobody can see her shame, for the farce of her marriage is suddenly brightly clear to her, as clear as the deity that stands there glistening under the bright sun, defying nature, defying time, defying convention.
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5ive, 911, Liberty X, B*Witched, and Atomic kitten reuniting...911 aged well
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Was Sinead in her 30s when they were popular?? Thats interesting, maybe its not to late for me to launch an assault on the pop charts!!
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Was Sinead in her 30s when they were popular?? Thats interesting, maybe its not to late for me to launch an assault on the pop charts!!
|17-01-2013, 21:21
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Seen the trailers for this now; looks like they have a good few dramatic stories to tell
Interested to know why Sinead was anxious to rejoin B*Witched. I know her & Edele had a falling out (something like that) so it'll be interesting to see these two back together...
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Honeyz were good but i know the lead singer ands shes desprate for fame again, shes got a son called michael jackson now and shes married to a micheal jackson tribute artist.
Oh well she might get another shot of fame again.
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well it is a great shame N-Tyce have not reunited.
That if they call, and my line is jumpin'
I'm just telefunkin' (telefunkin?) Yeah (you got me telefunkin)
If they call, and my line is bumpin'
I must be telefunkin' (telefunkin?) Yeah (you got me telefunkin)
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It might become an annual event. 2014 could be Bananarama, All Saints, Cardigans, Backstreet Boys, No Mercy, Catatonia, Savage Garden, T-Spoon, Boys 2 men, Tatu and Ace Of Base
|18-01-2013, 00:21
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yeah shame about eternal - isnt this year 20 years since the first album?
|18-01-2013, 01:24
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It might become an annual event. 2014 could be Bananarama, All Saints, Cardigans, Backstreet Boys, No Mercy, Catatonia, Savage Garden, T-Spoon, Boys 2 men, Tatu and Ace Of Base
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I want to see Fierce, Kleshay, Girl Thing, Kavana, Leliani, Ultra, BBmak, Cleopatra, Hepburn, Shampoo, Hearsay, Rosie Ribbons and Michelle McManus on the next series.
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Don't forget 3T
|18-01-2013, 15:21
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Thanks. Anyone know a launch date?
From an itv press release:
On stage we were the best ever, off stage we were a train wreck Scott, 5ive,
But like Simon Cowell said, he wanted a band with edge and thats what he got! Sean, 5ive
Ten years after they ruled pop, for one night only, six chart-topping groups will be reunited in an unmissable TV event.
The Big Reunion will follow their every step, as their worlds are turned upside down after years away from the spotlight. During the series, viewers will see the groups reunited for the first time since they split. For some its the chance to relive their dream, for others it may open old wounds as they prepare to face demons they thought they had buried forever.
At their peak, these acts dominated UK pop over a 10-year period from the mid nineties, selling millions of singles, albums and achieving multiple number 1s. Now they will come together for the first time in a decade, to put on the show of their lives.
The cameras will capture the highs and lows, tears and tantrums as each of the bands hope they can once again discover the magic that helped them adorn magazine covers, sell out multiple arena tours and top the charts back in their heyday.
The Big Reunion, made by ITV Studios, will delve into the lives of these former pop heroes, exploring what happened after they slipped out of the charts. Some have remained in the celebrity spotlight, whilst others left their showbiz lives behind to pursue new careers as diverse as a stilt walker, a midwife, a teacher, a farmer and a wedding photographer.
Each band will have just two weeks of intense rehearsals before they step back onto the stage to perform once again in front of thousands of fans.
Featuring candid interviews, in the first episode of the brand new series, award winning 90s favourites 5ive and Liberty X exclusively reveal the highs and lows of life at the peak of the pop world.
5ive, the brainchild of Simon Cowell, burst onto the pop scene and rapidly hit the top of the charts but as they reaped the reward of success, on the cusp of breaking America, cracks were appearing behind the scenes.
On stage we were the best ever, off stage we were a train wreck. Life in 5ive was mental. It was five years of very hard work. You see the inside of a hotel room, an airport, a radio studio, its hard, admits father-of-two Scott.
With reports of in-fighting and boozing, the feisty boys earned a reputation as the bad boys of pop.
Abs confesses: I know there were times when one of them would be p*ssed off with another one (in the band). Thered be fights going off.
Richie agrees: We were difficult, bordering on being ar*eholes. We were delinquents.
Sean adds: But like Simon Cowell said, he wanted a band with edge and thats what he got!
As they continued to notch up hit after hit, life as a popstar was becoming unbearable for one member and culminated in Sean leaving the group after admitting to suffering a breakdown.
Sean says: I remember looking in the mirror and thinking to myself, 'Who is that?' I didnt know myself and I just had the strongest feeling that no matter what happens no matter how much money they throw at me Ive got to find Sean. Otherwise I make thousands of pounds but Id be spending it all on therapy."
With the band still performing as a four piece and insisting publicly that Seans break down was glandular fever, Richie reveals it was seeing fellow band mate Scott inconsolable that made him realise the band was over.
He says: We were in this hotel and Scott just broke down, he was crying his eyes out. Jay and I walked out to him and put our arms around him and he said, I just cant do it anymore.' I remember looking at Jay and he just looked at me and just went, Its done isnt it? And I went, I think it is.'
Scott continues: I just wanted a week off from being Scott from 5ive. I was on the edge. We quit at our peak, we were number one at the time and we jumped ship.
However Abs admits he took the news of the bands demise badly. He says: I dont know what the details were, why Scott had to do what he did exactly because to be honest with you I just felt a little bit like you're taking something away from me.
For The Big Reunion, the band will be returning as a four piece, without founding member Jay but the band insist the door has been left open for him.
Scott says: I was annoyed with Jay when he said he didnt want to be a part of this. I was really angry because Ive been personally myself been trying to get this band back together for years and years and someones let it down. He will be missed.
Whilst Abs adds: I dont want him to regret because it could be something amazing.
The road to success began bumpily for BRIT Award winners Liberty X. Having failed to land a place in HearSay, the band were often referred to as Flopstars. Signed to Richard Branson Virgin label, it was the release of hit single Just A Little which won them a BRIT and brought critical acclaim.
Mum of two, Kelli says: Wed worked so hard to get to that point, and come from losing the Popstars programme and being called Flopstars and rejects. When we finally won that BRIT it really felt like wed arrived and deserved to be there.
Michelle says: I loved being a pop star, some people take it for granted and I really didnt. I really enjoyed every minute of it. I enjoyed going to parties, I was young."
Tony adds: Every very pop band needs somebody wholl go out and get column inches. Michelle did everything that every self-respecting popstar should do and I think we benefited hugely from the attention that she got.
Whilst she was relishing her popstar lifestyle, unbeknown to fans Michelle was battling weight issues and on a night out her heart stopped beating and she was rushed to hospital.
Michelle reveals: I was in this vicious circle of taking more diet pills, trying to lose weight but nothing was losing weight because I was so immune to the diet pills they wasnt doing their job any more. I was just taking them because I was addicted them. I didnt look healthy."
With Michelle battling her demons, Kevin and Tony also confess that they had turned to alcohol to help them deal with the pressures of fame.
Tony says: Myself and Kevin tended to booze an awful a lot. You have this high from performing and your choice is to try and allow yourself to crash straight away to suspend that high.
Kevin adds: Im not ashamed to say that there were times at 7am in the morning Id be on triple vodka red bulls. The time all went into one so it didnt really matter when I drank. Im pretty laid back so when Im tired it's hard for me to hide it. So I just need a bit of something to take the edge off and get me ready to perform and do all these silly things you do on Saturday morning TV."
Five years after being signed, the band decided to call it day. They were no longer signed to Virgin and instead were with a smaller independent record label. With their budgets slashed and unhappy with the change of direction their music was heading in, the band mates described their last performance as an unremarkable gig.
Michelle says: There was no massive big break up, we didnt announce it to the world in a dramatic form. There was no press conference or children crying through helplines. It was quite simply we just werent there anymore.
Film maker, Tony adds: It was a bit of an anti climax and I remember thinking that is not the way to go out.
As the band prepare to reunite for The Big Reunion, they reveal their excitement and trepidation about being thrust back into the limelight.
Married to cricketer Kevin Pietersen, mum of one, Jessica Taylor says: I dont do anything in the spotlight and I havent done for a really long time, It took me a lot of time to decide whether or not to do it. Im in a very safe place with my life, Im in a happy little bubble and to step outside of that is really scary. I thought I owed it to the guys to make sure I was sure and I am but Im petrified.
Whilst an excited Michelle admits: I cant wait for fun times to look forward to. I cant wait to get back on stage.
The Big Reunion is an ITV Studios production for ITV2. Executive producers are Michael Kelpie and Phil Mount, ITV Studios, Series producer is Kevin Lane, ITV Studios.
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Atomic Kitten (Natasha Hamilton, Liz McClarnon, Kerry Katona)
5IVE (Ritchie Neville, Scott Robinson, Abz Love, Sean Conlon)
B*Witched (Edele Lynch, Keavy Lynch, Sinead O Carroll, Lindsay Armaou)
Liberty X (Jessica Taylor, Michelle Heaton, KevinSimm, Kelli Young, Tony Lundon)
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The teen inside me me just gave a squeal, 911 were the first band I ever loved
|20-01-2013, 17:53
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yeah shame about eternal - isnt this year 20 years since the first album?
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As a fan of Atomic Kitten circa 2002 - 2004 I feel ashamed at Liz & Tash for agreeing to do this knowing Jenny could not participate due to her pregnancy.
It feels like it was all put in to place at that time just to ensure Katona got on board as ITV probaly feel having her there will give better ratings. I disagree.
I won't be supporting Atomic Kitten again thats for sure.
too bad Jenny was pregnant at the "wrong" time
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I remember basically watching this on Living I'm sure 911 were on it. Not complaining cos as I said most of these groups were my faves. In fact I'm still mad at five they split up the year my mum promised I could go see them and the concert never happened.
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I loved bwitched the bit in that song ' I fight like my dad' Wtf that got to do with the song?
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i want to know were you can get tickets for this one off gig
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I watched the first part on itv 2 last night, really good, real eye opener too how much pressure 5ive and liberty x were under
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I really enjoyed the show but I thought 5ive came across as cocky and full of themselves even though I am a huge fan of them.
Liberty X I liked it was a shame there career was cut short and the same with 5ive.
What did you guys think?
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I saw it last night too. I enjoyed it, I'm genuinely looking forward to the next episode
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I missed it. Will it be repeated?
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For me, the biggest shame is Eternal not featuring in this programme. They were the leaders of the pack.
But let's be honest, they're too good for this show.
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I think 5ive were always cocky and at least they hold their hands up and admit it was wrong but as they said that was their point and purpose to make them stand out and they have sold easily the most out of all six.
I think they came across well and honest.
Liberty X were great but always feel groups should make a statement when they have finished even if sucess has tailed off just so the fans know where they stand.
Just goes to show these groups can only really manage roughly 4-5 years on being on the pop treadmill.
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I missed it. Will it be repeated?
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Resident Assistants are selected each spring for the following academic year. Students who wish to become RAs must be committed to providing students with the tools they need to experience personal growth and to create a sense of community with fellow students.
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RAs are compensated with a waiver of the room fee for the duration of their employment.
For more information about becoming an RA or applying for a position please contact Karin Berthiaume, Assistant Director of Residential Education.
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Streisand Tonight: On Jonathan Ross's BBC America Show
It's been a good week for Barbra Streisand. Her new CD, Love Is the Answer, debuted at number one on the Billboard Top 200 chart, beating out Mariah Carey, Madonna and Paramore. Not bad for a lady who had her first chart-topper in 1964 with People. Well, tonight on BBC America, you'll have a chance to hear Streisand talk about the CD and sing two songs from it as well. Friday Night With Streisand & Ross airs on tonight at 9 p.m. on BBC America, a special edition of the UK talk show starring Jonathan Ross.
The show aired last Friday in England and clips have showed up on YouTube. Here's a sample of what you'll see if you tune in:
Streisand on television is always a special event – for her loyal fans – because even though she's been around for five decades, she's managed keep from being overexposed. Her singing on TV is as rare as a lunar eclipse.
The new CD is more jazzy thanks to the influence of singer Diana Krall, who produced the album, with Streisand executive producing.
The CD has proved to be historic. By reaching number one on Billboard, Streisand is the only performer or group to ever have number one albums in five decades – the '60s, '70s, '80s, '90s and now, the '00s. She also has the longest span between her first number on, 1964, and her more recent, Love Is the Answer 2009 – 45 years. And she is tied with the Beatles for third place behind Frank Sinatra (41) and Rolling Stones (36) for top ten album first week sales.
Any way you look at it, Streisand's career is amazing. The interview with Ross, hopefully, will be more insightful that Barbra's last Oprah visit. While that one was interesting, Oprah asked the same old questions of Barbra. I suspect that Mr. Ross might have some more interesting questions in his arsenal.


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Multicultural fairs have brought the world to students at Ohio Elementary School and Calcium Elementary School this month.
Its a celebration of diversity and differences, Ohio Elementary School Principal Mark L. Taylor said.
Ohio Elementary held its multicultural day and fair last Wednesday; Calcium Elementarys was held Friday.
At Calcium Elementary, English as a second language teacher Laurie M. France said items such as clothing, currency, toys, flags, art and food from other countries were displayed at themed tables.
Ms. France said she and colleagues had been working since January to get everything ready. She said the children could experience all of the booths and displays the way they would at a museum. And more samplings of food were added this year.
When theyre sampling, theyre experiencing a part of that culture, Ms. France said.
Caroline Grimsey, mother of four students in the district, brought in information boards and artifacts displaying tidbits about Scotland, her home country. She had everything from a Scottish terrier stuffed animal, miniature double decker bus, teapot and teacup, to a kilt her son once wore and shortbread cookies.
The tea and teapot are popular things with the kids, Mrs. Grimsey said. If you go into a house in Scotland, youll always have tea and biscuits offered.
In the English as a second language program, Ms. France said she works with people who have come from different countries and speak different languages. The program emphasizes the importance of diversity, she said.
For other children, the fair was an opportunity to learn about how other people live and celebrate their lives around the world.
Mayleen J. Talimeliyor said shes been bringing objects and mementos from her home in Chuuk, one of four states in the Pacific island country of Micronesia. At her table, students kept coming up and asking can we touch this? about ornately carved pieces of wood called storyboards. She also had on display beaded necklaces that she said are used as a form of currency in her home country, as well as dresses a family member had made for her daughters.
The event concluded with a fashion show and dance. Mrs. Talimeliyors daughters, Tiara and Sonya, performed traditional Chuukese dances with some of their classmates.
They are going to do a childs dance, Mrs. Talimeliyor said. Its sort of a warrior dance with sticks.
Second-grader Yasmin J. Marquez said she was happy to get to perform the dances and to learn about her friends Micronesian culture.
Craft stations with different themes also were set up: students could make papier-mache flowers for the Mexican Day of the Dead, leis at the American station, a Chinese fan, Edelweiss hats and a chandelier for the annual celebration in the Philippines known as Pahiyas Festival.
Ms. France said the American table was new this year to celebrate the culture of people across America.
Elizabeth M. Murphy, who teaches a food and culture class at Alexandria High School, said she has had students participate in the cultural fair for the past 14 years.
Her students made more than 400 origami hats to give to each student who came through the doors.
High school student Giovanni D. Stevenson said he and his classmates volunteered to come and chose what table they would work at. The student volunteers served food such as nachos and red rice at the Mexican-themed tables, a Vietnamese dish of rice noodles and vegetables, and hot dogs, macaroni and cheese and pancakes at the American-themed table.
At Ohio Elementary, Mr. Taylor said some of the cultures represented were Mexican, Nigerian, Irish, Australian, Vietnamese, Italian, French and Japanese. Students enjoyed Japanese sushi, Vietnamese Hanoi bananas, Italian wedding soup, Australian oat cookies, American mini hot dogs and French chocolate.
For entertainment, second-graders sang a Mexican folk song, Las Mananitas, and a Nigerian folk song, Ise Oluwa. Mr. Taylor said cloggers performed a traditional Midwestern American dance, and a schoolwide Zumbathon ended the day.
Three exchange students from Immaculate Heart Central School came as cultural ambassadors representing their home countries of China and Germany. Mr. Taylor said the exchange students wrote out words and phrases in their native languages for the younger children.
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