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Smoked Salmon Tart for a Crowd
Karsten Moran for The New York Times
- 2 cups/310 grams all-purpose flour
- ½ teaspoon baking powder
- Kosher salt
- 4 ounces/1 stick/120 grams unsalted butter, cold and cut in half-inch chunks
- 2 egg yolks, beaten with enough ice water to make 1/2 cup
- 8 ounces/1 cup/240 milliliters crème fraîche
- 3 tablespoons freshly grated horseradish, or more to taste
- 1 teaspoon Dijon mustard
- Zest of 1 lemon
- Coarsely ground black pepper
- 1 small sweet onion, very thinly sliced
- 1 teaspoon olive oil
- ¼ pound/4 ounces/125 grams sliced smoked salmon
- 2 ounces/60 grams trout roe or wild salmon caviar (optional)
- 1 tablespoon snipped chives
- 1 teaspoon roughly chopped tarragon, or torn leaves
- Make the pastry: Put flour, baking powder and 1/2 teaspoon salt in the bowl of a food processor. Pulse briefly, then add butter all at once and whir until mixture resembles wet sand. Add egg and continue just until dough comes together. (Alternatively, cut butter into dry ingredients in a mixing bowl and mix by hand.) Knead dough lightly on counter-top, then divide into four pieces and form each into a ball. Wrap with plastic film and flatten to 1-inch-thick disks. Refrigerate for at least 1 hour.
- Make the horseradish cream: Mix together crème fraîche, horseradish, mustard and lemon zest. Season generously with salt and pepper, then keep cool. (If cream firms upon standing, beat with a fork.)
- Heat oven to 400 degrees. Put onion in a small bowl and season with salt and pepper. Add olive oil and mix to coat. Roll out each piece of dough to an 8-inch-diameter circle. Place the pastry disks on parchment-lined baking sheets. Sprinkle onion slices over each round.
- Bake tart rounds for 6 to 7 minutes, until pastry is lightly browned and puffed, and onions are starting to brown. (Turn pans halfway through for even browning.) Let cool for a minute or two.
- Put pastry on a cutting board. Cut into 6 or 8 wedges. Spoon some horseradish cream onto each wedge. Tear salmon slices into wide ribbons and lay them over the cream. (Use 1 ounce salmon per tart.) Top each wedge with a tiny spoonful of roe, if using, and sprinkle with chives and tarragon. Serve directly from the board.
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Horn Installation #1
By Harald, Sumner, Wa
|[Editor's Note : This is
titled Horn Installation #1 as I expect that there will be other
variations to follow:]
First I'd like to thank Spunkmyer for his idea on where to mount the
Stebel Nautilus horn as he described in THIS
By holding the horn in front of the radiator, I could see that it would be possible to make a bracket that would position the horn close to the radiator and tilted back so that the fender could not hit it and rain could easily drain out of the opening. I next cut a piece of cardboard to get a rough idea of what shape my bracket would need to be (shown on left in picture below). It's real easy to trim with scissors until it looks like it'll work. I then used my cardboard as a template to cut a scrap piece of sheet metal so that I could actually/sorta mount the horn and get the bends correct. Now that I had proof that this idea would work, I traced my pattern on a piece of 1/8" steel. A little cutting, drilling, filing, bending and painting yielded the final product (on the right in the picture below).
|Here is a picture of the bracket installed on the Stebel
Nautilus horn:
I should note that I had to do some fine tuning on the bracket bends before painting it. The positioning is critical so that the horn won't hit anywhere on the radiator while turning the bars lock to lock.
Here's a front view of the horn installed. I haven't hooked up any wiring yet.
And finally, here's a side view of the horn installed:
|A couple notes for anyone else considering this
type of install. The two bolts that hold the horn are stock Yami bolts
that have a larger diameter shoulder between the head and the threaded
section. This requires drilling the holes in the bracket larger than the
thread size so that the bracket will sit flush against the plastic splash
guard and the bottom of the triple tree. You also have to wiggle the
plastic piece around while tightening the bolts so that it gets positioned
correctly on the bolt shoulder. I felt that there was still sufficient
thread engagement with the horn bracket installed. Because I didn't want a
heavy horn flopping around due to loose fasteners, Loctite was used on
these bolts.
I didn't document wiring because it's standard fare. I did retain the stock horns, but the Stebel horn is so loud that I can't say whether I can still hear the stock ones or not. I just figured that more noise is always better! These horns get 2 thumbs up from me!
|Updated November 29, 2008

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You can pursue your own PCI initiative by estimating the monetary value of your ideas. Tip #59, Tip #61 and Tip #62 can help. Warning! If you are successful, you may have to put on a suit and dress shoes to make a presentation at a board meeting. You may be forced to eat French pastries and caviar. If this happens, you can do us all a favor if you can get the following quote by you into the Wall Street Journal:
Automation systems tell us what is going on in the process and provide the means for us to continuously maintain the process at its best. Automation professionals are in the best position to improve company profitability and shareholder return.
oncept: You need to show the impact on the bottom line to be given the freedom and resources to do more than simply execute control definition projects that were developed by Process Design and Operations. Track down the sources of variability. Get with the process engineers and make simple calculations of the cost or profit opportunities. Use innovative strategies to achieve process improvement objectives and reduce energy, raw material, recycle, and waste treatment costs and increase on-stream time and production rate. Take advantage of new automation system tools and functionality.
Details: Become buddies with a process engineer and confidant of the operators as per Tip #51 and Tip #52. Track down the sources of variability, starting upstream and looking for oscillating loops, on-off control, and manual actions. Use auto-tuning and adaptive tuning tools to improve loop tuning. Use the power of the PID to eliminate on-off control and operator intervention. Eliminate manual control per Tip #69 by automating the best of the operator actions and replacing the scheduling of flows with feedback control (e.g., fed-batch control and automated start-ups).
Move on progressively to important unit operations, perhaps starting (for example) with reaction and continuing on with crystallization and separation and ending up with blending and drying. Add override control and valve position control for small optimization opportunities or model predictive control for large optimization opportunities. Finally, take a look at waste treatment system efficiency. Compute online metrics (Tip #61). Use key PID features (Tip #71, Tip #72 and Tip #100) to reduce interactions, coordinate loops, eliminate trips, reduce off-spec material, protect equipment, and optimize loops. Use a virtual plant (Tip #99) to do experimentation to find and quantify possible improvements.
Watch-Outs: Large equipment volumes will smooth out upstream oscillations, similar to the attenuating effect of an electronic signal filter on noise. Here the filter time constant is the volume residence time (volume/flow). This filtering action must be considered when estimating the cost of variability downstream. Don't get hung up on actual cost numbers. If necessary, use percentages. The relative improvement and technology are what is important. Operator training and handholding are essential, or else whatever is new will be blamed for anything that goes wrong.
Exceptions: If a feed or utility valve is wide open there is not much you can do to increase production rate if downstream variability is acceptable. Large blend tanks can keep material within spec despite upstream variability. If there are only on-off valves, you are relegated to improving sequences until control valves and PID loops are installed.
Insight: You need to be able to estimate and demonstrate the value of improvements in process efficiency and capacity in order to get a commitment of time and money for process control innovations.
Rule of Thumb: Estimate the benefits from a decrease in variability and an increase production rate and implement solutions where the increase in plant profitability provides sufficient justification.


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Griswold Elementary School's assistant principal will take the top job this summer as the school district shuffles its administrators.
Griswold Elementary School's assistant principal will take the top job this summer as the school district shuffles its administrators.
The school board on Monday accepted the retirement of curriculum director John DiIorio, and opted minutes later to shift Griswold Elementary School Principal Susan Rourke into his position, beginning July 1 — one day after DiIorio retires.
The board unanimously appointed Griswold Elementary Assistant Principal Joseph Bordeau as the new elementary school principal, effective July 1.
In her new position, Rourke said she will be excited to work with all the district's schools, including the one where she has been principal at for five and a half years. Rourke said after the meeting she was almost as excited for her new position as she was to watch Bordeau step up.
"We've been working together since Day One, and we are a great team. We'll continue to be a good team," Rourke said.
Rourke and Bordeau started at Griswold Elementary on July 14, 2007, and in their current positions. They'll have a long transition period, and Bordeau said the school community will help that, too.
"I'm excited, and I'm ready. I'm working with a great staff, great families, and we're going to move forward and continue the initiatives that began a year ago," Bordeau said.
DiIorio is retiring after more than 30 years as a teacher and administrator in Eastern Connecticut. He taught for 20 years and was an administrator at high schools in Ledyard and South Windsor before coming to Griswold in 2008. In
Griswold, he's been the curriculum director for the district. He also spent the better part of the 2011-12 academic year as acting superintendent after former superintendent Paul Freeman left the district in fall 2011.
With the vote Monday, school board Chairwoman Elizabeth Dorff said she was disappointed to lose his decades of experience and knowledge, but she and the rest of the board wished him well in retirement.
Dorff said she was happy to see people who are already committed to the district take over the positions, and thanked Rourke and Bordeau for stepping up. The whole board, she said, looks forward to working with them in their new positions.


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Cafés at the Victoria & Albert Museum
Fittingly for a museum of art and design, there are three beautiful and inspiring places to eat, drink and rest inside the V&A. The Main Cafe is also the worlds very first museum cafe, with its three rooms still in their original design. All of these can also make great places for score tallying and prize giving after you THATMuse Treasure Hunt!
The Garden Café
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Some 464,000 people across the world were victims of homicidal violence in 2017, more than five times the number killed in armed conflict over the same period, UN researchers said on Monday.
From 11-13 September, as part of theTransnational Threats (TNT) Project, crime experts met at UN Headquarters in New York to find ways to strengthen cooperation, and discuss methods to tackle the problem of serious and organized criminal activity. Charles Kim, TNT project manager from UN Police (UNPOL), spoke with UN News's Conor Lennon.
Despite the challenge of trying to decriminalize centuries-old smuggling routes and cross-border terrorism, the countries of the Sahel are showing progress in building "credible, functioning justice systems."
There is a "growing problem" of organized crime syndicates corrupting politics and politicians worldwide, especially at a local level.


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I promised an extensive NBA Eastern Conference breakdown, and here it is. The Raptors are going to be the worst team in the NBA and the Heat are going to be the best. I challenge you to name 3 players on the Toronto Raptors without looking up their roster…John Wells Stevens couldn't even do it. He confesses to this and lends his sports prowess to the show. Please enjoy.
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Christmas NBA Television Ratings
Many have wondered if the fans would come back after a lengthy and sometimes messy lockout. When the overnight ratings for the Christmas Day games came in earlier today, I think we got our answer…everyone just wants to watch some good basketball. The games averaged 6.2 million viewers, which is up from 6 million last year. According to the Associated Press, the Bulls-Lakers game was the third most watched regular season game in ABC history, and the Celtics-Knicks game on TNT that led off the coverage was up 48 percent over the same time slot last year (Bulls vs. Knicks on ESPN). The NBA has as much if not more talent than any other era in the history of the game. The story lines are compelling and the coverage of the games are second to none (except for when we have to listen to Jeff Van Gundy of course). With the packed season we're going to have games available to us just about every night of the week….perfect timing now that we can't watch MAC football games on Tuesday night anymore.
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The NBA Lockout is Over! (well…almost)
We all woke up yesterday morning to the phenomenal news that the NBA Lockout was soon to be over. The owners and players have agreed to a new 10-year deal in principle. The deal still needs to be ratified by both sides, and some other secondary issues still need to be decided upon (i.e. drug testing, minimum age to enter draft, etc). Throughout the day I was following the fan response on Facebook and Twitter and was shocked to see the animosity that so many had for the NBA. "I don't care if the Lockout is over. All the players are overpaid anyway. It's going to take a long time for them to get me back watching games." (Note: The idea that players are overpaid is absurd. The market sets their value based off of what you and I are willing to pay to watch their games either on TV or in the stadium. As long as we keep showing up and paying what we do…the players will continue to make the same amount. I believe the phrase is, "don't hate the player, hate the game.") Do you remember this kind of angst towards the NFL players when the Lockout was finally ended? I don't, and I frankly don't understand why people are so upset at the NBA for this. Sure, the Lockout lasted a few weeks longer, and the debate was a bit more contentious, but was it really that much different? I would have loved it if they would have wrapped it up sooner, but let's be honest, none of us were going to start watching until Christmas anyway….
Why Can I Not Stop Reading About the NBA Lockout?
I think it might be because it's a full-on train wreck happening right before our eyes. The two sides continue to go back and forth on topics that they seem miles apart on. Now, supposedly the NBPA has given Derek Fisher the go-ahead to accept the 50/50 basketball related income split, but only if they can have some new concessions with the mid-level exception and other "system" issues. I don't know if the players aren't paying attention or what, but rumor has it that as many as 13 owners are willing to cancel the full season today to make sure they get the best deal. I doubt that almost 50% of the players are willing to take a similar stance to get what they want out of this deal. Billionaires beat millionaires 100 times out of 100. I think the owners have put out the best possible deal for the players at this point. If I'm Derek Fisher, I'm pushing the NBPA to take this thing and run….immediately.
The Graham Anderson Show 6.15.11
Who is going to take James Fredette (seriously people, he's an adult now, let's call him by an adult name) in the draft? Are my hometown Jazz going to pull the trigger under community pressure? I guess we'll just have to wait and see. Please sit back and enjoy the last podcast about meaningful sports for the foreseeable future….NBA season is over, NFL in lockout, no Tiger Woods, no World Cup, no Summer Olympics…we are now to be tortured with 18 hours per day of Peter Gammons and Baseball Tonight.
The Graham Anderson Show 6.10.11
I lost a little bit of respect for D. Wade when I found this picture, but I spend enough time praising him in this podcast that it should make up for it. Lebron James being the best player in the world for weeks at a time and then showing up and playing like C.J. Miles the next, T. Pryor and the mess in Columbus, Tiger Woods hurt instead of dominating majors, Rep. Weiner, and some movie catch-up….you're not going to want to miss a thing.
The Graham Anderson Show 5.18.11
I hope Deshawn Stevenson isn't a regular listener of the show. My own flesh and blood, Stuart B. Anderson, makes his second official appearance to talk about breathtakingly important topics: triathlons, Miguel Angel Jimenez's ponytail, and our favorite athlete tattoos.
The Graham Anderson Show 4.27.11
Have I seen Water for Elephants yet? No. Has today's guest, Jake Welch, he says no….but someone that loves Pattinson as much as he does couldn't have missed it opening night. A potpourri a topics on this week's show: NBA Playoffs, Team USA, NFL Draft, a touch of baseball and soccer, and a few comments about our personal lives that may or may not amuse you.
The Graham Anderson Show 2.24.11 Part Deux
Today marks an end of an era in Jazz and Nuggets basketball. Rhombusmag.com contributor, KSL Sports employee, and die-hard Nuggets fan, Jake Welch joins the show to talk about what if feels like to lose a future hall of famer. Stay faithful Jazz fans! We have great years ahead!
The Graham Anderson Show 2.17.11
I really needed to get a few big topics off my chest so I went with a solo show…The Company Men, Friday Night Lights, The Bachelor, Carmelo Anthony, Tom Brady's hair, Miami Heat, and Lance Armstrong just to name a few…Enjoy!


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Two cases occur, the first one when SU accepts the leasing proposition; hence the PU can make a benefit thanks to the price of service. whereas the second case is when rejects the leasing propositions and choose to sense himself the channel to opportunistically use it thus the PU will not make benefit but lose the energy of making proposition. The payoff function obtained whether the secondary accepts the service proposition or not, is represented in the following discontinuous utility function as follow.
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In this day and age, sophisticated critique of technology and science is much needed. What we don't need is critiques like this long piece in the Baffler by Corey Pein which, I think, is trying to mount a critique of the lack of ethics education in computer science curricula but seems most concerned with asserting that computer science is not a science. By, I think, relying on the premise that "Silicon Valley activity and propaganda" = "computer science." I fail to understand how a humanistic point is made by asserting the 'unscientific' nature of a purported science, but your mileage may vary. Anyway, on to Pein.
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Neil deGrasse Tyson And The Perils Of Facile Reductionism
You know the shtick by now–or at least, twitterers and tweeters do. Every few weeks, Neil deGrasse Tyson, one of America's most popular public 'scientific' intellectuals, decides that it is time to describe some social construct in scientific language to show how 'arbitrary' and 'made-up' it all is–compared to the sheer factitude, the amazing reality-grounded non-arbitrariness of scientific knowledge. Consider for instance, this latest gem, now predictably provoking ridicule from those who found its issuance predictable and tired:
Not that anybody's asked, but New Years Day on the Gregorian Calendar is a cosmically arbitrary event, carrying no Astronomical significance at all.
A week earlier, Tyson had tweeted:
Merry Christmas to the world's 2.5 billion Christians. And to the remaining 5 billion people, including Muslims Atheists Hindus Buddhists Animists & Jews, Happy Monday.
Tyson, I think, imagines that he is bringing science to the masses; that he is dispelling the ignorance cast by the veil of imprecise, arbitrary, subjective language that 'ordinary folk' use by directing their attention to scientific language, which when used, shows how ridiculous those 'ordinary folk' affectations are. Your birthday? Just a date. That date? A 'cosmically arbitrary event.' Your child's laughter? Just sound waves colliding with your eardrum. That friendly smile beamed at you by your school mate? Just facial muscles being stretched. And so on. It's really easy; almost mechanical. I could, if I wanted, set up a bot-run Neil deGrasse Tyson Parody account on Twitter, and just issue these every once in a while. Easy pickings.
Does Tyson imagine that he is engaging in some form 'scientific communication' here, bringing science to the masses? Does he imagined he is introducing greater precision and fidelity to truth in our everyday conversation and discourse, cleaning up the degraded Augean stables of internet chatter? He might think so, but what Tyson is actually engaged in is displaying the perils of facile reductionism and the scientism it invariably accompanies and embellishes; anything can be redescribed in scientific language but that does not mean such redescription is necessary or desirable or even moderately useful. All too often such redescription results in not talking about the 'same thing' any more. (All that great literature? Just ink on paper! You know, a chemical pigment on a piece of treated wood pulp.)
There are many ways of talking about the world; science is one of them. Science lets us do many things; other ways of talking about the world let us other do things. Scientific language is a tool; it lets us solve some problems really well; other languages–like those of poetry, psychology, literature, legal theory–help us solve others. The views they introduce of this world show us many things; different objects appear in different views depending on the language adopted. As a result, we are 'multi-scopic' creatures; at any time, we entertain multiple perspectives on this world and work with them, shifting between each as my wants and needs require. To figure out what clothes to wear today, I consulted the resources of meteorology; in order to get a fellow human being to come to my aid, I used elementary folk psychology, not neuroscience; to crack a joke and break the ice with co-workers, I relied on humor which deployed imaginary entities. Different tasks; different languages; different tools; it is the basis of the pragmatic attitude, which underwrites the science that Tyson claims to revere.
Tyson has famously dissed philosophy of science and just philosophy in general; his tweeting shows that he would greatly benefit from a philosophy class or two himself.
Contra Cathy O'Neil, The 'Ivory Tower' Does Not 'Ignore Tech'
In 'Ivory Tower Cannot Keep On Ignoring Tech' Cathy O'Neil writes:
We need academia to step up to fill in the gaps in our collective understanding about the new role of technology in shaping our lives. We need robust research on hiring algorithms that seem to filter out peoplewith mental health disorders…we need research to ensure that the same mistakes aren't made again and again. It's absolutely within the abilities of academic research to study such examples and to push against the most obvious statistical, ethical or constitutional failures and dedicate serious intellectual energy to finding solutions. And whereas professional technologists working at private companies are not in a position to critique their own work, academics theoretically enjoy much more freedom of inquiry.
There is essentially no distinct field of academic study that takes seriously the responsibility of understanding and critiquing the role of technology — and specifically, the algorithms that are responsible for so many decisions — in our lives. That's not surprising. Which academic department is going to give up a valuable tenure line to devote to this, given how much academic departments fight over resources already?
O'Neil's piece is an unfortunate continuation of a trend to continue to castigate academia for its lack of social responsibility, all the while ignoring the work academics do in precisely those domains where their absence is supposedly felt.
In her Op-Ed, O'Neil ignores science and technology studies, a field of study that "takes seriously the responsibility of understanding and critiquing the role of technology," and many of whose members are engaged in precisely the kind of studies she thinks should be undertaken at this moment in the history of technology. Moreover, there are fields of academic studies such as philosophy of science, philosophy of technology, and the sociology of knowledge, all of which take very seriously the task of examining and critiquing the conceptual foundations of science and technology; such inquiries are not elucidatory, they are very often critical and skeptical. Such disciplines then, produce work that makes both descriptive and prescriptive claims about the practice of science, and the social, political, and ethical values that underwrite what may seem like purely 'technical' decisions pertaining to design and implementation. The humanities are not alone in this regard, most computer science departments now require a class in 'Computer Ethics' as part of the requirements for their major (indeed, I designed one such class here at Brooklyn College, and taught it for a few semesters.) And of course, legal academics have, in recent years started to pay attention to these fields and incorporated them in their writings on 'algorithmic decision making,' 'algorithmic control' and so on. (The work of Frank Pasquale and Danielle Citron is notable in this regard.) If O'Neil is interested, she could dig deeper into the philosophical canon and read works by critical theorists like Herbert Marcuse and Max Horkheimer who mounted rigorous critiques of scientism, reductionism, and positivism in their works. Lastly, O'Neil could read my co-authored work Decoding Liberation: The Promise of Free and Open Source Software, a central claim of which is that transparency, not opacity, should be the guiding principle for software design and deployment. I'd be happy to send her a copy if she so desires.
Richard Dawkins' Inconsistent Reliance On Pragmatism
A very popular video on YouTube featuring Richard Dawkins is titled 'Science Works, Bitches.' It periodically makes the rounds on social media; as it does, Dawkins acolytes–in the video and on social media–applaud him as he 'smacks down' a questioner who inquires into the 'justification' for the scientific method. (A familiar enough question; for instance, science relies on induction, but the justification for induction is that it has worked in the past, which is itself an inductive argument, so how do you break out of this circle, without relying on some kind of 'faith'?) Dawkins' response is 'It works, bitches!' Science's claim to rationality rests on its proven track record–going to the moon, curing disease etc.; this is an entirely pragmatic claim with which I'm in total agreement. The success of inductive claims is part of our understanding and definition of rationality; rationality does not exist independent of our practices; they define it.
Still, the provision of this answer also reveals Dawkins' utter dishonesty when it comes to the matter of his sustained attacks on religion over the years. For the open-mindedness and the acknowledgment of the primacy of practice that is on display in this answer is nowhere visible in his attitude toward religion.
Dawkins is entirely correct in noting that science is superior to religion when it comes to the business of solving certain kinds of problems. You want to make things fly; you rely on science. You want to go to the moon; you rely on science. You want to cure cancer; you rely on science. Rely on religion for any of these things and you will fail miserably. But Dawkins will be simply unwilling to accept as an answer from a religious person that the justification for his or her faith is that 'it works' when it comes to providing a 'solution' for a 'problem' that is not of the kind specified above. At those moments, Dawkins will demand a kind of 'rational' answer that he is himself unwilling to–and indeed, cannot–provide for science.
Consider a religious person who when asked to 'justify' faith, responds 'It works for me when it comes to achieving the end or the outcome of making me happy [or more contented, more accepting of my fate, reconciling myself to the death of loved ones or my own death; the list goes on.]' Dawkins' response to this would be that this is a pathetic delusional comfort, that this is based on fairy tales and poppycock. Here too, Dawkins would demand that the religious person accept scientific answers to these questions and scientific resolutions of these 'problems.' Here, Dawkins would be unable to accept the pragmatic nature of the religious person's answer that faith 'works' for them. Here, Dawkins would demand a 'justified, rational, grounded in evidence' answer; that is, an imposition of standards that he is unwilling to place on the foundations of scientific reasoning.
As I noted above, pragmatism is the best justification for science and the scientific method; science works best to achieve particular ends. Dawkins is entirely right to note that religion cannot answer the kinds of questions or solve the kinds of problems science can; he should be prepared to admit the possibility that there are questions to which religion offers answers that 'work' for its adherents–in preference to other alternatives. Pragmatism demands we accept this answer too; you can't lean on pragmatism to defend science, and then abandon it in your attacks on religion. That's scientism. Which is a load of poppycock.
Epistemology and 'The Leftovers'
Imagine that an extremely improbable event occurs, one for which there was no warning; your best theories of the world assigned it a near-zero probability (indeed, so low was this probability then calculating it would have been a waste of time). This event is inexplicable–no explanations for it are forthcoming, and it cannot be fitted into the explanatory frameworks employed by your current conceptual schemes. What effect would this have on your theory of knowledge, your epistemology, the beliefs you form, and the justifications you consider acceptable for them?
This question is raised with varying degrees of explicitness in HBO's The Leftovers–which deals with the aftermath of the sudden disappearance of approximately two percent of the earth's population. 'The Departure' selected its 'victims' at random; no pattern appeared to connect the victims to each other. The 'departures' all happened at the same time, and they left no trace. There is no sign of them anymore; two percent of the world's population has been vaporized. Literally.
The Leftovers is not a very good show, and I'm not sure I will watch it any more (two seasons has been enough). It did however, afford me an opportunity to engage in the philosophical reflection I note above.
One phenomena that should manifest itself in the aftermath of an event like 'The Departure' would be the formation of all kinds of 'cults,' groups united by beliefs formerly considered improbable but which now find a new lease on life because the metaphysical reasonableness of the world has taken such a beating. Critics of these cults would find that the solid foundations of their previous critiques had disappeared; if 'The Departure' could happen, then so could a great deal else. The Leftovers features some cults and their 'gullible' followers but does little of any great interest with them–lost opportunities abound in this show, perhaps an entirely unsurprising denouement given that its creators were responsible for the atrocity called Lost.
As one of the characters notes in the second season, 'The Departure' made the holding of 'false beliefs' more respectable than it had ever been. And as yet another character notes in the first season, that old knockdown maneuver, the one used to dismiss an implausible claim made by someone else, that 'the laws of nature won't allow that,' is simply not available anymore. Science used to tell us that its knowledge was defeasible, but now that that dreaded moment, when evidence of the universe's non-uniformity, irregularity, and non-conformance with scientific laws is upon us, what are we to do? In The Leftovers a scientific effort gets underway to determine if geographical location was determinative of the victims' susceptibility to being 'departured,' but it seems like this is grasping at straws, a pathetic and hopeless attempt to shoehorn 'The Departure' into extant scientific frameworks.
So, in the aftermath of 'The Departure,' we reside in a zone of epistemic confusion: we do not know how to assign probabilities to our beliefs anymore, for the definition of 'likely' and 'unlikely' seems to have been radically altered. That old 'you never know' has taken on a far more menacing tone. Only the resumption of the 'normal' stream of events for a sufficiently long period of time can heal this epistemic and metaphysical rupture; it will be a while before our sense of this world's apparent predictability will return. But even then, every argument about the plausibility or the implausibility of some epistemic claim will take place in the shadow of that catastrophic disruption of 'reality;' the reasonableness of this world will always appear just a tad suspect.
Pigliucci And Shaw On The Allegedly Useful Reduction
Massimo Pigliucci critiques the uncritical reductionism that the conflation of philosophy and science brings in its wake, using as a jumping-off point, Tamsin Shaw's essay in the New York Review of Books, which addresses psychologists' claims "that human beings are not rational, but rather rationalizing, and that one of the things we rationalize most about is ethics." Pigliucci notes that Shaw's targets "Jonathan Haidt, Steven Pinker, Paul Bloom, Joshua Greene and a number of others….make the same kind of fundamental mistake [a category mistake], regardless of the quality of their empirical research."
Pigliucci highlights Shaw's critique of Joshua Greene's claims that "neuroscientific data can test ethical theories, concluding that there is empirical evidence for utilitarianism." Shaw had noted that:
Greene interpreted these results in the light of an unverifiable and unfalsifiable story about evolutionary psychology … Greene inferred … that the slower mechanisms we see in the brain are a later development and are superior because morality is properly concerned with impersonal values … [But] the claim here is that personal factors are morally irrelevant, so the neural and psychological processes that track such factors in each person cannot be relied on to support moral propositions or guide moral decisions. Greene's controversial philosophical claim is simply presupposed; it is in no way motivated by the findings of science. An understanding of the neural correlates of reasoning can tell us nothing about whether the outcome of this reasoning is justified.
At this point Pigliucci intervenes:
Let me interject here with my favorite analogy to explain why exactly Greene's reasoning doesn't hold up: mathematics. Imagine we subjected a number of individuals to fMRI scanning of their brain activity while they are in the process of tackling mathematical problems. I am positive that we would conclude the following…
There are certain areas, and not others, of the brain that lit up when a person is engaged with a mathematical problem.
There is probably variation in the human population for the level of activity, and possibly even the size or micro-anatomy, of these areas.
There is some sort of evolutionary psychological story that can be told for why the ability to carry out simple mathematical or abstract reasoning may have been adaptive in the Pleistocene (though it would be much harder to come up with a similar story that justifies the ability of some people to understand advanced math, or to solve Fermat's Last Theorem).
But none of the above will tell us anything at all about whether the subjects in the experiment got the math right. Only a mathematician — not a neuroscientist, not an evolutionary psychologist — can tell us that.
Correct. Now imagine an ambitious neuroscientist who claims his science has really, really advanced, and indeed, imaging technology has improved so much that Pigliucci's first premise above should be changed to:
There are certain areas, and not others, of the brain that lit up when a person is working out the correct solution to a particular mathematical problem.
So, contra Pigliucci's claim above, neuroscience will tell us a great deal about whether the subjects in the experiment got the math right. Our funky imaging science and technology makes that possible now. At this stage, the triumphant reductionist says, "We've reduced the doing of mathematics to doing neuroscience; when you think you are doing mathematics, all that is happening is that a bunch of neurons are firing in the following patterns and particular parts of your brain are lighting up. We can now tell a evolutionary psychology story about why the ability to reason correctly may have been adaptive."
But we may ask: Should the presence of such technology mean we should stop doing mathematics? Have we learned, as a result of such imaging studies, how to do mathematics correctly? We know that when our brains are in particular states, they can be interpreted as doing mathematical problems–'this activity means you are doing a math problem in this fashion.' A mathematician looks at proofs; a neuroscientist would look at the corresponding brain scans. We know when one corresponds to another. This is perhaps useful for comparing math-brain-states with poetry-brain-states but it won't tell us how to write poetry or proofs for theorems. It does not tell us how humans would produce those proofs (or those brain states in their brains.) If a perverse neuroscientist were to suggest that the right way to do maths now would be to aim to put your brain into the states suggested by the imaging machines, we would note we already have a perfectly good of learning how to do good mathematics: learning from masters' techniques, as found in books, journals, and notebooks.
In short, the reduction of a human activity–math–to its corresponding brain activity achieves precisely nothing when it comes to the doing of the activity. It aids our understanding of that activity in some regards–as in, how does its corresponding brain activity compare to other corresponding brain activities for other actions–and not in others. Some aspects of this reduction will strike us as perfectly pointless, given the antecedent accomplishments of mathematics and mathematicians.
Not all possible reduction is desirable or meaningful.
Contra Damon Linker, 'Leftist Intellectuals' Are Not 'Disconnected From Reality'
Over at The Week, Damon Linker accuses 'the Left' of being disconnected from reality, basing this charge on his reading of two recent pieces by Corey Robin and Jedediah Purdy. (It begins with a charge that is all too frequently leveled at the Bernie Sanders campaign: that its political plans are political fantasies.) What gets Linker really offended is that 'left-wing intellectuals'–who presumably should know better–are trafficking in the same 'disconnected from reality' ramblings.
I don't think they are. Rather, they are doing the exact opposite of what Linker claims, and in this spectacular misreading of them, Linker only indicts his own disconnect from the actual historical realities of how ideas and actions–especially political ones–interact.
First, Linker suggests that Robin thinks that indifference to political reality is a virtue. As he notes:
In a provocative essay for The Chronicle of Higher Education, "How Intellectuals Create a Public," Robin argues that "the problem with our public intellectuals today is that they are writing for readers who already exist, as they exist," as opposed to "summoning" a new world, a new public, a new reality, into being.
In his essay, Robin offered a critique of Cass Sunstein's libertarian paternalism, suggesting that it merely further reifies an existing political reality, leaving everything as it was before; later Robin goes on to suggest that Ta-Nehisi Coates is afflicted by a kind of 'impossibilism' about the possibility of the "politics of a mass mobilization." (Robin's take on Coates deserves far more considered analysis than I can provide here. More on that anon.) Linker then, by linking to Marx's famous quote in the Theses on Fuerbach about the need for philosophers to change the world and not just interpret it, insinuates that Robin is just being an impractical Marxist in accusing Sunstein and Coates of producing "an all too accurate reflection of the world we live in." (Incidentally, this trope "You sound like Marx; you're impractical!" is profoundly unimaginative. I'm surprised it still does work for people.) The production of this facsimile for Linker is a virtue; for Robin, in the case of Sunstein, it speaks of a limited imagination (in the case of Coates, I think, again, that matters are very different.)
What makes Linker's critique of Robin especially bizarre is that from the very outset of his essay, Robin is talking about action, activity, making and remaking, interacting with this world, reshaping and reconfiguring it–through ideas and beliefs, expressed through writing, sent out into this world in an effort to change people's minds, to make them see the world differently. This is about as far as being disconnected from reality as you can imagine; Robin is not advocating a retreat to the ivory tower, to write complacently for a pre-existent audience that will force the author into the templates of its demands; rather he is suggesting that the author, the intellectual, by the form and content of his ideas–as expressed in his writings–can change and alter those templates and bid his readers follow different trajectories of both thought and action.
As Robin says:
[The public intellectual] is…the literary equivalent of the epic political actor, who sees her writing as a transformative mode of action, a thought-deed in the world.
This is as 'reality-based' as you can get, and you only get to doubt that if you, perhaps like Linker, seemingly doubt the power of ideas and beliefs; you know, those things the American pragmatists called 'rules for action.' Let's forget about religion for a second, and simply consider a couple of examples Robin provides: Rachel Carson's Silent Spring and Michelle Alexander's The New Jim Crow. The former produced an environmental movement; the latter has galvanized a nation-wide movement against mass incarceration.
As Robin goes on to note:
By virtue of the demands they make upon the reader, they force a reckoning. They summon a public into being — if nothing else a public conjured out of opposition to their writing. Democratic publics are always formed in opposition and conflict: "to form itself," wrote Dewey, "the public has to break existing political forms.
The role for the public intellectual that Robin envisages is the breaking of existing political forms–philosophers of culture like Nietzsche suggested doing this with a hammer; we'll have to settle for our word processors. Far from being disconnected with reality, Robin is suggesting an active engagement with the world; these engagements, Linker might be surprised to know, take many forms, ranging from the grubby and sordid to the elevated and sublime. Sometimes those forms of engagement are literary, sometimes physical, sometimes performative, sometimes emotional.
The problem is that Linker's imagination is limited; he is himself cut off from the very reality he claims to be in touch with. Robin's vision, by extending further than Linker's, might be informing him that there are more things in this world than he might have allowed for.
Linker then moves on Purdy, summarizing his claims as follows:
[P]olitics and economics have been "denaturalized" in our time, and that even nature itself is undergoing the same process….all appeals to permanent, intrinsic truths or standards by parties involved in political, economic, or environmental debates have become unconvincing. Nothing is natural in the normative sense — no political or economic arrangement, and not even any specific construal of the natural world and its meanings.
All such appeals to nature are in fact conventional, artificial constructs of the human mind imposed upon the world.
Linker suggests that Purdy draws a 'radical' conclusion from this:
a wonderful opportunity [which] holds out the possibility of a collective "world-shaping project" that would bring about a radical democratization of politics and economics, and of the relation of both to the natural world.
Linker now fulminates:
The problem with this way of describing the world is not merely that it's wrong. (As long as human beings have physical bodies that can thrive, be injured, and die, and as long as they live out their lives in a physical world that obeys natural laws disclosed by science, politics and economics will be hemmed in by constraints and obstacles that stand in the way of any number of potential "world-shaping projects.")
Purdy's claims are not particularly 'radical'; instead they build on a rich tradition of deflationary claims about the pretensions of absolutist theorizing about metaphysics, ethics, and politics. Linker should know–if he's read any philosophy of science or history of science–that science richly interacts with politics and economics and law. Thus the very science that Linker so valorizes is in fact something co-constructed with the society in which its practices are embedded. The politics and economics of this world impinge on the science it practices; a radical remaking of our politics and economics will also remake the science we practice. Not the truths it discovers but what it thinks it is important to research, investigate, and pursue as an object of knowledge. Science is "hemmed in by constraints and obstacles that stand in the way of any number of potential "world-shaping projects." Want to build that accelerator? Sorry; we don't have the funds. Want to go to Mars? Same problem. Want to do stem-cell research? Sorry, no can do. The religious folk won't stand for it.
If Linker simply wishes to say that our physical bodies and the world limits our physical actions, then he's stating the obvious. What he missed out on, like he did with Robin above, is that Purdy is speaking of an untrammeled imagination, which hitherto has been restricted and confined to pre-existing categories of thought and possibilities. It is the 'construals' of the world that have been limited; change those and you change your sense of what is possible for your interactions with this world. We'll always bump up against the hard, unforgiving edge of something or the other; but we don't even know, so long as we are confined by existing construals, what and where those edges are.
And then, Linker levels that old canard:
The even bigger problem with Purdy's account of things is that it renders political evaluation and judgment impossible. As Will Wilkinson writes in a brilliant critique of the essay, "Appeals to value only make sense…against a background of belief about how things really are. If our best ideas about the way the world works can't put a boundary around political contestation, then leaving the lead in Flint's drinking water makes as much sense as taking it out."
The kind of anti-metaphysical claims that Nietzsche made, the kind of radical undermining he conducted of morality, did not render moral evaluation impossible. Au contraire, it bid us examine the foundations of our moralities to see whose interests were represented therein. We, moral subjects, could radically reconfigure those values by dint of our actions. By, you know, our politics, our imaginations, our actions, our writings.
Accusing of intellectuals of being disconnected from reality is a tired, old, reactionary political trick. It is a ideological maneuver, one that merely indicts the one making the charge of preferring their own fantastic vision of the world.


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A fair amount of Grief and Anxiety out there, you can see it in people's faces as you drive or walk around. If in these Big Changes we focus on what we're losing, or fear we'll lose, that's inevitable. If we don't catch ourselves in that trap and Respond, we Project our Old Life, minus what we're losing, into the Future. Respond how? Well, we could Embrace whatever's going on in our Body, then Let It Go, and come back in a while to see if it's Let Us Go. If not, reiterate, or try returning what you're Feeling to the rightful owner. Notice that "Respond" is the verb form of "Responsibility."
Responsibility isn't the same as Blame. If you Believe you're carrying someone else's Feelings for them, there's no need to Blame them; you just give them back, psychically. You don't call them up and rip them a new one, you just silently deposit the Feelings next to their back door, and watch to see what happens. They might not even be the right person, in which case the Feelings will return or resume, for you to Embrace again – "Embrace whatever's going on in your Body, then Let It Go, and come back in a while to see if it's Let You Go. If not, … etc…" with your second guess about whether those Feelings are really your mom's, er, I mean, whether they were really someone else's Feelings.
There's enormous Power in Responding to our Feelings as Feelings – Grief as Grief, Anxiety as Anxiety, etc – instead of Responding to what we Believe to be the apparent Cause or Content of our Feelings – Why we're Sad, or What we're Anxious about.
That said, we can also work with our Projections – the apparent Cause or Content. Notice that if you try to do this while Feeling Grief or Anxiety, what you're going to Manifest if more Grief or Anxiety. It really pays off to Respond to your Feelings first, till you're at least Neutral, if not Optimistic. This might be a long process, but if you keep returning your Attention to whatever's going on in your Body (not in your mind), you'll make the process a lot more efficient.
Let's look at what Robert Moss (The Three "Only" Things, pp.178-9) recommends…
"The practice of imagination, on an everyday basis, involves clearing unhelpful images that block or misdirect our energies, and choosing to focus on positive, mobilizing imagery that gives us courage and confidence."
"A paralyzing fear or a numbing block [as an 'unhelpful image'] can hardly be called an image at all. Yet there is an image within the fear or the block that is waiting to be discovered, and when the image is brought to consciousness, and reworked, vital healing and forward momentum become possible."
"Scanning and clearing can be a simple process, one that can sometimes be done on your own.
- "Identify a problem or challenge in your life
- "Pick a quiet place and time, close your eyes, and go to the place in your body where you feel that issue most strongly
- "Now ask for an image of that challenge to become clear to you
- "When you have that image, see whether you can rework it with your conscious intentions."
He goes on to give an example of someone who "often felt 'knotted up' with anxiety" and the image she found was a "horribly tangled and knotted ball of string." She felt Relief as she patiently untangled the string and turned it into a strong rope that she used to pull herself onward and upward.
On pp.171-2 Moss says…
"We tell ourselves that reality is out there, but we do not experience that reality directly. 'What we experience directly,' says physicist David Deutsch, ' is a virtual-reality rendering, conveniently generated for us by our unconscious minds from sensory data plus complex inborn and acquired theories (ie, programs) about how to interpret them… Every last scrap of our external experiencem is of virtual reality… Biologically speaking, the virtual-reality rendering of their environment is the characteristic means by which human beings survive.'
"Our lives are more or less authentic according to whether we are aware of the role of images and of our own ability to choose and discard or transform the imagery that rules our interactions with everything. Hermann Hesse put this very precisely: 'There's no reality except the one contained within us. That's why so many people live an unreal life. They take images outside them for reality and never allow the world within them to assert itself.'
"The greatest crisis in our lives is a crisis of imagination. We get stuck, and we bind ourselves to the wheel of repetition, because we refuse to reimagine our situation. We live with a set of negative or confining images and pronounce them 'reality.' We do this because we let ourselves get trapped in a particular version of the past or in a consensual hallucination We do it to cling to the familiar, not daring to give up what we are or have been for what we are meant to become."
We could also call it a crisis of Intuition, as we're unable to Intuit the positive Future that our Mission pulls us toward.
Now we get to write about September, when we continue…


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swasan family back to mumbai. it was the three days they were back to mumbai. everything was going well and everyone almost forgot about maheshwari's and gadodia's. but ayush was still not completely adapted to this place. he never lived without shekhar and now that here everyone are new to him. he knows them barely for about the last 10 days. yes it's true he has developed a good bond with everyone and everyone has pampered him very much. he loves them all but still it was too short a time for him to cope up with all the changes. for him to adapt better sumi allows him to talk to shekhar twice a day.
swasan has tried there best to be there for him and sanskar has loved him the same way he loves swayyam. this overwhelmed swara and sumi with proud and love for him. ayush has made a special bonding with sanskar. swayyam and ayush has become like brothers.
the most interesting thing is sanskar took leave from office to take care of swara and swara got angry on him the second day because he was doing work from home and was extremely busy in his work and with this was not allowing swara to do any kind of work and doing all them by himself taking a lot of load. swara stopped talking to him giving silent treatment finally making him agree for going to office and letting her do some work. she laughs remembering all this.
[flashback- swara's silent treatment-
sanskar kept on stopping her from doing anything. she was sitting on the bed from morning being bored and he was doing his work.
swara- sanskar please let me walk for sometime and get myself a glass of water.
sanskar- you want water. here take this. (passing her a glass of water)
swara -[gave an annoyed look] i said i want water by myself.
sanskar- what's the need when i am here for you
swara- [took the glass and kept on table beside her bed] i am not gonna talk to you till you allow me to walk by myself
sanskar- and do you want me to allow you.
swara- sanskar don't irritate me. first of all you are not allowing me move from this dam bed and then you are not going office and doing work from home and third you ae doing my works too taking all work load on yourself. i don'tlike this. i know you are caring for me and really feel so blessed but sanskar i am all fine. i don't like you taking all the work load on yourself and stressing yourself so much. please join the office and let me do my works by myself. if i will need your help then i will ask you promise and i won't do any work which will hurt me and moreover maa is also at home to care about me.
sanskar- done. now listen to me. i am not going office and set this in your brain and sit here because i am not allowing you to do any work.
swara- if that is so i am not going to talk to you. talk to yourself the whole day.
sanskar- swara you will talk to me in few minutes.
swara- did not reply.
sanskar- swara are you serious about not talking.
swara- noreply and looked other side.
sanskar- fine it's good that you will sit quitely. i will complete my work and won't have to stop you every minute or not doing any work.
swara said nothing and sanskar went and resumed his work taking glances of swara. 4 hours passed and swara did not utter a word and sanskar was annoyed now. he irritatedly got up from his place and came to swara.
sanskar- swara when i am in office then also we talk almost every two hours and now it's been four hours you didn't say anything. please speak something.
swara did not say anything.
sanskar- let's see how much time more you will be able to resist yourself.
sanskar again resumed his work but after 1 more hour sanskar could not hold himself.
sanskar- swara ok i will go to office and will allow you to walk also but you have to promise you won't indulge in any work, just walk around when you feel like. ok
swara- [happily] ok thank you so much.
sanskar- your silent treatment was worse than being in jail. it is like i was encaged somewhere with sound proof walls.
swara- this one was very bad joke if it was one.
sanskar- it wasn't a joke but fact. and one request please don't ever give silent treatment ever. if i don't hear your voice then it feels like something is missing. these five hours i was here but still how could you not talk to me.
swara- when it is about your betterment then i can do anything.
sanskar- take care of yourself when i go to office.
swara- sanskar you will go office tomorrow. don't start instructing me from now itself. [said with a pout]
sanskar- ok as your wish my lady love.
both laughed and shared a hug.
flashback ends]
now that things are going back on track swasan were relieved. but swara noticed uttmay especially uttara who seemed to be disturbed since they last visited mm to end all that crap. she thought may be now that they have left them again she must be sad and waited for her to come out herself with her problem. but not able to hold herself she indirectly tried to ask her but she didn't budge.
it was a fine evening and sanuttmay were back from office. although uttmay lives in their home but when they come back they first come in swasan home and they go in their's. infact swara has advised that the routine will be that since uttara is also office going lady so their breakfast will be at swasan mansion made by swara and in the evening uttara will be preparing dinner along with swara and sumi.
now when uttmay came they went to their house to freshen up and came back. swara again tried asking uttara her problem but she just denied that their isn't any problem.
swara- [in mind] i will ask her when no one is around. their is definitely something bothering her and more over affecting uttmay's relationship. need to ask her before it's late.
they all had there dinner and all were chatting and playing with ayush and swayyam. swara called uttara to garden saying she needs some help from her and want to tell this to her secretly.
uttara came in garden and saw swara sitting on swing. she too went and sat beside her.
uttara- haan bhabhi tell what help you want.
swara- first promise what ever i ask you you will tell me or give me.
uttara- ok tell.
swara- uttara i asking you directly why you behaving strange since we came back. i am observing you from the day we were back from mm you are behaving like this.
uttara- [not making eye contact] what behaviour bhabhi. i couldn't understand]
swara- uttara not with us but with tanmay. i have seen that you are avoiding him and also trying to be away from him. is their any matter.
uttara- [shocked] bhabhi did tanmay say something like this to you.
swara- no i observed it and tanmay and me had no such talks between us. now come on tell me what is bothering you.
uttara- nothing
swara- you promised me to tell me everything i ask you.
uttara- [with tears] bhabhi i am feeling bad for whatever maa [sujata] said about tanmay and rashika. what would have he thought about me when maa told those words. after all the truth will remain the same that i am their daughter , their blood. how bad would have he felt when she spoke those words. i feel ashamed of myself that i am in anyway related to those persons who pointed two such innocent souls so badly.
swara- [giving a side hug and wiping her tears] ssshhh you are over thinking. what happened there was no fault of yours and tanmay won't be thinking anything about you. don't behave like this and stop thinking about them and the past. move on as we have done. that will bring happiness and past will only give pain.
uttara- but bhabhi wouldn't he have felt bad.
swara- those were not your or my words that he feel bad. tanmay is a matured person and when it comes to relationships and understanding he is better than me and sanskar also. so stop thinking all these and be happy.
uttara- thank you bhahi. you always understand me and help me out. you are great. i will apologise tanmay too.
swara- does he know all these.
uttara- no.
swara- then don't tell him and just be a good wife. acche tell me one thing [teassingly] what did you do on the first night of wedding.
uttara- [blushed] bhabhi what are you speaking]
swara- ohhoo don't blush so much and tell naa.
uttara- nothing. we both were tired and we talked with you all and then we talked to each other for sometime and slept as we had to go airport to catch flight. nothing more.
swara- what. you mean nothing happened.
uttara- [blushing more] bhabhi please stop saying all these.
swara- one last thing didn't you both till now took your relationship forward.
uttara- bhabhi [shyly] time was not correct. i mean seeing the condition's around we were tensed and thought it better to think about this later.
swara-[guilty] i am sorry because of me this all happened. you both could not go to your honeymoon too.
uttara- bhabhi you again started these things. i already told you that's it was better otherwise we would have felt guilty to enjoy unknown of things happening with our family.
swara- sorry. accha chalo let's go inside. it's cold here and sanskar would definitely scold us. and listen don't think those rubbish things again and stay happy.
uttara just nodded with a smile and they both went in and joined others.
night in sanskar's room
swara- sanskar don't go office tomorrow.
sanskar [a bit shock] why? are you alright.
swara- i am fine. i have some work and i need your help.
sanskar- [confused] what kind of work?
swara- i am planning something for uttara and tanmay.
sanskar- uttara and tanmay
swara- haan because of us they could not go on their honeymoon and enjoy the first few days of their wedding. and now too instead of being together they have joined office. don't you think they should spend some time together.
sanskar- yes you are correct. you know what my wife is just amazing.
swara- thanks and stop your flirting and suggest what to do.
sanskar- yaa.
after sometime-
swara- [loudly] sanskar
sanskar- [startled] yaa why are you shouting.
swara- got an idea.
sanskar- really then tell naa.
swara- sanskar for now let's book a honeymoon suite and arrange dinner for them and call them their without there knowledge and surprise them. they will become really happy and also get some privacy.
sanskar- awesome.
swara- haai naa. ok then you book the best room in the best hotel and then lets execute our plan tomorrow.
sanskar- ok i will do all arrangement.
swara- what i will do. we will do. i will accompany you everywhere and help you as i gave the idea.
sanskar- but…
swara- i don't want to here any excuses. i am coming along you. [angry look] don't you dare to deny otherwise remember my silent treatment
sanskar- ok meri maa.
swara- what
sanskar- sorry my princess.
swara- [smiled] that's better. now let's sleep. have a lot of work for tomorrow.
sanskar- yaa good night princess.
swara- good night my prince.
they slept with swayyam in between already sleeping.
next day swasan went to hotel did all arrangements and now were thinking about how to call them here in evening.
they thought and thought for a long time. then something struck in sanskar's mind and he shared with swara. she too approved it.
in evening 7:00 p.m.
sanskar's number flashed on tanmay's mobile.
tanmay- haan hello sanskar. where are you man. you left office in half day and now calling me.
swayyam- fufaji [crying voice] mumma papa.
tanmay- [panick] champ this is papa's mobile naa. where are you and why are you crying.
swayyam- i lost somewhere. papa mobile with me.
tanmay- champ first stop crying and tell me where are you.
swayyam- came with papa to hotel and then i got lost.
tanmay- which hotel.
swayyam- don't know
tanmay- champ see someone must be there. give him the phone.
swayyam- ok.
swayyam handed over the phone to someone
person- hello
tanmay- hello listen please help me a bit. can you tell me the location of that place.
person- ok i will. [person told him the place name]
tanmay- thank you so much. please give the phone back to the child.
swayyam- [crying] fufaji i am scared. please come. bring mumma papa.
tanmay- champ be there only i am coming. don't move and go anywhere.
swayyam- ok bring bua i am scared.
tanmay- haan i am coming and will bring bua also.
tanmay cut the call and rushed to uttara.
tanmay- [breathing heavily] uttara swayyam
uttara- what happened tanmay
tanmay- uttara swayyam is lost somewhere. we need to rush to him.
uttara- [worried] swayyam but how do you know.
tanmay- swayyam had samnskar's mobile and he called me. i somehow got the address and we need to be quick.
uttara- haan chalo.
uttmay left from the office to the hotel.
they reached xyz hotel and madly started searching the hotel when a staff asked them if they need help.
tanmay- yaa actually swayyam is lost. sorry my niece is lost. i am searching for him.
staff- whom did he come with.
tanmay- with his parents.
staff- sir go to receptionist and check the reservation if one is there that may help you. then you can show the receptionist the photo and they will help you out.
tanmay- thank you.
they went to receptionist. and asked them.
receptionist- one minute sir.
yaa they have the reservation of room no 309 and they did not check out. you please come with us. we will check there. and then the near by places. don't worry we will definitely find him.
tanmay- thanks.
uttmay went to that room and knocked but saw the door open and went in. they were surprised to see the decoration and arrangement there.
staff- sir please enjoy. this is for you.
uttara- what do you mean by enjoy. we are here to find someone.
staff- i am sorry maam. i am just doing my work as told. i was supposed to drop you till here and give these to you.
uttara- you..
tanmay- thank you [held uttara]
staff went. tanmay opened the card and the read it.
card- please enjay your time. a small gift from us. swara and sanskar.
then he read the paper which staff gave along with card.
paper- tanmay uttara we are sorry for scaring you. we really are. this was all to surprise you. swayyam is safe and sound with us. to confirm you can call me but dude don't shout and get angry on us. after your wedding you both did not get much time with each other. so now enjoy both of you together. sorry and be happy.
tanmay read this aloud and after reading tanmay and uttara looke at each other. first they were angry but now they sighed and went and sat on sofa and called sanskar
sanskar lifted the call.
sanskar- before you both shout i am sorry for giving you tension and please enjay your time and swayyam is absolutely safe bye. sorry we won't be available in your service till next morning.
saying this sanskar cut the call.
tanmay looked ta the phone angrily and then slowly smiled a bit at sanskar's antics.
done with this part.
precap- uttmay lovey dovey and much more.
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This is video of the Zimbabwe I knew and love. I'm sorry for the low quality of this old video. It does show the contrast of modern and old traditional life in the transitional period of the '80's and '90's. (Be sure to set view to "Original Size" for best picture.)
30 March 2007
Zimbabwe, Land of Contrasts
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