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Friday, 2 September 2011
" Say You , Say.... Ravioli ": a love story part 2.
Posted by Reem Adeeb
For all those who read my posting "Say you, Say me..." back in Oct.2010, you will be familiar with the characters: the ballsy B looking for love and her hopelessly romantic "starter boyfriend" X. For all those who don't...you have some scrolling to do or simply click on this to catch up:
So B thought long and hard over the situation with X and she decided to give things a chance. She kept her mouth closed and her ears open trying to figure this tall lanky guy, with a penchant for "cheesy and queasy", out. What she did know was that he was visibly besotted with her and had no qualms in showing it. But love had played tricks on her in the past, she was now prepared to outwit it before she falls into its trap.But they had to step it up a notch now, another night in listening to bloody Lionel Ritchie and she would have to break X's heart as well as his stereo. His romantic overtures were too Barbara Cartland for her taste and yet he still hadn't taken her out for a slap up meal. Could X's reticence be an oversight on his behalf or was he simply a tight wad? She shuddered at the memory of a past paramour who would bring a teabag of his favourite green tea with him whenever he spent the night as well as a packet of biscuits.There was never a second teabag, nor a second packet of biscuits. After several nights of this ritual, B had to ask:
"Tell me something, what is up with the one teabag?"
"Oh, I love a cup of green tea before going to bed" was his reply.
"And ...you just think of bringing the one?" said B dripping with sarcasm. "How about bringing the entire box? And maybe...I don't know, leave it here?"
"Well... I didn't know whether you liked green tea..." was his response.
Hers was to send him packing.
The Foire de Nice, a yearly event and culinary treat for all self respecting foodie on the Cote D'Azur, was in full swing that weekend and B suggested to X that they drive to Nice to check it out.
So there they were amongst the many stands and stalls of mouth watering treats and B's stomach started to rumble to a steady beat....take me out for lunch,take me out for lunch.But the loved up X remained stoically oblivious to the wild card she had dealt him: would he pass the test or tighten his wad?
"So what do you want to do now?" he happily asked, rose tinted glasses firmly in place.
"I'm hungry and would like to get something to eat!" she responded, slightly riled now that he still hadn't picked up on the natural flow to this date: food, wine and then if he is lucky...some passionate dessert back at his flat with their companion Lionel Ritchie .Then again, at this point all she could imagine him possibly singing was: "Hello?... Is it meat you're looking for?...."Grrrr
"Oh! Why didn't you say something? Come with me..."he grabbed her hand and headed for a stall that made and sold fresh ravioli. B faint with hunger but determined to stand her ground, spotted a smattering of tables and chairs beside the stall and thought to herself: "Ok... he is making an effort here, although this isn't quite what I wanted... it is kind of cute."
X bought a portion of ravioli and turned to B triumphant. He then proceeded to turn his back on the stand, the tables , the inviting chairs and everything he holds dear...the lightning was about to crack.
"Isn't this fun?" he declared with unbridled glee as he forked a piece of ravioli and thrust it at her gaping mouth: "A bite for you and a bite for me..."
B delirious with hunger and disappointment let rip: "Are you f**# kidding me? Are you seriously planning on spoon feeding me bits of ravioli while we stand here in the middle of all these people? What comes after that... Paddy cake?"
A now frightened X stood stoke still, fork in mid air, eyes agog, his blood rapidly draining from his face: "But... you said you were hungry! "he replied in his defence.
"Yessss ...as in take me to a restaurant ! Would that be too much to ask...or doesn't your wallet stretch that far?"
"But I thought that this would be romantic...."insisted a stunned X with a face like a slapped arse.
X looks back on this day fondly now: "Boy! You looked scary...like an electrified brillo pad!"
Moral of the story: Never look a gift horse in the mouth...and if its mouth is open...it obviously needs to be fed.
They have moved on and moved in together since then....except for Lionel, of course. He can now be seen on television making fun of his own tunes in the ad for Walkers crisps....thankfully it isn't on French TV.
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- Anonymous said...
They learn soon enough not to mess with us when we are hungry...
- 4 September 2011 at 15:20

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It had been a while since my boyfriend and I last hosted brunch, so we put together another one this weekend. I had some recipes that I wanted to try and my boyfriend had been wanting to re-create a brunch dish that we had eaten at Medina Cafe in Vancouver.
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I made some savory goat cheese and green onion mini muffins. So easy to make and slightly addictive. It's a simple muffin recipe with a blob of melting goat cheese in it which makes them savory, tangy, and a little bit sweet at the same time.
I also baked a lemon scented pull-apart coffee cake (otherwise known as delicious bread of awesome deliciousness). A sweet yeast dough is cut and spread with butter and lemon sugar so that after it bakes you can peel off the slices without having to cut the loaf.
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While it's still warm from the oven the coffee cake/bread get slathered with lemon cream cheese icing which melts into all the nooks and crannies and makes the whole thing soft and tangy and sweet.
For the main dish we roasted baby potatoes that had been tossed with rosemary, garlic, chili powder and olive oil. We had picked up some apple chicken sausages from Spolumbo's which we baked in the oven at the same time as the potatoes.
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"Like Water," a documentary focused on Anderson Silva's life leading up to his UFC 117 win over Chael Sonnen, debuts at next month's Tribeca Film Festival.
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"This cat is big
This cat is small
This cat is short
This cat is ..."
- Big Cat, Small Cat by Ami Rubinger
When you read to children, do you actively engage them in the story by asking questions and encouraging interaction? Studies have shown the positive effects on language development when children become involved in the story and participate in the storytelling. This method of reading is called dialogic reading. Reading Rockets, an excellent online children's reading resource, published an article on this topic with the following statement:
"Dialogic reading works. Children who have been read to dialogically are substantially ahead of children who have been read to traditionally on tests of language development. Children can jump ahead by several months in just a few weeks of dialogic reading."You can read all types of picture books when trying to implement the dialogic reading technique. However, some books already have built in prompts that help parents actively read with their children. A new picture book titled Big Cat, Small Cat by Ami Rubinger is one such book.
Comical pairs of felines in every shape, color, size and disposition sit on hills and fill the pages of Big Cat, Small Cat. Rubinger uses the various cats to discuss opposites. The text features short, simple, rhyming verses. Children can participate in the storytelling by listening to the rhyme and using clues in the illustrations to fill in the blank at the end of each four-line rhyme. The missing word rhymes with the last word in the second line. For instance, "This cat is dirty, this cat is clean. This cat is nice, this cat is ... [mean]." The author, Ami Rubinger, resides in Tel-Aviv and this book is translated from the Hebrew version.
We have our own big cats here, so obviously my kids enjoy all books about cats. My daughter liked the fill-in-the-blank aspect of the book the best. She surprised me by guessing all the rhyming words correctly the first time we read the book together. Completion prompts are one of the five types of dialogic reading prompts to use with your children. I've read several books to my daughter where I've omitted a word intentionally and asked her what word comes next. Up until reading Big Cat, Small Cat I hadn't encountered a book that deliberately omitted words for educational purposes. The often silly accompanying illustrations helped set a fun tone to the book. We got a good laugh noting the stark opposites of the "good," white, angel cat and the "bad," black, ears-on-fire cat. The book strangely ends with a "bedtime book" message that seems out of place in a book that would normally be appropriate to read any time of the day. Here's our own silly rhyme to sum up our overall opinion: "This book contains cats; and opposites abound. Filling in the blanks, it's a fun read all-round!"
Big Cat, Small Cat written and illustrated by Ami Rubinger ; translated from the Hebrew by Ray Baitner. Abbeville Kids (August 2009); 28 pages; ISBN 9780789210296
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Reading Rockets Article: "Dialogic Reading: An Effective Way to Read to Preschoolers"
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Translating devotion
Ravi Gupta works to share joy of a ninth-century Sanskrit holy text
The Bhagavata Purana is to some Hindus what the Bible is to some Christians. It is a work of literature encompassing a rich tradition of poetry and drama, as well as a scientific, technical, philosophical and Hindu religious text. There is only one English translation of the pure Sanskrit work and it's a technical, bare-bones translation.
That is about to change.
Ravi M. Gupta, associate professor of religious studies at William & Mary, is working on an abridged English translation of the Bhagavata Purana. Fluent in Hindi, English and Sanskrit, Gupta grew up in Boise, Idaho, and is an initiated brahmana priest of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness. He is a major figure in the U.S. Hindu community; he was selected to meet with Pope Benedict XVI in 2008 as a representative of American Hindus.
Gupta's goal is to produce a translation that will include the artistic and literary elements of the sacred work, which most scholars date to the 9th century. He is working with Kenneth R. Valpey, a colleague from the Oxford Center for Hindu Studies. Their translation will also include a companion volume of scholarly articles which examine the Bhagavata Purana from multiple disciplinary perspectives.
An Ancient text in an ancient language
A "Purana" is a class of Hindu sacred writings comprising popular myths and legends and other traditional lore. Most of the major Puranas are written in Sanskrit which, like Latin and ancient Greek, is considered an archaic language. Again like Latin and ancient Greek, Sanskrit continues to be widely used as a ceremonial language in Hindu religious rituals. Gupta notes that some 10,000 people in India still speak it as their native tongue.
"The Bhagavata Purana is one of the most sophisticated philosophical works of its time, spawning multiple religious traditions for which it serves as the primary sacred text," Gupta says.
The Bhagavata Purana has long served as the ultimate religious text for Vaishnavas, who focus on Bhakti Yoga, or devotion to the supreme lord expressed through love, with Krishna understood to be the supreme lord. Gupta notes that the work is an important cultural source as well, its verses inspiring countless works of art. Stories of Lord Krishna from his childhood to the Kurukshetra battle in Mahabharata figure in one form or another in Vaishnava temple sculptures, while important Hindu dance types have themes taken from the Bhagavata Purana.
"It stands out as an important piece of world literature, with some of the most beautiful poetry you'll find in any language," says Gupta. "It's an excellent literary piece in terms of poetic ornamentation, alliteration and all kinds of innovative Sanskrit verse meters. And it stands out aesthetically in terms of the imagery and stories that are used."
Hinduism is not a "religion of the book" where there is a single text held up as sacred, and Gupta explains that there are three texts which have had a shaping influence on India's history, and specifically on the development of Hinduism.
The first of the three works—the one perhaps most famous in the west—is an epic called the Ra-ma-yana which depicts the duties of relationships, including the legendary love story of Ram and Sita. The second text, the Mahabharata, an epic of life, remains the longest epic in world literature. It contains the Bhagavad Gı-ta-, often regarded as the central text of their religion by Hindus today.
The third work is the Bhagavata Purana.
Last—but not least
Interestingly, the first two texts—the Ra-ma-yana and the Mahabharata—have been read and studied thoroughly in English scholarship whereas the Bhagavata Purana has—according to Gupta—practically been ignored.
"So we decided to open up this treasure trove of Indian lore—of history—of religious culture, knowledge and theology," he said.
The two-part work—translated verses and companion articles—is slated for publication by Columbia University Press in late 2012. The books are intended to work as a primary and secondary reading, each keyed into the other.
"There will be an abridged translation covering approximately 10-12 percent of the Bhagavata Purana's 18,000-verse text and the accompanying volume of articles written by different scholars but edited by us," Gupta said. "Some of those are being written by us too."
The articles will study the Bhagavata Purana from multiple disciplinary perspectives—from its influence on Indian music and classical Indian dance to its view of cosmology and the concept of time. The translation will include notes drawn from a number of commentaries which Gupta says provide a wealth of all kinds of historical knowledge.
"Each commentary reflects the dominant themes and problems of that era. You get a good sense of what were people struggling with at that particular period in history," he explains.
True to the original
Gupta and Valpey want their abridged translation to remain as true to the original text as possible. They run into the typical challenges of translators faced with nuanced meanings in the original language that must necessarily lose something in the translation.
"Sometimes a verse can be pregnant with different layers of meaning," Gupta explains. He adds that just as a Sanskrit word may carry different meanings, "the word in English may have three meanings as well. When you do a translation you often have to choose one layer of meaning."
Gupta is employing a number of strategies to incorporate into his translation as much of the original subtleties of meaning that make up much of the artistic and literary elements of the Bhagavata Purana. His goal, he says, is "to help the reader enter these various layers through the translation, notes and introduction."
Sometimes it means translating the verse once for the main text. Then, completely retranslating the verse in a footnote in order to capture the multiple layers of meaning that elude a single translation.
Gupta envisions his translation as a point of entry for other scholars who are interested in the Bhagavata Purana but don't have the time or the tools to attempt a translation themselves. What's more, he sees this project as the tip of the iceberg—a much larger project being planned under the auspices of the Oxford Center for Hindu Studies.
"Kenneth Valpey and I envision a consortium of scholars from around the world who will take up different commentaries from different periods of history and work with them—maybe not to translate all of the commentaries, but to study important areas," he explains.
Over time, Gupta hopes to undertake an historical analysis of these various periods of Indian history and study how the Bhagavata Purana has interacted with other texts and other cultures—exploring ways in which it has migrated to different parts of the world.


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The conclusion to any blockbuster trilogy wouldn't be the same without it being a bit doom and gloom, would it? And times in Gears of War 3 are desperate indeed; despite giving the Locust a good hiding in 2008's last installment, humanity's numbers and COG's forces are hanging on by a thread, and a new threat has emerged in the form of the Lambent, a mutated race of Locust that emerges from the depths and destroys the landscape with massive tentacles. Hope comes in the form of a message of Marcus Fenix's thought-to-be-dead father, and so begins a rag-tag journey across the planet to reach him and a powerful secret that could turn the tide of the war.
While the fate of mankind couldn't be gloomier, the opposite could be said about the world around you. Gears of War 3 moves away from the dark, dank caves and burnt-out urban environments of previous games and drops you in far brighter and more humanised pastures. Ships, supermarkets, stadiums and even children's playgrounds are some of the arena's you'll be fighting in, and while the apocalyptic vibe is still ever present, it makes for a far eye-catching and diverse experience.
There's now a much stronger emphasis on prior events, whether it's in the places you visit and the world around you or the strifes of individual soldiers, which serves to add weight to a series otherwise laser-focused on guns and guts. While its starring cast still as many snappy and crass one liners as they do rounds of ammo, the more story-focused approach pays off, making you caring a little more about the events and horrors that have come and gone. It's just a shame it took until the last part of a trilogy to finally get there.
The approach to diverse environments and more thoughtful storytelling is also carried over into the gameplay, too. While the distinguished and strong core mechanics of Gears of War remain largely (and thankfully) untouched, the pacing within the campaign is nothing short of commendable, by introducing a new weapon, enemy, or vehicular section every 20 or so minutes, whether it's strutting around in a mechanical suit battling a ship-eating beast, or tackling new forms of ground-crawling tickers or slowing down the pace by handing on a fire extinguisher and going all fireman.
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The task before the Hindu society is immense. It consists in self-renewal and self-rejuvenation. it has to come into its own. It has to recover and reassert its civilizational identity. It must realize that Hindus are not just a community,... but a nation, a culture, a civilization. Similarly, it must realize that their awakening is not "Hindu Communalism," as the self-styled secularists describe it, but a great world-event, and the vehicle of a great good to the world. We can now see the beginning of this awakening.
Sri Ram Swarup
By Dr. Koenraad Elst, Belgium
In the long run, Ram Swarup will probably prove to have been the most influential Hindu thinker in the second half of the 20th century. He has, at any rate, been a crucial influence on most other Hindu Revivalist authors of the last two decades.
Ram Swarup, who peacefully left his body on December 26, 1998, was born in 1920 as the son of a banker in Sonipat, Haryana, in the Garg gotra of the merchant Agrawal caste. He was a good student and earned a degree in Economics from Delhi University in 1941. He joined the Gandhian movement and acted as the overground contact ("postbox") for underground activists, including Aruna Asaf Ali, during the Quit India agitation of 1942. He spent a week in custody when a letter bearing his name was found in the house of another activist, the later homeopath Ram Singh Rana. After his release, and until the end of the war, he worked as a clerk in the American office in Delhi, which had been set up in the context of the Allied war effort against Japan.
In that period, his wit made him quite popular in progressive circles in the capital. He was a declared socialist, a great fan of Aldous Huxley and a literary imitator of George Bernard Shaw. In 1944, he started the "Changers' Club," alluding to Karl Marx's dictum that philosophers have interpreted the world instead of changing it. The club was a discussion forum for a dozen young intellectuals, including future diplomat L.C. Jain, future Planning Commission member Raj Krishna, future Times of India editor Girilal Jain, and historian Sita Ram Goel. At that time Ram Swarup was a committed atheist, and in the Changers' Club manifesto he put it in plain words: "Butter is more important than God."
The Changers' Club published two essays, both by Ram Swarup: "Indictment," a highly critical review of the failed 1942 Quit India movement, and "Mahatma Gandhi and His Assassin," written immediately after the murder of the Mahatma by the Pune-based journalist and former Hindu Mahasabha activist Nathuram Godse on January 30, 1948. Written from a purely Gandhian perspective, its main thesis was that a society of small men cannot stand the presence of such a great man for very long: martyrdom was only befitting a man of Gandhiji's greatness. He showed no interest in Godse's motives, but he did appreciate that after the disaster of Partition, the urge to exact some punishment somewhere, though misguided (and in targeting Gandhi, misdirected), was a sign that Hindu society was not entirely dead, for suffering a calamity like the Partition and swallowing it without reaction would be a sure sign of virtual death.
At that time, the Changers' Club was already disintegrating because its members plunged into real life. For example, L.C. Jain became the commander of the largest camp for Partition refugees and organized the rehabilitation of Hindu refugees from the Northwest Frontier Province in Faridabad, outside Delhi. In 1948?49 Ram Swarup briefly worked for Gandhi's English disciple, Mira Behn (Miss Madeleine Slade), when she retired to Rishikesh to edit her correspondence with Gandhiji. The project was not completed, but he was to remain close to Gandhism for the rest of his life.
Anti-Communism: Around the time of Independence, Ram Swarup developed strong opinions about the ideology that was rapidly gaining ground among the intelligentsia around him: Communism. His first doubts developed in connection with purely Indian aspects of Communist policy. When the Communist Party of India defended the Partition scheme with contrived socio-economic arguments, he objected that the Partition would only benefit the haves among the Muslims, not the have-nots.
In 1949, Ram Swarup and Sita Ram Goel set up their own anti-Communist think-tank in Calcutta, then, as now, the center of Indian Communism. It was called the Society for the Defence of Freedom in Asia. Among its first publications was Ram Swarup's book, Russian Imperialism: How to Stop It, written during the conquest of China by Mao Zedong, when the onward march of Communism seemed unstoppable. The book drew the attention of top Congress leaders worried about Jawaharlal Nehru's steering the country in a pro-Soviet direction.
His Gandhism and Communism, which emphasized the need to raise the struggle against Communism from a military to a moral and ideological level, was brought to the attention of Western anti-Communists, including several US Congressmen. Some of its ideas were adopted by the Eisenhower administration in its agenda for the Geneva Conference in 1955.
Later, Arun Shourie wrote about Ram Swarup's struggle against Communism: "In the 1950s when our intellectuals were singing paeans to Marxism, and to Mao in particular, he wrote critiques of Communism and of the actual--that is, dismal--performance of Communist governments. ....He showed that the claims to efficiency and productivity, to equitable distribution and to high morale--which were being made by these governments, and even more so by their apologists in countries such as India--were wholly unsustainable, that in fact they were fabrications. Today, anyone reading those critiques would characterize them as prophetic. But thirty years ago, so noxious was the intellectual climate in India that all he got was abuse and ostracism" ["Fomenting Reaction," in A. Shourie: Indian Controversies, p.293].
Hindu Revivalist: Initially, Ram Swarup saw Gandhism as the alternative to Communism, and he never really rejected Gandhism. He continued to explore the relevance of Gandhism to real-life problems, such as in his booklet Gandhian Economics (1977). Gandhian inspiration is also palpable in his The Hindu View of Education (1971). But gradually he moved from the Gandhian version of Hinduism to a more comprehensive understanding of the ancient Hindu tradition. He wrote his first booklet on the Hindu religion just after Dr. Bhimrao Ambedkar's conversion to Buddhism in 1956: Buddhism vis-a-vis Hinduism (1958, revised 1984). It took a moderate view of the much-debated relation of Buddhism to its mother tradition, affirming that the Buddha was a Hindu (just as Jesus was a Jew), but conceding that Buddhism has a typical atmosphere setting it apart from the Hindu mainstream.
By the late 1970s, his focus had decisively turned to religious issues. A large number of his articles were published in the Organiser, in Hinduism Today (Hawaii) and in mainstream dailies (in the 1980s the Telegraph, the Times of India and the Indian Express; in recent years mostly the Observer of Business and Politics and the Birla family's paper, Hindustan Times). Ram Swarup's contribution to religious debate also consists of numerous books, including: The Word as Revelation: Names of Gods (1980), Hinduism vis-a-vis Christianity and Islam (1982, revised 1992); Christianity, an Imperialist Ideology (1983, with Major T.R. Vedantham and Sita Ram Goel); Hindu View of Christianity and Islam; Cultural Alienation and Some Problems Hinduism Faces (1987); Hindu-Sikh Relationship (1985); and Hindu-Buddhist Rejoinder to Pope John-Paul II on Eastern Religions and Yoga (1995).
Departing: Ram Swarup was a quiet and reflective person. He never married, never went into business, hardly ever had a job, never stood for an election, never joined an organization or party. When I first met him in 1990, he lived in a rooftop room in the house of the late industrialist Hari Prasad Lohia, a sponsor of a variety of Hindu sages. He had been living with the Lohia family in their Calcutta or Delhi property since 1955. In 1996 he moved to his late brother's house. Empowered by his daily yoga practice, his pioneering intellectual work had an indelible impact on the destiny of India that is yet to be fully appreciated.
He had been in rather good health right up to the end of his life. His good friend, Sita Ram Goel, told Hinduism Today, "Our beloved Shri Ram Swarup expired peacefully while sleeping on the afternoon of 26th December. He suffered no illness." His was an ideal grand departure. Ram Swarup left no children, but many Hindus felt orphaned when the flames consumed his earthly remains.
A Farewell to Shri Ram Swarup
Christopher Gerard, Antaios, Society for Polytheistic Studies
Pagans all over the world should pray in memory of Sri Ram Swarup, as a thinker of the Hindu Resistance, as a friend. All our Indian friends know how important he was--and how important his example remains--but only a meleccha, a European, can tell how big is this loss for contemporary Paganism. Ram Swarup was the perfect link between Hindu Renaissance and renascent Paganism in the West and elsewhere. Thanks to his remarkable culture, to his generosity and sense of humor, Ram Swarup was more than a link. He was a Pontifex, as we say in Latin, a man throwing bridges over different rivers. Vedic heritage and Greek Pagan thought, Hindu worldview and Germanic tradition, the period of the Raj and free India, old and new generations: Ram Swarup played the generous role of a go-between. He was also an important philosopher: his Names of Gods is a polytheistic manifesto. Ram Swarup told us many times he was looking forward to a Pagan Renaissance in Europe, Africa and America. He was convinced that all the Christianized peoples should go back to their pre-Christian, polytheistic, nondualistic heritage. He was an ally for all serious Pagan circles. He received me in Delhi like a son, gave me courage and strong advice and answered so many of my questions with such patience, such generosity. Like a real prince, he introduced me to some remarkable people. In a word, he "converted" me to India. Last but not least, he gave me my first lessons of Sanatana Dharma, not the tradition you read of in books, but authentic experience. How to thank such a man? Let us be faithful to this great figure of the Vedic Renaissance!
On Hinduism: "Hinduism satisfies man's deepest spiritual and ethical urges. It has developed different methods that facilitate growth into a more meaningful, unitive and intuitive life. It is humanist in approach, worldwide in outlook; it fully admits reason, admits experimental and speculative approach in investigation. It is pluralist, compassionate and nonviolent in temper. In fact, it has all that man seeks in his deeper being, and it is the product of this seeking" (Hinduism vis-a-vis Christianity and Islam, 1992, p. 22).
On Hindu Identity: "Hindus learn to look at themselves through borrowed eyes. The two approaches, that of self-discovery and creative response and that of self-alienation and imitation, were both inherited from the immediate history of the freedom struggle, though they derive their strength from the deeper sources in the psyche....For one, the problem is of helping the society to find its roots, for the other to remake it in the image of a chosen pattern. The one serves; the other manipulates....[The first approach] once formed a powerful current, and the freedom struggle was waged under its auspices. But increasingly its hold became weak, and in our own times it seems to have lost altogether....Some see in this change a triumph of Nehru over Gandhi....Nehru represented, in his own way, the response of a defeated nation trying to restore its self-respect and self-confidence through self-repudiation and identification with the ways of the victors. The approach was not altogether unjustified at one time. It had its compulsions and it also had a survival value for us. But its increasing influence can mean no good to us. We, however, believe that deeper Indian nationalism, which is also in harmony with deeper internationalism, may be weak just now, but it has the seed-power and it is bound to come up again under propitious circumstances" (Cultural Self-Alienation and Some Problems Hinduism Faces, 1987, p. 4-5).
On Buddhism: "Buddhism is returning home to India after a long exile of a thousand years and, like the proverbial prodigal son, is being received with open arms. Religious tolerance of the average Hindu partly explains the warm reception. But a more important reason is the fact that Buddha and Buddhism form an intimate part of Hindu consciousness. Buddha was a Hindu. Buddhism is Hindu in its origin and development, in its art and architecture, iconography, language, beliefs, psychology, names, nomenclature, religious vows and spiritual discipline....Hinduism is not all Buddhism, but Buddhism forms part of the ethos which is essentially Hindu" (Buddhism vis-a-vis Hinduism, 1958, p.1).
Communism: "Between August 15, 1947, and Hyderabad's accession to the Indian Union, the communists in the two districts of Warangal and Nalgonda alone murdered 2,000 persons....But most of the people either did not believe it at all or regarded them as isolated facts having nothing to do with 'true communism.' So, to put it differently, there are two communisms. One is True Communism, a personal version of individuals, the same as individuals might have a personal version of appendicitis. The second is the communism which is true to hundreds of millions of people, communism for promoting which...whole classes are liquidated, nations subjugated, a world war prepared for....To separate this communism from violence, terror and lying propaganda in the name of True Communism is not to know the communism that is true in Soviet Russia and communist parties everywhere....Ignorance amongst the democratic leadership about communism is the greatest weakness of Democracy in its fight against communism" (Communism and Peasantry, 1954, p. 120-121).
On Gandhism: "Gandhism succeeded because of Gandhiji. There are no Gandhian formulas which can be applied by anybody. One must have Gandhiji's personality and charity and courage to apply Gandhism. Without these elements, Gandhism becomes a mere slogan, an expression of fear, appeasement, hypocrisy and moral indifference. ...Unless our minds and hearts are equal to the situation, we will only botch, blunder and opine" (Gandhism and Communism, 1955, p. 22-23).
On Truth: "The ancient sages studied man, and for that they started with themselves; they turned their gaze inward and found there a vast internal life. Going still deeper, they discovered, beyond their more external being, another life or principle which takes another language to describe it. They found it self-existent, bodiless, pure, luminous and conscious. They found that it is in some way unborn and undying; that it does not come along with the body; nor does it die with it; that it is beyond sorrow and decay; that it shines from within, and it knows itself as self-evident. They found that it is their very essence, their true Self. They called it atman, which is pure, immortal and untouched by evil" (Meditation on Sanatana Dharma, ca. 1995, to be published posthumously).
On False Religions: "Many creeds seemingly religious sail under false labels and spread confusion. As products of a fitful mind, they could but make only a temporary impression and their life could not but be brief. But as projections of a mind in some kind of samadhi, they acquire unusual intensity, a strength of conviction and tenacity of purpose which they could not otherwise have....The lower bhumis [levels]...project ego-gods and desire-gods and give birth to dvesha-dharmas and moha-dharmas, hate religions and delusive ideologies....But to reject is not to explain. Why should a god have such qualities? And why should a being who has such qualities be called a god? And why should he have so much hold? Indian yoga provides the answer. It says that though not a truly spiritual being, he is thrown up by a deeper source in the mind. He is some sort of a psychic formation and carries the strength and attraction of such a formation" (Anirvan: Inner Yoga, 1988, p. 9-11).
On Monotheism: "A purely monotheistic unity fails to represent the living unity of the Spirit and expresses merely the intellect's love of the uniform and the general. Similarly, purely polytheistic Gods without any principle of unity amongst them lose their inner coherence....The Vedic approach is probably the best. It gives unity without sacrificing diversity....Monotheism is not saved by polytheism, nor polytheism by monotheism, but both are saved by going deep into the life of the soul....Depending on the cultures in which they were born, mystics have given monotheistic as well as polytheistic renderings and interpretations of their inner life and experiences" (The Word as Revelation: Names of Gods, 1980, p. 128-129).
By Navaratna S. Rajaram, Bangalore, India
Appearing at a time when the movement known as the Hindu Renaissance seemed to have lost its course, and Indian Civilization itself was under siege by destructive ideological forces, Ram Swarup inspired a movement and a school of thought that is the most important voice of India in the world today. Along with Sita Ram Goel, with whom his name will forever be linked, he founded Voice of India, which has been a platform for publishing the most original and most significant works in the humanities in India.
Ram Swarup's work has been profound, original and influential. In his seminal booklet, Gandhian Economics, he introduced the concept of the "closed loop" in global industrial systems, which led him to foresee the problems plaguing capitalist economies today. Ram Swarup had foreseen and written on the crises that overcame both Communism and capitalist economies long before they manifested themselves. People have been awarded Nobel prizes in economics for work far less substantial than this.
The source of his thought was the Hindu tradition--the Vedas and the yogic insights. This allowed him to get to the heart of any problem and see the forces at work in their true state, free of any illusions or diversions. Long before Samuel Huntington produced his acclaimed Clash of Civilization, with its now famous "Islam's bloody frontiers," Ram Swarup had laid bare the true dimensions of the ideological struggle between freedom and theocracy. In Word as Revelation: Names of God, probably his greatest work, he exposed monotheism as a tool of materialism, one that could disguise the pursuit of wealth and power as a religious quest. This allowed him to distinguish between religion and true spirituality.
Though a profound student of the Vedas and yogic meditation, he was anything but insular. In the true Vedic spirit of a no bhadra krutavo yantu viswatah ("Let felicitous thoughts come to us from every source"), he studied all thought systems, from Greek to Marxist. He had a special sympathy for the works of Plato and Apollonius of Tyrna. He was a man of the Vedic Renaissance in a real sense, in the spirit of Maharshi Dayananda, Swami Vivekananda and Sri Aurobindo.
For those who had the good fortune of knowing Ram Swarup and his work, he represented the fusion of the rational and the mystical that is the source of both Vedic and the Pagan Greek thought. Like the Vedic sage, Vishwamitra, who prayed to God to "inspire his intellect," and the modern sage Albert Einstein who asserted that mysticism was in the most profound sense the "source of all art and science," Ram Swarup sought to apply the wisdom of a more spiritual age to the problems of the everyday world. The highest tribute we can pay his memory is to continue the work he began, and never allow the dark forces of despair and destruction to engulf our spirit.
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After getting resoundly swatted in court by Tivo time and again for walking all over its patent for a "multimedia time warping system" (cool retro-future speak for a DVR), Echostar (now just Dish) is finally admitting defeat once and for all. Following its loss to TiVo in a US Appeals court earlier this year, Echostar appealed to the Supreme Court, which just decided not to hear the case, leaving Echostar nowhere else to turn. So Echostar has decided that it will in fact be handing TiVo a check for $104 million plus interest, though TiVo is looking for further damages apparently, due to "EchoStar's continued infringement of our Time Warp patent." More importantly, their victory here opens the door for TiVo to start hunting down everyone else selling a DVR, so the real ugly might still be on the way. [Zatz Not Funny]
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Large employers are continuing to make more use of self-insurance programs, but the small employers that still offer health benefits are making less use of self-insurance.
Paul Fronstin, an analyst at the Employee Benefit Research Institute (EBRI), has published data supporting that conclusion in a report based on federal government survey data.
Fronstin found that the percentage of all U.S. private-sector group plan enrollees who are in self-insured plans increased to 58.5 percent in 2011, from 57.5 percent in 2010.
The percentage has increased every year since 2006 and is up from a modern low of 40.9 percent recorded in 1998.
But Fronstin found a size-based split in use of self-insurance: The percentage has increased to 68.5 percent, from 67.5 percent, for employees of employers with 50 or more employees, and it has fallen to 10.8 percent, from 12.5 percent, for employees of employers with fewer than 50 employees.
An employer with a self-insured or self-funded health plan has the plan itself assume most or all of the claims risk. The employer can hire an ordinary retail health insurer, or an independent "third party" administrator (TPA), to run the plan, and an employer can buy stop-loss coverage, or health plan insurance, to cover claims that exceed pre-set limits.
States have the legal authority to impose coverage requirements, or mandates, on small employers' self-insured plans but not on large employers' self-insured plans.
Analysts at EBRI looked for evidence that small employers were more likely to self-insure in states with large numbers of mandates, but it found no clear correlation between the number of mandates a state imposes and the percentage of employers that self-insure, Fronstin said.
EBRI analysts would like to look harder at the possibility that a correlation exists by, for example, using data that shows how costly a state's mandates are, as well as how many mandates the state imposes, or data showing how much state health insurance laws and regulations other than benefits mandates cost, Fronstin said.
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Washington Post Announces a One-Time Fire Sale for Newsweek
This is how bad things are at Newsweek: Not only has owner Washington Post Co. (WPO) hired Allen & Company to sell the magazine, but it's not pretending otherwise.
From the release:
"The losses at Newsweek in 2007-2009 are a matter of record. Despite heroic efforts on the part of Newsweek's management and staff, we expect it to still lose money in 2010. We are exploring all options to fix that problem," said Donald E. Graham, chairman of The Washington Post Company. "Newsweek is a lively, important magazine and website, and in the current climate, it might be a better fit elsewhere."
In corporatespeak, this is equivalent to hastily scrawling out a "Going Out of Business–Name Your Price" sign and plastering it on the front window.
Anyone want to make a bid? Newsweek saw revenue decline 29 percent last year and ended up losing $29.3 million on sales of $184 million.
Meanwhile, it's worth noting that things are comparatively awesome for rival Time Magazine: Owner Time Warner's (TWX) Time Inc. just reported that ad sales are up (unit-wide) for the first time in two years.
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Hamidian massacres
During the long reign of Sultan Hamid, unrest and rebellion occurred in many areas of the Ottoman Empire. One of the most serious of these incidents occurred in some Armenian populated parts of Anatolia. Although the Ottomans had crushed other revolts in the past, the harshest measures were directed against the Armenian community. They observed no distinction between the nationalist dissidents and the Armenian population at large, and massacred them with brutal force.[1] However, this occurred in the 1890s, at a time when the telegraph could spread news around the world and when the Christian European powers were vastly more powerful than the weakening Ottoman state.
Events leading to the massacres
The origin of Armenian unrest can be traced, in large part, to the success of Imperial Russia in the Russo-Turkish War, 1877-78. At the end of the war, based on the Treaty of San Stefano the Ottoman government had to give away a large part of territory (including the cities of Kars and Batumi) to the Russians. The Russian government claimed they were the supporters of the beleaguered Christian communities within the Ottoman Empire and clearly, the Russians could now beat the Ottomans. The Treaty of Berlin - which reduced the magnitude of Russia's gains on the other side of the Black Sea - stated that the Ottoman government had to give legal protection to the Christian Armenians, but in the real world, the treaty's protections were not implemented. Template:Sidebar with collapsible lists Template:Armenian Genocide The combination of Russian military success, clear weakening of Ottoman power, and hope that one day all of the Armenian territory might be ruled by Russia led to a new restiveness on the part of the Armenians still living inside the Ottoman Empire. Added to this was the fact that the Ottomans never applied justice evenly in disputes between Christians and Muslims (see Dhimmi).
Starting around 1890 the Armenians began clamoring to obtain the protections promised them at Berlin. Unrest occurred in 1892 at Marsovan and in 1893 at Tokat. Armenians wanted reforms in the Ottoman Empire and an end to the discrimination imposed upon them, with demands for the right to vote and the establishment of a constitutional government[2].A near revolt occurred in the Sassoun Mountains of Bitlis Province. Armenian peasants refused to pay the Kurdish incremental taxes, a double taxation system imposed on the Armenians by Kurdish chieftains. In 1892, the governor of the Mus district in Bitlis Province encouraged Armenian resistance claiming that the Armenians: 'Couldn't serve two masters at the same time.'
Hamid's response
In response to the resistance in Sassoun, the Turkish governor of Muş responded by inciting the local Muslims against the Armenians[3]. The historian Lord Kinross claims that this was often achieved by gathering Muslims in a local mosque and claiming that the Armenians had the aim of "striking at Islam."[4] The Sultan, Abdul Hamid II, sent the Ottoman army into the area and also armed groups of Kurdish insurrectionists. The violence spread and affected most of the Armenian towns in the Ottoman empire. The worst atrocity occurred when the cathedral of Urfa, in which three thousand Armenians had taken refuge, was burned[5]. The historian Osman Nuri, in the second volume of his three-volume biography of Abdul Hamid, accused Sultans military contingent of 'torching and killing many people.'
1896 Bank Takeover
On August 26 1896, a group of Armenian revolutionaries raided the headquarters of the Ottoman Bank in Istanbul. Guards were shot and more than 140 staff members were taken hostage - all in an attempt to gain international attention for the plight of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire.
In response, tens of thousands of Armenians were massacred, both in Istanbul and elsewhere in the Ottoman Empire. Abdul Hamid's Private First Secretary wrote in his memoirs about Abdul Hamid that he 'decided to pursue a policy of severity and terror against the Armenians, and in order to succeed in this respect he elected the method of dealing them an economic blow ... he ordered they absolutely avoid negotiating or discussing anything with the Armenians and to inflict upon them a decisive strike to settle scores.'
The killings occurred from 1895 until 1897. In that last year, Sultan Hamid declared that the Armenian question was closed. All the Armenian revolutionaries had either been killed, or had escaped to Russia. The Ottoman government closed Armenian societies and restricted Armenian political movements.
Death toll
Most estimates of number of victims run from 80,000 to 300,000.
- The British ethnographer William Ramsay, who visited the Ottoman empire for his own studies, estimated that from 1894 to 1897, 200,000 Armenians were killed.
- Armenophile Johannes Lepsius estimated more than 89,000 dead. [citation needed]
- The German government estimated that up to December 20, 1895, 80,000 Armenians were killed. [citation needed]
- The British Ambassador White, based on the data submitted to him by British consuls, estimated that up to early December 1895, 100,000 Armenians were killed. [citation needed]
- The German author, E. Jackh (a German Foreign ministry operative and Turkophile estimated that 200,000 Armenians were killed, 50,000 expelled and one million pillaged. [citation needed]
- R. J. Rummel, a professor who coined the term democide, estimated that 15,000 Armenians were killed by Sultan Hamid[6].
- The most complete figures covering the entire era from 1894 to 1897 were probably provided by the French historian, Pierre Renouvin, the President of the Commission in charge of assembling and classifying French diplomatic documents. In a volume based on authenticated documents, he stated that 250,000 Armenians were killed. [citation needed]
- Armenian and other estimates run from 250,000 dead to as high as 350,000 dead. [7]
- Turkish estimates run from 20,000 to 30,000 killed.
These events are recalled by the Armenians as the "Great Massacres". The Armenians believed the Hamidian measures proved the capacity of the Turkish state to carry out a systematic policy of murder and plunder against a minority population. The formation of Armenian revolutionary groups began roughly around the end of the Russo-Turkish War of 1878 and intensified with the first introduction of Article 166 of the Ottoman Penal code 166, and the raid of Erzerum Cathedral. Article 166 was meant to control the possession of arms, but it was used to target Armenians by restricting them to possess arms. Local Kurdish tribes were armed to attack the defenseless Armenian population. Some diplomats believed that the aim of these groups was to commit massacres so as to incite counter-measures, and to invite "foreign powers to intervene," as Istanbul's British Ambassador Sir Philip Currie observed in March 1894. Even some Turkish authors admit the existence of those revolutionaries was just a pretext for the massacres.
These mass killings clearly were a first step towards the Armenian Genocide of 1915-1917.
See also
- ↑ Cleveland, William L. (2000). A History of the Modern Middle East. Westview Press. pp. p. 119. ISBN 0813334896.
- ↑ United Human Rights Council
- ↑ Constitutional Rights Foundation
- ↑ HyeEtch
- ↑ Armeniangenocide.org: Hamidian Massacres
- ↑ R. J. Rummel: Democide Q and A
- ↑ Teaching About Genocide: Issues, Approaches, and Resources - Page 28 by Samuel Totten
External links
- Turkey and the Armenian Atrocities by Edwin Munsell Bliss (originally published in 1896). Until now this book is considered to be the most accurate and full description of the Hamidian massacres of 1894-1896 by a Western traveler.
- Letters from the Scenes of the Recent Massacres in Armenia by J. Rendel Harris & B. Helen Harris. The book was published in 1897 and contained eyewitness accounts by British missionaries about the Hamidian massacres of 1896.
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Lecture will focus on 'just war,' Oct. 25
A lecture titled "Just War and Military Intervention" will be presented Thursday, Oct. 25, on campus.
Jean Bethke Elshtain, the Laura Spelman Rockefeller Professor of Social and Political Ethics at the University of Chicago, will speak at 4:30 p.m. in Computer Science Building 104. A reception will follow.
Elshtain was the only academic in a group of 20 religious leaders who met with President Bush on Sept. 20 to reflect on the significance of America's newly emerging struggle against terrorism.
The principles of just war provide guidelines for determining the conditions under which using violence against a foe is justified. The requirements include exhausting all efforts to resolve the conflict without force, pursuing a war only if there is a reasonable chance of its success, and making every effort to ensure that noncombatants are not killed during the conflict.
Elshtain's interests range from social and political theory and ethics to moral and political thought and women's studies. She has published 16 books, including most recently "Who Are We? Critical Reflections and Hopeful Possibilities," and has two more on the way. She also has written more than 200 essays for political opinion journals.
Elshtain is the co-director of the Pew Forum on Religion and American Public Life and co-director of the Religious Assembly for Uniting America, a project of the American Assembly, a nonpartisan forum that develops consensus and offers a plan of action on issues vital to the American people.
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Melrose Scout Productions Podcast #131: 2013 Egg Dropstevejb68 on June 9, 2013 in Activity, podcast
Nearly every spring in the past twenty years the Boy Scouts of Melrose Troop 68 have spent a weekend at Camp Watchamagumee, usually in May. The camp is actually privately owned forty acres found north of Melrose. The land owners have allowed the troop to clear out campsites and create our own camp setting. The site currently has three patrol sites, an adult leader site, a scoutcraft open area, a treehouse, and a troop campfire area. We camp near a small pond. A short hike from the campsites is an open field in which the troop has played softball, volleyball, and disc golf. It quickly became one of the troop's favorite camping sites.
A tradition has developed over the years, the annual Egg Drop Competition. Each Boy Scout, or team of Scouts, is given a raw egg. He must build a package for the egg usually only natural materials found around the camp. This package must protect the egg when it is dropped from various heights. The winner is the Scout who's egg survives the highest drop without breaking. The boys must use their imagination to create a package that will not only withstand the actually drops, but also cushion the egg to keep it from becoming scrambled. I have seen a lot of various packages over the years using a wide variety of materials from bark, grasses, moss, mud, and sticks. This year one Scout even used a cow pattie.
This post to the Melrose Scout Productions Podcast features the video taken during the 2013 Egg Drop Competition. Six Boy Scouts were part of the contest. An added feature to the rules this year was that the package must fit inside a plastic wash basin. Some boys did very well. Other did not make it past the first round. Watch the video to see who winds and how his package was created.
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Robert and Teresa fell in love with their home after taking only one look at the palatial entrance hall. The hall is grand, with its spacious circular shape offering a perfect setting for welcoming and entertaining guests. The other 10 rooms of the house spread out on three levels didn't disappoint the couple either.
It was with great joy and anticipation that the couple (who preferred their last names not be used for this article) moved in 25 years ago. Shortly after, they discovered another benefit to their new surroundings.
"There are very few places in Westmount where children can play in the street," Teresa says. "Because our street is almost a dead end, there was, and still is, very little local traffic. So it is quite safe."
Almost a century old, the house was built in 1924 in the classical Victorian style found throughout Westmount, though the top of the porch has a touch of Art Deco that acts as a preamble to the interior decor.
Set on a 4,615 square-foot lot, the house is a semi-detached. But it's almost impossible to tell from the front, as the adjacent property is in the back and faces the side street. The yellow bricks covering the outer walls show some interesting patterns and have acquired a mellow patina over the years. The slanted roof was redone some years ago with slate tiles and copper flashings. The three-inch thick (7.6 centimetre) mahogany wood front door is panelled with bevelled glass.
The circular entrance hall that so impressed Robert and Teresa on their first visit leads into the other communal spaces — kitchen, dining room, living room and the family room. A black geometric pattern inlaid in the marble floor is most intriguing because it echoes the shape of the genuine Art Deco chandelier. The red-lacquered dresser beside the stairs is 100 years old, and was bought by Robert in China. It is decorated with beautiful nature scenes. The clay figurines on top, also come from China.
The dark blue carpeting covering the steps of the elegant black and white staircase adds a sense of drama to the design. Like the front door, the balustrade dates from the original construction of the house, and it is also made from mahogany wood. The posts show an interesting carved tower-like detail. The elaborate plaster mouldings found throughout the house also date from the original construction.
Teresa raves about the kitchen.
"A real chef's kitchen," says the hostess, who loves to cook and entertain. The gleaming black granite floor is heated for comfort and the space features a large island and an abundance of storage space. The countertops are also granite and the shelves of the cupboards slide open for easy access. The kitchen is equipped with a gas burner and an air conditioning wall unit (one of three in the house) to keep cool while cooking. Just below the unit hangs a framed fine-art poster by artist Giancarlo Impiglia. The kitchen's skylight introduces natural sunlight into the room and the patio door leads to a large deck with a retractable awning.
Subdued elegance unmistakably qualifies the dining room, with its 10-foot ceiling and oak flooring, which is stained a rich dark brown. The thick walnut table and upholstered chairs were custom-made by Maison Corbeil, while the mirror and chandelier are genuine Art Deco pieces.
"I like simple lines and shapes" Teresa says. The two floor lamps standing beside the silver-inlaid sideboard are a good example of her taste.
Like the other rooms, the living room is a study in black and white with a speck of red for contrast. The fireplace in this room was redone in the Art Deco style. The white leather sofa and ottoman were custom-made as well. A George Steck baby grand piano stands in the corner. It is on this instrument that Teresa learned to play when she was a young.
In the family room, a most peculiar looking cabinet with two sets of drawers sits. One set is tilted forward on one end and backward on the other. The cabinet, which hides the audio and video equipment, was custom-made by a Quebec cabinet maker. The other furniture comes from Roche Bobois, except for the curious black boxes, one in the recess of the cabinet, a tall one standing next to it and another hanging on the wall. These are actually speakers — there are five of them in the room. The Palladian windows with half-moon tops have no curtains, but shoji style screens instead. Unlike the traditional Japanese screens made of paper, these are made of a sturdier material.
"They let just the right amount of soft lighting pass through while giving us privacy," Teresa says.
Shoji screens, this time made from transformed raffia leaves, are found in the large upstairs master bedroom that's all decked-out in white from the thick carpeting to the king-sized bed frame. The mirror doors in the bedroom conceal a vast quantity of storage space and there's even an additional closet. The chest of drawers that belonged to Robert's father is an antique that was beautifully refurbished and really stands out in this immaculate environment.
There are two bathrooms on the upstairs floor, but there is no bathtub in the en suite, only a glass shower stall that future owners could easily remove to include one. Future owners? Yes, as this gorgeous mansion is now up for sale. Like many couples who have raised a family and seen their children leave the nest, Robert and Teresa are ready to start a new life on their own.
"With now just the two of us living here, we only use three rooms essentially," Teresa says. But she and Robert remember well when the house was filled with guests for parties, or when their children had friends over for sleepovers. Those were good times and created memories the couple will always cherish.
It is also worth mentioning that the house comes with a playroom and a home theatre in the finished basement, as well as a tiled double-door garage. Prospective buyers can contact either Bunny Berke at 514-347-1928, email: firstname.lastname@example.com or Susan Lloyd Leduc at 438-882-8088, email: firstname.lastname@example.com
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