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State-by-State Analysis of Criminal Background Check Requirements Finds Shortcomings; Cautions Families, Recommends Improvements
WASHINGTON, DC — Opportunities for abuse, neglect and financial exploitation by caregivers heighten the need to screen job applicants. Criminal background checks are an important screening tool, but families may develop a false sense of security, believing that their loved ones are safe, if they rely solely on a criminal background check, a new report from AARP stresses.
Criminal background checks can help prevent abuse by individuals with a criminal history or a history of abuse, but they are not a perfect tool and should be improved. Background checks may miss records, fail to uncover some crimes, or overlook a caregiver's history of abuse or neglect that stops short of criminal conviction. These are among the findings of "Safe At Home? Developing Effective Criminal Background Checks and Other Screening Policies for Home Care Workers," a new report from AARP's Public Policy Institute.
An increasing number of states – 46 states and the District of Columbia — require background checks for some or all paid home care workers. Yet these state requirements show little or no agreement on standards, according to the report. For example, some states disqualify job applicants only for past criminal offenses against vulnerable people, while others exclude them for a DUI conviction. – needs to exercise greater caution to protect individuals from neglect, abuse and exploitation by caregivers," said AARP Senior Vice President and Public Policy Institute director Susan Reinhard. "States need to ramp up the accuracy, speed and cost-effectiveness of criminal background check systems – and add other tools as well."
State, county, FBI and other databases are not integrated and may have gaps and errors, the report concludes, and there is no single agency for families to consult for a comprehensive review of criminal records. Additionally, even a comprehensive criminal background check of multiple agencies shouldn't be taken as total assurance, the report warns. Elder abuse, neglect and exploitation is underreported. However, improvements in criminal background checks can be made to increase their effectiveness.
"As the demand for home care skyrockets, everyone — policymakers, state, county and municipal officials, employers and individuals
The report makes a number of policy recommendations to help states prepare for growth in the population needing home care provided by government programs or by caregivers hired for parents or other loved ones, including integration of online data sources and information sharing between various state agencies.
In light of these findings, the report also recommends actions that both employers and families can take to help keep loved ones safe in addition to a criminal background check. These steps include: conduct reference checks, review credit histories, conduct thorough interviews, consider drug and alcohol screening and provide training for all potential caregivers.
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Regensburg, is a city in Bavaria, Germany, located at the confluence of the Danube and Regen rivers, at the northernmost bend in the Danube. To the east lies the Bavarian Forest. Regensburg is the capital of the Bavarian administrative region Upper Palatinate. The large medieval center of the city is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

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Acreage Bungalow for Sale
- Size: 2,421 sq ft
- Price: $875,000
- Bedrooms: 3
- Bathrooms: 3(full) 0(half)
- Parking: 5
- Status: Active
- Year Built: 2007
Make this dream your reality of owning a completely finished acreage within 5 min of the City of Yorkton. Enjoy outdoor living and the privacy that this 6.68 acre property will offer. The well-manicured grounds, all the trees and the gravel perimeter rd will provide a place for you and the kids to walk and/or ride bikes. This custom home spreads over 2400 sqft on a 4ft crawl space. The high vaulted ceilings lead to the open wall that features a dbl sided fireplace. Dinner parties will be enjoyed in this open space also featuring a trayed ceiling. There is plenty of space in the kitchen for 2 cooks where you will find endless drawer, counter and pantry space. As an owner, your suite is located on the opposite end of the house, being close to the kitchen. Your space features large windows to the west w/garden door access to the covered patio. There are 2 walk-in closets, 2 person jetted tub and stand-alone shower. If you work from home there is a front office with large window facing east overlooking the yard. The kids or guest rooms feature a Jack & Jill bath with vanity and closets outside of the toilet and shower room. On the west side of the house is the great room that could also form as a kids play room. This room has a fireplace and large windows that overlook the backyard. In the backyard is a huge pond, playground and a generous sized patio. There are 3 bays to this garage and the end bay has a wall dividing the rest. If you need more shop space, enjoy the 40x80 pole style shop. The building is split in half with 40x40 being completely insulated and heated with concrete floors, two 2x40 side mezzanines and a meat cooler. The other half is not insulated with gravel floor. There are 2 insulated 14x16 overhead doors. The ceiling is 16 ft high. Water is supplied by a deep well with plenty of good water. There is natural gas heat in the house and radiant heat in the shop. Septic is tank with discharge. There is power, water hook-ups in a couple locations for RV's.
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CC Note: We bit into this salad recipe and will be doing it again and again. We give it 4 chocolate covered strawberries in our rating system of new dishes.
(ARA) - Blueberries are most abundant and least expensive in the summer, making it an ideal time to get your fill of these little blue gems. Stock the fridge and freezer with blueberries to make meals, snacks and desserts that are easy on the cook. Blueberries never need to be peeled, pitted, stemmed or chopped –just a quick rinse and they're ready to eat or add to recipes.
Try these ideas for making quick, delicious salads that are enjoyable any time:
* Toss blueberries, chopped pineapple, jalapeno pepper and cilantro with lime juice and serve beside grilled chicken breasts.
* Stir blueberries into your favorite tuna salad and scoop onto baby spinach.
* Whirl vinaigrette salad dressing and blueberries in the blender until smooth and toss with green salads.
Blueberries are not only convenient, they also provide nutrients our bodies need every day. You can find more blueberry recipes and information at www.blueberrycouncil.org.
"Blueberry-Mango Colada Salad" is cool and fresh, boasting bright colors and sweet fruit flavors. With just three ingredients, this delicious salad is a snap to make. Spoon it into stemmed glasses and enjoy as a light fruit dessert. Another option is to serve with meat sizzling from the grill or with simple chicken sandwiches.
Blueberry-Mango Colada Salad
2 cups fresh blueberries
2 mangos, peeled, seeded and chopped (about 1-3/4 cups)
1/4 cup frozen pina colada mix, thawed
In a large bowl, toss blueberries, mangos and pina colada mix. Into four martini glasses or dessert dishes, spoon fruit mixture, dividing evenly. Garnish with blueberries, mango slices and thin lime slices threaded onto long toothpicks, if desired.
YIELD: 4 portions
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Fayetteville, Peachtree City, Tyrone
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Fresh Blueberries for Luscious Salads
CC Note: We bit into this salad recipe and will be doing it again and again. We give it 4 chocolate covered strawberries in our rating system of new dishes.
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#ConsciouslyGrateful November Memory Day Nine: Today we are thankful to have enough food to eat and share.
So many people in all corners of the world struggle to have enough sustenance every day. We are beyond blessed to have what we need and enough to share with our loved ones and friends as well!
Especially as the holiday season begins try to remember the needs of those around us and the many small and big ways we can help.
There's always something we can do, even if it's very small!
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A couple months ago I had the opportunity to hear Mansfield, an oft-assailed Harvard professor, speak at a symposium at Regent University on the future of American conservatism. I took pretty copious notes and planned to put a decent summary post together, but that hasn't happened. I'm blaming my historical theology professor and the NCAA tournament.
Mansfield's sharp wit in that presentation was exceeded only by his sharper mind. Although I'm not as well-versed as perhaps I ought to be on classical and philosophical conservatism, it was clear that Mansfield's fellow presenters looked to him as a paragon in their field.
Manliness appears to be an incisive look at gender, American culture, and the battle for good ideas. The Weekly Standard recently published a review by Christina Hoff Sommers. She writes:
Mansfield's amusing, refreshing, and outrageous observations must already be causing distress for his Harvard colleagues. But many readers will be grateful to him for his candor and bravado. Today, when scholars acknowledge sex differences, they do it timorously. They follow every assertion of difference with a list of exceptions, qualifications, and caveats. Into this world strides Professor Mansfield, loaded for bear, and lethally armed with all the powerful stereotypes thought to be banished from bien pensant society. And he deploys them without apology in shocker after shockerI hope to tackle this book during the summer. I'll look forward to hearing from any of you who pick it up sooner.


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First up the drinks are good and reasonable priced I had a Heineken and a Vodka Coke which were both great and also came in large glasses! I was served right away and the bartender was polite, he knew what he was doing and seemed very friendly.
I then had a burger for my dinner which I ate outside due to it being super hot, the burger came within 10 minutes of me sitting down and was presented really nicely for pub grub, it tasted good and complimented the beer nicely!
In the pub you can watch Rugby and have a nice beer or dinner without being asked to go in, I loved this pub and will always recommend it when people ask me about my trip to Brussels.


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Global Object
Hope you had a good hands-on week with the last session. Today we are going to have a sneak peek on the global objects, which is very common and necessary for any application. When you consider the normal JavaScript, we have our window object and whatever properties it has, we can access them globally. Some examples include alert, setTimeout, etc.
But since Node JS is a command line backend application and it doesn't need a browser to run, the global object is no longer the window object. The global object in Node JS is an object called global. Much like the window object, it gives access to some methods, we can use straight out of the box in Node JS. Have a quick look at Global Objects in Node JS Documentation. It has use all the methods and properties that we can use on it.
We can see a few common methods such as console, setTimeout, setInterval, etc., which are also available in the window object in the browser as well as the global object in the Node JS.
Logging and Timers
Logging to Console
Let's create a file named app.js in your favourite directory. I am going to show you an example of a method that's very famous and available on this global object, both in the browser and Node JS, which is console, and the method is console.log(). We can log things to the terminal using console.log() in Node JS. You can put anything inside the console.log() and it prints out in your command line. Let's try out an example.
console.log("Hello, Praveen!");
Now save the file and get back to the terminal. Make sure you are in the same folder as the app.js. To confirm it, please try entering either dir or ls command to find the file listed at the output.
email@example.com MINGW64 ~/NodeJS
$ ls
I am using MINGW64 here, that comes with my Portable Git installation, if you are interested. We can check the contents of a file using the cat (catalogue) command in Linux.
email@example.com MINGW64 ~/NodeJS
$ cat app.js
console.log("Hello, Praveen!");
Once it's saved, get excited to run the application by issuing the following command:
firstname.lastname@example.com MINGW64 ~/NodeJS
$ node app
Hello, Praveen!
And woohoo! Node JS is going to log that in the console and then exits. This is really helpful in terms of debugging our application and trying to find what's the value of a particular variable at a particular instance.
Using Timers – Timeout
Let's try other functions as well. This time, let's try setTimeout() in our application.
email@example.com MINGW64 ~/NodeJS
$ cat app.js
setTimeout(function () {
console.log("Hey, it's been two whole seconds!");
}, 2000);
When you see the above code, the setTimeout() function takes up two arguments. The first argument is a call-back function, which is a function that needs to be called after the number of milliseconds lapsed, as given by the second argument. I have added the same console.log() function inside the call-back function and what happens is, the app takes whole two seconds to display the message.
To give the feel of the app running in front of us and not getting hung up, we can provide another console.log() function at the start of the application. Something like the following:
firstname.lastname@example.com MINGW64 ~/NodeJS
$ cat app.js
console.log("App Started.");
setTimeout(function () {
console.log("Hey, it's been two whole seconds!");
}, 2000);
This gives you an idea that the app is running and executes the code that you have written and not stuck somewhere. The same app when executed now, gives this output:
firstname.lastname@example.com MINGW64 ~/NodeJS
$ node app
App Started.
Hey, it's been two whole seconds!
In the output, the first message came off as soon as the app is executed and the next message came after two whole seconds. One of the best use case of this setTimeout() function is that, we can try to throttle the network, slow down the AJAX response and appropriately handle the user interface when the network is slow. There are variety of other use cases as well.
Using Timers – Intervals
Since we also have setInterval() function available to us on the global object, again, much similar to window object, let's play something with this. We can create classy command line timer functions using it. Let's create a timer function now. The process is really simple. I am going to create a variable called time, and initialise it to 0. setInterval() function unlike setTimeout() function, keeps executing the call back function every time the interval is lapsed.
Every second, I am going to increment the time variable by one and log it to the console. Let's dive into the code now and see how I have written it.
firstname.lastname@example.com MINGW64 ~/NodeJS
$ cat app.js
console.log("App Started.");
var time = 0;
setInterval(function () {
time ++;
console.log("Hey, it's been " + time + " whole seconds!");
}, 1000);
When you try to run this app using our node app command, you will notice these:
email@example.com MINGW64 ~/NodeJS
$ node app
App Started.
Hey, it's been 1 whole seconds!
Hey, it's been 2 whole seconds!
Hey, it's been 3 whole seconds!
Hey, it's been 4 whole seconds!
Hey, it's been 5 whole seconds!
Hey, it's been 6 whole seconds!
Hey, it's been 7 whole seconds!
Hey, it's been 8 whole seconds!
Hey, it's been 9 whole seconds!
Hey, it's been 10 whole seconds!
Hey, it's been 11 whole seconds!
Hey, it's been 12 whole seconds!
Even though the first point is suave, the second point is not really cool. This is what you call as an infinite loop. This loop is never going to end unless we tell it to end. So, if you want to end any process that runs in a terminal, all you have to do is to hit Ctrl + C on the terminal, where the process runs and that stops it.
Let's see how to clear these timers and some other awesome global functions in our next week's article.
Thanks to Praveen Kumar for being our guest writer this week.
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Read Romans 8.1-5
There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set you free from the law of sin and of death. For God has done what the law, weakened by the flesh, could not do: by sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and to deal with sin, he condemned sin in the flesh, so that the just requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not according to the flesh but according to the Spirit. For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit set their minds on the things of the Spirit.
from Life in Liturgy
What's on your mind today? Things of the Spirit? For many, each day begins a new round of struggling over things that sound too trite and ordinary to be counted as "spiritual." But before you consign them to "the flesh," take a pause. Flesh, as Paul uses it here, doesn't simply refer to the things that we have to do to survive or even to enjoy life; it's a word cast upon those things that people do to try to impress God (or anybody else). Doing work, paying bills, raising children, eating food, making love – those are not things of the flesh, but blessed and holy proceedings for all who are able to partake in them. But flaunting spirituality, boasting of religious or moralistic attention to detail, focusing on self-perfections…that's another story. Those things take us nowhere, and leave little room for the Spirit to act in our lives to help us find and grow in faith.
Set your mind, for just this day (and maybe a few more), on living a life that is unconcerned with impressing God, and more concerned with thanking God for the joy of the ordinary, the simplicity of faith, and opportunity to grow.
Open my mind, O God, to the movement of your Spirit who calls me to live more fully
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Academic Division Prioritization Update
On Oct. 14, 2015, President Le Roy provided an update to students on PPC's final recommendations that were approved by the board of trustees:
Dear students,
I want to follow up a Friday, Sept. 25 email to you from Calvin Provost Cheryl Brandsen about recommendations to cut academic programs as part of the college's ongoing prioritization efforts.
Since that email was sent, the provost, deans and I have met with students and faculty to make sure we understood the implications of these recommendations. After considering those interactions, last week the provost submitted final recommendations to the college's planning and priorities committee (PPC), which then sent its final recommendations to me.
I, in turn, forwarded them to the college's board of trustees, which last night held a special meeting and ratified these final recommendations.
The final recommendations by PPC included the elimination of five majors (art history, classical languages, Greek, Latin and theatre) and one minor (architecture). It should be noted that Calvin is retaining the classical studies major and minors in art history, Greek, Latin and theatre, and that the Calvin Theatre Company will continue to be supported.
The German department faculty were able to present to the provost a way forward using their allocated teaching resources that will allow the department to keep its major. This is contingent on the Educational Policy Committee's approval of a revised plan for spring 2016 advising.
We are thankful to be able to keep German as a major, but our gratitude is tempered by a sense of loss about what the reductions in programs will mean for us as a college. Please join me as you are able in praying for and supporting those directly affected by these decisions.
I think it is important that I reiterate a point Provost Brandsen made in her previous communication on this matter: These programs are not being eliminated because of quality concerns or because we think they are unimportant. These programs are being eliminated based on low student demand, as measured by several metrics, and the recommendations of a nine-member faculty task force that worked exceedingly hard this summer to examine the college's academic operation and make tough calls about the best way forward for Calvin. The prioritization process has not been easy and has resulted in difficult choices, but I am grateful we have done this work thoughtfully and collaboratively.
Please know that if you are currently enrolled in one of the majors or minor being eliminated, you will be supported as you complete your degree in your area of study at Calvin.
I want to close by reiterating a strong commitment to the programs that have faced hard news recently. We will do everything in our power to continue to enable students to have access to the kinds of experiences that have shaped them in such important ways. What we need to do now is find a way to live out those commitments in a manner that recognizes our need to keep Calvin affordable. This is not easy work, and we covet continued prayer as we take it on.
I remain convinced of the great mission of Calvin College and our ability to work and bear one another's burdens in this season. May God's grace be upon us.
Sincerely yours,
Michael Le Roy
Find more information on the prioritization process and progress at calvin.edu/president/finances.


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In that post, I commented that cutting union health care benefits is not a valid long term strategy, and quoted Prof. Katherine Stone (UCLA Law):
Efforts to shift costs onto employees or cut back on health benefit coverage has meet with intense opposition. The alternative is to shift the cost to the government. General Motors' competitors in Germany, Japan, and the United Kingdom all have national health systems to pay for their workers' health care needs. Fair trade requires a fair playing field, and so we need to level our field upward if we want to compete. The lesson of the General Motors' impending doom is that national health insurance is not some socialist pipedream but good policy for American business. After all, as General Motors Chairman Charlie Wilson told the U.S. Senate in 1955, "What is good for General Motors is good for America."But, after all, it is a new age. Maybe the up-to-date version of the classic quote above would be: "What is good for Wal-Mart is good for America."
Well, either way you say it, both point in the same, new direction:
Healthcare Reform Calls Get Louder
An unusual new coalition of big employers, labor unions and politicians united Wednesday to push for "quality, affordable" healthcare for all Americans by 2012.
The proposal adds to growing pressure on Congress, President Bush and statehouses across America where governors including California's Arnold Schwarzenegger are calling for a major overhaul of health insurance coverage.
The idea united some bitter adversaries Wednesday and indicates that there is business support for change.
Wal-Mart Stores Inc., the nation's largest private employer, joined with one of its biggest critics, the Service Employees International Union.
AT&T Inc. signed on along with its major union. Silicon Valley is represented by chip maker Intel Corp. So are both major political parties.
"The fact they even got to the same table to talk about this in the first place is pretty amazing," said Helen Darling, president of the National Business Group on Health, a national nonprofit organization that represents large concerns such as Exxon Mobil Corp., IBM Corp. and Procter & Gamble Co.
The proposal was short of specifics but had four broad themes: universal health coverage by 2012, better preventive care and disease management; more efficient healthcare delivery, and cost-sharing by workers, employers and governments.
The initiative, dubbed Better Health Care Together, also guarantees that healthcare will take on an even larger role in the 2008 presidential campaign.
How about that - acknowledgement that universal health care would be a competitive advantage to our American businesses. This merely confirms what many of us have thought for years and years - that a healthy (physically, emotionally, and financially) America is a better America.
Maybe this time the folks in Washington will actually listen - since the voices of big business are joining the voices of the average citizens in calling for health care reform.


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Chapter 7 - The national perspective of the APS
The location, size and composition of the Australian Public Service (APS) have been central to commentary and discussions on the future of the service. These characteristics of the APS workforce cannot be examined independently. They can only be understood in terms of the nature and scale of the activities the Australian Government undertakes and its preferred delivery model in pursuing them. The national spread of the public service may also reflect the government's demographic and economic imperatives, either nationally or in terms of the operation of the service. For example, it might reflect regional development objectives, a requirement to reduce the operating costs of the public service, a desire to improve the connection between business and government, or capitalise on a broader labour market pool.
This chapter describes the geographic distribution of the APS. The focus is on the size and distribution of the APS workforce in the states and territories. It examines the similarities of, and differences between, the workforces located across Australia. The chapter concludes with an examination of the attitudes and opinions of APS employees based on their geographical location.
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Table of contents
- State of the Service 2012-13
- Chapter 1 - Commissioner's overview
- Chapter 2 - Leadership and culture
- Chapter 3 - Integrity and ethics
- Chapter 4 - Employee health and wellbeing
- Chapter 5 - Diversity
- Chapter 6 - Workforce planning and strategy
- Chapter 7 - The national perspective of the APS
- Chapter 8 - The APS in the Asian century
- Chapter 9 - Flexible work
- Chapter 10 - Organisational capability
- Appendix 1 - Workforce trends
- Appendix 2 - APS agencies (or semi-autonomous parts of agencies)
- Appendix 3 - Survey methodologies
- Appendix 4 - Unscheduled absence
- Appendix 5 - Asia effective organisational capabilities
- Appendix 6 - Agency capability level definitions
- Appendix 7 - Women in senior leadership
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Hezbollah and Israel last fought a major conflict in 2006.
Israel remains technically at war with Syria and occupies a swathe of the strategic Golan Heights that it seized in the Six-Day War of 1967 and later annexed in a move never recognised by the worldwide community.
What has Israel's involvement in the Syrian war been so far?
Iran issued a joint statement alongside the other main allies of the Syrian regime, Russian Federation and Lebanese militant group Hezbollah, vowing a "relentless response" to Israeli "aggression".
The United States meanwhile expressed its backing of Israel for its air strikes on Syrian soil.
Tensions have also spiked across the frontier between Israel and Lebanon over Israeli plans for border wall, and Lebanese plans to exploit an offshore energy block which is partly located in disputed waters.
Things began to change over the past year, however, as the Islamic State lost territory and Assad's forces and their allies regained control of the conflict.
So the latest incident needs to be seen in the context of what is now a prolonged low-level military confrontation between Israel and Iran (and its proxies).
Separately, Iran also denounced Israeli "lies" and said Syria had the right to self-defence in response to Israeli air raids.
Russian President Vladimir Putin and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu discussed the situation in Syria in a telephone call on Saturday after heavy Israeli air strikes in the country, Interfax news agency cited the Kremlin as saying.
Drake goes on charity spending spree in Miami
Drake also gave an impromptu concert at the University of Miami , where he awarded a $50,000 scholarship to a lucky student. More good deeds included buying a van and ice cream for Overtown Youth Center, where it was clearly very much appreciated.
Why is what happened Saturday different from previous Israeli strikes?
Hezbollah leaders also say their Syrian battle experience will allow them to launch a ground invasion of Israel, in part through advanced hardened military tunnel infrastructure.
Iran's involvement in Syria in support of President Bashar al-Assad in a almost seven-year-old civil war - including the deployment of Iran-backed forces near the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights - has alarmed Israel, which has said it would counter any threat.
Israeli military spokesman Jonathan Conricus warned that Syria and Iran were "playing with fire", but stressed his country was not seeking an escalation. If it is true, however, it would appear to mark a significant provocation from Tehran and perhaps even an attempt to bait Israel into a reaction.
Syria responded with "substantial Syrian antiaircraft fire" under which two Israeli pilots ejected from their F-16, which crashed inside Israel, according to the Israeli military. The pilots were taken to a nearby hospital.
Katz noted that Saturday's events did not "spill over into Hezbollah", something he said was a sign of Israel's deterrent capabilities.
Hezbollah said in a statement: "Today's developments mean the old equations have categorically ended". In response to the crash, the IDF said it struck 12 Iranian and Syrian targets in Syria, including air defense batteries.
Iranian and Quds forces have been working for a while from the Syrian T4 air force base near Palmyra, Syria, supported by Syrian armed forces and with the approval of the Syrian government.
The Israel Army on Saturday shot down a Syrian drone carrying out a reconnaissance mission over the Israel-occupied Golan Heights. But the tit-for-tat fighting shows that neither side is willing to back down.


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- Hours
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An Investment Manager is required to join our Investment team in central Bristol.
Reporting into the Investment Director the overall objective of the role is to manage Investment asset valuations, disposals and acquisitions.
The role will see you:
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- Developing and delivering annual investment portfolio net asset value
- Monitoring and measuring progress of valuations, acquisitions and disposals
- Developing and delivering annual disposal budget and strategy
- Developing and delivering annual acquisition budget and strategy
As an experienced Investment Manager, you`ll have demonstrable experience of property valuation and transactions.
It`s also really important to us that you:
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- Have excellent communication and influencing skills
- Strong analytical skills with the ability to generate meaningful conclusions from multiple and complex data
- Have the ability to build relationships and influence internal and external stakeholders
- Have the flexibility to travel within the UK
We offer safe, high quality and bills-inclusive homes for around 50,000 students in 140 properties, across 28 university cities, working with 60 Universities.
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I was trying to use the textread function in Octave 3.2, under Ubuntu 10.04.
All I got was this error message:
error: `textread' undefined near line 5 column 9
I learnt from the internet that I need the io package from Octave-forge.
So, I downloaded it and tried to install it from Octave with this command:
pkg install io-1.0.14.tar.gz
Unfortunately, that also gave an error message:
Error: the following dependencies where unsatisfied: io needs octave 3.4.0
So, I found out the io-1.0.13 package is compatible with Octave 3.2. The older versions can be found from the Octave-forge directory tree. I downloaded that version and tried to install it with this Octave command:
pkg install io-1.0.13.tar.gz
Still an error message.
make: mkoctfile: Command not found
make: *** [textread.oct] Error 127
'make' returned the following error: make: Entering directory `/tmp/oct-TJBAXw/io/src'
mkoctfile textread.cc
make: Leaving directory `/tmp/oct-TJBAXw/io/src'
error: called from `pkg>configure_make' in file /usr/share/octave/3.2.3/m/pkg/pkg.m near line 1253, column 2
error: called from:
error: /usr/share/octave/3.2.3/m/pkg/pkg.m at line 714, column 5
error: /usr/share/octave/3.2.3/m/pkg/pkg.m at line 287, column 7
octave:1> pkg install ~/io-1.0.14.tar.gz
warning: file ~/io-1.0.14.tar.gz does not exist
Googling around, I found that I need to install octave-headers package.
apt-get install octave-headers
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Package octave-headers is a virtual package provided by:
octave3.2-headers 3.2.3-1ubuntu1
octave3.0-headers 1:3.0.5-7ubuntu2
You should explicitly select one to install.
E: Package octave-headers has no installation candidate
Then by running
apt-get install octave3.2-headers
I finally got the headers installed and started Octave again.
Now, installing the io package finally worked!!!
pkg install io-1.0.13.tar.gz
A lot of work!


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Impressive home on over an acre lot offers country charm but all the amenities of city life!A light and airy floor plan boasts soaring ceilings, hardwood floors, formal dining room, game room, gas fireplace in the living room & more! The open kitchen is complete with granite counters, built in oven, gas cooktop, & deep rich cabinets. A TX sized master suite offers a sitting area and a spa-like master bath includes dual vanities, corner garden tub, & large walk-in closet. The remaining bedrooms and baths are all spacious. Gorgeous TX sunsets are in abundance while you sit under the covered patio. With over an acre there is room for everyone! Don't miss this home!
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So I think Wednesdays should be OMG Wednesdays. Just like Guest Blog Thursday, except for a couple of Tuesdays and a couple of Fridays.. While most OMGWs will be probably making fun of others, there will be the occasional awesome OMGs or excited OMGs, like good things that happen to me, or my homies.
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The Crystal Coast is home to many highly-rated, renowned festivals that you will not want to miss this fall! From local food events to those dedicated to flying kites, our stretch of North Carolina will surely be buzzing over the next few months. Below are four events in Atlantic Beach, Beaufort, Swansboro and Morehead City that you will not want to miss:
North Carolina Seafood Festival
When: October 2 through October 4, 2015
Where: Morehead City Waterfront
Morehead City, NC
The largest festival in Eastern North Carolina, this seafood-loving event will be held the first weekend in October. The festival offers local and regional entertainment, sailing events, a surf and pier fishing contest, an 8K road race, playground for the kids, FREE Southern Outer Banks Boat Show, fireworks, amusement rides, local vendors and of course, seafood!
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When: September 29, October 6 and October 12, 2015
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Swansboro Mullet Festival
When: October 10, 2015; 9 AM to 11 PM and October 11, 2015; 9 AM to 5 PM
Where: Downtown Swansboro
Swansboro, NC
This festival, as you may have guessed, celebrates all things mullet! This year marks the 60th annual festival in downtown Swansboro and attendees can find mullet any way they like— fried, broiled, grilled, smoked, you name it! The festival will begin Saturday, October 10 with a parade down Highway 24 and continue all weekend with a carnival, arts and crafts, games, music and more.
Carolina Kite Festival
When: October 24 and 25, 2015
Where: "The Circle"
Atlantic Beach, NC
This FREE two-day event is open to the public and is set to be held at the main beach access "The Circle" in Atlantic Beach next month. Here you will see more than 100 kites soaring above, watch kite-flying demonstrations and find kids activities from candy drops to kite-building workshops. You'll want to witness the masses of kites at this fun festival and take photos of this beautiful fall site!
As always, do not hesitate to contact Gena Gilbert Real Estate with your questions about buying or selling a home in Atlantic Beach, Beaufort, Morehead City, Havelock, Newport and the surrounding areas of North Carolina. We look forward to hearing from you!


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You demanded I not shy from your lens.
"Your voice soothes and bewitches me," I said.
I called every day to hear it, be calmed.
"I love how you hold me," you said.
You wiggled against me and I stroked you.
"I love how it feels to touch your skin," I said.
my hands still remember velvet on curves.
The warmth of you squirms on me and pushes
back against me, snug and soft all at once.
Your voice still rings true in my dreams,
It echoes in my heart as I wake.
It never tells me you are gone,
but insists that you love me.
You always look so perfect to me there,
but I can envision no less of you.
I still taste you, your hair and your skin,
your kiss, my palate your pallet still.
You are right. Smell is the strongest.
I remember you in every ward I visit.
But I recall your musk and your perfume even more.
Your visits leave it lingering so briefly, sharply.
Like the taste of you on my lips,
the sight of you in my dreams,
your faintly echoing voice,
and the giving firmness of your hips.
I wish they would linger,
but I am grateful for the ghostly warmth of your touch,
the phantom savor of your kiss,
the echoing hint of your voice,
the beauty of you in my dreams,
And the scent of you that flees when I wake.


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How successful was the new deal? The new deal was the name that Roosevelt gave to a series of economic programs he initiated between 1933 and 1936 with the goals of giving work (relief) to the unemployed, reform of business and financial practises, and recovery of the economy during the Great Depression. The "First New Deal" of 1933 was aimed at short-term recovery programs for all groups which were called the 'Alphabet Agencies'. The Roosevelt administration promoted or implemented banking reform laws, emergency relief programs, work relief programs, agricultural programs, and industrial reform (the NRA), a federal welfare state, as well as the end of the gold standard and prohibition. A "Second New Deal" (1935-36) included labour union support, the WPA relief program, the Social Security Act, and programs to aid farmers, including tenant farmers and migrant workers. The new deal was successful to a certain extent. ...read more.
And, the social security act provided the USA with a semi-welfare state which included pensions for the elderly and widows and state help for the sick and disabled. The new deal also helped promote equality towards all Americans. Around 200,000 black Americans gained benefits from the CCC and other new deal agencies. Many benefited from slum clearance programmes and housing projects. Women also benefited from the new deal and some achieved prominent positions, for example, Eleanor Roosevelt became an important campaigner for social reform and Frances Perkins was the first woman to be appointed to a cabinet post as secretary of labour. However, there were also numerous failures of the new deal. It divided the USA and gave the federal government and presidency too much power. It also ignored the position of the state governments and tried to change the membership and role of the Supreme Court, and his supporters were even accused of being communist. ...read more.
Roosevelt did little to end segregation and discrimination in the Deep South. For example, he failed to pass laws against lynching of black Americans in case he alienated democratic senators from the southern states. During nearly 15 years as president, Roosevelt only passed one law for black people. Also, the new deal offered little to women. Some of the National Industry Recovery Act codes of 1933 actually required women to be paid less than men. Only 8,000 women were employed by the CCC out of 2.75 million involved in the scheme. Some state governments tried to avoid social security payments to women by introducing special qualifications. To conclude, the new deal was reasonably successful in that it significantly reduced bank and business failures and also helped to reduce unemployment. However, it only provided short term solutions and did little to help industrial workers, black people and women. And when Roosevelt reduced the new deal budget, the country went back into depression. It was World War 2 that truly brought America out of depression. ?? ?? ?? ?? ...read more.
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{Gingerbread Cookies}
1 C packed brown sugar
1/3 C Shortening
1 1/2 C dark molasses
2/3 C cold water
7 C flour
2 tsp baking soda
2 tsp ground ginger
1 tsp salt
1 tsp allspice
1 tsp cloves
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I had to escape the heat of San Jose and run away to San Rafael which was still pretty HOT!! Not to worry i found a spot in the shade next to the water. which of course had the best composition i could find. I met up with Cameron and his paint group, which was pretty cool, got to meet some pretty awesome people, and got to see some of Marin's amazing landscapes!!! what more could you ask for?
2 comments:
- lam nguyen said...
You're a machine! Keep up the good work and let's see some viz dev work!
- June 29, 2009 at 11:15 PM
- Tony S. Nguyen said...
haha, thanks man just trying to learn that color and yes i will post some vis dev work. sooooo when you coming out to paint?
- July 1, 2009 at 12:12 PM
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A week after being humbled by Phoenix, the Ashland football team was exposed by Marshfield on Friday night.
The Midwestern Conference foe dropped Ashland to 1-2 halfway through its nonconference schedule with a 35-6 blowout at Walter A. Phillips Field.
Marshfield (2-1) used a 66-yard receiver pass to take an early lead on their second offensive play of the game and never looked back as the Grizzlies didn't find the end zone until the final play of the contest.
Moreover, the Grizzlies didn't even find the red zone until the final play.
"That's an embarrassing loss," said receiver Mason Costantino, who was one of the lone Ashland bright spots with a touchdown and 139 of Ashland's 165 receiving yards. "You have to give Marshfield some credit because they made some big plays, but we have some work to do."
Marshfield quarterback Kyle Tedder headed an option offense that picked Ashland apart, tallying 109 rushing yards on 16 attempts and 170 yards passing. The senior was responsible for three touchdowns.
Tedder capped Marshfield's second drive with a six-yard touchdown run after a 65-yard drive that spanned six minutes.
The Pirates took a 21-0 lead into halftime, and when play resumed Tedder kept the opening-drive going with first-down runs on two different third-and-long situations before finishing it with a 46-yard pass to Ryan Scoville.
"He's a difference maker," Ashland coach Charlie Hall said of Tedder. "Right now they have one and we don't.
"Because we don't have one guy that can make all the big plays for us, we need to play pretty flawless as a unit to be successful and we're showing signs but we have some things to clean up," he added.
Marshfield finished with 463 yards of total offense compared to 205 yards for the Grizzlies, including just 40 yards on the ground.
Many of Ashland's problems stemmed from an opposing line that featured four players listed over 260 pounds.
"There are certain teams that you match up better against, but I wasn't too concerned about their big linemen coming in," Hall said.
"I don't think we took them lightly or anything, but we have some young guys out there on defense and hopefully now they know the level they'll need to play at."
The Grizzly defense, which surrendered 20 first downs, was on the field for 11 minutes longer than Marshfield's and didn't force the Pirates to punt all game.
On a positive note, senior running back/defensive lineman Issa Shahin was in the lineup and contributed 45 yards on eight attempts and a game-high six tackles.
The Grizzlies' only score came with no time on the clock after the game was extended by a defensive pass interference call that set up Jake Scarminach's 41-yard bomb that found Costantino in the end zone. Scarminach finished 15-for-25 for 165 yards.
"We have to find a way to step it up and figure out how to make some big plays on both sides of the ball," said Costantino, who was about the only one talking in a silent Grizzly locker room.
"I definitely think we have the pieces, but there's nothing we can do except try to work harder next week I guess."
Ashland travels to Eugene to square off with Willamette next week, before wrapping up nonconference play against Springfield and Bend.
Grizzlies overtaken by Pirates in nonconference drubbing
A week after being humbled by Phoenix, the Ashland football team was exposed by Marshfield on Friday night.


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The Investigation
Immediately after the attacks, the Spanish government accused the Basque separatist movement Euskadi Ta Askatasuna (Basque Fatherland and Liberty — the ETA) of responsibility for the attacks. In the immediate aftermath, Prime Minister José María Aznar and Interior Minister Ángel Acebes announced that the ETA was responsible and contacted media outlets to assure them of the allegations. However, many people, both throughout Spain and around the world, believed otherwise.
With a national election only three days away, and Spanish troops fighting in an unpopular war in Iraq, critics charged that the government accusation against the ETA was intended to deflect attention away from the link between the terrorist attacks on Spanish civilians and the fighting in Iraq. The country had recently sent 1,300 troops to join the U.S.-led coalition in Iraq and there was widespread opposition in Spain to the war (a 2003 poll had shown that 92 percent of Spaniards opposed the war).
A spokesperson for Batasuna, the political arm of the ETA, denied responsibility. In addition, the large-scale impact, coordination and simultaneous nature of the attacks were not characteristic of the ETA.
On March 13, 2004, an audiotape was found in a van near a Madrid mosque. The tape claimed responsibility for the attacks by the Groupe Islamique Combattan Morrocain (Moroccan Islamic Combatant Group — GICM), believed to be inspired by al-Qaeda's vision of global holy war (jihad). A mobile phone was also found in one of the bags of explosives that did not detonate, and five men, including Jamal Zougam, who was alleged to have links with the suspected leader of an al-Qaeda cell in Spain, were arrested.
As evidence pointing to Islamist extremists rather than the ETA emerged, anger rose against the Spanish government. On March 13, the eve of the election, hundreds of Spaniards protested, accusing the government of manipulation and demanding transparency. This distrust was revealed during the next day's election, as Spain voted in the Socialist Prime Minister José Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, who withdrew all 1,300 Spanish troops from Iraq within five weeks of his inauguration.
That same day, a video was uncovered claiming responsibility for the attacks from a supposed al-Qaeda military spokesman in Europe. The spokesman claimed that the attacks were avenging Spain's collaboration with the United States and its allies.
On April 3, 2004, Spanish police raided the group's holdout in Leganés, a suburb of Madrid, where seven suspected ringleaders of the attacks blew themselves up as the police closed in, killing one Spanish policeman. By April 2005, twenty-four suspects were in jail and another sixty-five suspects had been charged with lesser crimes in connection with the bombings. In October 2007, after a five-month long trial, a Spanish court delivered a one-hour long verdict, convicting 21 of 28 defendants. The key perpetrators are believed to be linked to the GICM, and although the investigation found no evidence of a direct operational link to al-Qaeda, the GICM was later declared a derivative structure of al-Qaeda.
The Convictions
Of the 21 men convicted, three were considered key perpetrators and faced 191 charges of mass murder and more than 1,800 charges of attempted murder. Although these defendants were given sentences of more than 40,000 years in jail, the maximum sentence that can be served under Spanish law is 40 years.
Key Perpetrators
Othman el-Gnaoui, 31, given maximum sentence of 42,924 years in jail. Moroccan-born el-Gnaoui was found guilty of carrying out the bombs and suspected of helping procure explosives.
Jamal Zougam, 33, given maximum sentence of 42,922 years in jail. Moroccan-born Zougam ran a mobile phone shop in Madrid that supplied most of the phones used to detonate the bombs. Zougam is believed to have links to Islamist extremist groups.
José Emilio Suárez Trashorras, 30, given a 34,715-year sentence. Suárez Trashorras, a former Spanish miner, was charged with supplying the dynamite for the bombs.
Membership in a Terrorist Organization
Hamid Ahmidan, sentenced to 23 years in prison for membership in a terrorist organization and drug trafficking.
Rachid Aglif, sentenced to 18 years in prison for membership in a terrorist organization and supplying explosives.
Abdelmajid Bouchar, sentenced to 18 years in prison for membership in a terrorist organization and supplying explosives.
Hassan el-Haski, sentenced to 15 years in prison.
Fouad el-Morabit, sentenced to 12 years in prison.
Saed el-Harrak, sentenced to 12 years in prison.
Mohamed Bouharrat, sentenced to 12 years in prison.
Youssef Belhadj, sentenced to 12 years in prison.
Mohamed Larbi Ben Sellam, sentenced to 12 years in prison.
Collaborating with a Terrorist Organization
Rafa Zouhier, sentenced to ten years in prison for collaborating with a terrorist organization and for trafficking explosives.
Nasreddine Bousbaa, sentenced to three years in prison for document forgery.
Mahmoud Slimane Aoun, sentenced to three years in prison for document forgery.
Trafficking Explosives
Antonio Iván Reis Palacio, sentenced to three years in prison for transporting explosives.
Sergio Alvarez Sánchez, sentence to three years in prison for transporting explosives.
Rabei Osman Sayed Ahmed
Antonio Toro Castro
Carmen Maria Toro Castro
Emilio Llano Alvarez
Iván Granados Peña
Javier González Peña
Mohamed Moussaten
Basel Ghalyoun
Mouhannad Almallah Dabas
Abdelilah el-Fadual el-Akil
Rául González Peláez


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So, what do you want to know?!
Am I alive?!
Where am I?!
What does my job here entail?!
So, what exactly am I doing now?!
Who are Kate and Scott
The office and people in the office
My time till now here in Pondi.
Photos from Pondicherry.
1.The beach
2.Sunday Market
3.Random Shots
Yes, I am alive.
I am in Pondicherry. People generally refer to it as 'Pondi'. Now don't start having ideas
What does my job here entail?!
I'm dealing with the Media and Publicity aspect of PlanetRead and
BookBox . PlanetRead and BookBox are now growing and the organizations need regular correspondence and dialogue with media. So, this Computer Engineer is more like the person who'd be taking care of that aspect. So, if you hear about PlanetRead and BookBox and know what they are working on, I'm doing my job well. That's in the long term. You obviously won't see PlanetRead and BookBox hogging headlines in the next few days or weeks. Well, they already have in the past though. Be it at the Google blog or
The Stanford Daily and at The NewYork Times(the link to which doesn't exist anymore) So, my job here basically deals with taking care of the fact that PlanetRead and BookBox are projected well in the media and that their brand value and recognition increase and get better by the day!
To make this happen I understand that there's lot of ground to be covered initially and lot of learning to do, both in terms of understanding of how things work in the organization and how best one can present it employing the most suitable media. There's also lot of learning on being adept in dealing with people cutting across different sections. You can't deal the same way with the kids on the street who you're scared will harm your camera, and the Regional Director of
This is where I believe devoting most of my time working with SPIC-MACAY in college, will keep me in good stead. Interestingly, the case is mostly the same at work here. But yes, a lot more serious finds it amazing as to how I manage to be comfortable dealing with different people! Who is Scott?! Read on. But then Scott already knows what SPIC MACAY is!
So, what exactly am I doing now?!
Right now, it's more of learning than working probably is the best learning I've had, both in terms of learning on how to go about things and the people that I'm spending my time with. I spend most of my day working, dining, arguing?!, discussing, wondering, contemplating, hypothezing, debating, shopping with Kate and Scott. Who are Scott and Kate?! Read here!
Scott and Kate bring with them a host of skills and ideas and my time involves picking it up from them and offer to them what I've to offer. Together, we intend to leave PlanetRead and BookBox with lots of assets, human or otherwise by the end of this summer when they leave for the US. Then, my job here involves leveraging on these assets to promote PlanetRead and BookBox all over the world! Yes!
PlanetRead is expanding into other countries, through its Global Outreach programme. Very exciting times ahead indeed!
Over the next two and a half months, we'll be traveling to all the South Indian states, Mumbai and Ahmedabad as well to meet and interview the people who matter in the IT,tech and the media industries. There are famous names. But I wouldn't want to reveal them now. Watch out for the final piece we come up with. Then you'll know. I'd be working with Scott on the field research, the camera and the editing work. With Kate my work would involve working on the communication aspect in terms of making and maintaining the blog and reaching out to a wider audience. My job also involves working with them keeping the long term requirements of PlanetRead and BookBox and how best we can utilize their work and stay for out purposes.
Who are Kate and Scott?!
I could simply say Kate and Scott are interns from the US who are working with me here at PlanetRead. To make things more interesting, I'd say they are students of Brown University which is part of the Ivy League. They took the class of social entrepreneurship under Dr.Brij Kothari and now, they are in India! That's how powerful Brij's interaction with them was! Brij's coming to India in the near future and I cannot wait to meet him! To spice up things a little more, Kate is very good-looking and I get to carry around her on the bike for our culinary needs or otherwise. Poor Scott has to bicycle around while I get to ride Kate around! [I'm eagerly awaiting for her reaction as and when she reads this!:)]
Kate works more on the design, visual appeal and communication aspects of presenting PlanetRead and BookBox's work to a much larger audience from a world perspective. She chronicles personal her experiences and those of people here, in this blog. Kate and I are also working on creating an official blog for PlanetRead and BookBox. Those will give you, the audience a better idea of what exactly happens here and present a human face to its activities. Now, do I write that episode, Kate?! Not now, will do sometime soon. Maybe when I'm articulate?! All this said, Kate has a power of keen observation which I believe is a great asset for a person dealing with the design aspect of an organization, or for that matter anything!
To define Scott, I'll use the same word he uses to describe everything in India- intense. This guy is awesome and amazing. Now, these are again two words which he uses the most to describe everyting here! The energy he brings into everything he does is mind-blowing. Be it when it comes to planning the schedules for the village trips, or in learning more about India and its people, or even it's simply talking about general things.
For sure you'll hear more about Kate and Scott in the coming months, as I'll be spending most of my time with them. All I can say now is that this is a huge learning opportunity for the three of us. Needless to mention, we'll also have lot of fun dong this!
The office/People in the office
The office is a bungalow with a small but beautiful garden and a terrace having a breath-taking view of the Bay of Bengal. Our workplace looks something like this
The best things about people in the office is that they tolerate me. Be it making The Bored Board, or putting up with my poor jokes! The bestest thing is that they understand my PJs and are able to appreciate my puns.! appreciate will be too much of self-appreciation, but yes, people here are definitely the ones I can relate to more than most people I've spent my time with. Ananya is my English teacher here. I get free English lessons everyday. Today's lesson was that using 'having to' is not right! Parthibhan is a 'hand'some cricket player with a safe pair of hands. We soon plan to start a PlanetRead cricket club with him as the President and the watchman and I being the Secretary cum peon. Mital finds me very cute and she's said that some 97 times in these ten days. Needless to say, she is equally sweet! Pappu is one person whom I'm glad to have met. He's one of the enthusiastic persons I've ever met in my life. He reminds me so much of Prabhakar from Shantaram. Everything about him is special, be it his contacts and his ability to get things done, his smile and even his body structure!Say this to him and he'll laugh. The laugh so funny that it'll cheer up your day! We have Maaran Sir, who is like a father figure to all of us here at PlanetRead and BookBox. Vinod's the co-ordinator and takes care that everything runs smoothly. Bobby is our in-house philosopher and poet! Francis and Amma make sure we do our work efficiently by giving us regular doses of coffee, buttermilk and snacks!
Nirav is now in Mumbai as we now have ten programmes with SLS from the earlier six programmes. Vikram, Vinay, Rajesh are in Mumbai. I had a great time with them in Mumbai. Looking forward to spending time with them when we visit Mumbai in some time from now.
My time in Pondicherry till now
It's been almost 10 days since I landed in Pondicherry.Landed?!Well not exactly. I arrived in Pondicherry in an ECR bus in which I was treated to almost a dozen Rajanikant songs and a proper, masala Tamizh movie with just the right amount of violence, songs, item song exposure and perhaps not enough comedy. It was interesting enough to have me look at the TV whenever I was woken up by the person next to me falling on me and trying to become my laptop.
So, I arrived in Pondicherry and not all at sea, though there was the huge expanse of the Bay of Bengal by my side. The office, where I stay as well, is just a road across the beach and I had no problems reaching here. Nirav's instructions were just perfect.No doubt, he's the Chief Operating Officer!:)
I've settled down comfortably here and I really do not find it surprising that it appears to me that I've known people for a long time now. There's a way I connect with people and I guess the connection's just right here! There's a nut who joins us for coffee in the evening, after dinner. Let's she how she reacts to being called a nut! Guess I'll have to buy a Nut and Almonds chocolate to make up for it!
Oliver is Scott's very good friend. They've been friends for a very long time now. It was quite amazing that they were meeting in Pondicherry after not having met for the last four months or so. That evening I spent with Oliver and Scott walking through the streets of Pondicherry, visiting the church, going through the meat and the vegetable market will rank as one of the best evenings I've spent with anyone. The discussions ranged from music to markets, politics to culture, religion to education and it was one of the most intellectually stimulating discussions I've ever had.
Oliver has seen more of not just the world, but even more of India than I have, having spent lot of time at Varanasi at the Little Stars School as a part of Where Be The Dragons. He's also been to Bhutan and Sikkim. It was his sixth visit to India and one could get the feeling that he exactly new what it was like to be in India and experience it. The very fact that he was checking out of a very luxurious and swank hotel to move into an Indian hotel is a testimony to this. He outsources animation work to Chennai and that is how he comes to India often. We hope to catch him when he comes to Varanasi in July. But what's most striking is that he's of my age and has done so much more. I'm sure the world will hear lot about him in the coming days, and not just from me!
Photos from Pondicherry.
1.The beach
3.Random Shots
Monday, May 29, 2006
Update from Pondicherry! - The much awaited post!
So, what do you want to know?!
Posted by Nikhil at 11:10 PM
Posted under Experiences, Life Update, Memories, PlanetRead, Pondicherry
9 comments:
Yes much awaited!Dragged me to browse today to hear your exploits! And did you get through some contact in Kerala? Give me your number man....
- junglebellows said...
1. finally.... i've been asking u to update me for such a long time ... and everytime its the same reply on Y! .. "Oye Fellow... ive got to go.." X-(
2. wherebethedragons not opening
3. lucky bastard... 'riding' kate around...
4. so u finally found an alternative to jayanth's laptop huh... heheh///
5. did i get u correctly or did u mention that u were leaving to the U .S of amreeka a few months from now??
6. say hi to 'prabhakar' from me :-D
readin the blog was pretty interestin...i guess ita a lovely place to b in...with one an absolutely excitin job...hav fun..
- Sunayana said...
- Ellie said...
Hey! Where's Nikhil??
Who are you?? :-p
- Jayanth Madhav Barki said...
You are going to amrikka?! WOW!! :)
Anyway....good to know youre having fun there...and dont believe what Mital says...even if she says it 97 times a day!
- Nikhil said...
Whoever whenever said I was going to the US?! But then one never knows where life takes us. Till sometime back I did not know I would be in Pondicherry. So, you don't know. Even I!
Contact contacted!
Will get back to you and him soon.
Thanks. [ I know it doesn't sound like Nikhil, but still]
Yes, will update soon.
No, you got it all wrong on America. Everything's happening here. Why go there?!
Still Anastasia?!
Say something more, or atleast close your mouth!
This is still the same idiot. Whom are you searching for?!
I think the America question is now answered and we put the matter to rest. I have lots to do here i India.
- Sudipta Chatterjee said...
Wow! After a long time and so many goodies! All the best for your future!
- vandana said...
hellllo good morning...no no stop shaking your head first or ill really slap yu.... i am a nut?? hun?? how dare you..yes i am angry..no coffee with you ...ever again........................:))
but yu are cute and mital was right:)