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Steven Watts is Professor of History at the University of Missouri, where he has won several prizes, including the Kemper Teaching Award, the Faculty-Alumni Award, and the system-wide Thomas Jefferson Award for research, teaching, and Creativity. He also served two terms as chair of the Department of History. Watts has published seven books: The Republic Reborn: War and the Making of Liberal America, 1790-1820 (1987); The Romance of Real Life: Charles Brockden Brown and the Origins of American Culture (1994); The Magic Kingdom: Walt Disney and the American Way of Life (1997); The People's Tycoon: Henry Ford and the American Century (2005); Mr. Playboy: Hugh Hefner and the American Dream (2008); Self-Help Messiah: Dale Carnegie and Success in Modern America (2013); and JFK and the Masculine Mystique: Sex and Power on the New Frontier (2016). He has published many articles and essays in venues such as The Journal of American History, American Quarterly, Chronicle of Higher Education, Newsweek, The Nation, National Review, and Salon.
Watts has made numerous media appearances on NPR, C-SPAN, NBC, CBS, MSNBC, CNBC, Fox, Bloomberg News, Telemundo, the BBC, and dozens of radio stations around the United States and in western Europe. He has contributed to documentary films made in the United States, Germany, and Brazil on the subjects of his biographies. Most recently, he has been a consultant and on-screen commentator for the History Channel's "The Men Who Built America" (2012) and two PBS films: "American Experience: Henry Ford" (2013) and "American Experience: Walt Disney" (2015).


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FOREST GROVE, Ore. -- The Lewis & Clark Pioneers competed at the Hagg Lake Invitational, facing the No. 8-ranked Pacific Lutheran women's varsity eight team. Their opponents included Northwest Conference rivals Pacific Lutheran and Pacific University, as well as the University of Oregon. The regatta was highlighted by an early win by the women's varsity eight.
After the women's varsity eight pulled off an early win against Oregon, they lost to PLU in the second V8 race. The matchup between last year's fourth-place finisher in the NCAA Championships, PLU, and the Pios resulted in the lowest women's times of the day as Lewis & Clark finished the course in 6.53.31, less than 10 seconds behind the Lutes.
"It's been a really challenging week due to the near-flooding conditions on the Willamette," said head coach Sam Taylor. "We only rowed Monday and Tuesday and have been on land since. Despite that, we felt like it was an excellent first hit out for the team."
The women's second varsity eight was up next, finishing behind in their race by only half a boat length.
Both of the women's varsity four boats took first place in their races, beating two UO boats, and a PLU boat that didn't finish the race due to faulty equipment. The Pios also managed to pull second-place finishes in all of their second varsity races.
In the men's varsity four's first race, they were unable to pull ahead in their field of three boats.
"We had a really good move in the middle," said coxswain Maggie Coit. "We took half a boat length on the boat behind us."
The varsity four boat had a good move around 1,000 meters to let them pull farther ahead. That was the only highlight of the race, as the Oregon boat starting next to the Pios had some issues at the start.
"The other boat clashed oars with us at the beginning of the race and messed with our focus and rhythm," said junior Samuel Makikalli. "It distracted us from the race. We didn't actually see how we matched up with the other boat, so we were excited for the second race."
The men competed again in the last event of the regatta, competing against two University of Oregon varsity eight boats. The race was very tight, with the Pios and one of the Oregon boats almost even at the 1,000-meter mark. Lewis & Clark pulled ahead by a narrow margin to take the win, with a time of 6:34.35, the fastest time of the day.
"Both the men's and women's programs proved very competitive with some rival programs," said Taylor. "We set ourselves up well for the Husky Open in two weeks time."
The Pioneers next regatta is the Husky Open Regatta, hosted by the University of Washington on Apr. 1.

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Yesterday I headed to shoot a 2012 Lexus GS350 F Sport, when I randomly saw my friend Paul. His car is... distinctive. He joined me as we headed into downtown Houston to get some downtown shots while the sun was still relatively high in the sky. When we set out for a different location we got stuck at a train crossing. The dusk light was perfect and fading fast, so rather than wait behind the train, I turned around and stopped at a nearby industrial loading dock to get some shots of the Lexus. While I set up some stuff and started snapping away, Paul drove his car under the open door of a small warehouse thing, and we grabbed the lights and turned the camera towards his Elise! It's a 2005 Lotus Elise in Aztec Bronze, which is both striking and unusual up close. No word if it was deliberately limited or demand limited, but this comes up when you do an image search for "Aztec Bronze." Paul seems pretty convinced there are only about 8 of them in the US.
I've wanted to do a proper shoot with an Elise for forever. It's just perfect, it photographs so well and has so many incredible surfaces and details. It looks like it's from another planet. We did these shots in about 5 minutes and minimal setup, since I still had to finish the Lexus images. One of these days I'll do the Lotus more in-depth, but this was incredibly fun.


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Collision insurance is a type of automobile insurance that covers the cost of the damage sustained in collision with another car, object or in a vehicle rollover. A deductible may have to be met before the insurance covers the damage.
Liability insurance is the minimum requirement of state laws. Collision insurance is not required by state law but could be a requirement if the vehicle is financed through a dealership or lender. This protects the investment and liability of the owner.
Comprehensive insurance works along with collision insurance. This type provides coverage for damage sustained to a vehicle other than a collision or vehicle rollover.


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Landmark is pleased to announce the appointment of two new Directors to the Management Team.
Gemma Melvill and Andy Spargo have been appointed from their existing roles of Principal Environmental Planner and Principal Landscape Architect respectively. They join Nick and Bernice Roberts, who established Landmark in 1985, in managing the Practice and shaping its future development as a multidisciplinary environmental consultancy.
Gemma joined Landmark as a graduate EIA specialist in 2005, and has since worked alongside Bernice to develop the award winning Environmental Planning team, rising through the ranks to lead on high profile EIA and planning projects. Andy joined Landmark as a Principal in December 2015 and now leads all Landscape Architecture work for the Practice, having secured new work across a range of sectors. Together they have already made a major contribution to Landmark's success, and they bring a wealth of experience and knowledge to their new roles as Directors.


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Charlie Yeung has no intention to retire from showbiz
Charlie Yeung has no plans to retire anytime soon, despite residing in Singapore to be with her husband, Khoo Shao Tze, whom she married last year.
"I have actually received a lot of scripts this year," said Charlie. "But of course, family will always comes first."
"I am 40 this year, and at this stage of my life, I want to get married and start a different journey with my other half, create our own family and learn new things together," she said.
Charlie stressed that her husband always encourages her to continue doing the things she likes, especially movies. She also visits her family in Hong Kong every month despite living in Singapore with her husband.
In the meantime, Charlie can be seen in upcoming "Kung Fu Jungle" alongside martial arts actor Donnie Yuen, Wang Baoqiang and actress Bai Bing.
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It is a week away! Please join us for this month's CoP meeting!
This month's SLHI Community of Practice Community Garden Meeting will feature Doreen Pollack
discussing her experience and insight from this year's American Community
Garden Association Annual Conference "Community Gardening on the Cutting
Edge". For those of you who couldn't attend, please join us to hear what is
going on around the country with this growing movement!
Have you ever thought of bringing the produce into restaurants or farmer's
markets? Kristopher Corter of Growing Rogue will be joining us to discuss
how community gardens can partner to bring produce into the community.
Growing Rogue is creating temporary or semi-permanent gardens in various
urban areas so that local markets, restaurants and members of the community
have access to the gardens that are growing flowers, along with the food
they eat. Please join us!
Our next meeting will take place at St. Luke's Health Initiative in their
board room at
2929 N Central Ave Suite 1550
Phoenix 85012
Here is a link to a map
The meeting starts at 11:30 AM with lunch and goes through 1:30 PM.
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about 5 hours of my limited there, breinn and i headed to shangri-la's and availed their one day use package. our wallets weren't big enough to accommodate an overnight stay in the 5-star resort in mactan so the one day use was already a sweet deal for us!
i'm even splitting our swift and abrupt experience into two posts so that i can rewind that moment in a longer span of time by reading two lengthy narratives.
after a short climb up shangri-la's driveway, our hired cab came into a halt in front of the resort's lobby half past 12 in the afternoon and we were greeted by the welcoming resort staff with bright and sincere smiles.
when we got our blue wristbands after payment, we headed straight to tides to avail our lunch which was included in the day use package. read on for more delectable parade of photos!
oh, don't be disappointed! this was only the prelude of the ultimate binge on good food. my first agenda was tossing some greens into this bowl, sprinkling generously some powdered cheese, putting a little bit of bacon and other fresh greens i fancied from the salad bar and then finally, topping it off with a vinaigrette dressing. yes, it tasted good as it looked!
here are the rest of the banquet in tides. the cooks were a nice bunch of people who were very much willing to answer our curious queries.
not in the pictures were the indian food section where there was a selection of various roti prata, the noodle section, the grilled meat, the typical filipino viand and rice pair, and the seafood section which we only saw when we had devoured enough.
though the selections may not be as many compared to the buffets i had been to, the good food in tides was more than our happy stomachs could ask for.
if you enjoy sipping a hot tea after a filling meal, you would be grateful if you similarly find the prices of the drinks expensive. drinks are not included but you will get a free flowing of purified water but another free is this hot tea! we only found out about it when we got our bill with only breinn's iced lemon tea in the receipt. we say the drinks are expensive because a coke in can worth 150PHP is a price gone overboard in the philippines.
and i was ready for the beach!
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Judea Pearl: 'Anti-Zionism is the worst form of racism'Judea Pearl, the father of murdered Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl HY"D (May God avenge his blood), surprised his listeners at the Simon Wiesenthal Center on Monday night with a scathing indictment of anti-Zionism.
Pearl, father of slain reporter Daniel Pearl, used the annual lecture on the "state of anti-Semitism" to upend conventional thinking, and argue that anti-Zionism is a strain of hate that is far more dangerous to Jews than anti-Semitism.Martin Luther King held similar views, and for what it's worth, I must say that I agree with Dr. Pearl as well. Look at the rhetoric coming out of the Arab Muslim world today. There's no difference between anti-Zionist and anti-Semite, except that being an 'anti-Zionist' is a socially more acceptable cover.
He called anti-Zionism, which he defined as the denial of Israel's right to exist in the family of nations, as "the worst form of racism." Unlike anti-Semitism, he said, it carries a measure of social acceptance, and it "hides itself in the cloak of political debate."
Those who think anti-Semitism, especially as it colors debate about Israel in the United States, is the greater danger are mistaken, Pearl told the crowd in his opening address on Monday night. Jews, he said, have become experts at fighting anti-Semitism, likening it to a disease in which "the antibodies are known."
"Anti-Zionism is worse. It is harder to fight. It comes in a camouflage that allows it to penetrate vital tissue undetected," he said. Then he paused briefly and added, "Like at our universities."
Pearl, who was born in Tel Aviv, speaks with an Israeli accent that sometimes makes it hard to understand his exact words. But there is no mistaking his passionate defense of Israel and his belief in the Jews' historical connection to the land. Asked about those who criticized Israeli government's policies, he answered that he thought anti-Zionism often was lurking beneath their words.
In his speech, Pearl called anti-Zionism "morally appalling and strategically harder to fight.
"Anti-Zionism targets the most vulnerable part of the Jewish people, the 6 million people of Israel. It condemns them to eternal statelessness in a very bad neighborhood," he said.
He encouraged the use of the r-word, to call out as "racists" those who deny Israel's right to exist.
"First, they are stunned. Then the debate shifts … into our core issue," which is that they are denying the Jewish people that which is granted to other nations.
In a question handed up from the audience, Pearl was asked what he thought about Jews who say they are anti-Zionists. "That's easy," he responded. "It's a ticket for social acceptance."
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Commodity Mutual Funds To Consider
There are a number of commodity mutual funds to consider, and these funds can include a diverse range of investments. There are alternative energy mutual funds, those that specialize in gold or other precious metals, funds which invest in agricultural commodities, and several other different types. Fidelity Select Materials, symbol FSDPX, has a four star Morningstar rating and the holdings of the fund include both Dow Chemical and Dupont, as well as other recognized names in the commodity industry. Another of the top commodity mutual funds to consider is PIMCO Commodity Real Return Strategy Fund, symbol PCRAX, which has more than twenty six billion dollars in assets and is heavy in commodities futures.
Precious metals mutual funds can include Dynamic Gold And Precious Metals I, symbol DWGOX. This fund has a portfolio which includes Red Back Mining Inc., Scotiabank Gold Certificate, and AGNICO-EAGLE MINES LTD. as well as other holdings. This is one of the commodity mutual funds which has seen a decent return over the last few years. While there are many attractions with large cap mutual funds, those that include commodities can be more profitable when careful research and fund comparisons are done before any money is invested. Some of these funds will include only companies and commodities in the USA, while others may include both foreign and domestic markets.
There are a number of benefits with commodity mutual funds, but there are also risks and disadvantages as well. These funds may not be right for every investor, and you should carefully evaluate each possible choice before you make any final decision. There are many gold mutual funds which have shown excellent returns, in part due to the greatly increased market price of this commodity, but not all of these funds may offer a solid and quality place for your investment capital over the long term. Make sure to research and look at all factors for each commodity fund being considered, so you can determine the best choice in your circumstances and with your investment goals.


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Analyst's View: Flipboard for iPad Is Rupert Murdoch's Nightmare
A new, free app crushes the idea of the iPad saving newspapers.
When the Apple iPad launched, Fox mogul Rupert Murdoch touted Apple's wonder tablet as a potential savior of the struggling newspaper industry. It was a bold claim, certainly, for a then-unproven device. But I can understand Mr. Murdoch's sentiment: print media has taken a drubbing in recent years, and everyone in the industry is looking for a technological solution to keep it afloat. Months after the release of the iPad, the release of Flipboard proves that the iPad does have a role to play in the digital future of print mediabut not in the way that Murdoch envisioned.
Why Murdoch Should Love Flipboard
Flipboard is a free iPad app that's touted by its developer as the world's first personalized, social magazine. It leverages the iPad's Web connectivity and large display to cull blog posts, images, video, and articles into an attractive, remarkably intuitive layout that closely duplicates the look and feel of a print publication.
Flipboard delivers content in a highly-digestible format by combining the best elements of the print and digital worlds. It has the readability of newspaper, plus the bite-sized news chunks that have become, for better or for worse, the de facto method of consuming content. Square and rectangular boxes contain excerpts from articles that you can see in full by tapping the "Read On Web" link. There's also plenty of soothing white space that's easy on the eye. You even flip pages with your finger as you would a newspaper or magazine, and the "cover" image cycles through images pulled from the latest stories. In short, Flipboard removes the barrier that has long separated readers from online content: clumsy, unintuitive navigation that demands constant downward scrolling. It sounds like something Murdoch could get behind.
Why Murdoch Should Fear Flipboard
The good news for old media ends with Flipboard's interface. Unlike a traditional RSS reader that pulls content from a subscribed source (say, The New York Post), Flipboard gathers links from your social network circles, which makes the "news" received far more engaging. The idea is that the chances are that you have overlapping interests with the people you follow on Twitter or have friended on Facebook. Your friends and colleagues in your social network contacts become the "editors" of your personalized Flipboard publication.
There have been concerns about Flipboard's legality as the app doesn't tap RSS feeds; it scrapes content from Web pages, works some mojo on its servers, and presents the content on the iPad. As Google News, a few old-media dinos failed to see the value of a centralized location that points readers to fresh content. Murdoch has famously been at odds with Google over it news aggregator. At the end of 2009, Murdoch threatened to block The Wall Street Journal from Google News. There has yet to be any substantial outcryat least not immediatelyover Flipboard's practices. Perhaps it's due to the fact that Flipboard doesn't currently have a revenue model in place: The app itself is fee, and there's no advertising. The company is bound to eventually getting around to monetization is sure to occur, however, which may rile content providers.
Potentially miffed newspaper publishers have a far greater concern than Flipboard potentially making money from their excerpts; rather it's how far Flipboard will shift consumer expectations. Murdoch's assault on Google for "taking stories for nothing" proves how far removed he is from consumersor how little he cares what they desire. In the digital ream, people want information to be free and free-flowing. When Murdoch charged a free for online version of the U.K. paper The Times, it saw a two-thirds market share drop, according to AdAge. The old subscription model is dead.
Murdoch can't hope to maintain a pay wall; in the digital age, there will always be free choices; that's what consumers expect, an expectation Flipboard and its inevitable clones are sure to reinforce. In fact, the only possible way for his industry to survive in the iPad era is by working with companies like Flipboard to give readers free, ad-supported content. It's definitely not Murdoch's vision of hand-over-fist digital subscription income within his walled garden, but he must realize that standing against the tide will drown his papers that much faster.
Flipboard is the Future
Flipboard is simply doing what most old-media newspapers and magazines can't or won't do: it's becoming a front runner in the digital age instead of being has-beens that carry the legacy weight of tradition. When Electronic Gaming Monthly went under, and re-emerged as an entity that blended evergreen print stories with timely online news and reviews via its EGMi interactive Web site, it was deemed as one of the few publications that "get" the new medium. PCmag.com itself is a former print magazine that has successfully completed the transition to an all-digital format. But such examples are few and far between.
Flipboard is by no means perfect: you have to wait several days to have your Facebook and Twitter accounts approved for use, you can't directly add feeds from your favorite sites. My biggest gripe of all is that Flipboard lacks caching, so you can't read content when offline. These are inconveniences that have never before sullied the newspaper- or magazine-reading experience. An Internet Generation accustomed to easily accessible, fresh content, may not find these gripes so dire an issue, given the prevalence of free, open Wi-Fi signals in parks, diners, bars, and other locations. And, of course, with the Apple iPad 3G, the tablet itself provides the connectivity.
Murdoch's dream, unless he and other old school media giants adapt to the technological advances pioneered by Flipboard, may become a nightmare. Walled gardens will only make a dwindling readership vanish that much quicker as forward-thinking innovators craft new, exciting ways to best deliver compelling content. This is Murdoch's, and the print industry's, chance to reclaim relevancy. I hope that they make the logical decision.
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Sherwood is a tri-coloured 20mm grass pile designed to give that natural look.
The turf is completely child and pet friendly and requires no watering/feeding. Mowing will become a thing of the past while the turf also has a high UV resistance and is fully porous.
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Turns out the state auditor's essentially on the same page as that Menlo Park guy who's suing the high-speed rail authority: her office released a 40-page report Friday saying the group has relied on "vague" and "optimistic" financing plans for the $40-billion-plus train system.
For one thing, the authority plans to snag some $15 to $17 million in additional federal money to complete the bullet train, but in fact only has about $2 billion secured — and yet plans to begin construction in 2012 anyway.
That kind of playing fast and loose could end up with a half-built train system if the money faucet ever gets shut off, says the report.
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My friend Marco "Pepperoni" was tricking at the local polo court in London when Tom (riding the new Scissor frame) and Ted with the Fixedgear London Crew arrived.
Tom style is amazing and very BMX styled, he bunnyhops like 80 cm with ease ... in the same time all the nice spots in Torino are covered with 30 cm of snow and the temperature is around 0°C :-(
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Monday, December 27, 2010
Thursday, December 23, 2010
Metros in metros
Yaar Bana Buddy was painful. The actors went on ad nauseam about a Rs. 1 crore ghada. The title tune was tacky TV serialish. Very against the tone of other plays in Nandikar's annual festival lineup.
Thursday, December 16, 2010
never knew Ecuador was so rich in birds
I want to go to Ecuador!
Main hoon don...
Blue Footed Booby, Ecuador
Thursday, December 02, 2010
Out of bounds
Friday, November 26, 2010
We learnt about the different kinds of puppetry, such as the ones she used at her show the day before- shadow, cutouts, figures etc. Puppetry called ravanchitra is popular in South india. It is named after Ravan as Ram being divine, doesn't have a shadow! We collected objects from the roadside to see what they would look like when a overhead projector would be used to project them on screen. I picked up a chakri- a leftover firecracker from Diwali. It worked well as a snail when projected. We then composed small stories under a minute using the objects we had found, in groups of 5. A tattered cloth looked beautiful on the screen. So did flowers, water in a transparent bottle, a hairclip. It was fun to imagine, be children again. We then attempted to make puppets from transparencies, cardboard and paper. We had wire and thumbtacks to create joints for our puppets. We were given three stories to stage. First we had to create a visual storyboard. This let us know at a glance what props were required for a scene. The next day we were to introduce colour using cellophane. Sigh. I wish I could have attended the second day too. Ah well, at least I got a glimpse in another world.
Thursday, November 25, 2010
Tuesday, November 16, 2010
Miss Daisy drives herself
Tuesday, November 09, 2010
Melange 2010
Nishat Khan served as the focal point as he was centre stage. As the distinctive India instument player too, he stood out.
Trilok Gurtu used South American instruments among others to conjure up sounds of a storm.
Lily Haydon managed to make the violin sound more angry than mournful.
I liked the fact that the musicians got sounds out of their instruments which I had not heard from these instruments earlier.
Wednesday, July 14, 2010
Week 3 weigh in
Will win this race hopefully
Even karela feels good
TC tempts, will I be wooed?
Behind target, so think not
Gymming in full swing
Triple time spent there
Next week the alarm's ring
Must be heeded.
A change of work refreshes
Albeit for a while, destresses.
Tuesday, July 13, 2010
Week 3
Yo yo like, bounce off the walls lean
In dreams alone. Minor aberrations
Leave their accusing mark in lamination
On scales that weigh, assign justice blind
This Spartan existence, I myself remind
Will lead to better things, but as fruit appeals
Chocolate truffle cake, pizza and garlic bread repel,
My social life shrinks, with water alone to drink
The end seems far, far away. Gym feels good
Getting up's a pain, but I like the bed of wood.
Thursday, July 08, 2010
Like life. Worth living?
Some argue otherwise.
Lighter in body, if not in mind
Gram by gram, try to rewind
To a slimmer waist, now a waste
memories of bhujiya downed
Invisible masses piled up
To inch towards unhealthy.
Hiking homewards, only to rebound
It is to be hoped I stay mentally sound.
Friday, July 02, 2010
Week 1
Double effort low cal
No fruit so far
The acid test- the weekend
Is near.
Thursday, July 01, 2010
Day 3
So far. May not show garter
Wise but gives hope
To trudge on, cope
Am actually liking the fruit
Specially when it bears fruit.
Week one of mental exercise too
Begun, coupled with gym to blue
Drive away. Work wise redrawing
Shapes too. Let's see what the better half
Of this year has in store for this calf.
or should it be these calves?
Wednesday, June 30, 2010
Fruit so far
Scales later
In the week
Mountains of flesh to melt
Gym in this heat swelt
Not happening. Bus did
the needful. await lunch now
the ways meals were and how.
Tuesday, June 29, 2010
Why Diet is spelt with a Die
Fruit so far
Hollow inside
Aar ya paar
Gym beside
Woe betide
Flesh, melt already
Am tired of teddy
Type face,
Also body.
Water, zero calories
Is my companion
rotis, begone! Wary
Am I of carbs. When
My diet plan
Has sprouts, veggies
With elan
A spanner in the works
Are spices, choc lurks
In my fridge to combat it.
Distributed to combat
Temptation. Half a kilo
Down, many more to go.
The journey of a sixty five kilos
Begins with a single gram.
Ram Ram.
Sunday, May 02, 2010
Thursday, March 25, 2010
Right turn
Behind every great love story, is a great lie
I quite liked LSD- very different. It has the Blair Witch home video feel. One character was Delhi to the core. The three stories were also interwoven well. The music was great. The hattrick!
Thursday, March 18, 2010
Dilli Ka Shayarana Andaaz
Ghazals in a melodious voice followed- Yeh na thi hamari kismat by Ghalib, followed by Zafar, Daag et al.
I promptly bought the novel and am waiting for the Hindustani translation of The Last Mughal to be on sale.
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
Thursday, February 25, 2010
Up in the air
Tuesday, February 02, 2010
Gorgeous Giraffes
Thursday, January 28, 2010
Tuesday, January 26, 2010
Darling Pudding
Little knew of a girl named Nora.
Quiet looking, crabby Cancerian
Happiest when solo aquatican
Whether washing clothes, self or home
Cooking too, watching cells grow, roam
Guitar girl, threatens to flash a Chink churi
Incommunicado often, but does jadugiri
Knowing problems before they arise.
Is it science or is it art?
I just know she's smart.
Babe with brains, Catholic queen
Hail Mary! I'm glad she's ever been.
The F People
Unwrapped with years, love.
They view us with unjaundiced eyes
Ever ready with solutions, spies
Who divine problems we hide
Artfully from ourselves. Beside
Forcing us to confront scary things
Which once spoken, demand enactings.
Work too, so long live old friends.
Nine Months
When we first met you were another's
I didn't want to share, bothers
But when I heard you're cheap
I took you without a peep.
We met in the dark
When I told others, they barked.
Questions that should've come to mind
How much you were of a bind.
You seemed welcoming, you felt right.
I liked the envy you attracted on sight.
Played hard to get, although not
I wanted you to be my scene, i got.
Moving in, moving on
Just us two, the sun
Learning how I liked you to look
Though getting there, a while took
You brought out parts of me
Good ones, that were latent, see
I basked in the sun, the surprise
Of friends who thought we'd never cruise.
Sometimes you get on my nerves
But that's so as we stay long curves
The hours on the clock. I always
Return to you, so I can hear nays
Yeas in my head, drown the days.
Weekends are ours. In day's many moods
I travel though you, cleansed of falsehoods
I make you up when friends come
So you're praised, so me, hon bun.
When I think of leaving you
When you cold shoulder me, dew
Returning to one that I shared
We are no longer me and you. Bared
New clothes I can be myself
You're hot when needed, cool help
Entertaining friends when they stay
When I must share you, for days.
Now that you're part of me
I don't resent the care you need. Identity
Ours is fused. You'd be different
Without me as I would. No lament
For the missing link. We have each
other. Flat you may be, teach
You have to give. You suit me just
Fine. I look in you now, lust
Imbibed, expelled. You know me inside
Out, just as I do you, house wife bride.
Sometimes when I'm too tired to move
I let my marks on you stay, remove
Them later, although only my eye
Falls on them. I please myself by
Keeping you neat- even if I am not.
A bientot.
Writing down my bones
Today there is light. The light coming through my door has no such grid. It falls freely, a rectangle big enough to cover me as I write. It doesn't come everyday and when it comes it is not warm always.
I can cross the grid on the shadow of the window easily; it's the other way round with real life problems. My mind magnifies them, when in reality they can be crossed.
The window light is about six feet by three feet. It cuts up the tiles even more. I saw a section of light in my kitchen, as if it was being carried by an invisible pipe.
The window's the vessel through which the sun pours in, filtering, sieving it before it hits me. As I look at it through my hair, I see strands of my hair too seem lighter. The light moves, forcing me to move my bed too, like a sunflower I too am a sun follower, I flow where the sun flows.
Tuesday, January 19, 2010
I am so excited about my WIP! Holly Lisle's tips on plotting worked like a charm- for the first time ever, I have a plot! Yay! I read the tip, think it sounds too complicated, do it like she shows me, and it works. Last night I wrote for 45 minutes, probably the longest I've done prose for. Didn't bore myself either, in fact surprised myself. Not knowing where I was going had led to dead ends in the past. This way, I wrote 400 words- one scene. This DIY author is highly reccomended. I used her free ebook on plotting.
Monday, January 18, 2010
Friday, January 15, 2010
Period Piece
Monday, January 11, 2010
Also managed a ticket for Naseeruddin Shah directed The Caine Mutiny Court Martial, which had a twist at the end.
Yesterday, I saw Strange Lines, which was...strange. The Indian spoke about India, the Swiss about Switzerland, while images danced on screens behind them.
Capped it off by walky talky from NSD to AIIMS. Google Maps says that's 9.3 km. Wouldn't have believed I could do that on such a cold night.


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One of the interesting (well, to me) things about Milton Keynes is that because it was all done at the same time, there are only about three types of tree (in general) lining all the roads.
The fun side of this is that everything happens all at once – in spring, all the trees are suddenly in leaf. And of course, come autumn, all those leaves fall in the space of a couple of days.
I suppose it makes things more manageable (so long as the council is organised, which is a bit of a leap, but there we go) in that the street cleaning service has a nightmare week of cleaning all the leaves up, rather than spreading it over a month or so.
Anyway, I only write this because from the look of it, this weekend will be those days. It's started to happen already, but I reckon by Monday the trees on all the roads will be back to bare branches.
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Lt. Colonel Samantha Carter is poised to join her comrades in another galaxy as Stargate SG-1 winds down its last 10 episodes and Stargate Atlantis revs up for another season. Atlantis is due to begin production in Vancouver in the next month, introducing a powerful new race of aliens, bringing new cast onto the set, and mourning the loss of important members of the crew.
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When you take out a home loan you will need to choose whether to make repayments on a weekly, fortnightly, or monthly basis. Monthly repayments is the most common choice but it also results in the highest total interest repayments over time.
Paying fortnightly instead will save money in the long run because you end up paying an additional month per year. That is due to the fact that there are twenty-six fortnights in a year, not twenty-four. This means that paying fortnightly can substantially reduce the number of years it takes to pay off your home loan.
Paying monthly vs fortnightly
As an example, imagine you take out a $400,000 loan for 30 years at an interest rate of 3.64%. Your monthly payments will be $1,827.58. Over the duration of the loan, the total amount you repay will be $657,931 including both principal and interest.
If you switch from monthly to fortnightly repayments, you'll be paying an extra $1,827.58 each year. This will cut the time it takes to repay your loan by four years and ten months. You'll also save $38,145 on interest charges.
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Paying your mortgage weekly is another option for borrowers. When you choose this route you'll be paying $456.90 on a weekly basis (using the example above). You'll also reduce your mortgage by four years because you will be making fifty-two weekly repayments, instead of forty-eight, resulting in effectively making an additional month of repayment per year. Weekly payments pay down your mortgage the fastest of the three options. But compared to paying fortnightly, you'll only be saving $222 on interest charges.
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Hot Toys 1/6th scale Iron Man 3: Mark XX Python Toy Fair Exclusive
Released: August 2014
Manufactured by: Hot Toys
Guest Review by Kevin
Another Iron Man, another day…seems to be many people's view of Hot Toys continuous milking of the Iron Man 3 franchise. As usual though, these are hard to resist and the fact that mark XX is a toy fair exclusive made it all the more worth it to me.
Essentially it looks like a repaint of the mark VII, but it actually took parts from future upcoming releases and put them all together. The body and arms come from the mark VII while the legs are from the Heartbreaker armor and the head is actually from the Silver Centurion armor.
The head and legs are something we haven't seen just yet and to an extent make this figure more than just a repainted mark VII. The legs are sculpted very nicely and look very heavy duty compared to other Iron Man releases and teases what the Heartbreaker will be like.
As with other Iron Man releases, there is some minor battle damage with small scratches throughout the armor, creating the impression that this has seen some use.
Accessories wise, this comes with the standard set of hands, a left and right arm missile, a pair shoulder pads with missiles exposed, and the Iron Man 3 base. Like with the release of Midas, this base does not light up, but it does come with the dynamic stand rod.
One cool feature of this release is the addition of normal shoulder blades for when you don't want to use the shoulder pads. This is a nice addition especially if you want this figure to be unique from other Iron Man armors.
I do like this figure a lot, but otherwise recommend this to the hardcore Iron Man fan. On one hand it's a great figure and a nice paint job of an Iron Man armor, but on the other hand the casual collector could probably pass on this. Especially with the eventual release of Avengers: Age of Ultron…I hope you guys are saving up.


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There is a lot of gear you have to pack and carry to a triathlon. With the exception of your bike and the few items stored in your saddle bag, all the rest has to be packed in something. You could cram everything into 2 or 3 different bags, or you could purchase a triathlon gear bag that compartmentalizes it all for you.
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text: Share: Comments Print February 5, 2012 at 6:30 AM In search of Sheldon Adelson, finding a UW alum and a community treasure Posted by Ilona Idlis The entrance to the Adelson Educational Campus in Summerlin, NV is a shining glass dome. We visited the private Jewish community school the Friday before the state's caucus. (Photo courtesy of adelsoncampus.org) LAS VEGAS — Media and punditry buzz over Sheldon Adelson hit a crescendo this week. Time, then, for us to get an insider's view of the impact of this multi-billionaire casino mogul and entrepreneur — literally. We did, thanks to a UW alum in the desert. Adelson is the multi-billionaire casino mogul who has bankrolled the Newt Gingrich campaign with millions of dollars in super PAC donations. He has a reach that is far and wide in Las Vegas. We decided to go to a place that has received a great deal of attention: the Dr. Miriam & Sheldon G. Adelson Educational Campus (AEC), where the highest-profile Republican caucus in the state was held last night, after other caucus sites were closed, for citizens whose religious faith precluded them from caucusing during Saturday daytime. What we found was not Adelson, but a Jewish community centerpiece. UW Election Eye colleagues David Domke, A. V. Crofts and I drove north from downtown, to an area of gated communities and tan, Spanish-style buildings. This had manicured written all over it, and I questioned if we would be able to enter the campus. Recollections of my own time at a Jewish Day School in Bellevue told me to expect a protective fence. And we found one, a tall, strong fence, with a security guard in front of it. With a school logo on his jacket, the guard asked to see our credentials. He crosschecked the schedule of visits — the three of us knew we weren't on it, and we braced ourselves to be summarily dismissed. Not finding our name, the guard called into the school to check if someone there was expecting us. That was going to be another no-go, we knew. "We have about a 30 percent chance of getting into this place," Domke said. I thought this was wildly optimistic. Soon an employee emerged from behind the fence and curtly told us that we did not have an appointment, and informed us in no uncertain terms that we would not be entering — unless we wanted to return for the public caucus. Domke asked if there was any possible way to talk to someone else. The guard mentioned a name and said we could call her. He did not offer a phone number, but I had it. Domke dialed, and while he did, I snuck away to snap whatever photos I could of the elusive school. We would be leaving in about 60 seconds, I figured, so I'd get what I could. Moving along the tall shrubbery, I caught glimpses of the buildings inside. A glass dome, artfully flanked by palm trees, marked the school's entrance. In front of the doors, twin metal doves arched their wings skyward atop an outdoor statue. As I contorted to try to get the best photo angle of the flying Israeli flag, Domke called me over. We were going in. It turns out that the school's Director of Development is a 1997 University of Washington graduate. When we agreed to focus on the school and not the caucus, she agreed to give us 10 minutes, but with no quotes on the record. She ended up giving us 45 minutes, a tour, and a recorded interview. After entering the Adelson Educational Campus, visitors are greeted with a Talmudic quote. Written in both English and Hebrew, it reads, "The world rests on three things: truth, justice, and peace." (Photo courtesy of adelsoncampus.org) The building's beauty and newness were immediately obvious. At the entrance, we craned our heads up to read the words encircling the blue, inner rim of the glass dome. "The world rests on three things: justice, truth, and peace," pronounced the neat silver letters, both in English and Hebrew. Development Director Davida Sims waited ahead, coincidentally — or was it fate? — wearing a Husky purple blouse. She ushered us into her office to establish the visit's parameters. She explained that there would be no photographs — for the children's safety and privacy — and that the Republican caucus wasn't affiliated with the school, but simply using the facility. "It's just a school that happens to have a caucus," she said. She led us down the main hallway, pointing out the school's many top-notch — indeed, truly spectacular — facilities. The institution offers preschool-through-high school education, with classes divided into Lower, Middle and the newly added Upper schools. Adelson and his wife Miriam, an Isreali-born physician and drug addiction expert, helped to lead the philanthropic effort that made the school possible, and in 2008 AEC became the only Jewish community high school in Las Vegas valley. The cafeteria was bustling with young children in blue-and-white uniforms. I recalled reading about AEC's extensive commitment to kosher food, and Sims was pleased to discuss the rarity and privilege of having three separate kitchens: one for meat, one for dairy and a third for pareve (items that could be eaten with either). As we padded along the carpet, indoor windows allowed glimpses into a well-stocked library and small classrooms that averaged, Sims said, 15-person class sizes. Overall, because of teacher aides, the student-to-teacher ratio is 8:1, she said. A gaggle of Upper school girls in plaid, pleated skirts and clean-cut blazers passed by us, leaving their backpacks unguarded by a row of closed but unlocked lockers. Sims told us about AEC's holistic approach to education. The school wanted students to succeed academically, but also to live by the "Jewish ethos and values." Part of that was insisting on a healthy body as well as a healthy mind. To uphold the tenet, 8th to 12th grade students and the entire faculty took multiple, mandatory drug tests throughout the year. The Jewish moral influence, quotes, and insignia were widely present, but Sims noted that AEC students are not required to have a religious education. The school is not affiliated with any denomination and the campus houses no synagogue. The Hebrew language is an ingrained part of the curriculum, but any Talmudic studies are elective. In the same vein, though the majority of AEC's 505 students are Jewish, non-Jews are welcome and make up about 25 percent of the private school. The Adelson Educational Campus has top-notch sports facilities, including an indoor diving pool. (Photo courtesy of adelsoncampus.org) By the time we meandered over to the school's fabulous swimming pools, Sims was speaking freely about what she saw as an inadequate commitment to education in Las Vegas valley. This is one of the only places where one can earn a living wage without completing a high school education, she said. That is good on one hand, but also disincentivizes education. For Sims, that lack of priority is evident in the number of schools accredited by the National Association of Independent Schools. Las Vegas has three. Only two of them go up to high school and AEC is one of them. In contrast, the city of Seattle has 19, with another 13 in the surrounding area. So when AEC expanded its buildings to accommodate four times more students three years ago, it was a big deal. "It is a great thing when anything positive happens in education in Las Vegas, from a secular perspective, but it also was a real important moment for the Jewish community," Sims said. The valley's (approximately) 70,000 Jews weren't the only ones that benefitted though. Sims described the void of community spaces in the area. That's why the AEC routinely opens its doors to outside organizations needing a place to congregate. For example, the school has hosted fundraisers for muscular dystrophy and local plays. The Republican caucus, to be run by GOP officials on the Sabbath, was just another public gathering. When we eventually arrived in Sims' office, the conversation turned to the director's own raison d'être. She earned her UW degree in History in 1997, and then went to law school at Northeastern University in Boston. She fondly recalled her undergraduate years in the Emerald City, and said she sorely missed the Seattle culinary scene. She'd met her chef husband there and the two became engaged at Flying Fish. The couple and their two children — both enrolled at AEC, and both of whom received hugs and kisses from Sims as we walked through the building — were firmly settled in the valley, but Sims said her husband would love to move back to Seattle. So how about her? "You know," she began, jokingly instructing us to quote her, "I could be who I am in Seattle and I can be who I am in Boston and I could just be another person throwing a stick at the millions of people who are trying to do really great things. "Las Vegas desperately needs people who are willing to give up law and get their hands dirty. … [H]ere I am able to do what I have a passion for, what I was born to do, whatever it is anyways and actually make a difference. And that's why when I came here, I wanted to stay here. "That's the truth. I came here for economics, it was an inexpensive place and I showed up and I thought 'Wow, this is such a strange town,' but instead of going 'I gotta get out of here,' I thought, 'This town needs help, it needs people who really care and are invested and want to stay here and make it better.'" We went looking for Adelson, but saw his impact, in a school and a people. Comments | Topics: Caucuses, Cultural sights, education


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Hypertension generally has no symptoms, says the American Heart Association. You should not rely on symptoms such as sweating, difficulty sleeping, facial flushing and nervousness to diagnose hypertension, since other conditions also cause these symptoms. Hypertension is also not the sole cause of headaches, nosebleeds, dizziness or blood spots in the eyes. You should know your blood pressure figures to effectively prevent the condition since there are no reliable signs to alert you to the problem, warns the American Heart Association.
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The state of Illinois during the American Civil War was a major source of troops for the Union army (particularly for those armies serving in the Western Theater of the Civil War), and of military supplies, food, and clothing. Situated near major rivers and railroads, Illinois became a major jumping off place early in the war for Ulysses S. Grant's efforts to seize control of the Mississippi and Tennessee rivers.
Illinois contributed 250,000 soldiers to the Union Army, ranking it fourth in terms of the total manpower in Federal military service. Illinois troops predominantly fought in the Western Theater, although a few regiments played important roles in the East, particularly in the Army of the Potomac. Several thousand Illinoisians were killed or died of their wounds during the war, and a number of national cemeteries were established in Illinois to bury their remains.
Besides President Abraham Lincoln, a number of other Illinois men became prominent in the army or in national politics, including Ulysses S. Grant (a resident when the war started), John M. Schofield and John A. Logan. No major battles were fought in the state, although several river towns became sites for important supply depots and "brownwater" navy yards. Several prisoner of war camps and prisons dotted the state, processing thousands of captive Confederate soldiers.
During the Civil War, 256,297 Illinoisians served in the Union army, more than any other northern state except New York, Pennsylvania and Ohio. Beginning with Illinois resident President Lincoln's first call for troops and continuing throughout the war, the state mustered 150 infantry regiments, which were numbered from the 7th Illinois to the 156th Illinois. Seventeen cavalry regiments were also mustered, as well as two light artillery regiments.[1] Due to enthusiastic recruiting rallies and high response to voluntary calls to arms, the military draft was little used in Chicago and environs, but was a factor in supplying manpower to Illinois regiments late in the war in other regions of the state.
Camp Douglas, located near Chicago, was one of the largest training camps for these troops, as well as Camp Butler near Springfield. Both served as leading prisoner-of-war camps for captive Confederates. Another significant POW camp was located at Rock Island. Several thousand Confederates died while in custody in Illinois prison camps and are buried in a series of nearby cemeteries.
There were no Civil War battles fought in Illinois, but Cairo, at the juncture of the Ohio River with the Mississippi River, became an important Union supply base, protected by Camp Defiance. Other major supply depots were located at Mound City and across the Ohio river at Fort Anderson in Paducah, Kentucky, along with sprawling facilities for the United States Navy gunboats and associated river fleets.
Leading major generals with Illinois ties included Ulysses S. Grant, John Buford, John Pope, John M. Schofield, John A. Logan, John A. McClernand, Benjamin Prentiss and Stephen Hurlbut. Brigadier General Elon J. Farnsworth, who began his career in the 8th Illinois Cavalry, died at the Battle of Gettysburg. President Lincoln maintained his home in Springfield, Illinois, where he is buried. Over 100 soldiers from Illinois units would win the Medal of Honor during the conflict.
On the homefront, composer and music publisher George Frederick Root gained fame and fortune from a number of well-received war songs, including The Battle Cry of Freedom and others. A pair of Chicago-based women, Mary Livermore and Jane Hoge, organized a pair of large expositions, the Northwest Sanitary Fairs, where cash generated from the sale of donated items was later used to purchase medical supplies for the soldiers. Their activities helped spark the postbellum women's rights movement in Illinois. Mary Ann Bickerdyke, a resident of Galesburg, was a noted nurse for the Western armies.
Workers in various factories and mills, as well as the port and stockyards, helped provide a steady source of war materiel, food, and clothing to Illinois troops, as well as to the general Union army. Mound City foundry workers converted wooden river steamboats into armored gunboats for Federal service. With traditional Southern markets cut off by the war, the port of Chicago rose in prominence as Illinois expanded trade with the Great Lakes region. Chicago meatpackers earned venture capital during the war that was reinvested in 1865, as the war ended, to create the Northern city's Union Stock Yards.
During the 1860 Presidential Election, two men from Illinois were among the four major candidates. Illinois voted in favor of Springfield resident Abraham Lincoln (172,171 votes or 50.7% of the ballots cast) over Chicagoan Stephen Douglas (160,215; 47.2%). Of minor consequence in the state-wide results were Southern candidates John C. Breckinridge (2,331; 0.7%), and John Bell (4,914; 1.5%).[2]
Throughout the war, Illinois politics were dominated by Republicans under the energetic leadership of Governor Richard Yates and Senators Lyman Trumbull and Orville H. Browning. Opposition views were often presented in The Chicago Times, the vociferous mouthpiece of the rival Democratic Party. It was the nation's loudest and most persistent critic of Lincoln and emancipation. At one point early in the Gettysburg Campaign in June 1863, Union troops forcibly closed the newspaper at bayonet point. It was only reopened when Democratic mobs threatened to destroy the rival Republican paper and President Lincoln intervened.[3] In 1863, Browning's seat, formerly held by Douglas prior to the war, was regained by the Democrats with the election of William Alexander Richardson.
In the 1864 presidential election, Illinois residents supported Lincoln's reelection, giving the president 189,512 votes (54.4% of the total) to General George McClellan's 158,724 votes (45.6%).[4] Within a year, Lincoln was dead and his remains had been returned to Springfield for burial.
Abraham Lincoln
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John Buford
John Pope
John M. Schofield
John A. Logan
John A. McClernand
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Elon J. Farnsworth
Orville H. Browning
Benjamin Grierson
Benjamin Prentiss
Richard J. Oglesby
Among the many Illinois generals who rose to post-war prominence were Green B. Raum (who became a U.S. congressman and the Commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service) and James L. Alcorn, who was a U.S. Senator and the Governor of Mississippi. Both were born near Golconda. Galena-born John Aaron Rawlins, long a confidant of U.S. Grant, became the United States Secretary of War in the Grant Administration. John M. Palmer, a resident of Alton, was a postbellum Governor of Illinois and the presidential candidate of the National Democratic Party in the 1896 election.
Edward S. Salomon, an immigrant from Europe, was appointed by President Grant as the Governor of the Washington Territory. William P. Carlin of Carrollton became a general in the postbellum U.S. Army and commanded several outposts in Montana and elsewhere.


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It gives me great pleasure to welcome you to the official website of the Irish Applied Maths Teachers' Association (IAMTA).
I am very pleased to take up the role of Chairman of the IAMTA and to welcome you to our website. This website serves to inform all our members and the broader public of the work we do and I invite you to explore these web pages to learn more about our association.
The IAMTA always welcomes new members and we provide and share teaching resources for new and experienced teachers of applied maths.
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