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SUNNYVALE, CA, Feb. 8, 2006, - SanDisk® Corporation (NASDAQ: SNDK) today announced that it intends to accelerate the expansion of the 300-millimeter (mm) (Fab 3) wafer fabrication facility in Yokkaichi, Japan. The move is expected to bring Fab 3 wafer capacity from the previously planned 48,750 wafers per month to 70,000 wafers per month by March 2007. The incremental investment by SanDisk for 50% of this higher Fab 3 output is currently estimated at approximately $500 million over the next 12 months. SanDisk's total expected 2006 investment in Fab 3 is approximately $1 billion, of which a portion is anticipated to be financed through operating lease financing or other sources of capital. Fab 3 is operated by Flash Partners, Toshiba and SanDisk's venture for NAND flash memories.
"We believe that Fab 3 is rapidly becoming one of the most competitive sources of NAND Flash in the world. We expect this significant acceleration in production output will further reduce our costs and provide substantial new captive capacity to meet the anticipated growth in demand from new markets such as mobile phones and MP3 players, and enable us to better address geographies where we believe we have attractive opportunities to expand our market presence," said Dr. Eli Harari, president and chief executive officer of SanDisk Corporation.
About SanDisk
SanDisk is the original inventor of flash storage cards and is the world's largest supplier of flash data storage card products using its patented, high-density flash memory and controller technology. SanDisk is headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA and has operations worldwide, with more than half its sales outside the U.S.
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PPP Senator Faisal Raza Abidi said that he is going to kill himself outside the Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry's house in Islamabad on November 9, 2012.
Faisal said he would commit suicide if the Supreme Judicial Council did not take action against Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry.
"Nobody from Pakistan People's Party should participate in my funeral," he added.
Abidi said in 2005, Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry himself gave power to the Supreme Judicial Council under notice 113/05 empowering it to take action against any judge.


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Forgive me for being a bit dim, but what's the point of asking two questions if only the answer to the first one counts? please clarify...I'll ask two questions before each day's play, you need to provide answers to both before play commences, but you will only advance if your answer to the first poser is correct. Alles klar? Sehr gut.
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I posted this gem on the interwebs today because it was 32 years ago today that my lovely parents were married in the First Baptist Church in New Albany, Mississippi.
I am grateful daily for the example that they are to me and am a firm believe that my dad follows one of my favorite quotes of all time with regards to marriage:
"The greatest thing a father can do for his children is love their mother"
Happy Anniversary Mom and Dad!
Side note: Is anyone else glad it's no longer 1981? (1) Check out my dad's sweet mustache/beard/goatee combo and (2) those bridesmaid's dresses {in pastels no less}. LOVE YOU GUYS!


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(CBS News) Country music star Brad Paisley's new album, "Wheelhouse," is out Tuesday, but one song is getting all the attention and stirring controversy: "Accidental Racist," which features Paisley with rapper LL Cool J.
"I'm just a white man comin' to you from the Southland," Paisley sings on the track.
The six-minute song attempts to tackle modern-day race relations and the legacy of slavery.
Paisley's lyrics include, "Our generation didn't start this nation and we're still paying for the mistakes that a bunch of folks made long before we came."
Then LL Cool J chimes in: "Dear Mr. White Man, I wish you understood what the world is really like when you're livin' in the hood. Just because my pants are saggin' doesn't mean I'm up to no good."
The lyrical back-and-forth between the two has exploded into controversy, with critics calling the song everything from "bizarre" to "horrible."
In one overlapping exchange, Paisley sings, "I'm proud of where I'm from, but not everything we've done," while LL Cool J raps "If you don't judge my gold chains, I'll forget the iron chains."
CBS News reached out to both Paisley and LL Cool J for comment but they've yet to respond. Paisley told Entertainment Weekly: "I just think art has a responsibility to lead the way, and I don't know the answers, but I feel like asking the question is the first step and we're asking the question in a big way."
The controversy, according to Joe Levy, editor for Billboard magazine, is the way some people think this song has taken a complicated subject and "treated it in an after-school special kind of way, and they have a point there."
Levy said on "CBS This Morning," "But this is an important dialogue that Brad Paisley means to open. Race is not something people want to talk about in America, particularly not in country music. Paisley means this as a challenge to his audience.
"I don't think this song is perfect. I think Brad Paisley is a great songwriter and a great guitarist. ("Accidental Racist" is) not the best song he's ever done or the best song on this record, but I think it's an important song. He meant it to be, and he knew what he was doing."
For more with Levy on the controversy, watch the video in the player below.
Levy said, "This song is about walking into a Starbucks wearing a Lynyrd Skynyrd T-shirt and the unintentional consequences of that and the character in this Paisley song says, 'I'm trying to look at things from another point of view.' Now that's an important dialogue that he needs to open. He wants people to talk. That's the nature of the song. Well, he's done it."


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"The heat is on," and with it comes a number of special summertime problems for our pets. Common sense and preventive measures can prevent untold illness and injuries for our pets. Here are our Top 10 tips for a safe and happy summer:
1. Prevent Parasites. Fleas, ticks, and other parasites are a year-round problem in some areas, but in the summer they are just about everywhere. Not only are these pests a nuisance to your dog or cat, but they are carriers of disease and other parasites. Mosquitoes, for instance, can transmit heartworms; fleas can give your pet tapeworms; and the list of tick-borne diseases is a long one. Thwarting parasites requires a broad approach and vigilance on your part, with a little help from effective preventives. Many natural products are available; talk to your vet about what's needed for your area.
2. Stay Cool in Hot Weather. Pets are susceptible to heatstroke, so be sure your pet always has a shelter from the sun, and plenty of fresh water. If it's extremely hot and humid in your area, consider a cooling vest for your dog.
3. Let Rover Stay Home. It's been said before but bears repeating—never leave your dog in a car if the weather is warm, and certainly not if it's hot. Cracking the windows makes no difference in the temperature gain. It doesn't take high temperatures for it to be dangerous. A car parked in the shade can reach dangerous temperatures on a hot day, and if it's in the sun, the temperature can rapidly rise up to 160°F. Experiments showed that even at a mild 72°F, the inside of a car reached 116°F in an hour, plenty hot to kill a dog. One dog died after being locked in a parked car on a sunny, 67°F day, even though the car windows were cracked.
Dogs can't sweat—they control their body temperature by panting. If the air in the car is near or above the dog's body temperature (about 100°F), the dog will be unable to cool itself, and its body temperature can quickly rise to fatal levels (over 107°F). Heatstroke symptoms in dogs include: heavy panting, salivation, disorientation, agitation, rapid heart beat, lethargy, vomiting, seizures, coma and death.
If you see a dog left alone in a car under dangerous conditions, note the car's location, color, model, make, and license plate number and contact local humane authorities or police. If you can make a good guess as to which store the driver might be in, ask the store manager to page them. If the animal shows symptoms of heatstroke, take steps to gradually lower its body temperature immediately.
* Move the animal into the shade or an air-conditioned area.
* Apply ice packs or cold towels to the head, neck, and chest; or immerse her in cool (but not cold) water.
* Allow small amounts of cool water or let the dog lick some ice cubes.
* Get to a veterinarian as soon as possible.
4. Avoid Sunburn. Dogs and cats with white faces or ears may be susceptible to sunburn, even if they only "sun-bathe" indoors. Apply a non-toxic sunscreen to vulnerable areas where the fur is thin and you can see skin.
5. Watch What Goes In Your Pet's Mouth. Poisonous mushrooms grow in many areas of the country. Patrol your property regularly to remove these fungal hazards. Many plants are also toxic. As a special note, this is the time of year when people are using fertilizers and pesticides in yards and on lawns. Don't let your dog wander in other yards where chemicals might be used.
6. Take Care with Critters. With dogs accompanying their people walking and hiking in summer, there are increased chances of an encounter with unpleasant or even dangerous wildlife, such as skunks, porcupines, rattlesnakes and other reptiles. Certain large toads have poisons on their skin that can be harmful if your pet even licks at the toad. Toads come out in wet weather and when it's dark, so be especially careful when letting your dog out at these times.
7. Stay Clear of Sharp Objects. As the grasses and other plants die back, their seed cases can present special hazards. Foxtails and burrs can get caught in the paws or fur and work their way into—or even through—the skin. Check your pet after every outing to make sure they're free of these nasty items. If you live near water or take your dog on fishing trips, be watchful of fishing hooks and lines that you are using, or that may be left behind in shallow water or on the shore.
8. Travel Safely. As much as your dog may love to ride in the bed of a pickup, or hang his head out the window, allowing either can cause your dog a world of hurt. Dust and gravel in the eyes are the least of it; every year thousands of dogs are injured or killed when they jump or fall from vehicles. Even in an enclosed car, animals can be thrown and injured if you have to brake suddenly. A sturdy harness is the equivalent of a good seatbelt for you! And of course, if you're a boater, don't forget a flotation device for the dog!
9. Carry Identification. Of course, all pets should wear a collar and ID tag year-round. Cats should be outfitted with a breakaway collar for maximum safety. Have your pet microchipped for added "insurance."
10. Be Prepared. At home or away, carry a first aid kit in case of emergencies. There are special kits for both dogs and cats, so you never have to panic! You might also want to keep flower essences on hand, to keep your pet calm while you give first aid or head for the vet. Several products are available:
Bach Rescue Remedy
Have Fun! Once you're ready and alert for summer hazards, it's the best and most fun time of year to get out—or just hang out—with your pet!


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harshk necesitaba un nuevo diseño de botón o icono y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 47 diseños de 14 diseñadores freelance.
I'm an independent developer, currently working on a mobile application called "Expenses" for Windows Phone 7 (WP7).
Anyone with a Windows Phone 7 device who cares about managing their money. I imagine that mostly people in their 20s-40s would use this.
The application is an expense tracker, which allows users to input their daily expenses so they can keep track of how much money they are spending. The app will simply be called "Expenses"
Icon requirement details :
- the design should be based around the idea of money (coins, cash, safe, piggy bank, bag of money, etc.)
- 3 sizes needed: 200x200, 173x173, 63x63 pixels
- the icon will be placed inside a 200x200 "tile", so the icon inside the tile should be smaller than 200x200 (it should not be as large as the tile itself .. see attached screenshots of the homescreen if this does not make sense).
- the name of the app ("Expenses") will automatically be placed at the bottom of the tile when it appears on the WP7 homescreen (see attached screenshots of the homescreen), so please leave enough room beneath the icon to account for this
- 256 dpi
- PNG & photoshop or illustrator file
- foreground can be any color (it should be a solid color … no gradients
- background should consist of 2 colors: a main color and a lighter version of the main color (see the AT&T Navigator and AT&T Radio tiles for examples)
- the icon should be stencil-like, to match the look of the icons you see in URLs below, and in the attached screenshots. Here are some more examples of icons that I really like, in order of preference :
- http://99designs.com/logo-design/store/15508
- http://99designs.com/logo-design/store/13945
- http://99designs.com/logo-design/store/14070
- http://99designs.com/logo-design/store/13945
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Washington, DC, May 14, 2012 — The Securities and Exchange Commission today suspended trading in the securities of 379 dormant companies before they could be hijacked by fraudsters and used to harm investors through reverse mergers or pump-and-dump schemes. The trading suspension marks the most companies ever suspended in a single day by the agency as it ramps up its crackdown against fraud involving microcap shell companies that are dormant and delinquent in their public disclosures.
Additional Materials
List of the 379 Companies
Trading Suspension Order
Investor Bulletin: Trading Suspensions
Microcap companies typically have limited assets and low-priced stock that trades in low volumes. An initiative tabbed Operation Shell-Expel by the SEC's Microcap Fraud Working Group utilized various agency resources including the enhanced intelligence technology of the Enforcement Division's Office of Market Intelligence to scrutinize microcap stocks in the markets nationwide and identify clearly dormant shell companies in 32 states and six foreign countries that were ripe for potential fraud.
"Empty shell companies are to stock manipulators and pump-and-dump schemers what guns are to bank robbers — the tools by which they ply their illegal trade," said Robert Khuzami, Director of the SEC's Division of Enforcement. "This massive trading suspension unmasks these empty shell companies and deprives unscrupulous scam artists of the opportunity to profit at the expense of unsuspecting retail investors."
Thomas Sporkin, Director of the SEC's Office of Market Intelligence, added, "It's critical to assess risks to investors in the capital markets and, through strategic planning, develop ways to neutralize them. We were able to conduct a detailed review of the microcap issuers quoted in the over-the-counter market and cull out these high-risk shell companies."
The SEC's previously largest trading suspension was an order in September 2005 that involved 39 companies. The federal securities laws allow the SEC to suspend trading in any stock for up to 10 business days. Subject to certain exceptions and exemptions, once a company is suspended from trading, it cannot be quoted again until it provides updated information including accurate financial statements.
Pump-and-dump schemes are among the most common types of fraud involving microcap companies. Perpetrators will tout a thinly-traded microcap stock through false and misleading statements about the company to the marketplace. After purchasing low and pumping the stock price higher by creating the appearance of market activity, they dump the stock to make huge profits by selling it into the market at the higher price.
The existence of empty shell companies can be a financial boon to stock manipulators who will pay as much as $750,000 to assume control of the company in order to pump and dump the stock for illegal proceeds to the detriment of investors. But with this trading suspension's obligation to provide updated financial information, these shell companies have been rendered essentially worthless and useless to scam artists.
"This mass trading suspension is an effective and novel way for the SEC to neutralize potential threats to investors," said Chris Ehrman, Co-National Coordinator of the SEC's Microcap Fraud Working Group. "With the ability to leverage staff expertise throughout the agency's offices and divisions, the Working Group is uniquely positioned to take on risk-based matters like these and focus resources where they are needed most."
This SEC enforcement effort has been led by Mr. Ehrman, Robert Bernstein, Jessica P. Regan, Leigh Barrett, and Megan Alcorn in the Office of Market Intelligence along with Microcap Fraud Working Group staff from each of the SEC's regional offices: Tanya Beard, David Berman, Sharon Binger, Melissa Buckhalter-Honore, Lisa Cuifolo, Tracy Davis, Elisha Frank, Kurt Gottschall, Lucy Graetz, Jennifer Hieb, C.J. Kerstetter, Victoria Levin, Aaron Lipson, Michael Paley, Farolito Parco, Jonathan Scott, and Lauchlan Wash.
The SEC appreciates the assistance and cooperation of the Federal Bureau of Investigation's Economic Crimes Unit.
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Mauviel Copper Pommes Anna Pan
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- Summary
The buttery golden potato cake known as pommes Anna originated in 19th-century Paris when Adolphe Dugléré, chef of the Café Anglais, created it for his favorite customer – the celebrated courtesan Anna Deslions. You can easily prepare the classic dish in your own kitchen using this authentic two-piece copper pan crafted in France.
- Heavy-gauge 2mm copper maintains high heat for the pommes Anna signature golden crust.
- Nonreactive tin interior is easy to clean.
- Design simplifies compacting and unmolding the potatoes.
- Distinctive riveted bronze handles on base and lid.
- Dimensions & More Info
- 7 3/4" diam., 2 3/4" high overall.
- 7 lb. 5 oz. with lid.
- Made from 2mm-gauge copper.
- Made in France.
- Use & Care
- Oven safe to 450°F.
- To protect the tin lining from damage, do not heat the pot empty or at temperatures above 450°F.
- Use wood, plastic or heat-resistant nylon tools to avoid scratching the tin lining.
- Allow pan to cool before washing.
- Hand-wash; dry immediately with a soft cloth.
- Avoid using steel wool, steel scouring pads or harsh detergents.
- Copper will develop a rich patina over time. This will not affect the pan's cooking performance. To keep the exterior looking new, use a copper polish or a combination of lemon and salt.
- The tin lining protects foods from reacting with copper but will become discolored with use. This is normal. Depending on the frequency of use and types of food cooked, the tin lining may eventually have to be replaced. To prolong the liner's usefulness, avoid cooking acidic ingredients in your tin-lined cookware.
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Shipping Information
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Next Day Delivery
For an additional charge of $26 per address, we can expedite delivery to most destinations. This service is not available for some oversize items, items shipped directly from the supplier (including perishable and custom-manufactured items), out-of-stock items and items to be shipped outside the contiguous 48 states.
Orders received by 9:00 p.m. ET Monday through Thursday will arrive the next business day; orders placed Friday through Sunday will arrive on the following Tuesday.
Return Policy
At Williams Sonoma, we take great pride in the quality and craftsmanship of our products. Attention to design, materials, safety and construction are our priority. Upon receipt, please inspect your purchase and notify us of any damage; we will arrange for a prompt replacement.
If within 30 days, you are dissatisfied for any reason, you may return your purchase for a refund of the merchandise value. An original receipt or gift receipt is required for all returns and exchanges. Returns with a gift receipt will be refunded in the form of a Merchandise Credit for the amount indicated on the gift receipt. Returns with original receipt will be refunded in the original form of payment, cash and check refunds over $100 will be issued as a company check (may take 14 business days from time of request).
For all cutlery returns (knife sets, single knives, cutting boards, knife sharpeners and knife storage), please contact us at 888.922.4108 to initiate the return.
We cannot accept returns on monogrammed, personalized, special-order items, custom upholstery, food, items shipped direct from the vendor or on items damaged through normal wear and tear. Final sale items ending in .97 or .99 cannot be returned.
Made to Order and Final Sale Furniture items are non-returnable and cannot be cancelled once the order is placed.
For returns of items purchased from your Williams Sonoma Gift Registry, we will gladly provide a refund or exchange for the merchandise within 90 days of your event or within 90 days of purchase, whichever date is later. View Full Returns Policy.
- More about Mauviel
In 1830, Ernest Mauviel established his namesake cookware company in Villedieu-les-Poêles in Normandy. The village had a long history of outstanding metalwork; the locals were considered experts in the craft. Today, much of the manufacturing is still done by hand using traditional processes passed down through generations of copper makers. True to France's rich culinary history, Mauviel 1830 is a favorite in professional kitchens, where copper's quick, even heat conductivity is essential for making delicate sauces and other French classics. Mauviel now also offers stainless-steel collections crafted with the same attention to detail as its traditional copper cookware.
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Rated 5 out of 5 by SOUVIDE from An elegant solution for an elegant dish Mauviel Copper Pommes Anna Pan Recipe Pommes Anna is both a spectacular and very tasty dish, but although the recipe itself is the utmost in simplicity, the technique is all-important. By comparison with other products, such as non-stick frying pans, which require using a lid and a great deal of dexterity to flip the cake without getting the butter all over the floor, the shallow top pan nests over the bottom pan, and everything stays in one place when you flip it. And the 2mm solid copper pan conducts heat wonderfully and results in a very nice crust. The only drawback to this product that I can see is the copper exterior, which requires hand washing and occasional polishing to keep it looking like new.Date published: 2012-09-24


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Just Say No/
I reserve the right to be 100% wrong on any of my investment decisions--but at least I make them, and I try to make them fast.
Too often, I hear of VCs taking four, five, six, even seven meetings with an entrepreneur only to get to a no. Honestly, if you're thinking about an early stage company, there really isn't enough data to process across seven hours of meetings. If you can't walk out of one, maybe two meetings without getting there, then you're never going to invest--so just say so. Entrepreneurs will appreciate it, and you'll free up your time to find something you're really excited about.
The problem is that a lot of investors lack conviction. Just because you've been able to raise money doesn't mean you know what you're doing. And yes, a lot of this stuff, frankly, doesn't look like anything at first. Pouring over it with a fine tooth comb isn't going to change that.
What investors are trying to avoid is passing on Tout when it could be Pinterest or passing on Burbn when it could be Instagram. They want to hang around the rim long enough without passing to see if it goes anywhere, so they can pounce on it as if they were always interested from the begining. I'm never going to do that. The chances of that happening are so remote that it isn't worth wasting my mental bandwidth keeping an eye on everything and certainly isn't fair to entrepreneurs.
In fact, if you attempt to keep an eye on everything in hopes for a pivot or a pop, I'd venture to say that it will actually distract you from gaining insight into something else that will require your full attention. I say no as soon as I can, because I really can't have you hanging around in my inbox for the next month wondering if I'm in or not. It takes a ton of time to keep reading persistant e-mails, but takes very little time to just say no.


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Performing the following steps can help you resolve some of the more common device issues that you may experience with your Nexus S™ 4G from Google.
Find and update your device software
Just like a computer, the software on your phone needs to be updated periodically to make sure you have all the latest fixes and enhancements to keep it running at optimal performance. Check your current version and perform any needed software updates.
Update the device data profile
If you are experiencing any data issues, we recommend performing a data profile update. This will refresh your data service parameters such as username and password and help clear out any memory issues that might be affecting your phone.
To update your profile:
Power cycling
By power cycling your phone, you will be able to re-register your phone with the network, which may correct slow down issues, data connection issues and other problems.
To power cycle your phone:
WARNING: For PDAs and smartphones, performing a power cycle may cause the loss of some unsaved data or information. Before removing the battery, we recommend you save any data or information you want to keep.
Note: It can take several minutes for the phone to restart after removing the battery. It is normal for a white screen and timer icon to display during startup – it is not an indicator that the phone is locked or frozen.
If you recently downloaded an application and noticed a difference in your Nexus S 4G performance, the new application may be causing the problem. To troubleshoot this:
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Private in-service event for faculty.
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Earlier Event: August 7First Baptist Church, Hendersonville, TN
Later Event: August 24First Presbyterian Church, Nashville, TN
Private in-service event for faculty.
Sissy Goff, LPC-MHSP, David Thomas, L.M.S.W., and Melissa Trevathan, M.R.E. are counselors with over 75 years of combined experience counseling children and families. They're also sought-after speakers and authors of twelve books including their newest, Intentional Parenting and a DVD parenting curriculum called Raising Boys and Girls. "Parenting is a challenging, delightful, heart-wrenching journey that can feel profoundly overwhelming and lonely at times. Parents need guides who understand the world of their children."


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Ray Dolby, pioneering sound engineer, dies at 80
Ray Dolby, the inventor who took the hiss out of the soundtrack of our lives, died Thursday at his home in San Francisco. He was 80 and had been living with Alzheimer's disease, compounded by a diagnosis of leukemia in July.
The name Dolby first became common decades ago when the sound wizard developed a system for eliminating the static noise on cassette tapes used for copying music from vinyl albums. The "Dolby" button on a cassette deck was a requirement for every college stereo. His influence also extended to film, where he helped bring "Star Wars" to life and created an entire industry devoted to the sound experience.
Now the imprint "Dolby" or "In Dolby" - or most recently "Dolby Atmos" - on a movie screen is a guarantee of sound quality known worldwide, and Dolby Laboratories, the San Francisco company he founded, has won just about every award there is, including the Oscar, the Emmy and the Grammy. The Dolby Theatre, the Hollywood home of the Academy Awards, is named for his company.
'Digital experience'
"Dolby's work changed the way movies were made, because sound became a powerful artistic element, and you could do things with sound that had never been done before," said Philip Kaufman, director of 13 films, including "The Right Stuff," which won four Academy Awards in 1984.
"Before there was Silicon Valley, there was Dolby, who was marketing a digital experience to the entire world," he said.
Said director George Lucas: "Ray's pioneering work in sound played a pivotal role in allowing 'Star Wars' to be the truly immersive experience I had always dreamed it would be. Not only was he an inventor with a passion for the art of sound, but that passion was combined with an incredible technical understanding of the science behind it all."
A longtime resident of Pacific Heights, Mr. Dolby was a steady and indefatigable presence on the San Francisco cultural scene. In the company of his elegant wife, Dagmar, Mr. Dolby was friendly and direct, and seen without fail at the gala openings for the San Francisco Symphony and San Francisco Opera.
"He was remarkably modest for a genius," said Nancy Bechtle, who got to know Mr. Dolby when he joined the Board of Governors of the San Francisco Symphony in the mid-'80s. At the time, Bechtle was the president, overseeing a major overhaul and acoustic modification of Davies Symphony Hall.
"I asked him if he would help us," Bechtle recalled. "He said he didn't know a lot about natural acoustics, only electronic acoustics. We had these endless meetings, and he would always ask the right questions of the acousticians, protecting us from making a mistake. When the hall reopened, the acoustics were perfect, and he wouldn't take any of the credit."
Born in Oregon
Ray Milton Dolby was born in January 1933 in Portland, Ore. His family moved to the Peninsula, where he attended public schools. He graduated in 1951 from Sequoia High School in Redwood City - he was the student projectionist - and later was inducted into the school's hall of fame. He worked after school at Ampex Corp., where he started his war against background noise in tape recordings.
While continuing to work at Ampex, Mr. Dolby earned a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering at Stanford University in 1957. He then entered a doctoral program in physics at Cambridge University, England. He received his doctorate in 1961, and a year later met his German wife, Dagmar, at Cambridge as a summer student.
The move west
After serving two years as a United Nations adviser in India, Mr. Dolby returned to England in 1965, and founded Dolby Laboratories in London. In 1976, he moved the entire operation to San Francisco - headquarters, laboratories and manufacturing facilities.
When Kaufman was filming "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" (1978), he was able to use Dolby technology to "design a whole scene around the sound. There was a scene of motorcycles and cars going through the Broadway tunnel, and it could seem as though the sound was actually moving around the audience, as the vehicles moved through the tunnel."
This was long before the Dolby label was ubiquitous onscreen. "Back then there was a line of demarcation," Kaufman said, "and if you knew you were going to see a movie with Dolby sound, you knew you were going to have an added treat."
Dolby Labs is a publicly traded company with 1,600 employees. Dolby Labs technology has been built into 7.4 billion consumer electronics products, from car stereos to DVD players to high-definition televisions.
"Ray will be missed," said Lucas in an e-mail, "but his many contributions to the industry will certainly live on."
Patents and gadgets
Mr. Dolby accumulated more than 50 patents, and liked to accumulate gadgets, too. He sailed out of the St. Francis Yacht Club, flew his own airplane and liked to drive around town in a bus like the ones rock bands tour in. He traced the Lincoln Highway route over Donner Pass in a vintage Jeep.
At the Symphony, he brought in his own chairs, placed at the back of the box where he sat with his wife.
"He and Dagmar had this great love affair," Bechtle said. "You'd see them at a party or wherever, and they were always close to each other, watching out for each other."
Lifetime achievement
In May, in perhaps his final public appearance, Mr. Dolby was honored with the inaugural George Gund III Award for lifetime achievement in cinema at the San Francisco International Film Festival.
"When I think of movies, the Dolby logo comes up in front of my face," said Ted Hope, executive director of the festival. "But what is unique about him is that he took what was everyday in film - sound - and made it extraordinary."
In 1997, when Mr. Dolby was awarded the National Medal of Technology and Innovation by President Bill Clinton, he accepted the prize with these humble words:
"The first part of your life is education. The second part is hard work, and then you get discovered and people start handing you awards."
Mr. Dolby is survived by his wife of 47 years, Dagmar; two sons, filmmaker-writer Tom of New York City and businessman David of San Francisco; their spouses Andrew and Natasha; and four grandchildren. A celebration of his life is pending.
San Francisco Chronicle columnist Leah Garchik contributed to this report. Sam Whiting is a San Francisco Chronicle staff writer. E-mail: email@example.com.


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Q&A with Tennis Standout Erik Oijala
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When a men's tennis match is on the line at UCSD's Northview Courts, it's not unusual to hear one voice rising above the others,
exhorting Coach Eric Steidlmayer's 13th-ranked Tritons to raise their level of play. Whether on the court or sideline, the voice that resonates typically belongs to UCSD senior Erik Oijala. When he's not encouraging his teammates, the 6-foot-4 blonde plays No. 4 singles and teams with sophomore Blake Meister at No. 1 doubles. As a junior, he was a key member of a UCSD team that reached the quarterfinals of the NCAA Division II Championships and placed fifth overall. "Erik's a real positive guy who brings a lot of energy to the team," says Steidlmayer. "He's a solid player who's improved a lot since coming to UCSD. He broke his wrist twice in his first two years here and has overcome a lot to get where he is now." With the home stretch of the 2006 season ready to commence, the economics major out of
Q—Let's start with the past. How did you get started in tennis?
OIJALA—Growing up as a kid, I was always hitting the ball with my dad. I also played hockey for about 10 years. Those were the two sports my dad played his whole life—still does—so I guess he passed those on to me.
About my sophomore year of high school, I figured I had a better chance of playing college tennis than hockey so I made the decision to concentrate on just one sport.
Q—So, who are your favorite players in each sport?
OIJALA—In tennis, I would say Stefan Edberg. He was an outstanding player and a classy guy. As far as hockey, it would be Kjell Samuelson. I always played defense in hockey and he was a 6-5, stay-at-home defenseman. I tried to mold myself after him.
Q—What motivates you to play tennis?
OIJALA—It's just a release, ultimately. You can have all of this stuff in your mind, even horrible stuff. Then you can go out on the tennis court and sweep it all out and focus on something totally different.
Being in a team situation is also a lot of fun.
Q—What's the most frustrating part of the game?
OIJALA—Losing to guys you know you could beat. I guess every loss is potentially that scenario. Very seldom do you just lose to someone who is just a better player.
Q—Singles and doubles—what's the best and worst of each?
OIJALA—When I started at UCSD, I was just terrible at doubles. Finally, I've become a competent doubles player and it's fun to have success at something you traditionally haven't been very good at. I also enjoy the energy and the team part of it. It's great to see your teammate having success and cheering him on. On the other side, there's a lot more pressure in doubles—you're teammate is relying on you.
In singles, I enjoy the individual aspect of it. It's you vs. someone else and winning can be very satisfying. The opposite is the downside, I guess. When you're failing, you know whose fault it is.
Q—You and your doubles partner, Blake Meister—what do each of you bring to the partnership?
OIJALA—The only way to describe it is that we're a perfect pairing. Our strengths and weaknesses match up perfectly.
Blake's phenomenal at the net, while I'm more solid and steady in the backcourt. Having him up front is really a plus. He's got great instincts and is always rushing the net.
We also communicate pretty well and know just what to say to each other. It helps that we get along well as people too.
Q—What does Coach Eric Steidlmayer bring to the team?
OIJALA—Eric's someone everyone respects. I think he's a person everyone wants to improve for. Making the team better—that 's something he's been very successful at doing.
I also believe he has a good understanding of where we are and what we need to work on. He's organized and structures practice well. We're always excited about playing and never get into that mode where we start hating tennis.
Q—What part of playing collegiate tennis would surprise most people?
OIJALA—How much time and work we put in. The average person doesn't understand that we're training on and off the court almost every day.
I also think it looks a lot easier to most people than it really is. The talent level is very high. In Division II, there are a lot of foreign guys who have been playing all of their lives and have a tremendous amount of match experience. I know that surprised me.
Q—Your father, Mikko, is Finnish, you have dual citizenship and plan to join the Finnish army after you graduate. What can you tell us about that?
OIJALA—My father is a first generation American, he came over here about 25 years ago. There's a possibility that I might be interested in living and working in
Maybe there's a little sense of duty, as cheesy as that sounds. All the male members of my family have served. It would also be useful. I would learn something new, see some different things. That can't be bad.
Q—How much influence did your father have on your tennis career?
OIJALA—He's the reason I'm playing. He taught me, drove me to all the tournaments and would practice with me. He's still quite a good player himself. I never really had a coach—he was my coach.
Q—Besides tennis and hockey, what sports do you enjoy?
OIJALA—I've become a football fan—a Chargers fan. If I could catch, maybe I'd be a tight end. Actually, I don't like to watch sports that much.
Q—What do you do in your free time?
OIJALA—I go to school all day and play tennis—there's not much free time after that. I enjoy reading books and probably go through a book a week.
Q—What are some books you'd recommend?
OIJALA—One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest has always been a favorite and another I read recently that I liked was Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test. Both are '60's-oriented which interests me.
Q—What's the best thing to do on a Saturday night in
OIJALA—That depends on whether we have a tennis match the next day or not? If not, I'd say find a good-looking girl and take her on a date. Maybe to dinner at Hodad's in
Q—What are three things you'd like to do before you turn 25?
OIJALA—Get my masters degree, learn to speak a third language and find a job, I guess.
Q—What type of potential does this year's UCSD team have? What are the keys to reaching that potential?
OIJALA—We were a factor in the NCAA Championships last year and with the talent that we have, I absolutely expect us to be there again. We have about five weeks to go, so it's crunch time now—time for that last push.
To get there, I think we just have to keep up what we've been doing, bring a lot of energy to the court everyday and don't take it easy. In the matches, I think it's going to come down to doubles. When we win in doubles, it usually carries over and we're able to come away with a victory.
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Duncan slams No Child Left Behind
Education Secretary Arne Duncan said Tuesday that he believes congressional leaders are moving toward a deal to prevent interest rates on college loans from automatically doubling on July 1.
But despite his optimism, a half-dozen Hill sources on Wednesday countered that Democrats and Republicans are still far apart on the contours of a permanent solution. They further maintain no serious negotiations about a temporary extension of the current rates are taking place. Privately, Senate Republicans say their plan is more in sync with the president's and complain that the holdup is coming from Senate Democrats.
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Led by Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee Chairman Tom Harkin (D-Iowa), Democrats are pushing for a two-year extension of the current 3.4 percent rate in order to reassess student loan programs in the long term. Harkin, a spokesman said, believes a permanent solution should not be rushed, and wants to address it when the Higher Education Act comes up for reauthorization next year.
But Republicans are resisting. "We have an easy path to a permanent solution that reduces rates to below 5 percent for 100 percent of new loans made this year," said Sen. Lamar Alexander of Tennessee, the ranking GOP member on the HELP committee, in a statement to POLITICO. "There is no reason anyone should be discussing a short-term political fix that only reduces rates for 40 percent of new loans."
Conflict aside, a very upbeat Duncan insisted both sides are acting in "good faith."
"There's a real sense of urgency. Everyone is engaged — Senate Republican leadership, Democratic House leadership," Duncan said. "My preference would be for a longer-term deal.
"But given the dynamics in Congress, a shorter-term solution may be more realistic. … Ultimately, I think the American public needs Congress to start to fix things and not just keep kicking the can down the curb."
In an exclusive interview with POLITICO on Tuesday, Duncan — a close friend of President Barack Obama —• also said:
He has no plans to leave the administration.
• He believes former President George W. Bush's much-heralded No Child Left Behind initiative is unmanageable and effectively dead in its current form.
• A "dysfunctional" Congress has made his job challenging.
• He has been working feverishly behind the scenes with Vice President Joe Biden and Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) to revive the Democrats' gun control reform package, which failed in the Senate in April.
His passion on gun control is palpable — and precedes the gunning down last year of 20 students and six adults at Sandy Hill Elementary School in Newtown, Conn. "This is something that has frankly plagued me my entire life," said Duncan, who before joining the Obama administration was CEO of Chicago public schools.
"Growing up in the South Side of Chicago, playing basketball in the inner city in a bunch of different playgrounds, I lost people who were friends and mentors and people who protected me due to gun violence when I was a young boy, 13, 14, 15 years old, and that impacts you and it scars you in ways … too difficult to talk about."
During his seven-year tenure at the helm of Chicago public schools, he said: "On average, we lost a child due to gun violence every two weeks. It's a staggering rate of loss. And the vast majority of these kids were not gangbangers."


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They don't make empires the way they used to. Take the imperial brag. Here is George Nathaniel, Viscount Curzon—the most grandiloquent, if not the greatest, Viceroy of India—and the subject of David Gilmour's elegant biography, "Curzon" (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; $45), waxing epic-messianic on the British imperial mission: "To me the message is carved in granite; it is hewn out of the rock of doom—that our work is righteous and that it shall endure." And here is Proconsul Jay Garner, musing on the prospects of the American imperium in Iraq: "If we make headway on a lot of major things, we will put ourselves in a marvellous up-ramp where things can begin happening. If we don't do that we're on a negative ramp."
And, frankly, the dress code has gone right down the thunder box. Meeting with the Emir of Afghanistan, in 1894, Curzon appeared in a uniform acquired at a theatrical costumier, complete with operatic epaulettes, a curved sword borrowed in India, and a row of clinking medals. Installed as Viceroy five years later, Curzon, who was a stickler for protocol, insisted that his councillors don white knee breeches and white silk stockings for formal occasions, as he himself did, and not "take refuge in the less dangerous but irregular trouser." Proconsul Garner, on the other hand, appeared in Dress-Down Friday casuals and proceeded to wander amiably around the streets of his shattered bailiwick, like a Scout leader vaguely searching for his Eagle Troop. His successor, Proconsul L. Paul Bremer III, favors the battle dress of the C.E.O.—crisply pressed suit, high-end haircut, peekaboo breast-pocket handkerchief—to project an air of mildly corporate persuasiveness, just the right note for an empire that fancies it can be run like a business opportunity, and busies itself handing out contracts to the willing while failing to mop up the brimming sewage. But then ours is an empire, unlike Curzon's, that wishes it weren't there—at least, not as another election season comes into view. Was there ever an empire whose new subjects had to implore their rulers to supply rudimentary law and order?
Curzon had no doubt that the only justification for empire was the efficiency of its administration. In the choice between good government (as he saw it) and self-government, he believed that his duty was emphatically to the former when it came to India. This was best provided by a paternalist state, staffed by disinterested professional public servants, intervening to guarantee the common decencies of life—uncontaminated water, for example, whether in Birmingham or Bombay. Democratic self-determination was certainly worthwhile in the fullness of time, but it was not going to put rice on the table.
These were, more or less, the maxims with which Curzon grew up, and which he seldom abandoned in forty years' service to an empire that was, as the dedication to one of his many books put it, "under Providence the greatest instrument for good the world has ever seen." Many of his generation, born around the middle of the nineteenth century, felt the same righteous intoxication. Although the British had come to India, in the eighteenth century, to make money, the making of it required military force—just enough, of course, to create the political stability needed for the Anglo-Indian economy to take off under its own steam. But the wars, instead of calming India, had a nasty way of stirring it up, either inside the country or on its frontiers, and this triggered yet more intervention, until, somehow, the British, who had never meant to be occupiers, occupied virtually the entire subcontinent. With that unlooked-for transformation from a trading power to a governing power, the rationale for the Raj changed. Instead of making profits, the idea was to make India a better place. Instead of businessmen, Britain sent out Improvers, educated in Indian languages at Haileybury College, zealous secular missionaries for Victorian education and morality. In a valedictory speech delivered in Bombay, Curzon, who communed almost obsessively with the ghosts of Viceroys past, faithfully reiterated this ideal:
**{: .break one} ** Remember that the Almighty has placed your hand on the greatest of His ploughs, in whose furrow the nations of the future are germinating and taking shape, to drive the blade a little forward in your time, and to feel that somewhere among these millions you have left a little justice or happiness or prosperity. **
As a boy at Eton College in the mid-eighteen-seventies, Curzon heard a speech by Sir James Fitzjames Stephen, the legal member of the Viceroy's Council, which seems to have fired his personal sense of mission. Stephen's father, James, had been among the first generation of India's Westernizers, who believed that the colonized would be led toward self-determination but only after many generations during which the imperial guardians would supply the rule of law, Anglophone education, and, above all, the peace needed for the flowering of prosperity. The toiling peasant, freed from the brutal exactions of native tax collectors, would be able to break through a cycle of subsistence, and produce crops (like raw cotton) actually demanded by British manufacturers and consumers. As the thrifty cultivator prospered, so other demands would make themselves spontaneously felt: literacy, sanitation, and, finally, responsible citizenship.
This was the "partnership," often mentioned by imperial apologists, whose consummation would be the blessed day when power could be responsibly transferred from rulers to ruled; the Union Jack would flutter down the flagpole while a band of marines, their pith helmets blancoed to dazzling whiteness, played Elgar, and an audience of grateful native beneficiaries politely applauded and made their way to the tea tent. It seldom turned out that way. The "empire of free trade" was free only up to a point. When it worked to flood the Indian market (once the province of a thriving native cotton-print industry) with inexpensive manufactured goods, it could be upheld, but, if Indian textiles threatened to make inroads in Britain, tariff manipulations made sure that they remained uncompetitive.
Nor was the legacy of a "parliamentary empire" and the rule of law straightforward. In India—whose three hundred million made up nearly three-fourths of the Empire's population (and a fifth of the world's in 1900)—the conditions of pacification (an army of two hundred thousand) permanently stunted economic growth through the sheer weight of land revenues needed to fund it. When the British left their Raj, the per-capita income of Indians was precisely as they had found it, two hundred years earlier.
An American edition of Gilmour's "Curzon" (which was published in England nine years ago) is a timely opportunity to consider all these matters, especially since the empire on which the sun was never supposed to set has lately been enjoying a positive reëvaluation, above all in Niall Ferguson's dashing and trenchant "Empire," a book that is unembarrassed not only to sing its praises but to urge its example on the makers of the new Pax Americana. Though Gilmour's biography is less concerned with tackling the knottier cost-benefit problems of making and keeping empires, lest such problems get in the way of a fast-moving, entertaining, and finely written story, moments along the route of an eventful life have a gripping topicality. Exactly a century ago, in 1903, the Viceroy made a side trip to the Persian Gulf, in effect the gateway to Britain's Raj (and referred to by some as "Curzon Lake"), to encourage the Sultan of Muscat and the Sheikh of Kuwait to think of Britain—rather than the Ottoman Empire—as their principal protector. "The peace of these waters must still be maintained," Curzon insisted, and followed with a classic instance of empire-think: "Your independence will continue to be upheld, and the influence of the British government must remain supreme." In other words, ignore the Turks, resist the Russians, and expect frequent "good will" visits from the Royal Navy.
Gilmour has a soft spot for Curzon, and he succeeds in persuading the reader that his subject was a fundamentally decent, startlingly egotistical, surpassingly learned man who combined huge reserves of self-belief with an almost incredible ability to alienate everyone he thought his inferior. His friend Lord George Hamilton, the Secretary of State for India, urged him to suffer fools more gladly, since they constitute most of the human race, but to no avail. Curzon worked himself, as he often said, like a horse and expected others to do likewise. "Grind, grind grind," he moaned in a letter to his wife, Mary, in 1901, "till the collar breaks and the poor beast stumbles and dies. . . . But it has always been so. The willing horse is flogged till he drops and the work goes on." And on it went, indeed. On tours of inspection through the Indian provinces, Curzon managed (tiger shoots permitting) an average of thirty to forty letters a day. Delegation he thought fit only for the idle and the criminally negligent.
Gilmour is understandably eager to rescue Curzon from the rich lore of mostly apocryphal Curzoniana testifying to His Lordship's comical detachment from the experience of the rest of mankind. He never did, it seems, marvel at the whiteness of the skin of the working classes, upon seeing soldiers bathing near Armentières in the Great War; nor, on exiting his club and finding himself without a cab, did he summon an omnibus and order the driver to take him home. He did try to silence the chimes of Big Ben, on the ground that they disturbed his sleep, and he complained that the red carpet rolled out to greet him in Calcutta when he became Viceroy was "the size of a postage stamp." But even if the gently taunting rhyme composed at Oxford—
**{: .break one} ** My name is George Nathaniel Curzon, I am a most superior person, My cheek is pink, my hair is sleek, I dine at Blenheim once a week **
—trapped him throughout his career in the stereotype of the haughty aristocrat, there is little point in pretending that Curzon was common clay. In fact, an uneasy suspicion that his seven-hundred-year-old family of Derbyshire landowners had done little except hang on to their estate seems to have prodded into action what became the most hyperactive sense of duty in late-Victorian England.
There were the usual torments of growing up in that era: an indifferent father, who seems to have been slightly vexed at being pulled from the obscurity of a country rectory by the accidents of descent to become Lord Scarsdale; a governess who, even by the standards of the time, was creatively sadistic, ordering little George to write specially to the butler to have the cane made with which he might, please, be thoroughly thrashed. But George could hardly have missed the summons to imperial greatness singing from the stones of the Scarsdale house, Kedleston, one of the first English buildings that the great eighteenth-century Scottish architect Robert Adam worked on. Kedleston's façade featured a pilastered version of the triumphal Arch of Constantine and an interior saloon inspired by the Pantheon and decorated with niches modelled on Hadrian's Temple of Venus and Rome. In the circumstances, it was not surprising that the boy developed a precociously grandiose manner, writing home from his prep school at the age of twelve that "a hamper is undoubtedly requisite" and must include "several pots of superior jam." At Eton, he excelled at "declamation," and although he came second in the Latin prize oration in 1877, as David Dilks's biography "Curzon in India" tells us, a corrected citation satisfyingly notes that "the best declamation has been written by Foley, the second best by Mr Curzon. Unfortunately, in the greater part of what he has written Foley has been anticipated by Cicero. The prize therefore goes to Mr Curzon."
There was no question that this was a very clever fellow. And, attached to the notion that deep knowledge was a qualification, rather than a disqualification, for high office, Curzon never shrank from parading his well-stocked intellect. It gave him what Margot Asquith, the wife of the Liberal Prime Minister, called an air of "enamelled self-assurance." In the apprenticeship that he designed for his imperial career, he undertook long journeys and intensive investigations, both scholarly and personal, of the history, archeology, religion, languages, and ethnic customs of Central Asia, a region that he believed was vital to protecting the Empire's crown jewel, India. Based on the experience of these journeys of many months—travelling by mule and bullock cart; often cooking for himself; sleeping on Oriental rugs—he wrote thousands of pages: books on Persia, on Russia in Central Asia, on Kashmir and the Pamirs, and even on the problems of the Far East. And he believed that this direct experience gave him the right to speak with authority on the most urgent concerns of security for the British Empire, both inside Parliament and out.
Treks through the Caucasus were not the young Curzon's only expeditions. He grazed the dinner tables of London society and aristocratic country-house parties, where he was admired for his quick repartee, his waggish thank-you verses, and the air of chiselled Roman authority that he made sure to project. Women, some of them married, panted after him, and he returned the favor, along with borrowings from Dante Gabriel Rossetti. More than any other biographer, Gilmour makes clear that Curzon's libido was inseparable from his political ambition and just as voracious. Until he married the American Mary Leiter, at the age of thirty-six, he had a succession of passionate affairs, despite a style of love letter that sounded like an official memo. When his lover Sibell Grosvenor decided to marry one of his friends, Curzon's parting exclamation of anguish was "The taking out of a man's life of that which he has grown to regard as a treasure and core of his being is not accomplished without a pang."
The self-conscious development of what journalists, reviewing Curzon's maiden speech in the House of Commons, called his "unconquerable 'cheek' " and "his air of ineffable superiority" was all part of his intensive training to be Viceroy. Before assuming the office, in 1899, he visited the Viceregal Lodge in Simla; Lord Elgin was in office at the time, and Curzon confided to his diary that when he returned it would be as Viceroy. While he was Under-Secretary of State for India, he twice lobbied Lord Salisbury for the job, and finally got it.
En route to his new post, Curzon read everything and interrogated everyone about India, on and on through the broiling heat of the Red Sea. Once he arrived, he dismissed the notion that the Raj could simultaneously advance representative self-government for educated Indians—in courts and local government—and preserve the peace, stability, and prosperity of the Indian empire. But this was more or less what Queen Victoria had promised in an 1858 Royal Proclamation opening the civil service in India without prejudice to Indians and British. Formidable barriers had been placed in the way of any practical realization, not the least being that examinations were held only in England, precluding the possibility of high-caste Hindus, with their taboo on oceanic travel, competing. The establishment of three universities had created a literate class, especially in Bombay, Calcutta, and Madras. Many of the educated were schoolteachers, journalists, doctors, and lawyers, but many of them were petty civil servants, without whom the Raj would have been incapable of governing, since the "heaven-born" Indian Civil Service—the collectors and district commissioners, the police chiefs, surveyors, engineers, and magistrates numbered barely nine hundred men.
For Curzon, however, the babus of Calcutta and Bombay were hardly better than overeducated parasites who, under the guise of Indian patriotism, were dedicated to taking power for themselves and killing off the Raj as quickly as possible. So he went out of his way to ignore and alienate them, duly turning moderates into militants. As urban types—the bhadralok—they had nothing in common with the masses of peasants whose interests they purported to uphold. He, the Viceroy, knew better, that the toiling ryot was more interested in concrete improvements in daily life—the construction of irrigation canals, the establishment of credit "societies" to get the moneylenders off his back—and these he provided. Gilmour rightly gives Curzon credit for pushing through such ameliorations, yet, catalogued as they are, they inevitably resemble one of the Viceroy's own self-congratulatory memorandums, rather than offering a full picture of Indian life during his tenure.
Curzon liked to think of himself as a mover and shaker, but mostly what he moved and shook was piles of paper. Though he did his tours, ordained into existence thousands of miles of railroad track, and created an agricultural research institute, he was insulated from the overwhelming reality of India at the turn of the century—a reality of stark horror. Beginning in 1896, in Elgin's Viceroyalty, a succession of famines, triggered by failures of the monsoon, swept the country; the devastation was compounded by epidemics of cholera and bubonic plague, which in turn weakened the physical resistance of survivors. Curzon, the inheritor of this mass misery, was tactless in saying that the disaster was no more his responsibility than that of "the man in the moon," but the issue was, rather, whether he did everything in his power to alleviate the suffering. Gilmour spends forty pages describing the relentless feud between Curzon and the Commander-in-Chief of the Indian Army, Herbert Kitchener, which led eventually to the Viceroy's resignation; it seems a pity that he could not have found more than a page to examine the famine-relief policy of the Viceroy and his government. Missing, too, among the illustrations of the Viceroy with dead tigers, the Viceroy with assorted nizams and maharajas is another kind of contemporary photograph, the kind taken by missionaries with Kodaks, of cadavers of children who had been devoured by wild dogs and jackals, of saucer-eyed victims of starvation.
In fairness, Gilmour's biography appeared long before the savage indictment set out in Mike Davis's "Late Victorian Holocausts" (2001), a book that at its most extreme accuses the British Empire of creating the permanent immiseration of the Third World. The reader doesn't have to agree with this conclusion (or even sympathize with Davis's Marxism) to see that he makes a devastatingly persuasive case about the British preference for traditional market-and-revenue interests over "indiscriminate" relief. Curzon himself claimed "that there had never been a famine when the general mortality had been less, when the distress has been more amply or swiftly relieved." But there were fierce voices of dissent at the time—from the nationalist politician Romesh Chandra Dutt and from the first Indian British M.P., Dadabhai Naoroji, and also from Western journalists like Vaughan Nash, of the Manchester Guardian. They looked with disgust at the eligibility "tests" that were imposed on the starving, and (much like those in Ireland a half century earlier) forced them to walk, often many miles, to work camps, where they were required to labor nine hours a day for as little as fifteen ounces of food. Even the official British report conceded that the famine of 1899 to 1900 took a million and a quarter lives, but the mortality estimates of modern historians like Burton Stein put the figure closer to six and a half million dead.
In a public debate with Dutt (which Gilmour thinks Curzon won), the Viceroy blamed the vicissitudes of climate rather than any government policy for the severity of the disaster. His critics did not, of course, make light of the failure of monsoon and harvest, but their point was that the weight of the taxes—especially the land-revenue and the salt tax (designed once again to favor British imports over domestic salt)—was so crushing that it reduced purchasing power to the point where modest but viable cultivators in bad years became destitute and, ultimately, starved. As always, the imperatives of British military policy—in this case the Boer War—made fiscal leniency out of the question. To his credit, Curzon did try to persuade the Westminster government to reduce the salt tax, as a gift to India in the year of the Coronation Durbar, but, not surprisingly, he failed. The exceptional distress endured during these years undercut the claims of the Raj to offer autocratic benevolence as an alternative to liberal, nationalist politics. The failings of the Curzon model made the appeal of swadeshi—self-help—the starting principle of Indian independence.
Curzon's anxiety about the budding of Indian nationalism was such that he created a primitive police-intelligence system to monitor its growth. Wherever he suspected institutions of fostering sedition, he did his utmost to cramp their growing space. University senates were cut back, while in a speech in Calcutta Curzon notoriously described truth as largely a Western invention. And, since the highest concentration of dangerous chatterers, especially in print, was in the densely populated province of Bengal, he took his knife to its political geography. The partition, which he presented, disingenuously, as an administrative necessity, was so transparently designed to separate Muslim from Hindu Bengalis, making each easier to govern, that it provoked an inevitable and ferocious backlash. Demonstrators took to the streets. Rabindranath Tagore wrote poems and songs in protest. Riots became violent. It was the beginning of the end of the Raj.
Curzon left India in 1905. Although he was still only in his mid-forties, it was more than a decade before he returned to office, as a minister in Lloyd George's coalition wartime government. In 1916, he was put in charge of the infant Air Board and eventually, to his heart's content, was made Foreign Secretary. In the years after the First World War, with crises constantly cropping up in the Near East, Curzon's mastery of detail counted. In a heated debate over whether Mosul should be given to the new Turkish Republic or remain part of the quasi-British protectorate of the Kingdom of Iraq, the Turkish foreign minister made the terrible mistake of wondering how his British opposite number could possibly know anything about the population of Mosul. As Gilmour writes, Curzon proceeded to show him how, including a lecture on the Kurdish majority and the historical differences between Ottomans and Turkomans. It is unlikely that any Foreign Secretary will ever know as much about this region as Curzon.
Yet, for all his grip on statistics, his mastery of memorandums, his geopolitical expertise, Curzon did, in the end, belong to the imperial past. By the time he was being considered (and rejected) for Prime Minister, in 1923, the devolution of power in India had gone so far that a dual government had been established, with Indians responsible for much internal administration and the British running military and strategic policy.
In the years before his death, in 1925, history was where he was happiest. He bought some of the most beautiful houses in the country and restored them with a light but exacting touch: the moated Bodiam Castle, in Sussex; the Tudor Montacute House, in Somerset; Tattershall Castle, in Lincolnshire. He wrote about them, of course; but his interest was not just that of a greedy aristocrat. He thought of these places—as he thought of his own life—as part of the national patrimony, the mysterious ravelling of past and future. Many of the houses were repaired for the nation on condition that they would be publicly accessible. And, in the same sense, Curzon insisted—as he had when he restored, exquisitely, the heavily damaged Taj Mahal and the town of Fatehpur Sikri—that the conservation of ancient and religious monuments was a sacred duty of whichever imperial power happened to be granted their temporary custody. "If there be any one who says to me there is no duty devolving upon a Christian government to preserve the monuments of a pagan art, or the sanctuaries of an alien faith, I cannot pause to argue with such a man." Because Curzon understood the power of tradition as a living thing, which gave an ancient community identity, faith, and hope, he had, as a young writer, warned against the rush to cozen traditional societies into dye-stamp modernity. In our own haste to make the world more like us we could do worse than heed his caution:
**{: .break one} ** We must remember that the ways of Orientals are not our ways, nor their thoughts our thoughts. Often when we think them backward and stupid, they think us meddlesome and absurd. The loom of time moves slowly with them, and they care not for high pressure and the roaring of the wheels. Our system may be good for us; but it is neither equally, not altogether good for them. Satan found it better to reign in hell than to serve in heaven; and the normal Asiatic would sooner be misgoverned by Asiatics than well governed by Europeans. ♦ **


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