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The cover of Fulfillingness' First Finale depicts a staircase of keyboards rising — from the Motor Town Review and "Fingertips" through gold records, Grammies and an auto accident — to the sky. It's remarkably apt, for the careers of few performers in popular music have been such uninterrupted ascents. Nothing, not even a brush with death, has interrupted Wonder's progress toward ever higher ground, and FFF is a new plateau. As its title declares, the album is a culmination of what has come before, but it is by no means a final destination.
Since he assumed complete control of his musical direction in 1972 (relegating Motown to the role of merchandiser), Wonder's albums have been about vision. About the false visions that delude and undo people (ambition in "Superwoman," superstition in the hit of the same name, shady demagogy in "Big Brother" and "He's Misstra Know-It-All," and dope in "Too High"); about Wonder's idealistic "innervision," which is religious, romantic, and political at the same time; and about things as they are.
Talking Book (1972) juxtaposed the faith of "Lookin' for Another Pure Love," "I Believe (If I Fall in Love It Will Be Forever)," and "You and I (Can Conquer the World)" with the frank and funky realism of "Maybe Your Baby," "Blame It on the Sun," and "Tuesday Heartbreak." In "You Are the Sunshine of My Life" Wonder sings, "And I know that this must be heaven," but Talking Book makes clear that heaven is more a matter of wishing and hoping than a firm conviction. A year ago, Innervisions pitted "the milk-and-honey land," which was a social as well as a romantic ideal, against the gritty naturalism of "Living for the City," the "superficial paradise" of drugs, and "Misstra Know-It-All's" con game. The contest ended in a draw.
If Talking Book deals primarily with love of woman and Innervisions with love of humanity, FFF concerns the love of God. Wonder's faith has become more inner-directed and otherworldly, less easily threatened by the here-and-now. "Heaven Is 10 Zillion Light Years Away" but Stevie Wonder can feel God within him, despite His seeming absence from the contemporary scene. "Feel it (yeah) feel His spirit." A self-assured serenity pervades FFF, and it opposes the tension and urgency which made Talking Book and Innervisions more exciting albums. FFF's tunes and tempi are for the most part easygoing, more like "Sunshine of My Life" than "Living for the City" or "Superstition." The album aims at relaxed enjoyment; it's not something to get hot and bothered about.
FFF is less funky, less specifically black than its predecessors. For Wonder's onward and upward development has consistently been away from strict soul music and racial categories or limitations. Because of this, his appeal — greater than that of almost any other performer today — cuts across social and ethnic barriers. In this respect he's ideally suited to Motown, which has never been content with an exclusively black market. But unlike so many Detroit acts, whose wooing of white listeners leaves them pallid and gutless, Wonder's music expands and its integrity is strengthened, not diminished.
A striking example of his cosmopolitan approach is the stark and dramatic "They Won't Go When I Go." Inspired by gospel testifying, nonetheless the song variously sounds Islamic, Gregorian, and even Hebraic, reflecting the syncretism of Wonder's religion. Stately and decorous, doleful, even stone-righteous, the track's blend of tones and fervent piety make it FFF's most arresting track.
It's also the least representative, for Wonder realizes that such seriousness can be less entertaining to a pop music audience. More typically, he weds an earnest lyric to a lighthearted melody, as he did on Talking Book's "Big Brother." Thus a mellow, easy-rolling tune sweetens the zeal of "Heaven Is 10 Zillion Light Years Away," and it also conveys the calm confidence of Wonder's devotion. Even when it touches upon lost love or abandonment, FFF is a cool album, for Wonder has reached the point where little can shake his convictions or composure. "Please Don't Go" is sung to a woman, but it's neither desperate nor abject like "Maybe Your Baby" on Talking Book. In fact, it's cheerful. "It Ain't No Use" treats the end of a romance, but its attitude — kindly, even jocular — is a far cry from the pain and guilt of Innervisions's "All in Love Is Fair."
As has become his custom, Stevie Wonder plays almost all of the instruments on FFF, and his drumming (once a sore point) continues to improve. The only other musician whose contribution is essential is "Sneaky" Pete Kleinow, whose pedal steel on "Too Shy To Say" is lovely. The high note Wonder sings at the end of each verse of this hushed, sentimental ballad is extremely touching. More than its predecessors, FFF abounds with other voices, including cameo appearances by the Jackson 5, the Persuasions, and — would you believe — Paul Anka. The album explores rich harmonies with splendid results, particularly the duet with Wonder's protegee, Minnie Riperton, on the slinky "Creepin'." The refrain is "in my dreams." FFF succeeds in making Stevie Wonder's dreams seem attractive and real.


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Just like every other British person, I love to moan about Britain. What awful weather we have. Why must the bin man only come every fortnight? My Waitrose sausages aren't as good as they used to be, can I have my money back?
I have always dreamed of moving away, to Australia, Canada, even Spain. They have sunshine, laid-back attitudes and loads of fun. What does England have? Nothing. I thought…
That is, until I went exploring last week to discover more about this rainy, miserable country.
My partner and I decided to set off to Somerset – Bath, in particular. Why? I don't know. Because it's not too far from London, it has nice countryside and because they make cider there, I guess.
My boyfriend is from Holland, so I really wanted to showcase the best of Britain. We started off by driving past Stonehenge, entirely unexpectedly, which brought back memories of childhood holidays for him and feelings of disappointment for me. It's a lot bigger in the pictures, isn't it?
We then made our way to Bradford On Avon, where we were going to be staying on a farm for two nights. It's a gorgeous little town with narrow streets, old buildings and winding country roads. The sun was shining, our B&B was lovely and we felt pretty good.
As soon as we'd dropped our stuff off, it was time to go to Bath, where we were going to visit the Thermae Spa.
Getting to Bath was easy. Driving around the city was not. It's not a big place, but my god it's confusing if you're behind the wheel. For a start, the Sat Nav suddenly had no idea what it was doing. I expected it to say "I give up. This city is a mess. You're on your own." Instead it tried to make me drive down streets that didn't exist and sent me down the same roads three times. Google maps had no better an idea of what was going on there, and the maps app on my iPhone had no interest whatsoever in helping me out.
So we drove round and round and round. Signposts were everywhere, but every one of them pointed down a road that had a no entry sign. You literally couldn't get anywhere. I started going mad. I also expected the Thermae Spa to be outside of the city, and to have its own car park. If I'd known it was smack bang in the middle and had no car park I'd have dropped the car off the moment we hit the city limits and walked.
Anyway, after an hour of driving round and going mad, we asked for directions and finally found a car park, ditched the wheels, and headed spa-wards for a relaxing four hours of hot-water bliss.
The spa was like an oasis of calm in the middle of a mental-breakdown-inducing city. The girl who met us at reception completely sympathised with our situation, and said the first time she'd come to Bath was from Birmingham, and she'd arrived in the city, driven around and gone mad, and turned around and gone straight back to Birmingham without even getting out of the car.
So I felt like our eventual arrival at the spa was a miracle. We quickly stripped down to our swimmers, grabbed a robe, towel and slippers and a wristband that times your stay and opens and closes lockers, and jumped into the indoor spa pool. It was full of people bobbing about on blue foam sticks, and warming up in the bubbly area. I was disappointed with the temperature, though. Earlier, we'd been shown the VIP pool, where they have a small fountain of natural spring water bubbling up from underground, and that water was seriously hot. But the spa water was as warm as the bath is when you decide it's time to get out. But to be fair, I like my baths so hot I almost get blisters.
The spa also has a beautiful rooftop pool, which is a great place to be at sunset. The steam rises off the water and the sky glows orange as you bob about in admittedly tepid (for me) water. The main incentive to stay in was that the outside air was freezing. It is November after all.
The best bit had to be the steam room. It's one big room with four small, round, glass-walled compartments inside. Each steam room compartment had a different aroma, from eucalyptus to lemongrass. In the middle of them all was a waterfall shower, and to the sides were hot and cold showers. It was wonderfully hot in the steam rooms, and a perfect way to end the evening.
I used to think spas were boring, but this place, with its chilled-out atmosphere and rooftop pool makes me think there's something in it after all.
After the spa, we grabbed a Chinese from a restaurant full of Chinese people (always a sign of good food), then drove out of Bath as fast as the Sat Nav would allow (not very).
The next day was uneventful, as Thomas had to work (he convinced his boss to let him visit me once a month for a week at a time as long as he still did his work), so we sat in a cute cafe in Bradford On Avon eating lots of food and drinking lots of tea.
The next day we went to Wales, to visit one of our fellow Trek America group members. Tristan lives in a farm on the edge of the Brecon Beacons, and the area is just gorgeous. Rolling hills, fresh air, nice people. Plus, Tristan's farm was awesome and he has five cats and three dogs, so I was very happy. They also had a few ghosts, a fact that scared the crap out of me.
We spent our time wandering the hills and playing with the dogs. Went to see Skyfall, and the cinema had 95% old ladies (the other 5% was us). They were clearly just there for Daniel Craig.
Soon it was time to head home, and I realised that I don't hate the UK after all. In fact, it's absolutely beautiful and has so many really nice people (and complicated cities, but who doesn't like to punch the steering wheel in frustration?). As long as you're not inside the M25. Which is where I live. Until I buy a farmhouse in the countryside…


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When I started in this hobby I used Woodland Scenics foam roadbed but after reading about Joe Fugate's Easyspline masonite roadbed I decided to try it out and WOW, what a difference.
I started by adding my risers made from 1 by 2.
I got the masonite splines from a local carpenter. They are made from 1/4 inch masonite and around 20 mm in height. Next time I will try to make these splines myself because I'm not 100% satisfied with the carpenter. I think it's importent to have the same size for all splines. In my case some are 20 mm, others are 22 and 21. That makes it hard to build a smooth roadbed.
I laminated 7 splines together to make the roadbed 42 mm wide (7 x 6). I used lots of spring clamps to hold them in place while the glue dried overnight.
Here are some closeup pictures of the finishing roadbed. Use a surform plan (I used one from Stanley) to take away the glue on the top and to make the roadbed smooth.
Next step is to glue the track directly to the roadbed with latex caulk. If you have gray ballast, use gray caulk.
Why do I like this method?
- I think this method is the best you can use for roadbed and I will never go back to any other method, never.
- It's easy to make curves and grades and it's VERY sturdy.
- You will not waste any material, one masonite board will go a long way.
- And you can use it for any scale, just laminate splines until you have the right size.
Try it out, I'm sure you will like it. Thanks to Joe Fugate for showing me this roadbed construction method.
(And thanks to Lee Nicholas for showing it to me -- Joef)


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Shifting the Dialogue for the Public at Large
Hands-on learning in a sixth-grade museum class was showcased during Education Nation. In Keil Hileman's sixth-grade class last month, students were digging into their individual dirt piles searching for archeological artifacts, and trying to identify what they found. Did it come from land or sea? What does the shape of the artifact indicate about its … Continue reading Shifting the Dialogue for the Public at Large →


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Lafayette Cemetery No. 1 in the Garden District of New Orleans is over 170 years old and is on the National Register of Historic Places. It was once part of the Livaudais Plantation. During my trip to New Orleans, I booked a cemetery tour here with a group called Save Our Cemeteries. This group was founded in 1974 to preserve and restore New Orleans historical cemeteries. The money they raise on the tours goes to this preservation effort, and they also raise money through grants, fundraisers and donations. My guide, Jane, has been giving these tours since 1982.
As you may recall from reading another blog post of mine, I am a fan of interesting cemeteries. However, there's a bit of a difference between seeing who is buried in a cemetery and hearing some of the burial details, if you know what I mean. For instance, in order to grasp the fact that several generations of the same family might be buried within the same drawer-sized crypt, you have to think about the logistics of fitting all those corpses, bones, and decomposing bodies into the same small space. Creepy. The same goes for the fact that bodies were entombed above ground in New Orleans because once a hole was dug for a coffin, the hole would fill with water and the coffin would float; holes had to be drilled into the coffin so it would fill with water and sink (to the accompaniment of gurgling noises). More creepy. Apparently, these people had never heard of cremation.
I will say, though, that this is the most photogenic cemetery I've had the pleasure of touring. I got some fantastic photos here. You can see some of my favorites in my gallery below.
The tour of Lafayette No. 1 is given on Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday at 10:30am. Meet your guide at the entrance to the cemetery, located on the 1400 block of Washington Ave, just a short walk from the Washington Ave. stop on the St. Charles Streetcar line. You do not need to make reservations, but it is recommended that you call first to make sure the tour is happening. It is first come, first served. The tour lasts about an hour and costs $6 for adults ($5 for senior citizens and students).


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Colorado's high country is getting its first little taste of winter.
Nearly 2 inches of snow fell on Loveland Pass overnight Thursday, and some elevations above 10,000 feet in northern Colorado saw some morning snow Friday.
"This really is the main, first snow over the pass (this season)," said Jim Kalina, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Boulder.
Breckenridge, Dillon, Frisco and Vail all reported seeing some light snow. Parts of the Interstate 70 corridor in the mountains, from the Eisenhower Tunnel to Vail Pass, were wet Friday morning from predawn snow that dusted the lanes.
Trail Ridge Road in Rocky Mountain National Park was closed Friday night because of snow.
Today should be partly sunny in Denver, and skies on Sunday should be mostly sunny, the Weather Service reports. Denver's high temperature today should be about 70, with a 72-degree high mark expected Sunday, but overnight lows this weekend will drop into the mid-40s. The Denver Post


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What is the difference between a decoction and an infusion?
Most people are familiar with an infusion which is what people do when they put a tea bag or tea ball in a cup of hot water and allow it to steep a couple minutes before drinking. Infusions are used to extract vitamins and volatile ingredients from soft ingredients like leaves, flowers, citrus peelings, etc. Green tea, black tea, peppermint tea and chamomile tea are examples of an infusion. The short brewing time helps to retain the volatile ingredients while drinking.
A decoction is used to extract primarily the mineral salts and bitter principles of plants from hard materials such as roots, bark, seeds and wood. These hard materials generally require boiling for at least 10 minutes and then are allowed to steep for a number of hours. The tea is boiled down and concentrated so that water needs to be added before drinking. The word "decoct" means to concentrate by boiling. Essiac tea and taheebo bark tea are examples of a decoction.
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In this remarkable retelling of Beauty and the Beast, award-winning illustrator Pat Cummings creates an enchanted fairy-tale world flavored by the art, architecture, and culture of West Africa, while writer H. Chuku Lee stays true to the story of this beloved classic. With breathtaking palatial settings inspired by the Dogon tribe of Mali and dazzling costumes reminiscent of the clothing seen on Cummings's own trip to Africa, Beauty and the Beast becomes so much more than just a story—it's a visual and cultural experience.
When her father is taken prisoner by a fearsome Beast, Beauty begs the captor to take her instead. The Beast agrees, locking her away in his palace. Though he will give her whatever her heart desires—jewels, gowns, her own living quarters—she is forbidden to leave. Over time, however, Beauty sees the gentler side of the Beast, and an unexpected bond forms. But will it be strong enough to break a curse that threatens the Beast's life?
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"Ethnically rich retelling. Readers who attend to detail will delight." — Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
"Beauty's appearance will draw readers of color who long for fairy tale heroines who look more like themselves...Unexpectedly powerful." — Publishers Weekly
"Lushly detailed paintings. The retelling is crisp, the drafting is skillful, and the compositions are dramatic. — The Horn Book
"Beautifully executed illustrations with influences from ancient Dogon buildings of Mali. Lee's retelling provid[es] a fresh approach that demands consideration for all collections." — School Library Journal
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- On Sale: 02/11/2014
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- Ages: 4 to 8
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Thirty-nine people were arrested and more than $1 million in cocaine was seized in a major drug bust today across upstate New York, Attorney General Eric Schneiderman announced.
Schneiderman said they took down three drug distribution networks from New York City area and Buffalo to be sold in Cortland, Syracuse and Watertown. A raid was conducted this morning, leading to the confiscation of 10 kilograms of cocaine and the arrests.
It was part of a nine-month investigation called "Operation Southbound," Schneiderman said.
"These elaborate drug networks polluted our communities through a pipeline of illegal drugs that allowed traffickers to bring dangerous narcotics from New York City and Buffalo to central and northern New York. Operation Southbound put an end to this deadly drug distribution chain and now the perpetrators will be brought to justice," said Schneiderman in a statement.
The three separate indictments charge 39 individuals with crimes including operating as a major trafficker, criminal sale and criminal possession of a controlled substance (class A and B felonies), and conspiracy.
The major trafficker law was written by Schneiderman when he was a state senator, he said, as part of the 2009 reforms to the Rockefeller drug laws of the 1970s. It is the only felony narcotics charge in New York with a possible life sentence.
The three indictments were unsealed today in Cortland County Court.
Those charged were:
DONALD ABRAMS – Syracuse NY
RAVAUGHN BAKER – Syracuse NY
LYLE CAMIGE – Felts Mills NY
TERRANCE CARTER – Syracuse NY
JOSEPH CROSSON – Cortland NY
KAMAR DAVIDSON – Brooklyn NY
ALEXANDER GALAN – Syracuse NY
JOHN GALAN – Syracuse NY
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Krondon of Strong Arm Steady and Chase share another one of the fruits of their recent collaborative sessions, a joint called "Hang On" that will appear on Kron's upcoming Green n Gold EP. Hang loose and hang on. Previously: Krondon & Chase N. Cashe ft. Freeway – Like Us
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New visuals from J.Rocc and MED's Theme Music LP under the AXEL F moniker. Phil The Agony and Krondon of STS and Pok guest. Previously: AXEL F. (J. Rocc & MED) ft. Blu – Omega
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Strong Arm Steady and Black Hippy over a Statik Selektah beat. Stereotype drops August 14th. Previously: Strong Arm Steady & Statik Selektah – Stereotype (Album Preview)
Strong Arm Steady and Statik Selektah's Stereotype album doesn't drop until August 14, but they have released a 6-track preview for the fans to check and hold them over until the project drops in a month. Call it an EP, if you want. 01. Premium 02. Forever ft. Chace Infinite 03. Born Into It ft. [...]
Krondon and Phil The Agony puff and shoot the shit with Snoop on this new segment of GGN News. Previously: Strong Arm Steady & Statik Selektah – Premium (Video)
Stones Throw today announced the August 14th release of Stereotype, a new collaborative LP from Strong Arm Steady and Statik Selektah. Above you can watch the visual for the first single "Premium" and hit the jump for the artwork and tracklist. Guest appearances on Stereotype will include David Banner, Black Hippy, Dome Kenndey, Planet Asia [...]
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Deconstructing the storm that is Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad
A student organisation or a right-wing affiliated, upper-caste group? sunday mid-day tries to deconstruct the storm that is the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP)
Mumbai, Hyderabad and New Delhi: His voice brimming with confidence, Aniket Ovhal, an MSc Computer Science student from Matunga's Ruia College, says the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) is largely a student body that acts as a stepping-stone for the talented in the city's college campuses. "In the 1990s, the ABVP used to conduct big cultural programmes, where students with 'pratibha' (talent) found a platform to showcase their skills. Now, almost every college in the city has an inter-collegiate cultural competition, and we are joining hands with them to do more," says the 26-year-old secretary of the body's Mumbai Mahanagar unit. Ovhal may be pushing the ABVP as a talent-hunting platform, but, in light of recent events, the ABVP's record comes across as less a talent-hunting organisation, and more a giant that has woken up.
Students of ABVP shout slogans during a protest at Delhi University campus on Saturday. On its website, ABPV says: We are 'above partisan politics' but we accept that social activity cannot be non-political in a strict sense. However, critics says, ABVP is today, fucntioning as the students wing of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party. PIC/PTI
From Vemula to JNU
On January 17, the suicide of Rohith Vemula, a Dalit scholar at Hyderabad University, brought to the fore university politics and the ostracisation that Vemula, and other members of the Ambedkar Students Association (ASA), allegedly suffered at the university. In July 2015, ASA had had a clash with the ABVP after the latter protested against the former's support to 1993 bomb blast accused Yakub Memom, who was awarded the death penalty. The suicide polarised not just student politics across the country, but also political parties that used the opportunity to align with either ABVP or Vemula and his supporters. What quickly took the attention away from Hyderabad was when ABVP, earlier this month, stalled an agitation at Delhi's Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) against the 2013 hanging of Afzal Guru, convicted as a terrorist in the 2001 Parliament attack case. In videos that have now gone viral, the crowd — there have been been allegations that not all those present were JNU students — raised slogans against India and the Indian government. What ensured that the issue snowballed into a full-fledged controversy is the arrest, and further attacks, on the president of the JNU student's union Kanhaiya Kumar. And, while students and the country's intelligentsia stand on one side of the faultline, the ABVP stands on the other with its ideological parent, the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) for company.
JNUSU President Kanhaiya Kumar, arrested on charges of sedition, being produced at Patiala House Courts in New Delhi on Wednesday. PTI
Going right-wing in TISS
Two weeks ago, Sunday mid-day reported that the ABVP had seen a phenomenal rise in membership in the city. Within just a year, the numbers in their ranks had risen from 10,000 to 45,000. While focussed recruitment — "we targeted apolitical students and explained how ABVP functions. We may be close to RSS, but we do not take students to BJP rallies or for any political events," Vaibhav Tripathi, General Secretary of Mumbai East, ABVP, had said then — did its bit, there's no denying, feel some, that the ideology that the union represents has seen more takers in the recent past. Even in a largely Left-leaning campus such as the Tata Institute of Social (TISS).
Saqib Khan
In the last one week, says Saqib Khan, one of the founding members of the Progressive Students Forum (PSF), posters that support the ABVP's stance in JNU, screaming "anti-nationals go away" signed by "An Indian", have cropped up at TISS. "Clearly the work of the small group of right-wing identifiers," he comments. But, it's not just posters.
Students from Mumbai participate in a silent protest against Rohith Vemula's suicide, linked to discriminatory treatment by Hyderabad Central University, on January 21. Pic/Atul Kamble
While there is no official group that identifies itself with right wing ideologies, he says, "they have begun to voice their opinions in a more organised and visible way than before on campus." To give an example, he talks of a January talk on campus by right-wing ideologue Rajiv Malhotra, which ended with students divided between pro- and anti-RSS sentiments. While free-thinking is encouraged on campus, what this points to is the rising popularity of right-wing ideology: if right-wing voices can be heard, even in a minority, on TISS, imagine their penetration in other campuses.
A history lesson here?
While student politics at JNU have largely been Left-dominated, Dr Shiv Shakti Bakshi, a former ABVP member, says the once "outsider party" gained support in 1996 when a programme was organised by Left outfits on the campus in support of Kashmiris separatists. "This was opposed by ABVP and general students came out overwhelmingly to support ABVP," he recalls, adding that the party first started gaining recognition during the late '80s and early '90s.
It was for the first time that ABVP was able to organise a massive procession on the campus. Support was spontaneous. In the ensuing student's election, ABVP swept all posts except that of the President, which it lost by a margin of four votes. Later on, the campus saw alignment and realignment of the forces within the Left. The JNUSU, which was earlier dominated by the All India Student's Association (AISA), was taken over by the AISA-SFI (Students Federation Of India) align.
In 1997, ABVP could win only the post of General Secretary and lost all seats in 1998. In 1999, ABVP won the post of joint secretary, and in 2000 the post of President and Joint-Secretary. It may have been defeated, but ABVP became a force to reckon with on campus.
Not Right Vs Left
Scratch under the very thin layer of right-wing/left-wing politics and a larger, perhaps deeper cause of worry, emerges — upper caste vs lower caste.
And, no where is it as evident as in Hyderabad.
From 50 members in its initial days, ASA, formed in 1993 in Hyderabad University, has more than 500 members now.
Its first electoral victory came two decades later when in 2011-12, ASA won the campus election after aligning with the Students' Federation of India (SFI). But, president of this ASA unit, Venkatesh Chouhan, says the University had initially given the impression of hostility towards Dalit students. "Student welfare issues raised by the ASA did not get much attention. Now, after Vemula's death, things are slowly changing on the campus," he says.
The ASA is the biggest Ambedkarite student party. Others, such as BAPSA (Birsa Ambedkar Phule Students Association) and DBPGSA (Dr Babasaheb Post Graduate Students Association) exist in JNU and Pune University respectively. While the ABVP, registered in 1949, is a national 'movement', the various Ambedkarite bodies are autonomous, and united only in ideology. For the first time, different student groups are coming under one roof to counter the upper-caste dominated ABVP, which is now cornered.
On the TISS campus, the ASA enjoys a unique position. Firstly, TISS (which is a deemed university) is one of few campuses in Maharashtra that conduct students elections — student elections were banned in state-affiliated universities after candidate from the National Students' Union of India (NSUI) Owen D'Souza was murdered in 1992 during the Mithibai College class representatives' elections. Secondly, with right-wing supporters (they haven't come together as one party yet), being a fledgling minority in TISS, their agenda lacks clarity.
"The group might voice their opinion strongly now, but when it comes to number, they don't stand a chance on the campus, both in student meetings as well as electorally," says Khan.
The ASA, on the other hand, on the TISS campus has a clearer agenda. Its evolution follows an SC/ST cell that was turned into TISS Scholars Group, which included SC, ST, OBCs and other minorities. Among its activities, the group organised Ambedkar memorial lectures. The founding members, says one of them, wanted to make Ambedkarite concerns more rooted, and thus formed the ASA in 2014 as a political front to the existing TISS Scholars Group. Ajinkya Chandanshive, a member of the interim core committee of the ASA unit at TISS, says that they are in the process of drafting a constitution.
"We are not just positioned against the ABVP, but all Brahminical and patriarchal ideologies," he says, clarifying that ASA doesn't work against specific parties, but against ideologies.
Chandanshive observes that the ABVP's aggressive stance is a counterstrike to the rise of Ambedkarite student parties. "TISS was known earlier for its Gandhian and Left ideologies. Now, the presence of Ambedkarite thought is strong here, as in JNU. The recent upsurge of the ASA has become a concern for the ABVP," says Chandanshive, an MPhil Women's Studies student at TISS.
Parthasarthi Mondal, assistant professor at TISS's School of Development Studies, says, the worrying trend is not the rise of the ABVP, but of the lack of theoretical frameworks. The challenge is to keep in mind the Dalit position, which gets compromised in the debate between the Left and the Right. "The ASA gets occluded from the picture. The ultimate basis for all conflict here is caste —which gets converted into class or gender unfortunately. We don't like it if the Hindu social order is shaken," he concludes.
Arrogance of the rulers
The ABVP agenda on its website states: "We are above 'partisan politics' but we accept that social activity cannot be non political in a strict sense."
The political nature, argues, Chouhan, is on the fore at Hyderabad University where ABVP is no more a student organisation. "They are implementing the BJP's ideology; they are terrorising other students while the BJP government plays politics," he alleges.
Pravin More, private secretary to Rajya Sabha member Ramdas Athawale of Republican Party of India (Athawale) is of the opinion that the ABVP is getting a 'rajashray' — the psychological support of the right wing in power. "The ideological gurus are involved in student activities," he says.
Dr Vijay More, RPI Youth General Secretary Maharastra State, says that ABVP has become a stepping stone for those who want to gain entry into the BJP and that this is happening at colleges across the city, especially in colleges such as Ruparel, Ruia and Kirti. While the principal of Ruia College, the principal of Kirti College said that while a number of student parties exist on campus, elections are banned, and they are cordial with each other. An official from Ruparel college, not wishing to be identified, denied More's statement and said, "Student party membership on college campuses are the choice of students. Campaigning on campuses is not permitted. All activities have to be conducted outside the campus. The question of students and politics is one that can be debated. While on the one hand, students need to be shown the principles of democracy and their rights, campus politics can be avoided. Colleges and education should be kept free of politics."
Prof G Haragopal
ABVP's arrogance, says Prof G Haragopal, distinguished political scientist, and a current ICSSR National Fellow with the TISS, Hyderabad, says, has only increased with the BJP at the Centre. "Their emboldened sense of ownership, backed by faculty members and the University's administration, only led the Dalit students to feel alienated," he says.
In his 25-year career at the Hyderabad University, he has seen the rise and downfall of ABVP. The ABVP was almost always dominated by the upper-caste and believed that the university was its oyster. The problem, he feels, is psychological at one level and structural at another. "The privileged caste faculty is not very cordial towards Dalit boys and girls coming from rural backgrounds," he says. "At the same time, the upper-caste boys and girls think they own the university."
Tremors within
But, recent events feels Haragopal, may be causing ABVP to lose its ideological hold. All other wings of the student unions are joining hands with the ASA in protest of Vemula's death. Even a group of upper caste students and female students are not supporting ABVP. While ABVP lost the elections last year at Hyderbad, its biggest public loss has been the resignation of three of its members in the post-JNU row —Pradeep Narwal, Rahul Yadav and Ankit Hans.
Narwal, former Joint Secretary of JNU unit of ABVP, who had quit the party, said, "I quit ABVP because of Rohith Vemula incident, JNU incident and Manusmiriti's caste system."
Expressing anguish over the assault on mediapersons and JNU students and teachers in Patiala House Court complex on Monday as well as the attack on JNUSU President Kanhaiya Kumar in the same court complex on Wednesday, Yadav, former President of ABVP unit of JNUs School of Social Sciences (SSS), alleged that the government was 'legitimizing' the actions of right-wing fascist forces. Yadav said, "I cannot be the mouthpiece of such a government which has unleashed oppression on the student community, in the name of expanding the base of ABVP."
In politics, fortune is a temperamental friend. But, whether ABVP is on the rise or fall, it has left lessons behind in its wake.
Anil Kumar, vice-president JNU Delhi state unit of NSUI, says, "We should change our approach to expand our base. The time has come for an internal assessment of our policy. Like ABVP, we should also start using the national flag along with NSUI and the Congress flag and should chant Vande Mataram. ABVP doesn't have a copyright on it. We also need to draw in greater numbers as members by using a simple database sheet." Meanwhile, NSUI has decided to participate in the peace march on Monday from Rajghat to India Gate organised by Narwal, Yadav and Hans.
Current or former, on-the-rise or in-the-slump, ABVP has just mastered the political art of staying in the news.


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Skip to comments.The Coupon Whisperer: The Strange Story of Coupon Mike
Posted on 01/01/2011 2:32:36 PM PST by PJ-Comix
I'm kicking off the New Year with a new blog. The main purpose of "The Coupon Whisperer" won't be to provide hot coupon tips, although I will be doing that. The primary purpose of this blog is to provide you with entertaining "war stories" from the field. Think of it as adventures in couponing. And so we start of with our first story...the strange story of Coupon Mike...
I met Coupon Mike earlier this year at his job when I was introduced to him by a mutual friend, who worked at the same place, because of our common interest in couponing. Upon meeting Coupon Mike, I must say I was very impressed by him. Rarely have I seen a more animated person. Coupon Mike had over the top enthusiasm about couponing which was highlighted by his wildly gesticulating arms, wide sparkling smile, and bright eyes as he happily related many of his couponing tips to me which I did my best to absorb as they tumbled out of his mouth at a furious pace. He was particularly enthusiastic about couponing at Walgreens and I have to credit Coupon Mike with sparking my interest in that store since I had mostly ignored it prior to meeting him. Since Coupon Mike proved to be a wealth of couponing information, I visited him several more times at this workplace and he always eagerly provided me the information that I sought which was much appreciated by me.
And then I met him out in the field... It was inside a grocery store where I spotted Coupon Mike filling up his shopping cart.
"HELLO, MIKE!" I happily chirped. "Doing some couponing today?"
He looked over at me but something about him seemed different. It was as if a balloon had been almost completely deflated. Gone was his previous enthusiasm and extroverted self-confidence to be replaced with with someone with a diffident hunched over posture. Instead of his normal booming voice, something like a frightened whisper said:
"Um...um...um... I can't talk now. Have to leave right away."
The change in Coupon Mike was shocking and I soon found out the reason when he introduced his wife. I can't remember her name but the impression she gave was the angry Eye of Sauron which is what I shall call her. She never said a word to me following that introduction. The only response she gave to me after I said hello to her was an angry death ray glare. The Eye of Sauron effect was accentuated by the fact that at nearly 6 and a half feet tall, she towered over both Coupon Mike and me. Anyway, no matter how much I tried to get Coupon Mike to talk shop, he persisted in timidly warning me away about how he had no time or that he had an appointment somewhere.
Okay, perhaps Coupon Mike was having a bad day. We all do. And, in fact, a couple of weeks later when I saw Coupon Mike back at work he was back to his old self again. Wildly gesticulating as he described the latest coupon deals he found.
Then a few weeks after that, I again spotted Coupon Mike at another store...accompanied by the Eye of Sauron. And again, Mike timidly begged me to leave him alone as I thought I was sure to get zapped by an angry ray from the Eye of Sauron. Either that or she would just flat out strangle me. That is how much rage was boiling inside of her.
This pattern repeated itself yet again. I met Coupon Mike at work where he was back to his old happy self only to be followed by a complete metamorphosis when I saw him at the store when he was towered over by the Eye of Sauron.
Finally I showed up at Mike's workplace but not to see him about more valuable coupon tips. My purpose was to question my friend what the deal was with the Eye of Sauron. I figured maybe it was something I did or said that so enraged her. Fortunately my friend assured me that it wasn't my fault. It turns out that the Eye of Sauron just hates EVERYONE. However, this makes me more curious. If someone hates everyone, how does that person even survive socially? In fact, how did the incredibly friendly Coupon Mike end up being married to the Eye of Sauron? How did they first meet? Also how do you get attracted to a woman who hates everyone and lets it be known with her perpetual Eye of Sauron death ray stare? Perhaps I'll never find out the answers to those questions but I must say that I do appreciate the friendly coupon advice that Coupon Mike has given me...when he is out of range of the Eye of Sauron.
And now for a hot coupon tip of the week. Starting on January 2, Walgreens has a $9 register rewards when you buy a 6-pack of Oscillococcinum Flu Medicine at $8.99. On top of that the January Walgreens coupon book is supposed to have a $5 coupon for that same item so when you pay $3.99 out of pocket, you get $9 back to spend on almost whatever you want. Since I have had a lingering on and off cold since Thanksgiving weekend, I think I'll give this medicine a try. You can't beat the price which amounts to FREE plus $5 net back.
PJ, please add me to the coupon ping list. Thanks.
Add me, please, PJ. And stay away from the scary lady. We need you here.
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I'd love a ping now and then, please! Thank you!
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I'd like to be on the list too, please.
Welcome aboard, PINGEE #9. And enjoy the FREE flu medicine and the extra 5 bucks of register rewards that you can spend on almost whatever you want (but not dairy or liquor).
With this coupon I have I can get 2 pings for the price of one.
Please ping me
Welcome aboard, PINGEE #10.
Oscillococcinum won't help his cold. But the $5 bill might make him feel better.
ping for me?
LOL! It would be FUnnie if The Coupon Whisperer Ping List ends up the #2 biggest Ping List on the FR next to guess which Ping List currently at #1.
If someone hates everyone, how does that person even survive socially? In fact, how did the incredibly friendly Coupon Mike end up being married to the Eye of Sauron?
The woman I know had marginal friends through high school, and her boyfriends didn't last long due to her perpetual and ever-present jealousy -- not only directed toward other females, but also toward any "guy time" he would spend with his buddies. I think at some point she took some sage advice, such as "catch more flies with honey than vinegar," and was able to turn off the rage machine long enough to last through the nuptials.
Once ensnared, the captive male acted much like Coupon Mike -- a decent and personable guy when the warden isn't around.
Please add me to the Coupon List. Thank you!
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Published 1:00 pm, Friday, March 18, 2011
Three people were injured in a wreck Thursday night near the 24th Street overpass.
According to the police report, Katelyn Ann Brown, 20, of Edmonson was driving a 2010 Dodge Nitro west in the 2800 block of West 24th around 7:48 p.m.
According to police, she failed to yield to oncoming traffic as she turned onto the overpass and collided with Richard Juanes, 39, of Plainview who was headed east on 24th in a 2004 Nissan Quest.
Brown, Juanes and his passenger, 15-year-old Jazmyn Juanes were taken by Plainview EMS to Covenant Hospital Plainview.
Hospital officials could not be reached to comment on their injuries this morning.
One-year-old Keegen Cozarte, a passenger with Brown, and Isabel Juanes, 38, and Jermyah Juanes, 11, passengers with Richard Juanes, were not injured in the wreck.
According to the report, no citations were issued.
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Instructor, student killed in plane crash
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ANCHORAGE - A flight instructor and student died Sunday in a small plane crash near the airport in Wasilla, a Federal Aviation Administration spokes-man said.
The single-engine plane, a Cessna 177, departed Sunday from Merrill Field in Anchorage, 45 miles south of Wasilla. The plane was not required to file a flight plan, said FAA spokesman Ian Gregor.
The plane belonged to Aero Tech Flight Services, a flight instruction business based at Merrill Field.
After-hours calls to the company were not immediately returned.
Gregor said no names will be released until families have been contacted.
The National Weather Service reported calm winds and cloudy skies with a visibility of 10 miles at the Wasilla Airport, said lead forecaster Eddie Zingone.
The plane's crumpled remains lay in a dirt field just shy of the airport, according to the FAA and footage from KTUU-TV in Anchorage.
Gregor said the FAA and the National Transportation Safety Board are planning to investigate the cause of the crash.
Fires continue to rage in Southcentral
ANCHORAGE - With dozens of homes and seasonal cabins already destroyed by a widespread blaze, fire crews on Sunday worked to protect hundreds of others tucked in the hills of the scenic Kenai Peninsula.
The fire has burgeoned to 81 square miles since Tuesday, consuming 35 far-flung cabins in the Caribou Hills, state fire information officials said.
Forty other structures, including sheds and outhouses, also were lost in the popular hunting and snowmobiling area about 80 miles south of Anchorage, the state's largest city.
The blaze is carving easily through wide swaths of beetle-killed spruce, and crews are finding it hard to maneuver in the warren of footpaths and gravel roads criss-crossing the hills, said fire information officer Elaine Hall.
The fire threatens another 600 residences and cabins, Hall said. An evacuation order has been in effect since Friday, however, fire officials said an unknown number of residents have refused to budge.
"Some folks stayed to protect their houses when they were supposed to evacuate, but we haven't heard about anyone being hurt so far," said Bob Evenson, a fire volunteer and resident of nearby Kasilof.
Officials did not know how many people had left their homes because many of the structures are only used seasonally.
Nearly 400 firefighting personnel from around Alaska and the Lower 48 have arrived throughout the week, according to the Alaska Interagency Management Team.
Search goes on for bodies of campers
FAIRBANKS - The search continues for the bodies of two campers who disappeared at Harding Lake nearly a month ago with volunteers from Alaska villages and the lower 48 still trickling in.
Searchers believe the bodies of Travis Alexander, 19, of Fort Yukon and Kathy Garrigan, 24, of the Chicago suburb of Oak Park, are somewhere in the deep, cold waters of the large lake.
The body of 20-year-old Liza Lomando of East Meadow, New York, was pulled from the lake shortly after the three AmeriCorps volunteers were reported missing.
They were on a camping trip during Memorial Day weekend when their canoe apparently tipped, authorities said.
The three worked for the Nenana-based Tribal Civilian Community Corps, which is affiliated with AmeriCorps and the Tanana Chiefs Conference, which continues to lead the search.
"This is probably the longest that we've searched in one of our Interior lakes in a number of years," said Jim Knopke, director of village public safety and security for TCC. "That doesn't stop our resolve for working this as long as we need to."
A sonar team of eight people from a Georgia-based nonprofit, the Seth Foundation, arrived this week, and divers from the Alaska National Guard are expected over the weekend. Volunteers continue to arrive from multiple Interior villages.
Chris Sandland, a diver, is also assisting in the search.
"We're there to recover these kids out of the lake and to provide closure to the families," Knopke said. "That's our ultimate goal. I think we've been doing everything humanly possible to try and achieve those results."
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No Man's Sky is an ambitious game, and that ambition is seductive. It certainly seduced Sony, who after spotting the work in progress by the fairly small outfit Hello Games, began pushing it heavily and providing support in turning into a flagship product for the PlayStation 4 (Though it is on PC as well, and that is the version I played). After some modest delays, it has arrived. And, let's get this out of the way without prevarication, it's pretty bad.
The obvious comparison and one which has been made almost since NMS was first revealed is to Spore, perhaps the most legendary disappointment in gaming history. This isn't an entirely fair comparison as, although things were cut and changed in the development of No Man's Sky, most of those are reasonable things to change in the process of making a game. Not all, the absence of some features has caused much anger (Multiplayer is the big one), but a huge gulf between the game's promised features and actual ones is not, unlike Spore or Fable, the wellspring of the game's shortcomings.
The game's premise is fairly simple: You're a person with a spacesuit, a crashed spaceship, and a set of tools and blueprints. Using the things that work, you wander around a world to repair the things that don't. Once completed you take off the same basic idea plays out, briefly in a solar system, then in the broader galaxy. This galaxy is, for reference, astonishingly vast, estimated to contain over 18 quintillion planets (that's 18,000,000,000,000,000,000), which is not just vastly more than any player could explore, but more than the entire human population of seven or so billion could even make a single landing on, if we all worked together. Obviously this is more than could ever be made by hand, so Hello Games developed procedural generation algorithms to place stars and their systems, to create the landscape on these worlds, and to create flora and fauna to populate said worlds.
This is an impressive feat, make no mistake. That the game world is physically manifested, properly put together, and then populated, is remarkable. It should be stressed that the game's shortcomings do not come from this side of things, despite the rash of issues players have been having, including me, and the rather poor level of graphical fidelity that is necessary to instantiate the huge worlds you land on. Bugs and graphics are mostly things that can and hopefully will be fixed with time and patching. No, the problems, sadly, stem from something rather deeper and more difficult to fix. Primarily, this might be the widest pool a game has ever presented us with, but it's also a remarkably shallow one. The procedure throughout the game never really varies; you go to a planet, harvest resources with your laser mining gun thing, and spend those resources on refueling your ship and various tools, and on assembling upgrades you need. You do some poking around to find blueprints for more upgrades, but this is never more involved than either shooting down a Sentinel or poking your head into a tiny outpost and downloading them. Repeat this until you reach the center of the galaxy, however far away that may be. This is all done within the confines of an extremely annoying and restrictive inventory system.
This is all tedious. There is no other way to say it. Collecting resources is tedious. Refueling all your gear as well as your several distinct ship engines is tedious. Not getting the upgrades you want/need is tedious. Inventory management is horrible. An otherwise compelling experience might be able to overcome these issues but, alas, the game quickly proves itself to be tedious in the main as well as in the details. As part of the task of repairing my ship, I had to go find an element deposit to mine. It was about ten minute's walk away, so I duly set off. Half an hour later I arrived – I had stopped to scan animals, harvest some resources, and had to navigate around a pretty awesome network of caves and sinkholes that ran throughout the landscape. It was genuinely cool and enjoyable. I got there, gathered the stuff, and headed back. And I pretty much walked in a straight line for the needed ten minutes as there was nothing else interesting do. But here's the insidious problem that became apparent when I went to another planet to begin exploding: There was no new sense of wonder or desire to explore. It was exactly the same thing with a trivially different coat of paint. For example, I had originally thought it really cool and interesting that I found a type of plant from which I could harvest a small amount of platinum, but the new world contained an almost identical plant, just containing zinc instead. As I needed zinc, this was quite useful! And also demonstrative of the fact that for all the scope of the game there's nothing unique about any of it.
The same pattern repeated itself. Things are visually different and that is all. There are occasional factors such as extreme temperatures or high amounts of radiation but these are just another annoying drain on your suit systems that you have to refuel. The animals have some visual variety, but that is it. None of them actually do anything interesting or unique. The plants, unsurprisingly, are even less interesting, being plants. Now, the planets and systems themselves fare a lot better in this regard. They do combine to create, at the least, unique vistas. It was unquestionably cool to be walking on a planet and seeing another one rising in the sky, knowing that I can hop in my ship and seamlessly fly over to it, land, and explore, with my current location hovering in the new sky. The flipside is that systems are so cramped with planets packed together – necessary for the 'alien sky' effect – that they feel downright claustrophobic.
But the presence of nice vistas isn't nearly enough to salvage the game. I have no special insight into the thoughts of the developers, but seems to be thoroughly obvious that the development process was torn between making a game about pure exploration and one which incorporates more traditional gameplay elements. The end result feels like an ugly compromise, and the constant, irritating urging to locate the next mineral you need, to build the next ship part you need, to fabricate a fuel cell and jump to the next system all implies a developer who was not confident the exploration part of the game was enough to compel people by itself. They were right, as it turns out, but their solution only made it a weaker experience. A good game has elements which are in tension with each other and encourage the player to find the most efficient ways to overcome those tensions. This can be as simple as managing limited ammo in a shooter. No Man's Sky demonstrates what happens when a developer tries and fails to implement such tensions. Everything simply gets in the way of everything else. You want to explore a planet, but you are regularly interrupted by warnings that your life support is draining. So you stop, blast apart some plants or rocks or crystals, replenish your life support, and carry on. You do it again a few minutes later. You want to explore space, but your fuel supplies need regular replenishment. You have to land on planets for at least some of those fuels, or you can sometimes buy them, but you usually make money best by landing and collecting stuff anyway. Again, it strongly suggests Hello Games had little confidence that people would explore the universe on its own merits, and they inserted a host of 'reasons' to do so – except those reasons only detract from the experience and make exploration a chore without enlivening it.
The same issue even appears in the way the game tells you you have completed an achievement. I know how trivial that sounds, but bear with me. When you complete an achievement, whether that is walking a certain distance, making your first planetfall, whatever, the game throws it up front and center. Big black bars appear to make it feel cinematic whilst the achievement name and what you did to get it take up much of the view. This isn't necessarily a bad thing, as you're unlikely to be in frantic action too often when this happens, but the game desperately wants to convince you that This Is Big, that You Did A Huge Thing, whereas actually I walked five kilometers and scanned an animal the size of a cat but weighing as much as an adult human.
No Man's Sky deserves credit for the technical achievement it represents. Even with the problems of the PC port it is mind-boggling that such a game could exist at all. There are definitely worthwhile moments to be had, whether jetpacking over a series of sinkholes filled with glowing red plants and crystals, or seeing a unique continent formation on the face of a planet rising in the sky. But the awe wears off in a great hurry and you are left, beneath that veneer, with a game that is trivially shallow in every metric, which has a world for infinite exploration and nothing giving you an impetus to explore it, and gameplay mechanics that both fail to paper over that fact and which themselves are a paramount exercise in tedium and irritating busywork. It is possible that with content patches (or simply cheats that remove the resource side of things entirely) the game will become more than it is right now, but it is hard to recommend to anyone in its current state, and certainly not at the current price.


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Night Ships
Mmmm . . . stepped out of the front door last night to let Sheba out for a little swim – she likes to skinny dip in the dark – and the lights on the ships across the harbour simply stunned me. Had to trot back inside to get my G11.
I set everything to manual and cranked the ISO up to 800 and got this telephoto shot by bracing the camera against a coconut tree:
I backed off the telephoto a little and got this nice little panorama:I'm not feeling too wordy today. I think I may have blown a fuse or something yesterday. Maybe it's the Aliens influencing me to cool it.
Going back to the images from my dive with Monty Armstrong on The Lady Anne I found one that I'd forgotten to massage. It's a kind of Sea Squirt that grows profusely in the rich (read full of sewerage) waters of the inner harbour:Its formal name is Rhopalaea circulata. I'm actually quite happy with the image, considering that the water was filthy. It marks the first time that I've posted an image of a species that is clearly better than anything that I could find on the web (not that a better one doesn't exist somewhere). Yeah, I'm feeling a bit smug about that. Hey, I work hard at this. Even geeks should get to win once in a while.
This little Freckled Hawkfish (Paracirrhites fosteri) also makes me smile:It gave me every opportunity to capture a good image. If there is any fault for imperfection, it's the photographer's. I wish every fish posed so nicely.
Well, I'm running out of words. Some days I feel like I could write all day. Sometimes I do, for magazine articles. Other days, it just doesn't flow. However, I can't leave without showing you one more shot of the amazing Broadclub Cuttlefish (Sepia latimanus) that inspired my bizarre "Aliens" post of yesterday.I had a dream this morning about these critters. Very amusing.
Ursula Andress was in it too.Tags: Broadclub Cuttlefish, freckled hawkfish, Paracirrhites fosteri, rhopalaea circulata, sea squirt, sepia latimanus, ship


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Kylie Minogue and Jason Donovan reunited to sing their classic duet Especially For You – with a little help from David Walliams.
The pair, who first released the track 25 years ago, came back together for a special Sport Relief performance with a twist.
Kylie started the song solo, before being joined by a certain someone…
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How best to put words to this experience? A weekend treat, both from the intellectual and social angles. Two days dedicated to the pursuit of knowledge in an atmosphere of great camaraderie and a "je ne sais quoi" difficult to express in writing. The conference was well attended. There were 133 guests. The speakers were impressive and the wide variety of the themes they covered appealed to both interpreters and translators. Food and drinks served were first class and contributed to a feeling of contentment. No wine, alas! The good stuff, though, flowed generously at the dinners on both days. The one offered at Rosa Blanca in Old City on Saturday evening was followed by a guided tour of historic old city graciously given by Donna Jarvela, Conservator and Restorer of the Cultural and Art Heritage. It proved especially informative to the out-of-town folk, as well as to the visiting speakers. The optional evening activities were superbly organized by Armando Ezquerra Hasbun. DVTA Program Chair Maria Weir did a wonderful job at organizing the dinner at Rosa Blanca as well as selecting the menus for all the meals enjoyed throughout the weekend. She was assisted by Program Co-Chair Carlota Dalziel.
Together with ATA's Spanish Division the DVTA excelled at putting on this outstanding event, to which the Hispanic Institute of La Salle University contributed by providing a great venue, as well as the coffee break refreshments.
It would make for too lengthy an article to detail all the sessions open to the attending public. A few of the speakers, though, are worth mentioning here. James Plunkett, Coordinator of Interpreter Services and of the Language Access Program of the District of Columbia Courts, Matthew Schlecht, scientific medical translator, Armando Ezquerra Hasbun, certified by the Federal Courts, NAJIT and by ATA in the English › Spanish language pair, Anthony Rivas, core faculty at the University of Arizona's Agnese Haury Institute and Antonio Martin from Spain, a Spanish Philology specialist from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. Other outstanding presenters were Heidi Cazes Sevilla, Leticia Molinero, Izaskun Orkwis, Gabriela Jenicek, Doborah Saldaña, Renee Wulf, Rudy Tellez, Georganne Weller, Virginia Valencia, Rudy Heller and Marian Greenfield (former ATA President from 2005 to 2007). DVTA President, Antonio Guerra, also gave an informative presentation on The Power of Collective Engagement. Intensive skill-building workshops were also offered to both translators and interpreters. One of particular interest given by Armando Ezquerra Hasbun was titled "The Subtle Art of Transcreation." This author found it inspiring and thought-provoking, being a subject rarely touched upon in similar seminars. Transcreation is a term used chiefly by advertising and marketing professionals to refer to the process of adapting a message from one language to another, while maintaining its intent, style, tone and context. As a working interpreter, this author was keenly interested in the workshop, where successful interpretation was defined as the art of accurately conveying meaning and "evoking the same emotions and carrying the same implications in the target language as it does in the source language."
Another story that merits a special mention was one brought up by Anne Connor, DVTA secretary and former president. It happened at one of the final sessions on Sunday with the Panel of Experts on Translation -which ran right into the Translation Roundtable. Giovanna Lester was moderating a panel formed by Kirk Anderson, Marian Greenfield, Antonio Martin, Anthony Rivas and Anne Connor. I quote Anne: "When an audience member asked a question about proofreading/editing one's own work, Antonio Martin preferred to answer in Spanish. Gio then asked if there were any non-Spanish speakers in the room. Three interpreters from the School District of Philadelphia (two Khmer and one Mandarin) raised their hands. At that, Rudy Heller hopped out of his chair in the front row and crouched behind the three interpreters, simultaneously and flawlessly interpreting every word that came out of Antonio Martin's mouth, as well as a follow-up comment from another audience member who preferred to tell her story in Spanish because of the poorly translated Spanish words she'd seen at a doctor's office. It really summed up the spirit of the whole weekend!" End of quote.
Armando Ezquerra Hasbun ably chaired Spring into Action, assisted by the DVTA board and Francesca Samuel, head of ATA's SPA. A very effective team indeed. Comments on the seminar have been pouring in. Here are a few:
"You deserve a standing ovation for the amazing conference" (Sylvia Castellanos). "I finally learned how I can actually practice to improve my skills, rather than just have all the material thrown at me and then just be told, go home and practice." (Christina Verduin). "Tony, Armando, Anne, Maria and Carlota went over, above and beyond what was expected of them, in making things work so smoothly … What an experience! A success at all levels: the welcome, details, preparation, selection of speakers, attendees, location… weather too!"(Gio Lester). "I had a great time; made new acquaintances, renewed old ones, and learned more about the interpreter business than I have been able to glean in all my previous years. I also appreciated the chocolate and cookies in the goodie bag that I was given after the sessions on Saturday! Someone knows about my sweet tooth!" (Matthew Schlecht). Each speaker at the seminar received a goodie bag.
On Sunday afternoon before the roundtable sessions, and outside in the pleasant sunny weather, a musical group spontaneously came together and delighted attendees with an impromptu concert. Many in the audience joined in the singing with gusto. DVTA member and First Judicial District of Philadelphia staff interpreter, Javi Aguilar, had brought his guitar and other musical instruments. Once he got started it didn't take long before people were singing and dancing along with him! James Plunkett from the Washington, D.C. courts joined in and played on Javi's guitar with great enthusiasm. Javi also played wooden flutes while a few from the public provided the percussion, using Javi's Costa Rican shells to great effect. This joyous display of talent will no doubt be fondly remembered by performers and audience alike.
The last Sunday event was held at Olney 100. A round table with a panel of experts had been invited by DVTA for the occasion. The panel members were James Plunkett, from the DC Superior Courts, The Honorable Ida K. Chen, from the Philadelphia County Court of Common Pleas in Pennsylvania (a frequent guest at DVTA events), and Mr.Osvaldo Aviles, from the Administrative Office of the Courts of PA. It turned out to be a very lively and informative session, with a brisk exchange of questions and answers on the latest issues in the field of interpretation. Judge Chen's lively contribution was inspiring, best expressed in the words of Tony Guerra, DVTA's president "Thank you for lending your phenomenal presence, wit and wisdom to contribute to the success of our event. It was encouraging and thrilling to have experienced so many individuals gathered with the common goal of quality, skill and ethics in language access and so fitting to have you and Osvaldo in our midst."
A delicious dinner on Sunday night at Tierra Colombiana brought to a close an unforgettable seminar. There was definitely a "je ne sais quoi" to this event, and I don't mind repeating myself! Thank you DVTA! Thank you ATA SPD! Thank you La Salle Hispanic Institute! The successful outcome was the earned reward. An appreciated parting touch was a free headshot offered to all attendees by the team of professional photographers in charge of photographing the group at closing on Sunday. All good things come to an end…


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Asparagus with Lemon Cream
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Serves: 6
- salt
- Pepper
- 2 lb. asparagus
- 1 lemon
- ½ c. sour cream
- 2 tbsp. heavy cream
- 1 tbsp. snipped fresh chives
- Heat large covered saucepot of water to boiling on high. Fill large bowl with ice and water.
- Add 1 teaspoon salt, then asparagus, to boiling water. Cook, uncovered, 4 minutes or until bright green and a knife pierces easily through stalks. With tongs, transfer directly to bowl of ice water. When asparagus is cool, drain well; roll between paper towels to dry completely. Asparagus can be refrigerated in airtight container or resealable plastic bag up to overnight.
- From lemon, grate 1 teaspoon peel and squeeze 2 tablespoons juice into small bowl. Whisk in sour cream, heavy cream, and 1/4 teaspoon each salt and freshly ground black pepper. Sauce can be refrigerated in airtight container up to 3 days.
- Spoon sauce over asparagus and garnish with chives.
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