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A few days back I consumed the last packet of Maggi noodles, allegedly infused with lead and MSG, as per tests conducted by our food authorities, many of whom we hear are quite serious about their work. Given their diligence, maybe, someday in the distant future poor and underfed children across India will not die or be frequently hospitalised due to acute food poisoning in school Mid Day meals that is managed by the government.
Maybe, someday in the distant future the street food I often consume off the streets of Delhi and anywhere else in India will be free of faecal matter, pesticides, insecticides, contaminated water, bacteria. My guess is that such acche din will not be witnessed either by me or Narendra Modi in our lifetime, unless we decide to settle down in Europe.
Given all the dirty food circulating around us, it was a bit of shock, as it must have been for countless others, when Maggi was banned. After all, Maggi can easily be added to the list of Bollywood, cricket and politics that Indians, rich and poor, are habituated to obsess about, for the good or bad. It has a cultural, historical, traditional zing to it.
I recall my college days, more than two decades ago: I owned a second hand scooter and ate Maggi. I could afford both without begging my parents for more pocket money. The contamination issue was a shocker too. It was unexpected. It would perhaps have been more apt to ban the noodles and also Cola, French Fries, potato chips, MacDonald burgers for causing obesity among countless children addicted to junk.
And the supposedly healthy zero version of such junk causing obesity among countless adults. Instead Maggi has been banned as it supposedly contains MSG and lead. I do not recall reading anything about anybody being hospitalised after eating Maggie.
Bit like, prohibiting cigarettes, alcohol or tobacco, not because they are a health hazard or social evil, but because they smell and taste bad, with the added warning that all actors and actresses who have ever smoked and drunk on screen could be accused of committing a crime.
Instead of digging for past greats who deserve the Bharat Ratna, the authorities would start sending notices to families of dead stalwarts who smoked. In India anything in possible, though some things will never change, like potholed roads, power cuts and crony capitalists such as Lalit Modi who party hop from Italy to Ibiza with impunity.
Getting back to the last packet of Maggi in my house. It was the last in my area too. I cross-checked. There are no more available in the super markets in the vicinity. As a matter of fact all instant noodles seem to have disappeared from the shelves. I wonder why our authorities are unable to impact other aspects of our daily living that desperately need to be acted upon, like removing potholed roads, power cuts, malnourishment, hunger, farmer suicides.
I asked a couple of shop keepers about Maggi packets. Even though I am a frequent visitor, they looked away, shaking and nodding their heads, as if I had requested for a contraband item, condom or maybe they thought I was a food inspector in my real life. It was disappointing to boil the last of the Maggie noodles in my kitchen.
My culinary skills do not count for much, except for boiled egg and the perfect Maggi, soft strands and very tasty. Sometimes I just microwave, between seven to eight minutes; very simple. And, in normal circumstances I would not have dared to eat the Maggie, especially if it was the last packet available in Mother India. The instant noodles in the house are strictly reserved for my two daughters.
Rest assured, there are never any leftovers, unlike green vegetables, dal and milk. Until the controversy broke, the children were assigned a quota of two packets of Maggi each per month by their very health conscious mom, given the high salt and calorie intake. The kids thus count their noodles before they eat.
Until the supercharged and hysterical scenario centred around Maggi is fully cleared I guess it was a tad risky to offer them to the kids, who were clearly not very happy with the double standards. "What is not good for us is not good for him," they argued. But, I overruled, for once, exercising my authority as a father. As I relished the last dish of instant noodles, I debated the controversy in my mind yet again.
The matter is not settled yet. There are too many grey areas and unanswered questions. It is for the Mumbai court to decide now. Whatever be the final denouement, there is no doubt that India's food standards are among the worst in the world. We owe it to the future generation to set things right. It has to be now or never.
Narendra Modi has completed one year in office and traveled to more locations around the world than most Indians would in a lifetime. A robust foreign policy no doubt is a big plus of his tenure so far. Does India need a foreign minister with Modi at the helm, is one question?
Also, judging by his high pitched acche din electoral rhetoric prior to assuming power, India should have been heaven on earth by now. That was never possible. I am writing this piece sitting by the window of a swanky hotel that I frequently stay for work. Across the potholed road is a slum cluster where an army of kids, babies, pigs and piglets happily wallow in the filth and dirt. Pigs will be pigs, kids will be kids.
The view was the same a year back though the road has thankfully been repaired which has nothing to with Modi.
I believe the local residents took up the matter strongly with the authorities. Going by Modi's cleverly worded electoral promises, the broader landscape from my hotel window should have also changed. It has not. And will probably not alter anytime soon, unless a mall or a hotel is built and the slum cluster demolished overnight. The pigs and the kids will find another unoccupied space to survive, die or play. Lets be realistic. India cannot change overnight or a Salman Khan blockbuster movie unexpectedly start making sense.
Many apprehensions about Modi have been proved untrue though it was a bit of a shocker when he turned out in an expensive monogrammed suit to meet Barack Obama.
Till then, most sartorial comments about Modi centred around his resplendent pugree's, trademark half jacket and refusal to wear a skull cap. Modi is not a fascist, as some loudly feared, who would destroy Indian democracy and jail every leftist liberal that has dared to take him on from his or her cosy office in South Delhi. Judiciary, media, Parliament, CAG, defence forces, continue to play their role. Thankfully, pseudo secularism is dead for now and has not been substituted by hounding of minorities as some predicted; building the Ram temple at Ayodhya is not every Hindu's, who may otherwise be starving, without a job or money, manna. Hindutva oddballs exist and spew their gibberish about state-orchestrated Ghar Wapasi or Love Jihad but are clearly unwanted.
There is instead a subtle and perhaps more acceptable emphasis on emblems of Hindu culture and traditions such as Yoga, Gita or Ayurveda. Baba Ramdev has never been so politically relevant, though it would be nicer if he stuck to just Yoga and promoting his popular Patanjali products.
Modi and his creative team's clever play of catchwords and slogans persists: Swachh Bharat, Make in India, Nari Shakti, smart city, fastest train, to name some. Honestly, creating such consciousness does help change mindsets. Recently, my elder daughter, in class IX, spoke passionately about the practical measures that can be undertaken by individual households to make our neighbourhood clean. She is presenting a paper on it for a school debate. A healthy mix of ideas in a young mind can only be for the good. Too many events impinging imaginations are far removed from reality, such as Zayn Malik quitting the boy band One Direction or Taylor Swift's latest hairdo.
Ultimately, Modi will be judged by his promise to deliver on development. The change has to be real and not a mishmash like Bombay Velvet that only satisfies the director Anurag Kashyap's creative side, whatever that may mean. He needs to think of the paying audience as well. In the last one year, Modi has underlined his growth strategy — push infrastructure, cut down or target via direct cash transfers often wasteful welfarist expenditure, reform power, help business and hope that the resulting economic recovery benefits the people of India.
No doubt there is a sense of purpose in the government that wants to deliver, whether it is proposed tax reforms or land bill that balances interests of both industry and farmers.
Modi slogs and he makes sure others under him do too during holidays and weekends. Such is the work pressure that some bureaucrats, usually inclined towards honing golfing skills at Delhi Golf Club, have reportedly installed beds in their office. This can only be good for the country.
Consider also for a moment, Modi's potential competitors — Rahul Gandhi and Arvind Kejriwal. The Delhi government headed by Kejriwal really needs to introspect and reassess its future course of action, rather than entangle in issues that are irrelevant, like a dog trying to bite its own tail. Gandhi disappeared on a holiday for two months. He has reappeared and looks refreshed, no doubt, but woefully inadequate to take on a wily, street-smart, driven, contender Modi. Holidays cannot make a person intelligent, working hard can.
World Cup cricket is underway and India has had a good start beating South Africa and Pakistan, both dangerous opponents capable of winning the tournament provided Shahid Afridi connects with the bat. And South Africa learn how not to choke.
I believe the African team has appointed an anti-choke specialist to guard the big moments. At the time of writing the piece, the big news is that Chris Gayle has scored the fastest double century in one day internationals and the first ever at the World Cup.
Gayle has it mentally sorted. Approach a one day match like a two and half T-20 IPL match being played in Mohali. Need to check out Gayle's latest dance moves post Gangnam. I believe it is Zumba. Replicating the immensely successful T-20 IPL format, based on the principle that Indians will never tire of watching too much cricket, Salman Khan without a shirt and Aamir Khan speaking about social matters, the WC too will feature a surfeit of matches at the league stage.
The idea is to ensure the Indian team, the main commercial mainstay of WC on TV where the big bucks are made, have a whole lot of matches to win or lose so that the people who need to book profits, are guaranteed their returns, given the crazed eyeballs. And as greed knows no bounds, some will also try their luck via the illegal betting circuit.
Should the Indian team make it to the quarter finals, as seems quite likely now as Virat Kolhi is no longer the only guy scoring on and off the field, there will be even more money to be made, based on the principle that after watching too much of cricket early morning till afternoon, Indians will never miss a cricket match when suffixed with a final, whether quarter, semi or the actual grand finale featuring heroes Virat and Dhoni who won India the last WC with a six. The country went crazy. Dhoni may have mellowed, but there are others now willing to don the mantle. Personally, I have moved on from cricket.
I have the auto refresh scorecard running on my laptop but do not make it a point to watch the matches on TV, unless I happen to be in front of a wall mounted telly which can be quite unavoidable at times.
When India is playing any TV set anywhere in the country, airport, coffee shop, dhaba, railway station, feature the cricket. And, there is usually an assembly of watchers following the game, dropping work, meetings, wives, family, girlfriends and sometimes a flight. I have really not been able to pin down why I do not go out of my way watch a cricket match anymore. I am in my forties now.
But, that does not mean that I have given up too many of the activities of the past like watching Bollywood movies, reading Chetan Bhagat or trying out very cheap oily roadside channa bhatura. As a matter of fact I do not mind listening to some of the music followed by my teenage daughter such as One Direction, Maroon-5, even Taylor Swift. I do not think this is about cynicism.
Indian cricket has had its share of problems no doubt due to matters concerning conflict of interest in BCCI involving the stubborn Srinivasan, political, business intrigue and role of the bookie mafia.
However, nobody doubts that our boys (most of them that is), when they play the game believe they are doing so for the country in every emotional and cricketing sense. I do not think this has changed since the time I closely followed cricket, the actual ball by ball action, initially on radio then on TV. Looking back, it was actually also an enormous amount of time wasted, the way today's kids idle on gadgets.
I do, however, believe that Indians my generation grew up following cricket as more than just a game. It was the one way of proving to the world that India too counted in the global platform. The 1983 WC victory symbolised just that emotional connect. So did the movie Lagaan, some years later. However, India today is different. Who wants to make a point about colonialism by beating England anymore? Cricket is not our only global forte; there are many more in diverse sectors ranging from software to medicine to exploring the moon and Mars.
For the new generation, cricket is a game, hard fought, pulsating and competitive, encapsulated in the T-20 format. But then, there are other sports too that offer similar thrills if not more. World soccer, for example, beamed live from Europe and other parts of the world; car racing. But, that does not mean that cricket is out my system. Quarter Finals onwards I am going to be incommunicado. Hope India makes it to the final and Dhoni or maybe Virat seals it with another six against the domineering Aussies. That will be simply fantastic. GO INDIA.
Suppose the contest was between Arvind Kejriwal and Narendra Modi to be Delhi's chief minister. For argument sake and to complete the picture, if Rahul Gandhi was in the fray too.
Any direct Modi-Kejriwal fixture would surely have much been closer, though it is risky to make such assessments before hand as the exit polls demonstrated by getting it wrong yet again. There should be some mechanism to ensure the pollsters refund their fees due to selling products so badly off the mark. They should be made to apologise, at the least.
It is, however, safe to assume without seeking opinions, that Gandhi would have lost badly, and probably brushed aside the defeat with a beatific smile as he did following the general elections that angers his party cadres no end nowadays. The latest to lose her patience is Jayanti Natarajan, a veteran Congress leader.
The advent of Kiran Bedi, probably, queered it for the BJP during the recently concluded Delhi elections. Her powerful persona and I will set things right my way whether you like it or not as I am a Magsaysay winner, towed Indira Gandhi's car and restructured Tihar Jail, resulted in Modi being obliterated from the consciousness of Delhi voters. That did not help the BJP.
It helped Kejriwal. Of course, it is very easy to arrive at such conclusions given the benefit of hindsight once the results are out.
This is what BJP chief Amit Shah, who has lost just one electoral matchup so far and that too to Kejriwal who turned out to be no minnow, would probably have us believe. No doubt, India needs both Kejriwal and Modi to succeed, just as India cannot win matches with only Virat Kohli scoring hundreds at a faster rate than Sachin and rest, whether Dhawan, Raina or Dhoni failing.
Competition is healthy. Both Modi and Kejriwal mean business and have been voted to power due to clearly defined promises.
Kejriwal will need to take on corruption at lower levels of government functioning that affects everybody. The poor are the biggest victims while the rich and middle classes need to pay bribes to get their work done. The one index to measure the happiness of Delhi is the mood of the auto rickshaw drivers, the most harassed due to forced inducements to multiple agencies, beginning at the level of a traffic constable. If Kejriwal can make them content, it will be a sure shot indication that corruption has been checked.
The Aaam Aadmi party head, meanwhile, is clearly a mellowed and matured person following his short 49-day stint as chief minister of Delhi earlier and comprehensively losing the general elections last summer to Modi. Thankfully, in the first few days of his second tenure the pre-dominant images have been Kejriwal and his wife out on a leisurely morning walk. He hugged her in front of the cameras following the astonishing victory of his party, though not as passionately as Modi grabbed Obama at the Palam airport tarmac in a show of outright bro-mance. Not sure whether Modi would have appreciated Obama's parting speech at Siri Fort about respecting all religions. Like any relationship, Modi-Obama, India-USA also has its share of undercurrents.
Kejriwal does look a winner, not an anarchist any more, which is the way it should be. He has set himself a five year time frame to deliver. Changing any system with vested interests and a super efficient delivery paradigm that thrives on bribes, whether to procure driving license or register property, cannot be an overnight process. Kejriwal will need to show results or else the voters of Delhi and perhaps the rest of the country will shunt him out. If he succeeds, he can be a legitimate challenge to Modi in 2019.
Kejriwal has hurt Modi. But, there is a long battle ahead. Modi is no pushover. His government is pushing for growth and sorting out India's woeful power supply scenario by promoting clean energy like no Prime Minister has done before.
He has evolved from the days as chief minister of Gujarat when an underlying communal machinery was at work to ply Hindutva as a vote gathering strategy. Modi knows too well the people of India have overwhelmingly backed him to deliver on his promises of development, growth and good governance.
One can sense that the Prime Minister's Office is at work, silently, frenetically and efficiently to ensure that Make in India does not remain a mere slogan like Swachh Bharat Abhiyaan, that the country's natural resources, whether the sun, wind, coal, oil and gas, spectrum, are efficiently managed; that industry and manufacturing prospers. This is not about crony capitalism.
This is about changing the overall picture and the way India is viewed by global investors. The impact of these changes take some time to trickle to the common man; pursued with earnest they will sooner or later take the form of greater income for all. It will be good for India if either Kejriwal or Modi succeed. Given their positive agendas, it will be even better if both do well.
PK has reportedly earned Rs 600 crore and still going strong. Unfortunately, the movie does not work for me despite the efforts of Rajkumar Hirani and the great Aamir Khan, who have delivered blockbusters and laugh riots such as Munnabhai MBBS and Three Idiots in the past that I, and most others I am sure, have thoroughly enjoyed. As is his manner, Hirani tries to mix up the serious with the comic. In my opinion, both attempts fail. The initial portions of PK I liked.
To begin with, there are sequences where Anushka Sharma cycles in a short skirt along a river in spic and span Europe in summer, which can only be pleasing to the eye. As I realised this was actually going to be one of my high points of the movie. Perhaps the cycling scene could have been much longer. I say this in hindsight, obviously.
I also liked the track Char Kadam, though I am not so sure Virat Kohli did, given the chemistry between Sushant Singh Rajput and Anushka, which actually does not matter as long as the present and future Indian cricket captain continues to hit centuries.
I liked the Aamir, Sanjay Dutt Rajasthani number. That was peppy and groovy. These are opening portions of the movie. The closely guarded mystery of an almost naked Aamir in the promo's with just an outdated music cassette player for cover, is also solved quickly. As Aamir is an alien, that everybody knows by now, he disembarks from a huge space ship that could have passed off as a computer generated Titanic as well. The ship, incidentally, operates via a remote that I think looks a bit like the pendant that Late Lady Diana wore during her wedding or some such occasion.
Makes one also wonder why an army of ISRO scientists are needed to manage one satellite launch. Of course, we are talking about Bollywood here, so the discerning viewers have over the years learnt to ignore such nuances. Sadly, just as I was feeling comfortable and beginning to forget about the Rs 2000 I spent on multiplex tickets, popcorn, coffee, cola, parking and fuel, the movie progressively deteriorated. Was there a need for Aamir to be an extraterrestrial in the first place?
He looked human in every way, with or without clothes and seemingly endowed with very low IQ. Given that Aamir's character is on an important mission to earth, one would expect him to be among the bright ones, maybe cleared the alien world equivalent of an IIT exam. PK could well have been an innocent 8-year old boy getting to know the world and its ways.
It would have been believable and cute. Knowing Aamir he would have pulled that off too with élan, like he did as the adult PK. Unfortunately, even Aamir can do so much to a script that falls woefully short. The comedy barely works.
Poking fun at insolent and rustic Delhi policemen has been done a million times before. So has Boman Irani appeared in a formal jacket, track pant or shorts combo. The "dancing cars" in the village scenario is anachronistic. Such making out happens in cities. Unless I have missed something, fields and rooftops are locations of most action in villages.
Remember, expectations from a Hirani movie are high unlike say a Salman Khan film where the humour is bound to be non cerebral and one accordingly makes the mental adjustment. Getting on to the serious parts: ignoring other aspects, the fundamental problem with PK is that the sensitive and profound matters of religion and faith are overplayed, simplistic, cliched, repetitive and just too preachy, bordering on a shoddy documentary produced by Doordarshan past and present, irrespective of existence of competing TV channels.
Only imbeciles can take offence to the events portrayed in the movie and surely the infamous right wing goons in our country always on the lookout for some violence-backed cheap publicity, have done so. Matters of faith, as we know, are not so simple. They can make people kill as happened in Paris recently; at the same time they can be the calming influence that keeps individuals and communities sane and bonded. One needs to delve further to understand the nuances.
Sadly, Anushka returns from Europe to become a TV journalist and essays her role mostly in faded jeans. I would have been in a much better frame of mind if Hirani managed to make her character go back to Europe and cycle in shorts again. Still, PK has reportedly made more than Rs 600 crore. That is no doubt mind-boggling, a record unmatched, which goes to prove what might sell due to powerful branding, marketing, sheer expectations and simultaneous release in multiplexes across the world may just be very average content. That's the way I see it.
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Over the recent past I have been following the Kiss of Love protests that have spread from Kochi to Kolkata, Delhi and recently to Bangalore and everywhere else on social media. There are different stages of a human being's life. For those such as me hitting middle age, intimacy with the wife or girlfriend in public areas undisturbed by cops or right and left wing elements is either not priority or not possible.
I mostly go out with my wife now, accompanied by her mother, my kids and maid. Otherwise, too, India continues to grapple with too many graver problems such as corruption, safety of women, open defecation, hunger and lack of health, education facilities and Arnab Goswami screaming on TV.
Elsewhere, in Hong Kong students are fighting for democracy, while China continues to grow. Yet, the matter of hormonally-charged young couples being victimized in parks or pubs by the so called moral police in India has resulted in large sections of disenchanted Indian youth to take to the streets.
Some bravely lip locked to register their protest despite hordes of anti-skirt, jeans, Valentine Day, new year's party, boys accompanying girls or vice versa, desperate looking thugs watching closely. Most I noticed on TV news also desperately needed to brush their teeth, get a haircut and shave.
I do not think any political party or politicians who have eagerly joined the Swachh Bharat bandwagon have cared to support the kiss of love campaign. They are okay to be symbolically seen with a broom for a few minutes following which they head back to their usual ultra-luxurious cocooned existence. There is considerable evidence that some of the sweeping by netas has been carefully orchestrated for news cameras by littering an already clean area. These leaders need to clean their conscience first.
In a culturally diverse and essentially conservative country such as India, a politician supporting public kissing is not on. Promoting concepts such as Love Jihad to fan communal tensions can of course be considered sound electoral strategy. The kiss of love demonstrations have not been as widespread or virulent as anti-corruption or anti-rape protests of the recent past, but do have their relevance.
The campaign needs to be supported. I believe the protests are not just about sexual freedom in urban pockets of affluence or about young people gone astray due to watching too many international soccer matches on TV, where the action is focused as much on the stands as on the field. There is no way these youngsters need to be set right by cops wielding batons or thugs assaulting them.
I believe the protests are about infringement of privacy, high handedness of the state and uncouth and regressive elements in our society telling us how to behave or not to behave. Unfortunately, the desensitized state tends to side with the inflictors of aggression that only emboldens them further.
Yet, the somewhat radical outpourings by the youth are about resisting uncalled attacks on freedom of expression and liberty, art, literature that can easily extend to innocuous comments on Facebook and other social media. It is about giving give it back to all those who have self-appointed themselves as the custodians of Indian culture that they violently try to defend, which itself defeats the basic tenets of tolerance and live and let live.
The other day cricketer Virat Kohli blew kisses to his girlfriend Anushka Sharma after scoring a fifty. I am surprised nobody has filed a case yet against the cricketer for promoting obscenity. In the past, Shilpa Shetty has not been so lucky when Richard Gere planted a kiss on her cheeks at a public event. The fringe elements have targeted MF Husain, Sania Mirza, Sachin Tendulkar and others.
Unfortunately, India's political class prefers to remain silent on the subject as the urban kissing in public class is seen as electorally insignificant and perhaps do not even enjoy the support of their parents. Can symbolic actions make a difference? It did in the past when Mahatma Gandhi famously broke the oppressive salt law and embarked on the Dandi march. The nation followed.
Following Narendra Modi's cue several well-meaning individuals have joined the Swachh Bharat campaign that can only help create more awareness about the subject even if a clean India is a dream that will probably need a few more lifetimes as the Indian affliction of littering and generally spreading garbage is worse than chain smoking. I do, however, have a piece of advice for the kiss of love campaigners.
Some of the visuals are not exactly fit for family viewing given equally aroused TV crews opting for close ups which can only look aesthetically pleasing if shot by trained film directors. Maybe the protests should evolve to convey the same message, perhaps in a more fitting manner: how about kissing a destitute, homeless or stray animal.
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Presently in India, the buzz is about e-retailers such as Flipkart, Amazon.in, Snapdeal, Jabong, Infibeam and many more backed by funders who believe the sure shot route to making more money in the future is by making more losses right now. A few years back there was a similar buzz about airlines in the country. A ticket to Goa was cheaper than taxi fare to the airport.
Most airlines, except Indigo that sells sandwiches at 500% profit mid air, continue to make massive losses. Kingfisher has gone bust. The e-retail mantra is simple, followed by a host of others who have not survived in business — sell cheap, whatever may be the cost, even if the seller goes bust and sinks in a heap of too many goods sold at a discount.
Ultimately, profits will be made as others hopefully will sink earlier. Try to peddle the concept to an Indian housewife, for centuries the most efficient and thrifty global money managers, without splurging on a MBA degree. She will tell you to take an early morning walk in the park to clear your head.
Or assume you have watched Hrithik Roshan's Bang Bang to momentarily lose your mental bearings after watching such gibberish. The Indian housewife deserves respect — remember she has never gone bust like Lehman Brothers or Vijay Mallya. Until most e-retailers collapse, merge, are acquired or in the very unlikely event of the Indian housewife model of money management being proved wrong, the consumers are having a ball.
Acche Din has already arrived for online buyers, without being promised by the Modi government that is trying hard to deliver similar utopia for the rest of India by creating smart cities with the help of people such as Mark Zukerberg. I Like that.
The list of essentials I buy online has grown manifold over time – from clothes, CD's, books, shoes to TV, printer, computer, furniture, mobile phone and more. Apart from the money saved, several hassles of usual urban Indian living are conveniently avoided – pollution, road rage, potholed roads, no parking space, traffic jams, fuel costs, among other encumbrances.
I have to drop my kids to school though. No way to e-scape that process. Given the current e-brouhaha, including the Flipkart Big Billon Day sale that crashed before it could be launched resulting in an apology from the bright promoters that sounded like another marketing gimmick, my current state can be described as couch potato cum online purchaser. I watch TV as I e-shop, just as I watch NDTV news on the tread mill, Whatsapp while I work and SMS as I drive.
The future generation is doing better or worse, depending on the way you look at it. My elder daughter, chats, Whatsapps, FB's, SMS's and watches Youtube videos while doing her Math homework. Her mom is obviously hysterically paranoid by the developments. No doubt, e-retail is spreading and percolating. The other day our maid told me to order a new cell phone online for her, selling a thousand bucks cheaper than the local market rate.
Adept at using her mobile phone, she is saving up to buy a computer so she can shop on her own, plus listen to music and watch movies. TV serials are passé. Everybody wants to join the e-party except offline retailers, a very powerful and influential group, who are predictably very upset due to loss of business. They have earned their unhappiness the hard way.
After winning a long and bitter battle to prevent international multi-brand majors such as Walmart and Tesco setting up shop in India, the e-retail Tsunami threatens to sweep them away. I believe some of them have complained to Prime Minister Narendra Modi that his "Swachh Bharat" campaign will quickly turn murky if they are not saved from the e-carnage.
"What is the use of cleaning our shops when nobody is going to be visiting us," some have Tweeted and e-mailed to the PM. Modi, as the country knows by now, reads mails and Tweets in the morning, unlike earlier PM's like Nehru who read newspapers. I have heard that Manmohan Singh read the papers till late afternoon as there was nothing else to do.
The Indian Kirana store owners are smart though, which is expected. There is no bigger MBA lesson than negotiating with hard-bargaining to the last lemon or onion housewife. The mom & pop store keepers have been quick to sense the price arbitrage opportunity.
Many, I believe are ordering online to stock up their stores. Nobody doubts that the e-commerce boom is here to stay. Competition will weed the right business model I am sure. In the meantime, while shopping and watching TV I have been contemplating an e-start up. First up, I need to find a garage, preferably online. Then, I will hire a housewife. That way, I will never go bust.
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Obamacare is not "FREE" health care
People have finally realized that the word "free" is nowhere to be found in Obamacare's " Affordable Health Care Act". Coverage under President Barack Obama's health care law won't be cheap. A study released Thursday by the nonprofit Kaiser Family Foundation found that government tax credits would lower the sticker price on a benchmark "silver" policy to a little over $190 a month for single people making about $29,000, regardless of their age. For uninsured people who are paying nothing today, this is still a big cost that they're expected to fit into their budgets.
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No one said it was free but people, you know, the ones who can't figure out how to get a picture ID, think it is.
There was an article in the Times a year or so ago interviewing a Washington County resident who, along with all the middle class friends, thought it was also free.
The problem is that a particular problem you present affects less than 1% of the population. We could have fixed the problems without screwing everything up.
The old saying of "we need to cut off the head to save the body" ………….that is Obmamacare.
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Nobody said Obamacare was free, yet a single person making 29,000, could afford healthcare, but what isa six month old who has reached half of her lifetime cap, supposed to do, just looking for honest answers, single payer was the option, but with insurance companies in the campaign pockets of elected reps, that's not going to happen.....bill's plan would be nice too, 75% subsidized by taxpayers, again honest answers..?..
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Take your mind off ObamaCare and join us in a useless, possibly criminal, initiative to bomb Syria! "If you like your doctor..." YEAH! YEAH! YEAH!
Reminds me of something else our illustrious leader said. That being, "Tell Vladimir, This is my last election. After my election I have more flexibility."
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Anyone know if and how it's possible to run casperjs from within the phantomjs shell (a.k.a InteractiveModeREPL )?
I've also tried passing the direct path to the casper.js module and that has not worked either.
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Streaming from PC > Nook HD personal Cloudyocalif Jul 6, 2013 12:57 AM
Dropbox, Skydrive, Google Drive, etc online cloud storage has never been attractive to me, the number one reason is security. I can tell you a long story about online employees accessing database info, that was never suppose to get hacked, yet did (this was a small online company I am referring too) . So I have never really used those services. I have been using a simple HTTP file server to easily allow my Nook to access my PC, and copy files, books, music, however I couldn't stream with HFS.
Yesterday I discovered Tonido Personal Cloud app to access, share and sync entire collection of documents, photos, music and videos in your computer, from anywhere. It is completely FREE. Now I can stream from my PC to my Nook HD music & videos, copy books to my Nook, look at thousands of pictures on my PC, from anywhere.
The Android Tonido app, logs you into your PC software based Tonido file server, and you have full access. Tonido provides a relay service that only keeps your basic account info (name you choose for your acct, which will be your url to access your PC, your PC's IP address, and your email acct), it doesn't store your password.
So how does it work? The music player is fairly basic, I have about 300 gigs of both MP3 & FLAC digital music, Nook HD handles both formats and played the music fine. I only tested individual songs, which did fine. Also if the folder is the entire album, the player will auto play the next song or you can random mix. You are suppose to be able to create play lists, I don't know which format play list is used yet.
I first steamed from my PC "The Day the Earth Stood Still", it played just fine. However the player can't go full screen, so about 20% of the real estate is taken up with player controls which fade out / time out for displaying them, but you don't get the full screen. Next I streamed Valkyrie, see comments below. My main interest are streaming music and moving files around, video watch is low priority for me.
Next is transferring ebooks. I have one folder on my PC with about 6500 ebooks, if I access that folder via HFS, it takes a couple of minutes before all the file names appear. If I access with my browser the HTML file that lists all the titles it takes a couple of minutes. Tonido's browser only took a few seconds to list all the files, the speed was impressive. I had no problem transferring ebooks. The biggest problem was finding out where those books were downloaded to?
Tonido app as it opens after logging into account.
Tonido's menu/gsi, in the large panel is album folder, and the song maria maria loaded in the player.
Searching on Michael Crichton results, followed by downloading...
Finding the location of where the epub the d/l was saved was a challenge. By logging out of the PC, then logging into "this device" - your Nook, go to documents and long press the file name, it will give the location path as illustrated above. Using "Open Explorer" as a file manager for my Nook HD, with Open Explorer then move the epub to "My Files/Books".
Comparing the two videos, you can easily see different videos will either use or not use the screen real estate. With no full screen option this is a bit annoying. I did try downloading from PC to Nook "The day the Earth Stood Still" File size = 718,252 KB, it took approx 7 minutes on my old wifi network. For comparison I copied the same file directly from PC to Nook using the usb cable and it took 90sec.
Next time I am away from home I will copy the same file and see how it transfers over the internet. One nice thing about copying a video vs streaming with Tonido or d/l with Tonido, is you can play the video using Nooks player which has full screen capability. Also the copied video when played has better resolution.
Overall I really like Tonido, I started checking this out the other day when I setup my Nook HD playing Pandora via an old 2.1 gaming speaker system (no longer in use) next to the pool. This made the perfect portable great sounding hifi setup. My wife kept asking, "can you access all that music stored on your PC with this"? So here we are. Tomorrow we will be in the pool enjoying our fav music.


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The Southeast Alabama Medical Center has a new piece of art.
Saturday, Birmingham artist Chris Ellis installed "The Tree of Life" in the new Heart and Vascular Center Lobby.
It's part of a new arts program the Medical Center Foundation wants to bring to the community.
The sculpture is made out of sheet metal and it took about 9 months to complete.
Hospital leaders say the tree of life is fitting for the hospital.
"That's really what health care is about. It's about quality of living, extending life, and improving life through health care and wellness. this certainly symbolizes all of that," said Valerie Barnes, Executive Director, SAMC Foundation.
Ellis said, "It's an honor. It's good exposure. It's good giving back and making people feel better hopefully."
The foundation hopes to install more pieces of art like this throughout the hospital.


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As the trade deadline gets closer and closer, teams continue to make moves to position themselves for one of five playoff spots in each league. Tuesday was headlined by three deals, including the movement of Wandy Rodriguez and Hanley Ramirez to new teams.
The Astros continued to sell their tradable commodities by moving Rodriguez to the Pittsburgh Pirates in exchange for outfielder Robbie Grossman, and left-handed pitchers Colton Cain and Rudy Owens.
Grossman is the headliner of the prospects in the deal, coming off a breakout 2011 campaign that raised his prospect stock significantly. With Double-A Altoona this year, Grossman has notched a .262/.374/.403 line with 20 doubles and seven home runs.
From a scouting perspective, the opinions are split on Grossman. He has an excellent approach and above-average contact abilities at the plate, giving him a chance to hit for a decent average and draw walks. He lacks more than below-average power. He is a bit of a tweener in the outfield, with barely enough for center field but without the offensive profile for a corner spot.
The 21-year old Cain was an over-slot signing out of the 2009 draft. Cain lacks a dominating pitch but can confuse hitters with his combination of movement and deception on all three pitches. His fastball peaks in the upper-80s and his curveball and change-up will both flash as average pitches. Scouts that like him see a potential back of the rotation starter, while others walk away less impressed.
Owens is the oldest of the prospects flipped to the Astros and he could provide mediocre help in the big leagues this year. He has a fringy fastball and breaking ball and his change-up flashes as his best pitch. He commands his arsenal well and may see some time as a fifth starter.
The Marlins are apparently starting to sell off pieces at this point and Hanley Ramirez was the first big domino to fall. Ramirez has been a superstar at times but has struggled the last two years.
In exchange for flipping their former franchise player, the Marlins received Nathan Eovaldi and Scott McGough from the Dodgers, two pitchers with legitimate big league futures. Though Eovaldi is technically no longer a prospect, he does feature a mid-90s heater that has touched triple digits in short bursts.
McGough was drafted out of Oregon in 2011 and he has moved quickly through the Dodgers system, spending this year at High-A. I have spoken to some scout that believe McGough could get outs in the big leagues right now. He has a fastball that ranges from 91-97 mph with the ability to manipulate the velocity at will. His slider occasionally shows plus potential and could be a second very nice pitch, leaving him with setup potential.
The final deal to touch on today is the Diamondbacks decision to send third baseman Ryan Roberts to the Rays for second base prospect Tyler Bortnick. I have had plenty of exposure to Bortnick and I tend to think his future is a little brighter than many scouts, possibly because my judgment is admittedly clouded.
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To have a strong need, desire, or craving in an affectionate/romantic way for someone with the last name of "Jones".
I am Jonesin so bad for this hot little thing Jessica, that I would drive 14 hours just to spend 14 minutes with her!!!
автор: JBoy75 23 июля 2010
Slang term for relaxing or chilling. Typically used when talking or texting someone on a cell phone. The origin can be also based off a lazy friend who has the last name of jones, but it cannot be confirmed that he is a total piece of garbage.
Im just jonesin at the moment bro.
автор: jizzle001 8 сентября 2010
Craving Marijauna
I'm jonesin.
автор: retrodreams 12 августа 2003
anything that is ballin as shit.
walking down the street and something cool happens,that is fuckin jonesin
автор: devin mathieu 1 апреля 2007
Used in two senses. There is the aforementioned definition of jonesin for drugs but also another definition which is synonomous with chillin.
Hence jonesin is used as a verb in these two ways:
1."Spencer is jonesin for some pot."
2.What are you doing? "Sarah and I are just jonesin right now."
1."Spencer is jonesin for some pot."
2.What are you doing? "Sarah and I are just jonesin right now."
автор: SRC 18 декабря 2006
What You Say When Your Telling People Your Leaving
"Alright Man, I'm Jonesin." (Alright man i'm leaving)
"Hey Man You Jonesin?" (hey man you leaving?)
"Hey Man You Jonesin?" (hey man you leaving?)
автор: Stonerguy137 16 февраля 2005
Man I was jonesin that nigga so bad he went crazy and tried to pop me.
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The Green Climate Fund, the United Nations' most important funding mechanism for confronting climate change, opened its headquarters Wednesday in South Korea. Major questions over where financing will come from remain.
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As negotiations at the U.N. climate talks in Warsaw face repeated impasses, youth activists are bringing developed and developing countries together.
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A new partnership to reduce the potent greenhouse gas methane was announced on Thursday in Warsaw.
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The U.K. has announced it will join the United States and other nations in refusing to fund new international coal plants.
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While there are several sticking points to reaching a broader agreement at the UN climate talks in Warsaw, one track of negotiations is pushing ahead: gender equality and climate change.
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FINDLAY, Ohio (May 16, 2014) University of Findlay in northwest Ohio will have to replace almost all its grass after weed killer was accidentally applied to lawns instead of fertilizer.
University spokeswoman Brianna Patterson said the chemical was applied to campus lawns during the last week of April.
She said it will take several weeks to reseed and re-sod the affected areas.
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What's your wardrobe look like? Do you have hundreds of outfits or just enough to get by with some fat pants somewhere in your closet in case you pack on a few pounds during the winter?
What about style? Could your clothing selection be featured on the front of a glossy magazine or would it be better suited for a Kohl's catalog? I'm not throwing stones here, because the glass house I live in is predicated on the theory that $8 pants are perfect. They wear just as long as $100 jeans and I can use the remaining $92 to buy cat food or gas for my scooter.
That said, I still like to take part in the finer things. A glass of wine at a nice restaurant, maybe listening to some music at club, a lunch at a yacht club and an occasional round of golf. Problem is, establishments all over the region have decided they don't want the unkempt to darken their doorways - and they're judging this by the type of clothing you wear.
The best example is golf courses. When it costs $65 to play 18 holes of golf, common sense might dictate that participants probably don't have much left over to buy a spiffy outfit. But if you show up these days at any local golf course - South Shore Country Club comes to mind, but any course from Wareham to Braintree qualifies - you better be just off the set of Project Runway.
Seriously! The other day I showed up at SSCC wearing the pants in the photograph and was almost escorted from the grounds. Know the reason? Yes, the pants are 'called' jeans because of the way the back pockets are stitched. That's it. Nothing about material, nothing about cargo or casual style. Just the stitching on the rear pockets.
If I knew that was the criteria, I'd have untucked my 'required' collared shirt and let it hang over the pockets. Though that might have also been an infraction.
While my beef isn't that everyone should be allowed to appear like slobs in public, it's that common sense should be used in all situations. If we allow the line to be drawn at what random facilities and venues believe to be 'below their standard', then we're on a slippery slope to discrimination based on the clothes people can afford.
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Yongnuo YN-565EX to support Nikon CLS, Canon E-TTL "at the same time"
Yongnuo, the Chinese flash manufacturer, have unveiled details of the first product in their forthcoming EX-series of wireless flashes. Based on the same body as their current YN-560 manual flash, the YN-565EX promises the same power with the addition of automatic TTL and wireless infrared control.
According to the manufacturer, the YN-565EX will offer the following features:
- "Simultaneous support" for Canon/Nikon wireless flash systems: controllable from Canon ST-E2, 580EX II, 7D and 60D, or Nikon SB-900/800/700, pop-up flash Commander and SU-800.
- Wireless flash master/commander for Canon or Nikon (depending on model)
- Guide number (GN) 58 @ ISO100, 105mm
- TTL, Manual and Multi (stroboscopic) modes
- Prontor/Compur (PC) synchronisation port
- Electronic zoom range of 24-105mm. Zoom focal length can match camera lens or be selected manually.
- 3 second recycle time
- Metal hot shoe
- LCD screen
There will be two models, one for Canon and one for Nikon, compatible with TTL hotshoes of each brand and capable of acting as a wireless flash commander (master). In addition, any YN-565EX will have the capability of acting as a slave for either system, so a Nikon YN-565EX will be able to receive Canon E-TTL wireless signals and vice versa.
The expected release date is "middle of April" with no details on price yet. Like all Yongnuo accessories it will eventually be available from the official eBay store with a 12 month warranty. For more information and product images, please visit the manufacturer's web site.
Sounds great.. I've been a big fan of the Yongnuo line since the original YN-460, and it seems they're really catching up to Canon with their flashes (this one even looks like more than a resemblance from the outside.. now if only they could get their quality-control kicked up a notch). I'm hoping it includes a high-voltage input for speeding up recycle times.
My concern is the price – the YN560 was about $100.. if they can keep this at $150 it'll be a great product. At $200, it's getting close to the first-party pricing, but may not match in quality.
If its based on the YN560 Body, it should have an external power socket 🙂
The key question is Will it support FP-sync? 🙂
buy a pc cord to hot shoe flash adapter but make sure its not like the old rowi one as that was solid alluminium annd you need plastic so as not to short out the tth contacts on the shoe base. Aparrt from that if you want fp synch then why are you looking at the 565 when the 560 is better suited and is only about 60% of the expected price. I have one that I use in conjunction with the Hasselblad when I need to shoot film as a flash fill unit. The only reason for looking at the 565 is so that I can be lazy and use it with the Nikon digitals.
Bob- FP sync HAS to be a feature built into the flash. You can't just put your camera on auto FP and attach any ol' flash, via hot shoe or pc cord, and assume it's going to work.
It would be silly not to add that feature, seeing how they have the "stroboscopic" mode, fundamentally being how FP, aka Highspeed sync, works.
Pocketwizard's Hyper sync is the solution for shooting at higher sync speeds and using all manual flashes. It's just a bit of a pain to tweek it just right.
There will be 2 different versions of the YN565, the main difference will be the Canon version has a Canon foot, while the NIkon version mounts to Nikon bodies. Each will have appropriate master mode for controlling other TTL flashes wirelessly (possibly even both, not sure about that).
Both Canon and Nikon YN565 models will understand Canon and Nikon TTL slave controls – so you will be able to control a Nikon YN565 with a Canon body wirelessly…
This is my understanding from discussions with Yongnuo. Given that their STE2 is better than the Canon version it sounds believable…
David A. Selby
Thanks, Leo!
Can this be controlled with the 550EX?
Bob Villa
when will this be available and price ?
tommy leong
One day, YongNuo will come up with a flash that does all these
PLUS built-in radio transmitter !
That will spell the end of these original flash makers.
As of today, they are simply ignoring the developments in radio
Imagine not too long ago, they said radio transmitter is simply NOT feasible……
Lets have MORE innovation.
Well, actually they already did that. It is named YN460RX with the 460TX transmitter.
Nonetheless the product details sound great, especially the modeling light (which hasn't even been mentioned in the article).
Its now approaching 2nd week of May and still no news of pricing or sale of the YN-565ex. Wondering what's happening. Anyone knows how much longer will the wait be?
Too bad they don't support Sony
I want it..
but here buy it?
Alex Marana
Will this be compatible with a canon t2i?
quite newbie in flash. 🙂
David A. Selby
Should be.
Alex Marana
I really hope so.
Ive already pre-ordered mine.
carlton riffel
where and how did you preorder it?
Hello i am a wedding photographer
I need YN565EX speedlite.
Where i bye in Karachi city.
Based in Karachi,Pakistan
David A. Selby
It is not released yet.
I contacted YONGNUO yesterday asking for a release date for the YONGNUO YN565 and the reply was "Hopefully in August".
can i buy this flash on line,will they ship it to canada,and how much is it?
David A. Selby
It will be released in August and it will be $180 USD.
rafe markoss
is the yn-565ex released yet,if its can you till me where can i buy one from?
it can be (probably) bought from one of the official webshops of yongnuo already: http://item.taobao.com/item.htm?id=12623920448
i just cannot fully understand the chinese text on this page 🙂
They are released now. has anyone tried it out. I looking for review from regular users too.
You get what you pay for. I will never buy another one of their products. If you are a working photographer buck up and get the real deal. I have moved over to the Quantum Trio and it is ten times the flash that any of these ever will be. Surely they could do their own imagery. This looks too ominously close to a 580 image.
Can you control the power of this flash, as a slave, from the body of a Nikon D700, using the wireless Nikon CLS?
I asked a man who has been able to test this and he said it was possible to control the power compensation (or whatever it's called) from the D700 body when using commander mode. You can even control Canon mount YN565's with the D700 body.
Having found this out, I am buying some canon mount 565's to use as off-camera flash with my D700 (I can't find Nikon-mount models anywhere, I think they were supposed to be released this month, though).
when would they release the Nikon Series? argh!
The Nikon version has been released and is on sale now.
Both Nikon & Canon versions can be controlled by Nikon or Canon master devices – you can switch between Nikon only, Canon only and both in the menu.
We've tested them with cameras :
Canon 7D, Nikon D700, Nikon D7000
With flashes :
With IR controllers
Canon STE2, Yongnuo STE2, Nikon SU800
With radio triggers
Radio Popper Px (TTL), will work with all manual triggers too – Pocket Wizard II, Cactus V4 & V5, RF602 etc etc
The YN 565 works flawlessly with all of the above.
The only triggers it won't work with is those which need TTL via the hotshoe such as Pocketwizard TT1 / TT5. This is because neither the PW or YN use exactly the same signalling as Canon & Nikon. However the Radio Popper PX system which supports eTLL & iTTL via IR works beautifully – just velcro the receiver in place so the IR port lines up with the top right of the red window on the front of the YN565.
i do have yn565ex, does it works on both canon and nikon?


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Ron Hunt
Ron Hunt
- Position(s):
- Born:
- February 23, 1941
- Bats:
- Right
- Throws:
- Right
- Height:
- 6'
- Weight:
- 186 lbs
- Major League Debut:
- 4-16-1963 with NYN
Hunt once said, "Some people give their bodies to science; I give mine to baseball." He retired with three major league records for HBP: most times in a career (243); in a season (50, 1971); and in a game (three, tied). For seven straight years he led the NL in HBP. He had other ways to get on, as two .300 seasons and good walk totals showed. He set Expo team records for fewest strikeouts in a season (19, 1973) and fewest times hitting into double plays (one, 1971). Though he played on the early, horrid Met teams (in '64 he was their first All-Star), he was heartbroken when he was traded to the Dodgers in November 1966 for Tommy Davis. After retiring, Hunt went into ranching outside St. Louis.
Hunt broke into the major leagues in 1963 as the Mets' regular second baseman, batting .272 with 10home runs, which would be his career high, and 42 runs batted in, which would tie him with another. That year, he also finished runner-up to Pete Rose for the National League Rookie of the Year honors. In 1964he batted .303 and became the Mets' first-ever starting All-Star representative, an honor made all the more special because the game was played in the Mets' newly opened Shea Stadium. He was also an All-Star representative in 1966.
In November 1966 Hunt and Jim Hickman were traded to the Los Angeles Dodgers for Tommy Davis. Hunt, heartbroken over the deal, batted .263 in 1967. After the season he was traded again, this time to the San Francisco Giants in the same deal that sent Tom Haller to Los Angeles. The deal was the first between the two teams since they moved to the West Coast, and also the first since the one that would have sent Jackie Robinson to the Giants; he reportedly retired rather than report with his new team.
After three seasons in San Francisco Hunt was traded to the Montreal Expos. In nearly four seasons in Montreal he batted .277, including a career high .309 in 1973. Late in the 1974 season he was waived to his hometown St. Louis Cardinals, with whom he closed out his career after playing 12 games. The Cardinals brought Hunt to spring training in 1975, but released him in March. He retired forthwith.
In his 12-year career Hunt batted .273 with 39 home runs and 370 RBIs in 1483 games played. He was also one of the most difficult batters to strike out, fanning 382 times in 5235 at-bats, or once in every 13.70 at-bats. In 1973 he set an Expos record by only striking out 19 times in 401 at-bats, the fewest ever in franchise history by a player who had at least 400 at-bats on the season.
The Hit by Pitch
Hunt, whose motto was, "Some people give their bodies to science; I give mine to baseball," had been hit by pitches more often than anyone during his playing days. He led the National League in getting hit by pitches in each of his final seven Major League seasons; in all but his final season (1974), he was the Major League HBP leader, his 16 "plunks" outdone only by Bobby Grich's 20. He was hit by 25 pitches in 1968, 25 in 1969, 26 in 1970, 50 in 1971, 26 in 1972 and 24 in1973.
Hunt said in a July 2000 interview with Baseball Digest that he really began to get hit by pitches after being traded to San Francisco. "But," Hunt asked, "why would you hit me to face Willie Mays, Willie McCovey and Jim Ray Hart?"
On September 29, 1971, against the Chicago Cubs at Jarry Park, Hunt was hit by a Milt Pappas pitch to give him 50 on the season, obliterating the post-1900 record of 31 by Steve Evans, although Hughie Jennings still holds the all-time record for 51 HPBs in 1896.[2] Pappas argued to home plate umpire Ken Burkhart that the pitch was directly over the plate, that Hunt got hit by the ball without even trying to get out of the way. Earlier in the year, Pappas had also contributed #27 in the Hunt collection, prompting Cub manager Leo Durocher to cry foul after home plate umpire Augie Donatelli awarded Hunt first base on that pitch. Cincinnati Reds manager Sparky Anderson had a similar complaint after Hunt was hit by a Jim McGlothlin pitch on August 7 of that year; the HBP was Hunt's 32nd of the season, which broke the National League record set by Steve Evans of the 1910 St. Louis Cardinals.
On April 29, 1969, Hunt tied a Major League record with three HBPs in a game against the Cincinnati Reds. One of those "plunks" was against former Met teammate Jack Fisher.
Hunt always insisted that he never deliberately got hit by a pitch, that he always stood straight up at the plate and simply leaned into the pitch.
Upon his retirement, his 243 HBPs were a career record. Don Baylor would break that record in 1987 and retire with 267 HBPs. Craig Biggio would break Baylor's career record in 2005 and retire at the end of the 2007 season with 285 HBPs.
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- Montreal Expos, New York Mets, Ron Hunt, San Francisco Giants


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United States Drought Monitor
NOTE: To view regional drought conditions, click on map above. State maps can be accessed from regional maps.
The data cutoff for Drought Monitor maps is each Tuesday at 8 a.m. EDT. The maps, which are based on analysis of the data, are released each Thursday at 8:30 a.m. Eastern Time.
Download PDF View last week's map Statistics Comparison Statistics Table Change Maps
The U.S. Drought Monitor is produced through a partnership between the National Drought Mitigation Center at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, the United States Department of Agriculture, and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
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This week's USDM period (ending on July 19) was characterized by typical hit and miss summer-time shower activity across the country, punctuated by extreme heat in the Southern Plains and the Northeast. The heaviest rains fell in southern Minnesota, southwest Iowa, much of Indiana and eastern Illinois, western Kentucky, eastern North Carolina, along the Gulf Coast and Florida. Below normal precipitation was observed in eastern Texas, northern Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and New England. A strong ridge over the southern Plains contributed to abnormally warm temperatures in New Mexico and Texas during the period. Daily maximum temperatures soared well into the triple digits, as much as 10 degrees F above normal in the area. While not as intense, temperatures 6-8 degrees F above normal were observed in the Northeast. Cooler-than-normal temperatures encapsulated much of the Northwest and High Plains.
Another mostly below normal precipitation week in the Northeast as only light rain fell later in the USDM period. Convection affected areas which have been wetter rather than the drier areas. The driest areas were concentrated in western New York and Pennsylvania, and much of Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Rhode Island. For the last 30 days, precipitation is below 25 percent of normal. Stream flows at all levels (1-, 7-, 14-, and 28-day) are reaching into the tenth percentiles. Moderate to Severe drought (D1-D2) was expanded to cover these high impact areas. Media reports of problems due to the dry weather are becoming common in the region and New York issued the first statewide drought watch since 2002. Massachusetts was also issued a drought watch.
Impacts are far reaching across the region as many farmers are using irrigation methods as the dry conditions hindered growth and stressed crops. It was reported that pastures were stunted and corn was curling in parts of central New York. Soil moisture deficits, which have been deteriorating since this past winter, have forced some farmers to irrigate around the clock.
Much of Massachusetts was in moderate and severe drought, leading to more than 120 towns statewide adopting mandatory water restrictions. Several farms in northeastern Massachusetts reported crop losses due to non-irrigated fields being too dry to plant or because the seed sprouts did not emerge after planting. A fungus that kills gypsy moth caterpillars needs springtime moisture to grow. Without adequate rainfall, the caterpillar population thrived and in turn decimated tree foliage in Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut. Defoliated trees, caused by an abundance of caterpillars that thrive in dry conditions, has also heightened fire danger.
In Connecticut, the year-to-date period ending in June was the state's ninth driest on record and the 12-month period (July 2015-June 2016) was the fourth driest. The local water company asked its customers to conserve water and reduce non-essential outdoor water use because rainfall was below normal while water demand was extremely high, putting local reservoirs and wells below normal capacity.
Much of the Southeast experienced scattered rain showers this past USDM week. Some areas were winners while others were losers. Eastern North Carolina, parts of southwest and eastern South Carolina, the Georgia/Florida border, west central Alabama, southern Mississippi and southeastern Louisiana all experienced above normal precipitation for the 7-day period. The majority of other locations were at or below normal in terms of precipitation. Average daytime temperatures for the region were generally above normal. The most intense heat was focused in western South Carolina where anomalies were as great as 4 degrees F above what is typically expected during the time period. Below average temperatures, associated with the cloud cover, were centered along the Gulf Coast.
Warm temperatures, combined with a lack of precipitation, exasperated drought conditions in the region. Degradations were made across Georgia where precipitation was 50 percent of normal or less. An area of Extreme Drought was introduced in Cherokee County and stretching into Bartow County, Georgia where a stream flow gauge was measuring below 2 percent. D0 was stretched south and east covering the quickly deteriorating conditions. Reported impacts are mixed across Georgia but include: loss of corn crops, no grass to feed the cattle resulting in the use of hay to supplement, daily irrigation was not enough to supply plants what they need to survive. On a more positive note, one farmer reported they had a record watermelon harvest season.
Much of the Southern Plains suffered as stifling heat baked the soils while precipitation was non-existent. Recent rains over the northern half of Oklahoma did warrant some improvement, but there was huge disparity in the south central and southeast part of the state. A single-category degradation was needed due to the 30-day precipitation departures. In Texas, temperatures were for the most part 4 degrees F above normal during the period. The most intense heat was in western Texas where anomalies were around 8 degrees F above normal. According to the USDA, 64 percent of topsoil moisture conditions are in the very short to short category. Deterioration occurred in the north, southwest and eastern parts of the state.
Scattered showers affected the region from Minnesota eastward into Ohio. As much as 4 inches of precipitation was observed in southern Minnesota, eastern Illinois and western Indiana. Below average precipitation was reported in much of Missouri, Wisconsin and the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. A large disparity in temperatures occurred from Minnesota and Iowa eastward to Ohio. Temperatures were 3-5 degrees cooler than normal in the west and 3-5 degrees warmer than normal in the east. Drought conditions improved in Iowa, but expanded in Ohio. It was reported by a farmer near Toledo that the lack of rain has slowed crop growth and he has relied on his pond for irrigation, but the pond's water level was dropping rapidly.
Precipitation in the High Plains this period ranged from greater than 300 percent in much of Montana to well below 10 percent along the North and South Dakota state border. Temperatures were muted across the region as anomalies were as much as 6 degrees below normal. Conditions continue to be drier than normal in the western South Dakota/eastern Wyoming area. Less than half of what is normally expected, in terms of precipitation, has fallen in that area during the last 30 days. 28-day stream flows are measuring in the 5-10 percent category and lower. All other indicators, including model based and satellite derived, are pointing to an extreme localized drought in the area. Ranchers and farmers in the area are experiencing no hay production at all and the cattle are already on winter pastures. There are not only water quantity issues, but also as the stock ponds and dams dry up, the water quality is suspect. Some ranchers have to haul water in every day. Wildfires are also a large concern. Based on all the indicators and impacts, all categories of drought were expanded in the area.
Precipitation was virtually non-existent in much of the Western region during the period. Light rain (0.5 inch) did fall in central Oregon and norther Washington. The southwest monsoon provided some relief to parts of Arizona, albeit only light amounts fell. Temperatures were cooler than normal in the Northwest, but slightly above normal for the desert southwest. The cooler than normal temperatures during July have helped suppress many new wildfires from emerging. This is the dry season for the West Coast, so changes to the drought monitor are very rare this time of year.
In Alaska, percent of normal precipitation along the south and the entire panhandle is at 5 percent through the last 2 weeks. Meanwhile, temperatures are 8-10 degrees above normal during this 7-day USDM period. Wildfires are spreading across southern Alaska and streamflow's are low in parts of the southwest and much of the southern panhandle. In the panhandle, fish and game authorities are starting to see some small fish die offs at the fisheries due to the high water temperatures while the low water levels are keeping the salmon in the ocean where the water is cooler. Due to these conditions, D0 was added to the entire panhandle. No changes were made in Hawaii and Puerto Rico this week.
The next 3-7 days will bring above normal temperatures for much of the CONUS with the warmest anomalies forecasted for the Midwest and along the East Coast. Negative temperature anomalies will be confined to the Northwest. The High Plains, parts of New England, the Southeast, and Florida have the best chances of greater than normal precipitation.
The CPC 6-10 day outlook calls for the greatest chances of above normal temperatures in California and the Great Basin, as well as the East Coast. The probability is high that below normal precipitation will occur in the Northwest, especially in Washington and Oregon, and the Midwest, while odds are in favor of above normal precipitation in the Southeast and East Coast.
Author(s):Chris Fenimore, NOAA/NESDIS/NCEI
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|Reviews for Midnight to the Moon is Sleep to the Beloved
| patnissandkeeta chapter 1 . 7/3/2012
Okay this is officially my FAVORITE High School Debut fanfic so far. And I've read a couple. But this is whaht I wanted to read after Yoh went off to Tokyo. I love how the series ended with humour, but I wanted a more emotional feel when Haruna came back to visit. And this is what I needed! I love it sooo much, keep up the good work! 3
| animeaddict787 chapter 1 . 4/2/2012
Loved it 3 It was exactly how Yoh and Haruna would react after seeing each other :)
| TheAirBender chapter 1 . 1/8/2012
This story, I'd say, is perfect and one of it's kind. All I have to say is that you did very well. I give you 10/10
| MilkyKnots chapter 1 . 6/25/2011
auwwwh~~ that was nice :') I'm touched.
| The Archangel Network chapter 1 . 6/24/2011
I really, really loved this. Great job. :D
| sKyLaR KnIgHt chapter 1 . 6/20/2011
That was sweet :)
| fawnycurly chapter 1 . 6/20/2011
You write really well! It was a short story but brought forth Yoh's thoughts and emotions in a very believable fashion. It also made the fangirl in me squeal! :-)
My one critic would be in the beginning you mention "bemoaning the lack of kotatsu" but then later mention she is lying underneath the kotatsu. A little confusing.
| RoyaleDeuce chapter 1 . 6/10/2011
This is a wonderful take of what happens after. Although the ending of the manga was amusing, it left me quite unsatisfied. So thank you for this! You played Yoh's emotions very well, they were in character, and your writing style's excellent. Kudos to you! :)
| wine.and.sun chapter 1 . 4/28/2011
This reads like poetry, like song. You depicted Yoh, Haruna, and the fervency of young love perfectly. The last description of Haruna couldn't be more accurate. When I first started the manga, I thought that she was too sensitive and a bit pathetic, but really, how much courage it must take to be so vulnerable.
Beautiful story :)
| isadorator chapter 1 . 4/18/2011
I think this is the first High School Debut fic I've read and actually really liked. You got the complexity of Yoh and Haruna's feelings to show through your words and it felt very poetic. It also felt like grew up a bit in this fic, emotionally as well as physically. Thank you for posting such an interesting story! :)
| purpleumeko chapter 1 . 3/4/2011
This is oh so beautiful. I love your writing style, and the flow of the story through Yoh's point of view. I loved the atmosphere between Yoh and Haruna, with them being themselves and yet more mature, feeling more deeply and strongly for each other but still with that pure, unadulterated love.
I really really loved this. Thank you for this wonderful masterpiece, and I hope to read more from you soon.
| Trumpet-Geek chapter 1 . 2/28/2011
Ahhh this is LOVELY!
| LauraBean13 chapter 1 . 2/5/2011
i love this ! its amazing i can picture it ! and in the manga u didnt really know wat yoh was thinking so keep writing please
| mouseter chapter 1 . 1/9/2011
I love this fic! Sensual but not too much and very in character. I also love that it's written in Yoh's pov. It's very hard to pull off but this was just brilliant! I hope you write more! ~
| Ash chapter 1 . 1/8/2011
Aww that was beautifully written. Thanks for sharing your work D


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