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Esta es la lista completa de ganadores de los premios Grammy 2009:
Album of the Year (Álbum del año): "Raising Sand," Robert Plant and Alison Krauss; T Bone Burnett, producer; Mike Piersante, engineer/mixer; Gavin Lurssen, mastering engineer (Rounder)
Rap Album (Mejor álbum Rap): "Tha Carter III," Lil Wayne (Cash Money/Universal Motown)
Male Pop Vocal Performance (Mejor performance vocal artista pop masculino): "Say," John Mayer; track from "Continuum" (Columbia)
Record of the Year (Grabación del año): "Please Read The Letter," Robert Plant and Alison Krauss; T Bone Burnett, producer; Mike Piersante, engineer/mixer; track from "Raising Sand" (Rounder)
New Artist (Mejor nuevo artista): Adele
Rock Album (Álbum de rock): "Viva La Vida Or Death And All His Friends," Coldplay (Capitol) www.elgonzi.com
Pop Collaboration With Vocals: "Rich Woman," Robert Plant and Alison Krauss, track from "Raising Sand" (Rounder)
Song of the Year (Canción del año): "Viva La Vida," Guy Berryman, Jonny Buckland, Will Champion and Chris Martin, songwriters (Coldplay), track from "Viva La Vida Or Death And All His Friends" (Capitol Records; Publishers: Universal Music-MGB Songs)
Country Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocals: "Stay," Sugarland, track from "Enjoy the Ride" (Mercury)
R&B Album: "Jennifer Hudson," Jennifer Hudson (Arista)
Producer of the Year, Non-Classical: Rick Rubin
Producer of the Year, Classical: David Frost
Female Pop Vocal Performance: "Chasing Pavements," Adele, track from "19" (Columbia/XL)Traditional Pop Vocal Album: "Still Unforgettable," Natalie Cole (DMI)
Pop Vocal Album: "Rockferry," Duffy (Mercury)
Pop Instrumental Performance: "I Dreamed There Was No War," Eagles, track from "Long Road Out of Eden" (Eagles Recording Company)
Pop Instrumental Album: "Jingle All the Way," Bela Fleck & The Flecktones (Rounder)
Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals: "Viva La Vida," Coldplay, track from "Viva La Vida Or Death And All His Friends" (Capitol)
Alternative Music Album: "In Rainbows," Radiohead (TBD)
Solo Rock Vocal Performance: "Gravity," John Mayer, track from "Where The Light Is: Live in Los Angeles" (Columbia)
Rock Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals: "Sex on Fire," Kings of Leon (RCA)
Hard Rock Performance: "Wax Simulacra," The Mars Volta (Universal Motown)
Metal Performance: "My Apocalypse," Metallica, track from "Death Magnetic" (Warner Bros.)
Rock Instrumental Performance: "Peaches En Regalia," Zappa Plays Zappa featuring Steve Vai and Napoleon Murphy Brock (Strobosonic/Razor & Tie Entertainment)
Rock Song: "Girls in Their Summer Clothes," Bruce Springsteen, songwriter (Bruce Springsteen), track from "Magic" (Columbia; Publisher: Bruce Springsteen)
Rap Solo Performance: "A Milli," Lil Wayne, track from "Tha Carter III" (Cash Money/Universal Motown)
Rap Performance by a Duo or Group: "Swagga Like Us," Jay-Z and T.I. featuring Kanye West and Lil Wayne (Roc-A-Fella/Grand Hustle/Atlantic)
Rap/Sung Collaboration: "American Boy," Estelle featuring Kanye West, track from "Shine" (Homeschool/Atlantic)
Rap Song: "Lollipop," Dwayne Carter, Darius Harrison, James Scheffer, Stephen Garrett and Rex Zamor, songwriters (Lil Wayne featuring Static Major), track from "Tha Carter III" (Cash Money/Universal Motown; Publishers: Young Money Publishing/Warner-Chappell Music, Herbalicious Music/Blackfountain Music/EMI-April Music, JimiPub Music/EMI Blackwood, Three Nails and A Crown Publishing/Roynet Music)
Country Song: "Stay," Jennifer Nettles, songwriter (Sugarland), track from "Enjoy the Ride" (Mercury Records; Publisher: Jennifer Nettles Publishing)
Country Album: "Troubadour," George Strait (MCA Nashville)
Female Country Vocal Performance: "Last Name," Carrie Underwood, track from "Carnival Ride" (19/Arista/Arista Nashville)
Male Country Vocal Performance: "Letter to Me," Brad Paisley, track from "5th Gear" (Arista Nashville)
Country Collaboration with Vocals: "Killing the Blues," Robert Plant and Alison Krauss, track from "Raising Sand" (Rounder)
Country Instrumental Performance: "Cluster Pluck," Brad Paisley, James Burton, Vince Gill, John Jorgenson, Albert Lee, Brent Mason, Redd Volkaert and Steve Wariner (Arista Nashville)
R&B Song: "Miss Independent," Mikkel S. Eriksen, Tor Erik Hermansen and Shaffer Smith, songwriters (Ne-Yo), track from "Year of the Gentleman" (Def Jam/Compound; Publishers: Pen in the Ground Publishing, Universal Music-Z Tunes)
Contemporary R&B Album: "Growing Pains," Mary J. Blige (Geffen)
Female R&B Vocal Solo: "Superwoman," Alicia Keys, track from "As I Am" (J)
Male R&B Vocal Solo: "Miss Independent," Ne-Yo, track from "Year of the Gentleman" (Def Jam/Compound)
R&B Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals: "Stay With Me (By the Sea)," Al Green featuring John Legend, track from "Lay It Down" (Blue Note)
Traditional R&B Vocal Performance: "You've Got the Love I Need," Al Green featuring Anthony Hamilton, track from "Lay It Down" (Blue Note)
Urban/Alternative Performance: "Be OK," Chrisette Michele featuring will.i.am, track from "I Am" (Def Jam)
Dance Recording: "Harder Better Faster Stronger," Daft Punk, Thomas Bangalter and Guy Manuel de Homem-Christo, producers; Thomas Bangalter and Guy Manuel de Homem-Christo, mixers; track from "Alive 2007" (Virgin)
Electronic Dance Album: "Alive 2007," Daft Punk (Virgin)
Bluegrass Album: "Honoring the Fathers of Bluegrass: Tribute to 1946 and 1947," Ricky Skaggs and Kentucky Thunder (Skaggs Family)
Traditional Blues Album: "One Kind Favor," B.B. King (Geffen)
Contemporary Blues Album: "City That Care Forgot," Dr. John and The Lower 911 (429)
New Age Album: "Peace Time," Jack DeJohnette (Golden Beams/Kindred Rhythm)
Contemporary Jazz Album: "Randy in Brasil," Randy Brecker (MAMA)
Jazz Vocal Album: "Loverly," Cassandra Wilson (Blue Note)
Jazz Instrumental Solo: "BE-BOP," Terence Blanchard, soloist; track from "Live at the 2007 Monterey Jazz Festival" (Monterey Jazz Festival 50th Anniversary All-Stars) (Monterey Jazz Festival)
Jazz Instrumental Album Individual or Group: "The New Crystal Silence," Chick Corea and Gary Burton (Concord)
Large Jazz Ensemble Album: "Monday Night Live at the Village Vanguard," The Vanguard Jazz Orchestra (Planet Arts Recordings)
Latin Jazz Album: "Song for Chico," Arturo O'Farrill and The Afro-Latin Jazz Orchestra (Zoho)
Latin Pop Album: "La Vida… Es Un Ratico," Juanes (Universal Music Latino)
Latin Rock or Alternative Album: "45," Jaguares (EMI Music)
Latin Urban Album: "Los Extraterrestres," Wisin y Yandel (Machete Music)
Tropical Latin Album: "Senor Bachata," Jose Feliciano (Universal Music Latino)
Regional Mexican Album: "Amor, Dolor y Lagrimas: Musica Ranchera," Mariachi Los Camperos de Nati Cano (Smithsonian Folkways Recordings) in a tie with "Canciones de Amor," Mariachi Divas (Shea/East Side)
Tejano Album: "Viva La Revolucion," Ruben Ramos and The Mexican Revolution (Revolution)
Norteno Album: "Raices," Los Tigres Del Norte (Fonovisa)
Banda Album: "No Es De Madera" Joan Sebastian (Musart/Balboa)
Traditional Folk Album: "At 89," Pete Seeger (Appleseed Recordings)
Contemporary Folk/Americana Album: "Raising Sand," Robert Plant and Alison Krauss (Rounder)
Native American Music Album: "Come to Me Great Mystery: Native American Healing Songs," (Various Artists) Tom Wasinger, producer (Silver Wave)
Hawaiian Music Album: "Ikena," Tia Carrere and Daniel Ho (Daniel Ho Creations)
Zydeco or Cajun Music Album: "Live at the 2008 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival," BeauSoleil and Michael Doucet (MunckMix)
Engineering Album, Classical: "Traditions and Transformations: Sounds of Silk Road Chicago," David Frost, Tom Lazarus and Christopher Willis, engineers (Miguel Harth-Bedoya, Alan Gilbert, Silk Road Ensemble, Wu Man, Yo-Yo Ma and Chicago Symphony Orchestra) (CSO Resound)
Reggae Album: "Jah Is Real," Burning Spear (Burning Music Production)
Traditional World Music Album: "Ilembe: Honoring Shaka Zulu," Ladysmith Black Mambazo (Heads Up International)
Contemporary World Music Album: "Global Drum Project," Mickey Hart, Zakir Hussain, Sikiru Adepoju and Giovanni Hidalgo (Shout! Factory)
Compilation Soundtrack Album for Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media: "Juno," (Various Artists) Peter Afterman, Jason Reitman and Margaret Yen, producers (Fox Music/Rhino)
Score Soundtrack Album for Motion Television or Other Visual Media: "The Dark Knight," James Newton Howard and Hans Zimmer, composers (Warner Sunset/Warner Bros.)
Polka Album: "Let the Whole World Sing," Jimmy Sturr and His Orchestra (Rounder)
Gospel Performance: "Get Up," Mary Mary; track from "The Sound" (Columbia)
Gospel Song: "Help Me Believe," Kirk Franklin, songwriter (Kirk Franklin); track from "The Fight of My Life" (Fo Yo Soul Ent./Zomba Gospel; Publishers: Universal Music-Z Songs/Kerrion Publishing)
Rock or Rap Gospel Album: "Alive and Transported," TobyMac (ForeFront Records EMI CMG)
Pop/Contemporary Gospel Album: "Thy Kingdom Come," CeCe Winans (PureSprings Gospel/EMI Gospel)
Southern, Country, Bluegrass Gospel: "Lovin' Life," Gaither Vocal Band (Gaither Music Group)
Traditional Gospel Album: "Down in New Orleans," The Blind Boys of Alabama (Time Life)
Contemporary R&B Gospel Album: "The Fight of My Life," Kirk Franklin (Fo Yo Soul Entertainment/Zomba Gospel)
Classical Album: "Weill: Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny," James Conlon, conductor; Anthony Dean Griffey, Patti LuPone and Audra McDonald; Fred Vogler, producer (Donnie Ray Albert, John Easterlin, Steven Humes, Mel Ulrich and Robert Worle; Los Angeles Opera Chorus; Los Angeles Opera Orchestra) (EuroArts)
Song Written for Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media: "Down to Earth," ("WALL-E") Peter Gabriel and Thomas Newman, songwriters (Peter Gabriel) (Walt Disney/Pixar; Publishers: Walt Disney Music, Wonderland Music/Pixar Talking Pictures/Pixar Music)
Musical Show Album: "In the Heights," Kurt Deutsch, Alex Lacamoire, Andres Levin, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Joel Moss and Bill Sherman, producers; Lin-Manuel Miranda, composer/lyricist (Original Broadway Cast with Lin-Manuel Miranda and Others) (Razor & Tie Entertainment/Ghostlight)
Spoken Word Album (Includes Poetry, Audio Books & Story Telling): "An Inconvenient Truth (Al Gore)," Beau Bridges, Cynthia Nixon and Blair Underwood (Simon & Schuster Audio)
Musical Album for Children: "Here Come the 123s," They Might Be Giants (Disney Sound)
Spoken Word Album Children: "Yes to Running! Bill Harley Live," Bill Harley (Round River)
Comedy Album: "It's Bad for Ya," George Carlin (Eardrum)
Instrumental Composition: "The Adventures of Mutt," (from "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull," John Williams, composer (John Williams), track from "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull" soundtrack (Concord)
Instrumental Arrangement: "Define Dancing," (from "WALL-E") Peter Gabriel and Thomas Newman, arrangers (Thomas Newman), track from "WALL-E" soundtrack (Walt Disney)
Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying Vocalist(s): "Here's That Rainy Day," Nan Schwartz, arranger (Natalie Cole), track from "Still Unforgettable" (DMI)
Engineered Album, Non-Classical: "Consolers of the Lonely," Joe Chiccarelli, Vance Powell and Jack White III, engineers (The Raconteurs) (Third Man/Warner Bros.)
Remixed Recording: "Electric Feel (Justice Remix)," Justice, remixers (MGMT), Track from: "Oracular Spectacular" (Columbia)
Surround Sound Album: "Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition; Night on Bald Mountain; Prelude to Khovanshchina," Michael Bishop, surround mix engineer; Michael Bishop, surround mastering engineer; Robert Woods, surround producer (Paavo Jarvi and Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra) (Telarc)
Opera Recording: "Weill: Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny," James Conlon, conductor; Anthony Dean Griffey, Patti LuPone and Audra McDonald; Fred Vogler, producer (Donnie Ray Albert, John Easterlin, Steven Humes, Mel Ulrich and Robert Worle; Los Angeles Opera Orchestra; Los Angeles Opera Chorus) (EuroArts)
Orchestral Performance: "Shostakovich: Symphony No. 4," Bernard Haitink, conductor (Chicago Symphony Orchestra) (CSO Resound)
Choral Performance: "Symphony of Psalms," Sir Simon Rattle, conductor; Simon Halsey, chorus master (Berliner Philharmoniker; Rundfunkchor Berlin) track from "Stravinsky: Symphonies" (EMI Classics)
Instrumental Soloist(s) Performance (With Orchestra): "Schoenberg/Sibelius: Violin Concertos," Esa-Pekka Salonen, conductor; Hilary Hahn (Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra) (Deutsche Grammophon)
Instrumental Soloist Performance (Without Orchestra): "Piano Music of Salonen, Stucky, and Lutoslawski," Gloria Cheng (Telarc)
Chamber Music Performance: "Carter, Elliott: String Quartets Nos. 1 and 5," Pacifica Quartet (Naxos)
Small Ensemble Performance: "Spotless Rose: Hymns to the Virgin Mary," Charles Bruffy, conductor; Phoenix Chorale (Chandos)
Classical Vocal Performance: "Corigliano: Mr. Tambourine Man: Seven Poems of Bob Dylan," Hila Plitmann (JoAnn Falletta; Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra) (Naxos)
Classical Contemporary Composition: "Mr. Tambourine Man: Seven Poems of Bob Dylan," John Corigliano (JoAnn Falletta); track from: "Corigliano: Mr. Tambourine Man: Seven Poems of Bob Dylan" (Naxos)
Classical Crossover Album: "Simple Gifts," The King's Singers (Signum)
Short Form Music Video: "Pork and Beans," Weezer, Mathew Cullen, video director; Bernard Rahill, video producder (DGC/Interscope)
Long Form Music Video: "Runnin' Down a Dream," Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers, Peter Bogdanovich, video director; Skot Bright, video producer (Warner Bros.)
Recording Package: "Death Magnetic," Bruce Duckworth, Sarah Moffat and David Turner, art directors (Metallica) (Warner Bros.)
Boxed or Special Limited Edition Package: "In Rainbows," Stanley Donwood, Mel Maxwell and Christiaan Munro, art directors (Radiohead)
Album Notes: "Kind of Blue: 50th Anniversary Collector's Edition," Francis Davis, album notes writer (Miles Davis) (Columbia/Legacy Recordings)
Historical Album: "Art of Field Recording Volume I: Fifty Years of Traditional American Music Documented by Art Rosenbaum," Steven Lance Ledbetter and Art Rosenbaum, compilation producers; Michael Graves, mastering engineering (Various Artists) (Dust-to-Digital)


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Is Obama a socialist? What does the evidence say?
Some critics cite government 'takeover' of business and 'giveaways' to the poor as signs that President Obama is a socialist. Members of the Socialist Party are among those who disagree.
The assertion is getting louder: President Obama is a socialist, a wealth-redistributing wolf in Democrat's clothing gnawing at America's entrepreneurial spirit.
It's easy to buy "Obama is a socialist" bumper stickers on the Internet. Political commentator Dick Morris said, in a column circulated on GOPUSA.com, that conservatives are "enraged at Barack Obama's socialism and radicalism." Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich titled his new book "To Save America: Stopping Obama's Secular-Socialist Machine."
So, is Mr. Obama trying to form The Socialist Republic of America? Or are the accusations mainly a political weapon, meant to stick Obama with a label that is poison to many voters and thus make him a one-term president?
As is often the case in politics, the answer is in the eye of the beholder. Some people feel genuinely certain that Obama aims to make America into a workers' paradise – a land where government-appointed pay czars tell Wall Street tycoons how much they can make and where the feds take large ownership positions in companies like General Motors (GM) and insurance giant American International Group (AIG). Even if Obama is not a card-carrying Socialist, they say, he displays a disdain of the private sector.
"You start with his apparent acceptance that there are major segments of the US economy for which it is reasonable for the US government to own or manage," says Michael Johns, Heritage Foundation policy analyst, "tea party" movement leader, and former speechwriter for President Bush. "Look at the auto industry, mortgage industry, the health-care industry to some extent, and, obviously, banking."
Others just as assuredly refute the idea that government involvement in failing industries defines a president as socialist – or that wealth is being redistributed from the Forbes 500 richest Americans to the nation's "Joe the plumbers."
What Mr. Johns, Mr. Gingrich, and others brandishing the "socialist" s-word are really complaining of is a return to the policies of John Maynard Keynes, the English economist who advocated vigorous government involvement in the economy, from regulation to pump priming, says labor historian Peter Rachleff of Macalester College in St. Paul, Minn.
"Socialism suggests getting rid of capitalism altogether," says Dr. Rachleff. "Mr. Obama is not within a million miles of an ideology like that."
For what it's worth, socialists deny that Obama is one of them – and even seem a bit insulted by the suggestion.
"I have been making a living telling people Obama is not a socialist," says Frank Llewellyn, national director of the Democratic Socialists of America. "It's frustrating to see people using our brand to criticize programs that have nothing to do with our brand and are not even working."
Adds Billy Wharton,co-chair of the Socialist Party USA: "I am not even sure he's a liberal. I call him a hedge fund Democrat."
The socialism tag is nothing new for the White House. In speeches, Obama chalks up the criticism to "just politics."
But he also works to counter it, sprinkling speeches with words about the appropriate role of government. "Government cannot and should not replace businesses as the true engine of growth and job creation," he said June 2 at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh.
That may be one reason some tea partyers doubt that Obama himself is humming "The Internationale" before breakfast.
"I'm reluctant to call him a socialist, but his policies are socialistic," says Don Adams, treasurer of the Independence Hall tea party in the Delaware Valley of Pennsylvania.
Which policies qualify, precisely?
Gingrich, in his book, cites a "government takeover" of GM as specific evidence of the socialistic political shift.
The United States owned 60.8 percent of the common stock of GM and 9.9 percent of Chrysler as of April 21, the latest figures available. The government's goal, according to the Treasury, is not to be long-term investors.
"With the successful restructuring of GM and Chrysler behind us, the primary goal of the administration's auto efforts now is to monitor the investments and facilitate smooth exits from our investments in the companies," says US Treasury spokesman Mark Paustenbach.
OK, so maybe Obama wants to get out of owning the companies, allows Johns of the Heritage Foundation. But the government has already used its ownership stake to impose sweeping mandates and regulations on the companies, such as closing hundreds of dealerships, he says.
"They forced changes in management that should more properly have been left to the company's private shareholders," says Johns.
Not true, according to GM. The US did not exert pressure to close the 1,100 shuttered dealerships, says spokeswoman Noreen Pratscher. "The government has taken a very hands-off approach."
How about the Obama response to the crisis in the financial services industry? Has it veered into socialism?
The largest ownership stake for Uncle Sam in the financial world is AIG, which ran into financial difficulties (not bankruptcy) in September 2008 after a complex series of financial transactions turned bad. The US government still owns almost 80 percent of AIG, which has received at least $182 billion in government assistance.
In his book, Gingrich implies that government officials stormed into AIG's headquarters and took over the company. "They have taken over AIG, America's largest insurer," he writes.
The actual "takeover" of AIG occurred under President Bush in 2008, right after the Lehman Brothers bankruptcy.
The Congressional Oversight Panel, which lawmakers created in 2008 to review the regulation of financial markets, detailed in a recent report how it became impossible for AIG to find $75 billion in private funding to save itself as the financial markets crumbled that fall.
The takeover of an ailing company whose collapse might ruin the US economy is not socialism, says Van Gosse, a Socialist and historian at Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster, Pa. "Let's just say AIG was profitable, and you thought it was better if it was in public hands. That would be socialistic."
To Dr. Gosse, the most socialistic move by the Obama administration to date is the massive reorganization of student lending. In late March, as part of the health-care overhaul, Congress voted to force out commercial lenders. The government was guaranteeing loans made by private companies who turned a profit on the loans.
As for the assertion that Obama is pushing through policies that redistribute income from rich to poor, to some extent that is happening, says economist Mark Zandi of Moody's Economy.com.
About half the growth in personal income during the Obama presidency has come from an increase in government payments for unemployment insurance, Social Security, and welfare, he says.
"The economic recovery act increased those transfer payments," says Mr. Zandi, noting that, regardless, the government would pay out more in jobless benefits and welfare during a recession.
Tax rates for the wealthy may also rise: Obama has said he will allow the Bush income-tax cuts to expire. The highest marginal tax rate would climb to 39.6 percent, up from 35 percent. The new health-care law, moreover, raises taxes on people making more than $250,000 a year.
"Does that make it socialistic?" asks Zandi, who supported Sen. John McCain in the 2008 election. "It's not what I would define as socialism, but there is certainly a redistributional aspect to all this. The changes are taking place at the margins; there is not a sea change."
Probably the last president to be tagged as a socialist was Franklin Roosevelt, who took office during the Great Depression.
"FDR tried all kinds of things and was accused of all kinds of things," says Tom Cronin, a presidential scholar at Colorado College in Colorado Springs. "But in retrospect, he is someone who helped capitalism survive."
He suspects that Obama and his appointees are firm believers in the free-market system. But, he adds, "It's a free country, and people can say what they want about their president."


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BENGALURU: Anticipating a more protectionist US technology visa programme under a Donald Trump administration, India's $150 billion IT services sector will speed up acquisitions in the United States and recruit more heavily from college campuses there.
Companies including Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), Infosys and Wipro have long used H1-B skilled worker visas to fly computer engineers to the US, their largest overseas market, temporarily to service clients.
Staff from those three companies accounted for around 86,000 new H1-B workers in 2005-14. The US currently issues close to that number of H1-B visas each year.
US President-elect Donald Trump's campaign rhetoric, and his pick for Attorney General of Senator Jeff Sessions, a long-time critic of the visa programme, have many expecting a tighter regime.
"The world over, there's a lot of protectionism coming in and push back on immigration. Unfortunately, people are confusing immigration with a high-skilled temporary workforce, because we are really a temporary workforce," said Pravin Rao, chief operating officer at Infosys, India's second-largest information technology firm.
While few expect a complete shutdown of skilled worker visas as Indian engineers are an established part of the fabric of Silicon Valley, and US businesses depend on their cheaper IT and software solutions, any changes are likely to push up costs.
And a more restrictive programme would likely mean Indian IT firms sending fewer developers and engineers to the United States, and increasing campus recruitment there.
"We have to accelerate hiring of locals if they are available, and start recruiting freshers from universities there," said Infosys' Rao, noting a shift from the traditional model of recruiting mainly experienced people in the US
"Now we have to get into a model where we will recruit freshers, train them and gradually deploy them, and this will increase our costs," he said, noting Infosys typically recruits 500-700 people each quarter in the US and Europe, around 80 percent of whom are locals.
Donald Trump's election win and Britain's referendum vote to leave the European Union are headwinds for India's IT sector, as clients such as big U.S. and British banks and insurers hold off on spending while the dust settles.
In India's IT hub of Bengaluru and the financial capital Mumbai, executives expect a Trump administration to raise the minimum wage for foreign workers, pressuring already squeezed margins.
Buying US companies would help Indian IT firms build their local headcount, increase their on-the-ground presence in key markets and help counter any protectionist regulations.
Indian software services companies have invested more than $2 billion in the United States in the past five years. North America accounts for more than half of the sector's revenue.
"We have to accelerate acquisitions," said Mr Rao at Infosys, which in the past two years has bought companies including US-based Noah Consulting and Kallidus Technologies.
Jatin Dalal, Wipro's chief financial officer, said his growth strategy is to buy companies that offer something beyond what Wipro already does, or new, disruptive firms – such as Appirio, a US cloud services firm.
The chief executive of Tech Mahindra, CP Gurnani, said his firm, which two years ago bought network services management firm Lightbridge Communications Corp, is on the look-out for more US acquisitions, particularly in healthcare and fintech – financial technology firms that are disrupting traditional banking services.
In a broader shift from labour intensive onsite projects, Indian IT firms are also turning to higher-tech services such as automation, cloud computing and artificial intelligence (AI) platforms.
With better technology and faster networks, IT firms are encouraging Western clients to adopt more virtual services.
Infosys CEO Vishal Sikka says he has focused on automation and AI as growth drivers since 2014. "The AI platform is 5-6 percent of our revenues," he told Reuters. "Three years ago, it was zero."
More automation would mean fewer onshore developers.
"The 'Plan B' would be to accelerate the trend … to reduce their reliance on people and increase their focus on delivering automation, leveraging the cloud for their clients," said Partha Iyengar, Gartner's head of research in India.


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Many malicious software programs used to make a quick exit on virtual machines, a tactic designed to avoid a security check. But that isn't the case anymore, according Symantec research.
As companies increasingly use VMs in operational environments, malware writers are largely trying other methods to avoid detection. It means that simply running VMs won't be enough to scare away malware.
Symantec studied 200,000 malware samples submitted by its customers since 2012. It ran the samples on a VM and a non-VM machine to see which ones would stop working when a VM was detected.
Just 18 percent of malware programs studied stop executing when a VM is detected, wrote Candid Wueest, a threat researcher, in a blog post Tuesday.
"Malware authors want to compromise as many systems as possible, so if malware does not run on a VM, it limits the number of computers it could compromise," Wueest wrote. "So, it should not come as a surprise that most samples today will run normally on a virtual machine."
One trick employed by malware to avoid being booted from a VM by security software is to simply wait, Symantec's report said.
If a new file doesn't act suspicious in the first five or ten minutes, systems will likely decided it is harmless. Other types of malware will wait for a certain number of left mouse clicks before decrypting themselves and launching their payload, Wueest wrote.
"This can make it difficult or impossible for an automated system to come to an accurate conclusion about the malware in a short time frame," according to the report.
The fear is that malware will make its way back to the virtual machines' hosting server. That was the mission of the "Crisis" malware, a Java file distributed through social engineering which ran on Windows and Apple's OS X.
Crisis tried to spread to virtual machines that were stored on a local server, Symantec wrote. It didn't exploit a vulnerability but capitalized on virtual systems simply being a series of files on a host server. A similar style of attack called "Cloudburst" was found in 2009.
Overall, the change in tactics is better for security researchers, since most malware will continue to run and might be detected on a VM. But Symantec advised that to not miss the 18 percent of malware that will quit, real physical hardware should be used in analyses.
For those concerned about VMs, Symantec recommended hardening host servers, vigilant patching of VMs and using antimalware defenses.


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Luc Besson, the co-writer and director, has been quoted in Premiere magazine as saying that there are two people inside of him: "There's Besson, the director, the man, and then there's Besson, the moviegoer, the kid." Actually, there are a whole lot more than Besson the director and Besson the kid in his kangaroo pouch. Judging from The Fifth Element, Besson is also lugging around Fritz Lang from Metropolis, Ridley Scott from Blade Runner and Alien, John Boorman from Zardoz, Paul Verhoeven from Total Recall, George Lucas from the Star Wars trilogy, Terry Gilliam from Brazil and 12 Monkeys, John McTiernan from Die Hard, the auteurs from the Star Trek films and ... well, I stopped making notes an hour into the movie.
It's not that The Fifth Element is derivative -- so are most science-fantasy movies, even the best. In fact, in this genre, connoisseurship is a specialty of the house; for true believers, spotting all the steals and arcana is part of the fun. But The Fifth Element, which stars Bruce Willis, doesn't really work up its derivations into any kind of style; it doesn't build into something radically new.
This might not be so terrible either, except that Besson seems to think he's creating new archetypes. He's standing atop his heap of junkyard bits and striking the visionary pose. Maybe Luc should be calling himself Lucas -- or Leeloo. He may even have lucked out: Because of the tremendous success of the Star Wars revivals, young audiences may end up turned on by his frequent lifts from Lucasland.
Set in the year 2259, The Fifth Element is about what happens when, as it apparently is wont to do every 3,000 years, "a door opens between dimensions" and the forces of darkness attempt to eradicate the good. Mostly Besson's vision lacks the wit and the awe that can come from concocting a truly imagined future. Maybe that's because in order to imagine the future, it's helpful to have some sense of the present.
And Besson, the French whiz-bang who gave us The Big Blue, La Femme Nikita and The Professional, seems to exist in a movieland continuum in which past, present and future coexist in a perpetual nowheresville. (I recall a press screening of his Subway in which the projectionist inadvertently skipped a reel, and no one suspected a thing.) With Besson, it's all eye candy; despite all of his mythic posturing, his loop-the-loop camera moves and in-your-face fandangos are the true substance of his films. And that's not much substance. He's a dry-hump orgiast.
When a director is concerned only with plotting his visual pirouettes, it's all too easy for him to lose track of what the story is supposed to be about. The Professional, a movie that was ostensibly about a hit man and the underage girl he protects, mutated into something far more leering and sleazy. Besson -- carried away by Natalie Portman's dewiness? -- photographed her with a caress that seemed more like a grope. (The film didn't do too well in America, but -- mon dieu! -- it's one of the most successful films ever in France.)
That same gliding amorality turns up in The Fifth Element, where Besson displays blacks as hulking oafs and morphed monsters and mincing queens. Our leader, the president of the Federated Territories, is played by Tiny Lister Jr. as a thuggish, slow-witted overlord. It's as if the film were saying, Look what you get when you put a black man in charge. Then there's Chris Tucker's motor mouth DJ Ruby Rhod, who sashays through all the furious futurism like a renegade from The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, but -- just in case we got the wrong idea -- also services a woman. ("Service" is the right word: He looks to be about as happy as a piston.) As if this weren't bad enough, the baddies who pass into our galaxy hoping to destroy Earth (they're called Mangalores) are pig-snouted, dog-faced Jabba the Hutt clones who, for the most part, reshape themselves into blacks.
I don't think Besson is being consciously racist here. It's just that he's such a sucker for eye candy that he probably sees blacks in this sci-fi context as more "exotic" than whites, more animal. And in a way, he's right -- at least compared to the likes of Bruce Willis, who plays Korben Dallas, a war hero turned down-on-his-luck New York aircab driver; or Ian Holm as Father Cornelius, an Obi-Wan Kenobi type who possesses the ancient secret that can repel the invaders. Even Jovovich, with her blank allure, doesn't really hold the camera. She holds it the way a cover girl does -- one look and you've got it.
The one big exception for the white team is Gary Oldman's Zorg, an agent for the outer space baddies. Oldman has half his pate shaved and covered in plastic; the other half has a thick shock of hair draped across his forehead Hitler-style. Oldman is the film's one true camp element, and it's almost refreshing having his nuttiness around. Oldman can be so far over the top that he comes out the other side.
Willis is essentially doing a reprise of his Die Hard heroics, and his bag of tricks -- the tiny half-smiles and droning self-mutterings -- are the actor's action-movie equivalent of minimalism. He can be marvelous, but he knows he doesn't need to be here; he winks his way through the movie until he gets to blow things up real good and Die Hard-like. Perhaps directors like using Willis in their futuristic fantasias because he can seem knowing yet hulky. He's a wised-up Everyman, jerky but fun, and his jock allure allows him to stand in for us in these stranger-in-a-strange-land escapades. But in his last sci-fi outing, 12 Monkeys, Willis brought some depth to the strangeness. He seemed ravaged by his predicament as an ordinary man out of time. In The Fifth Element he's just marking time.
I realize that practically all science fiction, even the goofiest, has to have its mite of seriousness -- something cautionary to keep us earthlings on our toes. But the high-toned stuff in The Fifth Element is especially jarring because it directly contradicts the spirit of the rest of the movie. When Leeloo, with her superhuman brain, finally absorbs into her cranium the vast history of Earth's warfare, she's so crestfallen she can't fight anymore. "Everything you create, you destroy," she cries out.
Funny -- the people who made this movie are busy destroying everything they create, too. Leeloo may not be much of a supreme being, but she has a promising future as a movie critic.
The Fifth Element.
Directed by Luc Besson.
With Bruce Willis, Gary Oldman and Milla Jovovich.
Rated PG-13.
127 minutes.


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Wednesday, November 14, 2012
Woj with Great Perspective
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yet again why i believe a MDA + Lin reunion is the best for them both:ReplyDelete
"Like, the coach actually cared about what plays I enjoy running, or that the coach would text me on a day off to see how I was feeling. That type of stuff was too good to be true."
Lin was asked, "You had that with Mike D'Antoni, didn't you?"
"But it was so short," Lin responded."Replies
Can you just give it up?Delete
You must think you know Lin better than himself too, am I right?
i'm quoting Jeremy from the article Cara ... chill outDelete
Lin couldn't go to a WORSE TEAM than the Lakers.Delete
It would mean no shots, screaming from Kobe to pass him the ball (even if Lin IS passing Kobe the ball), constant benchings, and a benching behind Steve Nash!
There are 29 teams in the NBA. Any one of them, including the Bobcats and Wizards, would be better for Lin than the Lakers. I'd rather see Lin go back to the Knicks than be buried on the Lakers!!!
Bear in mind that I like the Lakers because I like ALL NBA teams, But I also don't want Lin to go to the worst possible situation in LA.
Fortunately, Houston likes Lin. He's not going anywhere, for multiple reasons discussed several times over.
29 "other" teamsDelete
KHuang, your talking about this year and i agree i dont see a trade happening at all. but if D Howard bails on the Lakers and you have an old, broken, Nash with a soon to retire kobe, MDA could easily hope to have Lin under him again and rebuild his offense around him.Delete
Wish away, then.Delete
Go ahead. Indulge your fantasy over years if that's what suits you. You can mentally trade for Lin all you want.
Me and the other members here will stick to REAL LIFE, which is Lin as a Houston Rocket for the foreseeable future.
i do think Pau will be traded eventually. Buss has been itching to trade Pau forever now and he doesn't fit at all in MDA's system.Delete
if there's any other franchise type player Houston has a chance at it will be some kind of trade for Pau. i'm not saying this involves Jeremy, but you can't exclude the possibility.
pz, I can see the remote possibility for Lakers want to trade for JLin in 2-3 years if he becomes an All-Star but unfortunately, it takes two to tango. I don't see Houston giving up on JLin in the next 2-3 years.Delete
JLin is a much more important player for Houston than he is for the Lakers and he fits into the New Age youth movement in Houston. I don't think Harden, Lin, Asik and Parsons are tradeable for anything less than LeBron.
Nothing wrong with you thinking Lin's gonna be a Laker and me thinking Lin's gonna stay a Rocket.Delete
- AnonymousNovember 14, 2012 at 1:14 PM
The trade rumor is just strong because Pau was once traded to Houston already....and Jlin and D'Antoni seem a natural fit. When Nash hits 40 and Lin 26, you just never know.Delete
The Lakers want showtime and Howard is the star and Lin will make the engine run. There will be other elite pieces still around like an old Kobe if he takes a paycut etc..
There are many scenarios, I just believe things will work out for Lin to be there in LA, or if not LA, D'Antoni will one day land in Houston if Lin is there along with Harden, star PF, Asik etc for D'Antoni 2.0 after he wins a championship with the Lakers.
If a trade happens, it happens this summer or by the 2014 trade deadline, not this season. Also, Pau has to look expendable, and/or the Lakers have to struggle for them to consider this type of trade. If they win the trophy this yr and next, Lin could only get to LA via free agency as the Lakers will keep that core in tact.
If Lakers don't win this yr or if Pau looks weak, they don't want to lose Pau for nothing in a FA year and we'll see if they try to trade to Houston for Morris, Lin, White (to even the money out)and some other fillers to lead a D'Antoni bench unit.
I think it's more about Laker's trading for Pau to someone rather than it having to be Lin...I just believe a Pau trade is coming somewhere in the next 2 years unless they win championships.
Everyone knows with D'Antoni's offense, you don't need Pau & Dwight. You only need Dwight picking and rolling. The 4 man needs to spread the floor like a Morris while grabbing defensive rebounds.
Just let pz keep living in his 10 year old dream world while we are all living in the real life. No need to discuss his dream with him like it's an outright fact.Delete
- AnonymousNovember 14, 2012 at 1:20 PM
Also dont forget Dwight if he refuses to sign, might end up doing a sign and trade with a team like Houston to pair with Harden. That's where Lin, Asik and parts could get traded over too....just never know...Delete
Yes swinglinezigzag, you "never know" when it comes to Dwight Howard who has EMPHATICALLY stated that he refuses to sign a long term deal with the Rockets.Delete
I definitely don't want Lin with the Lakers, but his quote is right on and a deserving swipe at the Rockets (whether or not he means it to be).Delete
In the long run, this rocky start with Hero Ball Harden might be a great thing for Jeremy...it'll cause him to get angry and "Hulk out" by taking a stronger role as team leader and playmaker. "I'm the point guard. I handle the ball unless I'm double-teamed. If you take bad shots, you're not getting the ball."
@swinglinezigzag - you got it my man! everyone forgets the Stern vetoed trade:Delete
Dragic, Scola, KMart all for Pau. and people here think they'll never give up Jeremy. its silly.
especially if D Howard leaves, that leaves the Lakers with no future marketable player. they'll bring in stars no doubt but with MDA already there Jeremy is a great candidate.
also Jim Buss's decision, allegedly by Kupchak, was specifically to see a more up tempo game a la showtime. as of now aside from Nash, and Kobe, the rest of the pieces just don't fit the model.
Not everyone forgets the Stern veto. Let's play connect the dots and what if:
No veto, we get Pau. Lowry is our starting PG, and Jeremy Lin never gets waived. He plays in the PG focused offense, and in addition to Pau would have had Nene (this is conjecture, of course, but most sources point to it as having a high likelihood of happening) to pick n roll with.
Of course, Linsanity (as we know it) never happens, which means no $25M contract, so given that this is still a job (the best kind where it coincides with your dreams), while he would likely still be on the Rox, he would be making a fraction of what he is now. However, since he wouldn't have been "ridden like Secretariat", it's possible no knee surgery as well.
I believe cream rises to the top, and I think his talents would have eventually make it's way into the public eye. No Linsanity, but no unrealistic expectations either. No unrealistic pressure for him, so likely no going through whatever confidence-void hell he's parked in right now.
Which path would have been better for his career?
@Nom - the one thing i do believe is like Jeremy says, being an asian player he was always doubted and this would only have continued.Delete
one thing jeremy's says about himself, which i believe to be true, is since he is not freakishly athletic, he can only be evaluated if you see him through the course of a full game playing at least 28+ minutes. otherwise to only judge him off of 3 on 3 scouting sessions or by what he can do in garbage time of a game doesn't show off his IQ and ability to lead an offense.
if shump, melo, baron, werent injured and D'Antoni had no other option but giving him these extra minutes wouldn't have happened, he was going to be cut and this has been admitted by MDA.
ya maybe he goes back to the d-league and gets picked up again, but then the same issue of playing garbage minutes. this isn't to say Linsanity would never have happened somewhere else, but you have to admit that opportunity to get those kind of minutes is rare at such a young age. NY definately was the fastest way to Linsanity, but otherwise it may have taken years before Jeremy got a chance to shine, although no doubt i believe eventually he would have.
We're nowhere as dumb as you say we are, pz.Delete
Just because Houston was ready to make that trade with the completely unproven Dragic (playing like a scrub headed out of the NBA before McHale whipped him into shape), a petulant Lowry, and a defenseless Scola doesn't mean Les Alexander would jump to trade Lin to your Lakers.
Your problem is that you think people here are STUPID.
forget about Dragic and KMart, let's just look at Scola. average of 9 / year for 4 years. if you average out the years Jeremy is around 8 million / year for 3 years.Delete
and you're saying houston would never trade jeremy on what basis?
There are no "what ifs" in the NBA, pz.Delete
Thus pretending that reality doesn't exist is a FAIL.
i'm just trying to understand that you believe Jeremy is untradable - which yes is pretty naive, not stupid, stupid is stupid does.Delete
Lin is untradeable to your Lakers, for many reasons that have been repeatedly explained to you.Delete
Anything can happen, and anything can NOT happen.
Get used to it. Get over it. Lin is JUST FINE on the Rockets.
You know what should happen? D'Antoni should get fired in LA in a few months....Dolan will rehire D'Antoni..then trade Felton for Lin. Melo would be traded for Dwight Howard. Lin back with the Knicks with Dantoni!!!Replies
lol doubt that. actually i don't doubt MDA could get fired or walk away again if ish hits the fan in LA.Delete
the more likely case of a MDA & Lin reunion will be next year if MDA stays as head coach on the Lakers and there are pieces for a trade on both sides.
Let me guess - you are a new yorker :) so you want him back in NYC :)Delete
The article answers a lot of questions but Im pretty sure most people here wont even read it. Some come here to just find an opportunity to bash JLin - claiming hes below average - claiming they shoot and play better than JLin - claiming JLin has no balls - claiming his "asian character" is not made for competetive sports - claiming a bad knee is no excuse. Same BS all the time from people who dont get enough attention and respect in life...
I was being sarcastic. There's no way Jlin is getting traded for at least 2 years. Houston has too much invested in him and I think it's pointless to fantasize. I would love for a Dantoni/Lin reunion, but the likelihood of that happening is nil.
I think the Rockets are a good organization for him right now especially after reading the article (ie time to develop, grow with the team, etc). Our expectations of him (including my own) have been way blown out of proportion.
what has houston invested in Jeremy that makes him untouchable for a trade? i don't understand why people here believe he's completely untouchable?Delete
It has been repeatedly explained to you that Lin is great value for his $25 million.Delete
Don't blame people here if Lin NOT being traded doesn't fulfill your Lakers fantasy. We have nothing to do with Lin not being traded, and we have nothing to do with yout fantasy.
my fantasies involve kate upton not the Lakers.Delete
i leave one question, show me who has had more enthusiasm publicly about Jeremy, McHale or MDA? who do you think really wants them running their offense?
The answer to your question is that in real life it DOESN'T MATTER.Delete
Lin is fine right where he is learning from the best. Mike DAntoni is fine where he is coaching the best.
I'm sick of talking about fake trades involving the Lakers, I'm sick of people playing dolls with real NBA players, anf I don't live life worrying about the word "If".
Damn, Lin is a Rocket. Deal with it. No need to pollute every thread with your posts with the same topic again and again. No one wants to discuss with you anymore. Discuss something when it is actually happening, that is Lin in Houston.Delete
Kate upton, Lin, and Lakers fantasies... yummy!Delete
I think you are missing the point here. Let me ask this question. Daryl Morey, the GM, has PUBLICLY announced that he made a mistake by letting Jlin go. He has PUBLICLY defended Lin: http://dimemag.com/2012/11/houston-gm-defends-jeremy-lins-turnovers/ . What makes you think that he wants to look like a fool again? Morey (who recommended Lin to Alexander) and Alexander have both PUBLICLY supported Lin. What makes you think that they want to both look like fools by trading Jlin and so PUBLICLY supporting him after one month/7 games into the season? It's not realistic and not happening.
@cara, to each his own opinions. You're awfully damning with all your high and mighty talks. Chill out.Delete
And I'm just as sick of the FAKE Lakers fantasies as Cara is.Delete
That's MY opinion, and I agree with Cara and not you MT.
@khuang, that's fine. but let the man speak..Delete
And as pz keeps fantasizing about them fake Laker trades, I and Cara and others will keep reminding people that Lin is a Rocket NOW.Delete
KHuang its not about the lakers man. it's about MDA. you can't tell me there isn't a coach Jeremy would rather play for than MDA. i was actually hoping McHale would get fired and bring MDA to Houston. this is a jeremy fan site not the lakers and the point of jeremy going the lakers is to be with the coach that let him do what he does best. i'm all for bringing MDA to houston too, but after the weekend surprise that aint happening.Delete
and @cara, seriously chill out. there is no
@cara there isn't a better distraction from work then coming here and debating this stuff. its cute you think i'm 10 and i'm flattered someone thinks i have an ounce of childhood left in me. no one's insulting jeremy by talking about a trade. the posting was about an article that happened to have high praise for MDA and anytime that subject is brought up, the idea of them reuniting is always up for discussion. in almost a gay way, i think they both are meant for each other.Delete
@jlinisasuperhero - just because Morey said that means absolutely nothing.Delete
Woodson said Knick would match "up to a billion" for jeremy and promised would "absolutely be back".
Just last week the day before Mike Brown was fired, Kuptchak was talking about how safe Brown was.
if there's one lesson sports teaches kids all across the world, it's DONT TRUST ANYONE.
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"Don't trust anyone?"Delete
That's a hard way to live life. REALLY HARD. I wouldn't recommend that for anyone.
How about "accept life as it comes and move accordingly"? That's a healthier, happier, easier approach!
HUGE difference between the "interim" head coach saying something as opposed to the owner and GM. You are right to a certain extent- talk is cheap unless backed by actions. Last time I checked, Houston offered Jlin 25 million guaranteed...that speaks volumes to me. If Kupchack had said that and offered Brown a 3 year guaranteed contract for 7 million a year, and then fired him...I might agree with you now.
@jlinsuperhero - i would agree if it was a different organization. the fact is they made a similar contract with scola who they amnestied with no hesitation all for making room for dwight howard who never came. the rockets front office is pretty fickle if you ask me.Delete
Scola's not a great example. He was part of the Yao/Tracy era and it did not make sense to bring him back. Morey's plans were to rebuild into a contendor. Also, it's not like they got rid of him a month into the season. It was 2 years later...2 years later Jlin will be re-evaluated and it's possible he might be traded than if he isn't considered key to the team. However, it's not happening now as I've said many times.
@jlinisasuperhero - no i think the main reason to amnesty Scola was allegedly he was very sour about vetoed trade. actually all of them were and its probably part of the reason the rumors of McHale losing rapport with his players started coming out. as you can tell, none of the players involved in the trade are back for a reason, they felt betrayed by McHale.Delete
McHale loves Pau and I think he'll go to extremes to get a big man like him. McHales offense caters especially to versatile big men like Pau and Garnett.
Something for you to watch during half time.
@Nom - bro, i've watched that so many times .. never gets old ;-DDelete
I don't think a Lin-Dantoni pairing is necessarily going to make Lin a better player.ReplyDelete
Lin needs to work on his off the ball game. That sounds strange considering he was an off guard in college, but NBA is different. It doesn't matter who's coaching.
As for the ABSOLUTELY LUDICROUS notion that Lin is imminently going to get traded to the Lakers, that would be the WORST thing for Lin. Being buried behind Kobe, Gasol, and Howard on the shot chart is TOTALLY FATAL to Lin's NBA career. Lin will be lucky to get 5 shots on that ball hogging team. Fortunately, that nightmarish fandream won't happen.
Let's not forget that Houston kicked Lin out exactly a year ago. When somebody kicks me out and then takes me back in, I'm leery at first.
Lin did play good with D'Antoni, he also played well under Woodson, he played good under Eric Musselman of the D-league Reno Bighorns. Jeremy can play with almost any coach with any style. Just give him time, he's a good learner.ReplyDelete
Here's another article that make sense for Lin to stay in Houston.ReplyDelete
Thanks for the article jlinfan. That is what i wanted to know. Coach believes in him, he believes in coach. Now we just have to wait jeremy get better phisically and then he'll run the show.ReplyDelete
Jeremy is good in houston so let's hope he'll shine out there. Khuang is right, houston is the best team for jeremy now. But please coach.... Give him the ball in his hands....Replies
What makes you believe Mchale believes in Lin?Delete
What makes you believe McHale DOESN'T believe in Lin - especially since Lin is starting and getting minutes?Delete
Because McHale and the Rockets paid Lin more than any other teams wanted to and also plays Lin over 35 mpg every game?Delete
@khuang, it's not my theory to disprove or prove. @Cara, mchale didn't pay lin. Coaches always want control of the front office. Ask Phil Jackson. Looking at the way the playbook is designed so far I have serious doubts about mchale confidence in Lin. Behind the scenes don't know his thinking. But as an observer of the games played so far, proof is not in the pudding.Delete
If a coach calls his player in a non-training-day just for ask: "how you feel?" to me means he believes in him.Delete
Maybe, and i repeat maybe, he doesn't want to give jeremy the ball because he's not fit yet...
Let's wait and see and support of course ... That's all we can do
agreed @mt. the proof is in previous pudding. McHales systems favor big men and a strong wing player, not a PG. i don't think its necessarily about not trusting Jeremy but its more about not delegating a lot of responsibilities to the PG as a playmaker.Delete
"It wasn't like I worried they were going to cut me," Lin said. "But it just seemed too good to be true. Like, the coach actually cared about what plays I enjoy running, or that the coach would text me on a day off to see how I was feeling. That type of stuff was too good to be true."Delete
That's the part i like the most and make me hope for the future....
And last season McHale handed the team over to Lowry (who acted like a pissant upon being given that responsibility) and later Dragic (the only solid stretch of his entire NBA career - the true flash in the pan compared to Lin.)Delete
McHale, like most NBA coaches, designs his offense based on the personnel he's handed. Since he's not a GM anymore, he can't just trade everybody off the team they way Don Nelson or Larry Brown would.
So CONSTRAINED is McHale's power in Houston that he has two or three assistants working for him that are essentially designated successors to his head coaching slot. Thus leaning on McHale to get Lin traded to the Lakers won't work.
don't forget Lowry and Dragic had a career year last season playing in McHale's system.Delete
The cream will rise to the top. JLin is the PG cream and Harden is the SG cream.
On a site note, did you guys notice Royce White's twitter war? He's reportedly crying over his lack of playing time and openly attacking the Rockets affecting his anxiety disorders!ReplyDelete
You guys here want Lin to do the same to blackmail the Rockets for having the ball more in his hands?! Lol.Replies
Royce White is the modern day Vassilis Spanoulis!!!
At least Spanoulis had game, as well as a legitimate gripe with coach Jeff Van Gundy. Personally, I think that Van Gundy's poor handling of Spanoulis is a major reason why Van Gundy no longer coaches for the Rockets or for any other team in the NBA.
Owner Les Alexander managed to salvage Spanoulis by trading him to the Spurs for Luis Scola who the Spurs "didn't want" according to ex Spurs center Fabricio Oberto.
Since I'm in a HORRIBLE mood from all of the BS spewed here by Lakers fans trying to get Lin for nothing, I'll join the fray:
Trade Royce White to LA for Kobe Bryant and Pau Gasol!!!!
Maybe Royce White would want to join his fellow teammates in the D-League. He'll get playing time there.Delete
- AnonymousNovember 14, 2012 at 3:57 PM
Royce White really has talent and could have been awesome down the line if he was an intelligent person without personal and health issues. Royce is a flameout who will either be cut or traded as an expiring contract or a piece just to make the trade even out money wise. How sad...What a waste of talent and what a waste of a pick for Houston.Delete
Houston definitely is a gambling team trying to strike gold with what everyone else thinks is second rate talent. I still believe Lin can be that 1 time exception being the undervalued Asian face player with an A game. Show me something before the year is over Lin. I'll give you the entire season to get your head/game together.
If he is still playing like he is now during next season, I will truly have reason to worry he won't regain his form and was indeed an overrated bench scrub. It would be shocking indeed.
swinglinezigzag, it would be shocking because it's NOT GOING TO HAPPEN.Delete
Lin has too much game, even right now. Thanks in no small part to him, his Rockets teammates outside of Harden are benefitting from Lin's presence in both ends of the court.
Anytime now, Lin is going to EXPLODE. I see so many signs of things coming together for him. He's realizing that the Rockets DO believe in him provided that he believes in himself!!!
Have no fear. Lin is going to attack and score big. He'll likely do it in the next few games. And there's no turning back once Lin finds his pace.
I've written before that McHale has championship expectations for Lin. Before our eyes, Lin is maturing with McHale's tutelage. Lin will reach that form within the next few games!!!
- AnonymousNovember 14, 2012 at 4:52 PM
I hope you are right. Scoring makes stars of players in the NBA but I don't care if Lin scores a lot. He can be like Rondo or Kidd if that's what he is, I just want to see him have a real impact and affect the game in a good way. Realistically I give him till all-star break to get in form. It's just painful game to game, but I realize the guy needs some time to put it together.Delete
The Rockets are currently borderline unwatchable. I hope that changes soon too.
If Lin explodes then it won't happen. But if Lin doesn't, then anything is possible. Business is business. Lin's value to Les is also dependent on Lin's performance. If Lin is not producing as expected then I'm sure Les would have second thoughts. He wants a championship in Houston evidenced by all the dealings so far. Allegiance to Lin by Les goes in so far as Lin is producing at a star level. Mediocre level doesn't make Les much money. Even though les is owner, at some point there is autonomy dealt to his officials, otherwise it would not be a destination hire for prospective coaches and gms. So Les recognizes that. That's why you don't see Linsanity on replay. So who is really running the show here? Because if it is Les, it is counterintuitive thinking. Thus it has to be the coach or the gm. There is something brewing in Texas. So stay tuned.Delete
No need to feel bad KHuang. After I saw some of the nonsense spewed here, I turned it off, hehe. Boy, folks can get so emotional after one game. The journey is like a thousand miles, and Lin has only set foot on a few stones. He will turn the corner and learn from his experience.ReplyDelete
Yes, JLin is not at his best yet. Yes, I agree there are some issues with him and Harden in the way they are playing. But a solution will surface sooner or later. For the Rockets to succeed, the both of them need each other. And only time will show the way.
I'm absolutely optimistic about Lin doing better and better. I see that from game to game, and when he does make mistakes, those are all lessons. For those who are smart, failure is the fastest path to success. When you fail, you know you've tried, and when you fail, you know not to repeat it. The smart ones learn, and we all know Lin is smart. :)
As I said before, the mind is the most powerful tool, and success is within almost everyone's reach. It's just a matter of going out there and taking it. I foresee JLin working harder and smarter and finding his way to success. It may even happen tonight! :)Replies
I don't think Lin himself realizes that he HAS to be great to succeed in the NBA.Delete
Instinctively, he totally gets it. The moment Lin fully realizes that, the swagger will be back and the game will improve by itself.
No player I've ever seen in the NBA has battled as much negativity as Lin has. Not by a longshot. Everybody is indeed targeting him because of his race, just like he said.
But in a few words, he basically said what I've said to haters that threatened me: BRING IT ON!!!
All of those great opponents bringing their A game against Lin means that they're PREPARING HIM for GREATNESS!!!
- AnonymousNovember 14, 2012 at 4:18 PM
The good thing is, just based on watching as a casual observer/fan looking from afar is that I believe McHale is fine with Lin and hopes Lin can succeed. You just get the feeling he's "ok" with Lin, pretty much impartial and open minded about Lin.ReplyDelete
Sampson sounds like an uninformed idiot when he's talked about Lin and I really don't think he thinks much of Lin and never will. I have NO CLUE what the other coaches think of Lin so it's hard to know what is going on. I also think Morey is obsessed with proving Harden is Kobe Jr and so the Front Office's agenda to the coaching staff is to make Harden look like a star at all costs. Morey has gone on a limb saying Harden is their 2013 All Star for the Houston game. There is pressure for everyone to make that happen even if it means losing games.
Everything Mchale has said from day 1 is "ball movement, swing the ball, don't stick, pass, hit the open guy, make simple plays." But the product on the court with Harden is completely opposite of that esp. in the 4th Quarter. So there is some internal strife going on with that organization right now. Something obviously isn't right.
I think Lin simply needs to prove to McHale that Lin is capable of leading and making big plays for them to trust Lin more. Mchale's style is old school and I agree Lin will become a better player over time with Mchale's style. D'Antoni's style masks Lin's weaknesses and Mchale's exposes them forcing Lin to be better all around which will help as Lin loses athleticism due to age.
As a 3rd party observer, I truly don't think Morey is high on Lin or cares if Lin looks good. It's obvious because there is no Front Office mandate to make Lin look good or give him the ball. The Front Office dictates to coaching staffs what they want, and what they want is Harden ball.
At the same time, Morey can't trade Lin anytime soon to LA because imagine if Linsanity 2.0 actually took off...Les Alexander would FIRE Morey if that happened this year or next. The only way Morey can get away with getting rid of Lin is if they make their Houston team ALOT better at the same time so Les and others don't mind losing Lin in the process.
I have a bad feeling Mchale might not return or get fired. If they put Sampson in place, that would suck...I know this sounds racist, but besides Tommy Amaker, Lin seems to play better for white coaches and embraces them more, and Lin's white coaches seem to appreciate what he does more as well...I'm of the belief that Amaker only played Lin at Harvard because he was clearly head and shoulders better than everyone and Amaker had no other option than Lin but we'll never know.Replies
With the Houston Rockets, Les Alexander is the ONLY voice that counts.Delete
It doesn't matter what people think say or do. Les is the owner and Lin is Les's guy.
That said, it's not the coaches' responsibility to make Lin attack. Only LIN can make that decision for himself.
This is the NBA. Unless it's a Larry Brown team we're talking about, coaches shift their gameplans based on who's attacking and producing. No attacking from Lin means no coaching thrown his way, AS IT SHOULD BE!
pz, this is the original quote from the article which he thinks Houston is a better fit. The coach he is referring to are coach from Rockets.ReplyDelete
Fame had come so fast, so without warning, it hasn't been until training camp and starting the season with Houston that Lin has finally breathed out, finally understood he had found a franchise that will let him grow, let him make his mistakes, let him be.
"It wasn't like I worried they were going to cut me," Lin said. "But it just seemed too good to be true. Like, the coach actually cared about what plays I enjoy running, or that the coach would text me on a day off to see how I was feeling. That type of stuff was too good to be true."
Lin was asked, "You had that with Mike D'Antoni, didn't you?"
"But it was so short," Lin responded.
And when Mike Woodson took over?
"It changed," Lin said. "Different style, different coach."
did you see the double teaming of Lin when he is guarding his man? i see the Birdie Lopez keeps helping out his PG.
BTW.... i wonder who poked Lin in the eye? I missed
gotota go backReplies
Sorry buddy, I didn't see the game because I was hard at work all day and last night.Delete
The Rockets have been STELLAR on defense, better than I even thought they would be. Lin is THE big reason why, as it's virtually impossible for people to beat him off the dribble and he can elevate to block people (ask Lebron).
I may not like how Lin is playing tentatively on offense, but he's so good and active on defense that he doesn't have to be. With the Rockets winning and staying competitive, I'm not as gung ho about Lin getting great scoring numbers as a lot of people are.
All I want is for Lin to stop jacking up 3s, to start really moving without the ball more effectively, and camp out in the midrange that is still the most effective scoring range in basketball because of the limitless options it produces.
Today's players, Lin included, shun the midrange. But only by mastering the midrange game can players step out to the 3 point line or drive in for layups!
Monta Ellis = Mid Range King of the NBA of this EraDelete
Those advanced stats approach hurt players more than help them. Layups or 3 pointers are deemed as more effective shots than mid range jumpers in those advanced stats research. It's unlucky that Lin got into Morey's rubbish when Morey knows nothing about basketball.Delete


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It's nobody's birthday, but we got out the streamers anyway- just for fun.
It's Playtime!
What a fun way to spice up your day!
I'll bet it was especially beautiful with the window sun shining through it.
Katey - you're the best !!! love it - love it !!
Katie you are so clever and talented. You always amaze me lov Aunt Pam
I bet that was fun! I love the idea of getting 'party' things out without the party! Yay!
how fun! I want to run through the streamers too. Love all the fancy dresses - what a party feel!
would love to see you link this up on the sunday showcase - a child centered linky party - http://momto2poshlildivas.blogspot.com/2011/07/sunday-showcase-child-centered-linky_30.html
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An Outback Policeman's Life
Year of production - 1952
Duration - 1min 39sec
Tags - Australian History, see all tags
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An Outback Policeman's Life is an excerpt from the film Outback Patrol (20 mins), produced in 1952.
Outback Patrol: This film, narrated by Chips Rafferty, follows the annual patrol of outback policeman Robert Darkin. If there is a spot of lawbreaking, Darkin can convene a court but in this job he's also collector of public monies and protector of Aborigines, Commonwealth electoral returning officer, commissioner for affadavits for the Supreme Court, postmaster, inspector of stock, and registrar of births, deaths, marriages, mines, motor vehicles and dogs. He checks that there is water in the government bores for the drovers and keeps an eye on the lone prospectors who roam the trackless hills and parched plains. Other horse and camel teams, operating from scattered police stations, patrolled the whole Northern Territory.
Outback Patrol is a National Film Board Production. Produced by the Department of the Interior.
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5.2 A student uses and critically assesses a range of processes for responding and composing
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5.10 A student questions, challenges and evaluates cultural assumptions in texts and their effects on meaning
Background Informationtop
In remote areas of Australia police periodically need to go on long patrols to come into contact with remote communities and to be seen to be implementing the rule of law.
The list of policing and civic duties in earlier times was extensive including delivering the mail to convening a bush court. The remote far northern region of Australia is a vast area to cover and the policeman would often head off on horseback for three months at a time with the assistance of an Aboriginal stockman or two.
These days, there are more roads and police patrols can be more easily carried out by four- wheel drive. In some remote regions, alcohol and substance abuse are becoming serious problems in communities, with Indigenous Australians being particularly vulnerable.
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- List at least six of the jobs done by outback police identified in the video clip.
- List the personal qualities and physical skills the policeman demonstrates.
- Briefly describe what you think are the best and worst aspects of this job.
- The video clip was made more than fifty years ago. In small groups, discuss and write answers to the following questions.
- What is the message(s) about the role of an outback policeman in the video clip?
- What visual images does the filmmaker use to get these message(s) across to the viewer?
- What problems are identified in the video clip as being problems found in the outback?
- What images are shown of Indigenous Australians? Are these images positive or negative? Give reasons.
- Construct a careers information brochure or poster about becoming an Outback policeman for people in the 1950s. You must use at least two visual images and 300 words of text.
- Include the following headings; qualities needed, job description, what you can expect. (Remember to use bullet points, clear font, numbers and arrows if necessary).
- Write captions for any visual images used.
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- Why has first person and dialogue been used in this clip? (2 marks)
- Explain what is different about a case involving an Aboriginal person? (2 marks)
- Using a dictionary, find the meaning of these words; stock, bores, drovers (1 mark)


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A new commercial rocket designed to launch unmanned cargo missions to the International Space Station passed a key engine test Friday night (Feb. 22), setting the stage for the booster's debut flight in the months ahead, NASA officials say.
The Virginia-based company Orbital Sciences Corp. test-fired the first stage engines of its new Antares rocket at the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport on Wallops Island, Va. — the home of NASA's Wallops Flight Facility. The so-called "hot fire" test ignited the Antares rocket's engines for 29 seconds without ever leaving the launch pad.
Friday's engine test was aimed at verifying the fueling systems at the spaceport's launch Pad-0A and Antares rocket first stage would perform as expected during an actual mission, Orbital officials said.
"Initial review of the test data indicate the primary objectives of the test were accomplished," Orbital officials wrote in a status update. "The pad and fueling systems will undergo post-test inspections and any necessary reconditioning work will be performed."
Orbital Sciences is one of two private spaceflight companies with billion-dollar NASA contracts to provide unmanned cargo delivery missions to the International Space Station. Under its $1.9 billion Commercial Resupply Services contract, Orbital will make at least eight delivery flights to the space station using its Antares rocket and robotic Cygnus spacecraft. The first Antares rocket test flight is expected later this year. [ Antares Rocket and Cygnus Explained (Infographic) ]
The Hawthorne, Calif.-based Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) is the other company with a NASA contract for unmanned space station deliveries. SpaceX has a $1.6 billion contract to fly at least 12 missions to the space station using its Dragon space capsules and Falcon 9 rocket. The company launched both a test flight and a bona fide delivery mission to the space station in 2012. The second delivery flight under the contract is slated to launch on March 1.
"This pad test is an important reminder of how strong and diverse the commercial space industry is in our nation," Phil McAlister, director of Commercial Spaceflight Development at NASA Headquarters in Washington, said in a statement. "A little more than one year after the retirement of the space shuttle, we had a U.S company resupplying the International Space Station. Now, another is taking the next critical steps to launch from America's newest gateway to low-Earth orbit."
Orbital plans to launch its Antares rocket from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport on Wallops Island, which is located on Virginia's eastern shore. NASA's Wallops Flight Facility there has launched more than 16,000 rockets in the last 67 years, though Orbital's Antares flights would be the first space station-bound missions launched from Virginia.
With the retirement of NASA's space shuttle fleet in 2011, the space agency is relying on new private rockets and spacecraft to ferry cargo — and eventually astronauts — to and from low-Earth orbit. NASA is currently dependent on Russia, Europe and Japan for cargo deliveries to the space station. Russia's Soyuz spacecraft are the only vehicles currently available to ferry astronauts to and from the station.
Orbital's engine Friday test marked the company's second attempt to check the Antares rocket's dual AJ26 rocket engines, which are designed to provide 680,000 pounds of thrust. A first attempt on Feb. 13 was aborted before engine ignition due to a "low pressurization" detection during a nitrogen purge in the rocket's aft engine compartment, Orbital officials said in an update.
Orbital officials are now working toward test flights of the Antares rocket and its Cygnus spacecraft. The first demonstration flight falls under a separate contract for NASA's Commercial Orbital Transportation Services program, and is expected to launch later this year.
This story was updated Saturday at 6 a.m. ET to include information on the success of Friday's Antares rocket engine test and comments from NASA and Orbital Sciences.
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