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Its true, today is National Play-Doh Day!! We love Play-Doh, really anything that the kids can create with they just love. My kids have quite a collection of Play-Doh products and in celebration of National Play-Doh Day, they were sent a Play-Do Twirl 'N Top Pizza Shop!! My son was first at it and he spent a good part of his day playing with it. He made me so many yummy looking treats that he served me and his dinos today! We had a Play-Doh kinda day, lol. My son is 3 and while I was reading the box on how to use the Pizza Shop, he was already using it, making his first pizza. Typical man, does not even bother to read the instructions. Well he seemed to know what he was doing, because once the first pizza was ready, he was already to start over and make a different pizza. And that is basically how the day went. I was allowed to make a pizza, we served it, then it was time to make another one.
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is proposing that the yellow-billed cuckoo be protected under the Endangered Species Act.
The cuckoo once lived in cottonwoods and willows along rivers and streams across the West.
Dams, grazing and river channelization have reduced its habitat and its range. Today, it can be found mostly along portions of the Sacramento and Kern rivers in California, the Colorado, Verde and San Pedro in Arizona, and the Gila and Rio Grande rivers in New Mexico.
The Center for Biological Diversity entered an agreement with the federal wildlife service in 2011 to speed protections for the birds and 757 other imperiled species.
So far, 117 have been protected and another 65 have been proposed for protections.
The gray cuckoo has white markings and a long tail.

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In 1912, Page Fairchild's grandfather, the son of an Irish immigrant, bought four neighbouring farms in Austin, on the shores of Lake Memphremagog.
"One of the farmhouses was down by the lake and, weekends and during vacations, my wife Andrea and I and our three children used to join other members of the family at what we called 'the big house,' " Fairchild recalled.
"It was like a huge family hotel, but eventually it became too full of people and children and babies, so an aunt recommended that we take over one of the smaller homes, way back in the bush."
This was what the couple refers to as "a poor farmer's house." Built in the 1840s, it was cramped, gloomy and surrounded by thick growth. The living room had, for some reason, seven doors ("just a room for walking through and very depressing"). There was no modern plumbing and the electrical system ran on only 40 amps.
Today, aside from its cladding of grey clapboard with pale yellow trim – the same colours and style as the original – the house is practically unrecognizable.
After many years of renovation, the "poor farmer's house" has evolved into a handsome, 3,300-square-foot country home on 20 hectares, with four bedrooms, two bathrooms, a living room, open plan kitchen/dining area, library, family room, studio and a home office. What was a weekend retreat is now the couple's full-time residence. Recently retired, the Fairchilds sold their Montreal condo in 2011.
Page and Andrea started working on their country house back in the 1960s. At that time, they were a young married couple with few financial resources. They first set about clearing the land, logging trees and planting gardens – generally opening up the lot, so they could work on the house itself – and over the next few years, they made renovations whenever they could afford it.
By the mid-1980s, however, the Fairchilds were established in their careers and with a steady income, were finally able to transform the house in earnest.
They found a contractor who could undertake the heavy construction work, but after seeing the state the house was in, he suggested they simply pull it down and start again. The Fairchilds couldn't afford to do that, so instead they opted to upgrade and modernize the existing building. That turned out to be a wise decision. The contractor offered to stabilize the foundation, put in a cellar, install plumbing and extend the roof – all for a bargain price (even then) of $40,000.
His modest quote wasn't made entirely out of the goodness of his heart. There was a lengthy construction strike going on at the time, but the contractor wanted to keep on working. In contravention of union rules, he hid his equipment behind the Fairchilds' hedge and stored his materials inside the house. (Andrea recalled that for months, their living room was piled high with lumber, gyprock and insulating fibre.)
The first major challenge was to lift the building, to stabilize the foundation and put in a cellar.
"Things seemed to go well at first," Page Fairchild said, "but unfortunately, as the house was being hoisted, it shook and plaster started falling off the walls! We didn't realize that we'd have to replace all that plaster but at least that allowed us to insulate the building. Inevitably, there were other things we hadn't bargained for. We'd do something and then another thing would reveal itself, but as the work progressed, the contractor suggested some changes, all of them good, such as building an upstairs bedroom."
That first major phase of construction lasted for six chaotic months, with the couple zipping back and forth from Montreal, with their children in tow.
"I became a kind of project manager," Andrea Fairchild said, "but at that point, I really didn't know much about construction. I wish I'd known then what I know now!"
In the following years, other work had to be done, like installing new windows, moving a barn, digging a pond and "endlessly" painting the exterior. In the late 1990s, the Fairchilds added a modern kitchen and a couple of wooden decks to the front and back of the building. "The original veranda was so narrow, you couldn't even sit on it," she explained. "Now we've got lots of pleasant areas to relax outside."
The interior also has lots of places to relax and it's a far cry from its gloomy former self when the Fairchilds first acquired the "poor farmer's" house. The rooms are furnished in a homey style with oil paintings, whimsical ornaments, bowls of flowers, unusual light fixtures, sofas, comfy armchairs and a sprinkling of antiques – some of them inherited from the couple's families and others picked up by themselves during their early years together.
The most recent additions to the house, completed in 2010, were the library, family room, studio (Andrea is an amateur painter) and home office. The library, which is lined with floor-to-ceiling shelves of books and DVDs, is a warm, welcoming space with a Scandinavian-style leather lounger and matching ottoman.
The family room, which is downstairs from the main floor, has a cathedral ceiling and walls of windows. It has a loveseat, several armchairs and a large flat-screen TV. Looming over them from a corner is a massive, triangular shaped grey-blue wooden cabinet.
"The cabinet dates back to the early 1800s and it came from an aunt who was given it as a wedding present," Fairchild said. "It has dominated any place we've ever lived in, but hopefully, we'll never have to move it again."
The upstairs living room is a more formal space, but it too exudes a warm, relaxing ambience. The walls are a restful pale caramel. The floors are hardwood. The room (now open and stripped of its seven doors) has a sofa, several armchairs and a wood-burning stove. In one corner stands a bureau with a glass-fronted cupboard on top – an antique that originated in Ireland, which was a present from his family.
Along one wall is a bay window with a wide shelf covered with houseplants. The bay window is boxy rather than curved (a more common shape) and it floods the previously dark living room with light.
"The fellow who replaced our old windows had a couple of greenhouse panes to spare and he asked if we'd like them," Fairchild explained.
"We didn't really know what we'd do with them, but then he suggested building a bay window. We were pretty curious about how he would construct it, so we came by the house to watch him work.
"To our amazement, he just took out a chainsaw and went zip, zip, zip, zip. … A five-foot by six-foot chunk of wall fell to the ground and this window is the result!"


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When Elizabeth Gilbert gave her talk at the Tennessee Theatre Nov. 2, she probably spoke of her new book.
When Elizabeth Gilbert gave her talk at the Tennessee Theatre Nov. 2, she probably spoke of her new book. "The Signature of All Things" is her first published fiction in 13 years. In it, Gilbert begins with the story of Henry Whittaker, born into abject poverty in 18th Century England, who makes a fortune in the quinine trade. But it is Alma, Henry's daughter, who demands our attention. Highly educated with the soul and mind of a scientist, homely Alma finds love late in life with Ambrose Pike, a botanical illustrator and spiritualist.
The Greek myth about twins Castor and Pollux is the foundation for Scott Turow's new novel "Identical." Politician Paul Giannis looks like a shoo-in during Kindle County's mayoral race, even though his twin brother Cass is soon to be released after a 25-year prison term for the murder of Dita Kronons, Cass's one-time girlfriend. Dita's brother, powerful real estate investor Hal, hires a former FBI agent to re-open the case — a development that unearths devastating family secrets and endangers Paul's career and ambitions.
Joe Rantz had only grit and determination going for him. As a teenager in Depression-torn America who had to pretty much fend for himself, Joe managed to get into the University of Washington and qualify for the rowing team — an eight man crew made up of boys with backgrounds much like his. Somehow their coach, Al Ulbrickson, fashioned them into America's entry in the 1936 Berlin Olympics. Miraculously they beat Germany's allies, the Italians, to win the gold and thwart the Nazis' plans for victory. Daniel James Brown tells how in "The Boys in the Boat" (797.123).
Sgt. Barbara Havers puts her career on the line in Elizabeth George's latest installment of her popular series featuring Thomas Lynley. When Barbara's neighbor and friend Taymullah Azhar came home from work one day, he found that his little girl Hadiyyah and her mother Angelina were gone. It was soon discovered that Angelina had taken Hadiyyah to Tuscany, and since she and Taymullah never married, he had no legal claim to the child. The police could do nothing — at least, not officially. Now Angelina is back, claiming that the little girl was kidnapped in Italy and that Taymullah is behind the crime. As Lynley begins the official work in the case, impetuous Barbara takes matters into her own hands. "Just One Evil Act" (M) is the title.
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New York in the gilded age was a city of epic contrasts. Top-hatted swells in glossy carriages promenaded uptown, while just a few blocks south, poverty, crime and overcrowding were the order of the day.
And vice, let's not forget vice. New York was what was called a "wide-open" town, with gambling, prostitution and liquor available on almost every corner. The cops and the Democratic machine politicians of Tammany Hall mostly looked the other way — when they weren't actively involved.
But in 1895, a new sheriff came to town. Literally. Voters threw out the corrupt Democratic administration in favor of reform-minded Republicans, and Theodore Roosevelt was appointed police commissioner.
Author Richard Zacks tells weekends on All Things Considered host Laura Sullivan that Roosevelt was a man on a mission: He was going to root out the corruption, and vice and clean up the city.
"In hindsight, what he was trying to do, it's like somebody going into Vegas and just saying, there's gonna be no more gambling," says Zacks, the author of the new book Island of Vice: Theodore Roosevelt's Doomed Quest to Clean Up Sin-Loving New York.
The book's title pretty much says it all: While Roosevelt had the best of intentions, he faced a terribly uphill battle.
"It was mind-boggling," Zacks says. "This was the dirtiest city, policemen were taking bribes to let you do almost anything."
Roosevelt was up against adversaries like Capt. William "Big Bill" Devery, terror of the Eldridge Street precinct house. "Notorious for 'see, hear, say nothing; eat, drink, pay nothing,'" Zacks says. "He was one of the most corrupt cops in New York City history. Winds up becoming chief of police."
Roosevelt initially enjoyed great success and popularity for standing up to men like Devery, but he squandered that political capital on a hopeless crusade: enforcing the city's Sunday liquor sales ban.
"I think Roosevelt didn't see any gray areas," Zacks says. "He saw black and white, and this was illegal, it was conspicuous, everyone knew about it, and he went after it."
In his determination to enforce all the laws — even the unpopular ones — Roosevelt earned the anger of almost the entire city. Voters turned against the reforming Republicans, sweeping Tammany back into office in the next election. And Roosevelt went on to a much broader stage: national politics.
"I think the lasting impact was more for Roosevelt, frankly, than for the city," Zacks says. "He learned to make speeches ... he learned to handle an audience ... he found himself on the front pages of the newspapers and he had to deal with it. He also achieved a national reputation as a law-and-order reform Republican. And it worked very well for him."
This is ALL THINGS CONSIDERED from NPR News. I'm Laura Sullivan.
SULLIVAN: New York, in the gilded age, was a city of epic contrasts. Top-hatted swells in glossy carriages uptown, while just a few blocks south, poverty, crime and overcrowding were the order of the day. And vice, let's not forget vice. New York was called a wide-open town, with gambling, prostitution and liquor available on almost every corner. The cops and the Democratic machine politicians of Tammany Hall mostly looked the other way - when they weren't actively involved.
But in 1895, a new sheriff came to town, literally. Voters threw out the corrupt Democratic administration in favor of reform-minded Republicans, and Theodore Roosevelt was appointed police commissioner. Our book today is "Island of Vice: Theodore Roosevelt's Doomed Quest to Clean Up Sin-Loving New York." And earlier this week, I met up with author Richard Zacks for a tour of Teddy Roosevelt's old stomping grounds.
All right. So where are we right now? Where?
RICHARD ZACKS: We're at 300 Mulberry Street...
SULLIVAN: 300 Mulberry. OK.
ZACKS: ...which used to be police headquarters. And this...
SULLIVAN: Is this? Right here?
ZACKS: This, yeah. I mean, this boring brick apartment building and this garage used to be police headquarters. And Teddy Roosevelt came in here like a hurricane to just clean up all the graft, all the corruption. It was mind-boggling. This was the dirtiest city. Policemen were taking bribes to do - let you do almost anything. And Roosevelt - in hindsight, what he was trying to do, it's like somebody going into Vegas and just saying there's going to be no more gambling.
SULLIVAN: Zacks leads me on a ramble around the Lower East Side, once one of the toughest neighborhoods in New York.
ZACKS: Delancey Street is, especially among Jewish people, is revered as, you know, Delancey Street, Lower East Side, push carts, all the rest of it. Well, Eight, 10, 12, 14 and 16 Delancey Street were all brothels. So anyhow, I'm walking along here, and I'm just kind of looking for - because I know Six, Eight, 10 and 12 are going to be former brothels, and what do I come on? The Bowery Ballroom...
SULLIVAN: You're kidding.
ZACKS: ...which is a club that, you know, has lots of performances. But at some point, this location was a brothel and the One Mile House next door as well.
SULLIVAN: And so it turns out it's still a bar today.
ZACKS: It's still in the entertainment business.
SULLIVAN: Still in the entertainment business.
ZACKS: No doubt.
SULLIVAN: And there were 150 more brothels within a mile of the street corner we're standing on. He leads me farther east on Delancey to the former site of a uniquely New York institution: a Raines law hotel. You see, liquor sales were illegal on Sundays, a fact that the cops ignored.
Teddy Roosevelt decided he was going to change that. He was going to enforce all the laws, even if they were unpopular. His Dry Sunday campaign earned him the ire of almost everyone in the city, but it was reasonably successful at first, until the state legislature decided to get involved.
ZACKS: John Raines, state senator, comes forward and decides he's going to give Roosevelt even more ammunition to shut down the saloons on Sundays. He's going to pass a law that includes the fact that the saloons must be - their front doors must be locked, side doors locked as well, and their curtains open so the police could look in and see whether the bars were operating on Sundays.
And it also had a clause that said hotels, if they had 10 bedrooms or more, could serve liquor 24/7 with a meal. And at first, when it passed April - when it went into affect April 1, 1896, New York thought it was going to become just dead dry on Sundays.
People were appalled. The headlines all said that. And then about a week later, all - more than 1,000 saloon keepers began converting their saloons to hotels, to Raines law hotels. And no one knew if it would work. They just started converting. One guy converted an attic, and he said that only a midget could stand up in one of my 10 rooms, you know?
SULLIVAN: So they made 10 little closets upstairs.
ZACKS: Right. One guy used a coal bin. They made 10 little closets. But you know who the building inspectors were? They were Tammany Hall guys, and they wanted to let everybody drink and have a good time. So they OK'd these 10 rooms, and not only could they serve on Sundays, they could serve all night long. New York really became the city that never sleeps because you had over 1,000 Raines law hotels open all night long.
SULLIVAN: All night long.
ZACKS: Amazing.
SULLIVAN: Were they actually selling food?
ZACKS: Oh, that's the funny part. They - Eugene O'Neill wrote in one of his plays about seeing a mummified ham and cheese sandwich. Nobody wanted to eat the sandwiches. And there were like all these jokes about that sort of thing. When the bartender yells to the owner, we've got to stop serving, the owner says, why? Did we run out of beer? The bartender says, no. Some yokel ate the sandwich. There's not another one on the whole East Side.
SULLIVAN: As nasty as that sandwich sounds, Raines law hotels were almost respectable compared to other New York drinking establishments.
ZACKS: Thirty-nine Mulberry was one of the stale beer dives, one of the really raunchiest most derelict bottom of the food chain joints to go have a drink.
SULLIVAN: They called them stale beer dives.
ZACKS: Yeah. The stuff was the leavings of the bars around the rest of the city. The guys would go and beg the leftover, buy the leftover stuff. Literally, they'd wipe the bar down, and then have the rag, wring out the rag into a bucket, and that would be the kind of swill that they were selling for like a penny a can. And this was one of the most derelict parts of the city. This was Falvalli's(ph) stale beer dive.
SULLIVAN: So what were the cops doing when all this was going on? Part of the answer lies here on Eldridge Street, one of the most notorious streets on the lower East Side.
ZACKS: They had a police precinct house at 107 Eldridge, and that's where Captain "Big Bill" Devery, who was, you know, notorious for "see, hear, say nothing, eat, drink, pay nothing." He was the - one of the most corrupt cops in New York City history, winds up becoming chief of police. And...
SULLIVAN: He became the chief of police?
ZACKS: Yeah. He was indicted four times, beats the wrap four times, becomes the chief of police.
SULLIVAN: Well, that worked out pretty well for him, then.
ZACKS: And it worked out even better. He co-founded the New York Yankees. True story.
SULLIVAN: When Teddy Roosevelt first went after corrupt cops like Big Bill Devery, Roosevelt was enormously popular. But back in the studio, Zacks tells me that Roosevelt's inability to bend on enforcing even the most minor laws eventually did him in.
ZACKS: It played much better outside the city than inside the city. But he tried so hard. The city was so corrupt. And the idea of a man standing up and trying to enforce the law against drinking in saloons on Sundays, it's mind-boggling. Or the law against all the little petty briberies that went on that the police shook down bootblacks and push cart guys and all that. Roosevelt wanted an absolutely clean city. And this was Sodom, and Roosevelt didn't back down.
SULLIVAN: Why would he push so hard for something that was so unpopular? I mean, he was doing so well. And then he went for the one thing. It seems like, from your book, that most people wanted to get rid of some of the corruption. But he started targeting the thing that they enjoyed the most.
ZACKS: He did. I think Roosevelt had - didn't see any gray areas. He saw black and white. And this was illegal, it was conspicuous, everyone knew about it, and he went after it. And there's another reason that could come into play, although Roosevelt didn't bring up this reason, but his brother had died of alcohol-related causes eight or nine month earlier.
So it was fresh in his mind. He - when he went to his brother's house after his brother died, there were dozens of empty liquor bottles in the rooms. So Roosevelt had been personally hurt by this experience.
SULLIVAN: Was he always so inflexible?
ZACKS: I limited myself to 1895 to 1897. He was very rigid during that period. When he got an idea, he stuck with it. And A, he admitted a little regret to his sister in a private note. He said he hit an ugly snag, the Sunday saloon law, and he said that he had harmed - the saloon owner he didn't mind harming, but also some good people for which I am sorry. But New Yorkers would never hear the word sorry from Roosevelt's mouth.
SULLIVAN: What was the impact of those two years of slogging it out, day in and day out, fighting with everybody, pushing so hard? Did it have any sort of lasting impact?
ZACKS: I think the lasting impact was more for Roosevelt, frankly, than for the city. The lasting impact for Roosevelt was he learned to make speeches, more aggressive speeches. He learned to handle an audience. He learned to handle criticism. He found himself on the front page of newspapers and he had to deal with it. He also achieved a national reputation as a law and order reform Republican, and it worked very well for him.
SULLIVAN: That's Richard Zacks. He's the author of "Island of Vice: Theodore Roosevelt's Doomed Quest to Clean Up Sin-Loving New York." Richard, thank you so much for joining us.
ZACKS: Oh, thanks for having me. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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What ranks and titles have you held? I'm a 2x Pan-American Champion, Abu-Dhabi veteran, 8x Grapplers Quest Champion, W.K.A. Muay Thai National champion, Lloyd Irvin Brown Belt.
Do you have any heroes? The Incredible Hulk.
What is your favorite technique? Flying Yoga Wrist Lock
What does it mean for you to fight in the UFC? That I've stayed the path, all my decisions have been correct. It's finally MY time to shine.
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Y.S.R. - r.i.p
The man was comparatively young. Comparitively dynamic. And now he is dead. There have been speeches galore. Tributes galore. A state funeral. But all in vain.Bad timing, bad karma and bad judgement did YSR in. Whether you were his foe or friend, there is no denying the tragedy – an avoidable tragedy at that. Of course, there will be the usual enquiries and buck passing. Of course, conspiracy theories will do the rounds. But for those with no axe to grind and nothing to gain or lose from the death of Andhra Pradesh's newly- minted chief minister, several troubling questions may go unanswered. Apart from anything else, four other lives were lost along with YSR's. Nobody has paid the slightest attention to the sorry plight of their families. Whose decision was it to take the doomed flight into hostile terrain in miserable weather? Do the loved ones of the pilots, group captain S.K.Bhatia, captain M.S. Reddy and the relatives of YSR's principal secretary S. Subramanayam, plus his chief security officer A.S.C.Wesley, have no right to question authorities, demand explanations? Or are their lives less valuable, somehow?
Watching the coverage across television channels, it was distressing to note that the disaster was covered in such an insensitive and lopsided manner. Granted, a VVIP was killed and deserved extensive coverage – but to the exclusion of the others? That is the trouble in India – this is but one example of our feudalistic mindset that only recognizes and values Very Important People. We forget them equally fast, but that's another story. In this case, the 'Tiger of Cuddapah' was felled under circumstances that remain unclear. After all that speculation about the chopper being shot down by armed Maoists lurking in the Nallamalla hills, there are other self-styled theorywallahs who refuse to accept that it was nothing more dramatic than perhaps a pilot error that caused the devastating crash. Such is the vitiated and vicious political climate in the country, that people are willing to believe the worst rumours. YSR was the star fund collector of the Congress party. In a way, he was also the 'anointed one' – a recent development that did not suit several well- entrenched members of the inner coterie. In much the same way that Madhavrao's rapid rise in the party hierarchy upset the top Chanakyas in the cabinet at the time.Ironically, the erstwhile Maharaja also died in a crash.
This is India, boss. We can't help it if we search wildly for clues that satisfy us when tragedy strikes. Some consult the stars – as has happened in YSR's case (inauspicious muhurutam for the swearing- in ceremony, it seems!), others use their robust common sense ( why would an intelligent, educated , dynamic leader insist on flying into hostile territory given the hideous weather?). And then there are those who claim to be 'in the know'. These are the dangerous ones who parade hearsay as the gospel truth and propagate malicious bazaar gossip that we so love! Whether or not poor YSR met his ghastly end on account of several collective errors of judgement rather than a sinister conspiracy to bump him off, the speculations will carry on – sorry – but that's how it is when any prominent person suffers an unnatural, untimely death. And frankly, politicians should learn to deal with the muck that follows rather than suppress the voices of those asking uncomfortable questions. YSR's followers have the right to know how it happened, why it happened. Plus, citizens would appreciate an honest response to the question, 'After YSR, who?'Again, it is such an Indian thing to do when a politician dies in office – authorities promptly install the son \ widow \ daughter \ girlfriend on his gaddi. This is desi sentimentality at its ickiest. It is hoped better sense will prevail this time. YSR was a unique character, described admiringly as 'stubborn' by his fans. It was this trait that got the Congress its stunning tally of 33 seats in the last elections. Clearly, his 1,400 kms 'padayatra' in 2003 paid rich dividends. And had impressed 10,Janpath sufficiently to promote YSR - from just another regional satrap to a valued national leader, capable of mobilizing not just megabucks for the party, but mega supporters, too. Such an elevated and pampered position comes with its own risk factors. YSR was flying high – really high. But not high enough this time. The ill-fated, 11- year-old helicopter taking the chief minister to the launch of his Rachcha Banda ( village camp), crashed into a low hill and was instantly smashed into smithereens. With that ended the fascinating saga of YSR – the aam aadmi politician whose life was abruptly cut down on a stormy morning, leaving the perplexed nation wondering whether such a horrific accident could have been avoided. It's a shame that it takes a tragedy to raise tricky questions. But going by the sms-es doing the rounds, here's one that needs to be addressed in the spirit of fair and free enquiry - " Billed as 'India's biggest ever search' 5,000 jawans, an ISRO remote sensing aircraft, a Sukhoi, 14 search and rescue choppers, the forest department police, paramilitary forces, Chenchu tribal guides…. all mobilized within 3 short hours for a missing C.M. Was the Central Government sleeping during the 60 hours of Mumbai terror attacks on 26\11 ?"
Saach Ka Saamna, anyone??
Clearly this column has touched several chords going by the response. I was away in Alibag over the weekend - a very wet and very quiet weekend. Strangely, I had Michael Jackson on my mind . Perhaps his funeral ( finally!) re-triggered the memories, but I just had to watch something that brought him alive once more. My husband produced MJ's concert in Bucharest, recorded live, and I devoured it for two straight hours, unable to tear myself away even for a popcorn break. Just watching him dance and sing his way into thousands of hearts that night, made me vividly recall his concert in Mumbai ( thank you, Raj Thackeray!!), when he'd cast a similar spell on all those of us Mumbaikars who were blessed enough to hear him that wonderful night. Magical Michael!You were and remain the best
41 comments:
I switch off Or change channel.
The reason - Tough to believe He is no more. It hurts.
Re.: Michael
I havent seen glamour as big as better what Michael has created.
Unbelievable is believable - That is Michael. Will miss you forever.
- September 6, 2009 at 9:12 PM
- Theyoginme said...
There continues to be this undying loyalty to "dynasty" rule with all this controversy to have YSR's son to inherit the "throne" of CM.
I think the country would be must better served if the CM and the PM would be elected along the lines of the President and State Governors of US. The people elect the individuals and not get nominated by their elected representatives of the majority.
I imagine the rain was welcome as I heard Mumbai only had two hundred days of drinking water in reserves. I am enjoying it after 2 days of being in the Delhi oven. Nice going away present as I take leave from India tonight.
MJ was my favorite and it has revived renewed interest everywhere. How fortunate for you to have the connection and have had him.
- September 6, 2009 at 9:18 PM
- raj said...
YSR may be a rising politician and a promising leader but he was also a faction leader before coming to politics.(i wonder how many politicians are clean though)
He was also accused as the mastermind behind many conspiracies, corruption and land accusations.but it was this YSR who played the true leader in uniting the AP congress which was torn apart by Telugu Desam.
His pro-poor schemes and welfare programes has won congress 2009 elections by deafeating the strong Grand Allaince and (dont-know-how-strong) PRP. His popular health insurance scheme, ArogyaSRi is worth appreciable.
The deaths and suicides of hundreds hearing 'YSR is no more' itself says how much they liked his schemes and belived in his work.
- September 6, 2009 at 10:01 PM
- Roshni said...
I agree completely with you on the matter of death of YSR...we Indians always think that way when a tragedy strucks.
- September 6, 2009 at 10:04 PM
- chitz said...
i completely agree wid u...here suddenly ppl rise to the mahatma status whn they die...n the commoners who perish wid thm,nobody cares.....its as if their life had n value....
- September 6, 2009 at 10:24 PM
- cmpershad said...
"When a politician dies in office – authorities promptly install the son \ widow \ daughter \ girlfriend on his gaddi"
And this country's gaddi has become hereditary. Every Chota leader grooms his son to take his place. So, where did Manu went wrong and why they abuse Manuvaad!:)
- September 6, 2009 at 10:36 PM
- Karthik[:)] said...
Here again there is an example of how the others are blatantly ignored...yr post talks about the others who perished along with YSR and how there is very little mention about them...and so does the comments..only one of them recognizes the fact...its a sad state of affairs though...as much as it is a tragedy for YSR's family its the same amount of grief that his co-passengers and pilot's family will be going through..let their souls rest in peace!!!
- September 6, 2009 at 10:36 PM
- Rajesh said...
You are absolutely right Shobhaa... understand that YSR is one of the important political leaders... but so much of publicity was unnecessary....
- September 6, 2009 at 10:50 PM
- obssesor said...
You people outside AP scarcely understand what this means..politics and politicians in the South are a completely different entity here!
- September 6, 2009 at 11:21 PM
- Another Kiran In NYC said...
YSR was a politician in the mold of Eva Peron and her "flinging pesos at the poor" best. YSR's governance did not include the most important aspect of development... a permanent infrastucture. The "Tiger of Cudappah" mewled, not roared when it came to long term gains for his state. Perhaps it was his reaction to the topheavy governance of many years by chandrababu. Perhaps it was his own style. Either way I do not believe his is a lasting and permanent legacy unless his posthumus public image is cleverly manipulated by the high command.
Wet and wild weekend sounds good. Mumbai needed the rains. I have never personally experienced such a parched monsoon in Mumbai/Pune... ever!
Finally the gloved one was laid to rest. Interestinly in the US, except for a few entertainment channels and the odd newspaper article and news broadcast story on a slow news day, there was little in the media about it. Papparazzos will have a hard time selling thier helicopter footage... despite the Jackson family publcity machine working overtime. The media has already moved onto the next news story. The beetles anniversary!
Everything has a very tiny shelf life, yaar! YSR and the gloved one. Both will be forgotten when the next big thing comes around. Whats the next story in desi media?
You can tell... desi media totally intrigued me by its wild and shocking ways.
- September 7, 2009 at 1:38 AM
- Jogeshwar said...
You are right VVIP's are highly valued, we have a feudalistic mindset. I think this reflects in the headlines of a newspaper that read "30 YSR fans die of shock". It is shocking and unbelievable.
Again as to why Central Government sleeping during the 60 hours of Mumbai terror attacks on 26/11, we might never get the answer, may be people are not interested in knowing(the low voter turn out in Mumbai) because what is important is VVIP's.
- September 7, 2009 at 2:11 AM
- Animesh Kulkarni said...
A "hype" is no more a hype these days. It's a common phenomenon. News channels are not to be solely blamed for it. Few indians amongst us might be "Argumentative" but we all Indians are surely "Talkative". News channels are just opportunists.
- September 7, 2009 at 2:35 AM
- Sidhusaaheb said...
A news report about one of the helicopter pilots is to be found at:
- September 7, 2009 at 3:16 AM
- Sidhusaaheb said...
Since you've mentioned conspiracy theories, it should be interesting to mention three names here. These are:
1. Madhav Rao Scindia
2. Rajesh Pilot
3. Jitendra Prasada
All three were mid-ranked Congress leaders. The first could have and the following two actually did challenge the authority of 'the dynasty'.
Madhav Rao Scindia died in an air-crash, Rajesh Pilot was killed in a road-accident and Jitendra Prasada succumbed, apparently, to massive brain haemorrhage.
- September 7, 2009 at 3:46 AM
- kala said...
YSR was not a VIP. He was a common man helping the poorest. He did not ask for such a rescue operation. It was for the people of Andhra, who wanted him desperately. Over 100 people died unable to bear the grief. Even NTR's death was not grieved that much.
Can any leader in the present Maharashtra evoke such unconditional love? YSR did not launch hate campaigns to win elections. He was more like that Godfather of Mario Puzo's. Benevolent and ruthless.
I remember how a posse of army people and others involved themselves for long gruelling hours to rescue a poor boy fallen into borewell. So sometimes even the poorest get the highest efforts and attention.
Mumbai 26/11 required commandos and more commandos. An entire army marching could not have served any purpose.
Vinashkaale Viparithbuddhi. Thats why he must have taken that fateful decision inspite of advise. Atleast, he should have cared for his companions who just had no voice. That was his mistake. Such mistakes are final and fatal.
I disliked YSR for many of his errors of commission. But I liked one of his schemes namely health insurance for the poor along with housing. To win people's heart, you need heart and willpower.
As for search operations. Even if it is Modi, Ashok Chavan or Budhdhadev similar efforts would have been made. And mumbai is only part of India and so every part of the country receives the right for such operations because Andhra along with other states is also a big contributor to the treasury of India.
- September 7, 2009 at 8:50 AM
- Thinking Woman said...
It amazes me when the theory of 'pilot error' came up. People said that it was the pilot's decision to fly, and when CM's office knew of the bad weather why did not the pilot refuse to fly? Why, indeed!! May be all these people have worked as pilots to our governmental representatives and have always been holding their grounds even when chief minister of the state makes his wishes known to keep his appointments!! And so there speaks their voices of experience, perhaps? Why, oh why we keep on searching for scapegoats to pin the faults on and do not accept truth for what it is, which in this case is a bad judgment call by the CM which resulted in such a tragic situation, and loss of so many precious lives. Why should our politicians be always above reproach, even if they are as popular ones as the Andhra CM? Why lesser lives do not matter?
- September 7, 2009 at 10:42 AM
- dilchahtahai said...
I am not as good a writer as you are but I have shared my thoughts in my blog..If you get time, please read it....http://www.patelviral.com/2009/09/ysr-reddy.html
- September 7, 2009 at 10:50 AM
- kala said...
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- September 7, 2009 at 10:52 AM
- kala said...
On the previous occasion, over the Srisailam hills, bad weather made the pilot successfully ground the aircraft. That experience must have made them confident of flying in bad weather. Pilot or Collector is not a half educated policeman. He should be able to put his foot down and say a firm No even at the risk of losing his job and security. CM would not have hanged him for that. Life is more important and they can always find some other job with some other airline. If the weather was really that bad(it continued to be so), how come other helicopters were allowed to join the search operations?
- September 7, 2009 at 10:55 AM
- Latha said...
" Billed as 'India's biggest ever search' 5,000 jawans, an ISRO remote sensing aircraft, a Sukhoi, 14 search and rescue choppers, the forest department police, paramilitary forces, Chenchu tribal guides…. all mobilized within 3 short hours for a missing C.M. Was the Central Government sleeping during the 60 hours of Mumbai terror attacks on 26\11 ?"
No, they were not sleeping. These Neros were playing fiddle when Taj Mahal & Oberoi along with their customers & workers were burning.
We see sniffer dogs accompanying unknown politicians to make people understand that they are VIPs. Whereas in Arushi murder case (& all the other cases of aam aadmis), no investigation takes place. The victims are harrased instead. Had there been a sniffer dog, we would've known whether there was a 2nd deadbody on the 1st day itself. Shame that we do not know that for all the sniffers were busy acting as status symbols for the unknown VIPs. It happens only in India.
And the news channels ! Even they didn't give enough attention to the aam aadmis, the voters who died with YSR. We are making these 'rulers', 'Lords' ignoring other lives. When we don't attach any value for them, Why blame the politicians ? We only get what we deserve !
As for MJ, yes I'm a great fan of both ARR & MJ & it is so bad that we won't be having the album that MJ asked ARR to compose with him on global unity.
Great minda think alike !
Click the fol links to know more about the admiration of the 2 musical geniuses for each other.
ARR's last lines about MJ brought tears to my eyes.
http://www.arrahman.com/v2/ (Rahman's official website)
- September 7, 2009 at 12:56 PM
- kala said...
Swine flu is silently killing people in India. Media has stopped making noises because it got flak doing that during the initial stages. An ordinary person with little or no means will prefer to die of this inexpensive killer than suffer from costly diseases like cancer, kidney failure,heart attacks and others which will wipe out his entire savings making him and his family penniless. Healthcare is an expensive thing. This is the cruel reality faced by millions.
- September 7, 2009 at 1:24 PM
- *Aham* said...
death brings the good to glory! I dint know much of YSR as much until his death.
the really worshiped people often, are the ones dead. We don't respect people when they are alive as much. (No! im not referring to YSR, but am making a generic comment)
I would be very happy if YSR name is kept alive with social welfare initiatives in his name, rather than mere statues (which is now zeroed to a form of disrespect)
Yes! what about the others who acompanied. I had seen NDTV focusing on them too... and acknowledging their contribution.
I heard almost 140 odd people have died of shock hearing YSRs untimely demise. Though I cannot comment about the ones who died of shock. I definitely feel that the ones who committed suicide brought a great deal of disgrace to his death.
He has lived up for his people and their upliftment, we should not work against his intent, that too, in his name.
Mumbai has a chalta hai attitude!
And Mumbai attacks dint have any Neta or Abhineta trapped.
I do feel the Jawans did a great job during the Mumbai attacks, much could have been averted... even if one more life could be saved, it SHOULD be saved.
I still get calls and emails from some relatives of those who were trapped there. Most of their lives would be dented in fear.
- September 7, 2009 at 3:32 PM
- Sameer Anand said...
Isn't it strange or may be a pure coincidence that any Congress leader apart from the Gandhis who begins to ascend is tragically killed.
- September 7, 2009 at 4:34 PM
- Junius said...
The media coverage was poor, but then its ALWAYS poor anyway.
- September 7, 2009 at 5:10 PM
- I, Me, Myself ! said...
You make valid points about unequal coverage, but your points would have held much more validity if you wouldn't have titled the post "y.s.r - r.i.p". Your title itself does not reflect the fact that 4 others also died in the crash. Plus, even your article has only a couple of lines about the other four.
Subconsciously, even you concentrated on YSR despite wanting to mention the others. That's exactly what the media did. Infact, the local media did give coverage to the other families too. National media has a lottt to learn from the local media's coverage is what I feel.
- Sudhir
- September 7, 2009 at 6:20 PM
- Shatrughan Singh said...
Undoubtedly, YSR was one of the greatest leaders of Indian history. He was a politician with a genuine doctor's qualities, always wearing an infectious smile, always ready to help AAM people tirelessly. He was a person who believed and dreamt. He wanted to transform Andhra Pradesh into Shanghai. Only people of AP know what he was for AP. He was soul of AP in true sense. I am staying in Hyderabad for last 4 yrs and have seen changing it drastically; International airport, ring road project, wide roads, Harita Andhra Pradesh scheme (green Andhra Pradesh) and what not. He was like a demigod, especially for rural masses because of his schemes like free electricity for farmers, Rs 2 per kg rice, tuition fee waiver, housing and irrigation schemes and much more. It really feels AP has become "anath" after his death and there is no real substitute for him. I am not surprised that more than 200 people have lost their lives in shock, but media has also played a key role in this toll. Only news channels were running as a mark of respect after his death and the way local news channels were showing their programmes on YSR with piercing music and all, it was natural for people already in great grief to loss their hearts and lives. Today when I walk in front of his camp office, which is in my way to office, wearing a deserted look, my heart really aches. In retrospect, people used to stand their in queue with their problems. His success was result of his passion and genuine hard work. He had all the qualities of a great leader, which India is running short of in today's time. May his soul rest in peace. As Oscar Wilde wrote "Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head and listen to silence, to have no yesterday and no tomorrow, to forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace." YSR deserves peace and heaven, but I wish it had not happened so tragically and so soon.
- September 7, 2009 at 6:38 PM
- ms said...
sad about the untimely death of those that have so much promise. it is so shameful that the media coverage moved on to other stuff soon enough.
i suppose the 1 cr/ foot statue is going to be a reality soon, since the police force has been given some new toys and rides as appeasement. i hope some extra money was spent on the bullet-proof vests. the families of the victims of the next terrorist attack will be ever so grateful.
- September 7, 2009 at 9:28 PM
- kala said...
Shatrughan, what a beautiful tribute to a beautiful human being! I feel for the people of A.P. who lost their support system. He was the leader who did not depend on Delhi, but Delhi depended on him.
- September 7, 2009 at 9:53 PM
- I, Me, Myself ! said...
One more thing that I have observed is that the eulogizing of YSR is sometimes crossing normal limits. I don't deny that he has done good to the people of AP, but to potray him as the only person who has led the transformation of AP from nothing to where it is now, is totally unfair.
People like Shatrughan have to realise that a lot of us owe our jobs to the vision Naidu had, and the minute we all have settled into cosy jobs in air conditioned rooms, we simply forgot about Naidu! We suddenly developed this uncanny instinct towards "YSR did a lot for farmers", very conveiniently forgetting that we owe our jobs to Mr. Naidu's vision.
4 years is no time to understand the politics of AP, especially the rivalry of TDP and Congress. Andhra Pradesh was lucky to have two visionary Chief Ministers in Chandrababu Naidu and YSR, and the demise of YSR created a huge gaping hole.
I am not denying that he was great leader, but every leader has his/her own good and bad facets. To eulogize him/her for what he/she is not, is something that I don't think is appropriate.
- Sudhir
- September 8, 2009 at 5:15 AM
- I, Me, Myself ! said...
Also, to answer Shobha's question,
a. We had a nincompooh Home Minister during 26/11 whose response to crisis situations depends on the suit he wears on that particular day.
b. Maybe our establishment did learn something from the horrible response time of 26/11
c. And more importantly, all this hulla-gulla was actually started at around 4pm, about 6 1/2 hours after the chopper went missing!
So, don't worry, our start-up time to respond to crises still remains the same.
- Sudhir
- September 8, 2009 at 1:59 PM
- kala said...
The politics of Andhra Pradesh is as complex as it can get. There is Rayalaseema, Coastal Andhra, Telengana each have their distinct accents not forgetting other smaller subregional flavours. And then the caste equation. The powerful Kamma and Reddy communities apart from Kaapu, Raju, Komati not forgetting brahmins, christians and muslims. To win elections and to become a mass leader requires a lot of strategy, money and a passion. It is nice to see 2 chief ministers from the parched lands of Rayalaseema which have Chittor, Chandragiri, Madanapalli on one side and Cuddapah, Kurnool on the other side. Chandrababu's Telugu Desam did not launch any throw out the outsiders campaign. They should be careful in dealing with the ultra Telengana movement for short term gains.
- September 8, 2009 at 2:31 PM
- NAT said...
Sach ka Samna: "Oh! The Snake Crawls At Night". That lovely number rendered by many artists and Charley Pride in particular.
True the Aussies are racists to a certain extent, while the Kiwis are worse off.
However we Indians give them plenty of opportunity to do us in;
A few of the reasons given below.
2 Indians held for molesting sleeping girl on a train from Melbourne...TOI 7th Sept. 2009.
During the alleged Indian Student bashings earlier, one of our guys was caught at a shopping mall on the coast feeling a young girl. He was caught on camera, and easily traced after the girl complained to the authorities. (this did not reach the Indian Press) Later he complained that he was beaten up, and we indians were up in arms, cursing and swearing.
You see they do not want such insults/pawing of their women folk.
Here in India these characters (sick) get away with murder, as they have uncles etc. and money....
I have personally witnessed a few of these guys being picked up for some reason or the other.
Yeah it could be only a FEW, but these are the ones giving us a bad name.
The authorities should ensure that each and every Student leaving the Country for Offshore Studies attend a 2 day course on Behaviour patterns and what they should expect at the other end......
For instance in Kiwi Land, there is a group of Kiwis who throw 5, 10Cents on the road, then wait and watch the bakra pick it up. They shoot the whole scene and even send it for screening on some of their TV programs, like 20/20...
I do not have to spell out the .....
This is Sach ka Samna we have to face and think how it should be curbed.
- September 8, 2009 at 11:58 PM
- parwatisingari said...
haa i forgot, rajesh pilot and jitendra prasada. ihave a plot on my blog.
please help me pool somemore material for my next fantasy.
- September 9, 2009 at 5:37 AM
- Kowsik said...
Tribute needs to paid where it is due..... We all do agree that it was tragic, the way it ended but one must keep in mind that along with YSR 4 other lives were lost. Who gets to make the decision that one life is better that the rest. Is it the media!? Certainly does appear so. And also pertaining to the fact that the crash was the pilots mistake. If at all anyone has to shoulder the blame it must be YSR`s office. Pilots are under intense pressure to deliver VIP`s wherever and whenever they demand. The pilot can only do as much as to suggest as to the nature of the whether they might face ahead but is most certainly overlooked. With all due respect to YSR and all the reforms he has brought about the fact remains that he was not god-sent. He made his way up the political ladder just as any other leader did.Anyway its all buried now and the fact remains that he is more of a legend in death than he ever was alive. Respect!!
- September 21, 2009 at 3:17 PM
- maha said...
thanks for the post yar....
Work from home India
- November 7, 2009 at 9:51 AM
- ramendra said...
It is true. YSR lost his life due to his interest in procuring gas right to Andhra Pradesh. To under stand the conspiracy we should understand economics surrounded with oil exploration and its magnitude. Mukesh Ambani's KG basin actual explored gas reserves easily cross 5,00,000 cr Rs, while projected is less than 2,00,000cr Rs. He has shown wrong expenditure on exploring gas reserves as morethan 50000 cr Rs, but actual amount hardly cross 10000 cr Rs. Last year there was a news and debates on Oil ministers involvement or support to ambanis. There was difference of openion between Reddy and M ambani on sharing of gas and Price in A.P. YSR promised Rs 100/- gas connection to every house hold in A.P, since gas is explored in Andhra Pradesh. When ambani's took U turn on there promise supported by Oil minister backed by Sonia Gandhi. YSR has not bended to this pressure from central and money offered by them and initiated and started a New Oil exp Firm by AP govt in technical support of British Petrolium. All these did not auger well with central and ambani's. Few manths back there was a news that Mukesh is planning a new pipeline from Kakinada To Gujarath via touching some part in khammam dist. Event Telangana agetation trigered by TRS Chief KCR is fully funded by Ambani's to cut gas rights of Telangana region and Hyderabad both accounted to more than 75% of AP Gas consumption. By doing this they can save more than 1,00,00 Cr Rs. Try to study the need for secong Gas Pipe line when it is not at all feasible for 2,00,000 cr Rs gas res proj by ambani's. KCR receved an exp Car worth more
- January 13, 2010 at 11:46 AM
- Always YSR said...
Thank you Shatrugan Sinha for your rich tribute to the greatest leader of modern India. If only he was alive for a few more yrs, Andhra Pradesh would have been the envy of the rest of India.
Mr. Kiran from newyork you do not have a clue about what is infrastructure and want to talk about what YSR accomplished. Go and check the internet, your library(if you have not been to one lately)what infrastructure means. BTW also check whether building a 11KM flyover comes under infrastructure that too in just 5yrs. On the same note please check if building an international airport comes under infrastructure. By the time you cross checked these facts you would have a good understanding of what infrastructure actually means and then you can follow up on other things like polavaram project, veligonda project, etc...and yes THAT IS INFRASTRUCTURE...LOL.
- January 24, 2010 at 12:22 PM
- Anandengineers said...
There are other self-styled theorywallahs who refuse to accept that it was nothing more dramatic than perhaps a pilot error that caused the devastating crash. Such is the vitiated and vicious political climate in the country.
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There are no easy answers. We're caught between doing what's best, without putting the patient through too much, and doing what's needed to protect ourselves from legal action.
Let's take Mrs. Summer. She's a nice 78 year-old lady I saw in the office last week.
Earlier this month she hurt her back. So she saw her internist, who correctly diagnosed her with a muscle strain. He gave her a muscle relaxant and Tylenol #3.
A few hours after she took the medications she became confused and sleepy. Her family called Dr. Internist, who said to stop them immediately.
She was absolutely fine the next morning, but her daughter is a nurse at the hospital, and wanted me to have a look at her for the episode. So she called Mary, and they came in last week.
The odds are that all she had was confusion due to Tylenol #3. So do nothing. It's most likely and least expensive.
BUT maybe she had a TIA. If I don't correctly diagnose that, and she has a big stroke, than they could sue me. So let's order a brain MRI, head & neck MRA, and echocardiogram. That's a few thousand dollars in tests.
Or maybe she had a seizure, and needs to be started on seizure medications. So lets order an EEG, too. Another $500.
Perhaps it was a metabolic event, with her blood sugar getting too low. So I'll order some labs. That'll be another $500-$1000 depending on how much I order.
This is the dilemma your doctor faces each day, many times over. None of us come to work saying "Oh boy! I can't wait to drive up the cost of health care today!" But we're faced with finding an (at times) impossible balance.
We don't get a 2nd chance, either. If we guess wrong we run the risk of getting sued. Another doctor is always willing to make a living as an expert witness and testify that we are incompetent.
And yet, with this sword of Damocles hanging over our heads, I and thousands of other doctors do this every day. And try to do the best we can, within the limits of human fallibility.


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Jason Priestley is dishing on Brad Pitt and his days on "Beverly Hills, 90210."
The 44-year-old actor and former teen idol spills plenty in the upcoming book "Jason Priestley: A Memoir," which comes out May 6.
Us Weekly got a look at a few excerpts, including one about Shannen Doherty that just confirms what we already know about the gentle, compassionate, empathetic actress who is loved by all who know her.
Doherty, who played Priestley's sister on "Beverly Hills, 90210," had a reputation of being a tad ... difficult at times. Priestly wrote about one of his first encounters with her in 1990, when Fox executives sent the pair via private jet on a last-minute trip to New York City for a meeting with advertisers.
"I could not believe my ears at Shannen's very first words after she boarded," Priestley wrote. "Her butt had barely hit her seat before she said loudly to the PR person, 'Really? A town car? You send a town car to take me to the airport, not a limo?' She sighed a very put-upon sigh. I laughed, as I couldn't really tell if Shannen was kidding or not."
Heh heh ... he said "butt."
Priestly continued, "But that was just the beginning. I looked on, becoming more uneasy by the minute as she began bitching about the short notice and the food on board and the temperature in the cabin and everything else."
Priestly also wrote about Pitt, who was one of his roommates in Los Angeles when both were still unknown in 1987.
"Just for fun, we used to have competitions over who could go the longest without showering and shaving," Priestley wrote of the three-time Oscar winner. "Brad always won. Having to go on an audition meant cleaning up, which is what usually put an end to the streak."
Those crazy kids.
More excerpts will be included in the new print version of Us Weekly.
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"Life is 10 percent what happens to you and 90 percent how you respond to it."
- Lou Holtz, ESPN college football analyst/philosopher
One of college football's most visible college football analysts, plus a former Southeastern Conference quarterback who played for Steve Spurrier at Florida, were as shocked as anyone Saturday night when Wisconsin torched Nebraska's Blackshirts for 70 points on national TV. But both expect the Huskers to bounce back and be ultra-competitive on New Year's Day when the Huskers face Georgia in a second straight Capital One Bowl in Orlando.
Lou Holtz, who lives in Orlando, the nation's most visited city, wasn't promoting tourism when he stunned Mark May, the guy sitting next to him on Sunday night's Bowl Selection Special on ESPN.
"You look at the history of bowl games and the teams that play real good in the last game of the year and teams that play poorly ... they end up swapping it out," Holtz told a national television audience. "I promise you this, this will be a good Nebraska football team, and I will not be surprised if they end up ..."
Unfortunately, Holtz could not finish his statement because May, a fellow ESPN college football analyst who battles Holtz every weekend in a mock trial that includes a moderator wearing a judge's robe, was too incredulous to let Holtz finish his thought process.
Fortunately, Jesse Palmer, the Canadian-born former Florida quarterback who was once "The Bachelor" on the popular reality television series with the same name, sensed a roadblock and came to Holtz's immediate rescue.
Palmer Recalls Michigan State Upsetting Gators
"Coach, I agree with you completely," Palmer said, "because it happened to us in 1999. We just lost the (SEC) conference title game against Alabama, and we went into the Capital One Bowl against Michigan State, who just lost (former Spartan head coach and now Alabama coach) Nick Saban to LSU, so we thought we were going to smack 'em.
"We enjoyed the week and thought we could just roll out our helmets and show up," Palmer said. "We met a guy named (Michigan State wide receiver) Plaxico Burress and (running back) T.J. Duckett and (linebacker) Julian Peterson, and it didn't go so well for us."
The Gators lost to Michigan State, 37-34, in the final seconds of that Capital One Bowl, and it seems only appropriate to point out that the Spartans upset Florida in the same season they lost lopsided back-to-back regular-season conference road games - by 24 points at Purdue and by 30 points at Wisconsin.
As Holtz knows, the road to redemption can be every bit as surprising as it is dangerous.
The Capital One, often referred to as the "best bowl game outside the BCS", pits top-tier SEC and Big Ten teams against each other. The bowl comes down to "which school wants it more after both lost conference titles," Palmer said.
Palmer's reinforcement of Holtz's close-game theory spurred a five-man panel's debate and an acknowledgement about how the Blackshirts must rebound without Baker Steinkuhler to match the explosive potential of an NU offense that includes such mentioned weapons as Taylor Martinez, Rex Burkhead, Ameer Abdullah, Kyler Reed, Kenny Bell and Quincy Enunwa. All five ESPN panelists seemed to agree that those six Huskers can turn a big game with their quick feet, sticky hands and Martinez's vastly improved arm and footwork.
Holtz Holds Husker Football in High Regard
Holtz, of course, has his share of detractors. But having seen him speak a half dozen times and having spent an hour with him while jointly watching a spring Nebraska football practice decades ago, I know this: The man has nothing but the utmost respect for Nebraska football and puts the Huskers very high in the college game's overall hierarchy.
Holtz has won all six places he's been a head coach over a span of 32 years - 3 at William and Mary, 4 at North Carolina State, 7 at Arkansas, 2 at Minnesota, 10 at Notre Dame and 6 at South Carolina. His unbeaten 1988 Notre Dame team won the national championship, and his '93 Irish squad finished second.
I remember when Holtz suspended two of his season-long top offensive players (his No. 1 running back and his No. 1 receiver), making his Arkansas Razorbacks a heavy underdog to No. 2-ranked Oklahoma in the 1978 Orange Bowl. The Hogs walloped the Sooners, 31-6, strengthening one of Holtz's most repeated quotes: "Life is 10 percent what happens to you and 90 percent how you respond."
Holtz is also credited with another quote that relates well to that one. "Motivation is simple," he said. "You eliminate those who are not motivated."
Husker coaches and players can relate to another favorite Holtz quote, especially as they prepare to bounce back from Saturday night's unexpected lopsided loss. Holtz once said: "You're never as good as everyone tells you when you win, and you're never as bad as they say when you lose."
Is Georgia Best BCS Team to Miss a BCS Bowl?
Upsets always have been and always will be woven into the very fabric of college football, and Nebraska faces an uphill climb to match strategy with Georgia, which just might be the best BCS team ever to miss a BCS post-season bowl game.
The Bulldogs came within four yards and a few seconds of qualifying for this season's national championship game against Notre Dame. It didn't happen, and Georgia's dream of playing the Irish in the Miami heat next month evaporated when the clock stopped at the Georgia Dome in Atlanta.
Thousands of Bulldog fans will flock to Orlando to give their favorite team an appropriate sendoff for a memorable season that fell seconds short of playing for college football's highest honor.
Nebraska, which claims to have the greatest fans in college football, will take on Georgia after falling short of what would have been an historic accomplishment in Indianapolis - the Huskers' first league title in 13 seasons.
Lou Holtz has perspective. He ranks No. 6 among all-time college football coaching wins. He's taken six different schools to 22 post-season bowl games. He's convinced that there's no way to know which Georgia defense will show up in Orlando. Holtz is also convinced that a battered, bruised bunch of Blackshirts will change their colors with more than three weeks to plan and prepare for Georgia.
Holtz, Palmer See a Bowl Finish to the Wire
Holtz and Palmer see the Capital One Bowl going to the wire, even though Georgia was oh-so-close to a national championship appearance against Notre Dame.
Nebraska has an allotment of 12,500 tickets for a bowl game against the third highest of six SEC teams ranked in the nation's Top Ten. You might also be interested to know that Nebraska's all-time record against the SEC is 94-47-4.
The question is this: Can you see what Lou Holtz and Jesse Palmer envision? Can the Huskers respond to adversity the same way they bounced back from a lopsided loss to Ohio State nearly two months ago?
If you can see what they see this holiday season, Capital One Bowl tickets are priced at $87 and $92 and went on sale to the general public at 9 p.m. CT Sunday. Tickets also can be purchased over the phone beginning Monday morning by calling the Nebraska Athletic Ticket Office at 1-800-8-BIG RED. Please check out the Capital One Bowl Central Site.
Holtz believes Nebraska's offense has enough play-makers to beat the odds. He also believes the Blackshirts, the NCAA leaders in pass defense, can regroup, refresh and respond with a vengeance against one of the nation's best teams.
Let the record show that I don't always agree with Lou Holtz, but I think he just might be onto something here.
Pelini Excited to Play Best Available Team
"I think it's a great opportunity for us and a great challenge (to play Georgia)," Nebraska coach Bo Pelini said Sunday night on a Capital One Bowl teleconference. "We're excited to be going and to play the best available opponent out there."
Georgia finished the regular season 11-2 and ranked No. 7 in the final BCS regular-season poll. Even though the Bulldogs lost, 32-28, to Alabama in the SEC final, they did not qualify for a BCS game because Florida finished No. 3 in the final standings. The BCS has a rule preventing more than two qualifiers from the same conference - a point ESPN repeatedly rejected on Sunday night's selection show.
Pelini was defensive coordinator at LSU when the Tigers played against Georgia coach Mark Richt in 2005, '06 and '07. "I know they're going to be athletic," Pelini said of the 'Dogs. "I know they're going to be physical and obviously they're going to be well-coached. I think Coach Richt does a great job. They're going to challenge us across the board in every way. They're a very talented team."
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Leading AIDS Activist Spencer Cox Dies at 44
Spencer Cox, a pivotal AIDS activist who was the spokesman for the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power and a co-founder of the Treatment Action Group, died Tuesday morning in New York from AIDS-related causes. He was 44.
The activist was featured in the 2012 documentary "How to Survive a Plague," directed by David France. The filmmaker announced that Cox lost his battle to the disease in a statement.
Cox became the spokesman for ACT-UP in 1989 when he was 20 years old and shortly after he was diagnosed with HIV. He later helped found TAG, where he pioneered quick approval of drug and psychological treatments for those infected with the deadly disease. In 1995, Cox wrote the drug trail protocol for the first protease inhibitor drug, which led to the Food and Drug Administration quickly approving the medication.
Protease inhibitors are a class of drug used to treat or prevent infection by viruses like HIV and Hepatitis C. The so-called "drug cocktail" changed the nature of AIDS from immediately fatal to something long term.
"Spencer single-handedly sped up the development and marketing of the protease inhibitors, which currently are saving 8 million lives," TAG's executive director Mark Harrington, said. "He was absolutely brilliant, just off the charts brilliant."
Before working with ACT-UP, the activist interned for amfAR, where he eventually worked his way up to assistant director of public affairs. While there, he worked on the organization's communications and policy.
He then co-founded the Community Research Initiative on AIDS, now called the AIDS Community Research Initiative of America, with Dr. Joseph Sonnabend and Marisa Cardinale. He managed the group's public affairs and edited all of its publications.
Cox also tackled gay men's' mental health and founded the Medius Institute for Gay Men's Health, a think tank that aimed to improve gay men's emotional well being. The organization was responsible for a number of important reports but it did not receive the funding it needed to continue its work and folded.
Cox's body initially responded to the medications used to treat his HIV but around 2000 he began developing a resistance to the drugs, In 2009, he was hospitalized with AIDS related symptoms. He finally succumbed on Dec. 18, and died at Columbia Presbyterian Hospital.
"If I have one piece of advice for young, aspiring activists, it is to always hold on to the joy, always make it fun. If you lose that, you have lost the whole battle," Cox wrote in his last blog for POZ.
Watch French's final interview with Cox from "How to Survive a Plague."


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Nice interface for an info page.
A great way of viewing some man page while using gnome.
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Might be more useful if you were able to print it in Days HH:MM:SS format as:
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Redirecting STDIN allows me to put the search term at the end so I less cursor movement to change what I'm searching for:
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If this has already been submitted, I couldn't find it with the search utility.
On Fedora clean the boot directory; erase older kernel
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I find this terribly useful for grepping through a file, looking for just a block of text. There's "grep -A # pattern file.txt" to see a specific number of lines following your pattern, but what if you want to see the whole block? Say, the output of "dmidecode" (as root):
dmidecode | awk '/Battery/,/^$/'
Will show me everything following the battery block up to the next block of text. Again, I find this extremely useful when I want to see whole blocks of text based on a pattern, and I don't care to see the rest of the data in output. This could be used against the '/etc/securetty/user' file on Unix to find the block of a specific user. It could be used against VirtualHosts or Directories on Apache to find specific definitions. The scenarios go on for any text formatted in a block fashion. Very handy.
Packages: gmailfs fuse-utils libfuse2 gvfs-fuse
Config files: /etc/gmailfs/gmailfs.conf; ~/.gmailfs.conf (make a copy from the another one)
fusermount -u /mount/path/
/etc/fstab (Optional):
none /mount/path/ gmailfs
noauto,user[,username=USERNAME,password=PASSWORD,fsname=VOLUME] 0 0
- The options between [] are optional since they already setuped on the config files.
- The '-p' flag shows a prompt for the password entry.
- It's necessary to add the user to the 'fuse' group. You can do that with:
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- The volume name is not needed but highly recommended to avoid file corruption. Also choose a non-trivial name.
- Google doesn't approve the use of Gmail account other than e-mail purposes. So, I recommend the creation of a new account for this.
Perform a dns zone transfer (if is allowed on target dns server) and print result.
See: "man pwgen" for full details. Some Linux distros may not have pwgen included in the base distribution so you maye have to install it (eg in Mandriva Linux: "urpmi pwgen"). Show Sample Output
To install a theme use:
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You can get the .xpi or .jar file from the versions history on the add-on/theme page.
NOTE: may not work in your system (Debian-based is an example).
Not so useful. Just a cool feature.
The download content part. NOTE: the '-c' seems to not work very well and the download stuck at 99% sometimes. Just finish wget with no problem. Also, the download may restart after complete. You can also cancel. I don't know if it is a wget or Rapidshare glitch since I don't have problems with Megaupload, for example. UPDATE: as pointed by roebek the restart glitch can be solved by the "-t 1" option. Thanks a lot.
In order to do that, first you need to save a cookie file with your account info. These commands do it (maybe you need to create the '.cookies' dir before). Also, you need to check the "Direct downloads" option on the Premium Zone >> Settings tab. You need to do this once (as long you maintain the file or your Rapidshare Premium account).
A great password generation tool. http://www.adel.nursat.kz/apg/ Show Sample Output
Within vi allow to empty a text file in one shot
The vi key sequence !}command will send the file contents from the cursor to the next blank line as STDOUT to the command specified and replace that sequence of file lines with the output of the command. For example: sorting a block of data - !}sort The sequence !{command will do the same but "upwards" (from the current position towards the start of the file. Show Sample Output
head by default displays first ten lines of its output. Use 'head -nXX' to display the XX largest files
apart from not being generalisable to all shells, `Y <<< X` seems nicer to me than `echo X | Y`, e.g.
<<< lol cat;
it reads easier, you type less, and it also looks cool
commandlinefu.com is the place to record those command-line gems that you return to again and again. That way others can gain from your CLI wisdom and you from theirs too. All commands can be commented on, discussed and voted up or down.
Find brute force attempts on SSHd
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Running a command at a specific time
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Gay Teammate Would Be 'Difficult' for a Detroit Tiger to Accept
A right fielder for the Detroit Tigers made headlines this week after telling a reporter with the Los Angeles Times that an openly gay teammate would make things "difficult" and would make him "uncomfortable."
"For me, as a Christian...I will be uncomfortable because in all my teachings and all my learning, biblically, it's not right," Torii Hunter told the reporter, Kevin Baxter. "It will be difficult and uncomfortable."
Soon after the controversial remarks made their way around the Internet, the former Los Angeles outfielder took to Twitter to respond to the criticisms he's received -- and to backtrack.
"I'm very disappointed in Kevin Baxter's article in which my quotes and feelings have been misrepresented," the baseball player wrote. "He took two completely separate quotes and made them into one quote that does not express how I feel as a Christian or a human being.
"I have love and respect for all human beings regardless of race, color or sexual orientation," he continued. "I am not perfect and try hard to live the best life I can and treat all people with respect. If you know me you know that I am not anti anything and to be portrayed as anti-gay in this article is hurtful and just not true."
Hunter, 37, is a four-time All-Star and has played in the major leagues since 1997. This isn't the first time the baseball player made what could be perceived as insensitive comments. In a 2010 interview with USA Today, he said Latino baseball players are " impostors" when talking about demographics in baseball.
"People see dark faces out there, and the perception is that they're African-American. They're not us. They're impostors," he said. He went on to note, "As African-American players, we have a theory that baseball can go get an imitator and pass them off as us...It's like, 'Why should I get this kid from the South Side of Chicago and have Scott Boras represent him and pay him $5 million when you can get a Dominican guy for a bag of chips?'"
Hunter's comments once might have been common. But these days, they seem more and more out of line with other pro athletes. More and more sports stars have been vocal about their support for the LGBT community and out players.


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