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Lord Ganesha
Ganesha is the God of success and overcoming obstacles, but is also associated with wisdom, learning, prudence, and power. As the god of success, his names are chanted at the start of any important venture. As the remover of obstacles, he is invoked at the start of every journey, marriage, religious rite, house construction, the writing of a book or even a letter.
Lord Ganesha is also one of the five Gods – the worship of whom was popularized by Adi Shankaracharya; the other four being Vishnu, Shiva, Shakti and Surya. The worship of these five deities is called the panchaayatana puja. In some cases, Skanda is also worshipped.
Ganesha has four hands, an elephant's head and a big belly. His vehicle is a tiny mouse. In his hands he carries a rope (to carry devotees to truth), an axe (to cut devotees' attachments), and a sweet dessert ball – laddoo (to reward devotees for their spiritual activity). His fourth hand's palm is always extended to bless people. A unique combination of his elephant-like head and a quick moving mouse vehicle represents tremendous wisdom, intelligence and presence of mind.
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Legends of Birth
There are two legends about his birth and how he came to posses the head of an elephant. One myth relates that his mother, Parvati, had to go for her bath when her husband, Shiva, was not at home. As Shiva had gone on a meditation retreat and was not expected to return, Parvati ordered Ganesha to keep guard and not let anyone inside the room. But after a while Shiva arrived and when he tried to enter, the child refused to let him do so. This angered Shiva, who cut off the child's head.
In order to make up for his mistake, Shiva promised Parvati that if she places the head of any person or thing which crosses her path early the next day, the child would come back to life. The first person or thing that passed by them was the mighty elephant. Shiva cut off its head and placed it on the torso of the beheaded child.
Another version says that Parvati was blessed with a beautiful son, and all the Gods assembled to see and admire the son of Shiva and Parvati. They all gazed at the child except Shani, because he was under a curse, which caused any being he looked at to be burnt to ashes. Parvati insisted that Shani also look at and admired her son.
But no sooner had he done so than Ganesha's head was burnt to ashes. Parvati cursed Shani for having killed her son, but Brahma intervened, and comfortingly told her that if the first available head were planted on her son's shoulders, he would be alive again. So Vishnu set forth on Garuda and the first creature he found was an elephant sleeping beside a river. He cut off its head and this was fixed on Ganesha's body.
According to legends Ganesha is a great scribe and learned in religious lore and scriptures. Hence, Ganesha is often depicted with only one tusk, since it is believed that he broke off the other so that he could inscribe the Mahabharata, which was dictated by to him the seer Vyasa.
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Ganesha and the Mouse
According to one interpretation, Ganesha's divine vehicle, the mouse or mooshikam represents wisdom, talent and intelligence. It symbolizes minute investigation of a cryptic subject. A mouse leads a clandestine life below the ground. Thus it is also a symbol of ignorance that is dominant in darkness and fears light and knowledge. As the vehicle of Lord Ganesha, a mouse teaches us to remain always on alert and illuminate our inner-self with the light of knowledge.
Both Ganesha and the Mooshak love modaka, a sweet dish which is traditionally offered to them both during worship ceremonies. The Mooshak is usually depicted as very small in relation to Ganesha, in contrast to the depictions of vehicles of other deities. However, it was once traditional in Maharashtrian art to depict Mooshak as a very large mouse, and for Ganesha to be mounted on him like a horse.Yet another interpretation says that the mouse (Mushika or Akhu) represents the ego, the mind with all of its desires, and the pride of the individual. Ganesha, riding atop the mouse, becomes the master (and not the slave) of these tendencies, indicating the power that the intellect and the discriminative faculties have over the mind. Moreover, the mouse (extremely voracious by nature) is often depicted next to a plate of sweets with his eyes turned toward Ganesha while he tightly holds on to a morsel of food between his paws, as if expecting an order from Ganesha. This represents the mind which has been completely subordinated to the superior faculty of the intellect, the mind under strict supervision, which fixes Ganesha and does not approach the food unless it has permission.
Married or Celibate?
According to tradition, Ganesha was generated by his mother Parvati without the intervention of her husband Shiva. Shiva, in fact, being eternal (Sadashiva), did not feel any need to have children. So Ganesha was born out of the exclusively female desire of Parvati to procreate. Consequently, the relationship of Ganesha and his mother is unique and special.
This devotion is the reason that the traditions of southern India represent him as celibate (see the anecdote Devotion to his mother). It is said that Ganesha, believing his mother to be the most beautiful and perfect woman in the universe, exclaimed: "Bring me a woman as beautiful as she and I will marry her."
In the north of India, on the other hand, Ganesha is often portrayed as married to the two daughters of Brahma – Buddhi (intellect) and Siddhi (spiritual power). Popularly in north India Ganesha is accompanied by Sarasvati (goddess of culture and art) and Lakshmi (goddess of luck and prosperity), symbolizing that these qualities always accompany he who has discovered his own internal divinity. But this does not mean that Sarasvati and Lakshmi are consorts of Ganesha. Symbolically this represents the fact that wealth, prosperity and success accompany those who have the qualities wisdom, prudence, patience, etc. that Ganesha symbolizes.
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- Root, Elihu 1845-1937. American lawyer and public official who served as U.S. secretary of war (1899-1904), secretary of state (1905-1909), and senator from New York (1909-1915). He won the 1912 Nobel Peace Prize.
- Root, John Wellborn 1850-1891. American architect whose designs include the Monadnock Building (1889-1891) in Chicago, which employed steel beams along with traditional masonry-bearings walls.
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Tuber and root vegetables, Canning of vegetables, Root and
Woman's Institute Library of Cookery Volume 5: Fruit and Fruit Desserts; Canning and Drying; Jelly Making, Preserving and Pickling; Confections; Beverages; the Planning of Meals
"Root" is the only object in Property List, and when I expand it, there is nothing close to what's described.
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Now if we take the theosophical nomenclature, we find each of these kalpas covers what we call a Root Race, and you may remember that the first Root Race of humanity had not human form at all but was simply a floating mass able to live in the waters which then covered the earth, and only showing the ordinary protoplasmic motions connected with such a type of life and possible at that stage of its evolution.
Avatâras Four lectures delivered at the twenty-fourth anniversary meeting of the Theosophical Society at Adyar, Madras, December, 1899
The Root is an African-American news site run by the Washington Post.
Third, once he pays his Social Security and other taxes, Root is free to do whatever he wants with his money.
Think Progress » Tea party leaders say they would 'absolutely' abolish Social Security.
An excerpt (note that Wayne Allyn Root is the LP VP candidate):
The Root is a daily online magazine that provides thought-provoking commentary on today's news from a variety of black perspectives.
Root is another matter, Nobody can predict what he will do.
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If Root is on the ticket, Bob Barr has an even BIGGER problem selling himself with me on the war in Iraq and the war on drugs.
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Here's my guess: Enoch Root is an alchemist who carries the philosopher's stone around in a cigar box.


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I was baffled by the lack-lustre campaign of the second most popular party in my ward, the Liberal Democrats, whose bland slogans and empty promises were combined with bad typography and pitiful media presentation (by a candidate who doesn't even live in the area) and I'm infuriated by the absence of any attempt to mount a campaign at all by Labour and the Green party.
So, on impulse, believing I could do a better presentational and rallying call than any of them (and with just 48 hours to go until voting day) I decided to express my feelings by inventing The Ukulele Party. I spent an evening designing the website and set up a Twitter account.
I did this in a mischievous spirit because it amused me and because I thought it would make my ukulele loving friends laugh. What happened next was a surprise as the blog attracted a steady stream of visitors throughout the day and at the time of writing the site has had hundreds of visits from all around the world. People tracked me down via Twitter and have sent messages of encouragement, support and even offers to join their political parties. It's made me realise that there is a demand for a real alternative party in Worthing and convinced me to get properly involved in a real campaign next time round.
You probably won't see a candidate for The Ukulele Party on the roll for the next general election, but then again, stranger things have happened in politics.


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My name is Walter Lohman. I am Director of the Asian Studies Center at The Heritage Foundation. The views I express in this testimony are my own, and should not be construed as representing any official position of The Heritage Foundation.
An evaluation of why South Asia matters to America's East Asia policy and how the region's dominant power, India, can be effectively incorporated into it must begin with a clear conception of U.S. policy goals in East Asia and the current tools at its disposal.
Fundamentally, the objective of U.S policy in the Western Pacific should be – as it has been since the end of World War II – to backstop to peace, security, freedom, and prosperity. The main tools the U.S. employs in this effort are its alliance network, forward deployed military presence, and support for free commerce. Secondary tools include bilateral and multilateral diplomatic engagement. U.S.-India relations fall into a subcategory of this diplomatic category. There are no hard and fast lines separating these classifications. Singapore, for instance, is not a treaty ally of the U.S. It does, however, offer military capability, cooperation, and access as valuable as some formal allies. The U.S. has fruitful military-to-military relations with many countries in the region, including India. Consigning India to a lower category of priority is only to recognize that America's principal official interaction with it is diplomatic. It is also recognition that there is a world of difference between the value the U.S. derives from its Japanese, Korean, Australian, and even Thai and Philippines alliances, than it derives from its relationship with India.
With this as context, the questions then follow: What interests do the U.S. and India share in East Asia and what does each bring to the table to meet them?
Common U.S.-India Interest in Balancing China
The principal strategic challenge in East Asia is the task of peacefully incorporating a rising China into the region's political life to the benefit of the broadest cross section of interests, including American and Indian – and Chinese. Of course, from the U.S. perspective, we want the biggest possible share of that cross section, as do the Indians with regard to their interests. One area our interests correspond in managing China's rise is in balancing its growing power, and thereby creating the underpinnings of an effective regional diplomatic architecture.
This said, U.S. and Indian approaches to China diverge in ways that complicate this shared theoretical, geopolitical priority. Neither the U.S. nor India consistently pursues a "balancing" strategy vis-à-vis China; engagement is an equally prominent element of both nations' China policies. From the Indian perspective, China is first a neighbor – a relatively strong one that the Indian foreign policy and security establishments are loath to provoke. Secondly for India, China is economic opportunity. It is India's largest trading partner, and each has nascent, growing investment interests in the other.
For its part, the U.S. has fundamental conflicts of interest with China, among them, Taiwan's status, differences over maritime disputes, and security on the Korean Peninsula. The U.S., however, also has multiple open channels of communication and dialogue with the Chinese. The balance that America's forward-deployed military and alliance structure provides far outweighs any contribution that U.S.-India relations can make. On the economic front, China is a far more important partner to the U.S. than India. China is America's number two trading partner, while India is number 13 – the difference almost tenfold in dollar terms. In short, the U.S. has its own equities in U.S.-China relations and ample means at its disposal to deal with China, with or without India.
Because the U.S. and India each employ a mixture of balance and engagement, and because they are not mutually dependent, they are often out of cycle with one another. The India side in particular is sensitive to the domestic political charge of caving to American strategic interests, while the American relationship with China is so encompassing of its bureaucracies' energies that it has a dynamic all its own, often carried out without much regard for Indian equities.
The success of India's "Look East" policy, to the extent that it supports a stable balance of power, is in America's interest. To the extent it complicates Chinese efforts to further their extensive maritime claims in the Western Pacific, it is also positive. India's measured naval engagement and commercial interests in the Western Pacific help put the disputes there in an international light. Its statements about freedom of navigation in the South China Sea serve as useful political statements limiting Chinese ambitions. On their face, they support America's free commerce objective, i.e., protecting the global commons. Observers must bear in mind, however, that in a strict legal sense, India's position on freedom of the seas is closer to the Chinese interpretation. This is true, in particular, regarding military operations in exclusive economic zones – a major American priority. This, in a microcosm, captures the nature of shared U.S.-India interests when it comes to China: Theoretically intuitive, in reality, not quite congruent.
India in Southeast Asia
It is wise for the Subcommittee to focus attention on regional organizations. The development of the ASEAN-centric architecture endorsed by the Obama Administration is coming to pass. The Administration's public diplomacy over the last four years speaks loudly to the competition for influence there between the U.S. and China. A focus on Southeast Asia is also relevant, by function of India's geography and shorter power projection horizon. It is also the sub-region that India has been applying "Look East" to for the longest time.[1]
Although the Obama Administration has done very well to regularize and increase the points of contact with ASEAN, the danger is that it will buy too deeply into its processes. ASEAN, in my view, is not so much "a fulcrum for the region's emerging regional architecture" as Secretary of State Hillary Clinton called it, but a meeting venue. It is a critically important one, but for U.S. purposes this engagement is simply one tool in our approach to the region. ASEAN's aspiration to be more than this to outside powers, including the U.S. (it is already more than this to its own members) is today foundering on its efforts to manage escalating disputes in the South China Sea.
As for India's profile in Southeast Asia, it is remarkable to consider what has occurred on the ground there since India launched its focus on East Asia in 1991. India's "Look East" policy predates China's own "charm offensive" in Southeast Asia by six years. Like China, India is now active in all the elements of the region's summitry, including the ASEAN Regional Forum, the East Asian Summit, the ASEAN Defense Ministers Plus, and ASEAN heads of state/government summits. It has also strengthened bilateral relations throughout Southeast Asia.
The economics – which was a major factor motivating ASEAN's engagement of India – tell a different story. By 2009, trade with China constituted 11.6% of ASEAN's total while India accounted for 2.5% of it. A year later, despite the entry into force of the India-ASEAN FTA, these shares remained virtually the same. ASEAN exports three times as much to China as India, and imports six times as much from China. Total direct investment inflows from China to ASEAN in 2002-2009 were more than twice that from India. For 2010, Indian investment jumped as a share of ASEAN's total inward investment to levels close to China – yet, not nearly enough to make up the accumulated difference.[2]
It is worthwhile to break these investment figures down by country to get a more precise view of what is happening. Investments in some countries yield greater political benefit than others. Singapore – ASEAN's most regular business environment, i.e., the place investment will buy you the least political influence – is by far the greatest recipient of Indian investment into ASEAN. (Almost half of all global direct investment into ASEAN goes to Singapore.) Singapore records twice as much investment from India as China.[3] All the other ASEAN countries which offer comparable figures – Vietnam, Malaysia, Thailand, Philippines, Indonesia – report Chinese investment levels that dwarf India's.[4] Burma, ASEAN's 2104 Chair, for instance, a country at the heart of what is often portrayed as a field of fierce China-India competition, reports China's share of foreign direct investment at 33%, India's share at less than 1.0%.[5] ASEAN's 2016 Chair, Laos, records $3.4 billion in approved Chinese investment projects through 2011, and roughly $149.7 million from India.[6] Vietnam is often held up as a regional leverage point in China's rise. Vietnam trades 10 times as much with China as with India.[7] On the investment side, Vietnam reports $3.7 billion in FDI from China through the end of 2010; and $214 million from India. It is a similar story of Indonesia. In fact, The Heritage Foundation's China Global Investment Tracker independently records a massive $25 billion in total Chinese investments and contracts for Indonesia.[8] Different countries record numbers differently, but any way one looks at the numbers, they do not look particularly good for India. They show India trailing China considerably in its effort to forge the sort of economic integration that Assistant Secretary Robert Blake suggested in his testimony before this subcommittee could be "the key" to regional stability.[9]
The U.S. and China may be involved in a game of geopolitics in Southeast Asia. What is at play among the ASEAN countries themselves is tactical jockeying. Their objectives are narrowly focused on security, economy, and territory. There are also complicated internal divisions in each. Take a look at Vietnam's example. Vietnam is not the "billiard ball" of international relations theory. It has a complex government with competing priorities and factions. Vietnam shares a border with China, a very long history (not all of it bad), and party-to-party contacts with the potential for ameliorating conflict with China. Its foreign ministry is quite strategic-minded. When pressed by China on territorial issues in the South China Sea, it finds common cause with other ASEAN claimants and helps galvanize what little action ASEAN can muster. The high point in this regard was Vietnam's turn at the ASEAN Chair in 2010, when it very prominently featured its interests in the South China Sea – something the Chinese try very hard to prevent. At other times, however, Vietnam is more conciliatory toward China. The best example of this is the very high profile party-led visit to Beijing in the fall of 2011. During that visit, after a very difficult year at sea for China-Vietnam relations, the two sides reached agreement on a set of "basic principles on settlement of sea disputes" – the signing ceremony for which was formally witnessed by the secretary-general of each country's ruling communist party.
For its part, India also has competing visions at play in its approach to Southeast Asia. India's commercial interests in the South China Sea make for an interesting case study. Over the objections of Chinese authorities, India's state-owned Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (OVL) is working with the Vietnamese to jointly explore and develop two blocks in Vietnam's exclusive economic zone (EEZ). OVL's objectives are commercial, not geopolitical. By authoritative accounts, the Indian government has little say in OVL's individual investment decisions. OVL may make a healthy return on investment by maintaining its investment. It may do better ultimately by relinquishing it. Consider that OVL signed when the blocks were unproven. Selling its rights at a profit and divesting itself of all the trouble would be a rational business decision. It will not represent a victory for China.
The Indian navy is perhaps the most strategically minded part of the Indian establishment. It is custodian of India's greatest strategic asset, its geographic blessings along Indian Ocean sea-lanes, also a key priority for China. It has sought to parlay this valuable experience into the Pacific, where many of China's neighbors have concerns that mirror India's own in the Indian Ocean. The navy has been visible and vocal about OVL's interests in the South China Sea, and the navy's prerogatives in protecting them.[10] Recent remarks by the Indian Chief of Naval Staff that the navy is prepared to protect Indian interests there are noteworthy.[11] However, they represent only one part of India's foreign policy puzzle. It does not mean that this statement, every Indian port call in the Pacific, or incident such as occurred in July 2011 when an Indian naval vessel in international waters was apparently warned off by the Chinese, is a sign of China-India geostrategic rivalry. In fact, it is telling that each time something like this occurs, there is another part of the Indian government that downplays the development.
If push ever comes to shove in the South China Sea, one must wonder whether the Prime Minister's Office and the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) would accede to risking India-China economic relations and priorities much closer to home (border issues, for example) for an investment an ocean away. Resolved of its own interests, India would be even less inclined to risk the benefits of India-China relationship for a principle more in keeping with America's role and broader interests in the region.
The U.S.-Vietnam relationship has moved at a glacial pace – restrained by strategic indecision on the part of the Vietnamese.[12] It is difficult to imagine Vietnamese authorities making up their minds and risking its relationship with China any quicker for India, a far less consequential player in its neighborhood than the U.S. This is especially the case as India does not seem to have made up its own mind.
First and foremost, India's foreign policy priority is on its borders and immediate neighborhood. With regard to Southeast Asia, this means Burma. Twenty years ago, amidst shifting dynamics in Burma, India switched from support for democracy to courting the Burmese military regime. What does India have to show for it today? When the Burmese junta recently reached out – arguably to counter an increasingly out of balance Chinese presence – it reached out first to the West, not to India. It did so for good reason; India does not have the capacity to offset the Chinese advantage. The disparity between Indian and Chinese investment numbers has been discussed. China is also a much bigger trading partner of Burma than India (more as a source of imports than export destination). China-Burma government-to-government ties and military ties are also much stronger than India-Burma ties. Historian Thant Myint-U, who travelled extensively throughout Burma for his 2011 book, Where China Meets India: Burma and the New Crossroads of Asia, characterized "contemporary Indian influences" in Burma as "practically non-existent."[13]
India's experience in Burma's oil and gas sector is a good example of its government underperforming in the service of its own interests. Burma's natural gas reserves – tenth largest in the world – and India's acute energy needs have focused a great deal of attention on India's interest in energy infrastructure. India has the capacity to help develop these resources. Transporting them back is more complicated. The headline-grabbing story on this score was the offshore Shwe natural gas project, where despite the stakes of two state-owned Indian entities OVL and GAIL (Gas Authority of India Ltd.), China is to receive the actual resource. China is constructing a pipeline across Burma to take the gas to Yunnan province – a feat India was unable to accomplish for its own market in a competitive timeframe.
The bottom line is that for all its deference to the Burmese regime on human rights issues and recently accelerated diplomatic and assistance activity, India is not effectively balancing China's influence in Burma, or Southeast Asia more broadly. It has gained cooperation from Burmese authorities in cracking down on insurgents operating in its volatile Northeast border region. This it would appear is India's principal objective, not geostrategy. Shorn of its geostrategic content, the U.S. does not necessarily share India's priorities in dealing with Southeast Asia (although it does share an interest in curtailing any Chinese involvement with insurgents on its border with Burma).
The U.S. should facilitate India's active involvement in the regional diplomatic architecture. Formal dialogues – bilateral and multilateral – and day-to-day coordination among officials should also be welcomed. Joint military exercises should be, too. As India refines its strategic interests, it is good for the U.S. to have all its options for cooperation with regional powers fully developed. In his testimony, Assistant Secretary Blake put the strategic time horizon at 50 years. U.S.-India strategic convergence is, indeed, a long-term, exploratory endeavor.
American policymakers must be realistic about the operational role U.S.-India relations can play in achieving the number one strategic challenge currently facing East Asia – successfully managing China's entry in the political life of the region. We have to be realistic about India's current power base in East Asia – as well as India's own strategic priorities. India cares far more about its immediate neighborhood than the Western Pacific. And as any Indian MEA official will tell you, they have many "strategic partnerships," including with China and Russia.
There is a role for India in America's effort to maintain its historical commitment to ensuring the peace, security, prosperity, and freedom in East Asia. That role, however, is relatively minor, and will grow, if at all, only according to India's timetable and very proud world view. India will not serve, except passively, as part of an American policy to balance China. And anytime the foreign policy establishment there feels it is being pulled in that direction, it will recoil.
Failing to recognizing India's limitations as a partner risks forging a relationship where the U.S. trades tangible benefits for theoretical geopolitical discussion. More importantly, it risks obscuring the relationships and other factors that provide the real basis of American power in the Western Pacific: our alliances, a robust forward deployed military, and commitment to free commerce.
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[1] David M. Malone, Does the Elephant Dance? Contemporary Indian Foreign Policy, (New York: Oxford University Press, 2011), Location 4837, Kindle version of book.
[2] Association of Southeast Asian Nations, ASEAN Community in Figures, 2011, at http://www.scribd.com/doc/111873404/ASEAN-Community-in-Figures-ACIF-2011 (accessed March 11, 2013).
[3] Department of Statistics Singapore, Foreign Equity Investment in Singapore, 2010, at http://www.singstat.gov.sg/pubn/business/fei2010.pdf (accessed March 11, 2013). The vast bulk of investment is in equity. Figures do not include investments from Hong Kong.
[4] General Statistics Office of Vietnam, Foreign Direct Investment Projects Licensed By Main Counterparts, December 31, 2010, at http://www.gso.gov.vn/default_en.aspx?tabid=471&idmid=3&ItemID=11390 (accessed March 11, 2013). The Board of Investment: Thailand, Table 1: PRC Investment Projects Submitted to BOI, January 9, 2011, at http://www.boi.go.th/upload/content/T.PRC11_63028.pdf (accessed March 11, 2013). The Board of Investment: Thailand, Table 1: Indian Investment Projects Submitted by BOI, January 13, 2012, at http://www.boi.go.th/upload/content/T.INDIA11_52541.pdf (accessed March 11, 2013). Invest Philippines, Total Approved Foreign Direct Investment by Country of Investor, 2010, at http://www.investphilippines.gov.ph/statistic2.html (accessed March 11, 2013). Bank Indonesia, Direct Investment Flows in Indonesia by Country of Origin, 2012, at http://www.bi.go.id/seki/tabel/TABEL5_33.pdf (March 11, 2013). Central Bank of Malaysia, "International Investment Position (IIP): Malaysia", December 31, 2011, at http://www.bnm.gov.my/index.php?&lang=en (accessed March 11, 2013). Indian position confirmed via email exchange with Department of Statistics Malaysia.
[5] Ministry of National Planning and Economic Development, Foreign Investment of Permitted Enterprises, December 31, 2012, at http://www.dica.gov.mm/dicagraph1.htm (accessed March 11, 2013).
[6] Ministry of Planning and Investment Laos, All Approved Investment Projects by Country, December 2011, at http://www.investlaos.gov.la/files/rpt_Invest_Summary_Country1A.pdf (accessed March 11, 2013).
[7] General Statistics Office of Vietnam, Exports of Goods by Country Group, Country, and Territory, 2011, at http://www.gso.gov.vn/default_en.aspx?tabid=472&idmid=3&ItemID=13214 (accessed March 11, 2013).
[8] Association of Southeast Asian Nations, ASEAN Community in Figures, 2011, at http://www.scribd.com/doc/111873404/ASEAN-Community-in-Figures-ACIF-2011 (accessed March 11, 2013).
[9] Robert O. Blake, Jr., "The Asia Rebalance: Why South Asia Matters", testimony before House Foreign Affairs Committee, Subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific, February 26, 2013, http://docs.house.gov/meetings/FA/FA05/20130226/100306/HHRG-113-FA05-Wstate-BlakeR-20130226.pdf (accessed March 11, 2013).
[10] Rajat Pandit, "Ready to Tackle China Sea Threat: Navy Chief," The Times of India, December 4, 2012, at http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2012-12-04/india/35594081_1_south-china-sea-accordance-with-international-laws-vietnam-coast (accessed March 11, 2013).
[11] Ibid.
[12]Colonel William Jordan, Lewis M. Stern, and Walter Lohman, "U.S.-Vietnam Defense Relations: Investing in Strategic Alignment," Heritage Foundation Backgrounder No. 2707, July 18, 2012, at http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2012/07/us-vietnam-defense-relations-investing-in-strategic-alignment (March 11, 2013).
[13] Thant Myint-U, Where China Meets India: Burma and the New Crossroads of Asia, (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2011) Location 1169, Kindle version of book, http://www.amazon.com/Where-China-Meets-India-Crossroads/dp/0374299072 (accessed March 11, 2013).


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Elenin is too dim to see in binoculars now. And as I pointed out above, if you're looking in Gemini, you're not looking at Elenin. Based on your description of a object brighter than Saturn, due west just after sunset, I'd guess you are looking at the star Procyon, Betelgeuse, or Capella. All of those are brighter than Saturn currently appears. Capella is the brightest of those.
Originally posted by CAELENIUM. I looked at it personally and I failed to see any comet tail. Without a comet tail there is therefore no coma. Traditional comets because of their coma and tail are always fuzzy in the binoculars or telescope. ELENIN looks very sharp and clearly defined. No fuzziness about it.
Originally posted by CAELENIUM
So in your opinion "Elenin is too dim to be seen in binoculars now". Young man I think that you're too much in your head [schizophrenia] and simply need to step outside to get some oxygen into your blood and to look at it personally. You will realise your error just as soon as you take the time to do some practical astronomy. Too much theory is unhealthy. I know my stars and I tell you that an object of 80,000 kilometres diameter [coma or not coma], situated in the asteroid belt is going to be not only visible in binoculars, but is going to be a very bright object in the naked eye.
I have looked. There is no such object. Nor are any other amateur or professional astronomers reporting such an object.
Originally posted by CAELENIUM
Get outside and see it for yourself. It is clearly the brightest object in the sky due west at sunset. Compare it to Saturn which is due south at sunset. Also see how much brighter it is compared to the bright stars near to it like as Betelguese and Procyon, Castor and Pollux, Capella and Menkalinan. Get outside and see it for yourself.
You claim there's an object brighter than anything else in the night sky, and you're the only one seeing it. Those who do look, such as myself and many other amateur astronomers are somehow missing this object.
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My simple reply to you is that "there are none more blind than those who do not look".
Eliptical orbit 3600 years.
Last Seen 1589 B.C
The latest update from JPL today still has Elenin classified as hyperbolic with an eccentricity of 1.000059803304575. Anything lower than one is outside the bounds of their 1-sigma error. I think it's safe to say this is a hyperbolic comet and the idea of it having a period of 3600 years is laughable.
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JPL updated the Comet Elenin orbital elements. The adjustments were generally insignificant. However, regarding the eccentricity slightly fluctuating very near to exactly 1.0, this causes the derived values for the semi-major axis, aphelion and orbital period to change dramatically. The eccentricity now given is 0.999955 resulting in a semi-major axis of 10793 AU, an aphelion of 21,585 AU and an orbital period of 1.121 million years.
In a long, dialogue-free final sequence, the travelers reach the bottom of the black hole and appear to enter Hell then Heaven.[1] Reinhardt and Maximilian embrace in space, and then appear merged as one on a high rock overlooking a barren, burning Hell-like landscape populated by robed figures resembling the drones of the Cygnus. Meanwhile, the surviving crew of the Palomino pass through a cathedral-like crystal tunnel, with their small craft eventually emerging safely from a white hole in the vicinity of a planet.
You may have heard the news: Comet Elenin is coming to the inner-solar system this fall. Comet Elenin (also known by its astronomical name C/2010 X1), was first detected on Dec. 10, 2010 by Leonid Elenin, an observer in Lyubertsy, Russia, who made the discovery "remotely" using the ISON-NM observatory near Mayhill, New Mexico. At the time of the discovery, the comet was about 647 million kilometers (401 million miles) from Earth. Over the past four-and-a-half months, the comet has – as comets do – closed the distance to Earth's vicinity as it makes its way closer to perihelion (its closest point to the sun). As of May 4, Elenin's distance is about 274 million kilometers (170 million miles).
Comet Elenin should be at its brightest shortly before the time of its closest approach to Earth on Oct. 16 of this year. At its closest point, it will be 35 million kilometers (22 million miles) from us. Can this icy interloper influence us from where it is, or where it will be in the future? What about this celestial object inspiring some shifting of the tides or even tectonic plates here on Earth? There have been some incorrect Internet speculations that external forces could cause comet Elenin to come closer. "Comet Elenin will not encounter any dark bodies that could perturb its orbit, nor will it influence us in any way here on Earth," said Yeomans. "It will get no closer to Earth than 35 million kilometers [about 22 million miles]. " "Comet Elenin will not only be far away, it is also on the small side for comets," said Yeomans. "And comets are not the most densely-packed objects out there. They usually have the density of something akin to loosely packed icy dirt. "So you've got a modest-sized icy dirtball that is getting no closer than 35 million kilometers," said Yeomans. "It will have an immeasurably miniscule influence on our planet. By comparison, my subcompact automobile exerts a greater influence on the ocean's tides than comet Elenin ever will."


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Naughty Dog's Neil Druckmann has lifted the lid on one of the early story ideas for Ellie and Joel, and how an alternative plot would have seen them fleeing for their lives across the country from the wrath of a rather familiar character.
Speaking in the latest issue of Game Informer, Druckmann said that initially the story would have seen Joel betraying his partner Tess early on in the game.
"That storyline never worked out," he said. "We had a tough time understanding why Joel would take this journey - we weren't buying it. We also had a hard time buying that Tess would go on a vendetta. We could understand her pursuing Joel a little bit, but why would she go for a year around the country?
"Those things were solved by saying that Tess is going to die when she gets bitten, but her dying wish to Joel is to do this one good thing - help me do this one good thing so my soul can rest because I've done all these horrible things."
A storyboard published earlier this week showed Joel being tortured by Tess, and Druckmann stated this would have been the moment where Ellie finally takes a life.
"Ellie's arc originally was that she didn't kill any non-infected people until the end, when she was going to kill Tess when Tess was torturing Joel," he said. "What we realised is that we had to get Ellie engaged more in the combat because when she was disengaged from the action for that long you didn't care so much.
"So that changed pretty early on. We decided it wasn't going to be about the first time she killed someone, it was more about this coming of age story of the impact that the horrors of violence has on her over the course of the game. That culminates with her conflict with David. That happened pretty quickly, just based on some things we realised about the story and how we had to integrate it into the gameplay."
Druckmann also revealed that original ending was due to be a little lighter, but that it was changed because the team felt that the characters, Joel in particular, were getting off a bit cheaply.
"The original ending when we pitched the game was a much more hopeful ending, where Joel and Ellie make it to San Francisco and that is a town run by people who are trying to restore society," he said.
"Joel has killed all these doctors and lied to Ellie, and Ellie just fully buys into the lie. So, you're left with the idea that they are going to live the rest of their lives in this town. The camera pulls back and maybe everything is going to be alright for these two. I was working on writing, and it didn't feel honest any more. After everything they've done and everything they've been through, that was letting them off a little too easy - especially for Joel."
HHowever, the darker ending started out testing unfavourably with focus groups, though people eventually came around to the idea.
"When we did focus testing, at least initially until some of the hospital stuff started coming together, it tested very poorly. People said it's unclear, anticlimactic, unsatisfying.
"A lot of people at the company felt the same way. A few designers didn't like the ending I had in mind. But then, as time passed and they thought about it, they came around and really appreciated. I think that happened with other people, too." [via CVG]


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A beautifully edited montage running through the Cold War and the fall of Ceausescu gets things rolling, followed by the random shooting of young Ioan's father Florin (Gabriel Spahiu) on the revolutionary streets of Bucharest. Cut to the present, and 23-year-old Ioan (dancer-choreographer Eduard Gabia) is convinced by a friend to join him in Italy. On the train, the friend gets hauled off by immigration, and Ioan arrives in Rome alone and without prospects.
Michele (Luca Lionello, Judas in "The Passion of the Christ"), a janitor in the main train station, takes pity on Ioan and offers to rent him space in his apartment. Gradually the two hit it off, though Ioan seems oblivious to Michele's sexual interest.
Work is haphazard for them both: Ioan is illegal, and Michele, at 40, hardly qualifies as a success story. Landlady Luciana (well-known comic Luciana Littizzetto) barely tolerates Michele's tardy payments, but her patience is wearing thin.
Everything changes when Ioan is rescued from squeegee hell by photographer Laura (Chiara Caselli), who decides he has an authentic something about him. She pulls him off the street, gets him papers and sets him on the catwalks of Milan in an overextended and ridiculously improbable about-face that considerably weakens the pic's thrust, notwithstanding the revelations of Laura's venal motives.
If only Amoroso had been satisfied with detailing the burgeoning friendship between Ioan and Michele, he could have sharpened his critique of rampant capitalism and perhaps even said something new about the tired "closeted gay man in love with his straight roommate" story. He's created fully formed, complex characters, but is unsure where to take them: Much more could have been made of Michele, a man unable to lift himself out of society's margins and express something as fundamental as his sexuality.
Comparing Michele's status as a marginalized Italian to Ioan's illegal immigrant is thought-provoking, and it's refreshing to find an East European who maintains an emotional connection to his home country. But again, Amoroso fails to develop the concepts and instead throws in pointless fashion-world scenes that seriously compromise his aims.
At his best with actors, Amoroso deploys a cinematic style that combines moments of restrained elegance with the occasional overly simplistic setup. It's been 10 years since his last directorial effort, "As You Want Me," and the current pic's unevenness certainly suggests a talented but inexperienced director at the helm. Blow-up from HD is fault-free.


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The Cool for the Summer singer will star in I Am: Demi Lovato, an original series which documents the writing and recording process of her newest album and features her performances from around the world. It is slated to air in the autumn (17).
Katy will also have her own one-off show called the Katy Perry Live Special, in which she will host a live listening party of her upcoming album for fans.
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Kolkata: India number one Somdev Devvarman got over early hiccups to wrap up a 6-4, 6-4 win over an aggressive Mohamed Safwat of Egypt in the opening round of the State Bank of India USD 50,000 ATP Challenger Tour at BTA Courts here on Monday.
However, another Indian Sanam Singh squandered a fabulous 6-1, 3-1 lead to go down to Daniel Cox of Great Britain.
Playing with a wildcard entry, second seed Somdev who is recovering from a career threatening shoulder injury was 0-3 down in the first set as Safwat had two double faults in the fourth game to enable the Indian come back.
Slowly he showed sparks of his on court agility and powerful returns to hold the fifth game before breaking the sixth to make it 3-3 settling the first set breaking the Briton again in the 10th game.
Somdev fired in two aces in the second set as he was all in his elements to win the second set with an identical score in the battle lasting one hour and 25 mintues. "It was tough and not easy as he (Safwat) was playing at his aggressive best. Once I got a feel of the match I felt comfortable," the 100th ranked Indian said.
Despite the initial hiccup, Somdev said he was happy with the way he played. "I feel 100 per cent fit now after my surgery (in early 2012), I'm working hard and trying my best to find ways to improve," Somdev, who had a career best ranking of 62 in mid 2011, added.
Playing his best, Singh won by 6-1 with two breaks of serves and in the second, he was a break up and grasped a 3-1 quick lead. He had a 5-4 lead in the latter half of the set but eventually lost 5-7.
In the decider, Singh was 4-3 on serve only to drop the game, thereby giving Cox a 5-4 lead. In the 10th game Singh was far away from his best as he lost the serve by 0-40 and thereby the match by 6-1 5-7 4-6 in a disappointing exit.
In an upset of the day, unseeded Marco Chiudinelli of Switzerland took one hour and 47 minutes to oust the sixth seeded Illya Marchenko from Ukraine. The first set went on to a tie breaker, where Chiudinelli got lucky as he won the breaker by 7-3.
In the second, Chiudinelli was broken in the second game itself, as Marchenko took a lead of 2-0. Chiudinelli then geared to break back and level the set at 2-2. It went on with hold of serves till 4-4, where Chiudinelli broke Marchenko and then held serve to win the set by 6-4.
In form Yuki Bhambri, who won the ATP Chennai Challenger last week, has been pitted against qualifier Liang-Chi Huang the same Taiwanese opponent who was beaten in the first round in Chennai leg.
Results (Round 1)
Singles: Somdev Devvarman (IND) b Mohamed Safwat (EGY) 6-4, 6-4; Marco Chiudinelli (SUI) b Illya Marchenko (UKR) 7-6 (3), 6-4; Radu Albot (MDA) b Steven Diez (CAN) 6-2, 3-6, 6-4; David Guez (FRA) b Ze Zhang (CHN) 7-6 (1), 6-0; Daniel Cox (GBR) b Sanam Singh (IND) 1-6, 7-5, 6-4.
Doubles: Lucas Pouille (FRA)/ Go Soeda (JPN) b Sanchai Ratiwatana/ Sochat Ratiwatana (THA) 6-4, 6-1; Saketh Myneni/Sanam Singh (IND) b Ramkumar Ramanathan/ Karunuday Singh (IND) 4-6, 10-8.
Qualifying final round: Tsung-Hua Yang (TPE) b Ruan Roelofse (RSA) 7-6 (4), 7-6 (5); Rui Machado (POR) b Tyler Hochwalt (USA) 6-0, 6-3; Liang-Chi Huang (TPE) b Mathias Bourgue (FRA) 6-4, 3-6, 6-3; Ti Chen (TPE) b Joshua Milton (GBR) 4-6, 6-2, 6-2.


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It's the kind of telephone call no grandparent wants to receive.
There's been an accident. Or an arrest. Or an injury that has resulted in a trip to the emergency room.
The grandchild desperately pleads for money.
Could you wire it now to post bail or pay for medical treatment? And, by the way, don't tell Mom or Dad. It will only worry them.
The rub?
There's been no accident. No legal problems. No time spent in a hospital.
And it's not a relative who wants the money. It's a con artist tugging at an older adult's heartstrings.
It's called the grandparent scam — another in a long list of frauds that target senior citizens.
The con has been around for years, according to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). But, today, it's become more advanced, with perpetrators now using the Internet and social media web sites to research potential targets, where names, addresses and birth dates are easily found.
They also randomly dial telephone numbers — using prepaid throwaway cell phones — until they reach an older individual.
But, regardless of how they find their target, the scenario is usually the same: A grandparent receives a phone call from a so-called "grandchild" claiming to be in an emergency situation. He's in a foreign country where there's been a mugging. He's been arrested for driving while intoxicated or has been involved in an accident that has resulted in a visit to the emergency room.
The voice might not sound like the grandchild's, but he's talking excitedly and loud so the grandparent believes he must be scared. There also might be a lot of background noise, making it difficult to hear clearly.
They lace their conversation with correct references to other family members, increasing their credibility.
Sometimes, the con artist hands the phone over to an accomplice who pretends to be a police officer, lawyer or doctor and further spins the fake tale.
And while it's called the grandparent scam, criminals might also claim to be a niece or nephew or another family member.
The goal, says the FBI, is to catch relatives off guard, play on their emotions and separate them from thousands of dollars — which they request be sent through Western Union or MoneyGram, making it difficult to trace or recover.
Last year, more than 25,000 older Americans reported sending $110 million to scammers posing as family members and claiming an injury or arrest, according to an AARP report.
But that's just the tip of the iceberg, the report noted. At most, only about 8 percent of victims ever report the crime.
If you've heard about such incidents but thought it's something that would happen somewhere else, think again.
The scam has come to Maryland.
In Ocean City, Md., for instance, a woman recently was bilked out of $2,000 after receiving a call from someone claiming to be her grandson who was in trouble in St. Lucia and needed financial assistance.
Locally, the Washington County Sheriff's Office receives about two to three calls a week pertaining to the grandparent scam, said Deputy 1st Class Carly Hose.
"It's definitely happening in Washington County," she said. "But it's hard to know the exact number of people targeted because not everyone reports it."
One reason is embarrassment.
"Victims can't believe that they fell for such a scam," Hose noted. "It's a bit of Monday morning quarterbacking. They didn't see the signs at the time, but after thinking back on what happened, they wonder how they could have allowed themselves to get drawn in. That goes with any scam. People feel foolish, they feel embarrassed, so they don't want others to know."
But it's important to report such incidents — even if you're not a victim, Hose stressed.
"It gives us the information we need to better serve the community. It helps us make the public aware of such crimes and also aids in prevention," she explained.
Hose said the con artists, who often are phoning from out of state or out of the country, "are very smart, very organized and have an answer for every question. There is so much information available to them online. There are search engines that will give them names of everyone related to you and other basic background.
"So always be suspicious," she stressed. "If it doesn't sound right, it probably isn't right. Go with that gut feeling. And never send money to anyone without verifying all the information. These criminals are hoping you'll react on emotion that will override common sense. So stop and think and explore before sending money."
Hose urged individuals who have been victims or who have received such phone calls to contact the Washington County Sheriff's Office.
"The best way to fight crime is to stay one step ahead of it," she said.
How to avoid a scam
The following tips on phone scam prevention have been provided by the FBI:
• Resist the pressure to act quickly.
• Ask the caller questions that would be difficult for an impostor to answer correctly — for example, the name of their first pet or an important date that most other people wouldn't know.
• Try to contact your grandchild or another family member to determine whether or not the call is legitimate.
• Never wire money based on a request made over the telephone or in an email, especially overseas. Wiring money is like giving cash. Once you send it, you can't get it back.
• Contact your local authorities or state consumer protection agency if you think you've been victimized. Also, file a complaint with the Internet Crime Complaint Center or IC3, which not only forwards complaints to the appropriate agencies, but collates and analyzes the data looking for common threads that link complaints and help identify the culprits.
• Be vigilant about the information you post online, which scammers can try to use against you or your loved ones.