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The US continues to believe Kashmir is the main cause for bad blood between India and Pakistan. India insists the subcontinent is not a nuclear flashpoint and Kashmir not a disputed territory. But the continuing insurgency, Kargil and India�s own limited war rhetoric undermine this claim. The world believes, Mr Clinton recently said, that south Asia is the most likely place for a nuclear war. But Pakistan�s attachment to risky tactics has changed US views on how the dispute should be managed. This is actually the product of an evolving US stance on Kashmir. The US gave up on diplomatic initiatives to stitch together Kashmir solutions in the Sixties. After the 1972 Shimla accord, Washington also adopted India�s stance that Kashmir was best left to bilateralism. When the US dispatched its deputy national security advisor, Mr Robert Gates, to defuse a perceived nuclear scare in 1990, he told India that the US no longer supported calls for a plebiscite. However, Pakistan clung to the belief internationalization would automatically mean its getting control of the vale. This underpinned the entire Kargil operation. But the US made it clear to Islamabad that no aggression could be rewarded in a nuclear atmosphere. If the world intervened in Kargil, the US warned, it would not be to Pakistan�s advantage. Violating the LoC was no more acceptable than Mr Saddam Hussein�s crossing the Iraq-Kuwait border. This view has been made public by Ms Albright.
But India is also caught in a time warp over Kashmir. Its fervent refusal to accept any third party mediation or even facilitation regarding Kashmir is partially driven by obsolete policy concerns. Mr Clinton�s own offers to act as an intermediary have been angrily spurned by New Delhi. There is no evidence the US president, despite his role in Northern Ireland and west Asia, has much to offer when it comes to Kashmir. But India must recognize words alone will not convince the world Kashmir is not a tinderbox. The US has changed its stance on Kashmir to reflect new realities. And its shift has endorsed many of India�s positions. New Delhi must also recognize that its own dogma needs adjustments following Pokhran and the Chagai hills.
The parenthesis of time between the governor�s inviting Mr Nitish Kumar and Ms Rabri Devi�s winning a majority in the vote of confidence is, in a sense, the result of Congress action � or inaction. The enigmatic delay in submitting its letter of confidence to the governor provided the latter with an excuse for acting on what can only be described, with hindsight, as his own bias. This tendency to prevaricate � suspended ineffectually between indecisiveness and deliberation � has now become an almost comfortingly familiar part of the Congress�s working culture. What gives this modus inoperandi an unsavoury dimension are the aggressive demands for ministerial portfolios which the Congress is now bullying the RJD with. Admittedly, the spectacle of a harried Mr Yadav muttering �God protect me from my friends� will be relished by most spectators of this Aristophanic drama. But the posture of principled toughness and highminded pressurizing that the Congress is trying to pull off now is hardly more credible than the projection of this alliance as a marriage of true minds. The identity the Congress is trying to forge and project as the opposition party at the Centre through a desperate, and random, grabbing of every opportunity for negative self-assertion cannot be the basis on which to stabilize a relationship with the RJD �ethic�, if such a thing can be imagined. The jungle demands a set of skills and instincts that the Congress will have to master in order to survive this new phase in its tottering attempts at recovering political agency, if not dignity.
Since most pessimists are leftists they are less likely, in these days of socialist decline and disarray, to be given a patient hearing. Their central message � that the failure of historical socialism doesn�t mean existing capitalism is performing well � is for the most part ignored. What is much needed, therefore, against the Fukuyamas of the world or the derivative �wisdoms� of Indian pro-liberalizers, is a strong and sensible pessimism of the right. This is only likely to take place if the right stops congratulating itself in the aftermath of communist collapse and takes a long, hard and honest look at the mess we are in.
One major figure of the intellectual right in Britain, John Gray, in a recent book, False Dawn: The Delusions of Global Capitalism, has tried to do just that and, unsurprisingly, has evoked the fury of many a liberal and conservative alike. He first rubbed rightwingers the wrong way when he launched a furious attack on Thatcherism, decrying it for its absurd faith in an untrammelled market system. He now extends the assault by excoriating the United States for making neo-liberalism the expression of its own national identity and championing this form of economic globalization as the only way forward for the world order. This is nothing less than a recipe for global disaster and if it persists will exact its revenge in terms of wars, social breakdown and impoverishment on a scale that will rival in its own way the tragedies of the 20th century.
His own basic argument owes a great deal to the views of two former pessimists about the future of capitalism, one on the left and the other on the right � namely Karl Polanyi and Joseph Schumpeter. The former always insisted that far from being �natural�, the dominant and pervasive �market economy� of capitalism is both new and extremely unnatural.
Throughout human history, market relations were always embedded and subordinated to a wider structure of social relations which were not governed by market or commercial or profit or exchange principles. It was only capitalism that had an ineluctable tendency to expand market relations indefinitely so as to weaken, destroy and then replace other non-market social relations by its own principles and values of organization. So disruptive was this tendency that there was no way society as a whole could cope without strong countervailing forces to control and contain market forces. Indeed the positive successes of capitalism was only made possible by the fact of this control and ability to prevent this dynamic from getting out of hand, that is, the market economy is prevented from establishing a market society. Since this was ultimately a losing battle, socialism was the only hope and answer.
For Schumpeter, the basic power of capitalism came from being a �gale of creative destruction�, except that as the 20th century proceeded apace Schumpeter believed the destructive dimension was increasingly outweighing the creative one. Socialism was neither the hope nor the answer, but probably unavoidable given this capitalist dynamic. Gray has jettisoned their beliefs either in the need for � or in the eventual triumph of � socialism, but strongly endorses their respective understandings of the nature of capitalism, if left uncontrolled.
His hostility to the untrammelled market and its associated ideology of neo-liberalism is unequivocal and uncompromising. If the American economy is the forerunner of the shape of things to come globally, then just look at the disaster that is the US today. There is, behind the facade of middle and upper class prosperity (the much touted boom), economic and social polarization at levels unprecedented in its history as an advanced industrial democracy; accumulating ecological tensions; atrocious levels of crime and anomie; the breakdown of collective human support systems; and so on.
Fortunately, the US will not succeed in imposing its neo-liberal model on the rest of the world because the very process of trying to do so will unleash unacceptable levels of social and political turmoil. However, that does not mean things will not be bad. They will be, unless the neo-liberal form of globalization is consciously and successfully opposed at the level of ideas and ideology as well as on the level of policies. Only then will we be able to salvage what is desirable � �national or regional varieties of capitalism�. Admittedly, this is very difficult because financial globalization has rendered all forms of Keynesian-style national-level macro-management untenable. So, from whence will the resistance come? Since Gray writes off the socialist project and doesn�t have much faith in the power of resistance from below, he has to hope for a change of mind and heart from above, by those who today are the votaries of neo-liberalism or at least passive accomplices in its predominance.
Thus Gray pins his hopes � or more correctly, his fears � on some kind of catastrophic denouement or crisis of the global economic system comparable to the Great Depression of the Thirties, which will shock dominant elites in the advanced countries, pushing them to institute mechanisms of global governance particularly in regard to finance and capital movements. Along with this there must be a sustained ideological assault on all Enlightenment-inspired utopias of some rationally organized global civilization, be this the utopia of socialism or of the wondrous powers of a worldwide free market system.
The strength of Gray�s critique is his welcome insistence that neo-liberalism and genuine democratic existence are not allies but enemies and incompatibles. This runs counter to all those arguments which try to make out that human freedom can only be strengthened by enhancing the �freedom� of the market. Gray recognizes the importance of what the left has always said � that the true nature of the market can only be grasped if the metaphor of the �free market� is balanced against that other revealing metaphor of �market forces�, that is, the compulsive and therefore �unfree� nature of the market is also acknowledged and given due weight. The weakness in Gray�s argument is that he connects the emergence of neo-liberalism more to modernity than to the nature of capitalism, more to the Enlightenment-inspired arrogance of reason than to capitalist practices and the realities of the social distribution of power between classes.
Horrified as he is, he still believes a moderated form of various indigenous capitalisms is the answer even though neither socialism nor social democracy is according to him any longer possible. The latter, he rules out because of the collapse of the strongest examples of social democracy, the Swedish and New Zealand experiments. In the name of promoting international competitiveness, the Labour party government in New Zealand, after 1984 carried out such far-reaching deregulation and privatization that the country was transformed from being a remarkable model of high welfare, low inequality, full employment society into the very opposite.
But Gray does not face up to the possibility that however bad the situation might become, a rough approximation of the crisis period of the Thirties may never take place. What then would trigger the change from above? And if capitalism itself rather than neo-liberalism or excessive Enlightenment rationalism is the main culprit, how do we progress without some kind of revival of the socialist project? Nevertheless, whatever its weaknesses, Gray�s critique possesses the inestimable virtue of shattering the all too widespread delusions of the political and ideological right itself.
The author has recently co-authored the book, South Asia on a Short Fuse: Politics and the Future of Global Disarmament
Politics of the possible
Sir � What can be the logic behind calling the group of former ministers, formed at the initiative of V.P. Singh, a �lonely hearts club�, (�Lonely hearts� club of former PMs�, March 3)? Are they all so desperate to find �new jobs that they chose to form a �front�? If this is so, then it is odd since all of them have different ideologies and don�t act or think alike. Besides, during their respective tenures, they did not always act in the best interests of the nation. If they are so concerned about the �various dimensions of national life� that require �urgent attention�, what prevented them from addressing these when they were in office? But, one cannot ignore the novelty of the idea of forming a front, all of whose members are former prime ministers. Yet, at the risk of sounding sceptical, it must be said that they cannot stick together for long. They have become virtual non-entities even to their own partymen. So, to start with, they should try and establish the seriousness of their endeavour. And this might be a Herculean task.
Modernity�s darkest face
Sir � Kalahandi is situated in a rain-shed area and drought is a common occurrence here even when rain is aplenty in other parts of the country. During the last 40 years, the situation of the people living there has been highlighted by the media, and prime ministers have also visited the area. There is no dearth of funds to ameliorate the condition of the people. But no suitable action has been taken to ensure a permanent solution to the problems. Hence conditions here have constantly deteriorated. Bonita Podho is a case in point.
For instance, if no big hydroelectric power project can be executed owing to the geographical location, what about small lift irrigation? Digging bore wells and getting water for agriculture could also have been tried. The collector could have posted a few technicians in each panchayat to see that no sahukar or mahajan takes away the land of the small farmer. With the vast army of government employees, like the block development officer, tehsildar, agricultural extension officer, panchayat officer, village level worker, revenue supervisor, revenue inspector, amin and patwari and with plenty of money available, what are the much educated bureaucrats doing if they fail to so much as alleviate the pains of the common men and women? It appears that there is a high-level plan to not do any work that will provide a permanent solution to the problems in the area. If water is available, it is easy to imagine that few will starve, mothers will no longer have to sell their children at the village hats and the general subhuman condition of the people can be reversed.
It is also difficult to understand why Bonita Podho walked 10 kilometres a day to attend to her duties as an anganwadi worker? If she got the job of an anganwadi worker because of the sympathy of the prime minister, she could have stayed near the place of work. Kalahandi is not so thickly populated that she could not get a place to live. Besides it is also not credible that she underwent the operation of tubectomy only for a dole of Rs 120 in order to buy rice to feed her five children and husband. All propaganda, medicine and facilities available for birth control and family planning which have entered every house in the country have not been able to influence Bonita Podho, who has given birth to as many as five children within a period of 15 years. Grinding poverty, squalor and suffering are matters of great humiliation and shame for the country and the society. It is time we realized this and stopped politicizing these issues and citing them as problems that defy solutions.
Sir � The story of Bonita Podho unmasks once more the �modern� face of India. It is sheer barbarism to gloat over the country�s nuclear and space programmes when innumerable Bonita Podhos are engaged in a gruesome battle for survival.
The yearning for technological advancement has long suppressed the desire to rescue the masses from the vicious cycle of poverty and illiteracy. Thanks to the guardians of the country, India is slated to become the most diverse country of the world where the United States will be easily accessible to the enlightened few while the rest continue to live in the darkness of remotest Africa.
Harassed and harrowed
Sir � It would be worthwhile for others if I recounted my harrowing experience with the government railway police force. I was travelling from Durgapur to Howrah on the Agniveena Express on the morning of February 14 to send in a few applications by speedpost. With the train packed as usual, I was forced to stand near the toilet at one end of the compartment. It so happened the next one was reserved for ladies. At Bardhaman, two elderly ladies boarded the train and started shouting at a few men standing near the doors.
Suddenly a few GRP personnel got into the train. Finding no one nearby, they turned towards the vestibule where I was standing and without another word caught hold of me and shoved me onto the platform. When I asked what was my fault, they laughingly informed me that the ladies had complained against me. Despite trying to reason with them, I was locked up inside the station thana. There were two more people in the lockup, arrested under similar charges. They were labourers from Uttar Pradesh and spent the time crying.
After the constables had left, a man appeared, claiming to be the jamindar of Bardhaman court. He promised to get me out for Rs 520. I declined the offer, but soon realized this was part of a meticulous arrangement I could not escape. At 8.30 am, some constables entered the lockup and mercilessly beat up the two other persons. I had to part with the amount demanded by the bailiff without any receipt for my release.
I take the opportunity to make some other observations. First, the number of trains on the route are inadequate given the increasing number of passengers. Second, travel is made unbearable by people who claim to be �daily passengers� and occupy all seats. Any effort to resist leads to heckling. Finally, for the past few years coolies in Howrah have started occupying seats in all trains along this line with the tacit support of the GRP. They sell these off for five rupees to passengers. Any effort to stop this leads to fisticuffs and that too in the full presence of the GRP.
Sir � We had some guests due to arrive by the Poorva Express from Agra on March 5. Because of the bandh called in Bihar we were anxious to know about the fate of the train. Our guests were foreigners and totally new to Calcutta. Throughout the day we tried calling, every five minutes, the Howrah enquiry on several registered lines. But we failed to get through. In the end someone had to be deputed to Howrah to keep us informed. The train ultimately came in three and a half hours late.
Mamata Banerjee could think of sending a special train to rescue a stranded chief minister. Could not the railways minister anticipate the plight of the common traveller and ensure better facilities?
The Towards Freedom project of the Indian Council for Historical Research is now the eye of a stormy controversy. Much of the debate is completely misplaced and stands in the way of a proper evaluation of what has been achieved in this project. One of the red herrings should be dispensed with straight away. The allegation, voiced by the self-styled expert on Indian history, Arun Shourie, that these volumes are the products of a Marxist conspiracy is risible. Nobody who knows anything about history writing can consider S.Gopal, Ravinder Kumar, Partha Sarathi Gupta, Mushirul Hasan or the editor of the volume under review to be Marxists. Sumit Sarkar, another editor, is a Marxist though not of the dogmatic variety.
It is perhaps impossible for men like Shourie to appreciate that it is possible for a historian to find aspects of historical materialism to be useful as an analytical tool without becoming a Marxist or a card-carrying member of a communist party. Reds under the beds is a slogan, one thought, had disappeared after a particular era in the history of the United States.
The other charge that this project has been too long in the pipeline is nominally correct. But in reality work began in earnest only in the late Eighties. As to why this happened is best answered by the general editor, S.Gopal, and successive chairpersons of the ICHR rather than individual editors of the volumes. The delay is rooted in the fact that accountability is a foreign word in all institutions of India and not just in academic ones. To single out the ICHR assumes that it is the only body which is guilty of delay and procrastination.
To evaluate these volumes it is necessary to sketch their background. In the Sixties, the British government put together 12 volumes (under the general editorship of Nicholas Mansergh) of documents relating to Britain and India for the period 1942-47. These were called The Transfer of Power. The title itself indicated the analytical thrust: India had not won independence, power had been transferred. The emphasis was on negotiations rather than on the struggle to attain freedom. In the early Seventies, the ICHR decided that these volumes demanded an Indian counter-blast. Thus was born Towards Freedom. One state-sponsored history decided to do battle with another.
This volume covers the year 1938 and is in three parts. Each of the parts is a tome. Chatterji and his team have obviously been hard at work. The year this volume covers is somewhat significant since the Congress accepted ministries this year under the constitutional experiment of provincial autonomy. Many would argue with the advantage of hindsight that 1938 was the year the Congress began slithering down the slope of greed and corruption and broke with Gandhian ethics. In a tour de horizon of Indian politics from the time of the Non-Cooperation Movement, the editor sets the scene for the events of 1938.
Chatterji�s summing up of the situation in 1938 is sharp and short of brilliant: �the decision to accept office in the provinces threw up new imperatives for the Congress as an organization and as a movement for independence. From now on increasingly it had to deal with a complex, interlocking set of problems : to keep alive its opposition to British rule and combine it with the demands of governance; to evolve appropriate modes of relating to British institutions and protocols of power; to tailor their programme to constraints on implementation which as an opposition they did not have to heed; to manage tensions in the relationship of the centre with provincial leaders and with other political associations; to contain factionalism and maintain discipline and rectitude among Congressmen at all levels so as not to squander its moral capital; above all, to deal with left-right divergences over policies and political strategies without breaking the unity of the party.�
All these themes are well covered and the material is arranged subjectwise.This has made the volume user-friendly but it has lead to the exclusion of material that covered a number of subjects. Any student of history who has set foot inside an archive will appreciate the work involved in the sorting and arranging of the storehouse of documents present in this volume. At the risk of being niggardly, I will raise two points which might appear minor but are perhaps significant in the context of the present controversy.
Chatterji, in his wisdom, includes an interview between Subhas Bose and R.P. Dutt. Who is R.P. Dutt and how does he merit a mention in this volume? He was a full time apparatchik in the Communist Party of Great Britain. On the strength of an Indian ancestry, he claimed to be knowledgeable about India. In fact, he had little or no grasp of Indian realities and was not even a minor actor in India�s struggle for freedom. By mentioning him, Chatterji lends credence to the allegation that Towards Freedom has a bias in favour of communists.
At the end of his introduction, Chatterji writes, �This work is meant to be taken to the private study of historians, where it can be judged by the special protocols and standards internal to the craft of history and not to a public platform of some desultory public debate. It would not have been necessary to state this but for the darkness of our times.� The dig is obvious. But it is possible that by writing the last line, Chatterji has opened up precisely the kind of debate he wanted to avoid. He may even have put the project in jeopardy.
Sometime in the early Nineties, Sue Townsend had announced that she was not going to write another Adrian Mole book for the next 10 years. The arrival of Tony Blair and New Labour changed all that. Townsend, aged 53 and battling failing eyesight, got down to writing another sequel. She thought it was important that the Blair phenomenon be observed through the eyes of Adrian Mole.
The result is Adrian Mole: The Cappuccino Years. Our hero, who first saw life in the shape of a radioplay character and then quickly moved on to a life in books and the best-selling charts, is thirty-and-a-half years old now. Leaving behind his colourful, but difficult, childhood, he has moved on to the suitably Nineties profession of a chef in a restaurant called Hoi Polloi which dishes out working class food.
Peter Savage, the foul-mouthed owner of the place, firmly believes in a �Traditional English, No Choice� menu. Early in the book, the food critic of the Sunday Times, A.A. Gill, comes down to Hoi Polloi and is suitably underwhelmed by the food. He suggests in the review that follows that the sausages at the restaurant look and smell like turds. But it cannot prevent Mole from being signed up for television cookery shows such as Offally Good and The Fry Up. As a celebrity chef, he stirs further trouble when he introduces a dish called Belgian Faggots in his TV show and is then hit by an avalanche of complaints by Belgian gay organizations.
With age, Mole � who is named after a fantastic schoolteacher that Townsend once had � has become sour and cynical. The general tone of the book might also have something to do with Townsend�s dislike for New Labour. �I drink cappuccino and like it,� she said in a recent interview, �but it is the perfect metaphor for New Labour: three-quarters froth.�
Single-parent Mole still keeps a diligent diary. In it he records the growth of his bald spot, the quality of his bowels, and the response of his penis to stimuli. Other minor entries include cigarettes, booze and Opal fruits. Pandora, who caught the fancy of our hero many books ago when he glimpsed her wobbly chest on a netball court, has become a Blair babe, a Labour member of parliament. Though Mole has taken a vow of celibacy, he cannot help reminiscing about the time in 1981 when he became the first person to insert his hand into her white cotton training bra.
Wife Jo Jo has moved out of his life and to Nigeria, leaving Mole to rear their son, William. Junior Mole is much taken with the TeleTubbies, the group of toons which took the United Kingdom by storm in 1998. He makes TeleTubby-like sounds all the time. Mole is disgusted to find that Jeremy Clarkson, the motor critic, of the BBC is another favourite of the kid.
You cannot help feeling sorry for Adrian Mole. While he was growing up, the promiscuous behaviour of his elders left him disgusted. They are still at it � Mole finds his mother closeted with Pandora�s father in a toilet cubicle.
But the young have begun disgusting him also. Rosie Mole, his sister, who is described as a �15 year old vamp� and her friend, Aaron Michelwaite, stun him with their profanities. In a moment of uncharacteristic aggression, he tells his sister�s boyfriend, �Rosie may look like Baby Spice, but she�s an innocent, do you understand, Aaron?� �Innocent.� He snorts. �I�ve had more than cider with Rosie, mate.�
Mole belatedly realizes that the kids are having a full-blown sexual affair. For fans who have grown up with Mole, this book will be a treat. There is much to delight readers here � from a cat called Humfri to gay ex-husbands. And even in these times of political correctness, Adrian Mole remains delightfully politically incorrect. (Since this is a secret dairy.) Cool Britannia has never looked so vulnerable as it does through the eyes of Adrian Mole.
Terai, 1815. The British-Indian army advancing towards Kathmandu confronted the fearsome, short and stocky Kukris. It was the British who coined the term �Gurkhas� and this label continues to be in vogue even today. Impressed by the skirmishing capacity of the Gurkhas, the British have been recruiting them since the colonial period.
Fascinated by the fighting potential of the Gurkhas, the British produced a vast corpus of literature on them. This body of military literature on the Gurkhas could be classified into two categories � regimental histories and anthropological studies.
British officers in charge of Gurkha recruitment, such as Captain E.D. Vansittart, were influenced by colonial anthropologists like H.H. Risley. Vansittart tried to link up the �martial� ethos of the Gurkhas with their radical characteristics.
He published a series of ethnological studies on the Gurkhas between 1890 and 1910. And the recent practitioner of this trend is Lionel Caplan who, in Warrior Gentlemen, portrays the imperial belief which emphasized the fact that �martial� characteristics were inherited.
To chart the �heroic� activities of the Gurkhas, the �regimental history� format was introduced by the British officers of colonial India�s Gurkha regiments. Colonel L.W. Shakespear introduced the regimental history paradigm in 1912. An example of this form of writing is Brigadier E.D. Smith�s Valour: A History of the Gurkhas. Smith highlights the leadership qualities of British officers to explain the daredevil performance of the Gurkha brigade.
Though the book under review falls within the ambit of �regimental history�, its attempt to analyze the sahib-Gurkha relationship is somewhat different from that of Smith. The author, John Parker, a journalist by profession, mainly relies on the interviews of the retired British officers with Gurkha pensioners.
The dominant view that the Gurkhas accepted the leadership of the white officers just because they were British has been challenged by Parker. The author also disagrees with Tony Gould�s view, as propounded in Imperial Warriors, that economic incentives offered to the Gurkhas by the army, allowed the British officers to build an authoritarian structure over the hillmen from Nepal.
Rather, assures Parker, it was the white officers who had to acquire the trust and loyalty of the Gurkhas. And one way of acquiring the confidence of the Gurkhas was to learn Gurkhali. Such attempts by the white officers convinced the Gurkhas that British officers were interested in them.
What then was the nature of interaction between the British officers and their Gurkhas? Was it a father-son relationship as portrayed by scholars such as Philip Mason in A Matter of Honour?
Parker challenges this view and argues that the memoirs of the British officers point to the existence of homosexual relationships between the British commandants and the Gurkha privates. Such sexual bonding, comments Parker, established cohesion between the sahibs and the Gurkhas in the battlefields.
Parker�s book presents a valuable narrative that illuminates hitherto neglected socio-cultural and organizational aspects of British military history. His attempt to locate the functions of the Gurkha officers in the army is praiseworthy. Finally, Parker explores a new research agenda for the military performances and homosexuality.
The period between 1930-and 1950 is known as the �pink decades� in Malayalam literature. This was the time when Marxism was rapidly gaining ground in Kerala. Like some other states of India, Kerala became the hotbed of �progressive� writing, informed by a kind of social realism portraying the class struggle and the plight of the downtrodden.
One practitioner of this school of writing was Balakrishna Pillai, the editor of the periodical, Kesari. With the degree of influence that he then exerted on the �Trivandrum intelligentsia� and on the up-and-coming writers in Malayalam literature, Pillai remains one of the prime movers of socialist realism in Kerala.
Thakazhi Sivasankara Pillai, popularly referred to as �Thakazhi�, was one of his disciples. Born in 1912 in a Nayar family in the Alleppey district of Kerala, Thakazhi was drawn to Pragati Sahitya or the Progressive Literature Movement at a very early age.
Being a farmer�s son, Thakazhi�s was no studied sympathy for the toiling masses who live below the poverty line. The short stories that he wrote mostly before the publication of his novel, Chemmeen (�The Shrimps�), represent a curious blend of orthodoxy and rebelliousness.
The stories are generally located in Kuttanadu, an area around Thakazhi�s village. For Thakazhi, Kuttanadu was much more than a geographical backdrop for his stories. The observation of the chequered and dynamic modus vivendi of Kuttanadu with its conflicting values did in fact breathe life into Thakazhi�s literature.
The present volume incorporates 14 short stories of Thakazhi, collated from different collections. According to K.M. George�s introduction, the stories are arranged in chronological order so that they may �indicate the stages of his (Thakazhi�s) growth.� George provides analytical summaries of the stories, useful for the reader encountering Thakazhi�s world for the first time.
Thakazhi usually works with a thin storyline and only a handful of characters. The narrative technique is also simple and straightforward, in keeping with the realistic mode of narration.
But Thakazhi�s forte lies in the subtle intermingling of narrative voices and in quiet shifts of focus that bring out the inner tension of the story with telling effect. For example, in the first story of the collection, �In the Flood�, a strain of lighthearted humour is played against the melancholy of a lonely dog to the point where the death of the dog makes a sudden and powerful impact on the reader�s mind.
In the stories where Thakazhi�s purpose is to cause moral outrage, like a master raconteur, he blurs and shifts his points of focus repeatedly, until the last moment when the main focus zooms towards the object with a vengeance.
This is the reason why stories such as �A Faithful Wife� or �The Story of Kettuthali� read almost like thrillers. The issue of communal hatred between Hindus and Muslims comes to the forefront in �From Karachi� and �Death of Gandhiji�.
While the first tale is strongly reminiscent of Samaresh Bose�s �Aadab�, the latter presents an intricate network of themes which goes on to show how the tendentious apotheosis of a national hero can often obfuscate his broad perspective of humanism, leading to the horrid distortion of his moral philosophy.
A careful reading of Thakazhi�s stories reveal that he is particularly intent on upholding some of the old moral values of the agricultural community (as in �The Farmer�) which pertains are rooted in a feudal ethos.
However, he is conspicuously critical, to the point of being sarcastic, about the morality traditionally imposed on women in general and widows in particular � a tendency demonstrated in stories like �A Faithful Wife� or �The Story of Kalyani�, which the �progressive� peddlers of realism often look at askance.
But the editor is silent about the different moral stances that Thakazhi has adopted at different points of time. Besides, there is no mention of the year of composition at the end of the stories in the collection. This makes the task of tracing out the developmental stages of Thakazhi�s career as a story-writer somewhat difficult.
While the first translations are comprised of some racy stories, some of the others are rather stilted. Unfortunately, these are not always free from solecisms.
But the conflict between the computer and the book has divided the publishing world into �for� and �against� camps: those who want to extend the computer into CD-ROMs and the bibliophiles who regard the book to be inherently superior and judge whatever appears on computer screens as a priori decadent. Hence the question, how far will screen reading go and is it necessarily superior to the printed word?
The contours of the coming conflict can be seen in the CD-ROMs of massive reference works like Encyclopedia Britannica, Oxford English Dictionary, McGraw Hill Dictionary of Science and Technology and others. Bibliophiles who have questioned the need for CDs in the first place can be given two simple, irrefutable answers.
First, sales of multi-volume reference works had dropped drastically in the last decade. For instance, Encyclopedia Britannica had over 2,000 sales representatives in North America alone. Middle class families turned their backs on the �grand brand name� that had been marketed by foot-in-the-door salesmen backed by magazine advertisements and television shows. But old marketing strategies no longer worked in the Nineties.
And the reasons were simple: the middle class felt the shortage of space and time. Urban housing was cramped and there wasn�t room to house multi-volume books that were consulted just once in a while. Moreover, miniaturization that could store large amounts of information was required. So, the CD-ROMs arrived along with the internet. It was these demands of the market that compelled publishers to put their legendary reference books on CDs.
But the question here is how good or user-friendly are these CDs? Specifically, how simple is the search-and-retrieval function, the cross-referencing or the hyper-text jumps to related articles? In this context, some basic points need to be clarified.
First, simply because it is � there� does not mean that you can go ahead and use it. Users must have some minimal training despite the user-manuals that come along with the CDs. For instance, Encyclopedia Britannica comes with a 32-page user-manual that isn�t easy to follow. And if you keep the manual aside and click �Help� in the CD, all you get is a repeat of what is written in the manual!
Second, CDs of multi-volume works come with a � dongle� which is an electronic device that must be attached to the computer to unlock the wealth of the text that is copyright material. The �dongle� would have to be fixed by a technician unless you are one yourself.
Third, there are no standard formats for the databases stored inside the CDs. You can search for the information alphabetically or you can have programmes called �Idea Search�. For instance, you could ask a question like �why is the sky blue?� But when you do this, you can come up with over 100 different entries A clear case of information overkill.
And if you narrow down the question and make it more specific, it still does not help much because the computer does not understand the question per se but simply reacts to the words � blue� and � sky.� You could get the same answers by asking �what sky blue�. But whatever the deficiencies, CDs have come to stay. They will not be able to replace the book, but they will do so insofar as reference works are concerned. Very simply, because even libraries do not have room to house them any more.


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DOI: 10.1051/ndata:07288
Nuclear reaction models for systematic analysis of the fast neutron induced (n,p) reaction cross sectionsG. Khuukhenkhuu1, M. Odsuren1, B. Munkhbat1, Yu.M. Gledenov2 and M.V. Sedysheva2
1 Nuclear Research Center, National University of Mongolia, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
2 Frank Laboratory of Neutron Physics, JINR, Dubna, Russia
Published online: 21 May 2008
Taking into account compound, pre-equilibrium and direct reaction mechanisms, we suggest certain method for theoretical explanation of systematic regularity in the fast neutron induced (n,p) reaction cross sections. The statistical model, Griffin exciton model and PWBA are used. For systematical analysis of (n,p) reaction cross sections, simple and convenient formulae are deduced. It is shown that theoretical (n,p) cross sections are satisfactorily in agreement with experimental values for the 6, 8, 10, 13, 14.5, and 16 MeV neutrons.

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We've had a short lived outbreak of gorgeous weather, so look, bare legs! Isn't it exciting? I wouldn't be at all surprised if this was the last time that happened this year.
I haven't worn this skirt in ages, the lining's pretty destroyed, I had already sewn it back on about a year ago, but it's now starting to disintegrate in another place. It's quite sad when clothes just start breaking like that, it's happened to me quite a lot recently, not having bought much for so long. It is really old to be fair, I think I bought it when I was in the third year of my undergrad, so 11 years ago! God, time flies!
Anway, another thing: I had a spam comment that got through the filter on my about page the other day, which made me realise that my about page is a bit rubbish! So I thought I could make it a bit more interesting by adding a Q&A section, but then what questions to ask? I know some of you haven't been around for that long, so maybe you could help me out: what do you want to know? Or think others might want to know? It can be anything, I do quite enjoy answering silly questions as well as serious ones. If I end up writing something interesting, I might make it into a post.
So what I'm, saying is: please help me out by asking me a question! Or lots of questions!
Outfit stats:
* skirt – zara * top – people tree * necklace – present * shoes – el naturalista *


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Manchester United are set to part ways with several players over the summer as Jose Mourinho plans to overhaul the squad according to the Daily Record.
Bastian Schweinsteiger, Marcos Rojo, Daley Blind and Juan Mata are among the players United will put up for sale.
The Express reported that Fenerbahce were planning a summer swoop for the Germany international back in March.
The Yellow Canaries have been keeping close tabs on Schweinsteiger and reports that he could be available have put the club on alert.
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The Black Eagles are aware of Schweinsteiger's availability a source close to the club told Turkish-football.com but no offer or enquiry has been made.
Fenerbahce and Besiktas will both be playing Champions League football next season and are currently the bookmakers favourites to lock horns in the 2016-17 title race as well.
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The panic cycle is a simple process and quite easy to understand.
A problem causes stress. If that stress leads to anxiety, a couple of things take place. The diver's heart rate increases. The diver's breathing rate increases. This rapid breathing is usually shallow breathing. Rapid, shallow breathing results in a decreased gas exchange in the lungs. This causes the carbon dioxide level in the diver's lungs to increase. As we all know, an increased carbon dioxide level in the lungs triggers the need to breathe. Breathing becomes faster and shallower in a snowball effect. Now in addition to the original problem the diver is feeling he can't get enough air. The diver focuses on the original problem and the problem of not getting enough air. That focus is not on what can I do to solve these problems, but on what the result might be. "I'm underwater and I can't breathe. I have to get to the surface now!" Panic is mere seconds away.
What causes this cycle to start?
A problem that leads to anxiety. In diving, things go wrong from time to time. If you have a leaky mask, that's a problem. Is it a big problem or a little problem? If you clear your mask with ease, it's a little problem. It's such a small problem, you may not even recognize it as a problem. If you have difficulty with this skill, it could be a big problem. The more skills we possess and the more confidence we have in our skills, the more likely any given problem will be a small one. A class that includes confidence building goes a long way toward preventing the panic cycle from ever starting.
On the other hand, no one is perfect. No one is immune to anxiety and fear. When a diver feels anxiety, he needs to recognize it and concentrate on slow, deep breathing. Taking slow deep breaths stops the feeling of being air starved. The diver then needs to think, not about the problem, but about solutions to the problem. Look at the big picture and solve the problem. In Dennis Graver's book Scuba Diving, he says something I think is very important, "Take control of your thoughts before they take control of you." Concentrating on the problem and possible consequences can be deadly. Divers need to concentrate on the solution to the problem.
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The monetary aspects of moving – including guaranteeing to finance and locating a house in your budget – can be a daunting task. It can get even get messier when you are unorganized about your move and do not know what to do. A lot of people find that using a checklist upon moving can make things much easier.
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GREENVILLE, S.C., April 11, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- Scio Diamond Technology Corp. (OTCBB: SCIO), the leading US-based diamond grower, today announced that it has returned to full production following its December shutdown.
"We are pleased to report that our Greenville, SC factory has returned to full growing capacity following the December water line break. All growers have been repaired and are back in production," announced Gerald McGuire, President and CEO, Scio Diamond. "Our team, equipment suppliers and insurance company have worked seamlessly and tirelessly together to bring us back to full production in a remarkable amount of time. We are very appreciative of their efforts."
As described in the Company's fiscal third quarter 10-Q and third quarter news release, the Company experienced a water line break in its facility on December 12, 2015 causing damage to its diamond growers and a significant interruption in production. The factory was partially operating again within a number of days, and is now restored to full capacity. The Company expects to show significant increases in output in March and April as the diamonds from the restored growers complete their growth cycle.
The Company continues to work closely with its property loss and business interruption insurance policy carrier to account for losses due to the shutdown.
"Property losses and business interruptions are events no business ever wants to endure so when they do happen, it is greatly appreciated when you have an insurance company that can mobilize to help quickly," said Jonathan Pfohl, CFO, Scio Diamond. "Our insurance provided was motivated to see us back up and running as quickly as possible and we are pleased to see how helpful they have been in our return to production."
About Scio Diamond
Scio Diamond employs a patent-protected chemical vapor deposition process to produce high-quality, single-crystal near colorless and fancy-colored diamonds for the jewelry market in a controlled laboratory setting. Lab-grown diamonds are chemically, physically and optically identical to "earth-mined" diamonds. Scio's technology offers the flexibility to produce lab-grown diamonds in size, color and quality combinations that are rare in earth-mined diamonds. Scio also delivers diamond materials for advanced industrial, medical and semiconductor applications. For more information, please visit www.sciodiamond.com.
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This press release contains forward-looking statements that may involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors which may cause the actual results, performance or achievements of Scio to be materially different from future results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by any forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements, which involve assumptions and describe future plans, strategies and expectations of the Company, are generally identifiable by use of the words "may," "will," "should," "could," "would," "forecast," "potential," "continue," "contemplate," "expect," "anticipate," "estimate," "believe," "intend," "or" "project" or the negative of these words or other variations on these words or comparable terminology. These forward-looking statements are based on assumptions that may be incorrect, and there can be no assurance that these projections included in these forward-looking statements will come to pass. Actual results of the Company could differ materially from those expressed or implied by the forward-looking statements as a result of various factors. Except as required by applicable laws, the Company has no obligation to update publicly any forward-looking statements for any reason, even if new information becomes available or other events occur in the future.
The condensed statements of operations, balance sheets and statements of cash flows are unaudited.
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first let me begin by telling you what is and has been going on, I have posted several other posts but for those of u who don't know whats going on here's a little history.
I was injured at work in April while helping a nurse pull a patient up in the bed, by the time I got off work I could barely walk, I got home took some ibuprophen and benedryl so I could sleep. When I woke up I was in such severe pain that I could barely move my legs and I knew I couldn't go to work, so I called my supervisor and went to the doctor.
this is taken directly from my MRI report:
L4-L5: Disc dessication changes with disc space narrowing. Mild to moderate broad based right paracentral predominant protrusion with anterior deformaty of the thecal sac, narrowing of the lateral recesses, right greater than left, and right neural foraminal narrowing inferiorly without nerve root impengement. Mild facet degenerative changes with further mild bony neural foraminal narrowing.
L5-S1: Moderate central protrusion with associated annular tear. There is mild anterior deformity of the thecal sac. Mild narrowing on the right lateral recess. No significant neural foraminal narrowing.
Since this injury I have had PT, transforaminal ESI's many different kinds of pain meds and muscle relaxors with little relief. I continue to be in pain on a daily basis. Anything that I try to do exacerbates the pain to an uncontrolable level. I was sent to a neurosurgeon by my primary doc. Neurosurgeon seen me 3 times and decided that it was not operable and pretty much dumped me. He set me at MMI and said there was nothing more that could be done for me. And gave me a release to return to my regular job. My copy said no lifting, but magically that was a mistake and changed to full duty.....grrrrr don't get me started on that one.
The thing is I am not better, I still live with terrible pain in my back, legs, feet and little toes. I know that I couldn't return to the job I was doing as it requires alot of walking, lifting, bending, twisting......
W/C has cut all of my benefits including my medical, and I don't have a doctor anymore. My place of employment is calling wanting to put me back on the schedule. I called my attorney who said that they could cut my medical, and wants to wait until he gets the doc's notes to give me any advice on the situation. I want a second opinion, I know something is wrong with me. I know I am not imagining this pain. I am not concerned with being paid a big settlement, my main concern is getting better so that I can have my life back. I want to be able to stand on my own two feet as I always have. I want someone to listen to me, not just look at an MRI and say we can't do surgery so therefore we shall pretend there is nothing wrong with you and send you back to a job that would be impossible for you to do. Had he listened to me he would know that going back to work for me is just a fantasy right now. Why do doctors treat the diagnosis and not the patient. Why do they chose to ignore your symptoms and tell u that there is basically nothing wrong with you. I work in the health field and the first thing we learned is that u treat the patient not the test results. I know that there are objective and subjective findings to every diagnosis. But my symptoms are real whether they can be seen on a test or not. I am being affected by this in so many ways. I am getting depressed and feeling worthless and useless, my husband has had to pick up the slack for me and its affecting our relationship in a very negative way. He is begining to get resentful and who could blame him. I can't do the things I used to do with my children, we couldn't even take a vacation this summer because of me.
Before I ever had the MRI or was seen by any doctor my primary complaint was always LBP with pain radiating down my right leg, weakness, numbness and tingling in my right leg and foot and little toe (you know the feeling when one of your limbs go to "sleep"), and my right leg has went completely out on me on several occasions.
Has this happened to anyone else? What are my options. Is this the end? Am I supposed to just accept what this neuro surgeon has said and just pretend that I am all better? I am so lost and losing hope by the second, please if anyone has had to endure anything simular to whats going on with me, help me.
Thank you so much for all the advice and support, u have no idea how much it means to me.


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Okay, about this time of year, writing instructors start talking about errors. We'll say: "Listen to this!" and read a particularly egregious (or amusing) error for our officemates. We send emails with malapropisms around to each other. I have heard it argued that it is not okay for us to make fun of our students in such a way. But here's what I think. We are usually just as willing to make fun of our own errors (today I wrote to Susan about her palate when I was talking about the board she puts dabs of paint on--and I'm willing to own up to it), and we never mention names or make fun of anyone publicly. Does that make it okay? Probably not. But laughing at mistakes (not students) prevents us from doing what my friend Mark talked about today (stabbing people in the eye), so I think we're going to continue the practice.
Check out "Just for fun" in the right-hand column. I really enjoy the "unnecessary" quotations blog. I always get a kick out of that particular oddity in many writings.
I also like the over and misuse of apostrophes. Or is it apostrophe's?
What are some of the errors that make you grind your teeth?
22 October, 2007
grammar (errors) for everyone!
Posted by Karen Jensen at 1:09 PM
3 comments:
- Nicole said...
I hate the overuse of exclamation points! Everything is amazing! Woo!
- October 25, 2007 at 3:20 PM
- AuthorMomWith Dogs said...
Same here. Apostrophes and exclamation points. Oh AND USING ALL CAPS.
Found you through your comment on Mary Alice's blog. Wonderful!!!! :)
- October 25, 2007 at 7:36 PM
- Mrs. T said...
Usage, I guess- "we was", "I seen", and my all time favorite, "Where's that at?".
I hesitated to use quotation marks here, but threw caution to the wind and did it anyway.
- October 27, 2007 at 8:07 PM
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I love when we go shopping State side, I always find new things to bake and cook with. This time, I found pumpkin spice morsels by Nestle Tollhouse; they taste like pumpkin pie and they're orange! I had to try them out for myself, I wish I got more than one bag they are so good! I am excited to share this recipe with you, hope you like these cookies as much as we do! These are excellent cookies to make ice cream sandwiches with!
If you cannot find pumpkin spice chips, you can use white chocolate chips instead. I personally don't like the combination of chocolate with pumpkin flavours, but if you do, I suppose adding milk or semi-sweet chocolate chips will be okay. Nuts would be another good option.
For the butter, you will notice I ask for cold butter, I have been noticing lately when I bake cookies that are made with cold butter they turn out chewy, soft and not flat. If you prefer crispier edge cookies that flatten out but still soft, then use softened butter.
If you like the taste and softness of Little Debbie Pumpkin Delights, you will love these cookies, they tastes just like them!
- 1 cup cold unsalted butter
- 3/4 cup brown sugar
- 3/4 cup sugar
- 2 eggs
- 1 tbsp molasses
- 1/2 tsp cinnamon
- 1/2 tsp pumpkin spice
- 1 tsp vanilla
- 2 and 1/4 cups flour
- 2 tsp baking soda
- pinch of salt
- 1 cup pumpkin spice morsels
Preheat oven to 375.
Cream butter until smooth, add in sugars, beat until fluffy and creamy. Add in eggs one at a time, add in the vanilla and molasses. In a measuring cup, combine flour, cinnamon, pumpkin spice, baking soda, and salt. Pour flour mixture into the butter mixture and mix until well combined. Stir in pumpkin spice morsels.
Line your cookie sheet with parchment or silicon liner and drop cookie dough by 1 tablespoon full, 12 fits at a time.
Bake for 9 minutes. Remove from heat, allow to rest for a minute then transfer to cooling rack.
Makes 2 and 1/2 dozen (approximately)


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Programs: In 2013-2014 fiscal year actors alliance of san diego had 150 participants in our all city audition with over 75 casting directors, producers, and casting agents in attendance.
7 new plays created and performed in the breaking waves festival as part of our artist development program. This program teamed playwrights, actors, and directors together with the task of creating a producing new local work at the san diego fringe festival. We have been given our own section of the fringe festival to create new plays each year called the breaking waves festival. This program is in collaboration with san diego playwrights and the san diego international fringe festival.
over 450 active member profiles on our website with a total of 475 audition postings and 139 job postings for actors to peruse.
we had a successful three week emerging artist program with 19 young artists ages 11-19 which culminate in the performance of a full length musical, "carrie the musical". The production ran two performances to sold out audiences. This program featured teaching artists, jacob brent and roxane carrasco who are broadway veterans and local music director shane simmons of the coronado school for the arts.
throughout the year we held several audition preparation workshops, scene studies, physical acting workshops, and acting method classes. In total we had over 100 students participate in the workshops and featured teaching artists from los angeles, san diego, chicago, new york city, and the united kingdoms.


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My hair is to my shoulder when curly and past the back of my bra strap when straightened. I don't straighten my hair, so it's typically short -_- I don't have an updated photo, but I have a pretty bad one from around...7-8 months ago?
Mind you, my hair has grown quite a bit since then and I sometimes put in more effort into keeping mah herrr tamed.
Do you think extensions look good with curly hair? I just want length, like, 3-4 more inches when it's curly. No extensions for straight hair?
yay or nay?
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Your gorgeous curls.. Don't ruin it by putting extensions in.. If you want, by all means. Do it.
It would add great volume and texture to your hair. Although, I am sure it will be overwhelming. - I think it would look good if it was the same texture as your natural hair. Lets not make it look like a rats nest. xD
If you're think to blend it, I think the waviness and curliness will blend slightly well together..
You may want to deep condition your roots though.. It looks awfully dry..
Massage your scalp every night. It helped me, :).11|01|0
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In Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman, what is Willy remembering when his sons overhear him talking to himself? How do they feel about their father's behavior?
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In Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller, when Willy is talking to himself, he is actually having conversations with people in the past (in his mind), or frequently he is speaking to his brother Ben who has been dead for some time.
Willy is losing touch with the real world. Willy obsesses about the past as his reality becomes more fragile.
In this particular part of the play, Biff has been away for a while and has finally come home. He and Happy are in their old room talking, and they can hear Willy talking to himself downstairs. Willy has been taken back to a happier times and in his memory, Biff is waxing the family car and they're talking. Willy says...
You gonna wash the engine, Biff?...Don't get your sweater dirty, Biff!...What a simonizing job! No kiddin', Biff, you got a date? Wonderful!
Happy is familiar with this behavior, but this is the first time Biff has heard it. While Hap shushes him, Biff becomes angry for his mother's sake. At one point, stage direction states "A look of pain crosses Biff's face." Biff says...
Doesn't he know Mom can hear that?...Mom's hearing that!...With her in the house. Brother!...That selfish, stupid...
While Biff is angry and protective of his mother's feelings, Hap seems mildly concerned, but more because Willy's behavior is embarrassing...
Isn't that terrible? Don't leave again, will you? You'll find a job here. You gotta stick around. I don't know what to do about him, it's getting embarrassing...Go to sleep, but talk to him in the morning, will you?
As the scene changes, Willy is back in Biff's high school days, continuing the conversation. The audience is given a flashback to happier days in the family's life, which will be contrasted sharply later in the play with the reality of how the dynamics of the family have drastically changed.
However, for this portion of the play, Willy is introduced as a man who is losing touch with those around him; his son Biff is angered by this behavior (though we may not yet be sure as to why); and, Happy—as we will discover as the play continues—is relatively shallow and more interested in himself than anyone else. Biff is criticized more by his father and mother, but he is the one who actually seems to care more for them than Hap.
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How do I contact hubpages to let them know there is a mistake on my hub being flagged?
Are you sure it's a mistake? Maybe you're just not understanding a rule.
Moderators do make mistakes sometimes, but often it's just that the hubber doesn't understand the rules.
Yes I am trying to understand.. I could be wrong but I want to make sure they do not think I am stealing pictures or something. I also want to make sure there is no easy solution rather than re editing all my pictures.
If you have watermarks on your pictures, you can't use them. It doesn't matter if they are your photos or not, you cannot use them.
Personally I think that's unreasonable but it is the rule. There is no way around it.
Do you know why? I am sure there is a why behind it... and it makes no difference if I use my hubpages name or not?
Duplicate and stolen material has hurt HP a good deal in the past.
A great many of the stolen pictures on the web have watermarks; by denying watermarked photos it is an easy way to stop that particular type of theft.
Personally I would like to have HP provide a watermark (maybe "photo by hubber" or something) but at this time they do not. We just have to live with it.
Darn that reallt puts a tamper on things for me because now I must make 2 copies one with and one without. Oh well I guess now I know! lol
Are you posting the same photo elsewhere? Too much of that in one hub and it will be caught as duplicate material....
By emailing staff and asking exactly what is wrong with the hub. If the hub was flagged by a hubber and a moderator agreed, or caught for violations of some manner, then it was pulled down for a reason.
You should have received an email detailing/explaining what's wrong with it. However, if not- then send an email to staff- firstname.lastname@example.com and ask them directly.
And does that also give them the rights to my work? or do I keep the rights to my pictures without my watermark? What happens if someone steals my picture I think then it is hubpages fault not mine who would be liable?
You keep the rights, but if you post your photos on HubPages, you can't protect them from being stolen. It's a risk you take and it's your decision, so HubPages is not liable.
If you post photos on the internet, you have to expect them to be stolen, it's a fact of life.
I post most my pictures on instagram but that is an application community for my iphone. Think that interferes with hubpages?
As long as the pictures are in the public domain, and you reference the original location of the photo or photo taker, it's not an issue.
You can use sites like Flickr to find photos with a creative commons licence.
As long as you are allowed to post the photo (copyright that allows you to) and there is no pixelation or watermarks, you are fine.
This hub may help: http://marisawright.hubpages.com/hub/Ho … -Your-Hubs
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I posted this a year or so ago, but I thought I'd repost for those who were interested in drawing Pinterest traffic. Using this method my highest pinned hub has around 43,000 pins, with my second highest being around...
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Could one of the HubPages team confirm the official position re watermarked pictures? I know the rules say "prominent" watermarks are not allowed, but I can also understand the desire of Hubber photographers...
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I always use visual watermarks with all my online photos. I don't feel comfortable using my photos online without them. Almost all my photos that transferred over have them. I heard that photos...
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Unlike fire departments, the independent Sedona Fire District does not fall under the jurisdiction of the city it serves.
But that doesn't stop the two from working well together in many areas including communications. At the Tuesday, June 13, Sedona City Council meeting, there was a unanimous vote to approve an intergovernmental agreement for communication services provided to the Sedona Police Department by the SFD.
A report states that the SPD and SFD have worked together for a number of years in a shared services agreement for Telecom Support services provided by the SFD's telecom division. The agreement is set to expire Friday, June 30. Both parties have the desire to renew the agreement with a simplified annual cost inflator of 5 percent per year.
Telecom service provided includes maintenance of SPD radio systems and tower sites, some of which are co-located on fire district towers. This agreement is a renewal that provides both SPD and SFD shared Telecom services and the ability to share tower locations for ease of maintenance and communications.
This agreement continues the cooperative interagency efforts that both SPD and SFD have fostered for years, the report states.
The annual agreement calls for annual payments of:
"We rely upon the fire [district] to help us manage our radio system," SPD Chief David McGill said. "We don't have any contractors outside of the fire [district]. They do a great job for us."
The IGA was first signed in 2012, which included that same annual escalator of 5 percent. SFD Chief Kris Kazian said at the time the annual amount agreed upon was far lower than needed.
"It's considerably more than just making your radios work," he said of the service SPD receives. "There's a lot to the IGA in technical terms such as the radio towers, making sure the equipment is working, the rental of the space and generators to make sure the power in uninterrupted. It's quite complex."
Vice Mayor John Martinez said while he appreciates the agreement, he feels 5 percent is too high. Kazian pointed out that the city is actually getting more bang for their buck than may be realized.
And, the 5 percent is a balance between those years where equipment needs to be upgraded at significant costs compared to those years where no costs are incurred.
"Our costs to provide the technology aren't getting any cheaper," Kazian said. "It's not the consumer price index that's driving our costs, it's truly the cost of doing business. Our telecom budget is over $1 million. "To be honest with you, the number [contract amount] needs to be well north of where it's at. But in good cooperation, we've tried to find a good escalator to get us somewhere closer to where it should be. So, I'm happy to sit down with staff and come up with the right number but again, it will be north of this amount. Then we can create an escalator that you like."BLOG COMMENTS POWERED BY DISQUS


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Assoufid gets a new release
Assoufid revival
There was only one golf course in Marrakech 20 years ago. Spurred by successive golf-loving monarchs, course architects from around the world have descended upon the Red City. The result has been seven new courses in the last few years. The latest, after a long wait, is Assoufid.
Geometry is the word
Al Maaden Country Club
Al Maaden has one 18 hole course.
Jumbo miniature golf?
Noria Golf Club
Noria Golf Club has one 18 hole course.
One of the best in Marrakech
Samanah Country Club
Samanah has one championship 18 hole course.
Amelkis is one of the "older" new clubs
Amelkis Golf Club
Amelkis Golf Club has 27 holes in three loops, red, green, and blue.
Most luxurious golf club in Marrakech
Assoufid Golf Club
Assoufid has one 18 hole course.
Championship golf near the city centre
The Montgomerie Marrakech
The Montgomerie Marrakech has one 18 hole course.
On the greens of the Kingdom
Golf in Morocco
Morocco has a long golf tradition due to the late King Hassan II's passion for golf. During his reign a number of "Royal" golf courses were built. In later years a slew of modern courses, designed by architects like Gary Player, Jack Nicklaus, and Robert Trent Jones Jr. have appeared. With several low cost air carriers now serving Morocco, it is easier than ever to enjoy the "Kingdom of Golf".


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I'm pretty good running from my emotions so I'll go with running XD00|00|0
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Beat up anyone.00|00|0
I'm pretty good running from my emotions so I'll go with running XD
Beat up anyone.
Have an opinion?
Run faster! I don't want to hit people anyway. Do you know how fun it would be to just outrun people all the time? You would never have to beat anyone up! Just take off and they'll never get you!
With the inclusion of guns and cars.
Good luck with that haha.
@DamnCurtis I guess I'm thinking mostly unarmed people... oh well
Run faster than everyone else. I'd be The Flash 2.0.
Whichever would earn me more money. I suppose being able to be a strong fighter since at least, I wouldn't be scared of what to do if I found myself in a threatening position with a potential rapist.
Run faster than anyone in the world!
Well I'm already stronger and skillful than most girls in my HS and able to even handle my own with some guys.
So I'll take the option of being the fastest runner ever.
Run faster because I like to run
Run faster than anyone in the world
Beat up for sure, tons of money to be made from that!!
Why pick running, not like it makes you the flash just because you can run slightly faster then an Olympic sprinter.
Run faster of course. If you're fast enough all you have to do is run by someone and the shockwave will send them flying
Well, beat them up, of course.
Definitely beat up.
I'd make way more money as a prize-fighter than an olympic sprinter so I'll go with that.
I'd rather run faster.
I'll take being able to beat anyone up. I could talk all the shit I want and be able to back it up.
Beat up, definitely not. Outrun? It depends on my motivation but probably not.
Definitely run faster.
Lol all of you girls ^_^
Hmmmm... Hulk or flash... I say flash, cuz then i could punch the hulk and run!!


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Every night, seventeen-year-old Akasa climbs above the muddy streets into the grand hotels of the foreign district to steal the foreigners' treasures. Her gang is her family, and serving one's family is more important than any laws.
When her cousin, Jiyo, is kidnapped by one of the Exalted Lineage lords, her loyalties are torn. Although gang rules forbid her from meddling with politics, she can't abandon him to the lord's schemes. Jiyo and a few other boys his age are being tortured to learn how to recreate the dead royal family's magic. The lord plans to put a fake prince he can control on the empty throne and needs this magic to prove the boy's legitimacy.
Akasa breaks Jiyo out from behind the walls of the lord's home, but there will be nowhere to hide when the lord's new "prince" controls the country. To protect Jiyo, Akasa must outwit the lord and discredit his prince by creating her own more convincing fake heir. If she fails, not just Jiyo, but the entire country will suffer at the hands of the lord's fake prince. But to succeed in pulling off such a high-profile con, she must break all of the gang's rules, turn her back on the life she thought she wanted, and betray those she considered family.
Through the smoky haze clouding the dockside inn, I stole glances at the two foreign sailors who'd made the poor decision to stand next to me. My first marks of the night. They watched my accomplice, Yori, move three cards in circles on our table. Their thick, hairy arms folded across their chests gave them an intimidating edge, but their wide blue eyes and vapid expressions said they were suitably ignorant.
Yori stopped shuffling the cards. "Which one is the phoenix?" he shouted. The din of the off-key piano and men bellowing along to the foreign tune nearly swallowed his words. I placed a silver coin on the middle card. He flipped it, showing me the multi-colored bird, the symbol of our queen, her virtuousness and her power, gone perhaps forever from our land. Black smudged the curling, peacock-like tail. I sent a silent apology for Yori shoving her into the grime like that.
I turned to the sailors. "You look intrigued." I spoke their language for them and tried to make my voice feathery and cute—not so easy with all the noise. The stench of booze and sweat strangled me, the pressing heat like chains.
One grunted. The other ignored me. What I wouldn't have given to be with my brothers, slinking through the darkness, instead.
Yori pushed me two silver coins. Now came the part where I persuaded these sailors to throw their money at the game, thus convincing Boss Seikuro I wasn't a completely incompetent con artist.


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Maybe I'm the only one that didn't get the memo but previously when you selected MH it automatically closed and people could no longer leave an opinion but now it'll continue as long as the people continue to respond and leave opinions. O_o
So is this new to you or just me?
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This one I had missed as well, I though that apart from closing it manually or not getting opinions for 72 h, giving WHO would automatically close your question.
So I've learned something, thanks :D11|00|0
Yeah they give you an option when you're about to select MH it'll say close question and have a box checked off so you have to uncheck it before selecting someone but over time it will close down if they stop leaving opinions and if you ever get tired of people responding you can go back and still close down the question yourself 😊
Sounds to complicated for me :o
Just joking, I'll use it when appropriate :D
Thanks for the MH :D


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Which combination of eye and hair color do you find most attractive?
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No combination is most attractive for anyone. I always thought that blond hair with brown eyes was most attractive but then I realized the overall look of a woman is what's most attractive about a woman. I no longer go for those kinds of women because I'm mostly attracted to women that are short and cute and I don't care about the combination of hair and eye color. I find women that are brunette with brown eyes to be just as attractive as a blond with brown eyes and there are women that have red hair with green or brown eyes that are just as attractive as the other women.11|00|0