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Security for the Cloud
Cloud has become an enabler for many organizations looking to reduce Capex and introduce more flexibility into IT. But there are very few truly cloud organizations out there.
What's the cloud security challenge?
Any robust security regime is based on the ability to monitor and mitigate problems. With cloud, you don't own all the processes. That makes it difficult to monitor everything. In turn, this makes it harder to respond with the right type of mitigation.
Organizations tend to buy in multiple types of cloud services. In some cases public cloud based services like Dropbox, with its relatively low-level security. In others, private, mission-critical cloud with higher-level security. Different services with different protocols will make your overall security situation more complex. And, therefore, much harder to manage—especially when it comes to effective orchestration.
How to maintain cloud security
If you can cover the whole cloud lifecycle, you can stay on top of threats. But the ability to predict, prevent, detect and respond to security threats will depend on your choice of cloud service. If you get it right and choose cloud services with the most appropriate security you might even learn new techniques that you can apply to your legacy services. These include encryption, data loss prevention and, most importantly, smart and automated monitoring of apps and data.
So when looking for cloud services, consider the following:
- General governance, risk and compliance controls
- Whether cloud provider controls can meet your specific compliance obligations
- Standards and certifications
- Data residency and data separation
- Audit and operational security options
- Integrated user management and access controls
- Defined SLAs and clear accountability
- Physical security controls are addressed
What does this mean for your organization?
Some within your organization might still see cloud as a risk to IT security. But this is only the case if you select cloud services without the appropriate levels of security.
Your organization does not have to accept lower security standards simply to get the benefits of more flexible IT. Instead of just buying it, you should undertake a risk assessment first and then buy it with the most appropriate security built in.
If you choose to put heightened levels of protection in place – with the associated intelligence to continue to assess your cloud security – you can then look to apply these same processes to your on-premise infrastructure. So instead of erratic security, cloud could actually help you set new standards for your entire hybrid IT infrastructure.


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Inspired @ Snapdragon : Harlem Love Birds
Chris Cammock
We met Quiana at Alt Summit in January and couldn't wait for her to come visit us at the Inn when we found out she was a fellow East Coaster. You can find her spreading her enthusiasm for life, motherhood, and childhood on her blog Harlem Lovebirds. We were thrilled when her family (of almost four) came up to Vermont for their last trip as a family of three. Here's what Quiana felt inspired by:
"Babymoon" is a relatively new term thrown about when expectant couples embark on a final getaway before baby arrives. Instead my husband and I thought it might be special to turn our visit to the Snapdragon Inn into a familymoon. Some of my earliest and fondest memories are of me and my parents when I was 3 and 4 years old - before my 3 siblings arrived, and I thought it would be an opportunity to provide the same for my 3 1/2 year old daughter, Virginia. Being able to escape NYC metro, which leaves my little family quite tense at times, was a welcome retreat. As we made our way north seeing the cityscape literally transform before our eyes into a more natural terrain brought a sense of peace to us. Because our visit was during Easter weekend it was an especially holy time for us as well. Being able to do something so simple as walk to church on Easter Sunday morning and feel welcomed by the church community was a special memory I know we'll always cherish. The heritage of Windsor was especially felt that day, and we hope to carry the beauty and tranquility of the Snapdragon Inn with us especially during the long, sleepless nights ahead.
Photos by sublime eye .
Inspired @ Snapdragon is a new series of guest posts from bloggers, writers, artists and creative visitors to the Inn. We've asked guests to share an inspired thought from their time at the Inn. Windsor and the surrounding villages used to be a gathering place for creatives and this is our nod to that incredible legacy.
This series is supported by the Cornish Colony Arts Council whose aim is to preserve and promote creativity in Windsor, Vermont and the surrounding area.

subset: commoncrawl


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Hello, everyone. I am considering the following type of situation.
Suppose I have a decision machine (DM) that I can ask any yes/no question and I want to use this to measure an n-ary random variable. Measuring a binary random variable using the DM with prior probability distribution ${p,1-p}$ gives an average change in uncertainty $S(p)$. The information measures giving the average change in uncertainty for measuring n-ary random variables with the DM will be built up from $S(p)$ depending on how the measurement is done.
For example, when measuring a ternary random variable $X \in {x_1,x_2,x_3}$, with prior probability distribution $p_1,p_2,p_3$ I can first ask "is $X=x_1$?", and if the answer is no, "is $X=x_2$", after which I will certainly know the value of $X$. This will give an information measure $S(p_1)+(1-p_1)S(p_2/(1-p_1))$. Similarly I can first ask "is $X=x_3$?", followed by "is $X=x_1$"?, giving an average change in uncertainty $S(p_3)+(1-p_3)S(p_1/(1-p_3))$.
My goal is to relate this type of information measure to a particular nonassociative structure which I am studying. This "semiring" is constructed given an information measure, and the associativity of addition in the semiring is equivalent to
a sort of associativity for binary information measures. Along with $S(p)=S(1-p)$, the only information measure satisfying this is the Shannon entropy.
I would like to relate features of this structure to features of other information measures, to better understand the role information theory plays in this construction, which is a sort of Witt ring in characteristic one. However, all of the measures I have found are defined for arbitrary n-ary random variables in a way that $S(p_1,...,p_n)$ is not built up by asking yes/no questions as above.
I was hoping one of you out there had some references to similar things that have been studied, because my own searches have largely come up empty-handed.


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I subscribe to about 400 blogs. They are all fun. Super fun. However, there are two types of blog posts i just cannot understand -
Type 1 Blog Post -
"I will be in Chammiyanagar on Jan 21, 22, 23 - I am free for coffee or dinner after 5 on 22nd. Anyone wanting to meetup can call me on 99_____"
Seriously, are you so starved for company?
Type 2 Blog Post -
"I will be going to Panipuri tomorrow. I plan to visit Disneyland and take all the rides. After that i will head to Dahipuri and then to Bhelpuri and blah and more blah and the whole itinerary"
What is the point of this? Dont you think saying you will be out of action due to travel from (date) to (date) would suffice?
By the way, just to inform those people who give me an average of 4 hits per week (of which 2 are mine), i am heading to the toilet tomorrow from 6.45 a.m to 7.00 a.m. If any of you people are in the area and would like to meet up, send me an email.
Friday, June 29, 2007
Things i do not understand
I subscribe to about 400 blogs. They are all fun. Super fun. However, there are two types of blog posts i just cannot understand -
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Finally, relief
Want to pee but you cannot? Use your keyboard to relieve yourself.
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Thursday, June 28, 2007
Appreciating the good things in life...
This is for all the grumblers. For all the mentally deficient folks like me who fail to see the goodness in life and in BSNL Call Centers.
Guy Kawasaki had an issue, and on behalf of our beloved BSNL, i'd like to assure him that the service would have been much better had he called BSNL superheroes or BSNL superheroines!
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Tuesday, June 19, 2007
Discrimination by telecallers
T - Telecaller
M : Hello
T : Is this Jason ____ from _______.
M : Yes
T : Sir, this is _____ calling from ICICI Bank credit card division, I got your reference from our database. Sir, i would like to inform you that you are eligible for a ICICI Gold Credit Card. to help you get one, we would like to know if you have an account in ICICI Bank..
(Long pause) ..
Do you have an ICICI Bank Account, sir?
M : Yes
T : Thats great. That just means things can be processed much faster. Can i have your account number sir?
M : Did i just say i have an ICICI Bank account?
T : Yeah
M : As a matter of fact, i dont. I just have this habit of saying yes all the time. I prefer saying Yes to saying No but sometimes i have no choice like now.
T : Thats okay sir, not a problem. I understand you work in a private company?
M : Yes, i mean no.
T : Are you employed with a public sector undertaking?
M : No, i'm unemployed. Must everyone be employed to have a credit card?
T : Yes sir.
M : Okay ... i'm self-employed.
T : But the database says you work with ______ .
M : Thats just a fake name of my company.
T: A fake name?
M : Yes. Our business model is so secret we have to protect it by changing our names so rivals cant track us. And its not the fault of your database. Its time we all be fair to computers. Even they can make mistakes. At our firm, we always respect and encourage our computers.
T : So what is the real name of your company?
M : 'Shootout at Lokhandwala'
T : Excuse me sir, can you repeat that?
M : 'Shootout at Lokhandwala'
T : Can you hold on for 2 minutes Sir, while i consult my superiors?
M : Sure, have fun
[After about 5 minutes]
T : Hello Sir?
M : Yes
T : whats the kind of business you are into?
M : Extortion. And some distortion.
T : Okay. Thats good. Can you tell me more about what is the kind of work you do?
M : See, we have clients in the middle east who outsource work to us, and our job is to procure resources to enhance the portfolios of our clients.
T : What kind of resources?
M : Bulls.
T : Bulls?
M : Yeah bulls. We organise 'dhirio'. You know bull-fights? [Dhirio is the Konkani word for bull-fights]
T : Where is this?
M : All over the world, but our main office is in Lokhandwala.
T : Can you give me the phone number of your Goa office sir?
M : In Goa, we work from a cowshed. We stopped using a landline. We did have a phone earlier, but we disconnected it after the bulls began to use it as the potty-place.
***** Phone is disconnected by T*****
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Cute gals have weapons - Proven
Chat with H on MSN.
Me : women who dont fart audibly are called perfect gentlewomen. You are a certified silent farter
She: ... oh boy, that's not me at all. Wanna hear me fart?
Me : No
She: i am actually a certified silent killer, my silent ones can kill a battalion
Me : This is going on my blog
She : what is? silent killer?
Me : yeah
She : OMG. But you will say I am cute right???
Me : should i?
She : of course. You should let ppl know cute gals have weapons
NOTE : - Do not panic if you are in the Northern Hemisphere. H is in Singapore.
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Sunday, June 17, 2007
Peter Jimmy Carter Ongondo
To the one who reached my blog searching for Kenyan bowler having two middle names of american president
The answer is Peter Jimmy Carter Ongondo - Link
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the pillar on which any society is built?
"Dear Miss Melanie, I know when a journalist is killed in Iraq, his or her colleagues around the world provide support and raise their voices in outrage. But where are the voices of outrage of lawyers in other countries when a lawyer is killed for doing his job? Where are the great associations of law we hear about? Where are the great law firms? . . . Where are the law schools? . . . The help we need is not only the help of the government. We need the help of our brothers in the law."
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"destructive, there is nothing positive"
Bishen Singh Bedi's take on Sunil Gavaskar
"He wants the glamour, the position and if there are any financial gains so much the better...but he does not want any accountability. He's always liked power without accountability - You tell me what his contribution has been. He is destructive, there is nothing positive"
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Labels: Cricket
Friday, June 15, 2007
Uncensored Modesty
The polite way of saying you are the best in India is to get someone else to say it. If you have been paddling around for a top job, getting a few political bigwigs to say you are the best person for the job helps. When the spotlight turns on you, just give a sheepish smile and say you are ready to accept the will of the people and if the people think you are the best, then so be it. This brings out your modesty. If there is any.
Karan Singh tells NDTV he is the best man for the job of the President of India. I wonder if that is the best way to put your point across. I know the cause was lost. Pratibha Patil was in the driver's seat, a bit too early perhaps. Karan Singh with his Zakir Hussain cap emphatically states that he is the best man among the nominees.
Had he been nominated, Kallu Mama would have said he is the best man for the job as well.
The best man is not the star. Rajnikanth is asked who is the bigger star? Rajini or Amitabh - Rajini retort 'I may be a king but Amitabh is the emperor' - Oh what modesty! And i have been thinking Amitabh was a farmer who keeps saying UP mein dhum hai!
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Thursday, June 14, 2007
The Idiot Box chronicles
Yesterday i watched TV. You may be doubting it, but let me assure you, i am a human being too. But there are times when i am so swamped with things to do, i dont get time to do some of the more mundane things most humans do. Like watch TV *Or blog*
I do have time for Nat Geo Adventure though. But that comes before 8 am. So I flipped channels for about an hour. Bad weather meant that the reception quality for most channels was poor. Rather than blame my cable operator, i chose to blame the weather and convince myself there is nothing i can do about it. This way, i feel less lazier.
I zeroed in on the soaps on Zee TV, Sony and Star Plus. The creativity and talent on display in these serials probably goes unnoticed, because there are pertinacious folks like me who refuse to submit to the charms of these soap operas. Also, i need sufficient grounds to berate Ekta Kapoor for dishing out sensitive sudsers. Perhaps i could even make a blog post out of it where i could bring an episode under my satirical scanner. So i got set for an adventure ride of a lifetime.
I got into my comfy chair, clutched a soft pillow and was all set for a good time. I decided to watch one full episode of any soap opera, without changing channels midway (except during the commercial breaks).
The task was simple. Tolerate the programme for about half an hour. Just sit through it. Life's battles are far worse and some afford no other choice and sympathy and you have to face them. But this battle proved tougher than i thought.
I failed. I FAILED.
I changed channels thrice in the first 10 minutes before severe exhaustion of the nervous system took on over at the 11th minute and i quit the comfy chair, the pillow and threw in the towel (or remote) in 12 minutes. If it was a boxing bout with each round lasting till each commercial break, it would be safe to say i got knocked down just after the first round.
I do not understand many things in such soaps. I am serious. Can someone provide me non- sarcastic, fact ridden answers here.
Why does everything happen in slow motion? Mundane things like walking, eating, talking happen so slowly. It moves at a torturously torpid tempo. Why? Why is every female character dressed in fancy dress garb? Does everyone in India dress that way? Why is everyone so polite in the serials? You can predict if the character will say positive or negative stuff based on the background music and the dress of the actor. Why?
I switched to Channel V where they were showing reruns of the Get Gorgeous auditions. The three member jury consisted of this guy in the middle of two women and he was much more feminine than the ladies put together. The tall female to his right called Pia who is 'God knows who' is from the looks of it, God's greatest gift to humankind since Eve. And whats with these people who go for these reality show auditions making a shitty drama with tears and emotional crap - Chances are even the auto-rickshaw guy wont drop you to the bus station unless you stop crying and show him the money. So go get a life. And dont act as though its the end of life when you are rejected.
So if you are a toughie or think you are one, give the adventurer in you a real ride. If you wanna test your patience, stretch the limits of your tolerance, the boundaries of sanity, then do yourself a favour. Watch the soaps on Star Plus or Zee TV or Sony all day. Thats a real test of toughness and adventure spirit. Not some crazy group of bikers riding from Alaska to Patagonia. Or climbing Everest. Or swimming through the the shark infested Palk Straits.
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Gems from the Times of India
Someone posts anti-Shivaji balderash on Orkut. Shiv Sena attacks a cybercafe in protest. Baffled?
Dont be.
The Times Of India beats it.
They pick on this issue and a headline on the bottom of the front page of the Mumbai edition yesterday reads 'Shiv Sena doublespeak on website'.
The TOI has found the Orkut profiles of Shiv Sena chief's Bal Thackeray's grandsons Aditya, Tejas and Rahul. Any relation between the anti-Shivaji and anti-Shiv Sena camps and these Orkut profiles is not investigated/mentioned.
We are told about the friends and scraps each grandson has. Thank you. Invaluable information.
If Bal Thackeray has a profile on Orkut, what has it got to do with posters of Hate Shivaji communities?
And you thought people who did not bother figuring out the difference between a poster on Orkut and a cybercafe in Kalyan were weird.
The same TOI has a headline on the inside pages that goes like this -
'A Diploma In A Happening Field May Be A Better Investment Than A Five-Year General Post-Graduate Programme'
Just dont take this TOI thingamajiggy seriously. Please.
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Tuesday, June 12, 2007
Life - The way it is
Courtesy - Email from Marushka
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Sunday, June 10, 2007
Come on over!
They - "Heya! Surprise! "
Me - "Hi.... whats up?"
They - "Today is Sunday. We knew you all would be home. So we came over."
Me - "Great. The real purpose of our life which is having you over on Sunday. The rest of the week we spent in our jobs. But thats a distraction from the real purpose. Now that you are here, life begins to make so much sense. "
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Labels: Conversations
Monday, June 04, 2007
Goa Assembly Elections - Results
Goa went to the polls on Saturday. The results will be out by tomorrow noon. Amidst pouring rain, the state witnessed a 71 percent voter turnout.
I voted. For some strange reason, the guy at the booth painted my finger nail with that black ink. They normally make a mark on the nail to distinguish between those who have voted and those who have not. There was no reason for this guy to draw birds and trees on my fingernail. Probably i look like one of those dudes who hang outside the polling station, and wait for a chance to get back in again and cast another vote. I wonder if i look like a bogus voter. It must be my hair. I havent cut them in a while. Many guys in my area have long hair. But i'm the only one looking like Oprah Winfrey. Oprah does look like a bogus voter from behind. But the painting on the fingernail was bad. It will take atleast a year for me to erase that maniac's work of art. I felt like taking the bottle of ink and pouring it into his shirt pocket. Or better still, maybe down his throat.
The Assembly Polls witnessed 202 candidates battling it out for 40 seats. I'll post the results tomorrow once they are declared, which should be by noon.
Goa is a great place to live in if you are a satirist. Or if you are one of those guys who thrives on the ridiculous nature of people. Imagine the current crop of MLAs, barring a few who have not been indicted in a scam and accused of corruption (yet?), sailing in a boat to Gondwanaland and suddenly the boat sinks, who do you think will be safe?
Goa will be safe.
Meanwhile, do check Goa Votes 2007
UPDATE - Results
1: Mandrem-Goa
No. of Electors 20602
Polling Stations 23
No. of Contestants 7
Polling %age 80.01
Parsekar Laxmikant (BJP) 5858 35.54%
Khalap Ramakant (INC) 4148 25.17%
Manjrekar Shridhar (MGP) 2542 15.42%
Sangeeta Gopal Parab Ind 1949 11.82%
Palyekar Pradip D. Ind 849 5.15%
Devendra Deshprabhu Ind 679 4.12
Monteiro MeninoF UGDP 458 2.78%
Total Valid Votes 16483 100.00%
Lead Margin 1710
2: Pernem- Goa
No. of Electors 19349
Polling Stations 24
No. of Contestants 7
Polling %age 80.69%
Sopte Dayanand R (BJP) 7272 46.58%
Deshprabhu Jitendra (INC) 4827 30.92%
Teli Apa (MGP) 2873 18.40%
Gawandi Hanumant(ShivSena) 249 1.59%
Sanjay Krishnarao Prabhu Dessai Ind 183 1.17%
Smita Bharat Petkar JDS 122 0.78%
Asolkar Kishor (Ind) 86 0.55%
Total Valid Votes 15612 100.00
Lead Margin 2445
3: Dargalim- Goa
No. of Electors 16345
Polling Stations 21
No. of Contestants 4
Polling %age 79.67
Azgaonkar Manohar T(INC) 5049 38.77%
Morajkar Vithu B (BJP) 4275 32.83%
Parwar Kishor (MGP) 3465 26.61%
KorgaonkarSakharam(RPI/A) 233 1.79%
Total Valid Votes 13022 100.00
Lead Margin 774
4: Tivim- Goa
No. of Electors 27262
Polling Stations 25
No. of Contestants 8
Polling %age 72.48
Nilkanth Halarnkar (NCP) 8768 44.37%
Shet Tanawde SadanandBJP 8444 42.73%
Kandolkar Kiran Ind 1343 6.80%
Goveia Ludovico SagradoSGF 541 2.74%
Korgaonkar Indrakant D MGP 198 1.00%
Salgaonkar Umesh Shivsena 188 0.95%
Bepari Lala Ind 173 0.88%
Naik Vinayak Vithal JDS 105 0.53%
Total Valid Votes 19760 100.00
Lead Margin 324
5-Mapusa- Goa
No. of Electors 28344
Polling Stations 27
No. of Contestants 7
Polling %age 64.87
Francis D'Souza (BJP) 10104 54.95%
Subhash G. Narvekar JDS 3258 17.72%
Braganza Ryan NCP 2868 15.60%
Shriodkar Kiran MH MGP 1198 6.52%
Karekar Narayan S Ind 690 3.75%
Vernekar Prabhakar B Ind 158 0.86%
Hasotikar Sudesh RPI(A) 111 0.60%
Total Valid Votes 18387 100.00%
Lead Margin 6846
6-Siolim- Goa
No. of Electors 25674
Polling Stations 25
No. of Contestants 7
Polling %age 70.21
Dayanand Mandrekar BJP 7402 41.07%
Paliernkar Uday Ind 5400 29.96%
Marques Milton NCP 3845 21.33%
Fernandes Dorothy SGF 903 5.01%
Dabolkar Kiran MGP 223 1.24%
Sawant Mukesh M. Ind 172 0.95%
Dhargalkar Nilesh Morto Ind 80 0.44%
Total Valid Votes 18025 100.00
Lead Margin 2002
Nagvenkar Anandrao N Ind 144 0.66%
Vishwanath Rohidas H JDS 103 0.47%
Vasudev Keshav Halarnkar MGP 97 0.45%
Narvekar Umesh Suka Ind 57 0.26%
Total Valid Votes 21754 100
Lead Margin 3034
[Seems to be some mistake in the listing above, but that was
how I received it... probably a few extra lines]
7-Calangute- Goa
No. of Electors 27826
Polling Stations 29
No. of Contestants 4
Polling %age 70.08
Agnelo Fernandes INC 8319 42.66%
Joseph Sequeira UGDP 5558 28.50%
Malik Anjali ShrikantBJP 5381 27.59%
Naik Gajanan CPI 243 1.25%
Total Valid Votes 19501 100.00
Lead Margin 2761
8-Saligao- Goa
No. of Electors 22026
Polling Stations 21
No. of Contestants 6
Polling %age 69.95%
Dilip D. Parulekar BJP 6639 43.09%
D'Souza Wilfred NCP 4682 30.39%
Dmello Trajamo Ind 2290 14.86%
Sayed Salim SGF 1601 10.39%
Tulsakar Anand MGP 117 0.76%
Kanchan Arun Thool Ind 79 0.51%
Total Valid Votes 15408 100.00
Lead Margin 1957
9-Aldona- Goa
No. of Electors 31592
Polling Stations 32
No. of Contestants 9
Polling %age 68.86
Dayanand Ganesh Narvekar (INC) 9251 42.53
Kunda Chodankar(BJP) 6217 28.58
Fermeena Khaunte (Ind) 5298 24.35
Floriano Conceicao Lobo Goa Su-Raj 433 1.99
Salgaonkar Narcinva Ind 154 0.71
Nagvenkar Anandrao Narayanrao Ind 144 0.66
Vishwanath Rohidas Halarnkar JDS 103 0.47
Vasudev Keshav Halarnkar MGP 97 0.45
Narvekar Umesh Suka Ind 57 0.26
Total Valid Votes 21754 100.00
Lead Margin 3034
10-Panaji- Goa
No. of Electors 14937
Polling Stations 14
No. of Contestants 2
Polling %age 70.72
Manohar Gopalkrishna Prabhu Parrikar BJP 6004 56.83
Dinar Purshottam Kamat Tarcar INC 4560 43.17
Total Valid Votes 10564 100.00
Lead Margin 1444
11-Taleigao- Goa
No. of Electors 28993
Polling Stations 25
No. of Contestants 6
Polling %age 66.82
Monserrate Atansio J. UGDP 9641 49.77
Silveira Agnelo Mariano BJP 5619 29.00
Zuwarkar Somnath Datta Ind 3833 19.79
Kalangutkar Sudesh Raguvir Ind 135 0.70
Divkar Virendra Babuli JDS 84 0.43
Fernandes Rosario Caitan Ind 61 0.31
Total Valid Votes 19373 100.00
Lead Margin 4022
12-Santa Cruz- Goa
No. of Electors 29368
Polling Stations 29
No. of Contestants 9
Polling %age 69.19
Fernandes Victoria INC 7385 36.34
Hoble Anil Raghuvir BJP 6040 29.72
Monserrate Jennifer A. UGDP 5868 28.88
Pilarnekar Suresh SGF 582 2.86 213
Pandurang Kunkolkar Ind 123 0.61
Lopes Jose Ind 121 0.60
Shantinezkar Sunil MonoharShivsena 92 0.45
Fernandes Rony S. Ind 62 0.31
Shirodkar Av Avadout Ind 48 0.24
Total Valid Votes 20321 100.00
Lead Margin 1345
13-St. Andre- Goa
No. of Electors 22197
Polling Stations 25
No. of Contestants 4
Polling %age 68.64
Silveira Francisco (INC) 8593 56.40
Caiado Antonio Joao (BJP) 6074 39.87
Dessai Dongrikar Dilip (MGP) 286 1.88
Caiado Simon JDS 283 1.86
Total Valid Votes 15236 100.00
Lead Margin 2519
14-Cumbarjua- Goa
No. of Electors 27785
Polling Stations 35
No. of Contestants 4
Polling %age 73.13
Madkaikar Pandurang A (INC) 10016 49.29
Sawant Nirmala Ind 9445 46.48
Bhomkar Nilkant MGP 592 2.91
Fernandes Rodalph Ind 267 1.31
Total Valid Votes 20320 100.00
Lead Margin 571
15-Bicholim- Goa
No. of Electors 23176
Polling Stations 26
No. of Contestants 4
Polling %age 79.25
Patnekar Rajesh Tulsidas (BJP) 9352 50.91
Naresh Sawal (INC) 6657 36.24
Raut Pandurang Dattaram (MGP) 2092 11.39
Gad Vivekanand Save Goa Front 267 1.45
Total Valid Votes 18368 100.00
Lead Margin 2695
16-Maem- Goa
No. of Electors 19137
Polling Stations 21
No. of Contestants 4
Polling %age 82.08
Anant V. Shet (BJP) 5370 34.19
Zantye Pravin (INC) 4890 31.13
Pilgaonkar Milind Tulsidas (MGP) 4590 29.22
Fadte Prakash Jagannath (UGDP) 858 5.46
Total Valid Votes 15708 100.00
Lead Margin 480
17-Pale- Goa
No. of Electors 23559
Polling Stations 26
No. of Contestants 6
Polling %age 78.94
Gurudas Prabhakar Gauns (INC) 7768 41.77
Amonkar Suresh Kuso (BJP) 6177 33.21
Gawas Shamba (MGP) 4032 21.68
Christopher Fonseca (CPI) 291 1.56
Dessai Bhimrao Dajisaheb (Ind) 201 1.08
Paetkar Lavu Gurunath (ShivSena) 129 0.69
Total Valid Votes 18598 100.00
Lead Margin 1591
18-Poriem- Goa
No. of Electors 23252
Polling Stations 30
No. of Contestants 3
Polling %age 77.94
Rane Pratapsingh Raoji (INC) 10605 58.52
Vassudeo Ramnath Parab (BJP) 6869 37.90
Rane Rajendra Narayanrao (MGP) 648 3.58
Total Valid Votes 18122 100.00
Lead Margin 3736
19-Valpoi- Goa
No. of Electors 17669
Polling Stations 20
No. of Contestants 3
Polling %age 79.25
Rane Vishwajit Pratapsingh (Ind) 8590 61.35
Gaonkar Puti (BJP) 5041 36.00
Adv. Rohidas Sada Gonkar (MGP) 371 2.65
Total Valid Votes 14002 100.00
Lead Margin 3549
20-Ponda- Goa
No. of Electors 37068
Polling Stations 36
No. of Contestants 4
Polling %age 66.25
Naik Ravi (INC) 9972 40.61
Mamledar Lavoo (MGP) 8316 33.86
Khandeparkar Sandeep (BJP) 5940 24.19
Dias Santan (JDS) 329 1.34
Total Valid Votes 24557 100.00
Lead Margin 1656
21-Priol- Goa
No. of Electors 26635
Polling Stations
No. of Contestants 7
Polling %age 77.92
Dhavalikar Pandurang @ Deepak MGP 10591 51.03
Satarkar Vishwas (BJP) 6266 30.19
Jalmi Kashinath (INC) 3099 14.93
Gaude Sham (CPI) 324 1.56
Naik Rohidas Ind 196 0.94
Naik Uday (Shivsena) 169 0.81
Pramod Naik JDS 108 0.52
Total Valid Votes 20753 100.00
Lead Margin 4325
22-Marcaim- Goa
No. of Electors 24750
Polling Stations 28
No. of Contestants 5
Polling %age 77.49
Dhavalikar Ramkrishna Alias
Sudin Madhav (MGP) 12141 63.30
Govind Gaude (INC) 4532 23.63
Sadanand Naik (BJP) 1647 8.59
Ramchandra Govind Naik Mule Ind 549 2.86
Hanumant Vasant Naik Ind 310 1.62
Total Valid Votes 19179 100.00
Lead Margin 7609
23-Siroda- Goa
No. of Electors 25791
Polling Stations 31
No. of Contestants 3
Polling %age 77.17
Mahadev Naik (BJP) 9725 48.86
Shirodkar Subhash Ankush (INC) 9476 47.61
Khedekar Yeshwant Uttam (MGP) 701 3.52
Total Valid Votes 19902 100.00
Lead Margin 249
24-Mormugao- Goa
No. of Electors 28904
Polling Stations 27
No. of Contestants 8
Polling %age 61.16
Naik Milind Sagun (BJP) 7769 43.95
Vaz Giovanni Karl (INC) 5363 30.34
Shaikh Mohammed Eqbal (SGF) 2593 14.67
Metti Siddappa JDS 918 5.19
Sanjay Vasant Satardekar MGP 449 2.54
Parulekar Ravindra Vasant Ind 276 1.56
Yusuf Sheikh Ind 169 0.96
Kandu Narayan RamchandraRPI (A) 141 0.80
Total Valid Votes 17678 100.00
Lead Margin 2406
25-Vasco Da Gama- Goa
No. of Electors 32167
Polling Stations 27
No. of Contestants 9
Polling %age 59.32
D Souza Jose Philip (NCP) 7476 39.18
Arlekar Rajendra (BJP) 6864 35.97
Carlos J. L. Almeida JDS 3054 16.01
Rego Basilio Arnaldo UGDP 626 3.28
Servulo Barros MGP 279 1.46
Dhargawe Manisha Ind 253 1.33
Milton Barreto SGF 239 1.25
Kerkar Tara RPI(A) 216 1.13
Durbhatkar Jagdish (Shiv Sena) 73 0.38
Total Valid Votes 19080 100.00
Lead Margin 612
26-Cortalim- Goa
No. of Electors 34948
Polling Stations 34
No. of Contestants 4
Polling %age 63.45
Mauvin Heliodoro Godinho (INC) 9532 42.98
Mathany Saldanha (UGDP) 7850 35.40
Raymond Desa (SGF) 4452 20.08
Mallamma Bidari JDS 342 1.54
Total Valid Votes 22176 100.00
Lead Margin 1682
27-Loutulim- Goa
No. of Electors 22626
Polling Stations 22
No. of Contestants 3
Polling %age 65.69
Alexio Seqeira (INC) 6435 43.30
Fernandes Piedade Remegio SGF 4894 32.93
Dourado Pausilipo Eviaco EstivaoInd 3534 23.78
Total Valid Votes 14863 100.00
Lead Margin 1541
28-Benaulim- Goa
No. of Electors 23453
Polling Stations 24
No. of Contestants 3
Polling %age 66.83
Pacheco Xavier Francisco (NCP) 8092 51.63
John Fernandes SGF 7336 46.80
Theodore Fernandes Ind 246 1.57
Total Valid Votes 15674 100.00
Lead Margin 756
29-Fatorda- Goa
No. of Electors 32630
Polling Stations 26
No. of Contestants 6
Polling %age 60.73
Damodar (Damu) G. Naik BJP 7943 40.09
Vijay Sardessai INC 6172 31.15
Noronha Piedade Ind 3640 18.37
Ibrahim UGDP 804 4.06
Hazare Mahadev Narsinv MGP 793 4.00
Barretto Camilo SGF 463 2.34
Total Valid Votes 19815 100.00
Lead Margin 1771
30-Margao- Goa
No. of Electors 28142
Polling Stations 25
No. of Contestants 5
Polling %age 62.02
Kamat Digambar INC 9198 52.70%
Sharmad Raiturkar BJP 7170 41.08%
Jhonson Fernandes SGF 802 4.59%
Painginkar Sandeep MGP 162 0.93%
Palondikar M P (Babu)Ind 123 0.70%
Total Valid Votes 17455 100.00
Lead Margin 2028
31-Curtorim- Goa
No. of Electors 26552
Polling Stations 28
No. of Contestants 3
Polling %age 64.79
Aleixo Reginaldo Lourenco SGF 9320 54.18%
Sardinha Cosme Francisco C INC 7493 43.56%
Xavier Dias Ind 390 2.27%
Total Valid Votes 17203 100.00
Lead Margin 1827
32-Navelim- Goa
No. of Electors 34947
Polling Stations 36
No. of Contestants 3
Polling %age 65.79
Alemao Churchill SGF 13500 58.71%
Luizinho Faleiro INC 8996 39.12%
J. P. Coutinho UGDP 497 2.16%
Total Valid Votes 22993 100.00
Lead Margin 4504
33-Velim- Goa
No. of Electors 20405
Polling Stations 23
No. of Contestants 2
Polling %age 64.57
Rodrigues Filipe Nery (INC) 7965 60.45
Silva Benjamin (SGF) 5211 39.55
Total Valid Votes 13176 100.00
Lead Margin 2754
34-Cuncolim- Goa
No. of Electors 24150
Polling Stations 27
No. of Contestants 5
Polling %age 62.94
Alemao Joaquim (INC) 8909 58.62
Fernandes Jorson Piedade (UGDP) 3408 22.42
Gonsalves Milagres Methew (BJP) 1832 12.05
Rodrigues John J. (Ind) 758 4.99
Jerry Fernandes (Ind) 292 1.92
Total Valid Votes 15199 100.00
Lead Margin 5501
35-Sanvordem- Goa
No. of Electors 25553
Polling Stations 32
No. of Contestants 6
Polling %age 76.84
Anil Vasudev Salgaonkar (Ind) 10705 54.52
Vinay D. Tendulkar (BJP) 3782 19.26
Jog Jagadish Raghunath (MGP) 2957 15.06
Pradeep Tukaram Dessai (INC) 1766 8.99
Naresh Khusali Shigaonkar CPIM 275 1.40
Antao Menin Shivsena 149 0.76
Total Valid Votes 19634 100.00
Lead Margin 6923
36-Sanguem- Goa
No. of Electors 19677
Polling Stations 27
No. of Contestants 4
Polling %age 74.14
Gaonkar Vasudev Meng (BJP) 7754 53.15%
Minguelino D'Costa INC 5449 37.35%
Velip Anand MGP 963 6.60%
Alfred Fernandes Ind 422 2.89%
Total Valid Votes 14588 100.00
Lead Margin 2305
37-Curchorem- Goa
No. of Electors 28519
Polling Stations 30
No. of Contestants 7
Polling %age 70.32
Shyam G Satardekar (INC) 10628 52.99%
Dessai Ramrao Ghanashyam BJP 8729 43.53%
Rumaldo D'Costa (Ind) 201 1.00%
Khandekar Abhay Shambu JDS 173 0.86%
Gurudas Chandrakant Naik Ind 133 0.66%
Dessai Sapnesh Ganesh Ind 98 0.49%
Alexy Fernandes Ind 93 0.46%
Total Valid Votes 20055 100.00
Lead Margin 1899
38-Quepem- Goa
No. of Electors 28167
Polling Stations 34
No. of Contestants 5
Polling %age 75.47
Chandrakant Babu Kavalekar(INC) 9474 44.57%
Prakash Shankar Velip BJP 8311 39.10%
Pereira Raul SGF 2303 10.83%
Gaonkar Narayan Datta MGP 817 3.84%
Thulo Shanu Velip Ind 353 1.66%
Total Valid Votes 21258 100.00
Lead Margin 1163
39-Canacona- Goa
No. of Electors 20070
Polling Stations 24
No. of Contestants 4
Polling %age 75.51%
Pai Khot Vijay BJP 7577 50.00%
Bandekar Sanjay Vimal INC 6868 45.32%
Gracias Hemant BernardoSGF 464 3.06%
Fernandes Augustin L. UGDP 245 1.62%
Total Valid Votes 15154 100.00
Lead Margin 709
40-Poinguinim- Goa
No. of Electors 15604
Polling Stations 21
No. of Contestants 2
Polling %age 77.65
Tawadkar Ramesh (BJP) 6158 50.83%
Fernandes Isidore A (INC) 5958 49.17%
Total Valid Votes 12116 100.00
Lead Margin 200
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Make Your Trip
You are given 1000 Rupees and asked to travel as far as you can for 15 days. Hitch a ride, beg for food, sing and dance for money. Do all you can but travel as far as you can get. If you think a ride like that one will be fun, you need to check this out
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Friday, June 01, 2007
Indian Cricket Team needs Rajan Bala as coach
Here is a last ditch effort on my part, to pitch in for a rising star on the horizon of Indian cricket. From the looks of it, Dave Whatmore is set to take over the ruins (or reins?) of the Indian cricket team.
I have said what i am saying now in an earlier post. But this stupid blogger software keeps shoving it behind and further behind for some strange reason (behind in the archives i mean). We must not let Google and Blogger shove matters of national importance up Blogspot's behind.
Hence this post again for a man who needs no introduction. Because a mere introduction alone would not suffice. A man who has set precedents with his demeanour and class. A man who rightly deserves the Indian cricket team coach post but is not yet because as you all know, the forces of darkness are prevailing at the moment. The great Rajan Bala.
I strongly recommend Rajan Bala for the post of the coach of the Indian cricket team. Not without reason. But these are not the only reasons. There are countless unspeakable, inexpressible reasons that just are there deep in the trenches of every cricket lover's heart and butt. Here are a few obvious ones.
- He looks focussed. Our cricketers focus hard only at the crease, but Bala's gaze appears focussed all the time, as though he is expecting a Lasith Malinga bouncer from behind the curtains every minute of his life.
- His cricketing knowledge is better than anyone else living on planet earth in this century. Ask him any question, and he will reply with a good old Aussie anecdote.
- He heard it all when Vic Richardson took on Don Bradman, Trevor Hohns told Steve Waugh its time to pack up, Wally Hammond and Neville Cardus discussed eggs, and other instances like these. He may deny it, but i strongly feel his presence was the major motivating factor and source of strength and courage for conversation between them all.
- Greg Chappell text messages him at times. Batting tips will come from Greg, Under-arm bowling tips from Trevor, retirement tips from Ian, baseball glove buying tips from Greg's son Jon. So an all-round coach.
- His name is dangerous enough to scare the Indian players off any match-fixing aspirations.
- His bald dome poses less resistance to the absorption of new ideas and enhances the concept of an open mind.
- His pointed lips resemble those of Greg Chappell. Memories of sharp words for the Indian cricketers. The lips are the source of the tips and flips.
- His stare is very very unsettling, strong enough to unsettle any rival fielders fielding near the pavilion.
Some will argue that Bala has no cricketing experience. But he makes up for it with his sharp ears, his pointed lips, his bald dome, his clear voice, his steady gaze, his unsettling stare and his very underworld-don type name.
Its time to get behind him as one nation. As one body of one billion. Painted blue.
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Resilience and Growth in the Small States of the Pacific
- togglePart I: Setting the Stage: The Quest for Resilience and Growth in the Pacific Islands
- Chapter 1. Economic Growth in the Pacific Island Countries—Challenges, Constraints, and Policy Responses
- Chapter 2. Raising Potential Growth and Enhancing Resilience to Shocks
- Chapter 3. Building Resilience in the Pacific Island Countries
- Chapter 4. The Pacific Speed of Growth: How Fast Can It Be and What Determines It?
- Chapter 5. Strengthening Macro-Fiscal Resilience to Natural Disasters and Climate Change in the Small States of the Pacific
- togglePart II: Managing External Spillovers, Shocks, and Vulnerabilities
- Chapter 6. Global and Regional Spillovers to Pacific Island Countries
- Chapter 7. Major Economic Shocks and Pacific Island Countries during the Global Economic Crisis
- Chapter 8. Drivers of Inflation in the Pacific Island Countries
- Chapter 9. Vulnerabilities of Isolated Small Island States in the Pacific
- togglePart III: Tailoring Macroeconomic Policies to the Small States of the Pacific
- Chapter 10. Strengthening Fiscal Frameworks and Improving the Spending Mix in Small States
- Chapter 11. Estimating Fiscal Multipliers Using a Simplified General Equilibrium Model of Small States, with Application to Kiribati and Palau
- Chapter 12. Monetary Policy Transmission Mechanisms in Pacific Island Countries
- Chapter 13. Global Commodity Prices, Monetary Transmission, and Exchange Rate Pass-Through
- Chapter 14. The Role of Excess Liquidity and Interest Rate Pass-Through for the Monetary Transmission Mechanism in the Pacific
- togglePart IV: Removing Structural Impediments to Growth
- Chapter 15. Planning Public Financial Management Reforms in Pacific Island Countries
- Chapter 16. Pacific Island Countries: Trade Integration in a Changing Global Economy
- Chapter 17. Determinants of Interest Rate Spreads in the Solomon Islands
- Chapter 18. Interest Rates, Bank Profitability, and Capital Adequacy in the South Pacific
- Appendix 1. Fiji
- Appendix 2. Kiribati
- Appendix 3. Marshall Islands
- Appendix 4. Micronesia
- Appendix 5. Palau
- Appendix 6. Papua New Guinea
- Appendix 7. Samoa
- Appendix 8. The Solomon Islands
- Appendix 9. Timor-Leste
- Appendix 10. Tonga
- Appendix 11. Tuvalu
- Appendix 12. Vanuatu
Appendix 3. Marshall Islands
- Hoe Khor, Roger Kronenberg, and Patrizia Tumbarello
- Published Date:
- August 2016
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Broadway-seasoned SDMT star Bonds says musical is a good-time gem
From "Rent" and "Parade" on Broadway to national tours of "The Lion King" and "The Color Purple" to scads of off-Broadway, regional and international shows, there aren't a lot of big musicals out there that Rufus Bonds Jr. has yet to step into.
But the actor still retains a soft spot for "Ain't Misbehavin'," a show he first encountered early in his career right here in San Diego.
"It's a singer's dream, because the music is so intricate, the harmonies are so amazing and so stylized, the period is so wonderful," Bonds says of the 1930s-centric revue, which he starred in under the late, legendary local director-educator Floyd Gaffney back in 1985.
Remind Bonds of just how many songs are in the show, though — more than 30 — and he amends those sentiments a bit.
"It's a singer's dream and a singer's nightmare," he says with a laugh. "Having done this show before helps. Having done it 20-some years ago (which is the last time he appeared in the piece) does not."
Still, Bonds says he's getting a lot of support from his fellow performers in the show's revival at San Diego Musical Theatre, a company that has made a habit of hiring Broadway-caliber actors. (Director Ron Kellum's production also includes Jenelle Randall of Broadway's "All Shook Up" and Sylvia MacCalla of the "Rent" and "Hairspray" tours, plus regional-theater regulars Amber Mercomes and David LaMarr.)
"The cast is amazing," Bonds says, noting that the actors have been running their own impromptu rehearsals after the regular run-throughs at SDMT. "The camaraderie is beautiful."
Did you know?
"Ain't Misbehavin' " star Rufus Bonds Jr. earned a Drama Desk nomination in 1999 for originating the role of Jim Conley in Broadway's "Parade."
First staged in 1978, "Ain't Misbehavin' " (whose original Broadway production won three Tony Awards) is named for the 1929 song by Fats Waller, the iconic pianist-singer and "stride style" pioneer.
The show, written by Murray Horwitz and Richard Maltby Jr., takes in songs by Waller and other composers as it celebrates the sounds and spirit of the '30s Harlem Renaissance, when the Cotton Club was a legendary hot spot.
Among those numbers are such Waller classics as "Honeysuckle Rose" and "Squeeze Me," plus "I'm Gonna Sit Right Down and Write Myself a Letter" by Fred E. Ahlert and Joe Young.
Asked to pick a couple of tunes he enjoys the most, Bonds names the anti-discrimination lament "Black and Blue" and the rollicking Waller standard "Handful of Keys."
That last song actually helps capture Bonds' favorite aspect of "Ain't Misbehavin' " — its determination to let the good times triumph.
"I think we spend so much time trying to focus on success," he says. "So much time trying to focus on moving forward. And I think with this show in particular, people can come out and just have fun."
"Ain't Misbehavin' "
When: First preview Friday; opens Saturday.
Performances: 7:30 p.m. Thursdays; 8 p.m. Fridays; 2 and 8 p.m. Saturdays; 2 p.m. Sundays. Through Oct. 13.
Where: Birch North Park Theatre, 2891 University Ave., North Park.
Tickets: $26-$56 (discounts available).
Phone: (858) 560-5740.
Online: sdmt.org


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(CBS News) This Friday, the day after Thanksgiving, is one of the biggest shopping days of the year. At Walmart, signs advertising sales may be competing this year with signs carried by unhappy employees on protest lines.
Dozens of Walmart workers protested outside a store near Washington, D.C., Monday. Hundreds of similar pickets are planned at Walmart stores and warehouses across the country.
Dan Hindman has worked at a Walmart near Los Angeles for four years. The former employee of the month, who makes $9.80 an hour, says he is scheduled to work on Black Friday but does not plan to show up.
"Walmart needs to learn that it's not fair how they treat us," Hindman says.
The protesters want minimum hourly pay raised to $13, more full-time work and less-costly health care. Next year, their insurance premiums will jump by as much as 36 percent, as Walmart scales back its contribution.
Labor board promises quick action on Walmart case
Retailers hope for good start on Black Friday
Walmart and Target: A tale of two discount chains
"We don't want to walk out on Black Friday. We don't want to do this. It's just something we have to do, because it's the right thing to do," Hindman says.
He says his schedule was cut to 15 hours per week when he joined a group of Walmart employees who favor unionizing. He lost custody of his four-year-old son when he could no longer support him.
"So I lost my son and I'm kind of regretting working for Walmart, but I have to provide, you know?" says an emotional Hindman. "It's the biggest retailer in the world, and you can't help me provide for my son? It kills me, dude. It really tears me apart, big time."
Walmart tried to head off large-scale protests with a complaint to the National Labor Relations Board. The company says the demonstrations are being orchestrated by outside unions.
"This is just another union publicity stunt, and the numbers they are talking about are grossly exaggerated," says Walmart Vice President David Tovar. "If associates are scheduled to work on Black Friday, we expect them to show up and to do their job, and if they don't, depending on the circumstances, there could be consequences."
Walmart has successfully blocked several attempts by outside groups to unionize its 1.3 million workers in the U.S. It isn't clear whether the employees protesting this week are trying to form a union or simply shame Walmart on the biggest shopping day of the year.


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Should I vacuum my pond? Heather – Landfall, MN
Regular pond maintenance throughout the ponding season ensures clean clear water. An extremely lucky few may find themselves in a scenario where their pond is perfectly balanced with no debris blowing into the pond and no layer of muck developing at the bottom of their water feature. Then there are the rest of us who deal with slimy gravel or decomposing leaves and fish waste yucking up our ponds. Pond vacuums are a handy tool to make pond cleaning manageable and easy by physically removing hard to reach muck and debris from within the pond without bending or scrubbing.
While there are a number of vacuums available for purchase, the best type for you will depend on the size and type of pond you are trying to clean and what you are trying to clean out of it. If you have a small pre-formed pond or a fountain that you need to remove debris from then a small water-driven vacuum may be the perfect fit. An example of this type of vacuum is the Laguna Pond Vacuum Kit which consists of a water-driven vacuum head and hydro brush attachment. Water-driven pond vacuums attach to your garden hose and use the water flow to create suction. A mesh net placed behind the vacuum is used to catch debris.
If you are looking to clean out fine silt-like debris or have a large water feature you would be better suited with a motor driven ClearVac™ Pond Vacuum. The ClearVac™ can plug into a standard 110 volt power outlet and use a motor to create suction. This type of pond vacuum carries water and debris through the vacuum hose and into a reservoir which can then be discharged outside of the pond through a drain hose. It comes with extension handles and a full arsenal of attachments to clean hard to reach areas of the pond. The ClearVac's™ dual chamber system, rugged wheels, and powerful motor make it the ideal vacuum for those of you with large water features as it is easy to maneuver. The dual collection chambers cut your cleaning time as the vacuum never has to shut off to discharge. Once one collection chamber fills the vacuum switches to the empty chamber and continues to work, emptying the filled chamber in the process. If you have gravel or stones at the bottom of your water feature using one of the vacuums smaller attachments will keep you from sucking up stones along with your muck. If the bottom of your pond consists of dirt or fine pea gravel you will find yourself spending more time cleaning dirt and gravel from your pond than muck and debris. You may want to consider implementing a different substrate material or just focus on using Muck Defense® bacteria to help digest bottom dwelling debris.
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The potential impact on the economy from removing burdens around health care should not be underestimated as a means of stimulus. For many, fixing the system could mean enormous savings, if not just improved quality of life and perhaps care.
The solution to our health care situation goes beyond regulation; it lies in changing the focus. The intention should be about "well-being", and all measurement and compensation for parties to system of "well being" should be driven by the success of the program. The parties include not just the doctors, but all those engaged in the health care processes: the medical insurance companies, malpractice insurers, the pharma and device companies, and extending all the way to those providing therapy and fitness services.
Differing time horizons need to be aligned. Insurers may currently find it beneficial to make decisions based on short-term exposure, regardless of potential longer-term costs that could result from those decisions. After all, it isn't likely the patient will still be with the same insurer when the longer-term result is encountered. The relationship (or at least the impact of it) needs to be made permanent.
Medical and life insurance should be integrated so that the insurers' interest in sustaining you is aligned with their interest in maintaining you. The medical portion of premiums should be driven in part by your relative wellness (not just relative to where you should be, but to where you've been) and in part by the risks you take and the choices you make about your wellness. Participation in activities that are shown to improve health and reduce risks should be rewarded, while costs should be attached to lack of participation and to risky activity.
Doctors who participate in this wellness driven system would benefit from streamlined administrative processes, not having to process and re-process while fighting for payment. For their participation, they will also have access to more reasonable malpractice coverage. Beyond the direct impact on the medical process, these changes alone should make it attractive again to pursue careers in medicine.
Compensation under this plan would be based, in part, on relative wellness achieved – the wellness performance of those under their care. This is in contrast to payment based on Relative Value Units, which is similar to the way your auto mechanic gets paid. Objectives of insurers too need to be redefined to be driven by wellness in this way too – particularly at the outset of the plan. Over time, as the balance of costs shift as a result of preventive care generating longer term savings, artificial incentives should become less economically important for proper motivation. Treatments will be driven toward solving problems rather than addressing symptoms, and away from allowing perpetual treatment and profit from such.
There are many aspects beyond these to be considered, but only through review of the full spectrum of the roles in this dynamic, with consideration as to how to achieve some of the objectives for each – and with agreement as to what problem(s) we're trying to solve, can interests be aligned – not just on a particular purpose, but with a long view.
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Jen1d - babe I sent you an e-mail to let you know about this thread as know that one of your friends had been reading on the board and just was not sure if you were afraid of her seeing too much. Would love to have you here - you know that. Just need to get Gill on here now too! Add yourself to the list.
I know that JB and I know your story but would be good to write it down so the other ladies know about what you have been through too
Rebecca - welcome. Of course you can join us. I can relate so well to the lots of eggs (so think that it will work) but not really any good (totally gutting). So the having lots of eggs makes no difference at all to the end result. Somehow makes the rollercoaster feel even more extreme as people tell you with lots of eggs that it will work. What a wonderful thing that your sister is doing for you. Does she have children already? Have you got any idea yet how she is doing on the stimmies and so how many might be collected on Monday? Wishing you & her all the luck in the world for Monday. Looks like you'll be our leading lady. I have a good friend who is going through ivf with eggs from her sister. She is just due to start a cycle now if her AF shows up
Kim - would be great to get your responses on the tough questions when you have chance. So hard to get your head around all this stuff. Feel free to add questions if you can think of others too
JB - How are you today? Beat you onto the thread. At work and have loads to do but struggling to focus yet again
Hi to everyone else. Almost the weekend. Well I am cheating. Have day off tomorrow and dh and I have been invited out with friends to go to the opera in the afternoon/evening. We will get all dressed up and have a picnic so while not totally our scene beats working and is another day towards appointment in Barcelona. Days do seem to be rushing by which is good.
Must do some work if I am not going to be here tomorrow. ARGHHHH
Have a great day. Talk later.
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A lot of those folks think that the hereafter, this magical neverland they claim is there for those who believe when they die, is so much more important than life right now--that they'd justify the construction of mega-churches because "they reach the sheep lost in the night" and "bring people to christ." They're more interested in saving souls than saving lives.
That said, there are churches who feed the poor... I'm cool with that, minus the overhead--and not so keen on the prosteletizing... I have mixed feelings about the mission trips my mom's church sends out. They help the communities they go to witness to, but they still witness to them. I dunno... I just don't know how I feel about it... The group they sent to Japan last year were the first to really visit and entertain the displaced people in a town hit by the tsunami. They brought smiles to the people who went to see the show. That happened 6 months after the tsunami. Why weren't other groups going to pick up the smiles as well as the rubble? I had volunteered at the same area, but we worked directly on site.
I'm an ALT (assistant language teacher)... I think it'd be great to get other ALTs and go up there to do a bilingual skit for the people who are still very much affected by what happened March 11th of last year.
What I have found so funny, every time I try to bring that point out Loren, is the answer I get back....which goes something like...the bible doesn't say a rich man can't get into heaven, just that it's pretty hard. Funny to me it says more very specifically about the rich, and way less about homosexuality and hell. Ohhh those funny christians. They really do just make shit up as it's convenient for THEM.
Didn't their guy say something about giving everything you have to the poor and then follow him? I recall something about eyes of needles and camels, too.
Aaaah, he was probably joking. Yeah, that's it....
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In Honor of MK McKown, Part 2
March 18, 2001, 8:44am
Arden is our second child, our second daughter, an amazing gift, and a wonderful little sister to her big sister Kealey, whose birth story appears early in this book.
The whole time I was pregnant with Arden, I was in disbelief a lot- even though I could see that I was pregnant and feel the baby moving. I had a hard time believing we'd actually have a baby at the end of the process. I had a very hard time sensing who this child was, but when I think about it, I thought the baby was a boy- mostly because the pregnancy felt so different than the first time. I also was very nervous that this labor would be very quick and chaotic- the start of life with two children! However, when I did consciously slow down and go inside myself- once at 20 weeks and again 4 days before she was born, I felt the calm, and strength and trust that brought me through the process.
My due date was March 17- St. Patrick's Day- and being Irish, I was thrilled and hopeful that this child might manifest some aspects of her Irish heritage- red hair, freckles, a St. Pat's birthday. But since our first daughter looks almost solely like her Swedish side of the family, I thought there was a good chance that this child would also look very Swedish. So, if we could at least have that St. Patricks Day birthday….I was fond of the idea…
…So fond, that I actually decided to drink some castor oil on the morning of March 17. I read Spiritual Midwifery and actually drank 3 doses over 3 hours as suggested. It was not nearly as gruesome as I had always heard about… Around 2pm, no signs of labor in sight, I suggest to my husband that we all go walk at Ocean Beach- it's an uncommonly beautiful, blue sky- an almost warm, almost spring day in San Francisco. My mind is scattered, more than I realize, and it's almost 4pm before we get out the door. As we drive over to the beach, I feel really uncomfortable and confined and almost insist we turn back and go home. But I have to pee so badly and the bathroom at Beach Chalet is closer than home. He drops me off at the entrance and I waddle in as quickly as a woman of my size (and state of mind) could. I feel tremendously better after peeing and resolve that I really want to walk on the beach and feel the energy and calm and power of the ocean. It's a spectacular afternoon and I manage to walk for about an hour before feeling like I have to get back home. Still no clear signs of impending labor, so we decide to get spicy Thai food from Marnee Thai- there's still 6 hours of St. Patrick's Day left…
We bring the food home and light our three candles- the fourth sits dark, quietly waiting for the new baby's arrival. After dinner, I sit with Kealey and notice that the abdominal pains I'm experiencing have some regularity to them and involve my whole uterus. I sit through a few more and start to wonder whether we should call the midwives and support people- I felt a very quick labor was likely and didn't want to somehow deliver before the midwives arrived. Maria told me to go to bed and see what happened. I called Joan, who was making St. Patrick's Day scones with her sister in Millbrae, and told her things might be starting. I felt very sheepish about asking her to come over before things were gangbusters. We decided that she and her daughter Orla, 7 years, would come soon, and spend the night, so that if this was real no one would have to mobilize in the middle of the night. We got Kealey to sleep around 9:30pm and soon after, Joan and Orla arrived. We got Orla to bed and then Joan and I stayed up and talked for awhile while Craig puttered about in the kitchen and laundry porch. Finally, I looked at the clock and saw that it was midnight- St. Patrick's day was officially over. I checked to see what Craig was up to- he was ironing all of our napkins! I figured my nesting, maternal energy was really affecting him. (He had also set up the birth tub so that it was ready…)
Finally, everyone went to bed, our house full of people excitedly anticipating the birth. Sure enough, I woke up at 3am, knowing that labor had truly begun. I enjoyed a few contractions in the dark quiet, talking to the baby, assuring him/her that we were ready and that he/she would be safe and strong for the passage. Everyone else was still sleeping, and I got up and went to the bathroom a couple times, plotting when I would awaken Craig and call the midwives, hoping to wait until approximately 6am. Around 4am, I felt things accelerating and knew I needed to wake Craig, who woke Joan and called Maria, Clark and Beth. As I sensed everyone arriving quietly, I felt my attention shift inward. Heather Joy arrived and sat in front of me, on the floor, gentle and wide-eyed and encouraging while I sat on the edge of my bed, moaning to the baby with each contraction.
I could really feel how this labor was marching right along- not too fast, but no long pauses. Maria checked me around 6:00am and said I was 7cm. At 7am I was fully dilated and they said I could get into the birth tub to push her out. It took a few minutes to mobilize to get out of the dining room. A contraction hit just as I got there and I yelled out- making low but loud, powerful noises to match the intensity of what I felt. I looked outside the dining room window just before crawling into the tub and saw the neighbor's magnolia tree in full bloom. Its spectacular color and beauty washed across me and permeated my awareness. I thought the baby would be here in 2-3 pushes and I realized someone would need to wake Kealey up. Amazingly, she had slept through everything up to this point!
Kealey entered the room and was in this amazing space. She approached the tub gently and confidently and offered my water from her special water bottle. She watched a contraction and then, not phased at all, calmly asked me if I wanted her to massage my heart. It was an incredibly dear, spontaneous, aware offering and I really wanted to say yes, but massage was low on my wish list at that moment. She conferred with the midwives, wanting to get into the birth tub with us at the earliest possible moment.
The pushing contractions were intense and powerful and in the water, they felt deep and right. Between contractions, I could totally space out and relax in the water, imagining that I was lounging in a natural pool at the base of a waterfall. I'd been pushing for awhile- maybe 45 minutes or an hour, and I was surprised that I wasn't feeling the "ring of fire" yet. I thought that maybe I was just losing my focus in the final phase and told myself to get with it and finish the job. Maria later told me that after watching about 4 or 5 pushes and seeing how effective they were, she realized that this was probably a big baby and started to prepare herself.
Finally, I felt the baby at the opening and with a few more pushes, she was finally out! I had always envisioned that I would be totally aware and reach down and pull her to me, watching her "swim" for a few moments before drawing her close (Instead, I spaced out until she was on my chest). When she was finally out, I was so relieved and thankful- Maria's assistant, Heather Joy, caught the moment on film- and it truly captures the joy and relief of the moment.
We had Kealey check to see whether the baby was a little sister or brother, and when she said "It's a sister!" I almost died- I thought she was wrong and looked down myself. I was so thrilled to welcome another little girl into our family. Hmmm, no wonder I could only think of little girl names during the pregnancy…!
Kealey climbed into the tub with us and we enjoyed a few minutes of being a "water family" before I had to get out and birth the placenta. Everyone was marveling at how big the baby was and, her hair was definitely red! Maria and Heather Joy dried me off and comfortably settled in the chair and I nursed her and just soaked it all in. Arden was born at 8:44am and the day, Sunday, was just coming into fullness and beauty- very different from Kealy's 1:30am birth- things got quiet and still for a few hours before the excitement began again!
Maria and Heather Joy did the post-partum exam and gave me one stitch for my tiny vaginal tear. Finally the baby's newborn exam where everyone guessed at her weight- I guessed 9lb 12oz but Craig said she feels like "a crate of zucchini"- atleast 10lbs. Maria put her in the sling and sure enough- ten pounds exactly! Wow- it never occurred to me during labor that I would have a big baby and I'm glad I didn't know. I would have worried about whether I could do it. Just trusting my body and welcoming the comfort and support of the water, and having a team of my closest friends, family and Maria and Heather Joy, to whom I would trust my life- and our wonderful home- I can't imagine a better way to welcome our wonderful daughter. She has been an incredible gift and Kealey has been a fantastic, loving big sister. Parenting two has been so much more joyous than I expected. Our charm shows a person with a hand and a heart- symbolizing Arden coming into circle of waiting hands and hearts.
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The Ultimate Outback Adventure
Australia - Stuart Highway
Stuart Highway is one of the longest continuous roads in the world. It runs about 2760 km from Port Augustus on the south coast to Darwin on the north coast of Australia. If you want impressive landscapes, this is the trip for you. The northern half of the journey crosses the Tropic of Capricorn and passes by the Mars-like landscape of the outback.
From there you'll pass through the iconic Uluru National Park - home to the stunning Ayers Rock - and continue out of the parched outback, watching as gum trees make way for lush tropical forests. This truly is the ultimate driving adventure.


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ZDog MD calls Dr. Oz "One quack to rule them all". Awaits lawsuit.
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From the article on Time:
Damania makes the videos with two pals from medical school; he's also made some with his father, who is a retired primary care physician. And he doesn't just take on public health messages. He recently targeted home-birthers, posting a Someecard captioned: "Sure, Sally, home is a perfectly safe, comfortable and acceptable place to give birth. If your home is a hospital." To critics who support home births, he says: "Sorry hippies! Just keeping it real." He tackles probably the most revered social-media/pop culture doc of our time, Dr. Oz, dubbing him "one quack to fool them all." And he pokes fun at pharma, with another Someecard that reads, "Today I'm going to find a drug rep and give them a pen with MY name on it."
Far from alienating doctors who push out more conventional messages via social media, Damania has cultivated them as fans. Dr. Kevin Pho, an internist north of Boston who has collected more than 65,000 followers on Twitter, takes a more strait-laced approach to connecting with patients. But Pho, who describes himself as "social media's leading physician voice," acknowledges that some people respond better to off-the-cuff, even raunchy, perspectives...


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What I'm Drinking Now: Meyer Lemon Southside
We were hanging out on Sunday enjoying the snow and I got to thinking about how long it had been since I put on my cocktail thinking cap and started pondering what I'd like to mix up. I had meyer lemons left over from a recipe we made on New Year's Eve and I wanted to mix up a cocktail that would play off their complex and subtly sweet flavors. I was originally thinking whiskey as the base, but decided it would be too strong. Then I landed on gin and shortly there-after realized there was already a classic cocktail, the Southside, based on gin, lemon and mint. Thinking time is over…mixing time begins.
The recipe for the Southside that I found in The Joy of Mixology called for muddling the mint, sugar and lemon. I didn't want the mint to be the star so I opted for a different tact. Toss all the ingredients in a shaker, give it a few solid shakes, but don't shake the hell out of it, strain and enjoy.
Meyer Lemon Southside
2 oz Gin (go with a light option) 1 oz Meyer Lemon Juice 1/2 oz Simple Syrup 5-6 Mint Leaves
1) Combine ingredients in a shaker with ice 2) Shake firmly 10-12 times 3) Strain into a cocktail glass
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Vanguard's Emerging Market Bond Offering Set for June
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Vanguard Emerging Markets Government Bond Index Fund is set for launch in early June, according to a Vanguard Group press release. The launch means a low-cost option in a niche whose yields are usually 4%-5%. The relatively rich yield plus a few years' strong performance go a ways explaining the popularity of funds by Invesco's (IVZ) PowerShares and BlackRock's (BLK) iShares.
Three Vanguard mutual-fund share classes and an ETF share class under the ticker VWOB will charge between 0.30% and 0.50%, according to the release. The ETF's 0.35% expense ratio compares favorably with 0.50% for PowerShares Emerging Markets Sovereign Debt Portfolio (PCY) and 0.50% for iShares Emerging Markets USD Bond ETF (EMB). It's worth noting, though, that each fund tracks a different index, and Vanguard's will follow yet another -- the Barclays USD Emerging Markets Government RIC Capped Index.
PowerShares' PCY has enjoyed a performance advantage over EMB since mid-2012, though both have turned in an attractive performance. EMB jumped more than 17% during 2012, after gaining 11.5% in 2010 and 7.2% in 2011. PCY added 21% last year after rising 8.2% in 2011 and 11.7% the year before that. Performance figures are from Morningstar.
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The Prehospital OnLine Active Reporting Information System (POLARIS) enables compliance by emergency response providers in Utal with the state's incident reporting requirements. It replaces the Utah Department of Health's the former Automated Incident System (AIS) allowing ambulance services and other providers to file prehospital run reports in NEMSIS-compliant format. API methods support incident reporting with formatting compliant with the National Emergency Management Information System (NEMIS). Reported data include patient identification and demographics along with incident type, location, and timeframe.


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AJ Writing Prize judge Alan Berman has explained what he believes are the vital ingredients to outstanding architectural writing
[Winners will be announced in late September] [UPDATE: SHORTLIST ANNOUNCED HERE] Berman of Berman Guedes Stretton Architects will judge entries to the competition along with AJ editor Christine Murray, architecture critic Joseph Rykwert and writer and editor Mary Banham.
The guiding words come as the contest's 30 June deadline rapidly approaches. The AJ Writing Prize is open to anyone under the age of 35 and has a top prize of £1,000.
To enter the competition email email@example.com
Berman writes:
Writing developed initially for the simple purposes of recording transactions and later, to communicate facts, instructions, ideas, and feelings. Recently however it has come to serve another purpose: academics gain preferment according to the amount they publish, and how their papers are received by their peers. As the field of un-examined subjects shrank and the academic constituency grew, a new field of endeavour came into being: nit-picking analysis of predecessors work. Like medieval scholasticism, commentary builds on commentary.
Historians today don't do history, but historiography. Each aims to better the last in range of content and extremes of references, in language increasingly esoteric and dense: a babble of self referential writing that addresses only others in the lodge. Architectural writing, prone to fashion like all else in the design professions, has followed.
Time was when good architects taught the next generation, now it is taught largely by academic theorists: ask most students and they will complain that they find the theorising if not incomprehensible certainly unhelpful in learning the craft of architecture. Only if you are able to express your ideas in the impenetrable language of late 20th century social, cultural or philosophical theory will your design for a garden shed feature in the 'mags'.
Architectural writing should aid everyone's understanding of buildings and assist architects to design better ones. This is not to say that it should be an instruction manual or ignore the importance of the myriad intellectual endeavours which explore the human predicament –about which architects should always be conscious. Rather it is to say that architectural commentary should aim for clarity and precision of expression by means of lucid terminology and simplicity of structure.
Lethaby, Scott, Banham, St John Wilson, Frampton and, towering above all, John Summerson, expressed complex ideas economically, clearly and elegantly. They are a pleasure to read – their extensive and deep learning used for reference rather than display. It may be unfair to hold up an aphorism as an example of good writing, but nothing carries more meaning both as a general truth that conveys a philosophy and also specific architectural action than Mies's statement: 'less is more'.
The AJ Writing Prize
The brief
Entrants must review a building completed in the last 10 years, analysing in lucid, jargon-free language its relationship to the history of architectural ideas and its context. The piece should inspire, delight and inform AJ readers as well as those who have no design training to appreciate good contemporary architecture.
The prize
£1,000 will be shared among the winning writer(s). The winning piece will be published in full in the AJ and the writer will be commissioned to write a building study which will feature in the AJ.
The Jury
Christine Murray, Editor The Architects' Journal
Alan Berman, Berman Gueddes Stretton
Joseph Rykwert, Critic
Mary Banham, Writer and editor
Terms and conditions
Entries should not exceed 1,500 words and must be emailed to email@example.com no later than 30 June 2011. Where relevant, supporting visual material may be supplied, though the emphasis is on the quality of the text. Authors should be aged 35 or under. Pieces should be wholly the work of the person submitting them. The winner will be announced and published in August 2011. The decision of the judges is final.
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Readers' comments (8)
I agree with a number of the points made in paragraphs 4 and 5 of this piece but not with many in the first 3. As a historian writing about Vincent Harris I am uncovering new material about the man and his architecture and therefore hope to present a historical and helpful monograph which sets this architect in his time and provides readers with information which they can use.
I also feel that this writer forgets the quality of some of the architectural studies which appear in the AJ. Rory Olcayto's building studies are always worth reading because they lead you clearly through a building uncovering its many layers. Peter Blundell Jones's study of a new school recently employed descriptions which make one smile in understanding e.g. the 'giant embrace of the double hall'.
There is some good writing around!
I agree with this last comment. Some writers have this enviable way of employing expressions and conjouring images through words; but at times this is done at the expense of a genuinely edifying piece of writing. Those that can strike a balance are to be envied.
Also, writing is a way of expressing things that others can't see, such as buildings that you will probably never visit, therefore that ability to conjure imagery that makes you feel that you are there is very important I feel.
Witht he exception of Scott and Banham, I've read all the guys mentioned, and was taught be Blundell-Jones. Frampton is a great scholar with unparalleled insights, but my word is he a heavy read!
You've left out my favourite. Ruskin, then there's Wolflinn , but now we're getting into art. I think the same rules apply though.
Oh dear. What a range of inaccurate statements, unsubstantiated generalisations and plain cliches, trotted out in a manner that completely undermines any semblance of an argument.
1. Academics are not judged by quantity but by quality. The various research assessment exercises make this quite clear. This means that the internalised discourse that Berman accuses academics of is largely redundant, because we are judged against the criteria of originality, significance and rigour. One cannot be original simply through critique of others.
2. Who exactly is he referring to when he says historians do not do history? If I look around the UK at the leading historians (at random: Peter Blundell Jones, Neil Jackson, Adrian Forty, Miles Glendinning, Murray Fraser) they are not doing internalised historiography but writing about stuff. And in all cases doing it lucidly.
3. I agree with the previous comment that critical writing from people outside of the academy is going though a very strong phase in the UK, and is far from impenetrable. Again, at random: Keiran Long, Rowan Moore, Hugh Pearman, Charles Holland, Will Wiles - all these and many more are highly intelligent and highly accessible, as well as not pandering to either architectural egos or arcane theory.
4. Finally, I would point Berman towards some of the student writing emerging from the Schools. I may be prejudiced being at the School that has won the RIBA Dissertation Prize five times running, but these pieces of work are quite brilliant, and certainly not pandering to fashion; which suggests that their tutors are not either.
So if this otherwise worthy prize is being set up in opposition to a perceived malaise, I feel you are setting up a pyrrhic victory.
Interesting to hear about a monograph on Vincent Harris - was the top storey of the MOD inspired by Wilton House? I am sorry that Alan Berman has not read any good architectural history and analysis recently. To add to Jeremy Till's list, he might consider Downes and Girouard, Saint and Powers, Curtis and Stevenson, Cooper and Guillery, as well as a number of Westminster RIBA prizewinners: O'Callaghan, Rapp, Severs, Gregory and Richards. No jargon; not historiographical; just good, well written and inspiring history about architecture, design, society and us; persuasive and pertinent: pyrrhic victory or straw man?
I think that Berman is trying to focus on writing that enhances architectural production rather than that which may open up new avenues of scholastic inquiry. I think all practitioners feel that if we are writing beautifully but building badly, then we've achieved nothing. In the end, it's all about the buildings. I think that's the contention and I find it hard to disagree.
Can't believe I forgot W J R Curtis. Probably my favourite living writer. 'Modern Architecture Since 1900' a classic, and his writing on the contemporary situation is always illuminating.
Alan Berman's comments are unhelpful, but I would rather applaud the AJ in setting up this new competition. Given the required subject matter/word length/publication format, what you seems to be aiming for are examples of writing that bridge between academic and journalistic modes. It is an undoubtedly fertile area, and one in which Reyner Banham was the acknowledged master. But let's not pretend that it constitutes the whole field or purpose of architectural writing, and anyone who has read Banham extensively knows that he never made that mistake.
As Jeremy Till and John Bold point out, there are already important annual competitions that are encouraging truly excellent work from young architectural writers. These are the RIBA Dissertation Medal, whose winners are then published in The Journal of Architecture, and the RIBA President's Award for Outstanding PhD Thesis. If the new AJ competition can promote another area of writing, then so much the better; let's make a thousand flowers bloom.
As an outsider (engineer) I have to agree with Alan Berman about the use of language of some architects. I have tutored on architectural courses and have had projects described to me in a way that has left me none the wiser about any aspect of their function or how design decisions were made. It seems to be a form of intellectual bravado and one-upmanship that I luckily don't have to get involved in. I think we should all aim to improve our vocabulary and try to use 1 word instead of 10 to describe an issue, but we (engineers included) must remain accessible. I was told at school, and believe this holds true now, that if you can't describe something simply and succinctly then you don't really know what you are talking about.
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