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Disclaimer : I am not writing in support of any political party. These are just my views based on analysis of one party over last 3-4 years trying to give constructive criticism. Shortly I would be coming up with another blog about the opposition party as well.
The BJP has a unique cocktail of voter bases. They are all right wing, but differ in the degree to which they are so. There are three main types. The first is the Extreme Right (ER). This is the hardcore 'Hindus are the best, screw the rest' category. These include the Karni Sena types. These voters may secretly say 'only Modi can keep Muslims in check' or 'women should be fully covered'. Some call them 'The Fringe'. This fringe is a solid chunk of the BJP's support base. Sure, only a few engage in the actual violence or make loony statements in public. However, the number of people mentally nodding their heads and saying 'sahi baat hai' to them runs into millions. The ER is a fantastic set of voters. They don't think much. They feel. Once voters can be swayed by emotion, they are easier to manipulate. The BJP laps them up as they come in hordes, take Lord Ram's name and press the lotus button.
The second set of BJP voters are the Liberal Right (LR), or the Aspirational India voter. These are the educated ones, who need jobs, GDP growth, economic activity and opportunities. They want a government that can give them that. They also want modern values like freedom — to date, drink, marry whoever they want. They want an India they can be proud of. More than anything, they want more money in their pocket. The LR are in fact the economically right-wing voters. They can be college students, doctors, lawyers, MBAs and of course, don't forget the stereotypical 'software programmer' type. The coding guys who want to tell their US friends that India is doing well.
The third category is the Middle Right (MR), who lie somewhere in the centre. They harbour a certain sense of Hindu entitlement — Hindus being in majority — but they won't get violent over it. They also want economic growth, although they aren't sure about the freedom aspects that younger, educated Indians want. These are the small and medium businessmen and government servants. Many 'Sanghis' fall in this category. The MR are somewhat passive, hugely loyal and the biggest chunk of the BJP's support base.
Here's the thing. The BJP needs all three to win 2019. If one group slips, BJP loses. During L K Advani's time, it had the ER and MR, but not the LR. Hence, the BJP lost. In 2014, however, it discovered the perfect glue to bring all three together — Modi.
All of them, from the Karni Sena to the RSS uncle to the software programmer, loved the idea of Hindu resurgence that the new regime promised. The ER, MR and LR live in peace most of the time. Sometimes, they want things the other group doesn't want, and that's okay. The software programmer type may love to see Modi in Davos. It doesn't really matter to the Karni Sena. Similarly, the ER may want a temple in Ayodhya, the LR don't really care.
However, sometimes there is a problem. Trouble brews when agendas clash between these groups, particularly the ER and LR. That's when the BJP gets a massive headache. That's what happened in the Padmaavat drama. The Karni Sena protested against the movie. The BJP, not wanting to annoy its ER base, looked the other way. The Karni Sena went on a rampage, even scaring a bus full of school kids. That's where the LR began to panic (as would any sane person). After all, software programmers may want Hindu pride, but not mobs scaring their kids. As the LR watched the ER go out of control, and the BJP doing little, they began to get nervous.
For the party, this is worrisome. The last thing BJP wants is to be seen as the BJP under Advani. It needs the ER, but also the LR.
So what is the party to do? It's always going to be a tightrope walk. However, in the case of Padmaavat, the Karni Sena was given too much slack. From a moral and legal standpoint, it should have been quelled much earlier. Politically, the party came dangerously close to a major blunder. Had the mob violence led to lives being lost or people getting hurt, things could have gone out of control. The BJP should have acted faster. It needs to know which 'fringe' act is just empty noise, and which one can become a national-level blowup. It did act finally. The censors cleared the film. The courts supported it too. However, looking back, it could have been handled better.
The BJP's three bases are still somewhat intact. However, the LR are nervous. The party needs to check the fringe on a war footing. It not only makes India unsafe, but also shakes the BJP's own foundation. It should remember its base is no longer just the Karni Sena. It is also the software programmers.


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Thursday, October 30, 2008
The Holy Grail of Audio Recognition
The House of Representatives Committee Meeting Recordings cover 1973 to 2001. This is almost 6000 hours of hearings and the files take up 1 terabyte of data.
This list of house committees will help give context to some of these files. The files came from 30,000 cassette tapes.The tapes were converted to digital files and cleaned up starting in 2005. Putting them online and making them searchable is a cooperative project between the Washington State Digital Archives and the Microsoft Corporation.
The technical breakthrough is that these files are keyword searchable. Users can enter keywords or phrases and the search engine will dig through all of the files and discover when anyone spoke those words. The search results give some details about the file but also a snippet of the text showing where on that file the words were spoken. Click on any of the strings of words between the dashes and the in-line player will take you directly to that point in the recording. Some good keyword searches are salmon and dams, "Indian gaming," "state history," and "Lewis and Clark."
This, my friends, is one of the holy grails of computing: untrained voice recognition over thousands of hours of tapes and many different voices. We rolled out this technology with the legislative hearings because we are a state archives and this gives the Washington State public unprecedented access to these public records. But think of the other uses for the keyword searching of audio files. I have never visited an archives that did not have boxes of decaying audio tapes from an oral history project that never quite got to the transcribing stage. These tapes can be digitally preserved and put online. Television and radio interviews and news and talk programs will become searchable. This is a digital history breakthrough.
Monday, October 27, 2008
Henry David Thoreau, Climatologist
"On average, common species are flowering seven days earlier than they did in Thoreau's day, Richard B. Primack, a conservation biologist at Boston University, and Abraham J. Miller-Rushing, then his graduate student, reported this year in the journal Ecology . . . 27 percent of the species documented by Thoreau have vanished from Concord and 36 percent are present in such small numbers that they probably will not survive for long. Those findings appear in the current issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
"It's targeting certain branches in the tree of life," Dr. Davis said. "They happen to be our most charismatic species — orchids, mints, gentians, lilies, iris."
Of the 21 species of orchids Thoreau observed in Concord, "we could only find 7," Dr. Primack said."
(Photograph of Walden Pond from the Walden Woods Project website.)
Friday, October 24, 2008
A Roundup of Very Early Films of Cities
This is a fragment of a film made by an American, Charles Urban, and was just recently discovered in an Australian archive. I learned about the film from this post on Metafilter. And the great thing about Metafilter is how when someone posts something cool, other members add their own related links in the comments. So courtesy of Metafilter let's take a tour of turn-of-the-last-century cities around the world, through film:
Here is another Charles Urban film, of the Indian holy city of Varanasi. The quality is much lower than that of the London footage:
These reminded me of this 1906 film of San Francisco, taken soon after the earthquake:
(You can also see a film of San Francisco made just months before the earthquake at the Library of Congress.)
If you like these old films the British Film Institute has a generous collection of British films posted at YouTube. The Library of Congress has several excellent collections of very early American films online.
I had hoped to finish off this post with a very early film from the Pacific Northwest, but I have come up blank. If you know of any email me.
Saturday, October 18, 2008
History Talk: Quintard Taylor at Gonzaga
(I just received this interesting announcement. Dr. Taylor is a major historian of the American West so this should be good!)
"The Other Black Northwest: Beyond
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Monday, October 6, 2008
Indians and Law in Territorial Washington
I was searching today to see if the laws of the State of Washington are online. What I found were bits and pieces, not a comprehensive legal record but some valuable information. One treasure is the Laws of Washington, Volume 1, 1854-1862. This is part of the Classics in Washington History online collection provided by the State Library. "This digital collection of full-text books brings together rare, out of print titles for easy access by students, teachers, genealogists and historians," and will be the subject of future posts here. Today, I did a keyword search for "Indians" through this collection of early laws and got some fascinating results.
This 1854 law lists persons "not competent to testify" in the civil actions:
Later on the laws specify who may testify in criminal matters, and here there is more leeway for Indians to speak: "Witnesses competent to testify in civil cases shall be competent in criminal prosecutions, but regular physicians or surgeons, clergymen or .priests, shall not be protected from testifying as to confessions, or information received from any defendant, by virtue of their profession and character; Indians shall be competent witnesses as hereinbefore provided, or in any prosecutions in which an Indian may be a defendant. " (302)
On the other hand the laws specify that "the property of all Indians" is exempt from taxes (p. 526) and a law governing the construction of wharves and regulation of watercraft emphasizes that "No part of this act shall be construed as applying to Indians, or to the property of Indians." (p. 556)
An 1854 "Act to Regulate Marriage" declares "That all marriages hereafter solemnized in this Territory, where one of the parties to such marriage shall be a white person, and the other possessed of one-fourth or more of negro blood, or more than one-half Indian blood, are hereby declared void." Any official who married such a couple was subject to a fine of between 50 and 500 dollars, to be paid to the common schools. In an apparent afterthought, Section 3 of the law states that "nothing in this act shall be so construed as to prevent any parties from being united in marriage, who may be living together at the time of the passage of this act." (651-52) This seems designed to allow established mixed race couples, who had perhaps been married for years in the Indian fashion and had children together, to legalize their ties.
An act authorizing county assessors to take the census directs them to "make separate lists of all taxable half breed Indians, negroes, kanaka [Hawaiians -ed.], and mulatoes, and chinamen" in their counties. (704)
Overall the laws paint a picture of white Washingtonians as eager to define citizenship in racial terms with a limited place for American Indians.
Wednesday, October 1, 2008
Bruce Levine to Speak at EWU and Spokane
"The Myth of the Black Confederate"
Thursday Oct. 2 at 12 noon
Monroe Hall 205, Cheney WA
"The Confederacy's Plan to Emancipate (and Arm) Slaves"
Thursday Oct. 2 at 6 p.m.
Eric A. Johnston Memorial Audition - Northwest Museum of Arts & Culture
2316 W. First Avenue, Spokane WA
These are important lectures. In recent years neo-confederate "heritage" groups have worked hard to refashion the public narrative of the Civil War, downplaying or dismissing entirely the central importance of slavery and racism. One of their efforts has been to argue that there were large numbers of blacks who fought on the side of the South because they just loved their Massa Lee or something. It is nonsense of course and academic historians have mostly ignored the black confederate mythology even as the neoconfederates have created websites, educational programs, and shoddy publications based on the myth. Levine is among the few historians willing to tackle the topic head-on. (For more on the topic, check out The Myth of Black Confederates tag at the Civil War Memory blog.)
This opportunity to hear a top historian is thanks to a Teaching American History grant from the U.S. Department of Education to Spokane Educational Service District 101.
(If you can't make it here is an MP3 of Levine delivering the second lecture at UC Santa Cruz.)

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|Think we have everything??? Thankfully I don't think we forgot a single thing...except for Hubby's toothbrush!
|Carseat check, pacifier check, snacks check...let's go momma!
|We stopped for a picnic on our first day for lunch...this was a great idea even if the stop was a little longer than it probably needed to be!
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|My car had a little birthday somewhere in Mississippi I think...or maybe it was Alabama...
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Soon I'll have some actual beach pictures...but all of this to say, you certainly can do long family road trips with babies!


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Healthy joints, elastic muscle tone and more powerful movement become ingrained in the body by performing Pilates exercises or yoga or any movement-oriented exercise regime or sports while using mindful imagery. This can include imagining a sensory experience you haven't yet had that someone else describes to you or by re-imagining an experience you've had in the past. Whatever the seasonal weather happens to be in the city you reside in, you can re-call a beach experience with the elements of sun and very particular way packed sand feels under your feet -or softer sand behind your heels.
Creating elasticity in the ankle tendons in the front of the foot leads to being able to access the muscular tone attached to the back of the leg and the stable hip bone structure that helps to support your spine. Because these ankle tendons are so small and because we tend to stand up by pulling these tendons tight rather than allowing them to fold in, we lose the ability to access the strength of the larger muscles higher up.
Elasticity in these tendons, because they are small, is accomplished primarily through mindful imagery - by what you envision in your mind while you are having to use those tendons. People don't realize that not locking the knees has more to do with accessing the leverage of the powerful part of the foot behind the ankle: the heel - but that levering the heel has to do partly with releasing the tight ankle tendons. There is a letting-go involved, but sometimes sensing softening insn't enough to release a part of the body that is tense and gripping. You have to make subtle space in the ankle - thinking of what's both in front of the ankle and behind the ankle. You have to think of your foot as being more of what you can't directly see - the whole substantial area of bone and cartilege of the heel.
Try this: in a sitting position, cross one ankle over the other knee. Using the fingers of both hands, move the front of the foot back and forth without pulling the tendons back to flex as you may be used to doing when you perform certain exercises. Using the hands to help you move the front of the foot, now look at all of what comprises the part of the foot behind the ankle: the heel.
Now continue to use one hand to help you release the tendons in front of the ankle that actually extend all the way into the toes. Think that these tendons can always flow out the toes and never do they have to pull back tight over the front of the ankle joint. With your other hand, use your fingers to draw the heel back away from the flowing-forward front foot and down away from the ankle joint. Realize you are creating spaciousness in this ankle by letting go of what is tense and overworked - the tiny tendons in the front; while at the same time you are accessing a levering force - a leverage in what is underused and less familiar to you because it's the part of the foot you can't see on yourself usually.
Realize that the heel has movement capacity to draw back - not just pull up into the achilles tendon and the calf or push down away from the calf - but that the heel can softly but definitely draw back behind the ankle as long as the tendon in front of the ankle are flowing forward out the toes. You can think that the heel can hinge away or hinge back from all of the rest of the foot and lower leg.
Start to sense this whole heel as substantial - not thinking of the heel as just the tiny part that is under the achilles tendon, but an entire sphere or ball shape that has the capacity to lever. This is a crucial capacity or quality of subtle movement to develop and enhance so that you are able to call upon it when you are in a standing position or when your foot is encased in any kind of shoe, be it a sports sneaker or a high heel - the heel must become a force of leverage for you to connect to the power of the hamstrings up to the sits bones, because then the weight of the pelvis can drop softly down on to those sits bones. This is pelvic stabilization: not just strengthening a supportive muscular connection, but developing relationship between a tiny part of your body granting access to a more-supportive part.
So now when you stand, you won't be standing up overusing the tiny tendons in front of the ankle. So now when you have to bend the knees to perform a lunging exercise or squats at the gym or chair pose in yoga class, you can initiate from the substantial force of the drawing-back heel or the heel leverage or the "heeling."
This is what a mind-body connection is: using and trusting your imagination and mindfulness as an asset to your body that trumps muscular exertion to affect the way you stand, walk, and exercise in ways that are not possible by trying.
Using imagery is the way in which you will make the most profound, sustainable, and long-lasting changes to your body...
If you tense and overuse the tendons in the front of the
ankle because your high heels push you forward into the balls of your feet and toes,
if you run by overusing the tightened tops of your feet because you are thinking of lifting and lowering the foot to get you where you are going,
you pull the toes back into a hard flex when exercising because you think you have a "no pain - no gain" attitude towards getting stronger.
you will needlessly deprive yourself of the hugely supportive power of the
which connects to the powerful back body muscles:
With Backbone and Wingspan Foot Function for Spinal Support principles, mind-body connections are forged using the back-body posture connections that employ the use of the heel.
In order for the heel to come into play to direct the entire line of backside connections which support the spine, the tendons on the front of the ankle must be released.
Use sea, surf and sand imagery to help release these tendons while performing bending movements of the ankle, knee, and hip or even when you have to sit at your desk for long periods of time. These sensory images from the beach experience are often very vivid sensory experiences that everyone has had and can recall.
The images are helpful because as the tendons are released in the front, you can expand the heel in the back and begin to avail the body of the skeletal stability of the sits bones and the muscular support of the powerful hamstrings along the back of the leg and the lat muscles on either side of the spine which will allow you to feel the empowerment of being "laid back" even when you believe you have to "sit up straight."
Now as to notions of the ocean that can help you to soften those tendons, and assuage those tendon's "tendency" to grab and grip.......
I spent ten days this summer on an island in which my intentions were to rest, write, and study how the sea related to my feet.
I thought that I would take pictures of my soles above the undulation of gentle waves coming to shore on a day when the surf was not so rough.
I found that it was the retreating surf that helped me better under-stand my feet.
Try the following, whether you are lucky enough to be going to the beach on a winter's vacation or
even if you have to imagine the last time you had the waves lapping at your ankles.
When you bend the knees, rather than the bend coming from a forward movement of your knee-caps,
feel that the knee bend comes from expanding through the back of the heel.
The deeper you bend, the more you have to soften the tendons so that you can create a fold in the front of the ankle.
The retreating surf helps with this softening and folding:
the water rushing back to the sea creates a flowing force in the front of the ankle that can help to ease and crease those tendons, and the water will dig out the sand underneath the back of the heel.
So then the next time you are riding your bike,
and your hip flexors get tight,
see if you are also grabbing the tendons
in the front of the ankle.
Next time you take yoga, and you are performing a lunge with a deep-knee bend,
and your muscles on the tops of your thighs are screaming,
the next time you have your feet on the
Pilates Reformer Footbar
try releasing the tendon in the front of the ankle by
envisioning the retreating surf flowing over your feet, and
being drawn forcefully back to the sea.
In releasing the tendons in the front of the foot, you will be availed of the expansion of the heel, which will connect to the hamstrings, sits bones, and the backs of the hips. All of these forces: hamstrings, sits bones, and the backs of the hips are the paired places in the back body area which are on either side of the line of the spine.
In this way, the Heels, Hamstrings, and Hips provide support for the spine.
Of course this imagery can also work for you whether you are wearing
sneakers, stilettos, or any kind of shoe and
whether you are dancing, jogging, or waiting for the bus.
Speaking of sea and wave imagery, my practice and teaching have been greatly influenced by my teacher, Elizabeth Andes-Bell,
who uses many nature-oriented images in her class and her other teachings.
For my next post, I will write about another way to discover notions of the ocean in relating how Elizabeth's weblog
Everyday Sacred and her writings about Standing Waves
has influenced my body and being.
Backbone and Wingspan Websites:
Teachings about how the heels & soles connect to the spine:
Foot Function for Spinal Support & Pain Relief: feetforfitness.com
Recovering Feet & Back from High Heel Pain: highheelhealing.com
Teachings about how triceps-lower traps-lats supports the spine:
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The Magician tarot card of the Major Arcana set is usually positive when drawn. The Magician card represents the first steps on a new path and a glimpse into the bigger picture. The symbolism in the Rider-Waite deck hints heavily on Hermeticism, as described later.
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The Magician in a time-based position
Past – The Magician in the past position shows you have achieved something in the past, whether you feel the achievement or not doesn't matter, but you are still benefiting from it. The past is the best predictor of the future, are you have set yourself up well through a possible number of means; good grades, good relationships, or good experience.
Present – The Magician tarot in the present position represents your ambition and confidence. You might have just started a project or a new job. You may have new ways to help people, through either learning from your elders, or helping those that you can. Consider this transfer of knowledge.
Future – The tarot card in the future position represents your potential. As said above, The Magician represents luck and joy, it is seen as a very good card to draw. Maintain your vision and see it through. Don't get distracted by side projects, and don't think you know everything just because you've started.
The Magician in regards to life issues
Work / Education – The Magician card in regards to Work means that you've started a new job, are looking for a new job, or a new path will present itself in your current job. Things can only get better. This is especially good if to draw if you wish to transfer from a long period of unemployment.
Romance – The Magician in regards to romance means that you might find somebody new. Meet new people, now is the time.
Friends – Much like The Fool, The Magician tarot means branching out into new groups. The positive energy of the Magician knows no bounds. You might meet lots of new interesting people through a new hobby or interest.
Money – The Magician tarot brings wealth and the drive to create wealth. There are more important things, but a money-making opportunity will present itself. It might be unexpected, like a craft you didn't realise would be profitable or some sort of creative endeavour.
Health – Don't worry about your health, but look for ways to eat better and exercise more. Maybe join a gym or workout group or go for more regular walks. Try a new exercise activity. In all aspects of your life, look to group up with others who are better than you, and help those whom you are better than.
Spirituality and Mentality – The Magician, as you'd expect, is tied to spirituality. Now is a good time to look into systems of religion or beliefs that interest you. Are there any Yoga or meditation groups near you? They might be worth checking out if you're interested in those. Meeting new people interested in these things is important.
The Meaning and Symbology of The Magician
The Rider-Waite tarot deck beautifully illustrates the Magician tarot in regards to 'The Fools Journey'. He is surrounded by the symbols of the tarot cards in the Major Arcana and holds high to heaven a Wand while pointing downwards. This is a representation of 'As Above, So Below', a mantra in Hermetic thought. As an observer, you are always in the middle. The Magician realises this as a core foundation of the universe. There are always greater and lesser, better and worse, microcosm and macrocosm. You achieve and reach for new heights, you fail and there are new lows. You can always keep achieving, or always keep failing.
The Magician in Reverse – Major Arcana
The Magician in reverse tarot card can suggest that something is seriously wrong with the nature of your universe. You will need to make changes as soon as you can. The flow of above to below has been interrupted, through external influences that are causing illusions. Think about your life and the problems you are facing. Do you have the means to solve your own problems right now?
Keywords for The Magician
Mastery, The Middle, Understanding, Adapting
Other associations of The Magician Tarot Card
Element: Air
Astrology: Mercury
As a Yes or No question: The tarot card represents yes in a yes or no reading


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Revelation 21:17 New American Standard Bible (NASB)
17 And he measured its wall, [a]seventy-two yards, according to human [b]measurements, which are also angelic measurements.
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