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Hi Everyone,
The game supposedly updated overnight, but this morning it won't open, here's what I get...
"The Data Obtained From The Update Service Is Incorrect."
Is there a way I can force the game to update again?
Thanks in advance for any help with this!
*** Edit: FIXED! Just go into the game folder and start the game from the "WorldOfTanks.exe" file... it'll start in Ver. 1.3, instead of the 'Launcher' trying to load Ver. 1.4!
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By the way, I will be doing some major updating here in the next month. Expect that if you are a regular visitor that you will be able to come here and see some specific things. For example, starting next month (and you may see some examples of this already) I will be posting most of my politically related stories on Sundays. Another example is that anything that has to do with autos will most likely be posted on Tuesdays. This will be a general rule but not always followed.
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A native of New York City, Milic earned his bachelor's degree in education from Wichita State University, where he worked as an undergraduate assistant coach to the men's basketball team. He returned to his hometown of New York City upon graduation with honors from Wichita State and worked as a physical education teacher and boys' varsity basketball coach at the Birch Wathen School (Manhattan) and St. Ann's. School (Brooklyn). Under his leadership, both Birch Wathen and St. Ann's won league titles in basketball and soccer.
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Truman Capote famously trashed Jack Kerouac's On the Road with the words: 'That's not writing. That's typing.' All I can say is, Capote must have been in an uncharacteristically charitable mood that day, because it's not typing. It's projectile vomiting.
'Spontaneous prose' Kerouac called it. Pretentiously.
'Kerouac typed rapidly on a continuous scroll of telegraph-paper to avoid having to break his chain of thought at the end of each sheet of paper. Kerouac's dictum was that "the first thought is the best thought", and he insisted that you should never revise a text after it is written.'
Wow. That's some seriously misguided egomania right there.
Now there were two things, it seems, that we can blame for spontaneous prose. The first was jazz. Not good jazz, however, but the interminably cacophonous crazy jazz that's basically an improvised orgy of musical masturbation that you always have to turn down when it comes on the radio because you can't hear yourself think. Kerouac loved jazz. (And he loved the spirited Negroes that made it!).
The second thing was Kerouac's friend, Neal Cassady, portrayed in On the Road as Dean Moriarty.
Dean Moriarty is the driving force in On the Road, and the subject of the besotted narrator's haphazard hagiography.
An odd character to idolise, Moriarty is, amongst other things, a thief, a woman-beater, a practising paedophile, an inveterate bullshitter and a ghastly, unreliable drunk. Worse than all of that, however, at least from the point of view of the beleaguered reader, Dean Moriarty is a monumental bore, obsessed with his own intellect and labouring under the embarrassing misapprehension that each and every one of his rather mundane thoughts and observations is intrinsically interesting.
What really fascinates and arouses Kerouac's alter ego, Sal Paradise – barf – is Moriarty's spirit. You see, Dean Moriarty is free. Like the Negroes and the Mexicans and the crippled boys and beggars, like the raw-living big-laughing yokels uncorrupted by affluence, Moriarty has soul and spirit and he lives pure and fast and beyond conventional morality. He does what he pleases. And he doesn't stop talking and he doesn't stop moving. He never stops. He is the patron saint of ego-propelled perpetual motion.
I get the impression that in 1957, this was all very interesting.
But I can't really imagine it. I mean, I can't imagine what it must have been like to have been shocked by the ground-breaking innovation of this book. I suppose too much time has passed. Or else I don't have enough imagination. However, the book is not without its shocking aspects. The paucity of plot, for example, is horrifying. As is the piss-poor characterisation, the leadenness of the imagery, the humour bypass and the more general, all-pervasive joylessness.
They blather on, Kerouac's deadbeats, about their fascination with life, yet they seem utterly incapable of really enjoying it. And why do they have to be so earnest and pretentious and unassailably self-important? I think I've met people like Kerouac before. They're the same people who refer to themselves as 'artists' far too readily and rarely, if ever, have the heart to laugh at themselves.
But maybe I'm missing the point. Maybe the book was important because, as Kenneth Rexroth suggested at the time, Kerouac demonstrated to the world – perhaps even unwittingly – that his generation of self-obsessed delinquents were in fact a pack of worthless hypocritical vermin. That's not a quote. This is a quote:
'These innocents dash madly back and forth across the country, but they aren't even very good at hitchhiking … Their values are those of the most conformist members of the middle class they despise, but enormously hypertrophied. They are demoralized and unsuccessful little Babbitts. This novel should demonstrate once and for all that the hipster is the furious square.'
Rexroth also wrote, of Kerouac's follow-up novel The Subterraneans:
'The story is all about jazz and Negroes. Now there are two things Jack knows nothing about – jazz and Negroes. His idea of jazz is that it is savage drums and screaming horns around the jungle fire while the missionary soup comes to boil … As a natural concomitant, Kerouac's attitude toward Negroes is what, in jazz circles, we call Crow-Jimism, racism in reverse.'
Yes! That is so true. In your face, Kerouac! Rexroth is a great writer. You know just from reading a couple of his sentences that he didn't stick with the first thing that came into his head. To be fair, however – if I must – Rexroth also wrote this in his review of On the Road:
'This is a book you should read. You are humane. You read good novels. This is the price in dehumanization society pays for your humanity. Kenneth Patchen has told people this in many books for many years, Henry Miller, too, Céline and Allen Ginsberg, whom the San Francisco police don't like. Hosea said it long ago, and all the other prophets in the Bible. Things weren't so bad then. They've got a lot worse. A lot worse. Still nobody pays any attention.'
So there you go. It was the American Psycho of its day.
But fifty years is a long time. Today, historical curiosity aside, On the Road is not a good book. In fact, it really is a car crash.
Having said all that, reading On the Road did inspire me. I confess. Because I'm convinced that it takes a special kind of negative energy to turn a subject as readily compelling as hitchhiking into something as painfully mundane as On the Road, I'm going to put my money where my mouth is and go on the road myself. And by God, if I don't find something more interesting than Dean Moriarty on the way, I'll cut off my own thumb and apologise.
So, next week when I begin the first of two weeks' holiday, I'm going to celebrate by hitching up north to see how my gran's getting on. I know that 250 miles up the sagging spine of Englandshire doesn't really compare with Kerouac's mammoth mythical treks back and forth across the United States, but, you know, size isn't everything. And if William Blake could see the world in a grain of sand, I'm sure I can see something halfway interesting in the whole of the M1. Well, we shall see....


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This is Part I of the Open Media Research Institute's Daily Digest. Part I is a compilation of news concerning Russia, Transcaucasia and Central Asia. Part II, covering Central, Eastern, and Southeastern Europe is distributed simultaneously as a second document. Back issues of the OMRI Daily Digest, and other information about OMRI, are available through OMRI's WWW pages: http://www.omri.cz/Index.html ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ In the 7 March issue of OMRI's journal, TRANSITION: BALKAN UNREST - Pyramid Schemes Leave Albania on Shaky Ground - Back to the Basics in Bulgaria - Protests in Serbia Raise Hopes of Reconciliation in Kosovo - In Post-Dayton Balkans, Change Comes Where It's Least Expected PLUS... - RUSSIA: Chernomyrdin: A Prime Minister Without Politics - VIEWPOINT: Azerbaijan: Democracy in a State of Emergency and Reviving the Black Sea... For subscription information about OMRI's new monthly, send an e-mail message to firstname.lastname@example.com ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ RUSSIA RUSSIA, CHECHNYA CLOSE TO AGREEMENT. Following another one-day round of negotiations in Grozny, Security Council Secretary Ivan Rybkin and acting Chechen First Deputy Prime Minister Movladi Udugov announced on 2 March that the federal government and Chechnya may sign a treaty "on peace and agreement" during the first ten days of this month, Russian TV reported. Rybkin said that a "centuries-old confrontation" is "coming to an end." The agreement provides for Chechnya to remain within the ruble zone, but the two sides announced no other provisions. NTV quoted early critics of the new agreement as pointing out that Chechnya wants independence from everything but the budget. While acknowledging that advances have been made, Udugov stressed that the question of whether Chechnya will be independent remains unresolved, "slowing the whole process of negotiations." -- Robert Orttung YELTSIN ORDERS NEXT STEP TOWARD ABOLITION OF DEATH PENALTY . . . President Boris Yeltsin on 28 February ordered the Foreign Ministry to sign Protocol 6 of the European Convention on Human Rights, which outlaws capital punishment, international agencies reported. When it joined the Council of Europe on 28 February 1996, Russia undertook to sign Protocol 6 within a year and to ablolish the death penalty within three. Yeltsin also instructed the Justice Ministry to work out measures to bring about the "step by step" abolition of the death penalty in practice, but he set no timetable. Before capital punishment can be abolished, the parliament must amend current legislation, including the new Criminal Code. There is considerable support for capital punishment in the Duma, which has still not passed legislation placing a moratorium on executions. Although Russia committed itself to an immediate moratorium when it acceded to the Council of Europe, executions continued until August. -- Penny Morvant . . . AND TO PROPOSE REFERENDUM ON MERGER WITH BELARUS. Yeltsin, in his 6 March address to the State Duma, will announce that he and his Belarusian counterpart, Alyaksandr Lukashenka, have agreed to hold simultaneous national referenda on accelerating Russian-Belarusian integration, Reuters reported on 1 March, citing Interfax. Quoting anonymous sources in Yeltsin's administration, the agency said Yeltsin will argue that the current state of "semi-unification" between the two countries is more expensive than fuller economic and political integration. The report gave no details and no date for the proposed referenda. Yeltsin proposed such referenda in a January letter to Lukashenka (see OMRI Daily Digest, 14 January 1997). To date, bilateral declarations and agreements on Russian-Belarusian integration have had little effect in practice. -- Scott Parrish YELTSIN, PRIMAKOV DISCUSS NATO EXPANSION, HELSINKI SUMMIT. Foreign Minister Yevgenii Primakov on 2 March briefed Yeltsin on his recent visits to Brussels, Oslo, Copenhagen, and London, international agencies reported. Primakov said "progress" had been made on the proposed Russia- NATO charter, but he and Yeltsin agreed that any such agreement must not only address Russian "concerns" but be legally "binding," which alliance leaders have balked at. Yeltsin also ordered Primakov to visit Washington to finalize preparations for the 20-21 March U.S.-Russian summit in Helsinki. Addressing the Royal Institute of International Affairs in London on 28 February, Primakov argued that Western policies aimed at expanding NATO and hampering CIS integration were damaging Russia's relations with the West. He added that Moscow wants a moratorium on NATO enlargement. The alliance is moving ahead with plans to accept new members by 1999. -- Scott Parrish STROEV NOT INTERESTED IN CHERNOMYRDIN'S JOB. Federation Council Speaker Yegor Stroev, rumored to be a possible candidate for prime minister, announced that he has no desire to leave his current posts as governor of Orel Oblast and head of the upper house of parliament, Russian media reported on 28 February. Stroev's comments fueled speculation that Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin will keep his job in the reshuffle expected on 6 March. Meanwhile, at a 28 February conference of his Reforms--New Course movement in Togliatti (Samara Oblast), former Federation Council Speaker Vladimir Shumeiko called on Yeltsin to dissolve the State Duma along with reshuffling the government. Shumeiko had reportedly been considered for Chernomyrdin's job, but his latest suggestion infuriated Duma deputies, who would have to confirm a new prime minister. Shumeiko could still be tapped to head Yeltsin's administration, should Anatolii Chubais take up a cabinet post. -- Laura Belin DEMOCRATIC PARTY OF RUSSIA REPLACES GLAZEV. The Democratic Party of Russia (DPR) replaced its leader, Sergei Glazev, with 45-year-old Viktor Petrov, chairman of the party's Rostov regional organization, ITAR-TASS reported 28 February. Petrov described the DPR as "a party of strong regional organizations" but called for a new program and set of parties rules to be adopted in May. Glazev did not seek another term, saying he was too busy as the head of the Federation Council's Information and Analytical Department. Another visible DPR leader, the Duma member and filmmaker Stanislav Govorukhin has also quit the party, which has been in crisis since its founder, Nikolai Travkin, resigned as leader in late 1994. -- Robert Orttung LEBED BUILDING NEW PARTY IN REGIONS. Former Security Council Secretary Aleksandr Lebed appeared in Chelyabinsk to found a regional branch of his Russian People's-Republican Party (RNRP), Russian media reported on 1 March. The RNRP, which is being organized by Lebed's Honor and Motherland movement, will hold its nationwide founding congress later this month; it has already established branches in Nizhnii Novgorod, Krasnoyarsk Krai, and Bashkortostan. Also on 1 March, the Honor and Motherland headquarters in Zlatoust (Chelyabinsk Oblast) were burned to the ground in a suspected arson attack, ITAR-TASS reported. Meanwhile, the Congress of Russian Communities (KRO), on whose ticket Lebed campaigned for the State Duma in 1995, held a conference in Moscow on 1 March. KRO leader Dmitrii Rogozin told ITAR-TASS that he would have to study the program of Lebed's new party before he could determine how closely they would cooperate in the future. -- Laura Belin IRKUTSK WITHHOLDS FEDERAL BUDGET PAYMENTS. Irkutsk Governor Yurii Nozkikov has ordered that the oblast stop making payments to the federal budget as of 1 March, ITAR-TASS reported on 3 March. The money will be allocated to the oblast budget to pay wages in the social sector. Wage arrears in the oblast have reached 2 trillion rubles ($360 million). Nozhikov's move follows a trip to Moscow last week in which he met with federal officials, including Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin, and made demands totaling some 3 trillion rubles, Radio Rossii reported. -- Robert Orttung FBI AGENT ADMITS SPYING FOR RUSSIA. Earl Pitts, the former FBI counterintelligence officer arrested last December on charges of selling classified information to Russian and Soviet agents from 1987 to 1996 (see OMRI Daily Digest, 19 December 1996), pleaded guilty on 28 February to two espionage charges, Reuters reported. In a plea bargain negotiated with federal prosecutors, ten other charges against Pitts were dropped in exchange for his admission of guilt. Pitts still faces the possibility of life imprisonment when sentenced later this month. The plea bargain allows the government to avoid a trial in which classified information might have been disclosed. -- Scott Parrish MONEY BOUND FOR RUSSIA STOLEN AT LONDON AIRPORT. About $2.5 million of U.S. aid for Russia was stolen at London's Heathrow airport last week, British police said on 2 March. The money was seized from a high- security cargo compound on 25 February while awaiting transfer from a New York flight to a plane bound for Moscow, international agencies reported. The cash was in one of four bags, containing a total of $10 million. The Mail on Sunday said the money, in high denomination dollar bills, came from the Republic National Bank of New York and was being sent to the Moscow-based Tokobank as part of U.S. aid to Russia. On 3 March, however, the U.S. embassy in Moscow denied that USAID money had been stolen, AFP reported. "This story, as reported, is not credible," an embassy press release said. -- Penny Morvant CENTRAL BANK TO INTRODUCE 500,000-RUBLE BANK NOTE. The Central Bank (TsB) will introduce a new 500,000-ruble ($90) bank note on 17 March, ITAR-TASS and Kommersant-Daily reported on 28 February-1 March. This move appears to confirm the TsB's promise not to carry out monetary reform in the near future. The new bill will feature a portrait of Peter the Great, a metallic strip intended to prevent counterfeiting, and special signs for visually-impaired people. It will first be introduced in the Far East and northern Russia. -- Natalia Gurushina PERSONAL SAVINGS IN COMMERCIAL BANKS IN JANUARY. Personal savings kept in the Sberbank savings bank totaled 97.6 trillion rubles ($17 billion at the current exchange rate) in January, up 13% over December 1996, ITAR-TASS reported on 28 February, citing the State Statistical Committee (Goskomstat). The average personal savings deposit increased from 381,100 rubles in December to 429,800 rubles in January. The state- owned Sberbank holds 76% of all personal savings held in Russian commercial banks. -- Natalia Gurushina OIL EXPORT ROUTES. Russian oil companies are considering building a new 250 km eastern branch of the Perm-Saratov-Novorossiisk pipeline that will avoid Ukrainian territory, Segodnya reported on 28 February. Russian firms have to pay Ukraine $2.5 for each metric ton of oil transiting the Dnieper pipeline, which runs to the Russian port of Novorossiisk. In 1996, Russia paid Ukraine $200 million in oil transit fees, $75 million on the Dnieper line and $125 million on the Druzhba line, which carries oil to Slovakia and Western Europe. Russian TV (RTR) noted on 27 February that 90% of Russia's freight imports come through ports in the Baltic states, which means an estimated loss to Russia of $10 billion a year in revenue. Three new ports are to be constructed in Leningrad Oblast as well as an oil facility at Ust-Lug and a natural gas outlet at Primorsk. -- Peter Rutland TRANSCAUCASIA AND CENTRAL ASIA AIOC FUNDS BAKU-SUPSA PIPELINE. The Azerbaijan International Operating Company (AIOC) will spend $315 million on the construction of a pipeline from Baku to Supsa on the Georgian Black Sea coast, Russian and Western media reported on 28 February. Construction is to begin immediately and is scheduled to be completed by December 1998. The pipeline will carry an estimated 115,000 barrels a day of so-called early oil. Early oil is supposed to start flowing through the "northern route" to the Russian port of Novorossiisk in 1997. -- Lowell Bezanis CENTRAL ASIAN HEADS OF STATE DISCUSS ARAL SEA . . . The presidents of all five Central Asian States met in Almaty on 28 February to discuss the desiccation of the Aral Sea, RFE/RL reported the same day. Following the summit, Kazakstani President Nursultan Nazarbayev said the World Bank will spend $2.5 million on a pilot project to help persons living near the sea. Each republic will allocate 0.3% of its national income to the International Aral Sea Salvation Fund. Uzbek President Islam Karimov is to head the fund over the next three years. It was also agreed in Almaty to urge the UN to proclaim 1998 the year of environmental protection in Central Asia. -- Lowell Bezanis . . . AND WARN OF TALIBAN SPRING OFFENSIVE. The Central Asian presidents also discussed Afghanistan, although Nazarbayev stressed "no special decision" was taken. They expressed concern over developments there, while Tajik President Imomali Rakhmonov and his Uzbek counterpart, Islam Karimov, went further, saying they feared a Taliban spring offensive that could destabilize Central Asia, international media reported. Karimov was quoted by AFP as saying the Uzbek military has been put on alert. The five leaders also unanimously urged all interested countries to support their concept of a nuclear weapon-free Central Asia, Russian media reported on 28 February. -- Lowell Bezanis TAJIK UPDATE. Tajik government and United Tajik Opposition (UTO) representatives remain "far apart" on key military problems, Russian media reported on 2 March. The key sticking point in the Moscow talks is the size of the opposition forces to be integrated with those of the Tajik government. 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Deceptions (Demonkin #2) – I was hoping for more
When you've got a book that's a borderline novella, with so little page time the pressure is on to make an impact. I felt like Origins accomplished that. This one? Not so much.
Ashlyn is settling into her role as an FBI agent, and a new case has fallen into her lap. She has to protect the State of California's new and very first vampire governor. Though many hope this fosters better relations between humans and vampires, others are out for his blood. But they'll get it over Ashlyn's dead demon body…with a sprinkle of vampire thrown in. That might not be too far off as her naivety puts her in deeper water than ever.
Attempts to be edgy sort of diminished the value of the series for me. I really enjoyed the first Origins book, but Deceptions felt like a completely different series, and Ashlyn a completely different character. I guess she's growing up. She now has to learn the ways of the vampire world. I would have preferred more of that and less focus on her honeymooning with a new certain someone. I won't say more to spoil anything, but I feel like that character could have contributed more to the story than to make Ashlyn hot in her pants. That, and it came off as fleeting. I wasn't convinced that it would be for the long haul, so I didn't find myself very interested in it.
Elves are introduced in the prior novel, but they barely receive a mention in this one which was a let down. Demon development was also few and far in between. I was really looking forward to learning about Ashlyn's heritage. We get a glimpse into her power but it just wasn't enough. It all led to an ending that I predicted a little too early, enough so that the book started to drag for me towards the end, but it wasn't too unbearable.
While I didn't enjoy it as much as the first, there is still potential there, so I will give book 3 a try. The books are short, they're free (on Amazon Prime), and there's a chance the plot could pick up and grab me as well as the first book did.
Is the Washington, DC area coming up in this genre?
Okay, so I'm currently reading through a bunch of books that have coincidentally been set in the Washington, DC Metro area (my hometown if you didn't know)! I totally had no idea of this going in, aside from one book. It makes me curious about this area's growing popularity. I've read countless stories set in New York and LA, but not really here. It also makes me wonder, has anyone else ever read a series set in their own hometown? How did you feel about it? I think it's sort of cool at times because I can easily visualize the landmarks a lot more.
Origins: A Demonkin Novel – All the makings of a fabulous series!
I wasn't really sure what to expect with Sean Hayden's novel, but Origins (Demonkin #1) ended up being the perfect read for me over the weekend. The main character is Ashlyn Thorn. Right off the bat we learn that this is a world filled with vampires, elves, and werewolves, but she's a special case. She's a predator of the predators, finding sustenance on in supernatural blood. This gave me a Trinity Blood vibes a bit quite honestly.
After being sheltered all of her life, her aunt passes away which forces her out into the real world where her uniqueness doesn't stay a secret for long. She becomes a target for an underworld vampire boss and is forced to grow up really fast, discovering her deeper powers in the process. It's up to Ashlyn to use her gifts for good or evil.
Origins drew me in immediately. I like that her character has visible differences from normal humans, particularly her cat-like talons that are non-retractable. It was pretty cool imagining how she adapts to having them (on her fingers AND toes). The character herself is really relatable. Even though she's a vampire/demon, she has very human emotions which makes her sympathetic in many instances. It's fun to watch her grow up. She's 17-18 years old and her hormones get crazier and crazier as the book progresses. She's also going down a path of unchartered territory as a new vampire breed. This prompted a number of Mary Sue-ish moments, but she will be humbled so I'm not worried about this.
The vampires get the most focus in this book, followed by the werewolves. She teams up with them and fights against them in a number of scenes. There is not a lot of back story there, but I hope to see it in the sequel. I also really want to see more development for the elves which we only get a taste of in this book.
I do commend Sean Hayden for doing a fairly good job of writing from the perspective of a female. A growing number of series will have a husband and wife team as co-authors, working to strengthen the presence of their respective genders, offering a more natural point of view.
I'm a stickler for covers and this one leaves much to be desired, but there is a quality story in there. Origins is a short read, but very engaging, bringing a fresh perspective to the Urban Fantasy genre and I definitely look forward to its sequel.


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The Food Baskets are a partnership of the Kindred Area Food Pantry and Kindred Area Ministerial Association (KAMA) which includes Bethel & Goshen Moravian Churches; Calvary & Zion United Methodist Churches; Canaan Moravian Church; Christine, Hickson & Walcott Lutheran Churches; Davenport & Norman Lutheran Churches; Kindred Lutheran Church; St Maurice Catholic Church; and West Prairie Free Lutheran Church.
We return to the CROSS which reminds us that Jesus came not to be served but "to serve" (Matthew 20:28). Being servants is our calling as disciples who are obedient to Christ's command, "So if I, your Lord and teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another's feet. For I have set you an example, that you also should do as I have done to you. Very truly, I tell you, servants are not greater than their Master, nor are messengers greater than the one who sent them" (John 13:14-16). We reach beyond the walls of the church, serving the needy and hurting in our immediate community as well as the world. This is faith active in love.
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Azim Premji Foundation Fellowship Programme 2015 on Education: Applications Invited
The Azim Premji Foundation Fellowship Programme aims to give an educational and social sector experience to a diverse range people from a variety of backgrounds.
This rigorous 2-year programme comprises:
Year 1 would be distributed between – teaching in government schools, immersion in education to develop/ build their perspective along with participation in the activities of the Foundation's District Institute (DI) where they are placed, to understand the various roles in the DI.
Year 2 would be focused upon capacity building of the Fellows based upon the role they could possibly contribute in the DI after the Fellowship.
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Fellows will be posted to some of the least developed districts of rural India and need to be prepared to live and work in the highly challenging environments that they will encounter there.
You should have 3 to 10 years of work experience, with a post-graduate or a professional degree in any discipline. We welcome people from a variety of backgrounds. What is important is your willingness to explore the social sector and the desire to contribute.
You will be posted in the districts of Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Puducherry, Rajasthan,Telangana and Uttarakhand.
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DOD to revive spouse education program
SAVANNAH, Ga. - The Defense Department will revive an education grant program for military spouses that was suspended after an overwhelming surge of applicants, but new restrictions that exclude families of higher-ranking officers are being attacked as unfair.
Defense officials had to temporarily halt the program in February after an unexpected spike in applications threatened to bust its $174 million budget.
On Tuesday, the department announced plans to resume the Military Career Advancement Accounts, or MyCAA, for new applicants in October.
Treasury sanctions target Afghan Taliban
WASHINGTON - The Obama administration targeted key leaders of Afghanistan's Taliban with new financial sanctions Thursday in a move that could complicate relations with Pakistan and Afghan efforts to reconcile with insurgents.
The action by the Treasury Department will freeze the militants' assets, ban travel and trigger an arms embargo. It follows similar action by the United Nations earlier this week.
Poor town aims to fire high-salary officials
BELL, Calif. - The City Council in this small, blue-collar suburb of Los Angeles intended to ask three administrators whose salaries total more than $1.6 million to resign Thursday or face possible firing.
The officials include Chief Administrative Officer Robert Rizzo, who earns $787,637 a year - that's about twice the pay of President Obama - for overseeing one of the poorest towns in Los Angeles County.
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Last Tango in Paris, Duke of Burgundy, Make Fifty Shades Look Like Junk
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The zeitgeist took a sharp turn to the kinky this past Valentine's Week. The release of Fifty Shades of Grey with its self-aware, jejune philosophy and wooden acting started a conversation about BDSM. Find that sexy or not, sex was on everyone's mind. What delights would it reveal, what outrages? Maybe a few new imaginative ways of thinking about your lover?
The film, the first of a three part franchise is so atrocious and fake that people exiting theatres around the world slumped a little, deeply disappointed and robbed of cinematic pleasures and new ideas they may have anticipated. They wanted so much more. It failed so hard for them while Universal netted $90M. Curiosity money down the drain.
Got me thinking about sex "event" films over the years, the controversial features that have illuminated, shocked and rocked us to the core. Films made with intelligence, passion and at least a soupcon of understanding of human psychology that inspired howls of protest and were so worth it.
So I dragged out the incendiary Last Tango in Paris to watch it for the first time since its theatrical release. I was an impressionable young thing and it was mind-bending. It was never shown in its entirety in Canada, and was banned in many countries. And wow, there was Marlon Brando in his devastating animal prime and Maria Schneider, a dazzling 19 year old "discovery". The story was tragic but the journey was riveting, and I discovered that Bernardo Bertolucci's provocative foray into sado masochism is as fresh today as it was in 1973.
Brando's Paul is an American expat in Paris, agonising over the suicide of his wife attempting to exorcize the pain by manhandling a young girl. In an empty apartment, they experience an anonymous sexual encounter, a wordless, animal and violent episode that was also liberating and exhilarating.
But what makes it work is it is grounded in real life. It's a story and a character study with a strong philosophical framework and people that are recognisably human. Factor in superb filmmaking, saturated sensual natural light and cinematography and it clobbers Fifty Shades.
And now, Duke of Burgundy, a gorgeous, intellectual and sensual think piece about the BDSM relationship between two women again illustrates how powerful a film about sex can be. The time and place are never stated but it seems to be Europe in the 70's or 80's, and takes place in a rural mansion where butterflies and moths are lovingly stuck through the heart and into the walls.
The bigger, demanding half of the pair is an entomologist who lectures groups of like-minded women and a few mannequins. The seemingly frail one is in the audience rapt, watching her love, enchanted. They arrive at home and enter into a routine of ritualised sex with light overtures of sado-masochism that is on permanent repeat.
It soon becomes clear that we had them confused. The big one is taking orders from the sly, cunning small one. Their routines are deeply enmeshed in every waking moment. The big one drinks endless glasses of water to settle her nerves because she is constantly observed and judged.
Then there is the problem concerning delivery of the Trap Bed, a mysterious business transaction fraught with tension. The saleswoman suggests the Human Toilet instead and leaves to await their decision. The lovers won't be put off, something has to give. So it's on to the Trunk; someone's being locked in. As outrageous their world, the characters are still completely recognisable as intelligent, feeling beings.
Duke of Burgundy is as psychologically and emotionally overwhelming as it is eccentric. We come to understand that the repetition is what the characters crave, the solidification and endless proof of their desire and need for one another.
So, in closing, Last Tango in Paris – 10, Duke of Burgundy -10, Shades – 0.


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I condem violence but UPND are also violent so the compliant is base less.Accept defeat.
The opposition UPND says it performed well in the ruling party, Patriotic Front (PF) stronghold in the just ended ward by-elections where the ruling party won 12 out of 16 seats.
Commenting on the poll results where PF even won some seats in Central, Western and North Western provinces which are UPND strongholds, party spokesperson Charles Kakoma says the PF won by using violence.
Kakoma says in a statement below that the PF blocked the way to polling stations, beating the opposition supporters.
Press Statement on the just ended local government elections.
The United Party for National Development (UPND) would like to thank all the people who turned up to vote for our local government candidates. We note that we have won some seats and lost others. We also note that the UPND has performed well in PF strongholds, judging by the numbers of people who turned up to vote for our local government candidates.
Many people failed to go and vote because of the political violence engineered by the PF. Some roads leading to polling stations were blocked by the PF while our polling agents in some polling stations were chased by PF cadres. Our leaders such as National Chairman Mutale Nalumango were beaten on polling day.
The PF also openly engaged in bribery even on polling day as witnessed in Luapula Province where PF were giving mealie meal to voters on the queue at polling stations.
Under these circumstances, the elections were not credible.
It appears that the PF has employed political violence as a strategy for winning elections. This is a dangerous strategy which has potential to create conflict in Zambia. If other political parties resort to violence to win elections, what will happen?
Lastly, we note that PF have issued a statement purporting to have been issued by me claiming that the elections were free and fair and that UPND will withdraw all election petitions that are before courts of law. This is PF propaganda which is malicious and criminal. It should be dismissed with the contempt it deserves.
Issued by:
Charles Kakoma,
UPND Spokesperson.
I condem violence but UPND are also violent so the compliant is base less.Accept defeat.
Yes, blame games, again. Yes, there were reported cases of violence involving both parties in areas of their respective influence. We should learn to convince the electorate through messages of hope, and not intimidation.
We saw what happened in Mwaanza Ward of Monze. What did Mr. Kakoma say about that incident?
PF used DCs to campaign using alot of govt resources, brutalised and blocked UPND supporters, so where is the fairness here. PF are just violent people because the leadership is alien and they don't care about the true citizens of this country.


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In this article, the first of four posts, Corin Birchall of Kerching! Retail looks at retail models that can bolster gross margins. These articles are part of the MIA's new initiative "The Future of Music Retail": a series of articles, regional workshops and video training materials, designed to help our retail members flourish in today's tough trading climate and in the years to come.
Few customer deem it palatable to be charged a premium for a branded product, above what is promoted online. There are, however, many aspects of a transaction that are less sensitive to comparison, or may be desirable yet were not on the shopping list at all.
The voting has recently ended for this years NAMM Top 100 competition. This is a great opportunity to hear the stories of MI retailers -that have evolved and re-positioned their business for the new trading landscape: Tuition, rental and loyalty schemes have transformed many music retailers in the US. I will share some of the best ideas over the next few posts.
Closer to home, working with businesses outside of music retail has given me a perspective on how some sectors manage to operate with lower margins on branded goods, and that's where I'd like to start…
Forget the primary item, look at everything else
I was working with a camera reseller recently. A branded DSLR would yield gross margins of around 8%. How can you sustain a bricks and mortar business on an 8% margin? Well this particular business focuses on two areas:
- Selling accessories and add-ons. "By and large our shoppers are less sensitive to the selling price of accessories, certainly the lower priced items, its all about getting the best price on the main item." He stated. This isn't news to us, but if you ran a report today in your business, how many transactions are made up of just one item? I suspect more than there should be. This is one area we will set out to fix in the regional workshops and eLearning. Book for our retail workshop (FREE for MIA members) here
- Selling training. DSLRs are pretty complicated bits of kit. For a customer to get the benefit of a DLSR's features you need to understand some basics in photography: Aperture, ISO and shutter speed. This retailer covers all of these in short 30x minute training sessions in-store. Training is 121 and charged at £25 a session. The training is well publicised in-store, adding value and helping to close more sales.
This training approach could easily be transferred to MI. Many of the products we sell are quite complex, whether acoustic or digital. Short 121 training sessions in-store, or over SKYPE could add considerable margin to transactions.
Second Hand
Otherwise know as… previously owned, vintage, pre-loved, nearly new or previously played.
We've seen a couple of our big players do a push on second hand recently and this is great to see. For those businesses with a bricks and mortar presence, previously owned products can drive footfall. EBay and Reverb make it easy for customers to do price comparison, so stores will still need to be reasonably competitive, although no two second hand guitars are the same. The beauty of buying pre-owned from a store is you get guarantees and support, simply not possible from eBay or a private seller.
With your added services of fresh strings, setup and warranty, pre-owned acoustic instruments from a retailer are a no brainer.
Some stores have decided to reduce the amount of capital tied up in stock by operating as an agency, to private sellers. This model is popular with dress agencies, stock is put in by the seller on 'sale or return' and a commission taken at the point of sale.
Warranties and insurances
Music retailers should explore extracting some of the service elements of their offer and charge customers for them, as bolt ons and service packs. This can also help customers understand and appreciate price variations between distance sellers and local stores.
Dixons Retail, home of Currys/PcWorld and Car Phone Warehouse charge £35 to set-up your laptop when you collect it from the store. Dixons also push their post sale service contracts and warranties hard. Dixons currently have around 11 million service contracts and warranties in place, across their portfolio of products, reportedly generating 50% of their profit.
Apple will provide free product support in their 38x UK stores, but still successfully charge between £99 and £250 for its premium Applecare package.
My local BMW service centre is a great customer experience. They will toast you a tea cake on arrival, offer you unlimited tea and coffee, you can book an appointment with the onsite barber and enjoy free WiFi, whilst you watch the oil free spotlessly dressed mechanic plug his laptop into your car from a viewing gallery. They can afford to, as the cost of a service pack is eye watering.
I was talking to the Director of Operations, "Yes we turnover much more here than the showroom". Servicing, warranties and repairs not only enhance the customer experience but can yield good profit. In house engineers generate regular traffic to a store and service plans can be added to the sale to bolster margins.
Should customers expect premium service at the lowest internet price?
More thoughts on bolstering margin next week!
Don't forget to book yourself or your team on to the Future of Music Retail workshops – https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/mia-music-industries-association-15069947337
The event and online training tools are FREE to MIA member retailers. Non-MIA members are welcome to attend the workshops for just £149+VAT.


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In Germany, renewed efforts are being made to ban the neo-Nazi NPD (national democratic party). The upper house of Parliament has asked the Constitutional Court to outlaw the party, which is suspected of at least indirect involvement with several murders of Turkish immigrants. Yet, although extremist politics cause alarm in Germany, so does the idea of silencing dissent.
In the Ukraine as well as in Russia, there has been recent repressive legislation against gay 'propaganda'. The Ukrainian far-right party, Svoboda, has claimed responsibility for attacks on gay rights protesters, who were targeted with tear gas while demonstrating on 8 December.
'Thanks to the five nationalists, the sabbath of 50 perverts was broken up,' the statement read, reported the Kyiv Post.
'They pulled out banners with perverted slogans, after which the protesters used teargas on them, but they received a decent rebuff. The fight broke out for which the police intruded.'
Although some don't see Islamophobia as a big problem today, I heard a few things when I was in France recently which made me raise my eyebrows. Here's a report on the hardening of attitudes in France:
Beyond clearly Islamophobic acts, "we heard a speech uninhibited, often negative vis-à-vis Islam," says Franck Frégosi, director of research at CNRS and specialist in Islam in Europe. For him, "which was rather an attitude of extreme right (…) tends to oil stain." "Phobic feelings" were powered by various facts and a tense international context, he said, regretting that some use it "to say that Islam is not integrated into the Republic."
There were horrific scenes in Budapest yesterday during an 'anti-zionist' demonstration in which slogans such as 'filthy Jews' and 'to Auschwitz with you all' were shouted. Former Jobbik member Balazs Lenhardt, now an independent member of parliament, was arrested after he burned an Israeli flag. This follows the widely condemned suggestion, made by Jobbik MP Marton Gyongyosi, that a list should be drawn up of Hungarian Jews who might pose a security threat.
Although there are many dispiriting stories from Greece, it is particularly chilling to read of the hold Golden Dawn seems to have in Greek schools:
And a disciplinary procedure was opened in Athens against a high school principal who threatened to call in Golden Dawn to chastise his pupils.
"This threat is very much in fashion," admits a high school teacher who was recently insulted by three of her pupils for her left-wing sympathies.
"What is worse is that two-thirds of my colleagues saw this incident as a justifiable dispute over politics," she said, speaking on condition of anonymity.
Although it might be disputed whether the EDL is technically 'far-right', it certainly doesn't seem to do much to dispel such an impression. There is still some uncertainty over whether this appalling tweet, which apparently appeared last night before being swiftly deleted, is genuine.
But there seems no doubt as to the authenticity of this unambiguously racist message.
Finally, that leads on neatly to a post from Maryam Namazie which asserts that the far right are the enemies, not the allies, of ex-Muslims:
A new report by One Law for All explores how the far-Right has attempted to hijack opposition to Islamism for its own ends. It focuses on the British National Party, the English Defence League and Stop Islamisation of Europe/America, and exposes how their activities, associations, opinions and intentions reveal a racist and inhuman worldview, which must be resisted and criticised with as much vigilance as Islamism itself.
Alec adds: the image used in the EDL flyer looked familiar, and this is why. It is 'Revelations' (2005) by American photo-artist, Jill Greenberg:
Whoopsie, EDL.
Sarah adds: EDLnews (a site opposed to the EDL) has cast further (though not absolutely conclusive) doubt on the authenticity of the horrible Newtown tweet.
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Historical records matching Axel von dem Bussche-Streithorst
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About Axel von dem Bussche-Streithorst
Axel Freiherr (Baron) von dem Bussche-Streithorst[1] (24 April 1919 - 26 January 1993), usually referred to as Axel von dem Bussche in English, was a German nobleman, professional Army officer and member of the German Resistance. He tried to assassinate Adolf Hitler in coordination with Count Stauffenberg in November 1943 at the Wolfsschanze.
In November 1943 Baron Axel von dem Bussche, personally motivated by Count Claus Stauffenberg undertook to carry out a suicide bombing to kill Hitler. At that time, Hitler was due to inspect new Army winter uniforms at his Führerhauptquartier Wolfsschanze near Rastenburg then in Eastern Prussia (today in Poland), and Bussche, over 2 meters tall, blond and blue eyed and thus corresponding to the looks of Hitler's ideal of a perfect "germanic" German, planned to demonstrate the uniforms with a landmine which he had personally equipped with a fast reacting detonator from a hand grenade and which he intended to hide in the deeper pockets of his uniform trousers. He wanted to detonate this bomb whilst embracing Hitler and thus killing both Hitler and himself. The plan failed when on 16. November 1943 an Allied air raid on Berlin destroyed the railway truck with the new uniforms on the day before the planned assassination attempt. Bussche returned on the 18th of November 1943 to his unit at the eastern front in Russia. He had spent 3 terrible nights at the Fuehrerhauptquartier.
Captain von dem Bussche volunteered to repeat the attempt in February 1944, when new uniforms would be at hand.
In January 1944 however, von dem Bussche was seriously wounded in Russia and lost one of his legs. On February 11th 1944 another young officer, Ewald Heinrich von Kleist instigated by Count Stauffenberg tried to assassinate Hitler in a similar way as von dem Bussche had been planning. However Hitler repeatedly cancelled and postponed the event that would have allowed Kleist to approach him.
By then, von dem Bussche had spent many months in the Waffen-SS hospital in Lychen and, as a result, he wasn't involved at all in Stauffenberg's July 20th 1944 plot to kill Hitler. Bussche's role in the earlier assassination plots was not suspected, and he was not betrayed by any of the officers who knew of his involvement. Consequently, he was one of the extremely few Army plotters to survive the second world war.
After the war
After the war, Baron Axel von dem Bussche studied law at Göttingen University and later became a diplomat, serving from 1954 to 1958 in the German embassy in Washington. Then he was headmaster of the Kurt Hahn boarding school "Schule Schloss Salem" located near the lake of Constance in Southern-Germany.
In addition, he was also a member of the presidency of the Evangelical Church in Germany , an advisor to the World Bank, and a delegate to the Stockholm UN environment conference of 1972.
In 1950, he married Lady Mildred Camilla Nichola Acheson, eldest daughter of the 5th Earl of Gosford and Mildred Carter ( of Virginia ), who before had been married to Baron Hans Christoph Schenk von Stauffenberg. Von dem Bussche had two daughters with Lady Camilla, (Mrs.) Nicola Dietzsch-Doertenbach and Baroness Jane von dem Bussche.
Axel von dem Bussche was a godfather to Prince Constantijn of the Netherlands. He was a friend and distant relative of Prince Claus of the Netherlands.
Axel von dem Bussche was first cousin of the Danish Victoria Cross recipient Anders Lassen, who fought with the British against the Germans. Anders Lassen was killed in action in 1945 in Italy.
Axel von dem Bussche-Streithorst's Timeline
April 19, 1919
Braunschweig, Germany
January 26, 1993
Age 73
Bonn, Germany


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Whether it involves a co-operative being created from scratch or a business being bought out by a co-operative, the process of creating the co-operative is the same from a legal standpoint. First off, you will have to hold a meeting to designate a steering committee in charge of administering the pre co-operative until the initial meeting, when the first board of directors will be elected.
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As I visited the US over the weekend to attend a couple of things for a new WWE game, we were given a goody bag of branded nonsense to take home with us. Aside from the Rey Mysterio mask(s, actually, as I nabbed two), the weird flask thing and the hoody (which I'm sure Anna will claim) there was an interesting looking book – Rumble Road: Untold Stories From Outside The Ring.
Now I have read my fair share of wrassler books, and they all have road stories in them. It's just such an intrinsic part of the business that everyone has them – and they tend to be quite funny. So I was looking forward to this as a good old fashioned bog-read.
I'm trying to think of another way to write "sigh".
I'm not sure what contractual obligations by the WWE were placed on Jon Robinson, the collector of these tales, but it looks very much like one of the clauses read 'do not put anything entertaining in the book whatsoever, in case you run the risk of offending someone or making out that these wrestlers are real people who have real problems/mess up/get into fights'.
Or maybe the clause was just 'don't go into any detail – wrestling fans can't read anyway so it's a waste of ink'. Either way it makes sense, as this is a book full of half-baked, half-told stories that – in the majority – go nowhere, say nothing and rarely make you smile, let alone laugh. It's like if this blog were in paperback form.
This is taken verbatim from the introduction to one chapter:
"Think spiders crawling in your bed, rental cars spinning into ditches and hotel keys hitting you in the eye are bad?"
That's three examples of actual stories in these things. You know they type – complete non-stories that any numpty who has had any interaction with the world has probably had at one point. Where are the stories like in Mick Foley's book about the unknown gay beach abandonment? Like in Bret Hart's with the knife-threatening bus "joke"? The one's like in Bobby Heenan's that I've completely forgotten?
No, instead it's clearly heavily vetted corporate bullshit. There's the mention of a stripclub at one point and a clear allusion to someone having themselves some sex in another. But there's no mention of actual violence, no talk of people being busted for drugs, going mental, having accidents or anything else that would make it interesting in the insider/tabloidy fashion the wrassler books get it right with.
Basically it's just not honest enough. Insert your own hilarity about it being as fake as wrestling.
Oh, and the categories make no sense, in that the stories contained within each sometimes don't apply to what the category is actually about.


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Sunday, February 6, 2011
Football memories
Our wood stadium proudly sported our team name and was always populated by loyal, loud fans. At least as long as the team was winning. One of the school's traditions was to kick-off the season with a big bonfire in the stadium parking lot. Both the cheerleaders and football team would attend in uniform, and students would wear their letterman jackets if they had them. I have this vague recollection of the bonfire being discontinued in my last few years of high school. There must've been some sort of scandal. It didn't take much to qualify as one in the early 70's.
I remember some small, but fast quarterbacks, defenders' knees being blown out, great coaches who made lousy teachers and one of our least popular principals writing a letter of apology to another school when we beat them by a ridiculous score. He had a point, but you didn't want to be caught siding with him.
During my last year or two, when I became an expert in self destruction (long, sad story that began when I was 5 or so), my pals and I would attend the games just long enough to say we were there. Parties and keggers became our focus.
And now I've grown up.
Kinda. ;>)
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There he is, my little brave. Of course, he changed since he was in my coloring book. He used to have a clutch of arrows in that hand, for one thing.
7 comments:
- Salem Man said...
What was your mascot?
- February 6, 2011 at 7:30 AM
- Can Opener Boy said...
In Oregon City (the original O.C. -- no matter what those folks in L.A. say!!) Fridays were always Spirit Day and we'd wear as much Red & White as we could to support our Pioneers!
I think I was part of the crowd who stayed and watched the game, but secretly wished we'd been invited to take off to the parties that the other kids went to. Regrets on both sides, I suppose. =O)
Looking forward to a good game today, and no worrying about dropping my red vine underneath the bleachers!
- February 6, 2011 at 8:27 AM
- KandN said...
G, We started out as the Chinook Indian (mascot picture inspired by a picture from one of my coloring books. my older sisters were yell queens.) Then about 10 years ago, there was pressure to change to something less offensive than a caricature of an Indian -- a salmon. :>)
K, Ah yes, Fridays! We loved the team having to wear dress shirts and ties. :)
Just think of all the trouble you stayed out of. You really didn't miss anything--not that I remember. ;)
- February 6, 2011 at 10:13 AM
- Jessica said...
Thanks for sharing your story about your wild past. Was it hard to leave your small town?
- February 6, 2011 at 2:03 PM
- KandN said...
It was hard leaving family, but I was ready to shake off the dust of that little town.
Although, now I have moments when I wish we could've stayed. Instead of escaping my past, it's been frozen into my relatives brains that I'm still that ornery little scamp they once knew.
- February 6, 2011 at 2:10 PM
- Jessica said...
I often romanticize about living in a small town, but I think we get the best of both worlds here in Salem. Not too big, not too small...just right. I'm hoping when my children grow up they would agree with me and stay close.
- February 6, 2011 at 2:43 PM
- KandN said...
The benefits were having nearly all of our family within a 6 mile circle. The main con (for me), was having a small school without a big variety of options (typing and choir kinda sums up what our electives were) or people to choose to make friends with.
I think you're right about Salem. It's big enough to offer what a small town can't and small enough to have a circle of newly adopted family.
- February 6, 2011 at 2:49 PM


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Ragging.. tick.
Eccentric roommates... tick.
Common batchrooms.. tick.
Front bench teacher's pet.. tick.
College terror... tick.
Death in the campus... tick.
Drinking on rooftops... tick.
Gate crashing weddings... tick.
The girl you covet dating a weirdo... tick.
People learning to follow their dreams... tick.
The fun gang of 3 idiots ... tick.
Rest assured.. 2009's gonna end well for Bollywood, not just Hollywood (with Avatar ) ... after all, All izz well !!
Rest assured.. 2009's gonna end well for Bollywood, not just Hollywood (with Avatar ) ... after all, All izz well !!
3 idiots takes us on a journey into the past, into our college lives. 2 members ( Sharman Joshi and Madhavan ) of a gang of 3 have finally got news about the whereabouts of their friend (Aamir Khan ), who's been missing for over 5 years. As they journey across states from Delhi to Shimla and Ladakh, we're taken back into their own history from the day they first joined college and laid eyes on each other. This journey crosses roads we've all seen through our college days - from hostel life and ragging to crushes, drunken nights, irritating professors, failed exams and yes, even suicides and shattered families.
Of course, a tale like this has every scope to get boring too as each event just passes by our eyes. But not with Hirani on the director's chair and Aamir at the helm. And both excel in passing on a valuable message to the audience while ensuring they are having fun as well.
The treatment given to some scenes are just mindblowing - even the moments depicting a main character's family poverty and getting a sick man to the hospital are dealt with in such a manner that you can't help laughing. A student's 'memorized felicitation' speech for the chief guest where Aamir changed a few strategic words too brought the house down. Of course, at the interval point, there's a huge plot twist that'll leave you shocked too.
In the second half, while the hunt continues for their friend, we come to see different aspects of each member's personality and how Aamir influenced / changed their lives. Of course, the laughs keep on coming, once more diluting key moments that could have been really melodramatic in any other director's hands. But where is their friend ? Is he safe ? Is he even alive ?
Frankly, these are strong roles. Madhavan and Sharman Joshi are given ample opportunities to show just what college life is about - the joys and humiliations, freedom and restrictions, friendships and commitments. And they rock it. Kareena, as the girl who falls for Aamir has a much smaller role since they've chosen not to focus on the romance too much but that's okay.. we have too much of a story to worry about romance. And besides, she acts her heart out when needed.
Boman Irani , as the head of the college, is tremendous. When needed, he can make you laugh at him and minutes later, you see in him every professor you've ever hated. It's a class act from a class performer. I don't know the actor whose car Sharman and Madhavan use through their journey, but he is truly hilarious too and is a worthy glue binding the past and the present of these characters as he too seeks Aamir to gloat over how he won the 'bet of success' against Aamir's character. Mona Singh is sweet in her brief role.
As for Aamir, well, if you thought Ghajini was a tough role to top, here's your answer. This man is pure genius in the right hands. That impish smile is gonna make you root for him even 20 years from now, touchwood. As the 'kid' who refuses to follow the rulebook and convinces everyone eventually of the method behind his ideologies, he excels.
Again, here the director and script writer need a big round of applause. Because after depicting the iconic 'Gandhigiri' earlier in the Munna Bhai series , now he takes on the education system and it's flaws and succeeds brilliantly. He tries to show you the values of thinking beyond marks and textbooks and using practical application of what we learn in real life. His 'all izz well' policy too has relevance in real life and during the study period to prevent the tensions of life from breaking us down.
Scope for improvement ? Well, while the songs are visually appealing, I doubt they're ever gonna be chart busters ( even the 'All izz Well' number ). And for a movie that was truly realistic in nature, the end of a baby delivery sequence is as filmy as it can possibly get. But these are minor issues. Because in this hunt for Aamir Khan, you will find yourself having too much fun and laughter to care.
All izz well that ends well, after all.


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Yuma has the highest jobless rate in the nation, but that is not affecting the rest of Arizona.
The Labor Department said Yuma's unemployment rate in October was almost 30 percent.
Valley economist Elliott Pollack said Yuma's joblessness is mostly due to agriculture. Even when the rest of the state's economy was booming in 2006, Yuma unemployment stayed around 14 percent, but there was effect on the state then, nor is there now.
The Valley's jobless rate is hovering around 7 percent. Arizona unemployment continues to be about 8 percent. The state's jobless rate hasn't dropped below 8 percent since December 2008.
Arizona lost hundreds of thousands of jobs in the recession and Pollack said we should be back up to pre-recession employment numbers by 2015.
"Three years ago we were 49th in the nation in job growth. Today we're number 6."


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Oops. I know I was going to post a link to the boat listing once it was corrected. Well, time got away from me and I'm just getting around to it.
So, for those interested, here is the listing on Yachtworld:
The listing has a number of pictures as well as a video that my broker put together. Unless the listing somehow reverts back to the old one, the information should be correct now.


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You might get annoyed when you sit down in a cafe and find that there's no free WiFi.
Well, this Canadian coffee shop was definitely not for you, then: The entire coffee shop was built to actually repel and jam cellphone signals, making it clear that neither laptops nor smartphones were welcome inside.
Put that in your latte and sip it.
Faraday Café in Vancouver was the first coffee shop in the world to try to pull off this wireless tech "black hole." Its creator, Julien Thomas, told Fast Company, "I think the proliferation of digital technology like smartphones has happened so fast that we haven't really had a chance to have a conversation about the etiquette or the ethics around their use."
As an art project, Thomas teamed up with a nearby architectural firm to develop the idea of installing a Faraday cage around the cafe. This type of cage creates a static electrical field around everything and anyone inside it, keeping any wireless signals outside. The team also spent some time working out the aesthetics of the cafe, trying to avoid the look of a chicken coop.
Open for just a couple of weeks in July, Thomas' hope was to help people feel what casual life without a constant Internet connection would be like. He even encouraged his coffee drinkers to write their thoughts on their paper cups, with one reporting he felt he could "think better."
Better than your name, misspelled. (faradaycafe/Instagram)
Gimmicks like "No cellphones" signs inside restaurants have been spreading in recent years, though actually employing anti-cellphone technology is a novel approach. Well, at least the legal and consensual means of doing so is a novel approach.
One Florida man was nabbed by police a few months ago for jamming cellphone signals on a state highway for the past couple of years. The vigilante was allegedly concerned that those driving around him were focusing less on the road than they were their smartphones. After the local sheriff's department caught on to what he was doing, the man was slapped with $48,000 in fines.
Maybe he should have sold coffee?
Needless to say, Thomas' art project/coffee shop was not against the law. And even though the cellphone-free coffee shop has closed, the artist has at least done a good job of opening our minds a bit.
Even though you're probably reading this article on your phone right now. In a coffee shop. Drat.
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I love history. I love old things. I very much enjoy standing in a house near a tree on a stone once part of an ancient thing and think: Many, many, years ago someone maybe very much like myself stood in this place wearing this or that. Holding a long lost item or playing with long dead children.
My wife would tease me often whilst on holiday; 'Here we go again. Mr. boring as hell history man wants to go touch old shit.' She was right of course. I would touch old things. I was obsessed with it. An ancient Celtic stone, cannon said to have been used by pirates, now preserved and stuffed with concrete. Every little scratch and pockmark tells a story.
I once viewed (and touched) several centuries of ancient graffiti engraved by prisoners in an old fortress. Most of the fortress had changed through time but this one large stone room had served as a prison throughout. A Roman fortress in England it was used by both parties until the end of the 17th century. Roman prisoners with markings and language far beyond my understanding left the first marks with the final layers left by Dutch Sailor's held there near the end of its service. The last words of condemned men…My Dutch Wife was pulled into the unfortunate chore of translating each and every old Dutch sentence for my benefit. After twenty minutes she became bored and stormed of saying, 'Your Dutch is better than you think! Translate it yourself. I'll meet you in the café.' And so I did.
The comments were mundane but fascinating! Cursing their captor, advising (no one really) of their presence by giving their name and ship. Praising their Captain and saying goodbye to loved ones. I was growing tired and started to become conscious of time when I noticed a rather long chunk of text written near the bottom of the wall with a bit carrying onto the floor. What drew my attention to this was that it was in English. It read:
'Thus I end this day on this floor. Engles I spake to curse thee English. My last time I take to carve with blade hidden for thee as scurvy now sends me. Blade found no English hearts but mine words will take a English sole. So say I this last day I see. Curse thee and in Hell share we.'
'Wow!' I thought. What an amazing bit of text! And this sailor died right here! I felt the wall as I knelt where his head might have rested. Or perhaps it was lower. If he was weak and dying from scurvy he was prone for the last bit which is why it carried on the ground. As I stood up, flushed with the new discovery I felt a slight poke under my right heel.
I moved my foot away and looked closely. There embedded in the mortar between the foundation stones was a glint of metal. I quickly kneeled again and examined it closely. There a centimetre above the floor was the head of some sort of blade. An arrow head perhaps I thought immediately but then I thought of the text…
I eagerly tested the grout between the lying stones and found what I already knew would be the case. It was loose and crumbly and easily removed with the tip of my finger. It was late in the day and the cell part of the fortress was empty. I began to work on it quickly. Always thinking in the back of my mind that this was something I could bring to the museum as a new discovery. I would take it there straight away and turn it in…But then, a deeper darker side of my mind was in control. It advised if this item was what I thought it was I would not turn it in…I would indeed keep this item. Because the writing on the wall and the emerging knife blade and…yes! Yes! It was indeed such an item! Far too large to be an arrow head…This and the story was mine! I read them…I was part of this moment and I of all the visitors to this dark and horrible yet wondrous place found this piece of history. A symbol of the final act of defiance from a desperate, dying, man!
It was beautiful. A bit pitted with a small amount of rust but in excellent condition! The hilt had been removed for easy concealment on only the metal blade remained with a bit of the end that would have rested in the (most likely) bone or wooden handle. It rested quite comfortably in the breast pocket of my tweed jacket. The material thick enough that not even an outline of the blade was visible. My Wife, impatient, lead the way out to our auto. As we walked down the path through the parking area a large tour bus was unloading in front of us. Older couples disembarked with the help of the driver. I heard them speaking Dutch and I joked with my Wife 'More Dutchies for the cells!' She looked back smiling. As we approached the last of the passengers were walking toward the fort whilst the driver looked on pulling out an old…pipe? Clay. I recognized it right away. One of the old clay style pipes popular in the 17th century. He was thumbing in tobacco from an old worn leather pouch. A quaint little gimmick for the tourists perhaps? But why did he present it after they left? We were approaching him quickly as our car was down and slightly right of the bus. As my Wife passed I continued to study the man as he lit his pipe with a…taper? The man took a long drag of the tobacco and blew smoke. As it cleared I was ready to pass him when I saw his weatherworn face and sun bleached blonde hair. His eyes were ocean blue with a fine pattern of wind etched wrinkles in the corners…and he was smiling.
My foot caught on something right as I passed and I went sprawling. Face first in the hard packed dirt of the auto lot. I landed hard and the breath was knocked out of me. I gave a yell as my Wife came running back shouting. Hands helped me up and I was on my feet. My Wife was looking at me asking if I was all right. I felt dizzy and there was a deep pain in my chest. I looked down and saw the very short handle end of the blade sticking from my jacket pocket. A dark stain had begun to grow around the blade…I took one moment to look behind me to the man whom I knew had triggered my death but there was no one there…
Now dear reader I finish my curse. In life I was a man of many words and so in death I walk the same path.
It will come. The dagger has been placed again. You may stub your toe or prick your finger and wonder… Is it there? Is it time? Or perhaps it was placed in a more mundane location. Under the bed… In a closet… Or… Give a feel behind the screen… Let's touch some old shit together shall we?
From Hell… See you soon.
Credit To – Brando
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