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A Song Roundup: Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas
Posted: December 20, 2020 in 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, 2010s, 2020, 2020s, Cover Songs, Song Roundup
Tags: 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 2000s, 2010s, 2020, 2020s, Chris Isaak, Cover Songs, Darling West, Dionne Warwick, Ella Fitzgerald, First Aid Kit, Frank Sinatra, Gladys Knight, Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas, Hugh Martin, Judy Garland, Lena Horne, Linda Ronstadt, Malin Pettersen, Meet Me in St. Louis, Ralph Blaine, She & Him, Singers Unlimited, Song Roundup, The Pretenders, The Stylistics
The much-acclaimed 1944 MGM musical Meet Me in St. Louis spins the tale of a St. Louis family from summer 1903 to spring 1904. A posh production helmed by Vincente Minnelli, it's at once nostalgic and not, dreamy and dour, with most of the songs dating to the early 1900s or before. However, the film is spiced by a handful of new tunes by songwriters Hugh Martin and Ralph Blaine: "The Boy Next Door," the Oscar-nominated "The Trolley Song" and a song that's since become a seasonal classic, "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas."
This NPR/Fresh Air page delves into the song's history; this Wikipedia page does, too. But if you choose not to click through, what you really should know is this: Martin's and Blaine's first version was rejected by Judy Garland, co-star Tom Drake and Minnelli. As Martin explained to Fresh Air host Terri Gross in 2006, "The original version was so lugubrious that Judy Garland refused to sing it. She said, 'If I sing that, little Margaret will cry and they'll think I'm a monster.' So I was young then and kind of arrogant, and I said, 'Well, I'm sorry you don't like it, Judy, but that's the way it is, and I don't really want to write a new lyric.' But Tom Drake, who played the boy next door, took me aside and said, 'Hugh, you've got to finish it. It's really a great song potentially, and I think you'll be sorry if you don't do it.' So I went home and I wrote the version that's in the movie."
Garland's rendition was released as a single and, though it only rose to No. 27 on the pop charts, became a hit with U.S. service members fighting in World War II. It's easy to hear why; she captures the nuances of the lyrics, which are simultaneously hopeful and yearning, cherishing the days that used to be while wishing to forge similar memories again: "Someday soon we all will be together/If the fates allow/Until then, we'll have to muddle through somehow/So have yourself a merry little Christmas now…."
Here she is performing it on the radio in 1944:
In 1957, Frank Sinatra – who first covered it in 1948 – asked Martin to change the line "until then we'll have to muddle through somehow" to something a tad more upbeat, as he wanted to re-record it for his A Jolly Christmas LP and found that line depressing. As a result, it became "hang a shining star upon the highest bough." It zaps some of the song's strength, I think.
In the years since, it has joined the Great American Songbook and been performed by hundreds upon hundreds of artists; SecondHandSongs lists 1575 recorded renditions, for example, and that's likely an undercount. Simply put, it tugs at the heartstrings like few others; and, in some respects, could well be the theme song for Christmas 2020. In any event, here's a Song Roundup of renditions that have captured my ear through the years and also this morning…
Ella Fitzgerald sings it from her 1960 Ella Wishes You a Swinging Christmas LP. Note that she sticks with the "muddle through" line…
…while Lena Horne, on her 1966 album titled Merry From Lena, does not.
The a cappella jazz vocal ensemble Singers Unlimited perform the "highest bough" version song on their 1972 Christmas LP.
In 1987, Chrissie Hynde and the Pretenders deliver a stirring rendition of the Sinatra version for the A Very Special Christmas CD compilation. (Interesting to note, but it was after this record that the song's popularity jumped into hyperdrive.)
In 1992, the Stylistics put their soulful spin on it and make it sound brand new, though they, too, sing the "highest bough" line.
Linda Ronstadt also "hangs a shining star" on her 2000 A Merry Little Christmas album.
In 2004, Dionne Warwick and Gladys Knight joined together for this moving rendition, which appeared on Warwick's My Favorite Time of Year album; they actually make me not mind when they sing "highest bough" line.
Also in 2004, Chris Isaak channels his inner Sinatra for this version from his Christmas album, but sings the original "muddle through" line.
In 2011, She & Him (aka Zooey Deschanel and M. Ward) covered the Sinatra version for their A Very She & Him Christmas set.
First Aid Kit shared their beautiful version, which they performed on BBC Radio 2, in 2017. They, too, "muddle through."
Finally, the rendition that ignited this journey: Malin Pettersen and Darling West, who shared their cover a few weeks back. As I said at the time, it's a hauntingly beautiful rendition of a haunting beautiful song. (And, note, that they also sing the original "muddle through" line.)
A Song Roundup: This Guy's in Love With You/This Girl, Too
Posted: June 9, 2018 in 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 2000s, 2010s, Burt Bacharach, Hal David, Song Roundup
Tags: 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 2000s, 2010s, Aretha Franklin, Dionne Warwick, Dusty Springfield, Ella Fitzgerald, Herb Alpert, Jane Monheit, Miracles, Petula Clark, Rumer, Sammy Davis Jr., She & Him, Smokey Robinson, Song Roundup, The Reels, This Girl's in Love With You, This Guy's in Love With You
As I mentioned in Friday's countdown, "This Guy's in Love With You" may well have been lost to time if not for Herb Alpert reaching out to Burt Bacharach and asking if he had any old tunes lying around that had never been recorded. Bacharach offered him "This Guy." Alpert liked the melody, that there was a break where he could insert a trumpet solo, and that it didn't require vocal gymnastics on his part. He was a horn player, after all, not a singer.
That clip comes from Alpert's TV special The Beat of the Brass, which aired on CBS on April 22, 1968. The 45 was released the same month, and flew up the charts, eventually spending four weeks at No. 1 and becoming the year's seventh most popular single.
The song's soothing, sweet melody can't be denied; it lingers with you long after the song is over. Lyrically speaking, it's the declaration of a head-over-heels guy (or gal) laying it on the line to his dream gal (or guy). It works equally well no matter the gender of the singer, or who they're singing to. Love is love, after all.
Anyway, it quickly became one of those songs every vocalist of note wanted to sing, and I thought it might be fun to spotlight some of those other versions here. Dusty Springfield, for example, recorded it for her Dusty…Definitely LP, released on November 22, 1968 – not that folks in the U.S. heard it (except via import). Dusty was on different record labels in the U.S. and the U.K., and Atlantic – her American home – decided not to release the album. It wouldn't become available in the States until 1972, when it was included on the A Tribute to Burt Bacharach compilation LP. (It's since been included on a handful of best-of/rarities collections, including Dusty in London.)
Here's the audio of her singing it on the All Kinds of Music TV special, which was broadcast in the UK on Christmas Day 1968:
That same November, the Temptations and the Supremes released their own version on Diana Ross & the Supremes Join the Temptations LP.
Before both of them, however, Petula Clark included her rendition of it on her 1968 Petula LP, which was released in the U.S. in September 1968.
Dionne Warwick, a frequent collaborator with Burt Bacharach and Hal David, also recorded it for her Promises, Promises album, which was also released in November 1968. It would become one of her greatest hits when it was released as a single the following year; it rose to No. 7 in the charts.
Also in 1969, Ella Fitzgerald covered it on her Sunshine of Your Love album. Here she is on TV performing it…
Sammy Davis Jr. also laid down a jazzy rendition of it on The Goin's Great the same year. Here he is in Germany:
In early 1970, Aretha Franklin released her This Girl's in Love With You album, though the song wasn't issued as a single.
That same year, Smokey Robinson & the Miracles covered it on their whatlovehas… concept album.
Hundreds of others have covered it in the years since (and thousands more in karaoke bars). In 1982, the Reels – an Aussie pop-rock band – scored a No. 7 hit with it Down Under:
In 2009, jazz-pop singer Jane Moneheit included her dreamy take on the song on her The Lovers, the Dreamers and Me album:
Here's She & Him (Zooey "One Day You'll Be Cool" Deschanel & M. Ward) from their 2014 album Classics:
Finally, British singer-songwriter Rumer released her rendition of it on This Girl's in Love: A Bacharach & David Songbook in late 2016. (That's Burt Bacharach himself at the song's start.) It and Dusty's are my favorite versions, though every rendition has something going for it.


IBM has announced the launch of its first Chinese-language vertical social networking site, My developerWorks, targeting Chinese software developers and information technology professionals.
The new site is the Chinese version of IBM's My developerWorks product, which has already been launched in other countries and languages. Based on IBM's corporate network and technologies, My developerWorks is a professional network and unified set of community tools for connecting, sharing, and collaborating. It provides services such as blogs, forums, groups, and wikis for people to solve technical problems, lend knowledge to a group project, or soak up wisdom from experts. Since the launch of the worldwide version of My developerWorks in 2009, it claims to have gained 325,000 active users and an average increase of over 1,000 newly registered users daily.
Apart from the functions of traditional social networking sites, the Chinese version of My developerWorks also integrates data from IBM's developer community and provides industry articles, tutorials, code and skill kits to meet the needs of users.
Unlike Chinese and international social networking sites such as Kaixin001.com, Renren.com, Facebook, and Twitter, a vertical social networking site usually focuses on a particular industry and targets users that are interested in this particular segment sector. Moreover, the largest difference between IBM's Chinese version My developerWorks and other websites is that it is a non-profit site. IBM hopes to establish this site as a value-added and service platform for its other businesses.


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DEFEAT OF AN IDEA – HAS THE BJP LOST OUT TO HINDUISM – BY ASHISH NANDY AND SHOMA CHAUDHRY – TEHELKA
http://www.tehelka.com/story_main42.asp?filename=Ne270609coverstory.asp
HAS THE BJP LOST OUT TO HINDUISM?
ASHISH NANDY INTERPRETS THE SUDDEN DECLINE OF THE RIGHT WING
From Tehelka Magazine, Vol 6, Issue 25, Dated Jun 27, 2009
Hindutva is embarrassed by Hinduness. A new generation of confident Indians has started to move beyond its logic of fear and hate. Will the BJP be able to seize this moment for creative reinvention?
ASHIS NANDY with SHOMA CHAUDHURY
Save the Nation Youth being trained at a RSS shakha
Photos: AP
THE CASCADING crisis within the BJP since May 16 and their confused debate about the role Hindutva has played in their electoral defeat tells a fascinating story. It would be premature to read any of this as a signal of either the disintegration of the party or Hindutva, but one could safely say the idea of Hindutva has been defeated by India for the moment. Put on a backburner and challenged to reinvent itself.
The BJP's dependence on Hindutva as its defining characteristic was bound to become problematic for it. Data shows that less than 10 percent of Indians have ever voted for the BJP on ideological grounds. The Hindutva project was constructed on tapping into and fostering fear and a siege mentality within Hindus: a sense of being a minority in a country in which they are clearly a numerical majority. In itself, this was not a bad thing. You need a political party to 'summit' these emotions so you can manage them. The Republican Party in America, for instance, also encourages and allies with Christian fundamentalists. They know a small marginal part of the vote comes from there — small, but a crucial vote percentage. So they woo them pre-election. Post election, though, there could be indirect rewards but no official rewards are handed out to them. The BJP did not understand this art of political management. They did not learn how to treat Hindutva groups as merely a sect within them; they believed their entire existence depended on the ideology.
This whole ideological stand — making Hindutva their central official line – was a myopic mistake. (The RSS of course has never been in politics so their understanding of politics is even worse.) The Indian genius is to manage contradictions. Most people forget, the Congress Party, the original party of the freedom movement, allowed many of its members to simultaneously belong to both the Congress and the Hindu Maha Sabha or other Hindu nationalist formations. This was very prevalent in Bengal because a huge proportion of Bengali freedom fighters came from a background of Hindu nationalism. Tagore himself was a member of both the Congress and the Muslim League. It is because these political impulses were accommodated within the Congress as factions that they were easier to negotiate in the early years. The BJP's dilemma is that it thought its existence was predicated on Hindutva: now that they have lost drastically, they think Hindutva has become a liability and should be jettisoned. But the fact is, the relationship between the BJP and Hindutva will only become more clandestine. The debate they are trying to have within the party is actually nothing more than a power struggle wearing the garb of ideological challenge.
Gandhi was no romantic. He knew that India could have its own version of a nation state
In itself, this power struggle is a healthy thing. Contrary to all the speculation around them, the BJP is not necessarily slated to disintegrate like the Janata Party. The Janata party was a coalition of factions; the BJP has merely become a party with factions. With Atal Behari Vajpayee and LK Advani past their time, all the top posts are vacant. If the BJP wants to survive and do reasonably well, they should "do a Congress": they should find a Narasimha Rao or Manmohan Singh to lead them. All their current and prominent leaders are too high-pitched.
The BJP may be short-sighted in analysing its defeat dominantly through the Hindutva lens, but its electoral defeat does point to a kind of defeat of Hindutva itself. At the core of the Hindutva project is a war between Hindusim and Hindutva that is around 150 years old. It began in the middle of the 19th century, when ideas of Hindtuva began to take shape with the Hindu reform movements. In a sense, the defeat of Hindutva today is also a defeat of the West because the Hindutva project was one of the last remnants of the colonial West in Indian consciousness.
TODAY, BOTH detractors and defenders of Hindutva are confused about what it stands for. The truth may not be palatable to many, but Hindutva grew out of an admiration of the western European nation state and our attempt to have an indigenous form of it. When Veer Savarkar, the Hindutva fountainhead, insisted that Hindus must not read the Vedas and Upanishads but read science and technology and western political theory, this is what he had in mind. He was looking for a way to transform a chaotic, diverse, anarchic society into an organising principle for a masculine, western-style nation state, something akin to Bismarck's Germany.
To achieve this, the Hindutva project required Indians to repudiate their Indianness, and Hindus to repudiate their Hinduness. That was part of the war. It required a chaotic, diverse society to homogenise itself into something that could be more globally acceptable and to live according to European norms. Again, public memory is short. Few people remember that Savarkar was very secular in his personal life – in the western sense. He refused to have his funeral rights according to Hindu custom; he wanted his body taken for cremation in a mechanised vehicle rather than the shoulders of relatives. He also refused to give his wife a Hindu funeral though women members of the Hindu Mahasabha sat in front of his house on a dharna.
Reformers were trying to produce tamed versions of religion able to sustain pan-Indian nationalism
Savarkar's main criticism of Gandhi, in fact, was that he was unscientific, irrational and illiterate in modern political theory. He was wrong about that. Gandhi did understand political theory, but it had deeper roots, taken not only from Indian society but from the dissenting West. Gandhi did not believe in the modern nation state or in conventional ideas of nationality, nation and nationalism. He went on record to say that armed nationalism is no different from imperialism. At that point in our history, he seemed a romantic fuddy duddy. The fact is, he was way ahead of his time. He understood that India was particularly well-equipped to craft its own version of a modern nation state. It was under no obligation to follow European textbook definitions of the nation state. The irony is that today many western nations are moving away from the old model and becoming more flexible: 14 countries in Europe do not maintain any armies and have opened their borders to become the European Union. On the other hand, because of our colonial past, India and China are two of the purest forms of 19th century nation states you can find in the world today. Tagore's friend, Brahmobandhab Upadhyay, a Catholic who called himself a 'Hindu Christian'. Vivekananda himself said the ideal Indian would be one who had a Hindu mind and a Muslim body. But very early in his intellectual journey, Savarkar decided mere geography was too insipid a basis for nationality and began to advocate a more strident Hindu nationalism. The distasteful, clenched-teeth hatred of Muslims and other minorities associated with Hindutva took root then.
Club members Ganesh puja in Mumbai
Photos: SHAILENDRA PANDEY
Spine straight The Hindutva project wanted to cast Hindus in Islamic and Protestant Christian mould
Multiple ledgers Two urchins celebrate Diwali
After its defeat this election, the BJP feels its middleclass base has moved away from it because it is disenchanted with Hindutva. This, perhaps, is not entirely true. The Indian middle-class has a natural affinity with the less strident aspects of Hindutva. Primarily, this is because the RSS and BJP had very strong links with the Hindu reform movements, particularly the Arya Samaj. Both Munje and Hedgewar, though, were also inspired by Ramakrishna. The project was very clear. There was a seamless continuity between these reform movements and European concepts of a nation state. This continuity began to transform Hinduism and partly led to a form of religion compatible with a modern nation state – in the same way that Protestant Christians in Europe had become more comfortable with the nation state, industrial capitalism and secularism. In many ways, all Indian religious reformers were trying to produce house-broken, tamed versions of religion which could sustain a pan- Indian consciousness and pan-Indian nationalism. All these reformers had internalised aspects of masculine Protestant Christianity. Angarik Dharmapal's Maha Bodhi society in Calcutta, in fact, produced a kind of Protestant Buddhism which the Sri Lankans find very convenient for their majoritarian state. Hindu society was even more diverse and cruel. Anyone wedded to the conventional idea of a nation state naturally found it too chaotic, unmanageable and subversive. The idea of Hindutva was supposed to be something Hindus could hold on to and yet remain good citizens of a modern nation.
The middle-class — which is the most privileged and therefore naturally most invested in the conventional notion of the nation state — is therefore also a natural constituency for Hindutva and its version of Hindusim. In Savarkar's fearsome novel Kala Pani, the only futuristic novel produced by a Hindutva ideologue, he paints a (for him utopian) vision of a future India that will be a totally homogenous society. People would marry across caste and sect and language and become good, pan-Indian citizens — almost like the over-insipid, boring, lowest common denominator Indians one sees nowadays in India's metropolises. Indians with no difference in language or custom: everyone speaking in the same accents, everyone having the same choice in music, cinema, clothes. Absolutely homogenised — almost like uniform clones.
SAVARKAR WAS prescient because this, in fact, is almost a mirror image of contemporary urban middle class Indians. A class that has access to a globalised economy, speaks English as its primary language, and is shaped by a uniform media. What resonance does this new-generation Malayali or Bengali or Tamilian brought up in Delhi have with the vernacular Hindusim of his grandparents, or even parents? Do all those myriad gods and goddesses with strange names, family priests, ishta dev and ishta devis make any sense to them? What is emerging instead is a pan-Indian Hinduism that allows you to dip into a bit of Onam and a bit of Diwali and a bit of Durga puja, and not be too deeply invested in any of it. Contrary to the 'milleniaold' milleniaold' tradition Hindutva ideologues claim they are a part of, this new kind of Hinduism is a very new faith. It is no more than 150 years old. It was born in the 19th century and is directly inspired by Protestant Christianity in the wake of the Arya Samaj. And this faith is also a kind of lack of faith. You can carry it with you wherever you go. It is a kind of laptop Hinduism.
The Hindutva project in India is destined not to ever occupy centre space though, because it is challenged by Hinduism. When one talks of this Hinduism which is 4,000 years old, we have in mind a religion or tradition – a sentiment — that might be shrinking everyday but still moves a majority in India. It is this concept of faith — diverse, local, intimate and highly ritual — that most Indians live with. Apart from economic reasons and the crunch on jobs and infrastructure, one of the reasons why the Shiv Sena could garner so much support for their opposition to the influx of Biharis in Mumbai was the proliferation of chhat puja. The Mumbai-wallahs felt threatened, there was a sense of 'itni chhatt puja kahan se aa gayi'? The Biharis would have had less of a hostile backlash if they had participated in the Ganesh pujas instead. Interestingly, there are many more Durga pujas in Mumbai and Delhi than in Kolkata, but there is no hostility against this because it has graduated into an all- India phenomenon. Chhathasn't — yet.
The 'millenia-old' tradition Hindutva ideologues claim is actually a very new faith
It would be a mistake to conflate the occasional eruption of these hostilities with a belief that the idea of India's plural traditions is a romantic myth. Religious groupings and sects — within Hinduism, and even between different religions — have always participated in each other's local festivals, but they were not homogenised into an anodyne laptop religion. India was not an imitation of the Enlightenment model, in which you are deemed cosmopolitan only when you feel the other person to be completely equal. In traditional Indian societies, you are equal only in the sense that you have the right to think the other community is inferior to you, and the other person has a right to think you are inferior to them — even though neither of you might say so openly. In a homogenised, individualised society, the former is seen as cosmopolitanism. In a communitybased society, it is the latter cosmopolitanism that works.
In this continuing war between traditional, chaotic, diverse Hinduism and ordering, homogenising Hindutva, the BJP's electoral defeat is a sign that Hindusim (which is by far the stronger force in electoral numbers) has defeated Hindutva. Hindutva expects Indians to live according to European norms of nationhood. But we are Indians: we are incorrigible, cussed, we have learnt to live with contradictions for centuries, we have learnt to live with chaos and ill-defined, half-baked ideas. We also want to keep options open for the next generation. These are the attributes that have ensured our survival when so many other major civilisations have failed. These are attributes that the BJP has to find ways to accommodate and respond to.
(I once interviewed Madanlal Pahwa — one of the Hindu militants who was among Gandhi's assasins — in his old age. Ultimately, his most memorable years were of his childhood spent in a district in Pakistan's West Punjab, which had Baba Farid's mazar. There was a religious fair he would go to where qawwalis were sung. He called himself a kattar Hindu but that's what his most nostalgic memories were about. This tells you something. We Indians are accustomed to living with multiple ledgers. He was a Hindutva wallah and all his language came from there, but his memories came from elsewhere.)
None of these arguments add up to an assertion that Hindutva will die out. What is true, though, is that, unless it metamorphoses, it will never enjoy the same vigour it did in past decades because it is inherently uncomfortable and embarrassed by Indianness and traditional Hinduism. For a generation newly emergent from colonial dominance, there was a fascination and sense of respectful subordination to things Western. But with this new post-independent, post-colonial generation, things are different. Indians have gone back to their own rhythms now, so even for the middle-classes, Manmohan Singh's 'West' — with its idea that anyone can be a Tata or Ambani — is more attractive to many than Savarkar's 'West'. The aspiration for a global, material identity has overtaken cultural identity.
There is much Advani has to answer for, but he is quite a tragic figure. No one has read hm right
GIVEN BOTH the perceived and electoral defeat of Hindutva, it will be interesting to see what future route the BJP charts for itself. In many ways, Advani is a tragic figure. It is possible that no one has yet been able to read him correctly. Unlike Vajpayee, Advani had lived in a Hindu minority state and went to a Christian missionary convent. Having lived in a Muslimmajority state, Muslims were not unknown to him, and, perhaps, he did not feel the intrinsic discomfort expected of him. He was a part of the RSS – and probably believed in it — but there is a strong possibility that he also recognised in some ways that Hindutva was a political instrument rather than an all-encompassing ideology.
There is much Advani has to answer for. He is culpable for the Ram Janmabhoomi movement and cannot escape history's judgement by saying he was talking of Ram as a cultural icon and not a religious figure. He knew he was creating an explosive communal situation. But his party's reaction to his statement on Jinnah makes him tragic. There was nothing new he said about Jinnah – it is an indication of where our political culture has reached that no one seemed to understand this. Strangely enough, despite a tremendous difference in personality, like Savarkar, Jinnah was a person who thought entirely in Western liberal terms. Their ideological bouquet were almost exactly the same. Advani was only recognising that when he called Jinnah secular. Pakistan's first law minister was a Hindu, its first national anthem was also written by a Hindu, upon Jinnah's invitation. Both men shared the idea that nationality is crucial in a nation state and a certain amount of violence and bloodshed is normal in the jostling for dominance. In fact, Jinnah was less accepting of this notion of violence than Savarkar.
Advani tried to cast himself as a statesman in the Vajpayee mould, but could not repudiate his past. At the same time, he could not project himself as an ideologue that could be cast in a heroic mould as, say, Narendra Modi seems to have become for the Gujarati people. He did wear different masks at different times in his career to take political advantage, but it is possible he personally remained somewhat distanced from all of them.
Shadow play LK Advani ; perhaps the BJP now needs a leader who can lower the temperature of the party
Soul competition Middle-class Hindus today have a kind of laptop religion, easy to carry around
Photos: REUTERS
But this only intensifies the riddles for the BJP because it is quite possible that Narendra Modi too has passed his zenith. This election has indicated a decline in his popularity. The problem is, he did not leave any escape routes for himself, not even a cosmetic apology or expression of regret for the events in Gujarat 2002. This is likely to haunt his entire career. So the search for the correct leader has become the BJP's biggest challenge – a leader who can lower the divisiveness and high temperature the party has become associated with.
But other questions remain for the party. If the BJP abandons Hindutva, what shape can its right of centre politics take? Its economic program cannot stretch too right of center because a majority of Indians live outside the spoils of the neo-liberal economic system. If only for electoral gains, they have to be accommodated.
What this means is that the BJP could be headed for a different kind of ideology, in which Hindutva will play a part, but there will be other competing concepts. There is no reason why Hindutva itself cannot take on a more benign form. Tagore, for instance, makes extremely powerful arguments for Hindutva in his novel Gora. This was a response to both Kipling's Kim and Savarkar, and almost anticipated Gandhi in some ways. But even if the BJP and RSS' think tanks are unable to come up with such innovations, it is quite certain that the party will retain some links with the ideology, and even if it is not part of its functioning ideology, it will be a party more tolerant of Hindutva groups.
VAJPAYEE, FOR instance, held Hindutva as a kind of vague, emotional frame. There's no problem with that; in fact, it's probably necessary in the Indian context. As Nawaz Sharif told Vajpayee, as part of the Muslim League and BJP, they were best positioned to break fresh ground in Indo-Pak relations as neither of their constituencies could accuse them of being wishywashy liberals. Above everything else though, like the Maoists who were encouraged to come overground and become part of the democratic process, the Hindu right wing must be politically accommodated. They cannot be annihilated or wished away, just as the Naxals could not be wished away. (Charu Mazumdar's group in Bengal was wiped out with police action, but in barely 30 years Naxalism has come back again with greater force. These are idealistic people. It is a pity they have opted for the gun, but the problems they represent are real. Sitting in urban citadels, one might imagine that one can solve these problems over a 100 years and wait for some "trickle down" effect, but if millions of people are condemned to die in the meantime, one cannot expect everyone to remain unmoved.) In the same way, there are rump groups who are rabid enough to believe they should break down the Babri Masjid. They cannot just be wished away. They have to be politically accommodated and tamed.
The Mughal empire has some lessons that could be of great significance to contemporary India. The empire was so successful that the British left the Mughal system intact for 100 years. Even the Delhi Durbar of 1911 followed all conventions of a Mughal court. It allowed different levels of allegiance to the centre. The Jaipur Maharaja, for instance, was closer to Mughal Delhi than a sultan in Bengal: this meant he had more power and influence, nothing more.
The BJP has been demanding Article 370 should be abolished and the Uniform Civil Code brought in to India. These are legitimate demands in a European-style modern nation state. But why must we follow that route? Instead of hedging on Article 370, one should use it more effectively – go the whole hog with it. Why didn't we give Article 370 to Sikkim instead of gobbling it up? Why didn't we give it to Nagaland, rather than go in for 30 years of bloodshed which has made a whole generation bitter? If there is a worry that it is a border state, why not innovate and come up with Article 370 (a) – which defines more and less rights, with a clause put in for renegotiation at a later date? This would have increased the maneuverability of the Indian state immensely.
Savarkar's novel Kala Pani covets exactly what the middle-class is today: insipid, boring, uniform
As Gandhi intuited, we are uniquely well-equipped to design our own version of a nation state. By pure default, we have gone in for some innovations — Indian secularism is one example. Both secularists and communalists complain about its compromises. But we will last as a society only as long as we compromise. The moment we try to harden it into something too defined, things collapse.
The current upheaval could be a creative moment both for the BJP and the RSS. Unlike the RSS heads that have gone before him, Mohanrao Bhagwat is not a very conspicuous ideologue. Nobody expects anything out of him. Because of this, he has the opportunity to be truly creative. But westernised Brahmins and modernity can be a lethal combination. It cuts you off from your native Indian genius. So will they be able to spot the moment?
Tags:BJP, Congress, Hinduism, Hindutva, RSS, Savarkar, Sudheendhra Kulkarni, Swapan Dasgupta
Tavleen Singh's lesson to Obama – By Ghulam Muhammed
Tavleen Singh's lesson to Obama
Tavleen Singh's article: Osama needs some more lessons in Islam, published in The Indian Express, is like the dropping of the second shoe, without which Indiawould not have slept that night.
The resounding silence that could be heard all across the Indian nation, while the world tuned in to Obama's speech at Cairo boldly and generously embracing Muslim world, was more painful in the backdrop of the most successful marginalization of Muslims in India.
Tavleen Singh,. a writer famous for her thin skin as far as Islam and Muslims are concerned, was typical of the ultra jingoists, who could hardly breath, while world's lone super power, had engaged the Muslim world so publicly and so passionately and offering them a new strategic alliance for the peace of the world.
The name of the emotion that gripped a section of the Hindutva elements was nothing but sheer jealousy.
How can they tolerate that the Muslims who had 'brutalized' the Hindu over centuries and now finally been successfully divided in three parts in the sub-continent so as to render them insignificant in the comity of nations, should be given so much attention, so much lauding, so much importance that bordered on virtual call for peace negotiation after a virtual defeat that stared the US in the face. And all because of a handful of al Qaida 'terrorists', who seems to have pinned down their mighty army in these God-forsaken lands!
What a sudden change of fortune. It was only yesterday, when India was in love with President Bush and America's Jewish lobby has been working overtime to favour India, in its quest to find a new strategic partnership with their country and a new set of close relationship with Israel, ensuring billions of dollars worth of defense rearmament. In this equation, India's own 150 million Muslim were so totally marginalized, as if they deserved to be punished for their crimes of the past.
So it was a nightmare for the likes of Tavleen Singh to finish watching the worldwide telecast of Obama speech without him mentioning neither India nor the Hindus, even once in his hour long love fest with Islam. For TOI Washington correspondence, it was a relief that Obama left out Kashmir in his speech.
Tavleen had to react by puking her bile and offering her unsolicited lessons in Islam to the untutored Obama. Indian Express site mentions that her diatribe was the most emailed article of the day. Doubtless she has legions of supporters, who felt just like her, dejected and ignored, if not betrayed.
However, this is the worst case of insecurity and inferiority complex being so blatantly displayed in India's English media. India need not have cringed. It is great nation and it has great destiny ahead, if only it comes out of its exclusivity shell.
In the event, the world will not ignore India's adverse reaction to Obama speech.India and Israel were the only two nations in the world that had come out against Obama's opening towards Islam. Israel's reasons are obvious; India's reasons are still obscure to the world.
Indian Muslims are a far cry from the Osama brigade and even though they have been institutionally discriminated against and reduced to the worst of the lot, they have remained peaceful all throughout the last 60 years of Indian's freedom from the British.
In the recent elections, they had reverted to tactical support to Indian National Congress, which came out with a manifestly large clutch of parliamentary seats that virtually enabled it to dictate its terms to coalition partners. Though all around the nation media and intelligentsia are openly mentioning how Muslim support to Congress has turned the tide for Congress, the arrogant Congress leaders have yet to find the courage to cultivate the magnanimity to acknowledge Muslim debt and offer them their rightful place in the political formations.
Now that Obama has shown a different mode of reassessing the Muslim world and Islam, Indian leadership is demonstrably peeved. Only reckless commentators are wallowing in their own grief and writing poison articles. That can not delay the morn that is bound to break out from within this dark night of bigotry and prejudice.
Indian Express did try to balance the reactions to Obama's Cairo speech on Islam, by publishing the next article by Sudheendra Kulkarni, on the same page. It is remarkable, how a liberal turned Hindutvadi had gathered up the courage to call for a positive engagement with the Muslims, even to his own extremist Hindutva party which finds itself at a dead end while stuck in the rut of hate and prejudice.
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http://www.indianexpress.com/news/Obama-needs-some-more-lessons-in-Islam/472601
on, 8 Jun 2009
Obama needs some more lessons in Islam
Tavleen SinghPosted: Sunday , Jun 07, 2009 at 0342 hrs IST
The day before President Obama set off to win Muslim hearts and minds last week, I had an interesting conversation about Islam with a Lebanese gentleman and his wife. I met them at a discourse by an ex-Buddhist monk who smiled a lot and talked of happiness. It was when he said that all religions were the same that trouble began. An Indian friend I was with pointed out that Indian religions did not urge believers to rush off and brutalise (or convert) the nearest unbeliever while Islam did. This made the Lebanese lady angry and she stomped off asserting that the Koran said 'to each his own belief'.
Then her husband got really angry when the subject of women's rights came up. He said the Prophet of Islam had given more rights to women than anyone ever. I pointed out that what was progressive fourteen hundred years ago may not be progressive today. Many Islamic countries continue to declare nine as the age of consent for girls because the Prophet's wife Ayesha was nine. I drew his attention to the treatment of women in Saudi Arabia (the Prophet's native place) and reminded him that 60 girls were burned alive in a hostel some years ago because the morality police would not let them out unveiled. This infuriated him. "What about Mumbai," he said, "where they sell the eyes and liver of young girls. If you hit on Saudi Arabia I will hit on Mumbai."
I recount this exchange to make the point that when it comes to winning hearts and minds, the exercise must happen both ways. It is not just President Obama who should be required to do all the 'outreaching'; the Muslim world has its share to do as well. Why should Saudi Arabia be allowed to get away with funding virulent strains of Islam in countries like ours? Why should Pakistan get away with textbooks that teach school children about 'evil' Hindus and Jews? Why should Pakistan get away with releasing Hafiz Mohammed Sayeed?
What is the point of fighting the Taliban in Swat and Waziristan if you can release the man who created the Lashkar-e-Toiba? The organisation he created has been declared a terrorist organisation not just by us but by the United States. It has been responsible for terrorist acts on Indian soil, including the attack on Mumbai. By any standards, that makes Sayeed a terrorist. If Pakistan were serious about fighting Islamist terrorism, they would have charged Sayeed with the crime of starting a terrorist organisation. Even before Mumbai was attacked.
The jihad did not appear one morning out of a clear blue sky. It happened because of a system of education in most Islamic countries that perpetuates the idea that Islam is the best thing that happened to mankind and that pluralism is wrong in Allah's eyes. As for us happy idol-worshipping types, we are doomed to damnation. This idea is in direct conflict with the Indian idea of 'sarva dharma samabhaava'. But, it is more than just religion that is the problem.
The Islamic sense of grievance is now so confused that the Americans are blamed for 'abandoning' Afghanistan after the Russians were defeated. Now that they are back, they are blamed for interfering in Islamic affairs. In the Middle East the stated objective of the jihad is to obliterate Israel but if Israel attempts to resist this fate it is charged with being brutal to Palestinians. It may not be politically correct to say this but the truth is that there could have been a solution in Palestine decades ago if Yasser Arafat had not been corrupt and amoral. The peace treaty that nearly got signed when Bill Clinton was President was as good as anything President Obama will be able to deliver. Do Palestinians ask why it did not go through?
What saddened me most about President Obama's speech was that without actually apologising for America's mistakes he made it sound as if all the mistakes were on one side. It would have been nice when he mentioned American mistakes if he had mentioned a few made by Islamic countries. Pakistan ran a black market in nuclear bombs. Saudi money builds madrasas in Indian villages that poison our happy heathen atmosphere. The war with the United States was started by Osama bin Laden. India is under constant threat from terrorist groups that continue to be nurtured by the Pakistani state. The release of Sayeed is proof. And, the reaction of President Obama's government is to give Pakistan more aid than ever before.
President Obama seems not to know that there are more Muslims in the Indian sub-continent than anywhere and that we lived in relative harmony till Saudi money started to fund Wahabi Islam.
http://www.indianexpress.com/news/obamas-candour-in-timeless-cairo/472603/
Obama's candour in timeless Cairo
Posted: Sunday , Jun 07, 2009 at 0344 hrs IST
Barack Obama's speech in Egypt on Thursday is quite simply one of the most important articulations by any world leader on the relationship between Islam and the West—indeed, between Islam and the rest of the world. The first sentence in his speech—"I am honored to be in the timeless city of Cairo"—is, outwardly, a tribute to the hoary civilisational past of the country and its capital. But the choice of the word 'timeless' also befits several themes and thoughts that flow through the speech like meandering River Nile. It is heartening to see the president of the United States approach many global issues, including issues that have created a problematic relationship between America and the Muslim community, from the standpoint of truth and justice. He made the Holy Koran's injunction "Be conscious of God and speak always the truth" the touchstone of his speech and said, "That is what I will try to do—to speak the truth as best I can." Like 'truth', the word 'justice' figured several times in his long, 5,802-word speech.
Obama's choice of Egypt for delivering his much-anticipated address to the Muslim world, and his resolve to be candid and honest, reminded me of what the late Naguib Mahfouz, Egypt's greatest novelist, said in his speech while accepting the Nobel Prize in 2006. "I am the son of two civilisations that at a certain age in history have formed a happy marriage. The first of these, seven thousand years old, is the Pharaonic civilisation; the second, one thousand four hundred years old, is the Islamic one¿Gone now is that (first) civilization—a mere story of the past. One day the great Pyramid will disappear too. But Truth and Justice will remain for as long as Mankind has a ruminative mind and a living conscience."
Obama's speech reached the heights of greatness because he recognised both the mortality of human beings and the immortality of the ideals that ought to guide the journey of humanity. "All of us share this world for but a brief moment in time," he observed, and added words derived from the wisdom of the ages: "The question is whether we spend that time focused on what pushes us apart, or whether we commit ourselves to an effort—a sustained effort—to find common ground, to focus on the future we seek for our children, and to respect the dignity of all human beings."
He seemed sincere in his soul-searching. "It is easier to start wars than to end them; it is easier to blame others than to look inward." He almost admitted that America's war on Iraq was wrong. Stating that his policy would be "Leave Iraq to Iraqis", he added, "I have made it clear to the Iraqi people that we pursue no bases, and no claim on their territory or resources." This is music to the ears of many fair critics of America. And so also is what he said on the other war that the US is engaged in. "Make no mistake: we do not want to keep our troops in Afghanistan. We seek no military bases there. It is agonising for America to lose our young men and women. It is costly and politically difficult to continue this conflict. We would gladly bring every single one of our troops home if we could be confident that there were not violent extremists in Afghanistan and Pakistan determined to kill as many Americans as they possibly can. But that is not yet the case."
Obama is entitled to saying that "We will, however, relentlessly confront violent extremists who pose a grave threat to our security." But we in India will judge him and his administration on the basis of whether they address the root of the problem, which is that terrorists in Pakistan are, and have all along been, protected and patronised by its military rulers. If the US is entitled to worry about, and take suitable steps for, its own security because "al Qaeda killed nearly 3,000 people on 9/11", isn't India, which has lost 20 times more people in attacks by Pak-based terrorists over the past nearly three decades, even more entitled to do the same? This is a question that Indians must keep asking our American friends. And it is also a question that India must be ready to answer on its own.
Obama's Cairo speech covered a broad array of issues, from religious freedom to women's empowerment, from the tensions between globalisation and religious-cultural identities to the need to move towards a nuclear weapons-free world. He was most impassioned on the imperative to end the Israel-Palestine conflict on the basis of fulfilling the legitimate aspirations of both sides. "Too many tears have flowed. Too much blood has been shed. All of us have a responsibility to work for the day when the mothers of Israelis and Palestinians can see their children grow up without fear; when the Holy Land of three great faiths is the place of peace that God intended it to be; when Jerusalem is a secure and lasting home for Jews and Christians and Muslims, and a place for all of the children of Abraham to mingle peacefully together as in the story of Isra, when Moses, Jesus, and Mohammed (peace be upon them) joined in prayer." I, a Hindu, await that day as keenly as any peace-loving Jew, Christian or Muslim.
I found two things missing in Obama's speech. Firstly, he did not explore, even tangentially, the theological roots of religious intolerance and extremism. Secondly, he nowhere mentioned India in his descriptive, analytical or normative narrative. After all, India is home to the second largest Muslim population in the world. More important, in its own 1,400-year-old interaction with Islam, India has changed it in ways that would certainly interest Obama. And unlike Egypt, India's pre-Islamic civilisation or spirituality did not simply vanish in this interaction. In talking about the "proud tradition of tolerance" in Islam, Obama says, "We see it in the history of Andalusia and Cordoba during the Inquisition. I saw it firsthand as a child in Indonesia, where devout Christians worshiped freely in an overwhelmingly Muslim country. That is the spirit we need today." Mr. Obama, if Indonesia, the most populous Muslim country in the world, presents a tolerant picture of Islam, it certainly has something to do with the civilisational and spiritual history of India.
(Write to: sudheenkulkarni@gmail.com)
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Drake and his pops, Dennis Graham continue to promote Drizzy's new whiskey brand, Virginia Black, while also hilariously trolling Dos Equis.
Aubrey recently posted two new short ads onto his Instagram page. The new clips have the same set up as the first ones did with the rap star and his pops in a dimly-lit room with a fire blazing in the fire place. "You wanna know who's not worried about The Most Interesting Man in the World? The realest dude ever," Drake says to the camera. The camera then cuts to Dennis, who is suited and booted, sipping on a glass of VB. "One time, a girl invited me skiing," he says.
In the second clip, Dennis responds to the same query from Drake, "These glasses aren't even prescription."
Two weeks ago, Drake debuted the first two ads on his Instagram page, which were similar to the recent commercials, and also jabbed Dos Equis' Most Interesting Man in the World.
Drake has been promoting the Virginia Black line since last February, before it even debuted. Since then, he's shouted the whiskey out in songs like "Gyalchester" and even famously took a swing of Virginia Black after breaking Adele's record for most individual wins at the 2017 Billboard Music Awards.
If the liquor line doesn't work out, Drizzy still has these massive Degrassi checks rolling in to supplement his income.
Check out the two new ads below.


Northern California is one of the most beautiful areas in the world. The Redwood Trees are absolutely amazing. From the redwood trees to Lake Tahoe to the beautiful coastline, this part of the US is truly majestic and awe inspiring. Every time you turn is the right spot for a photo opportunity. Check out my list of fun things to do in the region, which ranges from activities found in San Francisco all the way up to the Oregon border in Klamath. Enjoy!
Driving across the Golden Gate Bridge is a spectacular experience, however, walking across it is even more mesmerizing! Walking across the bridge is an exhilarating experience which allows you to truly appreciate the scenery and magnificence of the area.
Located along the coast of California, these Redwood trees hold an indescribable beauty; you really need to see them for yourself to take in the magnificence. Even if you are short on time and unable to take a hike or bike ride, just driving through the area for a few hours will allow you to take in the natural beauty of the forests.
The Lake Tahoe area is one of my favorite vacation destinations. There is so much beauty and so much to do. If you are looking for outdoor recreation you will find a plethora of options including scenic drives, hikes, gondola rides, skiing, ice skating, bike rides, boat rides, and more.
If you are looking for restaurants you have fine dining, casino buffets, theme restaurants, and more. If you are looking for entertainment you can head over to the Stateline casinos for shows and live entertainment. No matter what season you visit there is always something to do. An Emerald Bay hike is an unparallelled experience.
This roadside attraction offers an aerial tramway which takes you up past the tall trees onto an observation deck. From up here you get fantastic views of the forests and Pacific Ocean. In addition, there is a museum (with a lot of cool Bigfoot history) and also a 49 foot tall statue of Paul Bunyan.
This beach in Fort Bragg is loaded with sea glass, hence the nickname of Glass Beach. Over 50 years ago Fort Bragg was used as a public dump; years later the broken glass has transformed and tumbled into sea glass. You could spend hours here sifting through old sea glass. The way the glass sparkles in the sun is an incredible sight. If you are lucky you might see some seals. Exploring the tide pools is another fun option.
Hwy 101 is a photographer's dream. Take your time with this drive; the views are to die for. It is rated the most scenic drive in the US and for good reason. You will drive past gigantic redwood trees, magnificent cliffs, and the Pacific Ocean. One of the best parts of this drive is the "Avenue of the Giants," an extremely scenic 31 mile drive through very tall Redwood Trees.
Seaside State Beach, located in Monterey State Park is a hotspot for those hunting for sea glass. The pieces here are mostly small, but that makes them easier to turn into jewelry. Search the rocks during low tide. The secluded feeling of the beach makes it the perfect spot to spend the day relaxing on the sand listening to the waves.
Northern California is known for being home to some great seafood restaurants. San Francisco is a great destination for dining, seafood lover or not, there are more than enough choices to entice even the pickiest diners.
Willits is nicknamed "The Heart of Mendocino County" and "Gateway to the Redwoods." This is a great area to stay because of the close proximity to the Redwood Trees. In addition, Willits offers amenities of it's own including the Sherwood Valley Rancheria Casino.
There is a gigantic 49 foot tall statue of Paul Bunyan at the Trees of Mystery in Klamath. There is also a 35-foot-tall statue of Babe the Blue Ox.


Nipsey Hussle has the world mourning following his murder on the 31st of March, 2019.
However, many have been wondering about the mother of his first child as she hasn't been mentioned.
Found her on Instagram and she goes by the name Chyna Hussle. Turns out they had a cordial relationship, at least as far back as 2016. She has also been in a relationship with another man as far back as 2013.
In one of her posts, she praised him as the best father ever. She also said he isn't fake.


Obama Tests Keynes : Planet Money On today's Planet Money, America's recession as $800 billion guinea pig.
-- Justin Ritchie of Charlotte, North Carolina, bought the living room set pictured above from a Craiglist ad. The seller, he says, was a Bank of America employee who decided now would be a good time to return to India.
-- When Super Bowl 43 is finished, the host city of Tampa can expect to count up a $150 million boost to its economy. But economist Philip Porter of the University of South Florida tells Mike Pesca there's no way that's true.
-- President Barack Obama says that only government can pull America out of a recession this severe. Obama calls his plan for stimulus spending of well more than $800 million a new idea, but Adam Davidson and Alex Blumberg say this kind of public spending relies on an old theory. John Maynard Keynes wrote it up in 1936 — and this recession marks its first real-world test.
Bonus: Results of our Name the Crisis poll, after the jump.
True confession: I voted for Economageddon, but wanted Great Recession to win.
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Breathwork is a type of alternative treatment that concentrates on how ones breathing patterns can connect different parts one ones mind, body and soul together promoting a sense of well being and healing.
It has been known in many ancient civilizations through the years that breath and breathing control are vital for our health and one can control and direct breathing into a pattern whereby your physiological, psychological, spiritual and emotional states are be regulated.
Breath for any living thing is observed from the very second we are born to the very last second of or lives. It stays with us for our entire lives and controls every aspect of a human body. Without breath, our hearts stop and therefore, we do. Breathwork is aimed at looking into the dynamics of breathing and tries to raise awareness into how one can improve ones breathing techniques.
Breathing is the language of the soul. We all breathe in different ways. Most of us are lazy with our breaths and don't use up the full lung capacity that was given to us. Breathing habits depend on different situations, sometimes it is just a small shift and sometimes it can be much more of a change. For example a person does not breathe the same way if he were calm as opposed to if he were angry or scared. All different states of the mind correlate to a different breathing pattern and as you transgress from one state to the other, your breathing patterns change. Muscular coordination and physical tension also contribute to the change in breathing patterns. Generally if one has good posture when sitting or standing, then this promotes good and full breathing.
Energy and chemistry play vital roles in our breathing and this energy that is emitted is vital to our life force. Shock and pain is absorbed through our breath as well as wherever on our body the pain originates from. Being aware of our breath and how it works is what breathwork teaches and can bring to light what we maybe unconsciously think about. Yawning and sighing can be positive attributes to breathing although one does not think about any of these things as positive effects of breathing. Sometimes deliberately trying to yawn will help your positive breathing techniques.
Try initiating a breath with an exhale first. Just simply by changing the order of breath we can achieve positive breathing. When most people think of breathing, they think in terms of an inhale followed by an exhale.
Explore the different breathing spaces in your body. There are three main ones. The lower, the middle and the upper. Try filling each section full of breath like filling up a glass.
Slow down your breathing and breath long and slow. These kinds of breaths promote good healthy breathing and reduce stress and help focus.
Combine breathing with thinking and you will have a clearer view of things in your path.
Combine breathing with movement and try and regulate your breathing accordingly exhaling as you exert your self and inhaling as you come back to a relaxing state.
Together with these steps and a healthy lifestyle, you can add years to your life and help your body maintain a healthy and full state. The techniques mentioned can be used by everyone and can help in all sorts of situations, simply by breathing right. It is a perfectly natural way to achieve positivism in ones breathing which in turn signifies a positive life.


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Collin Gosselin, 12 was put in a program away from home to work on issues and by Kate announcing this to the world, she has peeved off ex, Jon!
Kate Gosselin, who shot to fame as a reality star with a brood of eight kids, may be paying the ultimate price for that stardom today. In a very disturbing turn of events, Kate revealed she had to make a decision that was a very difficult one to make. This reality star mom of eight had to send her son Collin, who is one of her 12-year-old sextuplets, away from home to a treatment program where he can work on some issues.
Kate did not go into detail about these issues in her announcement, but it has been known for some time that Collin is a child with special needs.
A while back news surfaced that Collin had been suspended from school for behavior that was described as "violent" and "abusive," but Kate denied the rumors, according to MStarsNews.
Kate posted a recent picture of all eight of her kids on their first day of school this year before Collin left home. The sextuplets are entering 5th grade and the two older twin girls, Mady and Cara, are in high school.
Kate sprouted fame with her first show, Jon and Kate plus 8, but later dropping "Jon" from the show when the two divorced and going on with another reality show, Kate Plus 8. Ironically the divorce was partially due to the show, where Jon didn't want his kids to have strangers with cameras in tow filming every step they made.
The parenting style of Kate was often questioned through the years, as she had a short fuse, which was demonstrated on her show. Towards the end of her last series she joined some other mothers on a road trip with the kids. Each family had their own RV and driver. Kate was unbelievably miserable for anyone to be around and she lost her temper not only at the kids, but at her friends as well. It was a nightmare of a trip, or at least it appeared that way to the viewers at home.
Kate had the opposite view on the kids growing up in front of the cameras of her reality show than her ex-husband Jon. He wanted the cameras to go away and his for his kids to finally get a normal childhood. At the time he said this, he also reported the kids were developing emotional problems and he thought it was time to give them some privacy by taking the cameras away.
An insider told Radaronline that at the time Jon was strongly advocating for the filming to stop, everyone thought he was acting "crazy." They thought he wanted the show to end because of the jealousy he was feeling from being left out.
That wasn't the case at all apparently and now evidence of this surfaces with Collin's departure from home. Collin is in a medical facility in Pennsylvania, which is the state where Kate and her brood of eight live.
Kate fought Jon tooth and nail, as she was adamant about the kids not only loving being on camera, but she said they considered the camera crew part of the family. Radaronline reports Jon Gosselin is furious over Kate recently appearing on the cover of People Magazine for a featured article where she reveals their son's problems.
He is only 12-years-old and for a mother to announce his problems to the world, her ex is questioning "what kind of mother would do that?"
The Gosselin family has never had a chance to be normal for any length of time as Kate's quest to be reality show stars kept them entertaining the masses via their shows. When they ended she shopped around on other networks for a reality show, but she had no takers.
How did Collin come to this?
Kids with anger issues come out of families from every walk of life, so to say that it was the cameras rolling on a constant basis was the cause for Collin needing help just wouldn't be fair. After all there are seven other Gosellin kids who went through the same thing and who don't need a treatment facility today. To say that growing up with a camera in his face on a constant basis may have added to Collin's problems, might be more of a statement based in reality.


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Succeeding in Life
Changing one life at a time
Chapter 10: Trophy
Chapter 11: Winn
Chapter 12: The Green Room
Chapter 13: Slow Climb
Chapter 1: Tomato Soup Eyelids
Chapter 2: Picadome
Chapter 3: Invisible
Chapter 4: Homecoming
Chapter 5: Leaky Pipe
Chapter 6: Belly Flop
Chapter 7: Turkey Loaf
Chapter 8: Alice
Chapter 9: Red
Saving Mijo – Prologue
What it's all about
An Inordinate Faith – Part 2
My one and only interaction with religion at WWU happened while crossing paths with a CCF keg mission. I was stumbling out of a dorm party late on a Saturday night when I noticed three guys standing on the sidewalk watching me. As I waited for my roommate to finish hitting on a girl near the exit, one of the guys approached.
"Hey," he said.
"Hey," I replied.
A long, uncomfortable pause followed and then he introduced himself. I don't recall much of the conversation after that, but it must've been convincing because he was ringing our doorbell at 8:45 the next morning to take us to church. I say us, because I roped my roommate into coming along. The service went almost two hours, with raising of hands, altar calls and threats of damnation. It was the full evangelical enchilada. Boy, was my roommate pissed.
Being a lifelong Catholic, the revival service was definitely not his thing. It wasn't mine either, but I was entertained with the people-watching, and especially with the guy talking in tongues. I had seen a lot in my life to that point, but that was a first. Afterward, we were dropped in front of our apartment and that was the last I saw of our host until I heard him giving an impromptu sermon in the middle of Red Square between classes later that fall. As before, I was caught up in people-watching–some stopped to listen, some gazed in disbelief, but mostly people kept on walking, and so did I. While I would on occasion, attend a service during Christmas while home on break, church was a non-factor. I wasn't without, however.
My church was the outdoors and through my immersion in it, through skiing, sailing and an occasional hike, I felt most at peace when I was in Nature. It would take awhile, but my awareness would eventually shift from me, to something bigger than me. And I would feel very small, yet connected to something really BIG. It was this experience that kept me returning to the outdoors and I felt a certain reverence for it. It was, however, disconnected from any doctrine that I understood, and existed separate from the God I had learned about in the church of my youth.
I met my wife to be in the waning years of college, and when we decided to marry we searched for a fitting place for the ceremony. Given my wife was a cradle Episcopalian, we ventured into a few of the churches in North Seattle, however after finding three parishes with not much more than aging, silver-haired rectors and fifty blue haired ladies in the pews, we returned to the Congregational church of my high school years. The same pastor was presiding, though his son had left several years before to seminary. The pastor was kind and helpful, guiding us through a Myers-Briggs exercise as part of his pastoral duties, and in an ode to the 60's anti-establishment movement, wrote our own vows. Our voices were high and child-like and after much practice, we still got it wrong. She said I do. I said I will.
Within a year, I moved us to Los Angeles for a career opportunity. I was consumed with making the switch from engineering to sales, and my wife was working retail at the Glendale Mall. We lived in the foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains, less than a mile from Nasa's Jet Propulsion Laboratories. I would ride my mountain bike up the Brown Mountain road to the El Prieto trail, a challenging descent full of hairpin switchbacks, thorny cacti and river rocks the size of wheelbarrows. Here again, away from the noise and humanity, I connected with something that I fail to accurately describe–from an engineering sense that is.
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Gazing over the LA basin at the top of the trailhead, I would be reminded of how small I was, and yet I never felt diminished by it. I was energized rather, increased. Perhaps it was the reminder that I was not in control, and I found that to be such an amazing relief. On Sunday's, I would take my aging, hermit of an uncle to a local restaurant for prime rib, deviled eggs and Becks beer. On the return to his house up Lake Avenue, we would turn east on Mendocino and then north on Maiden Lane, following it as it twisted left, then right, while the panorama of the San Gabriel's shifted in the window frame of his '68 Beetle. Here too, in the foothills, we were reminded of our place in the world. A toothless ninety year old, and me. My wife and I visited an Anglican church in Pasadena at some point, but felt out of place in the Sunday fashion show, and my company supplied Ford Taurus was no match for the BMWs and Mercedes in the parking lot.
Eighteen months later, we moved back north, landing in Washougal. As unlikely a place as I would have picked, it was the inexpensive property and proximity to the airport that was the rationale. I would learn later of a more profound reason for landing here. The children soon started showing up, every two years by my wife's plan. We felt compelled to provide some framework for learning about faith so we ended up at the local Episcopal church. As we had found before, it had an aging rector and fifty blue haired ladies in the pews, but they were sweet and there was one other family who had children of similar ages. We decided to make it our home.
Thus it was here, in the last place I would have guessed, that I began to learn about Jesus. Not the Jesus I had been told about, however. But the intimate Jesus I began to experience–the Jesus that appears during the weakest and most painful of moments that emerge with a coming of age.
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My journey of faith has been the proverbial road less traveled. It began with being baptized in the Catholic church, a decision I believe was more out of, "this is what all good Catholics do," than anything else. My parents were not religious per se, other than showing up for services twice a year at Christmas and Easter. Not that it would have made them religious if they would have gone more frequently. Maybe just observant Catholics.
By the late 60's we had moved north to Washington and landed in the pews of a United Methodist congregation. Not observant Catholics anymore, we traded Eucharist with wine drunk from a chalice and bread torn from a loaf, for grape juice in small thimble cups and thin wafers that tasted like cardboard. The Methodist church we attended in Bellevue was a country club and the congregation did all the right things that enlightened churches were supposed to do: Preach from the lectionary, celebrate weddings and funerals, teach sunday school, host holiday bazaars and ice cream socials and produce a Christmas pageant that would be worthy of a front page article in the Bellevue American newspaper. Or at least the front page of the local section which comes after the sports and business sections.
This was not unique to the Methodists, however. You could have put any one of a handful of denominations in front of "church"–Episcopal, Presbyterian, Baptist, etc., and would have come up with the same formula.
Regardless, the pastor looked like Dr. Marcus Welby, M.D., wore fine gray suits and drove a Cadillac. I attended sunday school like all the other good children. One Sunday morning while ducking out of class to use the bathroom, I noticed small draw string bags hanging from all the closed classroom doors. Curious, I looked inside one bag and it was full of coins. Helping myself to a few, I checked the rest of the doors and was equally rewarded. I liked that church. My bike was stolen in front of it.
Church life took a big detour when my dad signed us up for a Peace Corps family program, and it never quite recovered. We lived in far flung foreign lands such as Venezuela, Liberia and Lexington, Kentucky. Witnessing racism, third world poverty and ancient tribal spirituality, we were permanently liberated from the orthodoxy of the suburban American Christian experience. Thus, on our homecoming to the Methodist church, it was like wearing plaid to a funeral.
Sensing the misfit and desiring an new community a bit less WASP'y, my mom lead us to a Unitarian church, recommended by some recent friends in her artist group from Cornish College where she had been attending. The Unitarians were an entirely different bunch than we had ever experienced before. The Methodist messages on obedience, "thou shalt not's," and grape juice communions were traded for socially relevant sermons on US foreign policy, racial tension in America and poverty. The church was even housing an illegal Guatemalan, a refugee from the civil war crisis in Central America. The biggest departure from our prior experiences with what happened on retreat. Far from the family church retreats past, this crowd knew how to party and wine, weed and women was the rally cry.
On a side note, now that I am a parent of teenagers it strikes me that the result of all this happening concurrent to my coming of age turned out to be the best deterrent a parent could imagine for an impressionable young boy. Best illustrated by a family church retreat we participated in at a nudist camp in BC; nothing, I repeat nothing, to a thirteen year-old is more repulsive than to see their parents strolling through a campsite naked. It is an enduring image that has spawned a compensating modesty that survives even today.
While a move to Seattle ended the Unitarian phase, Mom was clearly in control by now and she began to experiment outside the lines of Christianity, joining a community in a North Seattle ashram. I'm not even sure what to call the community, other than it was some derivation of non-dualism. This culminated in a second trip to BC for a convention of sorts, attracting East Indian families from all over Canada and the US. While this was not much more than a detour, I gained an appreciation for Tandoori chicken, curry and chapatis.
Soon after, we landed in a Congregational church. Somewhere between the Methodist and Unitarian experience, the service was more traditional, returning to the thimble cups and cardboard wafers. The high school youth group, however, was entirely a different story. In spite of the best efforts of the parent-leaders, the person clearly in charge was the son of the preacher. He was into martial arts, Led Zeppelin and always had good weed. Our annual youth group fundraising ventures to Yakima for peaches, and mission trips to Mt. Vernon to help run summer schools for children of migrant workers, were all done in the backdrop of mind-expanding, blue smoke filled conversations and eastern mysticism.
Reflecting on the sum of my childhood experiences with church and faith, what strikes me most is I cannot recall not even one conversation about God, the nature of God, how God relates to me, or I to Him. I'm not saying that it didn't happen. I just don't remember if it did. And it's not as though He was absent. Just that He was kind of a fixture. Like Mt. Rainier in the distance. On a sunny day you can see it, but most days you don't (this is the Northwest after all). But you always know the mountain is there and don't question it. That was the sum total of my experience with God in my childhood.
Three years later, I left home for college and did not grace the door of a church, even for Christmas and Easter, for another 12 years.
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Jeffrey L. Brown, 35 of Palatka, Florida, passed away December 4, 2021 after a motorcycle accident. Jeffrey was born on September 16, 1986 in Elizabeth, NJ and moved to Green Bay, Wisconsin where he enjoyed playing in the snow and growing up with his family. After a short time Jeff moved to Palatka, FL where he has resided the last 21 years. Jeffrey was a member of Trinity Baptist Church. He was a successful Welder and business owner, He was passionate about fast cars, motorcycles, fishing and hunting, but most of all his family was his true love. Jeffrey was proceeded in death by his maternal grandparents, Sam and Joan Germait; paternal grandparents, Claud Brown and Mary Behme. Jeffrey is survived by his parents, John Brown and Jessica Germait of Fort McCoy; brother, Brett and Becky Brown of Palaski, Wisconsin; sister Joann Brown of Fort McCoy; wife, Krystal Sweat of Palatka; his children, Jadelyn Davidson Paxton Sweat, Seth Brown and Savannah Brown. Many aunts, uncles, cousins and friends who adored him. His Memory will live on forever in our hearts. There will be a memorial service in his honor on Saturday December 11, 2021 at 2:00pm located at Trinity Baptist Church on Silver Lake Drive.
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Remember the new Ford Ranger pickup truck? Of course you do. You probably clicked on this article to drop "Why don't they sell it in America?" into the comments. One of the reasons I've heard is "it's too close in size to the F-150" but you never really see both trucks in the same place. Now you can.
Ford Ranger production was discontinued for the U.S. market in 2012, but a whole new bodystyle was introduced around the same time for just about every other country on Earth. That third-generation Ranger is sold in many markets today.
Reader Michael M. in New Zealand spotted both Ford's four-door pickups on the street and I thought it was a unique opportunity to see the two compared in real life. I don't think I've ever actually seen the trucks together before.
You can read the specifications of any truck online and see that today's four-door F-150 is almost two feet longer than the current four-door Ranger, with about a foot and a half more wheelbase. Does that look apparent to you in the picture or would you guess they're closer?
The Ford Raptor in this image is now that of the previous-generation F-150 bodystyle, but the difference between that and the current truck is pretty slim. Ford lists the 2016 four-door truck's wheelbase at 145 inches and total length at 231.9 inches.
We did a big breakdown of midsize truck dimensions when the new Chevy Colorado came out last year, but real images tend to be more interesting than spreadsheets so I thought the comparison was worth revisiting, even if it leaves my own impressions unchanged.
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