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Mi 11X and Mi 11X Pro Announced in India with 120Hz AMOLED Display and More
By Abin Benny April 23, 2021 Updated: April 23, 2021 18 Comments4 Mins Read
Along with the Mi 11 Ultra, Xiaomi launched two smartphones in India – the Mi 11X and Mi 11X Pro. After teasing about the launch of the new X Series in the country for a while, the company has finally brought it to the Indian market.
These smartphones as you might know are the rebranded versions of the Redmi K40 and K40 Pro. These smartphones are powered by the latest Qualcomm Snapdragon chipsets and sport an AMOLED display with a high refresh rate. Let us explore the details of these smartphones and get to know about the pricing and availability of the same.
Specifications of Mi 11X
It features a 6.67-inch full-HD+ E4 AMOLED display with 2400 x 1080 pixels resolution along with 1,300 nits of peak brightness, and the same also features a 120Hz refresh rate, as well as 360Hz touch sampling rate. The display also comes with a 20:9 aspect ratio and a punch-hole at centre of the screen and the company claims to be the smallest in the world.
The smartphone is powered by the octa-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 870 SoC, along with up to 8GB of LPDDR5 RAM. In terms of storage, the device is coming with up to 128 GB of UFS 3.1 internal storage.
Speaking about the camera department, the Mi 11X features a 48-megapixel Sony IMX582 primary sensor, along with an 8-megapixel sensor with an ultra-wide-angle lens, and a 5-megapixel sensor with a macro lens. You will also get a 20-megapixel camera sensor at the front. The smartphone is also coming with a side-mounted fingerprint scanner along with the traditional security options. It is also coming with stereo speakers as well as an IP53 rating.
Regarding the connectivity options. The latest smartphone of the company comes with 5G, 4G LTE, Wi-Fi 6, Bluetooth v5.1, GPS/ A-GPS, NFC, Infrared (IR), and a USB Type-C port. It is also coming with a 4,520mAh battery that supports 33W fast charging. The phone runs on Android 11 with MIUI 12 on top. It will be available in Arctic White, Night Black, Deep Ocean Blue colours. The smartphone weighs 196 grams,
Specifications of Mi 11X Pro
The Mi 11X Pro sports a 6.67-inch full-HD+ E4 AMOLED display with 2400 x 1080 pixels resolution and the device is also coming with a 120Hz refresh rate and 360Hz touch sampling rate. It is also coming with the power of the newly announced Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 SoC, and the same is paired with up to 8GB of RAM. In terms of storage, the smartphone is coming with up to 256 GB of UFS 3.1 internal storage.
Coming to the camera department, the Mi 11X Pro is coming with the triple rear camera setup and that is in the combination of a 108-megapixel Samsung HM2 primary sensor, along with an 8-megapixel sensor with an ultra-wide-angle 119-degree lens and a 5-megapixel tertiary sensor. The device is also coming with a 20-megapixel front-facing camera. It is also coming with stereo speakers as well as an IP53 rating.
Regarding the connectivity options, the smartphone supports 5G, 4G LTE, Wi-Fi 6, Bluetooth, GPS/ A-GPS, NFC, NAVIC, Infrared (IR), and a USB Type-C port. The phone packs a 4,520mAh battery that supports 33W fast charging and the same runs on Android 11 with MIUI 12 on top. It sports an in-display fingerprint scanner for security as well.
The Xiaomi Mi 11X with 6GB + 128GB memory configuration is priced at ₹29,999 and the version with 8GB +128GB will retail for ₹31,999. On the other hand, the Mi 11X Pro with 8GB + 128GB memory configuration is priced at ₹39,999 and the model with 8GB + 256GB configuration will be sold for ₹41,999. Mi 11X will be available for purchase from 27th April and the Pro model will be available for pre-order from April 24 in India.
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As environmentally conscious fashion becomes less buzzwordy and is seen for what it should be – an increasingly serious necessity – Swedish brand Weekday is forging the way with its new 100% recycled Spring/Summer 2019 collection. And it looks pretty damn good.
Inspired by the idea of owning your own choices and that individually we all have the power to have less impact on the environment, the collection features an eclectic mix of modern workwear and classic sleepwear pieces. Bold and utility in style, the denim and jersey pieces play with proportions and sport contrast stitching and boxy, oversized pockets.
The pieces we particularly have our eyes on? A sculptural, backless denim dungaree dress that's ideal for a hot summer day at the office, and a cream kimono-style jacket, perfect for belting over spring dresses.
Created with Spanish upcycling company Recover, the collection considers a more progressive way for the industry to recover and reuse textile waste to create new fabrics. The process unites science and technology with design – post-industrial cotton waste is first collected and separated by colour, so no recolouring is needed, before being shredded into fibres and blended with recycled polyester (made from recycled PET plastic bottles).
The two low-impact materials created – a light knitted cotton for jersey and a heavy woven cotton for denim – not only help save on energy, CO2, chemicals and water during the manufacturing process, but also stop plastic bottles from ending up in landfill or the ocean.
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Top Japan sumo wrestler Hakuho infected with coronavirus - JSA
FILE PHOTO - Mongolian-born grand sumo champion yokozuna Hakuho performs the New Year's ring-entering rite at the annual celebration for the New Year at Meiji Shrine in Tokyo
TOKYO (Reuters) -Japan's top-ranked sumo wrestler Hakuho has tested positive for coronavirus, the Japan Sumo Association (JSA) announced on Tuesday.
Mongolian-born Hakuho, who is the longest-serving yokozuna - top-ranked sumo wrestler - of all time announced via the JSA website that he took a COVID-19 test after losing his sense of smell.
Hakuho will now seek the advice of specialists and the other wrestlers in his Miyagino stable will now also be tested, according to the statement.
Hakuho's positive test comes just five days before the sumo New Year Grand Tournament is due to start on January 10.
So far, the JSA hasn't said whether the tournament will be postponed.
In May, 28-year-old sumo wrestler Shobushi died due to multiple organ failure related to the coronavirus after he became infected.
As of Tuesday, Japan has reported 249,246 cases of coronavirus and 3,693 deaths.
Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga on Tuesday told a ruling party meeting a state of emergency declaration for Tokyo and the surrounding area would be decided on Thursday, local media has reported.
(Reporting by Chang-Ran Kim and Jack Tarrant; Editing by Himani Sarkar and Lincoln Feast.)
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Motorists are being advised about payment changes to off-street parking meters in four council-run Bath city centre car parks.
And they are being encouraged to sign up for an easy-to-use app called MiPermit to make payments easier and more flexible.
Bath &North East Somerset Council is changing the card payment pads on meters in Charlotte Street, Manvers Street, Avon Street and Kingsmead Square car parks.
Work is expected to start later this summer to change the payment pads, which should take up to three days to complete. Once finished, it means there will be two meters in Avon Street which will accept cards (contactless), one in Manvers Street, one in Kingsmead Square and two in Charlotte Street. The remaining machines will still accept coins but not cards.
And setting up the MiPermit app now means residents will be ready to take advantage of the 10% reduction in daily parking charges when the new Residents Parking Saver discount, is launched on 13th August.
The app also allows drivers to top-up their parking, up to the maximum time available, if they think they are about to run out of time and risk a parking ticket. People using the app will see a 10p transaction charge, to cover administration costs. The fee is in line with most authorities and cheaper than others.
More details on the timings of the works will be publicised in due course. To help members of the public Bath & North East Somerset Council car park staff will be available during the peak times, while the work is underway, for card transactions in Avon Street and Charlotte Street car parks to help motorists if they have any payment issues and to show them how easy the MiPermit app is.
Councillor Mark Shelford, (Conservative Lyncombe) cabinet member for Transport and Environment, said: "The card payment method is changing partly because we need to meet PCI compliance but also to help speed up transaction times for drivers.
"There is still the cash option, however we are recommending people sign up to MiPermit which is by far the quickest, most convenient way to pay for parking. There are lots of benefits to it not least that it is cashless, no queueing at a meter and it is flexible so you can even add time onto your stay if you need to park for longer without having to run back to a machine and put more money in.
Bath & North East Somerset Council is changing the card payment pads on meters in Charlotte Street, Manvers Street, Avon Street and Kingsmead Square car parks.
From July 23 work will start to change the payment pads, which will take up to three days to complete. Once finished, it means there will be two meters in Avon Street which will accept cards (contactless), one in Manvers Street, one in Kingsmead Square and two in Charlotte Street. The remaining machines will still accept coins but not cards.
All updated machines will have cash and contactless card payments and because of an upgrade to the network the contactless payment transactions will be quicker using 3G which means they should be successful the first time.
However, the council is encouraging drivers to ditch cash and card and switch to the MiPermit app which means drivers can even pay for their parking before setting off or pay from the comfort of their own car when they pull into a space – avoiding having to queue at a meter.


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Back again.. in la la land! Literally love it there so much and had to share it with Alex so he knew what I mean when I say "we're moving here".
We had a nice little 2 night stay there yet crammed absolutely everything we could in!! Im exhausted. We hiked the Hollywood sign (after saying I would never do it again" we went to hollywood blvd, watched a LAKERS game, went to Venice and Santa Monica, took a million photos on Melrose Ave... and ate a lot of food. This time I definitely did not get any tattoos.. as tempted as I was! The weather was absolutely beaut for our trip, and definitely warmed up compared to the last couple times ive been. So many people message me and ask if its hard doing this job when you have a boyfriend? Of course it is!! It's really difficult and it genuinely makes or brakes a relationship, im super lucky to have Alex as he's been by my side for a long time now and is really supportive. Plus he gets so many free holidays because of me now!! I swear he enjoys the benefits more than I do, he's traveled in upper class.. im still yet to do that!! But when I have a long trip without him it can be hard, but then when I have a long trip and bring him with me.. it's the best!
I literally looked everywhere for a foam finger and couldn't find one anywhere!
The last day, and we decided to head over to Venice and Santa Monica.. it was such a gorgeous sunny day, perfect for photos! We was such tourists went and explored everything we could in the short time we had before flying back home that evening.. we even went to the coffee place that David Beckham gets his coffee... Alex was mainly excited about that!
On the way back to the hotel we stopped off at Melrose Ave... which is full of amazing street art that are such perfect instagram spots.
LA is still easily one of my favorite places that we fly to. The weather is always amazing, the people are always happy, the food there is great and there is always so much to do. If you want a weekend of relaxing by the pool, or doing hikes, going to the beach or walking around the shops. However LA is not really cheap... its such a big place you need to UBER it everywhere which can really add up.. but again so worth it!


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Lucas trial in Pueblo delayed again
Ryan Severance rseverance@chieftain.com @RyanSevvy
Jun 13, 2019 at 4:58 PM Jun 13, 2019 at 6:16 PM
The trial of Donthe Lucas for first-degree murder in the disappearance of Kelsie Schelling of Denver has been postponed to next year after the judge in the case granted a motion filed by the defense to push back the date.
Lucas' trial now is scheduled to begin on Jan. 14. It had previously been scheduled to begin July 30. Before that the trial was scheduled for April 2.
Guillermo Garibay, one of Lucas' defense attorneys, filed a motion to move the trial to June 3.
In the motion, Garibay stated more time is needed to prepare for trial due to the large number of prosecution witnesses that had been endorsed as of Jan. 7 and the additional number of witnesses that have been endorsed afterward. He also cited the demanding workload preparing for trial given the "overwhelming" amount of discovery that needs to be reviewed and studied, and the difficulty in locating and interviewing many witnesses who frequently move without providing forwarding addresses.
"Requiring the defense to proceed to trial on July 30... guarantees because counsel does not have sufficient time to adequately prepare to give Mr. Lucas the fair trial, effective assistance of counsel, the complete defense, and the fair trial to which he is entitled to," Garibay wrote.
Prosecutors objected to the delay and urged the judge to deny the defense's motion to continue the jury trial.
On the Help Find Kelsie Facebook page, which is managed by Schelling's family, a message was written following the announcement of the trial delay that stated: "Unbelievable that we will be two years after Donthe's arrest before we make it to trial. I expected another delay, but this was really hard to take. I don't know how anyone survives this system."
Detectives with the Pueblo Police Department arrested Lucas, 26, on Dec. 1, 2017, in connection with the February 2013 disappearance of Schelling.
An arrest warrant charging Lucas with first-degree murder was served to him while he already was in custody at the Pueblo County jail on an unrelated aggravated robbery charge stemming from an incident that allegedly took place outside of a home he was living at on the 1100 block of West Mesa Avenue on Sept. 1, 2017.
Lucas is being held at the Pueblo County jail without bond on the first-degree murder charge and on a $100,000 cash-only bond in the aggravated robbery case.
Schelling, then 21 years old, reportedly drove to Pueblo from her home in Denver on Feb. 4, 2013, to meet with Lucas, the purported father of her unborn child.
She has not been seen or heard from since.
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Project is using .net 4 and asp mvc 4. How i can convert this entities?

A: You can't convert a child class to its parent class.
You need to use some kind of interface for the parent class, e.g.
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A: You are able to case Category or Section to TaggedEntity, because both are derived from it, but IGrouping<Category, Section> and IGrouping<TaggedEntity, TaggedEntity> are totally different types.
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Category > 5/2016 Books, 5/2016 Critical Notes
F. Giordano, B. Perron (eds.), The Archives. Post-Cinema and Video Game between Memory and the Image of the Present [Mimesis International]
Giacomo Nencioni (Università per Stranieri di Perugia)
The volume is the product of the studies presented during the Postcinema section of Gorizia Magis Annual Spring School, held during Udine Filmforum, but this is a case where the value of the contributions exceed the simple proceedings of a conference: the ambitious aim of this book is not only to investigate what is an archive in a time of transition from analog to digital media, but most of all to understand the relation between the notion of archive and contemporary items such as user generated contents, video games, digital art or webseries.
This kind of objects often resist any kind of preservation, or at least pose some relevant questions on the continuity between old and new media, the role of the users in the building of an archive, the concept of memory in the contemporary media landscape.
As Bruce Sterling states in the first essay of the collection, we walked through the looking glass that separates us from the previous order before media transition and nothing can ever be the same: even though this is a dark, resigned vision of our era in which we have to accept the instability of the archive and the impossibility to describe what's happening, it's true that the Internet has become a place of mutations that we can't control, where the new productive processes put an enormous amount of variable in the traditional productive system (the studio system vs. Augmented Reality, for example) that challenges every category we had.
Augmented reality, hybrid digital art (as in Spielmann's essay), mobile consumption practices (Odin), interactive documentaries (Odorico) are just a few examples of a new relationship between us and the media: art can involve humans within a new living archive; mobile phones force us to think of a democratized archive; the new non-fiction contents offer a new way of collecting and rewriting memory that includes user experiences, emotions and participation.
The "human factor" in the contemporary archive notion seem to be one of the main points of the volume, as clearly pointed out by Jean Chateauvert who gives us an overview on a second level of archive: the reactions and comments to the episodes of a popular webseries like The Guild.
Observing the vast world of the social platform related to the series we can understand how social media enhance our experience as viewers: with different rules and targets for every different platform, from the series' official site's forum to Twitter, Tumblr and Facebook, users enjoy the experience of taking part on an archive of activities, being it related to fandom practices or simple comments on the episodes. These new forms of archive, or network of archives, are filtered only by sites and forum administrators, in a contract with users. These examples enlighten us on what has become of the potential of participatory culture, including human activities, albeit volatile, in what will be the future archives of our era.
The first part of the book concludes with an analysis of the preservation problems linked to the obsolescence of digital storage techniques, which leads to new strategies like emulation and to a constant monitoring of the archiving tools in a future constant flux (Alessandro Bordina), stressing once again the "living" feature of a new idea of archive; but it's in the second part of the collection that the focus moves from a general analysis of the audiovisual archive in the contemporary era to a specific focus on video game.
The result of this focus shows us how the video game universe can be a rich and useful resource to observe the actual form and practices of archiving.
We can enjoy different original and fruitful approaches to the issue, like a comparison between silent films and video games (Garin/Salvadò), where we see how the silent era shares with games a strong stress on visuality, playfulness and gags: their languages seem very close, so that we can talk about games as metaphorical archives of our medial past; another productive comparison is that between old book series and the serialization of video games on the Microsoft Xbox Live service (Fassone), which leads the author to talk about re-circulation and re-contextualization.
The contributions go further focusing also on the issue of practicing the video game, with the rhizomatic and "creative" expansion of the archive in a community of modders (Caruso), the instability and the potentially infinite paths offered by a game like Neverwinter Nights (Fornasiero), not to forget the question of the preservation of gameplay in contents like "Let's Play" or the "Playthrough", which represent, according to Dor and Perron, practices with specific archiving needs, linked to the experience of the gamer and difficult to preserve in cases where the game has no ending.
Is it possible, then, to talk about archivality in video games? Yes, if we accept an inevitable loss of the game identity, according to Federico Giordano's contribution: a game is a social object, and its identity is strongly intertwined with the gamer experience and its relation with an interface in a specific time and space. The need to transfer or emulate a game to preserve and archive it will necessarily mean the impossibility to spot an "original version" of the game itself. The conclusion of the volume, with its last essay, presents not only a more volatile and fragmented idea of a videogame archive, but also a new idea of the archivist who will have to consider this kind of inevitable loss and imagine critical editions and new forms of preservation, being able to follow the "traces" left by the game and its users' past experiences.
It's fascinating to see how many of the contributions find inspiration in the history of media, like the magic lantern of Etienne-Gaspard Robertson, the early cinema archiving issue in FIAF activities, the relation between cinema of attractions and videogames, or between literary series and games: all these examples tell the story of a thread that bonds media through history, showing how we manage remediation processes and the complexity of the participatory variables that emerged in the last twenty years.
We have old tools to manage new objects, and we have to adapt them considering how the notion of archive, as shown by this book, has and will become increasingly volatile, living, changeable. This volume clearly points out that we, as users, are one of the more unpredictable variables in this new notion, with our experiences, with our contribution to media content with participation and creativity, with our choices when we operate in potentially endless worlds and stories in video games.
The modern archive is indeed an unstable one, so that we can talk about an anarchive, where traditional rules and criteria of preservation do not work anymore. We just have the duty to observe what is happening, trying to understand and accept the gigantic mutations we found through the looking glass and the inevitable losses that our era is imposing to the enormous amount of cultural products offered by the Internet, always aware that, as historians say – and Sterling quotes – "Much is gone and much remains".
Ricerca per: 5/2016 Books, 5/2016 Critical Notes | Ricerca per: Giacomo Nencioni (Università per Stranieri di Perugia)
Review excerpts for Self-reflexive Videogames: Observations and Corollaries on Virtual Worlds as Philosophical Artifacts
P. Harrigan, M.G. Kirschenbaum (eds.), Zones of Control. Perspectives on Wargaming [The MIT Press, 2016]


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Nasdaq Clearinghouse / Betsy Atkins Talks to Arthur Levitt about the Current State of Boards: Part 2
How can boards diversify to manage change? Is the CEO Pay Ratio rule going to be effective? When should the CEO and Chairman of the Board roles be separate?
During a wide-ranging and informative interview, veteran board member and venture capitalist Betsy Atkins and Bloomberg Radio host and former SEC Chairman Arthur Levitt discuss these important topics, and more. We divided their interview into three separate articles and posted Part 1 last month. Part 2 is presented below.
Arthur Levitt: What is the best case for diversity in the boardroom and what should diversity really mean? It's not just about gender, right?
Betsy Atkins: Correct, it's about cognitive diversity: how people think differently and problem solve differently. Diversity should be the diversity of backgrounds in the board room, diversity of domain experts in the company's industry, and diversity of functional experts such as financial experts for audit committee, digital experts, and geographic diversity. It should not simply be gender. I'm not a believer in affirmative action. Hire the best people who bring you diverse thought, as that brings the best business judgment for the shareholders.
AL: You write about how companies should "manage" diversity. What do you mean by that?
BA: What I mean by managing diversity is to really look into your board composition and think about how to forward hire the optimal set of differentiated and complementary perspectives required for effective oversight. The board should be an asset that the CEO and management can leverage to help stress test future plans as well as perform broad oversight for current plans. Just as management refreshes their leadership team frequently, the board should be refreshed to meet the challenges and opportunities the company will face during the next five to seven years, given the velocity of change.
AL: BlackRock recently updated its proxy voting guidelines, adding a stipulation that it expects companies to have at least two women directors on their boards. When it comes to more women on boards, are you in favor of quotas or targets?
BA: I don't like the idea of quotas. I'm certainly supportive of embracing aspirational targets, but it has to be based on qualified people—the board shouldn't lower the quality bar to achieve a quota. Fortunately, there are plenty of qualified women and minorities out there.
AL: Why is the U.S. so far behind in either quotas or targets for getting more women on boards?
BA: While the U.S. is behind, they have made incremental progress. The 2017 Spencer Stuart U.S. Board Index reported that the percentage of women serving on S&P 500 boards in 2017 increased to 22% of all directors from 17% in 2012, and that 80% of boards now include two or more women, which represents a significant increase over 61% in 2012. The U.K. has been more aggressive, and has set a target of 33% for the number of FTSE 350 board seats held by women by the year 2020.
AL: Will companies find women for their boards if they don't specifically go looking, with some kind of pressure to diversify?
BA: I expect big changes this year, because the large index funds are now pushing gender diversity, which is going to be a huge accelerant. If boards are serious about diversity, they need to mandate that for every board seat they are going to fill at least one-third to half of the candidates on the board search panel are female. But again, diversity should be broader than gender diversity.
AL: What do you think of NYC Comptroller Scott Stringer's Boardroom Accountability Project?
BA: It's hard to establish a quantitative matrix that truly identifies diversity of thought. The concept is sound, but what boards should really be looking for is diversity of experience, so the board has multiple business models to call on from their past to solve current and future business challenges. For example, if you spent your entire 35-year career in one company, you would only have that company's model of how to approach and solve problems, only that company's "cycle time" and sense of urgency in problem solving, which is probably too slow today. The goal should be to build a high performing board that is able to access the contemporary director's business judgement ability.
The matrix is a reasonable starting point for the conversation, but ultimately the matrix is a quantitative concept and the board makes a judgement that is more qualitative than quantitative.
AL: This will be the first year that the ratio of a CEO's total compensation as compared to that of a median employee must be disclosed. What do you think of this rule?
BA: This rule will prove to be more of a media event than a driver of change. It's going to be confusing and create noise without driving valuable and actionable insight. CEO pay thresholds are completely different industry to industry: there will be a profound difference in pay ratios between a company that has the bulk of its workforce in India and that of a company with an all-American workforce that is far more highly paid. Even when comparing a company with its own peer set, again, it's a challenge to find the right peers outside of a company's direct competitors.
AL: Do you think consultants are helpful to boards in setting CEO compensation?
BA: I think compensation consultants are helpful in gathering factual data.
AL: How would you advise companies to structure CEO pay to encourage long term growth?
BA: Practical reality is that companies have to pay their CEOs relatively competitively in comparison to direct competitor peers. The long-term growth part of compensation should be based on a small number of very specific quantifiable metrics such as market share, new product introduction, and geographic expansion. The metrics are long-term and measurable, versus the typical short-term annual metrics of revenue, profit and total shareholder return.
AL: Where are you on the question of whether it is ever a good idea for the CEO to also serve as Chairman of the Board?
BA: I think it's very specific to each company. Although a majority of companies still combine the two roles, it currently stands at just over the 50% mark and that statistic is falling. In a situation where a company has a first-time or new CEO, it is a better governance practice to separate the Chairman from the CEO. When the CEO has been serving for a long time, or is successful, recognized and acclaimed, it can be viewed as a major issue by an incumbent CEO if he or she doesn't get the chairmanship when the sitting Chairman exits the board.
Every board should have a strong independent lead director, with a mechanism in the by-laws for annual review enabling rotation. All boards should have a method for orderly chairman replacement to be prepared when the need arises.
AL: You believe the most important role of the board is to choose the CEO. What do you look for in a CEO?
BA: The key thing to look for in a CEO is to match the company's CEO profile to the stage of the company. For example, if your business model is perfect, and all you need to do is a little bit more revenue, a little more profit a little faster, it would point you toward an internal candidate who can continue to implement the current strategy. If your company is going to face big transformation and change in its competitive landscape, you may want to look outside for a candidate with a transformational growth skillset and experience.
AL: What is your best advice for a new CEO faced with a new board?
BA: You need to create a rhythm of being in touch with each board member at least once a quarter. You would be well served to engage the committee chairs in working with you to create an annual board calendar of important topics that the board wants to review annually. Start every board meeting with a state of the union and clearly identify one or two topics you want the boards input and engagement on each meeting. They came to contribute and participate, and you'll lose control of the meeting if you don't point them to where you want their input.
Be sure to get a thorough debriefing on every executive session and memorialize back to the board any topics for future follow up.
For more information, read Betsy Atkins Talks to Arthur Levitt about the Current State of Boards: Part 1
Betsy Atkins serves as President and Chief Executive Officer at Baja Corp, a venture capital firm, and is currently the Governance Chair at HD Supply. She is also on the board of directors of Wynn Resorts, Schneider Electric, Cognizant, and a private company, Volvo Car Corporation, and served on the board of directors of The Nasdaq Stock Market LLC and as CEO and Board Chairman at Clear Standards.
Arthur Levitt is currently the host of Bloomberg Radio's "A Closer Look with Arthur Levitt" and serves on the board of directors at Bloomberg LP. Levitt was the 25th Chairman of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, and in 1999, became the Commission's longest-serving Chairman until his resignation in 2001. He also serves as a senior advisor to Goldman Sachs & Co. and an advisory board member of the Knight Capital Group.
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XIII з'їзд КП(б)Г — з'їзд Комуністичної партії (більшовиків) Грузії, що відбувся 15–19 березня 1940 року в місті Тбілісі.

Порядок денний з'їзду
 Звіт ЦК КП(б)Г (доповідач Чарквіані Кандид Несторович);
 Звіт Ревізійної комісії КП(б)Г (доповідач Гігаурі-Чарквіані Ніна Іванівна);
 Вибори керівних органів КП(б)Г.

Керівні органи партії
Обрано Центральний комітет у складі 65 членів і 23 кандидатів у члени ЦК, Ревізійну комісію у складі 11 чоловік.

Члени Центрального комітету

 Андгуладзе Григорій Йосипович
 Базандарашвілі Софія Георгіївна
 Байдашвілі Микола Степанович
 Бакрадзе Валеріан Мінайович
 Барамія Михайло Іванович
 Барігян Карл Ісаакович
 Берішвілі Костянтин Олексійович
 Берія Лаврентій Павлович
 Бечвая Кирило Георгійович
 Габунія Никандр Варфоломійович
 Гецадзе М.Ф.
 Гордезіані Георгій Михайлович
 Гочашвілі Георгій Олександрович
 Григорян Ваган Григорович
 Дарашвілі Георгій Султанович
 Джаші Макарій Іванович
 Джорбенадзе Антон Васильович
 Доронін О.Я.
 Жоржоліані Давид Лазарович
 Ішханов Сергій Мартинович
 Карчава Григорій Зосимович
 Кварацхелія Мойсей Мурзайович
 Квачадзе Олександр Хомич
 Квірквелія Рафаел Артемович
 Кікнадзе Георгій Іванович
 Кочламазашвілі Йосип Дмитрович
 Курашвілі Віссаріон Ясонович
 Лоладзе Вахтанг Олександрович
 Мазанашвілі Етері Миколаївна
 Махарадзе Пилип Ієсейович
 Мгеладзе Акакій Іванович
 Мірцхулава Олександр Йорданович
 Міханашвілі Григорій Ілліч
 Нарсія Григорій Овсійович
 Нуцубідзе Шалва Дмитрович
 Рапава Овксентій Нарикійович
 Рухадзе Лонгіноз Олександрович
 Саладзе Володимир Єремійович
 Саркісов Микола Петрович
 Сванадзе Йосип Іванович
 Сірунян А.Т.
 Сталін Йосип Віссаріонович
 Стуруа Георгій Федорович
 Тавадзе Ілля Кайсарович
 Талахадзе Іларіон Іларіонович
 Твалчрелідзе Георгій Григорович
 Топурідзе Олександр Єпифанович
 Тюленєв Іван Володимирович
 Хатіашвілі Валеріан Олексійович
 Хоштарія Семен Георгійович
 Худжадзе Олександр Спиридонович
 Цимакурідзе Кіндрат Сократович
 Цирекідзе Давид Захарович
 Цховребашвілі Володимир Гедеванович
 Чарквіані Кандид Несторович
 Чачибая Григорій Дутуйович
 Челідзе Семен Мойсейович
 Черкезія Євтихій Іларіонович
 Чичинадзе Давид Олексійович
 Чичинадзе Костянтин Георгійович
 Чубінідзе Мирон Дмитрович
 Чхетіані Панас Леванович
 Чхубіанішвілі Захар Миколайович
 Шамугія Іван Миколайович
 Шерозія Калістрат Несторович
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Кандидати у члени Центрального комітету

 Бежанов Х.М.
 Бондарєв Андрій Іванович
 Вартазаров В.Т.
 Давітая Ш.Т.
 Давліанідзе С.С.
 Данелян Гайк Аркадійович
 Двалі Іван Луарсабович
 Делба Михайло Костянтинович
 Дзідзігурі Варлам Михайлович
 Какучая Варлам Олексійович
 Кірвалідзе Георгій Васильович
 Кіріаков Георгій Ксенофонтович
 Коберідзе О.Я.
 Кокая Григорій Нестерович
 Кочлавашвілі Олександр Іванович
 Лекішвілі Іван Іларіонович
 Людвігов Борис Олександрович
 Ростомашвілі Т.Г.
 Рухадзе Микола Максимович
 Сахарулідзе В.В.
 Футкарадзе Ісмаїл Хасанович
 Хубаєв Володимир Іванович
 Чануквадзе Шота Іларіонович
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Члени Ревізійної комісії

 Буадзе Сергій Ілліч
 Вацек Іван Прокопович
 Гігаурі-Чарквіані Ніна Іванівна
 Гугучія Олександр Іларіонович
 Джвебенава Юхим Дмитрович
 Дубовський Федір Андрійович
 Єлісабедашвілі Георгій Іванович
 Квлівідзе О.С.
 Колесников М.Є.
 Майсурадзе Шалва Григорович
 Таргамадзе Костянтин Михайлович
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Джерела
 Центральный Комитет, избранный XIII-м съездом КП(б) Грузии 15 - 19.3.1940, члены
 Ревизионная комиссия, избранная XIII-м съездом КП(б) Грузии 15 - 19.3.1940, члены

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Like a Calm Sea
by Pradeep Jeganathan
"We should go again," said Krishna.
But Iqbal didn't reply. He sipped his tea like he hadn't heard, but a tremor passed through his right shoulder. His left arm was bandaged, and the wrist and lower arm were in a cast, making him hold it awkwardly. People had stared at the cast when they went to Kalawawe, making it harder to be unobtrusive. But then, in the dusty back roads of the North Central Province, staring at strangers was common, especially if they arrived in a big, silver Pajero.
"Have more tea." Iqbal poured from the pot into Krishna's cup, not waiting for a reply. He added milk, drops spilling and spreading on the polished brown table. His hand was unsteady; Krishna wondered if that too was a symptom of something, or just withdrawal from the lack of drink.
After he had been found, wrist crushed, arm and chest lacerated, clinging on to a tree, almost out of his mind, and had been taken to Ampara hospital, where he had managed to remember Krishna's number, and call from a nurse's mobile, whispering hoarsely, "just come and get me machang," Krishna had thought the first thing he would want was a drink. Iqbal was almost one with his single malts, always knowing which ones were new, which ones were private, and most of all which ones to turn his nose up at. He was famous among his buddies for even breaking his fast, during Ramadan, with a carefully iced, slowly sipped scotch, which made all the smart, secular lefties they hung out with crack-up and ask why he bothered to fast in the first place.
But no, now, after every thing, his mind was firm on that one point; all he wanted was tea. Loads of it. And only BOP, and that too only Nikapota Uva. He had a discourse going on it, on the elevation of the Uva mountains, the bouquey it allowed for, and then how many spoons to the pot, how to heat the water, and how many minutes would be just right for a good brew. Krishna was surprised, he didn't know Iqbal even drank tea.
They were sitting in Krishna's apartment in Colombo. It faced west, high up in a tower, with deep orange views of the setting sun over the Indian Ocean. But drapes were now drawn, making the room dark, even at mid day. Krishna thought it might be better this way, with the drapes drawn, so they couldn't glance out at the sea, even accidentally. Iqbal seemed to think that also, or at least he hadn't said anything about it, either here in the living room, or over in the guest bedroom, where he slept. There too, Krishna kept the drapes drawn. Iqbal hadn't really said much at all about anything, over the last two day, after they had returned from the long, bumpy ride back from Kalawawe, but now, reading the paper he exclaimed suddenly, "these chaps are playing a match!" Iqbal glanced at the date top of paper. "It's the 10th, isn't it? Its today."
"Yes, its today. At the MCG."
"A tsunami bloody match."
"Yep," Krishna pursed his lips. He hadn't yet been able to say the word Iqbal had said.
"Well put it on — you have cable right? — they must have started." Iqbal glanced at his broken wrist, where he usually wore his watch, and then realizing it wasn't there, turned to the clock on the wall. "What's the time in Melbourne?"
"I don't know," Krishna said, as he clicked on the TV. "But I think its started."
The picture came into view, filling the large screen with a soft cackle. The grounds were full, the grass flat, green and smooth, the crowd a dim roar. Murali was bowling to Ponting.
"He can bowl the doosra, right?" Iqbal asked.
"Well they aren't going to call him today; it is a tsunami bloody match, isn't it?"
Krishna remembered the first time they had called Murali in Australia. It had been at the Melbourne Cricket Ground, nine years ago, on the first day of the boxing day Test; the biggest cricket match of the year, down under. Fifty five thousand people had been at the ground, when Umpire Hair no balled Murali, not once, not twice, but seven times. Not for a mistake, which would have been just for over stepping the line, no big deal ever, but for cheating: straightening his arm as he bowled.
They had watched that game together, on TV, Iqbal and Krishna. At the Sheraton bar in Colombo, where Iqbal loved to watch cricket and drink, which had the cable they couldn't afford back then. Both of them back home from Greenwich University in New York, where they were graduate students, for just three weeks, exhausted from writing term papers, dead broke, air tickets bought on that crazy, unpayable extended zone of their credit cards, sleepless on what Iqbal called an 'Allah forsaken' plane, that had shuddered and creaked so much, as it took off after the short lay over in Amman, that they'd both thought it would simply implode on the runway.
And then, on top of it all, Hair had 'called' Sri Lanka's great bowling hope. The whole bar, had been shocked, speechless, almost in terror, as Murali stopped, again and again, pointing to his foot, and then his elbow, eyes wide with pain, asking the umpire silently, 'are you calling me a cheat?'
It was Iqbal who had broken the silence, far away from the cricket but at least close to home. "You fucking racist, motherfucking bastard son of a convict…,' he had started off, standing, pointing a crooked arm and a raised finger at the screen, and every one at the bar had laughed, some one clapping. Iqbal had gone on, yelled and screamed more, and they'd got their beer on the house. Krishna almost smiled, remembering, and looked at Iqbal, wondering if he remembered. It had been exactly nine years before the tsunami.
Iqbal chuckled, almost like he did remember, like he used to when he drank, and mouth off at the TV. Then he sipped his tea, and looking down at the cup, his eyes widening, as if he needed to take in the flavor of brew again. Iqbal was examining his cup of tea so carefully, Krishna thought he would have to make fresh pot. But Iqbal said nothing on that, asking instead, "That place we went to, is it far from Anuradhapura town?"
Krishna shook his head, remembering the ride yesterday on the bad, pot holed road, after they turned at Kekirawe, off the Dambulla — Anuradhapura road, and then past the little town of Kalawawe, turning into beautiful, red earth, country lanes. "Kalawawe? It's a bit far from there, machang. Anuradhapua is to the north. You turn before, at Kekirawe, usually. I don't know how the road is from Anuradhapura, can't be good."
"I could get a place in Anuradhapura, right?"
"Oh yes," said Krishna, "Lots of nice hotels there." Anuradhapura was the only place in the wider vicinity Iqbal really knew, he realized, one place he had actually stayed. He was a city boy. Well, so was Krishna, really. Kalawawe wasn't a place you really stayed over night in, in the usual run of things.
"I can't live right there, right next to them, or on the next road, could I?"
"Well," said Krishna, who had lived for months, doing field work, the previous summer in Eppawella, which was as remote, a little north of there. "No, I mean... you could, but it would be harder on you." He winced at the thought of Iqbal, waiting for his single malt and ice cold beer or a perfectly brewed BOP, at the local the kede in Kalawawe. But then again, he considered; things were different now, perhaps he would adjust. But he said, "You're right. You'd be more comfortable in Anuradhapura town, initially. Then we could work something out closer, that's livable. Kekirawe would be a good bet. It's the town at the turn off. Its on the A9, and there are buses to Kalawawe all the time." Krishna looked at his friend, wondering what exactly he had in mind, when he asked if he could live there, unsure if he was even clear himself.
Iqbal's eyes wandered back to the TV. Ponting flicked Murali's flighted ball, almost effortlessly, well over the boundary.
"He is getting hammered. But never mind; six thou' for buggers like me," said Iqbal, pointing at the screen, and laughing. The sponsors were offering money for each run, for the victims.
Krishna smiled.
"I'll need it, if I take up farming in Kalawawe." Iqbal looked serious, and moved his left arm gingerly, as if he was considering a long stint of manual labour.
"Let's do this." Krishna looked up at Iqbal, getting his attention. "I'll expand my field project on suicide. I'll work it out through CASS. You can be a co-researcher." Krishna had a big research grant from Harper University, in Chicago, where he was on the anthropology faculty, that he ran through Center for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences, a research institute in Colombo, where he was affiliated as a visiting fellow, while on leave from Harper. His eyes lit up, considering; yes it could work.
"I don't know a damn thing about Anthropology, and anyway I think it's fucked up. You know that." Iqbal was a literary critic. This had always been a great point of debate between them during the New York years at Greenwich. The disciplines, Anthro. and Lit. crit. , their methods, and the kinds of knowledge they produced, and if a real postcolonial turn was possible. But then, on top of that, Iqbal seemed to hate anthropology and anthropologists and was always writing the most venomous footnotes about them. At first this made life difficult for Krishna, because it was a small world, and all the senior anthropologists who Iqbal lambasted knew they were really close. But now that he was settled in his job; Iqbal's critique just made Krishna grin, at times.
"You don't have to know any thing; I know you don't any way." He chuckled. "Its my grant. I just write a note, and you are in."
"Okay," said Iqbal. "And then?"
"Then I don't know machang. You'll be near… " He trailed off, not wanting to say her name, in case that would be upsetting. He watched Iqbal's face.
"I suppose I could go to the neighborhood and hang about there, a lot?"
"Yeah, you can. Everyday. Like administer a survey in the GN division or something."
"Me, do surveys?" Iqbal cackled again, as of old, enjoying his protests.
Krishna grinned, well knowing Iqbal's well grounded critique of ethnographic surveys. "Yes, you'll do bloody surveys." Then he shook his head. "No, do whatever. It doesn't matter."
Iqbal nodded. "And take the bus in, and then cycle around, right? Your fancy Paj didn't really cut it, did it?"
Krishna nodded. "It was a bad idea." He wanted to find a reason, any reason. It wasn't his Pajero, it was leased for the project; since everyone had said he'd need a good four-wheel drive to navigate the back roads. Which was true, up to a point. "Maybe that's what messed it up," he said, not really believing that.
"You think?" Iqbal looked skeptical.
"She didn't even look at me."
Krishna said nothing, watching Iqbal's throat move, as he swallowed.
"These things take time, machang."
Iqbal was staring at the cricket on TV.
When the waves came, Iqbal had been with Neema in the cabana. Siddha and his parents, had gone to the beach for a morning walk. They had gone with first wave; but Iqbal hadn't known. He had held Neema tight, trying to lift her above the water, clutching on to the wooden strut that held up the thatched roof with his other hand. When the second wave came, something, a branch perhaps, had smashed into his wrist, shattering it. Iqbal didn't remember any more; he'd blacked out. All he kept saying was, "I let her go. I let her go."
There had been tiny metal pins from the mechanism of his Tag Haur, embedded deep in his wrist, which the surgeons at the National Hospital, had to get out with micro-tweezers or some such, in four hours of surgery. Now there were two small steel bolts in his wrist, holding it together.
"The tea's gone cold," announced Iqbal.
"I'll get more going," said Krishna, getting up to walk into the kitchen.
When Krishna brought the tray back, he said, softly, hesitantly, "We could ask for a DNA test," His voice was tight and drawn, suddenly, and his lips pursed, as if stopped in thought by the seriousness of his words.
"No." said Iqbal. "No."
"No?" asked Krishna, uncertainly.
Krishna, waited, wanting to ask why, but Iqbal was pouring again, with great concentration.
"She is my girl, machang. I don't need a test."
They'd thought Neema was gone also, when Krishna had heard, just by chance, from his Eppawella research assistant, Lalith, that a couple in Kalawawe, a small town some kilometers to the south, had brought a kid back, all the way from Panama, after the tsunami. Panama was by the sea, way far away, at the very end of the road to the deep south-east, even another 20 km south of Arugambe. The child was distantly related, they'd said, orphaned in the tsunami, abandoned in a camp, and they'd just been in Panama, visiting close relatives, when it happened. For Lalith, this was a vignette about familial generosity, part of the whole people-helping-people-thing, after the Tsunami. Krishna had thought nothing of it, until Lalith said, 'poor girl, she'd been bruised by a falling branch, and had a little steel pin buried in her hip bone.'
He'd told Iqbal even before he'd really recovered from surgery, and they had gone, right then, getting into the Paj at hospital, picking up Lalith, dodging and hurtling through traffic, until they got to the dry, windy plains of the north central province.
Iqbal had been asleep for most of the ride, but suddenly, just when they were passing the Kalawawe, he woke up. It was about two in the afternoon, and the sun was high and the sky clear. The reservoir glistened, shining like a field of diamonds on a bed of coal. Iqbal shielded his eyes, and turned away from the water, looking through the other window, at the lush, green plains below the bund.
"It looked very calm," he said slowly.
"What does?" asked Krishna, not getting it.
Iqbal lifted his right arm, crookedly, his hand pointing to the water, elbow at the fields below the dam, stretching green and golden for miles. His arm jerked stiffly. "You know in Arugambe…" He said.
Krishna nodded, this was where they'd been, Iqbal, Siddha, Neema and his parents vacationing by the beach, holidays by the sea.
"It was so calm there, that morning."
Krishna closed his eyes, and then turned, opening them slowly, taking in the shining water on the other side. "Yes," he said, "I've seen it calm."
It was another half an hour, before they found the place, Lalith asking for directions, discreetly, not giving away what their interest was, but asking for the Army sergeant Wijedasa's house. Names didn't mean much, in a place like this, but once the people figured out who the person was -- 'oh the tall army guy, with the thick, long mustache?' -- Lalith was pointed in the right direction.
It was a small, neat, three roomed house. Drinking the super sweet tea, Krishna tried to act professional, supposedly explaining the research project they'd be doing on families affected by the war. Now he had been really thinking about planning this project out, which is how Lalith had heard about the adoption anyway, because Krishna had asked him to identify a few families who had lost two or more loved ones in the war.
So he went on, saying he knew it was difficult to talk about the war, especially the two brothers who had given their lives, but still, he was asking them to consider allowing him to interview them, over an year; half a day long conversations at a time. Krishna had being sketching out the methodology for this project in his mind for awhile, but it was nowhere near fully worked out; certainly it wasn't funded. Still he dove in, acting like this was some thing definite and on-going. He didn't know these people, but they knew of him, since he'd been directing a CASS project on suicide in the surrounding area for several months now, and had been around the summer before that, living in Eppawella, doing preliminary field work. They knew him, as the really 'good' professor, who was doing, as people put it in Sinhala 'a research,' on why people got very sad, and then killed themselves. And, of course, it was also said, 'while he is Tamil, he was so educated and had studied so much, he even knew such good Sinhala, and when he spoke it, you couldn't tell.' This seemed to add to his 'goodness.' The whole deal was often a thick cloud which enveloped him during field work, and some times it just frustrated him, but now he was glad, so very glad every one said he was so super good, when he wasn't, because the family, the Sergeant and his wife, trusted him. Thinking about those who died in the war was also about sadness, so it made sense to them, that this would be 'a research thing' that he would be interested in, also.
So they agreed. 'Yes, what ever 'the Sir,' wanted to ask, they'd talk about. Yes, they understood, it would also help all the people of our country, to understand how they felt.' Krishna felt momentarily relieved.
"Yes the little one is scared," they said smiling sadly, when he had asked about the recent adoption, trying his best to be casual about it. "A daughter of a elder sister's husband's brother. Lost every one when the sea came on land." The way 'sister' was said, meant she was a cousin, or even more distant. Krishna had only got a glimpse of the child before she ran inside; her hair was cropped, and her face was grimy, and there was a big, carefully done dressing on her hip. He wasn't sure at all, but Iqbal was. But Krishna had seen her large dark eyes take in Iqbal, look deep into him for a long moment, and through him, before she ran in. They waited two hours, hoping for another glimpse, but no, she didn't come out again. And then they'd left, thanking the couple, saying they hoped to return soon.
"Tell me about that place," said Iqbal, suddenly, as if to change the topic, turning away from the TV, muting the sound with a press of his thumb on the remote. Krishna wondered what he wanted to know. He'd talked of nothing but the sociology of the area for hours in the vehicle, while they were being driven over. But then, Iqbal had been half asleep, and anyway in no condition to listen to much.
Two hundred years before, when the last Naiyakkar Kings still ruled at Kandy, the Kalawawe lay broken and empty, the area ravaged by malaria, with more wild elephants than people perhaps. Small settlements held out, but barely. Fifty years later, the British 'discovered' the great stupas of Anuradhapura, covered with crepers and scrub, towering into the skies, and the beautiful intricate ruins of the ancient city, buried in layers of earth, and hailed the place as a sort of Rome of the East. In another fifty years, just before the end of the nineteeth century, the governor, Sir Arthur Gordon, had the great reservoir, Kalawawe, restored. Now the great twelve meter stone Buddha at Aukana, on its banks, that had stood through it all, from the time of Dhatusena in the fifth century, again looked over the full, spilling expanse of water, as it burned bright in the morning sun.
A Rome, Anuradhapura may have been, once center of a great, and ancient empire, but to call it a Sinhala city, and the province it was in, the Land of Sinhala Kings, was silly as confusing Italians with Romans. But that's how the British understood it, as they always did in the Orient, putting the natives in tight boxes, making sure they were all different, all counted, all quarreling. Of course, they never did imagine Romans as Italians, did they? Oh no, from Shakeapear to the BBC, the Senators and Ceasers were always played as tip top, upper class, English gentlemen. It was like they took Rome for themselves, and gave Anuradhapura to their poor 'Aryan' cousins, the Sinhala.
In another fifty years, places like Kalawawe were thought to be where the purest Sinhala blood lay, where the pulse of a nation was to be taken, like every American Presidential hopeful, did once in four years at Iowa.
Krishna looked at the slivers of sun light, breaking through the edges of the drawn drapes, splashing on Iqbal's face. "You know the great stone statue there?"
"Aukana?"
"Its said the name, Aukana, could come from, Avvua Kana; you know in Sinhala: 'Eating the Sun.'"
"Yeah you would know useless stuff like that, since you are a more-Sinhala-than-Sinhala, Tamil." Iqbal grinned. But then he said, "That's beautiful. It's a amazing place, really."
"Yeah, it is. But now, some times I think the whole social structure is coming apart."
The thousands of new Sinhala settlers who'd been brought in during the last fifty years, and given a few acres of land, so that they could be homesteaders in the heartland, couldn't with all the subsidies the state could give them, really make ends meet. And there wasn't enough land to be subdivided for their children, who didn't want to farm anyway. So the boys joined the army, going off to fight the great war in the North against the Tamil Tigers, often coming home in coffins. And some of the girls tried the garment factories in the big city until they got married, or worse, brothels for the soldiers in Anuradhapura. Others just stayed home.
But, then again, things weren't that bad. Very few people were really poor. Sure crops failed in particular years, and times got very hard for some, but except for a few exceptions -- and there were a few, of course — this wasn't really the cause of suicides.
"I don't really know why, Iqbal, but people kill themselves."
"I thought you'd cracked that puzzle, didn't you write a paper on that?" Iqbal tilted his head quizzically, half in seminar mode, but his tone was drained of the combativeness that would have flowed easily before.
"No, I don't know. Yeah, I wrote a paper, but I don't know. Its young kids, right, late teens, twenties, they fall in love, have some kind of a tiff, just some tiff, and boom, the boy or girl drinks pesticide, and their insides burn out in three days." He pressed his finger tips to his forehead, face lowering, remembering Nadeeka.
He hadn't known her well then, when it happened, during his first weeks in Eppawella, but he had noticed her of course, walking around giggling with her girl friends, bathing in the canal in her diya redda, like some thing out of a James Goonawardena novel, he had read as a teenager; she was more than cute, she was a real beauty, with a tiny snub nose and huge eyes, nineteen at the time.
He had been cycling by, on the little red lane by the canal when he had heard her, then seen her, crying, half hidden by the scrub, in the heat of the afternoon, just when it was too hot for any one else to be out. Bike wobbling, thinking he shouldn't butt in, he froze when he glimpsed the dark bottle with the label in her hand, clutched to her breasts, between her hunched shoulders. He'd thrown the cycle against a tree, and run to her, crouched down, and tried to talk to her.
She listened, too polite even in her grief to tell him to fuck-off, while he talked and talked, she replying with single, lonely words, occasionally between sobs. A big row with her boy, she said, he had said some thing to her, she had said some thing back, and she was going to drink the poison, her life wasn't worth living any more. Krishna just kept talking, saying what ever bubbled up into his mouth, just on and on, telling her she had to live, for her family, for him, please, anything, not to do it. The worst of it was, that the more he blabbered on, the more he felt the deep hurt and anger in her, not the reasons for it, but the pain. Soon he knew he was all out of arguments, since he'd also often felt that 'life' wasn't what it was cracked up to be, and may be it wasn't worth it, after all the hoopla that went with it.
He never persuaded her of any thing that day, made the case for life or the joys of it, but he wore her down, so much so, that she just cried her insides out, and then seemed to go into a trance, eyes shut, going still and cold, as he was going on and on. It had been scary, but he laid her on the bike, her buttocks on the cross bar, his right arm under her knees, hand gripping the handle bar, as he bent over, knuckles so tight, because he thought the cycle would jerk and he would drop her, his left hand under her head, pushing with his hips on her waist, all the way to her house, well to the stile at the fence of the yard, when her mother came running out, wailing, 'my daughter, my daughter,' holding her and nuzzling her, taking her indoors.
And then she's been fine.
He reached for the sugar, dipping the spoon into the white grains. There were three, no, four black ants, that had some how, got to the rim of the sugar bowl. They were running around, it seemed with great excitement. "You know, there was this girl, right? Is, I mean… I got to know her a bit; she tried to kill herself." He looked at Iqbal.
He nodded. "Yeah, you talked her out of it. You told me."
Krishna stirred in the sugar, unthinkingly, watching the dark liquid swirl.
Yeah, she had been fine.
But her boy friend hadn't been; he'd taken pesticide, almost at the same time, and he died two days later in the Anuradhapura hospital, insides corroded, begging, crying, screaming for water, he couldn't even drink. They hadn't told Nadeeka until much later, of course.
Krishna added another spoon of sugar into his tea, and stirred again.
When he went to visit Nadee at home, two weeks later, she'd worshiped him, in the traditional way, and when he touched her head, as was the custom, and said she owed her life to him. And her mother and father couldn't stop saying how good he was, that he was a god born among men, that he'd gained merit for eons to come. But he hated himself, because Nadee had said softly when her parents were safely inside the house, 'I have my life, but it is no use to me.' She looked so sweet, quiet and sad, when she said that, sitting on the cement floor of the verandah, hugging her knees, her long hair coiled on her shoulders, dark eyes moist, he guessed he should have asked her father, right then and there if he could marry her. Strange though the thought was to him, he figured that would have been, in their way of looking at things, the 'good' or 'right' thing to do. But of course he didn't, he didn't even hug her, because that would have been so inappropriate, for him. But then, after that, she always called him 'our elder brother.' Ape Ayia, like he was her own blood.
"Yeah, she survived, Cards, but she doesn't want to live, she says." Krishna looked down at his tea. One black ant, that must have been caught in the second spoon of sugar, was floating on the surface of the liquid, struggling. He dipped the spoon in, scooping it out, dropping the animal with the drops of tea, into the saucer.
Suddenly he realized he had called Iqbal, Cards, like when he did when they were boys, in school at King's. He had been Cards, and Krishna, Yugs, the weird way the last names of Carder and Yoganathan, got crushed up in a school like King's, together with every other boys last name, by the time they had been in upper school. He didn't know if Iqbal had even heard him. It had been years and years, since he'd called him Cards.
"Yeah." Iqbal said.
"I don't think I really got to that, in the article." Krishna's paper hadn't been about Nadee and him, but what the larger issues at stake might be. It was called Dying to Love, but it wasn't really finished and published, because he wasn't sure about his argument. Perhaps he didn't even have one. When had tried to read it at a conference, it had been way hard, because he couldn't read it out aloud, without crying.
"I think its about figuring out how love works, really, Iqbal," he said softly. "When I went out there, I thought I was so different from people there. Superior I guess; on life, love, death. On every thing. But now, I don't know. I'm still trying to work it out."
Iqbal looked on, "Yes," he said, "that would be good to work out." But his face was flat and numb, except the corner of his right cheek, which was twitching.
Krishna felt the tea sour in his gullet. What on earth had he been going on about? He must be crazy, why was he talking about this? He was going nuts; this was the last thing he should have brought up. Looking down, feeling hopelessly messed up, he watched the ant on the saucer, running in small, tight, dizzying circles, nipping at one grain of sugar that had dropped down onto the curved porcelain.
Neck tensing, ears warm, Krishna tried to think a way out of this topic. "You know," he said, trying to bring a chuckle into his voice, "us anthropologists get all worked up over this stuff, thinking its so important. Back then, you know, 'then,' as students say, about any thing that isn't 'now,'" he managed a chuckle, and Iqbal smiled. "Back then the Brits, didn't know bollocks about the Nuwarakalavya. That's what the province was called, before 1845. It was the 'interior.' 'Unexplored.' They'd go out, shoot some elephants, shoot some more natives, and then come back to Kandy. Must have had Gin and Limes, stroked their mustaches, and said 'good sport, old chap.'"
"That fellow, what was his name? Sir Samuel Baker, yes, that's it, he 'shot game' there."
"Really?" said Krishna, pleased that he had managed to get them off the topic of suicides.
"He describes this trek of four days, twenty miles a day, eighty miles from Kandy, when they get to a big reservoir… was it Kalawawe? No, it's the Minneriya reservoir, I think… that's close to Kalawawe, right?"
"Yes, about 30 kilometers to the east."
"They get there, six natives hacking the scrub in front, must be another dozen with the pack donkeys, and big rifles bringing up the rear. Just he and his brother, the white dudes with shotguns. Baker stalks a huge Buffalo, and finally it charges. Shoots once, doesn't get the fellow, and Baker is out of balls," Iqbal grinned. "For the gun, that is, so he stuffs the gun with power, and six sixpennies, that have 'her Majesty's features' on them, and fires, just inches from the animals skull, just as it is charging." Iqbal laughed and laughed. "Not a joke," he finished, "the buffalo had it."
"Wow!" Shot the fellow with coins?" Krishna shook his head, with the craziness of it all.
"Its amazing what these fellows did," said Iqbal. "Oh then, he went exploring in Africa. 'Discovered' its said, the source of the Nile." He shook his head. "Yes the 'interior'." That's the great trope imperial exploration." He chuckled, and then drained the last of his tea, holding the white cup, high, tilted, right elbow extended, hand quite steady. He set it down carefully. His voice was firm, like the matter had been decided. "Yes, we should go again, and work things out."
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this is an excerpt (the first chapter) from a novel in progress, which tries to deal with loss, grief and the lines between good life and bad death, after the tsunami.
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Morgan Harlow, May 22, 2009
beautiful, outstanding writing. this first chapter accomplishes a lot in introducing Krishna and Iqbal, a number of story lines, background, and throughout insightful details. this excerpt is round and self-contained (returning to the "we should go again") and also a great beginning that establishes the reader in the world of this novel. the story unfolds naturally even though it is very complex. i want to keep reading this novel
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wow. thank you, its my first attempt at some thing more complicated than a short story. it really heartening to have a sensitive reader. you've made my week; made me want to finish it now!


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SET FOR KICK-OFF: CSI MEN'S SOCCER SHOOTS FOR EXCELLENCE IN 2014
The College of Staten Island men's soccer season is officially set for launch on Saturday, and in 2014, the team is chasing one thing: excellence. After two consecutive fourth-place finishes and semifinal exits in postseason play, the Dolphins will be looking to crash the top of the standings this year, and will look to do so with a team heavy with youth for third-year Head Coach John Tardy.
"We have a really young group that plays together and are on board with what we are trying to do, which is get better with each game," the skipper said. Tardy joined the club just weeks before the 2012 season. With his second full recruiting class in the fold this season, he hopes the sky will be the limit in 2014. "The kids who make up our team are kids who want to be here, players who put the team first and all contribute something. It's a really nice mix."
The first signs of a transformation came midway through the season last year. The Dolphins muddled through a 1-8-1 start, but rebounded nicely, winning eight of their final 11 games as one of the hottest teams in the CUNYAC. The three losses all came by a single goal, the heaviest coming on the season's final day, a 3-2 loss to eventual-champion Baruch College in the CUNYAC Semifinals. The finish was just one of many silver linings. The team amped up the offense to the tune of 42 goals last season, a marked improvement from previous years. Alfonso Castaneda developed into a CUNYAC All-Star and goal scoring threat despite a lot of presence on the back line, and the team found a pair of anchors between the pipes in freshmen John Gioeli and Antonio Lynch. They are just a portion of what the team brings back in 2014.
Castaneda especially will be looked at to center the unit this year. The team's lone senior, Tardy sees him as a potential Player of the Year candidate. "He can do it all, and he is making it very hard for us not to play him at the front the season. He has an excellent finish and is a true leader who will do whatever is asked to make the team better. Whatever he does, he goes all-out to do it, and it's contagious with his teammates. You couldn't ask for a better leader."
The senior is one of four top-five scorers from a season ago who will rejoin the team. Other scoring threats include sophomore Marcin Klim, junior Daniel Tsygankov, and sophomore Nicholas Bacarella. Stabilizing the depth through the middle is junior Horatio Reid and sophomore co-captain Nobel Hagbu, who joins CUNYAC All-Star sophomore Jacob Szumanski on a taught back-line.
"It always takes a while to come out of the gate and get everyone on the same page, and we struggled with that a little last year," said Tardy. "By the end, however, we showed that we had some more confidence and belief in what we wanted to do, and the wins started to come."
Part of the process for Tardy involves scheduling the region's elite teams, particularly early in the season, to prepare the team for the CUNYAC onslaught of games at the end. "We put our kids into pressure situations early in the season where we know we will be attacked. This is how you get better and I think the guys who were here last year will benefit a lot from that experience. It gets us used to playing at a faster pace."
For the Dolphins it starts this weekend. On Saturday at Noon, the Dolphins host the United States Merchant Marine Academy, and NCAA Division III Tournament qualifier a year ago, and they will follow on Monday against Trine University as part of the 3rd Annual CSI Kick-Off Classic. With little rest for the weary, CSI travels to face NYU, before a pair of home dates next weekend against SUNY-Purchase and Kings College (PA). "We will know where we are from there," said Tardy.
The healthy amount of games early in the season with the summer heat still lingering should give plenty of time for many players to shine, including a handful of new talent the coach is eager to see make a dent in 2014. Look for Nermin Kurtesi, a John Jay College transfer, and Ilir Papraniku, a BMCC transfer to see time early, with returning players like Peter Hanna, a frosh last year who returned to soccer after a two-year hiatus figuring into the mix and blossoming into bigger roles. The influx of newcomers in making the coach excited about what the future holds for CSI Soccer.
"It's exciting. We have guys who buy into the program. I think the talent level we brought in this year exceeds last year, and everyone knows their role and what they need to do." When asked which team in the conference was the team to beat this season, the coach responded, "We are!" The coach acknowledged that the entire conference will be getting better, but he hopes his side is right up there with them. "We want results this season, plain and simple," said the coach.
For now, or course, Tardy will take things one game at a time. With upwards of 20 contests cramped into a two-month frame, the coach knows anything can happen. The focus for now will be simply on what should be an eventful weekend. "Two wins would be fantastic, but seeing us grow as a team and play a full 90-minutes is what we are after. Our goal is to see progression and see ourselves moving a step further to where we want to be at the end."
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– Exclusive partnership will continue until 2022
– Cooperation on open air events, concerts, sponsorship and TV rights in the GSA region
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– Initial option for further European countries
Berlin, 1 September 2017 – DEAG Deutsche Entertainment AG (DEAG), Berlin (ISIN: DE000A0Z23G6, WKN: A0Z23G), listed in the Prime Standard, is continuing its exclusive collaboration with classical music stars Anna Netrebko and Yusif Eyvazov for the long term. That includes open air events, all concerts in classical concert halls in the GSA region as well as sponsoring activities through the end of 2022. In addition, DEAG is securing an initial option for further European countries through 2022. This step underscores DEAG's prominent classical music portfolio and continues its long-standing success story with both exceptional artists.
Peter Schwenkow, Chairman of DEAG's Executive Board, is looking forward to the ongoing partnership: "We're proud to already be in our 14th year of cooperation with Anna Netrebko and are excited to present many more concerts from this exceptional artist in the future. Anna Netrebko is one of the greatest sopranos of the century and has inspired millions with her performances. In addition, we are laying the foundations for future positive business development in our Classics & Jazz segment."
The renewal of this exclusive contract sees both exceptional artists honouring a collaboration that has existed since 2004. Besides successful live concerts, it has included numerous TV productions that have inspired more than 100 million people worldwide and produced some of the best selling classical CDs and DVDs.
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Live events range from rock/pop, classics & jazz, the strongly growing Family Entertainment division as well as Arts + Exhibitions. The festivals and family entertainment divisions are particularly fundamental for the further development of DEAG's own content. Its network of strong partners allows DEAG to put itself in an excellent market position as an internationally active live entertainment group. DEAG shares (ISIN: DE000A0Z23G6 | WKN: A0Z23G | ERMK) are quoted in the Prime Standard segment of the Frankfurt Stock Exchange, which is the quality segment of the Deutsche Börse, the German stock exchange.
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