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"The Selig Experience" is coming
Anyone can write an autobiography. Getting a hagiographic museum, however, takes chutzpah.
Brewers announce new fan experience honoring Bud Selig at Miller Park
Attraction will honor the legacy of the Milwaukee Brewers founder
Press Release | December 15, 2014
MILWAUKEE – The Milwaukee Brewers today announced the construction of a new fan experience at Miller Park, a state-of-the-art attraction to honor retiring Commissioner of Baseball and former Brewers Owner Allan H. (Bud) Selig.
Known as the "Selig Experience," the exhibit will be located on Miller Park's Loge Level in the left field corner. A highlight of the attraction will be a multimedia presentation that tells the story of Selig's role in saving Major League Baseball in Milwaukee, his successful efforts to bring the Brewers to the city, and his tireless efforts to promote and grow the game in his hometown.
Miller Park already is known as a premiere destination for baseball fans, and the Selig Experience will take that to the next level. It will serve as a year-round attraction, adding another extraordinary enhancement to the overall fan experience.
"Commissioner Selig is the one person who ensured that the city of Milwaukee would continue as a Major League city, even when virtually all others had lost hope," said Brewers Chief Operating Officer Rick Schlesinger. "We want to mark his legacy with much more than a museum, and we believe the Selig Experience will tell his story in one of the most unique fan attractions in all of sports."
The exhibition space totals approximately 1,400 square feet, and will include authentic artifacts from Selig's tenure as the Brewers owner. It will celebrate the fans' love of the game, as told through the story of the Brewers founder.
The main multimedia show builds to a surprising 3D encounter with the Commissioner himself inside an authentic reproduction of Selig's County Stadium office, using a technology found in only a handful of exhibits around the world. After the show, Milwaukee fans will be delighted to take a sneak peek into Selig's office for themselves.
The design and production of the Selig Experience is being led by BRC Imagination Arts, an experience design firm that turns brands into destinations. For more than three decades, its masterful storytellers have been chosen by iconic brands and cultural attractions all over the world to inspire and engage their audiences.
"This exhibit is as much a celebration of the passionate Milwaukee Brewers fans as it is an homage to Commissioner Selig," said Brad Shelton, Creative Director at BRC Imagination Arts. "We're telling an emotional story of how the Brewers' first fan brought professional baseball back to his friends and neighbors. Whether they take a quick tour between innings or spend more time examining every detail, this is an immersive experience that no Brewers fan will forget."
Selig's dedication to baseball has paralleled his love of his hometown of Milwaukee. His first significant move as an executive was to return Major League Baseball to Milwaukee in 1970, when he founded the Milwaukee Brewers. In its first decade, the Brewers featured some of the great teams of that era, which eventually led to an American League pennant and World Series appearance in 1982.
During his tenure as Brewers owner, Selig earned United Press International's 1978 Executive of the Year award, and the franchise was honored with seven "Organization of the Year" awards.
In the 1990s, Selig began his efforts to build a new ballpark in Milwaukee to replace the aging County Stadium, and Miller Park opened for its first season of play in 2001.
"I am humbled that the Brewers will chronicle the remarkable journey of the franchise through a fan experience at Miller Park named in my honor," said Commissioner Selig. "The story of the Brewers revolves around the great sports fans of Milwaukee and Wisconsin, whose passion drove me to work toward bringing the National Pastime back to my hometown. Given my affinity for history, I believe this exhibit will illustrate the extraordinary sense of community that the Brewers have always inspired."
Earlier this year, the Brewers also announced that the Club will retire uniform #1 in Selig's honor, signifying his role as founder of the franchise. The retired number will be displayed in time for Opening Day. Additionally, he was honored with a statue at Miller Park, which was unveiled on August 24, 2010.
Uihlein-Wilson Architects is also contributing to the initial design of the space for the Selig Experience.
I look forward to the special "Blue Ribbon Commissions" exhibit. It will disappear for months on end, and when it appears you won't be able to see its contents. Also – the statue of Selig outside isn't enough?
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11 thoughts on ""The Selig Experience" is coming"
David John Chavez
A 3D experience with Mr. Selig himself? Wow, this is an epic level of absurdity. The stuff of SNL skits.
When the Apes finally rise and take the Earth for themselves, we will have deserved it.
Bud Lite
I wanna experience the Blue Ribbon Committee ride. Time passes. You feel you've aged six years, but the ride goes nowhere.
The Haunted House part of the exhibit will feature visitors pretending to be Selig as they are terrified by Giants executives jumping out of closets, etc…There should also be a clock that tracks the precise amount of time that has lapsed since Selig's "A's cannot and will not continue indefinitely in their current situation" statement. It's moving toward
…six years now.
Is this an Onion article? A 3D Selig encounter? Seriously?
I'd rather be hit in the balls with a meat tenderizer than go see that garbage.
I like how the 3D exhibit was built by "BRC" Imagination Arts. Now we know what the Blue Ribbon Committee has been working on all these years.
Selig's been a great commish – inter league play, expanded playoffs and record revenues. Also, a ton of new ballparks have been constructed. What? He didn't help the poor little a's get a park built because their owner couldn't do this in his own? Too bad, little a's fans, too bad.
How many teams used public subsidies for ballparks? That's not doing it on your own, tough guy.
duffer
The Selig experience? – I believe I'll pass on that one.
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The prevalence of smoking has remained fairly stable over the past decade after declining sharply for many years. To determine whether an increase in certain barriers to successful cessation and sustained abstinence may be contributing to this slowed decline, researchers at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health analyzed changes in the prevalence of depression among current, former and never smokers in the U.S. The team found that depression appeared to have significantly increased in the U.S. from 2005 to 2013 among smokers, as well as among former and never smokers. While the prevalence of depression is consistently highest among smokers, the rate of increase in depression was most prominent among former and never smokers. The full study findings are published online in the journal Drug and Alcohol Dependence.
The research team, led by Renee Goodwin, PhD, in the Department of Epidemiology, analyzed data from the National Household Survey on Drug Use, an annual cross-sectional study of approximately 497, 000 Americans, ages 12 and over. The prevalence of past 12-month depression was examined annually among current (past 12-month), former (not past 12-month), and lifetime non-smokers from 2005 to 2013. The researchers further analyzed the data by age, gender, and household income.
"The prevalence of depression increased among current smokers overall, but the rate of the increase among former and never smokers was even more prominent," noted Dr. Goodwin. Striking temporal changes emerged by age, gender and income. Specifically, depression increased significantly, from 16 percent to 22 percent, among current smokers aged 12 to17, and the prevalence was consistently more than twice as high as that of never smokers. The increase in depression also rose from 6 percent to 8 percent among male smokers and increased from 6 percent to 9 percent among smokers in the highest income group. Throughout this period, the prevalence of depression among current smokers was consistently twice as high as among former and never smokers. "The very high rates of depression among the youngest smokers, those aged 12-17, is very concerning, as it may impair their ability not only to stop smoking, but also to navigate the important developmental tasks of adolescence that are important for a successful adult life" said Mailman School of Public Health's Dr. Deborah Hasin, a senior member of the research team.
Co-authors are: Melanie Wall, Mailman School of Public Health; Lorra Garey, University of Houston; Michael Zvolensky, University of Houston; Lisa Dierker, Wesleyan University; Sandro Galea, Boston University School of Public Health; Misato Gbedemah, City University of New York; Andrea Weinberger, Albert Einstein College of Medicine; Jill Williams, Rutgers University-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School; Mei-Chen Hu, New York State Psychiatric Institute; and Deborah Hasin, Mailman School of Public Health.


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Research Article: The usefulness of wire-guided endoscopic snare papillectomy for tumors of the major duodenal papilla
Author(s): Masanori Kobayashi, Shomei Ryozawa, Hirotoshi Iwano, Ryuichiro Araki, Yuki Tanisaka, Akashi Fujita, Tsutomu Kobatake, Lise Lotte Gluud.
Although endoscopic papillectomy is useful for treating papillary tumors, it is associated with a high rate of complications including pancreatitis; therefore, safer treatment options are needed. We examined the utility of wire-guided endoscopic papillectomy by comparing the pancreatic duct stenting and pancreatitis rates before and after wire-guided endoscopic papillectomy was introduced at our institution.
We retrospectively examined the data from 16 consecutive patients who underwent conventional endoscopic papillectomy between November 1995 and July 2005 and the data from 33 patients in whom wire-guided endoscopic papillectomy was first attempted at our institution between August 2005 and April 2017. We compared the pancreatic duct stenting and pancreatitis rates between the two groups.
Of the 33 patients in whom wire-guided endoscopic papillectomy was first attempted, the procedure was completed in 21. Pancreatic duct stenting was possible in 30 of the 33 patients in whom wire-guided endoscopic papillectomy was attempted (91%), and this rate was significantly higher than that before the introduction of wire-guided endoscopic papillectomy (68.8%). The incidence of pancreatitis before the introduction of wire-guided endoscopic papillectomy was 12.5%, but after August 2005, the incidence was reduced by half to 6.1%, which includes those patients in whom wire-guided endoscopic papillectomy could not be completed.
Although wire-guided endoscopic papillectomy cannot be completed in some patients, we believe that this method shows some potential for reducing the total incidence of post-endoscopic papillectomy pancreatitis owing to more successful pancreatic duct stenting.
Tumors of the major duodenal papilla are relatively rare, with most of these tumors being adenoma or carcinoma. For patients with carcinoma, surgical pancreatoduodenectomy is considered an appropriate treatment [1]. In contrast, for patients with localized adenoma of the papilla, no treatment guidelines have been defined [2]. Although many reports on the usefulness of endoscopic papillectomy (EP) for treating localized adenoma of the papilla exist [3–8], EP is associated with many complications. For instance, the American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy Guidelines mention pancreatitis, perforation, bleeding, and cholangitis as acute-phase complications [2]. Of these, acute pancreatitis is the most frequent and potentially lethal complication, although it can be prevented, unlike perforation and bleeding. Thus, treatments for or methods of preventing EP-associated acute pancreatitis are needed.
This study was approved by the Saitama Medical University International Medical Center institutional review board (Approval No. 17-041) and conformed to the principles of the Declaration of Helsinki (as revised in Fortaleza, Brazil, in October 2013). All patients' data were completely anonymized before we accessed them. As per the directives of the institutional review board, although the requirement for informed consent was waived, we ensured that the information about this study was released to the public on our homepage and guaranteed the subjects of this study an opportunity of refusal to participate in the study.
A total of 49 patients were included in this study. The median age of the patients was 65 years (interquartile range: 59–70 years) and the median tumor diameter was 11 mm (interquartile range: 10–20 mm). Regarding the final histological diagnosis, 33 patients had an adenoma, 14 had carcinoma including carcinoma-in-adenoma, 1 had hyperplasia, and 1 had no evidence of tumor tissue on resection. No significant differences in these factors were noted between the two patient groups (before and after the introduction of WGEP). En bloc resection was completed in 41 patients (83.7%) and adverse events occurred in 17 patients (34.7%) (Table 1).
The present study retrospectively analyzed the utility of WGEP versus conventional EP by comparing the rates of pancreatic duct stenting and pancreatitis before and after the introduction of WGEP at our institution.

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The Ocean Based Climate Solutions Act, already backed by Oregon Reps. Bonamici and Blumenauer, needs more support
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Acts 3:1 ¦ Now Peter and John went up together into the temple at the hour of prayer, being the ninth hour.
It seems that there was a man that had been lame from birth that was brought there every day to ask alms—to beg. In the next chapter we are told that the man was 40 years old, so it would seem that this had been his practice for a long time and that he would have been widely recognized. He asked for a donation from Peter and John as they were headed into the temple. Both apostles fixed their eyes upon the man, and Peter told the man to look at them. The man complied expecting to receive some money. Peter then declared that they had no money to give him, but they did have a something for him. He then commanded the man to get up and walk Òin the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth.Ó Peter then took the man by the hand and lifted him up, and simultaneously the manÕs feet and ankles were strengthened. In fact, the man was able to leap up to a standing position and begin walking with them into the temple. He didnÕt just walk beside them; he jumped around praising God to express his thanks and happiness.
This is the first (that Luke chooses to tell us) of many signs and wonders done by the apostles following Pentecost demonstrating the supernatural empowerment of the Spirit that caused the people to respond in fear or awe (cf 2:43).
Òsilver and gold have I noneÓ – This is just one of many scriptures that refute the message propagated by prosperity preachers today. Even Jesus was a poor man.
Acts 3:11 And as the lame man which was healed held Peter and John, all the people ran together unto them in the porch that is called SolomonÕs, greatly wondering.
Everyone that saw this man joyfully walking and leaping around Peter and John recognized him as the man that had begged at the Beautiful gate of the temple for so many years. They were greatly surprised that he had been healed. Soon there was a large crowd gathered around Peter, John and the man in SolomonÕs porch, the outer court area of the temple on the eastern side.
Acts 3:12 ¦ And when Peter saw it, he answered unto the people, Ye men of Israel, why marvel ye at this? or why look ye so earnestly on us, as though by our own power or holiness we had made this man to walk?
Peter decided to take advantage of such a large audience and basically said, ÒWhy are you looking at us like that?Ó He declared that it wasnÕt by their own power or holiness that this miracle had occurred. He explained that God, the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, had performed this miracle through them to glorify His Son Jesus—that same Jesus they had delivered up to Pilate and insisted that he be put to death even though Pilate had wanted to let Him go. They had asked Pilate to release a murderer (Barabbas, cf Mark 15:11) rather than Òthe Holy One and the Just,Ó Jesus, an innocent man. They insisted that Òthe Prince of lifeÓ be killed. Though He was crucified, Peter and John were eyewitnesses to the fact that God raised Jesus from the dead.
Note that Peter was identifying his audience as participants in and guilty of the death of Jesus.
It is also interesting to note that the Greek for the word ÒSonÓ is the word for servant. Jesus had always been clear to declare that He came to serve the Father, to do the work of the Father.
Peter declared that it was faith in the name of Jesus that had made this man whole again—a miracle they could not deny because they had known this man to be lame for years.
It is obvious to me that the faith that brought about this miracle was rooted in Peter and John. The lame man had no clue that he was about to be healed; he thought he was going to be given some money. Peter even declared that healing faith was by or through Jesus—a faith given by Him to accomplish His will.
After boldly pointing the finger of blame at the crowd for the death of Jesus, Peter began to soften his message. He acknowledged that their actions were due to ignorance—both on the part of the people as well as their spiritual leaders. However, their ignorance was not excusable. The prophets had declared how the Messiah should suffer—especially Isaiah in chapter 53—and these prophecies had been fulfilled in Jesus.
Note that the message of GodÕs prophets revealed His plan and purposes. It was GodÕs will that Christ should suffer.
In light of the truth Peter had just proclaimed, he calls for the people to repent of their sin and rejection of the Messiah and turn back to the God of their fathers in faith. If they do, they will have their sins wiped away and can look forward to experiencing the times of refreshing that will begin with the return of Jesus Christ. Jesus is in heaven until GodÕs appointed time for the fulfillment of GodÕs plan as foretold by His holy prophets. When Jesus returns, He will usher in Òthe times of restitution of all things.Ó I think this is talking about the establishment of Israel in fellowship with God and the lifting of the curse on creation during the millennial kingdom.
Peter goes on to quote from Moses in declaring Jesus as GodÕs prophet as well as His servant. The Jews recognized these verses in Deuteronomy as a reference to the Messiah.
Point is made that anyone that rejects the prophet Jesus will Òbe destroyed from among the people.Ó In other words, they will face condemnation and not allowed to fellowship with God in the kingdom.
Peter again emphasizes that all the prophets beginning with Samuel foretold the days of Messiah. I could not find a prophecy from Samuel; however, the book of Samuel records a prophecy given by Nathan to David. God promised David that one of his seed would rule from his throne over an eternal kingdom—a reference to the Messiah.
Peter reminds his audience that they are descendants of the prophets and Abraham. God made a covenant with Abraham that through his seed all the people on planet earth were to be blessed.
That blessing was to come through the Messiah, GodÕs Servant Son, Jesus. Jesus came first to Israel, to the Jewish people, to plead with them to turn away from their sin and turn back to God in faith and obedience.


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March 15, 2016 By Terrance Ruth, Ph.D., M.S.Ed.
The African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS) welcomed an engaged crowd to their First Annual conference on the campus of UNC. Since AAIHS began in January 2014, it has quickly become one of the leading online spaces for dialogue about new scholarship and research methods on the black intellectual tradition. Whether it is the dynamic roundtables on Garveyism and black woman's intellectual history, blog posts about the intellectual traditions forged by enslaved men and women, or resources such as the #charlestonsyllabus and #blackpanthersyllabus, AAIHS has fostered a valuable and innovative online community.
With AAIHS inaugural conference, participants were able to advance the online conversations in person and foster new and innovative ideas about race and intellectual history. In that spirit, the theme of the conference was "New Perspective on the Black Intellectual Tradition." The papers and panels featured at this two-day event not only foreground individual and group contributions to black intellectual history, they also offered new approaches to excavating the ideas and philosophies of these black activists and intellectuals across the African Diaspora.
Regardless of your scholarly background or focus, the period of study, or research methodology you utilize, the conference was a space to develop personal and professional relationships, explore new pedagogical approaches to black intellectual history, and create new opportunities for professional development. Indeed, the theme of the conference was meant to engender relationships among scholars of global black intellectual history as much as it was designed to explore what makes the black intellectual tradition innovative and unique.
EmergNC had the privilege to listen to The Black Press as Agents of Black Thought panel. The chair of this session was Dr. Ronald Williams (UNC, Chapel Hill). There was an amazing line up of four presenters: Dr. Jane Rhodes (University of Illinois at Chicago), Dr. Kim Gallon (Purdue University), Dr. Zita Nunes (University of Maryland at College Park), and Dr. Fred Carroll (Elizabeth City State University). Each panelist shared a unique angle of the Black Press history. EmergNC will share a few highlights from the discussion.
The Black Press as Agents of Black Thought
By the end of the nineteenth century, the Black newspapers, though tiny in number still strove to speak for and to the race. Several Black newspapers had a dual mission to protest racial oppression and also to encourage their readers to uplift themselves socially, morally, and intellectually. The second mission intersected with the goals and activities of the more powerful and important African Americans of the time. In particular, the panelist often acknowledged Du Bois, Randolph and Garvey.
The black press protested racial oppression through news stories, columns, and editorials. In addition, the black press provided financial aid, office space, and employment to civil rights organizations and leaders. Black newspapers also provided leaders with a platform. W. E. B. Dubois, James Weldon Johnson, Ida B. Wells, Kelly Miller, Walter White, and Marcus Garvey, published their own newspapers. Black newspapers were among the most successful businesses in the black community, with many of them lasting fifty to a hundred years.
Black newspapers and magazines were open to all within the black community who had something to say. One scholar said that "the black newspapers attempted to be all to all people." In terms of the staff, black newspapers tapped the rich, developing source of black literary talent. Black publishers were for the most part highly literate and educated people who wanted to showcase black literary and artistic talent to the world.
The Black Press session was one of many that were compressed into just two days. EmergNC is already anticipating next years' line up of black ideas and conversations. For more information on AAIHS use hastags (#charlestonsyllabus and #blackpanthersyllabus) or you can go directly to the website (http://www.aaihs.org/).
Terrance Ruth, Ph.D., M.S.Ed.
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Dr. Terrance Ruth is a Research Assistant at the Friday Institute for Educational Innovation at North Carolina University. Terrance earned his PhD from the University of Central Florida in the college of Public Affairs. Terrance's research interest includes the theoretical areas of Globality and Structuration with a focus on future projections in ethnic and cultural perceptions.
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But the "sport of kings" has become the sport for kids. Unlike casinos, where kids are forbidden to even loiter near a blackjack table or slot machine, race tracks have become almost like the theme parks of the gambling world. You must be 18 or older to go to the window and place a bet on a horse race in California. But that's a mere technicality. Del Mar Race Track these days is "family friendly," a place where kids study the tote board, pore over racing cards, pick the ponies and leap for joy when a winner crosses the finish line, right along with dad and mom.
San Diego Union-Tribune 8/24/00
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LArazzo del World Trade Center era un grande arazzo, opera dell'artista catalano Joan Miró con Josep Royo.

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These Are the Highest Paid Nollywood Actors Ever
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Nollywood is one of the fastest growing film industries in the world, ranking as the world's second largest movie industry by volume, just behind India's Bollywood. In 2014, the Nigerian government released data placing Nollywood as a $3.3 billion sector, while later the film The Wedding Party broke the box office records as the highest grossing movie of all time with a whooping $1,286,585. These are the highest earning actors putting Nigeria's film industry in the spotlight.
Richard Mofe Damijo (RMD)
Man in the Mirror… never be afraid to pause sometimes to look at yourself in the mirror and ask yourself if all is going well. If not, reappraise. Reassess. Reprogramme. Redirect. Redefine and Rev on. #nevertoolate #neverbeafraid. #Rmdsaysso #proudurhoboman. Urhobo shirt by @meakstitches
A post shared by Richard Mofe-Damijo RMD (@mofedamijo) on Oct 6, 2018 at 3:19am PDT
With an estimated net worth of $15 million, Richard Mofe Damijo – popularly referred to as RMD – is the highest paid Nigerian actor of all time. He studied Theater Arts at the University of Benin, and later went to study law at the University of Lagos. He became popular when he featured in the TV soap opera Ripples in the late 80s
He also served as a former Commissioner for Culture and Tourism to the government of Delta State, Nigeria.
RMD has multi-million Naira endorsements deals with the likes of telecommunication giant Globacom and beer brand Heineken.
Desmond Elliot
I have a dream and I can't wait to share it !!!
A post shared by Desmond Elliott (@desmondelliot) on Sep 26, 2018 at 1:54am PDT
Desmond is a graduate of Economics from Lagos State University – he later launched into an acting career and has featured in over two hundred films, including a number of television shows and soap operas. He's also a director with a number of blockbuster Nollywood movie credits to his name.
He ventured into politics in 2014 and won the Surulere Constituency on April 11, 2015. He is estimated to be worth USD$10 million.
Jim Iyke
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A post shared by Jim Iyke (@jim.iyke) on Sep 25, 2018 at 1:04pm PDT
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Chidi Mokeme
🍾🥂
A post shared by Chidi Mokeme (@chidimokeme) on Mar 23, 2018 at 10:56pm PDT
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Segun Arinze
Still in the birthday mood! Thanks to @blingshiki
A post shared by Segun Arinze (@the.segunarinze) on Sep 24, 2018 at 4:53am PDT
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Simply in Awe of GOD's GOODNESS to us all …Happy Weekend my People🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏… #teamgreatness #strongmentality #staytruetoyourself #lagosrealfakelife
A post shared by Mike Ezuruonye (@mikeezu) on Oct 6, 2018 at 3:10am PDT
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Mike bags endorsement deals with telecommunication companies Globacom and Airtel.
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Wishing you a sun filled week ahead… Merry Men still showing nationwide..dont be told 😉
A post shared by RAMSEY (@ramseynouah) on Oct 9, 2018 at 4:53am PDT
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Q: Shared Google Sheet (Editor Access for Collaborator), with Custom UI TemplateHtml, serves html, but does not append row. Works for Sheet Owner I have a working (working for me, the owner of the sheet/ app script) apps script that allows a user to enter any customer interaction. The user is a collaborator on the Sheet, with Editor access.
When the collaborator runs the custom menu item, a html is served (Template), but when the collaborator hits Submit, the data does not get appended to the specified tab on the spreadsheet. This works fine if I run it, though.
Reading a bit of the documentation seems to suggest an Authmode issue? Any pointers gratefully appreciated. Thanks.
Here is my CODE.GS

function onOpen() {
  SpreadsheetApp.getUi() // Or DocumentApp or SlidesApp or FormApp.
      .createMenu('Customer Engagement')
      .addItem('Record Interaction', 'showDialog')
      .addToUi();
}

function showDialog() {
  var html = HtmlService.createTemplateFromFile('RecordInteraction.html');
  html.data = readData();
  SpreadsheetApp.getUi().showModalDialog(html.evaluate().setWidth(400).setHeight(600), 'Please Enter Details');
}

function readData() {
  var url = "https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/13Ms0Cny3f-XaXS26s5AnrDT4H9c8p8OKRfwxPIQ9_CU/edit#gid=16760772";
  var ss = SpreadsheetApp.openByUrl(url);
  var ws = ss.getSheetByName("Pipeline");
  var rng = ws.getRange('D2:D')
  var rangeArray = rng.getValues();
  var filArray = rangeArray.filter(function (el) {return el[0] != ""}).flat();  // Modified
  console.info("hello read the data")
  return filArray;
}

function activateSheetById(sheetId) {

  //Access all the sheets in the Google Sheets spreadsheet
  var sheets = SpreadsheetApp.getActive().getSheets();

  //Filter out sheets whose Ids do not match
  var sheetsForId = sheets.filter(function(sheet) {
    return sheet.getSheetId() === sheetId;
  });

  //If a sheet with the Id was found, activate it
  if(sheetsForId.length > 0)
    sheetsForId[0].activate();
}

function appendRowFromFormSubmit(form) {
  var row = [form.name, form.doi, form.mode, form.feedback, form.temperature];
  console.info("Appending Row");
  activateSheetById(2059810756);
  SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSheet().appendRow(row);
}

function RemoveMenu() {
     var ss = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSpreadsheet();
     ss.removeMenu('Customer Contact');
}

Here is my HTML+JS
<!DOCTYPE html>

  <base target="_top">

  <datalist id="datalist">
    <?
    data.forEach(e => {
    ?>
    <option value="<?= e ?>">
    <? }); ?>
  </datalist>

Record Interaction

  <form id="feedbackForm">
    Parent Name
    <input type="text" id="name" name="name" list="datalist">

    Date of Interaction
    <input id="today" type="date" name="doi">

    Mode of Interaction (WA/Call/Email/Other)
    <input type="text" id="mode" name="mode">

    Interaction Summary
    <textarea rows=4 cols=35 id="feedback" name="feedback">Enter Interaction Summary Here...
         </textarea>

      Likely Candidate?

      <input type="radio" id="Hot" name="temperature" value="Hot">
      Hot

      <input type="radio" id="Warm" name="temperature" value="Warm">
      Warm

      <input type="radio" id="Tepid" name="temperature" value="Tepid">
      Tepid

      <input type="radio" id="Cold" name="temperature" value="Cold">
      Cold

      <input type="button" value="Submit Interaction" onclick="submitForm();">
  </form>

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OP | Post 316 made on Wednesday October 4, 2017 at 17:31
ESPN and Formula 1 have set a multi-year linear and digital partnership bringing the FIA Formula One World Championship back to its original U.S. TV home starting in March 2018. ESPN and ABC – where Formula 1 first aired in 1962 – will televise all 21 races in the championship.
All races will air live in the U.S. on either ESPN, ESPN2 or ABC. From March through November, more than 125 hours of Formula 1 programming, including all practice sessions, qualifying and races, will air live and in replay across ESPN platforms. NBC had been airing the races since 2013.
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4-4? Or 4-2?
Post 319 made on Monday October 23, 2017 at 15:45
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It's 4-4 which is weird. I hope they get a 4-2 and 4-3 maybe with some new channels? And then replace 7-2 with a different channel? No sense having 2 LAFF TV's in the same area. It's OK to dream, right? lol.
Tribune Broadcasting's multicast network Antenna TV will present all episodes of the legendary sitcom All in the Family in one holiday weekend marathon. It will run all nine seasons (207 episodes) on Thanksgiving weekend.
The All of All in The Family Thanksgiving weekend marathon begins with season 1, episode 1 at 5 a.m. ET on Wednesday, Nov. 22, and runs through Sunday, Nov. 26. - Mark K. Miller
OP | Post 321 made on Wednesday November 1, 2017 at 19:19
OP | Post 322 made on Tuesday November 21, 2017 at 19:06
Antiques Roadshow currently replaces Charlie Rose on WNED; no network replacement for local stations.
OP | Post 323 made on Tuesday December 5, 2017 at 17:54
PBS and its New York affiliate, WNET, will offer the anchor's nightly global affairs interview program on an interim basis to PBS stations nationwide. Dubbed "Amanpour on PBS," the program will air on WNET, beginning Monday, December 4 and be offered PBS stations across the U.S.beginning December 11 at 11 p.m. The program will continue to air on CNN International weekdays at 2 p.m. and 5 p.m. eastern.
PBS said it is in the process of "finalizing plans" for a second public-affairs how to follow "Amanpour on PBS" at 11:30 p.m. A separate announcement is expected to follow at a later date.
-Variety
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OP | Post 325 made on Thursday December 14, 2017 at 20:11
PBS (WNED) didn't have any new episodes slated until Wednesday December 27.No replacement named yet.
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Beginning January 15, NEWS4 Buffalo will air a local newscast M-F at 06:30 on .
Antenna TV will have a 'COACH' marathon on January 0 from 05:00 to 11:30.
Johnny Carson moves to 11:30 pm beginning Sunday December 31.
A smörgåsbord lineup will begin January 02, 2018; shows moved around.
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OP | Post 329 made on Wednesday January 3, 2018 at 17:18
Culture critic, activist and Georgetown Professor Michael Eric Dyson has connected like Cuban links with Ice-T and his Final Level Productions company to bring the public The Raw Word, which is set for a four-week test episode run in March 2018 on Sinclair Stations.
Dyson will co-host alongside reality TV personality Claudia Jordan on The Raw Word, which is executive produced by Andre Jetmir, who manages Professor Dyson as well as served as the creator of Ice-T & Coco.
Three complete episodes of "The Raw Word" already feature guests Don Cheadle, Bill Maher and Tavis Smiley.
Look for the premiere episode on Sinclair Stations on March 5, 2018.
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Happy New Year! It's been a busy few days - we had a big family gathering here on New Year's Day and then yesterday was my MIL's birthday and a visit with Shane's side of the family. The kids are out of their routine, tired & cranky - so it's no wonder they have been demanding extra TLC! But Sam is down for a long winter's nap and Grayson is having a little quiet time and watching "UP" which he got for Christmas (thanks Auntie Maja!) So I finally have a few minutes to write down some things I want to take care of this year and organize myself for this month. Yup...I am planning meals for the whole month!
As I wrote the other day - Crystal and Jessica are hosting an Eat from the Pantry Challenge that I will be joining in on. I took an inventory of all the food I had in the freezer, pantry and fridge and planned 20 meals using those items. Each week I can choose 5 (a variety of chicken, pork, beef or meatless) and then figure on leftovers, our regular Friday night pizza or eating out for the other 2 meals. I'm realistic enough to say that I am sure there will be a few changes along the way - especially when it comes to leftovers and opportunitites to eat out!
Here are the 20 meals I could make with what's in the house right now (although I may have to buy fresh ingredients like sour cream and vegetables to the shopping list depending on the week I plan to make each recipe). Note: Each time I add a meal to one of my menu plans in the next four weeks I will cross it off here. Just my way of staying organized!
As for our other meals - breakfasts are usually waffles, cereal, oatmeal, toast with peanut butter or cheese, yogurt, fruit etc. Lunches are often sandwiches, leftovers, Alphagettis, Mac & Cheese, cheese & crackers, fruit etc. And since I received my new breadmaker for Christmas, I plan on making bread, pizza dough and baked goods with it.
It's crazy that I have this much food in the house. I hope this will cut the grocery bill, clean out the freezer and pantry and provide me a little lesson in getting and staying organized...who knows, monthly plans might be the way to go!
Watch for weekly menus based on these 20 dishes each Monday along with updates on how we're doing!
I'm so impressed with your planning for the month. I am trying to use up what's in my pantry and freezer as well. I just wanted to stop by and wish you a Happy New Year and invite you to join me each week for Crock Pot Wednesday. I hope you can make it this week. Mister Linky will be up by Tuesday evening.
Noreen I am super impressed! I really need to get on top of my meal planning and cutting the grocery bill too. Can't wait to see how it unfolds!


Moped vs. Scooter vs. Motorcycle: What's the Difference?
The difference between mopeds, scooters, and motorcycles comes down to power and size. In reality, all three are actually just types of motorcycles, but they're built with different purpose and levels of complexity.
The simplest way to think of this is to picture three very different breeds of dog and realize they all descended from one original prehistoric ancestor.
The moped would be a Chihuahua or Toy Poodle. They're light, small and serve a simple purpose. They can't do any real work and aren't scaring anyone with their low speed, power or small size.
The scooter would be the equivalent of a Scottish Terrier or Cocker Spaniel. They're big enough to be quick, have respectable power to do work like hunt small game and scare off the neighbor's cat or the mailman when called upon.
Originally scooters and mopeds were labeled motorcycles or sometimes "cyclemotors" and developed simultaneously around the turn of the century in the late 1800s.
The first mopeds were just bicycles with a 2 stroke engine installed over the front wheel as in the photo above. These were the lightest, most economical type of motorcycle by far to purchase and the simplest to maintain and repair. A moped can travel over 200 miles on a tank of fuel.
The engine was there to assist leg power instead of doing all the work as is the case with scooters and motorcycles. You had to start the engine running then pedal the bike to the point it was moving fast enough the drive from the engine could be manually engaged with the front wheel. Once that happened you could stop pedaling and the engine would drive the moped along until you hit a hill and you'd have to start pedaling again and possibly disengage the engine drive on steep hills or the engine would stall.
That economy-first ideology carried on over time and mopeds became a little more sophisticated. The addition of lights, relocating the engine to the rear wheel or middle of the frame and the introduction of centrifugal clutches inside the pedal housing used to send engine power to the rear wheel. This made it much more user-friendly since pedaling faster would automatically engage engine power to the rear wheel and resistance like on a hill or using the brakes would disengage it.
They also began to incorporate the "step through design" to the frame commonly found on scooter designs, making it easier to mount and dismount. They were even built with having a passenger in mind as evidenced by the rear footpegs and the bench seat in the photo below.
Mopeds didn't actually acquire that name until it was created in 1952 by Swedish journalist Harald Nielsen by mixing the words "motor" and "pedal" together.
The general modern definition for a moped is any light, two-wheeled motorcycle with an internal combustion engine 50cc or less producing under 2 horsepower. Most still have pedals and require leg power to go up hills, but there are "Nopeds" out there as well that don't have pedals… which in effect actually makes them low powered scooters.
A recent survey in Finland found roughly 80% of mopeds on the road there have had their engines tuned in a way to give them twice the power they should legally be limited to. Governments have set up moped use to offer more lenient licensing and insurance rules because they're supposed to be lower powered, slower and more suitable transportation for teenagers to use. Suping them up like this while fun is bound to get the rules changed for the worse.
Just to add to the confusion these days the name moped is often used interchangeably with scooter and in parts of Europe can even refer to micro cars and three-wheeled vehicles.
The largest modern dealer of mopeds in the United States is Brooklyn, NY based Tomos America. Tomos is a Slovenian company that sells mopeds and E-bikes (electric assist bicycles).
Their two pedal-equipped moped models named the Sprint to come in a chrome, vintage look and a more modern one with mag wheels.
Who Should Own a Moped?
If you live in a large city like NYC or Los Angeles with heavy traffic and limited parking the moped makes a lot of sense. European and Asian cities are also ideal places to use them for the same reasons.
They are most attractive to people on a tight budget who like something a little unusual and getting exercise in their daily commute through the inner city. These would be great vehicles for students in university or college.
Wickedly affordable and useful urban jungle craft they are indeed, but they have a very limited carrying capacity and a low top speed unlike my next area of focus: scooters.
In the beginning, scooters had manual transmissions and weren't much different than motorcycles due to the limits of emerging technology.
Modern-day scooters are mostly all automatics equipped with Continuously Variable Transmissions (CVT) or something similar. You only need to twist the throttle to produce an infinite number of gear ratios to move the scooter smoothly and quickly.
Scooters share all the positive traits of mopeds and none of the drawbacks. They're very fuel efficient, lightweight and easy to drive, but unlike mopeds, plenty of them have larger engines ranging from 50cc all the way up to 850cc.
Before we delve right into new models, let's take a quick look at the origin of this species.
As mentioned before, scooters evolved concurrent with mopeds and motorcycles but took a cleaner and more aerodynamic path when it came to their appearance.
Scooter builders favored smooth curves and futuristic, space-age styling. The design allowed for comfortable seats along with some protection from the elements thanks to wings that stick out from each side of the front acting like a fairing does on a touring motorcycle.
The photo above is the 1908 Auto-Fauteuil which arguably is the prehistoric ancestor of the modern scooter we are familiar with. It has the step-through design and more of a bench type seat on it than most motorcycles would. It was in production for 20 years and was called a motorcycle though.
Generally speaking, scooters weren't reliable or popular until after the Second World War when former aircraft manufacturers embraced them as a new product to mass produce.
Building stamped tin frames and body panels came naturally to aircraft builders and many high-quality scooter factories started building them in the US, Italy, Germany, and Japan in 1946.
One of the most popular scooter building companies is the Italian maker Vespa.
The name means "Wasp" in Italian and was coined by the company founder Enrico Piaggio when he first laid eyes on the prototype design for the original MP6 in 1946. The back end of the scooter tapers to a stinger-like point which I suppose does look a bit like a wasp's abdomen.
From the 1940s to the 1970s scooters were just as fast as motorcycles and even beat them regularly in racing circuits. Have a look at this photo below of the 1951 Vespa Siluro (Torpedo) that set a record in the Flying Kilometre race by maintaining an average speed of 106 mph!
It only had a two-cylinder engine producing a maximum 17.2 hp, but that was really powerful for the time. In the 70s motorcycle technology advances put them ahead of scooters to stay, but for a while there it was a racing scooter heyday.
Racing definitely wasn't the scooter's ideal niche to fill. It was and still is best suited to moving people around in congested cities anywhere in the world. Motorcycle sales can't touch scooter sales across the globe, mainly because they are used so heavily in densely populated Asian countries like India, Thailand, and China.
In 1953 Vespa made a big splash in the US and international market thanks to the hit movie Roman Holiday where Audrey Hepburn rode around Rome on one their scooters with Gregory Peck. That moment on the silver screen made their bikes super chic and cemented them as the first internationally successful scooter company. To this day Vespa scooters have a hugely romantic draw about them.
Vespa's success opened the door for another major scooter builder to dominate 3 years later.
I tend to think of Honda as a major car and motorcycle company, but in 2008 they sold their 60 millionth Super Cub scooter in just 50 years of production across 160 countries! They sell for about $1400 USD new and are so tough and reliable they are used in Asia as a packhorse regularly.
How reliable and tough are these scooters? Charlie Boorman decided to torture test one by removing the engine oil and replacing it with dirty cooking oil from a chip fryer, overloading it with pizza, fruit, and vegetables and riding it around to see if it would die. It didn't. He then pushed it off a building roof onto the parking lot below and it still started and ran. Skip to the 2:30 mark to see the test yourself.
Rumour has it an electric version is going into production in 2018. Here a photo of the concept model unveiled by Honda in 2009.
The introduction of the Honda Cub in the US back in 1958 was a huge success in large part due to its advertising campaign which made motorcycling look tame and friendly instead of linked to gangs like the Hells Angels as it was then portrayed too often.
There have been some rumblings in the scooter class of motorcycle in recent years by companies like BMW, Yamaha, and Honda, making me wonder if they'll maybe make bigger inroads in North America.
All of them build the most popular kinds of small scooters with 50 to 120cc engines in them, but the trend now is towards larger displacement four-stroke engines and much bigger, heavier body and frame assemblies. Scooters are suddenly seriously fancy and fast again.
They're being labeled Maxi Scooters. Even though they're heavier the center of gravity is built low down and they don't feel heavy to ride.
Does this look like what you picture in your mind when someone says the word scooter? A 397 lb machine with ABS and Traction Control technology that easily roars around town with two people on board?
It has a huge storage compartment under the seat for two helmets with room to spare.
The XMAX has been released into the US market for the first time in 2018 and reviews so far are positive about its power and handling. It's been described as FUN and easy to ride. Couple that with Yamaha reliability and it's a sure winner.
Yes, you read that right: Adventure Scooter!
For those who are vertically challenged but still want to ride off-road it can be difficult to find a dual-sport motorcycle low enough to the ground to reach comfortably. This new Honda scooter will take care of that problem as it has the step-through design and a low seat height.
This is absolutely the coolest scooter ever built. It has Pro-Link adjustable preload on the rear suspension which should handle rough roads quite well and the same bulletproof engine as is in the NC750X.
Much like the NC750X this scooter has the lockable "frunk" under seat storage compartment big enough to house a full face helmet too.
What it doesn't have is a CVT drive system, instead, it has a chain final drive and Dual Clutch Transmission which is way better and stronger than a CVT system would be off-road. I would really love to try one of these out but, unfortunately, they won't be available in North America in 2018.
Maybe next year we'll get to try it on this side of the pond.


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The day Shiv Sena murdered Comrade Krishna Desai
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"According to his family members, the (Shiv) Sena had physically attacked (Krishna) Desai during the 1967 election campaign. He escaped with his life by using his briefcase as a shield. Apparently, Desai knew he was a target. A feared trade unionist and a political leader with deep roots in the neighbourhood, Desai stood between the Sena and the Girgangaon. Anticipating an attack, he decided to send his family away to safety to his village in Ratnagiri. As for himself, he planned to go underground and take the fight to the Sena.
On June 5, 1970, Desai, as usual surrounded by Anil Karnik and others, was winding down for the day in his one-room hutment. His wife had laid out the dinner. Desai took off his shirt and was about to sit down to eat when he was summoned. His party associates wanted to discuss the next day's planned Lok Seva Dal camping trip. Telling his wife and Karnik that he would be back shortly, Desai walked a few hundred yards down the winding lane to the office of a rice mill.
A mentally challenged man from his neighbourhood interrupted Desai's conversation with his comrades in the office, informing him that some workers wanted to meet him. The assembled group looked out towards the open field that face the rice mill office. The power was off, and it was raining lightly. At the head of the narrow lane that led out from the field, the silhouettes of a few men were visible. Desai called out to ask who they were. A voice shouted "Jai Bharat" (Hail to India) in response. Desai's young comrade Prakash Patkar walked towards them. As he neared the group, Patkar saw a few men standing by a car. One of the assembled men had a gupti, a long-bladed weapon tucked under his shirt. Patkar shouted out a warning to Desai, who rushed instantly to his side. Patkar was stabbed. Within seconds, Desai was surrounded and stabbed in the back, with his liver slashed. Having achieved their purpose, the attackers vanished into the darkness. Miraculously, Desai walked to the nearby house of a friend, who rushed him to the hospital, but he succumbed to the fatal wound."
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The Harem
Safia Fazlul
TSAR's 2012 fall launch was grand and exciting – an occasion to meet and make friends.
Of the bunch of fiction and poetry collections released at the launch, I picked up Safia Fazlul's TheHarem.
It is a boldly told story of a young woman's daring attempt to escape poverty and family restrictions.
Farina is a Canadian of Bangladeshi origin. She has grown up with nothing but contempt for her constrictive upbringing, her parents, their regressive ways, and her ghetto where women are abused by their men.
She runs away from this unending nightmare as soon as she turns 18. But it isn't easy making money on survival wage jobs.
Sabrina, her childhood friend, with whom she was forced to attend the Islamic school, has turned into a stripper, not out of choice, but willing to make the most of her adversity to push her way out of poverty.
An exchange between the friends brings alive the dilemma they face - the stranglehold of tradition that keeps them poor but also helps retain their sense of dignity.
"The bare-knuckled punches to my pride, Farina – that's my big problem." (Sabrina tells Farina)
I hear her loud and clear. Although I'm desperate for money, I'd never risk hurting my pride over it. For two insignificant brown girls like us, pride is much more important than money. We're born to please our parents, raised to please our neighbours, and married off to please our husbands. Pride is all there is to remind us that we belong to ourselves.
For Farina, Sabrina's decision to be a stripper is the ultimate surrender, and she can't help but observe,
"Our nudity – the shell of our sex – was the only thing we always had complete control over. While our parents and neighbours could watch what we wore, they couldn't watch whom we got naked for. If Sabrina's going to give up this control, then she might as well as settle for an arranged marriage and learn how to make samosas."
She and her friends Sabrina and Imrana have nothing but disdain for their Islamic rearing and go out of their way to defy the traditions their parents hold dear and revere. In an act of ultimate defiance, they start Harem – an escort agency.
Money flows in, and with prosperity comes a sense of freedom. However, notwithstanding the derision she reserve for the values her parents tried to inculcate in her, ultimately there is no escaping these values.
So, even as she makes more money than she can keep track of, Farina is besieged with guilt. She also can't avoid the ghetto completely, and falls in love with a boy who is nearly a mirror image of her father.
Harem is graphic and leaves little to imagination. It is also a sensitive and touching portrayal of Farina's frailties that are normal for any 18-year-old. The relationship between the mother and daughter is raw, emotional and heart wrenching, for instance, when narrating her family history, Farina's mother tells her, "We didn't realize then that there is more than one way to lose a child."
Many of the passages in the book are biting, pithy and depict with unrelenting accuracy the unbending social realities of the ethnic ghettos in Canada's cities.
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Tinderbox: The Past and the Future of Pakistan - MJ Akbar
MJ Akbar is an Indian institution. In my humble opinion, he has no parallels in Indian journalism.
He invented modern Indian journalism in the 1970s with Sunday magazine, and introduced the real India (that is Bharat) to Indians hitherto used to reading newspapers and journals edited by pipe smoking journalists who pontificated about things that had little or no relevance to most of their readers, and wrote in English that was a hangover from the colonial times.
Akbar and his magazine Sunday changed all that.
Carl Sandberg has famously described slang as "a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work."
Akbar did that to English journalism in India. He made it work.
He made the post-Emergency renaissance in Indian journalism relevant and meaningful.
It was a sort of rediscovery of India for a new generation of readers that was coming of age then.
Leaving the pontificating to the fast-fading pipe smokers, he went to the heart of India and helped Indians understand India.
Akbar brought us face-to-face with the horrible atrocities the Dalits faced in India.
"The untouchable Jatav is touchable only when a pretty Jatav woman can be raped, or when a whimpering man has to be dragged into the field to do forced, whimsical paid labour."
(Have Gun, Will Kill, January 1982 – report on the massacre of Dalits in Dehuli and Sarhupur in Uttar Pradesh from Riot After Riot, 1988).
He brought alive the horrors of unending communal violence that erupted in different parts of India.
"Many Muslims who were killed cannot be traced…to give just one example: Salim Mohammad was twenty-five years old, and he had been married to young Naeema just five months earlier. He was a worker who polished brass in one of the factories which have made Moradabad famous all over the world. He went to the Idgah, which is hardly five minutes away from his house, to pray; he never returned. A friend of his who was sitting nearby saw a bullet hit the side of Salim's face. Salim fell dead. This friend went to the fallen salim, removed the only thing of value he had, a wristwatch, and brought it back to the family. (We saw the watch when we met the family; it was a poor man's watch, a brand called Siwa; it had been given to Salim as a wedding present by his wife's family.) Today Salim's body cannot be traced. His family have asked for it, but the police say they cannot find a Salim among the dead."
(Massacre in Moradabad, August 1980 from Riot After Riot, 1988)
Akbar has also written often controversial but always readable histories that have helped us understand ourselves better. By analyzing the past, his books have accurately anticipated the future.
India – The Siege Within (1985), Nehru – the Making of India (published in 1989 – Nehru's centenary), The Shade of Swords: Jihad and the conflict between Islam and Christianity (2002), are among the books he has authored that have received winder acclaim (although his description of the Khilafat Movement as Gandhi's peaceful jihad is a leap of imagination).
In Nehru's biography, he quoted Russi Modi to corroborate the Nehru-Edwina relationship. "Russi Mody marched up, opened the door and saw Jawaharlal and Edwina in a clinch. Jawaharlal Nehru looked at Russi Mody and grimaced. Russi quickly shut the door and walked out."
His latest book Tinderbox: The Past and the Future of Pakistan is again an invaluable addition to understanding the tortured history of India's neighbour. Again, as in his previous books, he rakes up controversies.
Explaining the ever-widening divergence between the paths that India and Pakistan have taken since 1947, Akbar says, "The idea of India is stronger than the Indian; the idea of Pakistan is weaker than the Pakistani."
Akbar was in Toronto earlier this week to talk about `Terrorism and Geopolitics: The Coming Decade' as part of promotion of his book at the University of Toronto's India Innovation Institute.
In an hour, Akbar gave a glimpse of his erudition, scholarship, vision, philosophy and also a bit of prejudice. A virtuoso performance enjoyed by the who's who of the Indo-Canadian community.
I wonder how my Toronto friends of Pakistani origin would have reacted to the lecture, and to the book.
Labels: MJ Akbar, Nehru - the Making of India, Riot After Riot, Sunday magazine, The Shade of Swords: Jihad and the conflict between Islam and Christianity, Tinderbox: The Past and the Future of Pakistan
Saree Kahaniyan: The Saree Stories
Nitin & Jasmine Sawant
I had seen a vignette of Saree Kahaniyan: The Saree Stories at the Rang Manch Canada's festival a couple of months ago, and it immediately touched a chord.
Jasmine Sawant's street-theatre style play depicting the significance of a saree in a woman's (and everyone's) life was something many in the audience could easily relate to having experienced a similar situation in their lives. Shruti Shah and Naimesh Nanavaty performed a skit that would touch many hearts – the saree she wore the first time she met him.
Last week, at the Desi Grants Award program in Mississauga, I saw a fuller version of Saree Stories. It is a composition of different vignettes from a woman's remembrance of things past through her sarees.
Shruti Shah, this time enacting the role of a lonely widow in a stark white sari, sitting in her condo somewhere in Canada, and recounting her days of youth in Mumbai. From the time her mother threw away her saree in the garbage to the time when she and her husband get caught in a terrorist attack and she uses her saree to bandage a stranger grievously wounded in this random act of violence.
All the vignettes had a common thread – they were true stories, and all of them were from Mumbai. At Rang Manch Canada event the audience comprised mostly men, and the response to Jasmine's skit was muted. On the other hand, at the Desi magazine event, there were as many women as men, and the response Jasmine got when she asked the women in the audience to share their saree stories was spontaneous, evocatively rich and varied.
Jasmine – in her role as the sutradhar – interspersed her narrative with a combination of some personal anecdotes, some history of the saree (in the past, men wore sarees, too) and some engaging small talk.
Both Jasmine and Shruti have their roots in Mumbai's theatre world; both are pioneers of the now decade-old Sawitri Theatre Group based in Mississauga.
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Labels: Desi Magazine, Jasmine Sawant, Sawitri Theatre Group, Shruti Shah
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