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Posted on February 9, 2018 November 27, 2018 by InsightsIAS
SECURE SYNOPSIS: 09 FEBRUARY 2018
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Topic: Modern Indian history from about the middle of the eighteenth century until the present- significant events, personalities, issues
1) "Nehru and Patel were colleagues not rivals, co-workers not adversaries. Working individually, and together, they united India and gave it a democratic template." Analyse. (250 Words)
Background:-
Jawaharlal Nehru, India's first prime minister and Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, its first deputy prime minister were two towering figures of India's anti-colonial freedom movement.
Similarities and how they cooperated with each other:
In November 1946, Nehru joined the interim government and resigned from the party presidentship on the ground that the two roles of the leader of the government and the president of the party could not be combined. Even Patel supported this view.
They said that the proceedings and the papers of the government were secret and could not be divulged to persons outside the government. In essence they argued for the autonomy of the parliamentary wing and even its supremacy over the party in so far as government affairs were concerned.
They complemented each other in many ways as one was a great organizer and able administrator, the other commanded immense mass support and had a wide social and developmental perspective
There was considerable mutual affection and respect for each other and each recognized the indispensability of the other.
Gandhi's death also made a difference; the two realized that it had made their cooperation all the more necessary. Throughout Patel remained Nehru's loyal colleague, assuring him of complete support for his policies.
The integration of the princely states including Kashmir into the Indian union successfully shows the coordination between the two leaders.
The democratic values enshrined in the constitution was supported both the leaders.
However they had their differences:
But their worldviews differed widely, which reflected in their contrasting attempts to shape the trajectory of the freedom movement, the Indian constitution, issues related to integration of the reluctant princely states, and matters relating to combating communal violence.
After 1947, policy differences on several questions cropped up between them.
The two differed on the role and authority of the prime minister
The manner in which the riots of 1947 were to be handled and the relations with Pakistan.
Nehru opposed, though unsuccessfully , Patel's view that the right to property should be included among the Fundamental Rights in the constitution.
Differences in Economic Policy:
Nehru envisioned a socialist India with the elimination of profit in society with social service and cooperation taking place of competition'
Nehru replicated the Soviet planning commission and its Five Year Plans while severely restricting the scope of private enterprise
Patel on the other hand believed that capitalism could be 'purged of its hideousness'. For him, creation of wealth for ushering in societal prosperity was a desirable trait.
Differences in Foreign Policy
Nehru and Patel's foreign policies too were fundamentally opposed.
Patel questioned the legitimacy of India's policy in delaying recognition to the state of Israel only to placate the sentiments of its Muslim citizens
He was also perturbed by the approach of Nehru towards the Chinese and was deeply anguished in India being unable to defend the right of the Tibetan people
As for an Indo-China military conflict, Nehru confidently predicted that such a situation was 'unlikely' in the 'foreseeable future'
Nehru rejected Patel's advice of modernizing the army and making adequate security provisions
Differences on Communalism
Perhaps, the most irreconcilable differences between Nehru and Patel related to their approach towards countering communalism and the violence that came in its wake.
Kashmir:-
On Kashmir, Patel had advised Nehru against going to the UN.
Conclusion:-
The admiration for each other can be summarised in one statement by Nehru where he stated "The Sardar has been a tower of strength; but for his affection and advice I would not have been able to run the State".
Topic: Issues relating to development and management of Social Sector/Services relating to Health
2) According to one authoritative study, there are a million unregistered and unqualified medical practitioners in India. Critically examine why quacks function freely in India. (250 Words)
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The recent arrest of a man in Uttar Pradesh for allegedly injecting 41 people with the HIV virus from a single infected needle highlights how so-called 'quacks' are able to ply their trade freely in India.
Reasons why quacks function freely in India are:-
India is beset by a wide range of problems in healthcare delivery:-
Overcrowded and under resourced public hospitals and expensive private hospitals often lead poverty-stricken families to turn to quacks.
Thus, patient safety is largely compromised in India.
Needle safety:-
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has urged all countries including India to switch to the exclusive use of the auto-disable (AD) "smart" syringes that can only be used once. India is yet to adopt this on a national scale.
Almost 15% of the ailing sample opted for treatment from an unregistered private practitioner. They attract a lot of patients owing to their location utility and low charges
While there is a huge shortage of doctors, there are over one million quacks practising in India, according to the Indian Medical Association (IMA).
India currently has no tracking of infections or registry via public healthcare from reuse of syringes or needles or needle stick injuries. According to WHO, every $1 spent on injection safety saves $14 in public healthcare.
Qualified doctors have some assistants who later start their own clinics without license.
Way forward:-
It is urgently needed to introduce Universal Infection Prevention (UIP) guidelines including urgent deployment of auto disable syringes to limit infections from spreading. WHO says that the move can eliminate avoidable deaths and infections from reusable syringes and unsafe injection.
According to the National Health Profile 2017, in India there is one government allopathic doctor for every 10,189 people, one government hospital bed for every 2,046 people and one state-run hospital for every 90,343 people. The manpower and infrastructure needs to increase.
Public need to be made aware about the health issues that might prop up by the treatment of quacks.
There is a database of doctors who have license and people can look into it whether any doctor is certified or not.
Strict action needs to be taken by the government against these doctors.
Topic: mechanisms, laws, institutions and Bodies constituted for the protection and betterment of vulnerable sections.
3) The recent economic survey highlights the importance of gender-disaggregated data in examining socio-economic growth. Examine how this gender-disaggregated data can be generated and challenges such data poses in policymaking. (250 Words)
Gender disaggregated data gives a clear idea of the status of women in a country giving impetus to the direction of the measures taken by the government to be more inclusive
Present gaps in gender disaggregated data: (extra)
Repeated data isn't available to help assess change over time or design interventions.
Lack data on women's formal financial service access and usage.
Health expenditure surveys at the household level don't give the information about how women are taking care of their health, including mental health.
Data on the productivity differences between women's and men's farms, and market price realization by women farmers is another gap area.
How the gender disaggregated data can be generated:-
The proposed national time use survey can help provide better estimates of women's work participation. Further, it would be good to better understand how norms and attitudes are changing across adult women and youth.
Gender-disaggregated data provides a critical understanding of the status of women in both national as well as state-level institutions over time. A subset of these indicators can be used to construct a Gender Well-Being Index that is published periodically.
There are cost-effective ways to introduce gender-disaggregated questions into large national surveys by asking questions about who owns, who uses, who transacts within the household.
Applying a gender lens also requires ensuring that the right mix of women are included in the sample. This generates estimates of different sub-groups of women, especially those who are the most marginalized
While some of this data can be generated by utilising existing datasets better, measuring progress on other indicators will require the inclusion of additional questions in current surveys or the design of new surveys.
For instance, a nation-wide survey on the prevalence of violence against women and girls will be extremely helpful for unmasking geographical and other disparities as well as designing policy interventions.
Similarly, time-use surveys can capture the continuum of women's work.
This will necessitate a strengthening of the management information systems of various ministries.
International examples:-
Countries that have made significant strides towards achieving gender equality have put in place strong gender disaggregated data.
The Gender Monitoring Office in Rwanda performs key functions to assess the progress made in the implementation of the national gender policy.
It develops gender-disaggregated data systems, publishes impact evaluation studies and most importantly, holds different institutions accountable.
Finland's Gender Equality Unit discharges similar functions.
Challenges it poses to policymaking:-
The absence of data prevents stakeholders from being able to develop sound policies or relevant interventions.
The evolving policy framework around sustainable development would also need to be careful not to further existing gender roles.
For example, the latest gender guidelines released by the ministry of drinking water and sanitation caution against stereotyping women by limiting their role as behaviour change agents in sanitation.
Survey questions can sometimes be based on traditional views of gender roles, and as a result, miss women and girls entirely, or undercount and undervalue their economic and social contributions to their families, communities, and countries. So, it's vital that the data that's gathered is accurate and comprehensive.
A dedicated cell within the Women and Child Development Ministry that focuses on data gathering, monitoring and conducting regular reviews with other ministries on defined gender targets is worth considering. This could allow the Ministry to play its oversight and coordination role more effectively.
Legal frameworks and equal opportunity policies such as those pertaining to leave, maternity benefits, flexi hours and grievance redressal have a crucial role to play in ending the discrimination.
Topic: Functions and responsibilities of the Union and the States, issues and challenges pertaining to the federal structure,
4) All the states in India are justified and constitutionally empowered to adopt their own flag to uphold the pride of their State without infringing the law. Comment. (250 Words)
Of late, the demand for a state flaghas been gaining traction in This raised the debate whether states are allowed to have a separate flag or not.
No issue:-
Under the Constitution, a flag is not enumerated in the Seventh Schedule. It is clear that there is no prohibition under the Constitution to hoist any flag other than the national flag.
Parliament has framed legislation regulating the hoisting of the national flag. One is the Emblems and Names (Prevention of Improper Use) Act, 1950. The other is the Prevention of Insults to National Honour Act, 1971.
Under the 1971 Act, there is no prohibition against any State hoisting its own flag.
Even the Flag Code of India, 2002 does not impose prohibitions on a State flag. it only says that the Code expressly authorises the flying of other flags under the condition that they should not be hoisted from the same masthead as the national flag or placed higher than it.
By implication, the Code provides space for a State flag as long as it does not offend the dignity and honour of the national flag.
In India, State boundaries are demarcated on the basis of linguistic homogeneity. This has naturally generated aspirations in the States for promoting their own languages and cultures. It is, therefore, natural for them to have symbols to recognise, protect and promote their own languages and cultures. A flag, which is both a benediction and a beckoning, serves this purpose better than any other symbol.
Having a separate flag is not going to be an affront to national integration. On the contrary, a separate flag for each State would strengthen the federal structure and serve as a symbol for a much more specific identity.
A democratic right based on international examples:-
All the 50 States in the U.S. have separate and distinct flags, apart from the national flag.
In the U.K., the political units of England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland have their own flags without offending or affecting the integrity of the U.K.
It is the democratic right of Karnataka to assert its identity through a separate name, emblem and flag.
India's pluralistic nationalism celebrates the coexistence of multiple identities. As long as subnationalism is not secessionist ,it should not be viewed as a threat, but rather as a constitutive element of India's plural democracy.
However some Issues are not resolved:-
India has already divided the states on linguistic basis. The segregation of nation on the basis on state flags will only further divide the country.
If other states too follow Karnataka, there will be scope for conflict between states in case of disrespect to the flag of another state.
Having a separate state flag is against the spirit of 'One Nation One Flag' and diminishes the importance of the national flag.
There are possibilities of it leading to narrow-minded regional feelings.
The state should frame a Flag Code carefully without giving scope for it to affect the unity and integrity of the country. Moreover, the codes for both the flags should not clash.
Topic: Indian Economy and issues relating to planning, mobilization of resources, growth, development and employment.
5) What is social enterprise? A self-sustaining social enterprise has the potential to address contextual problems and provide meaningful, continuous employment. Analyse. (250 Words)
Social enterprise:-
Social enterprises tend to operate with a purpose of creating value for the society and also generate income (if not wealth).
Potential:-
The solutions they offer are supposed to be innovative, unique, people and environment friendly
Social enterprises typically deal with people who live at the bottom of the pyramid, therefore they are beneficial to the poor, generally by providing them with a means of livelihood.
Social entrepreneurship has evolved over the years and given India innovative and profitable ideas that address social problems. Successful examples such as Amul, Barefoot College, Grameen Bank, etc., has the ability to create many more socially relevant enterprises
A localized, self-sustaining social enterprise, through forward and backward linkages, not only has the potential of addressing a contextual problem but also of providing meaningful, continuous employment to the local populace for whom self-employment, many a times at subsistence level, and informal employment are the norm.
Social enterprises have time and again demonstrated ways of empowering women at the grassroots level by providing them with income-generating activities, adding to a rise in rural household incomes
Through engaging local women in the production of local handicrafts
Building capacities of women to formalize and manage their self-help groups.
By making women economically independent, these enterprises contribute to a tacit shift in power within existing societal norms.
Examples:-
Aravind Eye Care System in south India, focuses on curing blindness among India's poor. The hospital chain serves approximately 12,000-15,000 outpatient visits and 1,500 surgeries each day.
Karuna Trust and its public-private partnership model serve over 2 million low-income clients by transforming government primary health centres into hubs of low-cost, high-quality healthcare delivery.
Nidan has organized close to a million informal-economy workers across India into collectives and enterprises, secured their access to markets, technology and financial services and successfully influenced government policy on their social and economic inclusion.
Safe drinking water is also a leading health challenge for many of India's urban poor, and now multinationals and small social enterprises alike respond to the problem.
One local company, Sarvajal, has created the "Water ATM", a stand-alone water dispenser that uses off-grid solar energy to power a reverse osmosis system and provides treated water 24 hours a day at a low cost. Users simply swipe a pre-paid card at a price Sarvajal claims is cheaper than other alternatives.
A great positive of social enterprises is the opportunity they afford to people to acquire new skill sets and enhance existing ones. Furthermore, usage and adaptability of ever-changing technologies help improve the existing processes of enterprises, and build efficiency and the social well-being of people, thereby enhancing value for all.
Beyond their direct reach and impacts, social entrepreneurs represent a powerful idea, an idea that is relevant today more than ever before that business can be a vehicle to create both economic value as well contribute to building a fair and equitable society.
Delivering on India's inclusive growth agenda calls for multi-pronged interventions. One of them needs to be cultivating and nurturing its innovative social enterprises through public-private cooperation.
Challenges:-
Their impact is often limited to select geographies.
A big roadblock for social enterprises is obtaining funding and the right backing for the business.
Since the enterprise is not "traditional", and is often a pilot venture, market feedback is not readily available. That is why formal lenders remain apprehensive while lending to such ventures.
The scenario is changing steadily due to fewer restrictions and an increased risk appetite in the formal lending environment, but it isn't growing fast enough.
Many social enterprises grapple with at a nascent stage is the weak formal structure of the organization.
Very few of them are able to take their ideas off the ground; of those, even fewer can continue running their enterprises for a long duration.
However, in order to be relevant to rural areas, it's important that social enterprises are supported through a market-based model of financing rather than a philanthropic one to ensure their sustainability.
Development and impact bonds that provide a return against actual results to lenders have the potential to be a capital tool, thereby attracting funds to support social ventures.
One of the ways for companies to address these challenges, aside from offering training on skills to budding entrepreneurs, is to offer mentorship support a way of sharing lessons, insights and foresight gathered through work experience.
True public-private collaboration is key to make social enterprises successful. When designing and implementing policies, the government could draw on the knowledge and experience of social entrepreneurs, the ideas and dynamism of its youth and the capabilities of the corporate sector to plan and execute large scale projects.
India's corporate champions have an opportunity to deepen their corporate global citizenship by joining forces with the government and social entrepreneurs in scaling the innovation.
6) Recently, the Parliament passed amendments to the National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD) Act, 1981. Examine implications of these amendments for government's push to boost the rural and agricultural sector, especially for rural entrepreneurship. (250 Words)
The 1981 Act provides for the establishment of the National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD). NABARD is responsible for providing and regulating facilities like credit for agricultural and industrial development in the rural areas. The government seeks to amend it through the NABARD (Amendment) Bill, 2017 .
provides for empowering the Central government to increase the authorised capital of NABARD from Rs. 5,000 crore to Rs. 30,000 crore in consultation with the RBI. The amendments primarily seek to transfer the RBI's balance equity of Rs. 20,000 crore in NABARD to the Central government.
Amendments:-
Increase in capital of NABARD:
The Bill allows the central government to increase this capital to Rs 30,000 crore. The capital may be increased to more than Rs 30,000 crore by the central government in consultation with the RBI, if necessary.
Transfer of the RBI's share to the central government:
The Bill transfers the share capital held by the RBI and valued at Rs 20 crore to the central government. The central government will give an equal amount to the RBI.
Micro, small and medium enterprises (MSME):
The Bill replaces the terms 'small-scale industry' and 'industry in the tiny and decentralised sector' with the terms 'micro enterprise', 'small enterprise' and 'medium enterprise' as defined in the MSME Development Act, 2006.
Under the 1981 Act, NABARD was responsible for providing credit and other facilities to industries having an investment of upto Rs 20 lakh in machinery and plant.
The Bill extends this to apply to enterprises with investment upto Rs 10 crore in the manufacturing sector and Rs five crore in the services sector
Under the 1981 Act, experts from small-scale industries are included in the Board of Directors and the Advisory Council of NABARD. Further, banks providing loans to small-scale, tiny and decentralised sector industries are eligible to receive financial assistance from NABARD.
The Bill extends these provisions to the micro, small, and medium enterprises.
Consistency with the Companies Act, 2013:
The Bill substitutes references to provisions of the Companies Act, 1956 under the NABARD Act, 1981, with references to the Companies Act, 2013. These include provisions that deal with: (i) definition of a government company, and (ii) qualifications of auditors.
Implications:-
Positive:-
The amendments recognise the vital role of micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs), as defined under the MSME Development Act of 2006, in rural entrepreneurship and are intended to make financing easier for them.
Role of Nabard is critical to achieve the objective of doubling farmers' income and increasing the infrastructure in the rural areas.
This bill will enable Nabard to fulfill its commitment. Farmers, rural artisans and labourers would benefit and their income will increase.
Financial situation of Nabard will improve and loans will be provided to farmers and MSMEs.
It provides loans for agriculture, small scale industries among others.
Negative:-
The All India Nabard Employees Association (AINBEA) is strongly opposed to the complete transfer of the RBI's shares to the Union government. The relationship between the central bank and the development institution will help the cause of agriculture and rural development at a critical juncture when the country is faced with a serious agrarian crisis.
Topic: Achievements of Indians in science & technology; indigenization of technology and developing new technology.
7) The recent economic survey while admitting scientific and technological innovations underpin economic prosperity, carries an entire chapter on transforming science and technology in India. Discuss its mains observations and recommendations regarding boosting S&T research in India. (250 Words)
Science, technology, and innovation have instrumental and intrinsic value for society. They are key drivers of economic performance and social well-being
Observations by economic survey 2018 :-
India under-spends on research and development (R&D), even relative to its level of development.
India's R&D spending is also mostly carried out by the government. Private investments in research have severely lagged public investments in India.
It pointed out a lack of enough skilled workforce that can carry out quality research, especially in the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics fields.
Universities in India also play a relatively small role in the research activities of the country.
Indian Ph.D. students obtain their degrees either within India or abroad, especially in the US. However, it appears that fewer Indian students have been enrolling in recent years for such degrees, whether due to more attractive options after a master's degree or rising work visa challenges.
Publicly funded research in India concentrates in specialized research institutes under different government departments.
About three-fifths of the public investment is spread over the key government science funding agencies like Atomic Energy, Space, Earth Sciences, Science and Technology and Biotechnology. Given the country's severe health challenges, the low and virtually stagnant budget of the Indian Council for Medical Research (ICMR) is striking.
This leaves universities to largely play a teaching role.
While India has made considerable strides in improving access to primary and secondary education, learning outcomes have been weak. This weakness denies India access to the intellect and energies of millions of young people.
Domestic patent system:-
While India's patent applications and grants have grown rapidly in foreign jurisdictions, the same is not true at home.
Indian residents were granted over 5000 patents in foreign offices in 2015, the number for resident filings in India was little over 800.
The decrease in grants could have been due to a stricter examination process. Evidence suggests that there is a severe backlog and high rate of pendency for domestic patent applications.
Recommendations :-
Research and development:-
It calls for doubling research and development expenditure
Much of the increase should come from the private sector and universities.
The private sector should be incentivized to both undertake more R&D but to also support STEM research through CSR funds.
Current tax law already favors CSR investment into R&D, but the types of R&D activities eligible can be expanded.
Government can also work with the private sector to create new R&D funding opportunities, which are also in line with private sector interests.
There is a need for greater State Government spending, especially application-oriented R&D aimed at problems specific to their economies and populations
State governments too need to recognize the need to invest in application oriented research aimed at problems specific to their economies and populations.
Link national labs to universities and create new knowledge eco-systems
Enhanced competitive research grants for the Indian Institutes of Technology, the Indian Institutes of Science Education and Research, and universities will help address the needs of a larger pool of scientific talent outside national labs and bring in returns by way of publications, patents and innovations that can meet immediate needs.
India should take a more mission-driven approach in areas such as dark matter, genomics, energy storage, agriculture, and mathematics and cyber physical systems.
Vigorous efforts to improve the "ease of doing business" need to be matched by similar ones to boost the "ease of doing science".
India needs to gradually move to have a greater share of an investigator-driven model for funding science research.
The government's recent hiring of over 450 additional patent examiners and creation of an expedited filing system for Indian residents in 2017 will therefore be a welcome and crucial intervention to help fix the existing patent system
India needs to understand that no country can create a vibrant superstructure of R&D with weak foundations of primary and secondary education for so many of its young.
Topic: Ethics in human actions
8) Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent. Explain the statement with reference to a real life example. (150 Words)
Answer:-
Famously stated by Issac Asimov through his character Salvor Hardin in Foundation, the title quote could not be more apt at the current moment in history when violence is plaguing the world everywhere.
When someone does not know how to solve a problem or is incompetent they become angry, and can become violent. So this shows the person has not tried other approaches like pacifying and peaceful means and resorted to coercion, force and violence.
The fear-based society promotes violence to solve issues. Fear is covered by anger that leads to rage, to hurting others in revenge, to killing others from projecting their inner pain, to killing themselves to escape that inner hopelessness and helplessness.
Only the incompetent wait until the last extremity to use force, and by then, it is usually too late to use anything. For instance if the British and French hadn't capitulated to Hitler in 1938, the Germans would've been forced to back down or go to war before they were ready and there's a good chance Hitler would've been deposed peacefully.
Even in the case of religious fundamentalism when people don't accept their point of view ,fundamentalists and terrorists resort to violence thinking that will instill fear and make people in sync with their point of view. This only shows they have not applied their emotional intelligence and took the easy way out.
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I remember nothing like it. I think it was even larger, this is a huge remark to make, but larger than the atom bomb. The atom bomb fell at the end of the Second World War. It had an enormous impact. I was living in Massachusetts, on the tip of Cape Cod, so I was 300 miles away from New York when it happened. My children, who live in New York, were furious at me, because they felt that my reaction was not huge enough. Everybody in New York was walking around stunned, apparently. They still haven't gotten over it. For profound causes. It's not a simple matter.
But do you think the fear, in essence, that's gripped America since is about the incomprehension of it, that people simply don't understand what happened?
I think it was a matter of emotional scale, if you will. In America, people get mad at each other, but despite all of the stories about murder and killing and violence in America, the fact is most Americans are peaceful, essentially. They just can't conceive of anyone hating them that much. "How can anyone hate us? We're a sweet nation. We're a good nation. We want good for everyone." Most Americans are pretty innocent. The worst thing that can be said about my country in one sentence is that, if you are going to characterise Americans in one sentence, you would say that they don't like any question that takes longer than ten seconds to answer.
UCLA have 50 new courses, Machiavelli and the events of September 11th, The Old Testament and the events of September 11th. Are people genuinely scrabbling for answers in any text they can find?
I think the key element in it is that Allah is a concept that's absolutely foreign to Americans. It's as if a great divide is coming upon the world. On the one hand, you have a culture that, particularly in America, and to a great degree Europe, is following that culture, where no matter what lip service one pays to religion, no matter how often one invokes the name of Jesus Christ, the fact of the matter is that the majority of people are living their lives with the idea that they're not going to worry about death. They're just going to do as much as they can to hold off death as long as possible. You see, it's become a money culture, "I live for my life," they say, everyone says. And in effect, they are very practical, so far as life goes, and have absolutely no concept that's at all enriching about death. On the other hand, you have Islam, which says this world is a total bloody mess, most of us are poor. Those who are rich at the top are awful and corrupt. We have this abominable life, but we have heaven if we live, and die, especially, for Allah. What you've got is a huge war shaping, in which what you've got, let me speak like a Jamaican for a moment, we've got "Allah versus the Almighty Dollah."
What about the idea of patriotism in America? Even David Lynch has been flying an American flag, saying it's an act of civic union. Is it a more patriotic place?
What are we unifying against? That's what makes me nervous. In the Second World War, all right the country unified against Hitler. That was not only a man and a set of ideas. It was also a country, a set of countries. It was a huge, definable war. This one is, on the one hand, we have our enormous military forces, very skilful indeed, who wipe out the Taliban, to everyone's huge surprise, it didn't take long, and who are we fighting? On the other hand, there's the sense that this could go on, and take on huge proportions, because Islam is virtually half of the world by now, in terms of religious forces.
Do you think that's why George Bush has to talk about the war against terrorism, and the "axis of evil"?
What does it make you think when you hear that?
He can't make a speech without using the word "evil" 13 or 15 or 22 times. But where is the evil? They can't even locate Osama Bin Laden? They don't know if he is alive or dead. Fighting evil is a way of dulling people's minds. It's as if in America, because we have so few roots, an Israeli in America, you can find the place where they were born. They even redid the hospital where the person was born, because we rebuild and rebuild, and we make things uglier and uglier every time we rebuild. Given that, there are no roots, compared to European countries we have very few roots. You need something to believe, and patriotism becomes it.
Finally, do you think that America has had a wake-up call about how others in the world view America?
Probably not, so long as they keep saying, "Evil, evil, evil". That is opposed to a wake-up call, that's an anodyne. It's to soothe feelings here. If you are going along and you are living a halfway corrupt life, as certainly America has been doing in terms of world affairs and economics. I don't have to bring in Enron to make my point, then, if you are half evil, nothing soothes you more than to think that the person you are opposed to is totally evil. If the person you are opposed to is half evil also, as indeed I am sure they are, then what you have is the old human mix, which is full of complication, and every question can keep you up all night. For that reason, the attempt in America has been to close the wound quickly, and if it putrefies later, some other doctor will take care of that.
Norman Mailer, thank you very much.


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Exhibition to showcase Hinduism's mark on the world | Free Malaysia Today
PETALING JAYA: A "Hindu Civilisation & Heritage Exhibition" organised by the Bhaktivedanta Science Unit of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness will showcase the history of Hinduism in Malaysia and around the world.
The exhibition aims to promote an appreciation for Hindu scientific contributions in various fields of study including archaeology besides putting the spotlight on Hindu culture.
Among the attractions at the exhibition will be historical Hindu records of the Bujang Valley, Kedah Tua, Gangga Nagara and Langkasuka in Malaysia as well as that of the world famous Angkor Wat in Cambodia and Prambanan in Indonesia. There will also be exhibits from China, Korea, Japan and Australia as well as those further away in North America, South America, Russia, the Vatican and Egypt.
Also on display will be exhibits of the various religious teachings that Hindus have professed and practiced through the ages.
A rather enlightening part of the exhibition centres around the many contributions and discoveries of Hindu sages as well as their scriptures in the fields of mathematics, biology, chemistry, physics, metallurgy, astronomy, linguistics, architecture and culture.
Part and parcel of the "Hindu Civilisation & Heritage Exhibition" will be a series of talks by experts in various fields, held on the weekends of August 6-7 and 13-14.
Among the speakers will be Japanese Monk and Sanskrit scholar His Holiness Srila Bhanu Swami, who will talk about 'Science & Vedas' (Unlocking Secrets of Left Brain-Right Brain); 'Discovering Soul – The Last Frontier of Science'; and 'Soul – The Last Frontier of Science.'
Meanwhile Malaysia-born author, V Nadarajan will talk about the Bujang Valley.
Others speakers include Professor Dr Surabala (USM); Dr Sridevi Sriniwass (UM); Dr Suhanya Parthasarathy (UM); Dr Ranjev Hari (UM); His Grace Simheswara Prabhu (ISKCON Regional Secretary); JK Wicky (Cinematographer & Motivator).
The exhibition will be held from 6 to 14 Aug at the Janaky Ramamirtham Hall of Sri Radha Krishna Kanhaiya Temple of Devotion and Understanding, Lorong Jelawat 4, at Bandar Seberang Jaya. Admission is free.
Those wishing for more information can contact Kalesa @ Lim Kok Chye (019 – 4411 008) or Dr Surash Ramanathan (013 – 435 7649).
Third of early deaths could be prevented by everyone giving up meat, Harvard says | The Telegraph
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Ellis Auditorium: A Brief History
HISTORY of the auditorium:
Ellis Auditorium
255 N Main Memphis TN.
Ellis Auditorium was fortunate enough to have had two golden eras. The first was back in the 1920's and 30's, when it was used by Victor and other "field" recording units to record such luminaries as Memphis Minnie, Tommy Johnson, Furry Lewis, Sleepy John Estes, and Frank Stokes. Focus again turned to Ellis during the 40's and 50's when WDIA, "the "Sensation Station of the Nation" packed the auditorium for their annual Christmastime fundraiser, the Goodwill Revue. The proceeds established and maintained the Keel Avenue School for Handicapped Black Children.
Ellis Auditorium under construction in 1924 (across street from former Poplar Station) Photo by Bill Strong
Each event was jam-packed with talent from the station-- B.B. King, Bobby "Blue" Bland--and such stars as Ray Charles, Clara Ward, and local fav's Phineas Newborn, Sr. and the Ben Branch Orchestra. There was even an unexpected appearance by Elvis Presley in 1956 that brought down the house. In 1954, a memorial service at Ellis for the Blackwood Brothers drew national attention. The auditorium was razed in 1999 to make way for a performing arts center.
Do you remember Ellis Auditorium or Auditorium North Hall? Ever even heard of them? These downtown venues were the lauching pad for many careers, including Elvis. Years later when the KISS army had not been been fully drafted, KISS played the relatively intimate North Hall to the faithfull. Their return trip a year later was a sellout for the Mid South Colisem.
Ellis Auditorium was situated on the corner of Poplar and Front St. in downtown Memphis. The completion of the Auditorium made Memphis one of the first cities to offer comprehensive meeting and convention facilities. Ahead of its time and costing $3 million in 1924, the auditorium offered 30,000 square feet of display space and seated 12,000 (appx the same as The Mid-South Coliseum). It even featured a movable stage that was entirely electric. A period brochure boasted that the mechanical marvel took only 12 hours to move! The auditorium was so advanced, it was 50 years before a new facility was needed.
But that time came, and in 1974 the Memphis Cook Convention Center was built as an attachment to the auditorium and music hall.
The building was finished in 1974 at a cost of $31 million. The addition of the Convention Center was one of the first major projects marking the attempt to revitalize downtown during the second half of this century.
Twenty-five years later, the Convention Center needed to undergo major renovation and expansion to remain a player in the competitive meeting and convention services industry.
In 1995, County and City mayors, the Convention Center Board, SMG and the Memphis Convention and Visitors Bureau commissioned a feasibility study. Once the results were in, the decision to expand was agreed upon and the group began to draw up plans for the exciting expansion.
The goal was to upgrade the Convention Center in order to draw major meetings and conventions in the future. The expansion came at a time when the city's reputation as a hot city to visit grew nationally. It is just part of approximately $2 billion in development planned or underway downtown.
Throughout it all, the Convention Center stayed open for business, despite unexpected explosions, numerous delays and even some very surprising bones.
The components involved in the renovation and expansion were renovations to the existing structure (including restrooms, elevators, five new meeting rooms and an 80,000 lb. truck lift); brand new space (including: a 35,000 square foot exhibit hall and a 28,000 square foot ballroom, which is the largest in the Mid-South); and the 2,100 seat Cannon Center for the Performing Arts (home to the Memphis Symphony). All of these components work together to allow Memphis to compete for nearly 90 percent of the conventions and meeting scheduled across the country.
Live with Elvis The Ellis Auditorium Memphis, Tennessee February,1961
Comedian Steve Martin brought his wild humor to The Auditorium Dixon Myers Hall on 7 Apr 1978. His two shows drew about 9,000. Dave Darnell / The Commercial Appeal files.
Why Must We Give Up Ellis For Chrome and Glass?
Sounds great - the spin that is between the lines of the "official" story, above. We now have a glass and steel masterpiece of a building. But at what cost? Ellis Auditorium was where Elvis first played to a sold out crowd. In 1978 both Montrose and Van Halen played there. J Geils, Blues Caravan and a host of East High School graduations. All pretty recent stuff, but Ellis also saw people like John Phillip Sousa and productions like the John Barrymore touring company, in one of the actor's last productions, My Dear Children. Barrymore's alcoholism made every performance a test of nerves; he would skip lines, demand to see cue cards, or treat the play as a joke, much to the chagrin of the other actors. Barrymore was kept in check in Memphis and his company appeared at the Ellis Auditorium in 1939, with Barrymore in the lead. Or what about the SIX DECADES of Memphis music that filled the halls. Six decades......
Jun 5 1971 US CONCERT - Ellis Auditorium, Memphis TN - lton John
1999, July- Demolition begins on Ellis Auditorium
Look at some of the ornate facades that came off of the historic building we threw away for Cannon. Nashville managed to keep the Ryman and still build a new Opry home.....now a few years down the rod - the Opry home is functional, but tired and decidedly none historic. But the Ryman? Still there, still meaningfull and as popular as ever.
Terra cotta flower from the cornice of the Ellis Auditorium, 255 Main st. Memphs TN.
Face and side view, the side view shows that due to hanging upside down they had the unusual configuration of having threads like screws so that they were self screwed and cemented in! Flower is about 6" across.
Photo of the cornice before removal, the red circle shows where the flowers were installed
Ellis Auditorium Pipe Organs
Did you know that Ellis had great, gigantic pipe organs that would rattle the rafters? It did. Purchased in 1924 by The Exchange Club who raised $10,000, and school children came up with another $8,000 in nickels and dimes it was a city treasure. When Ellis was to be torn down to make room for an expanded Cook Convention Center, visionary city leaders quickly recognized the historic trasures value and arranged for the organs to be saved.
Wouldn't that have been nice - for Memphis to have "visionary" leaders? Not these days, bucko.
Thanks ONLY to a private group known as "Friends of the Organ", money to have the instruments disassembled and cataloged had been raised. However, they were left suffering water damage in a storage room at the convention center. A leaking storage room? Perhaps we should have torn down The Cook Convention Center and expanded Ellis Auditorium.
This piece of Memphis and Ellis history was saved, no thanks to city leaders.......Ellis Organs
Ellis Auditourium WPA Mural
DECORATIVE INTERIOR MURALS AND INTERIOR PAINTING
There are many historic examples of decoratively painted interiors across the state of Tennessee. While some of the paintings have been lost, many works from the late eighteenth century to the New Deal era have survived, indicating the wide variety of techniques, styles, and motivations for adorning both private and public interiors with architectural paintings.
Using painters' manuals and their own imagination, both itinerant and local artists employed the common and inexpensive techniques of graining and marbling to imitate rare and costly woods and marbles. Others painted landscapes to serve as a focal point of the room, often in the form of an overmantel painting or firescreen. In the twentieth century, academically trained artists created mural paintings for numerous public buildings through President Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal art programs of the 1930s and 1940s.
From the mid-1930s to the early 1940s, a more professional and systematic contribution was made to Tennessee art through the New Deal cultural programs. The Public Works of Art Project (PWAP), the federal government's fine arts project of the Works Progress Administration, authorized the creation of murals for Tennessee post offices, courthouses, and other public buildings. Reflecting the current artistic style of Regionalism, these paintings illustrate city or regional history and identity, and some even promoted New Deal projects like the TVA. Picking Cotton by Carl B. Nyquist in Bolivar, Electrification by David Stone Martin in Lenoir City, and Wild Boar Hunt by Thelma Martin in Sweetwater are among the nearly thirty murals created for Tennessee post offices. Other public buildings received federally funded art as well; both the Davidson County Courthouse and the Sevier State Office Building, for instance, feature murals painted by Dean Cornwell.
Memphis resident Burton Callicott created a mural depicting Hernando De Soto's arrival in West Tennessee for the lobby of the Memphis Pink Palace Museum, then the Memphis Museum of Natural History.
In Memphis's Ellis Auditorium, Maysie Dimond painted a 7-foot-high, 152-foot-long mural to serve as a pictorial history of Memphis from Spanish exploration to the twentieth century. Using the ancient buon fresco technique of applying paint to wet plaster, she ensured that the colors would remain vibrant over time. During a 1950s renovation, the mural was covered by pink marble slabs, which have since been removed.
These federally funded art programs came to an end as the United States entered World War II. Occasionally administrators sacrificed murals during building expansion and renovation. Fortunately, some have been recovered, like Dimond's murals at the Ellis Auditorium and Wendell Jones's post office mural, Farmer Family, now in the Administration Building basement at East Tennessee State University. While little is known about the artists who created these New Deal paintings or those of earlier centuries, many Tennessee murals have been preserved as a testament to the rich and diverse artistic heritage of the state.
http://tennesseeencyclopedia.net/imagegallery.php?EntryID=D020
Albums Recorded At Ellis Auditorium
Chance Records Inc. Recorded live at the Ellis Auditorium Memphis, TN. April 30, 1974.
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Leaving aside what he says about the war in Iraq (because my colleague doesn't agree with him on this point, while I think a thousand and one contradictory things), I do think he's absolutely right about the US method of electing a president. We do keep electing shockingly embarrassingly unqualified people. I've often thought we ought to think about the UK system, where the parties choose the candidates and the voters choose between them. Here we choose the candidates ourselves and boy do we do a crap job of it. But then again maybe it wouldn't help. Over there it seems to be accepted that a candidate with brains and skill and competence will be more electable than a bumbling inarticulate folksy mediocrity with 'family values', but here that is not the case. In the last election I heard with my own ears people rejoice at the fact that George Bush II was an ordinary guy just like the rest of us. Not, as Richard Dawkins points out, the way a CEO is chosen, so why this job? Who knows.
It's not new though. We started off this way. There was much irrelevant nonsense in the very first election, Jefferson being slagged off as a Frenchified intellectual who had children by a slave concubine (which turned out to be true, confoundingly enough). Richard Hofstadter tells of the anti-intellectualism of the Jackson-Adams elections. We elected one military 'hero' after another, most of them with no civilian talent at all.
And yet this, as our folksy head of state keeps reminding the world, is the world's only superpower. So the single most powerful human on the planet is chosen by a process that mingles elements of a high school popularity contest, an ad campaign for the newest most macho SUV, and good old-fashioned backroom bribery. It is a bit of a mismatch.
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Top Cat's Tuesday Top Ten: Most Influential Celebrity Deaths
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Last week held the 20th anniversary of the death of one of the most influential rap artists in music history: Tupac Shukar. Remembering his death's anniversary caused me to think about all of the other influential celebrity deaths that I have bore witness to over the years. Because of our increased love of entertainment, we have more and more celebrities that are relevant to our every day lives and therefore lead to these pop culture icons become idolized and popularized. We as a populous are met with an over saturation of popular culture figures. We see them on TV and movies, can watch their personal lives unfold on Instagram, can see their antics on Snapchat, or anything else that allows us to delve deeper into the lives of our idolized popular culture figures. In our modern society, we know of actors; musicians; politicians; athletes; talk show hosts; and many other people whom we idolize or just enjoy what they do. There is a sad truth to life though: Death. Our favorite popular culture figures are not exempt from this sad reality. The world goes into a frenzy when one of our beloved popular culture figures meets an untimely demise.
I have made a list of the most influential celebrity deaths that I have ever experienced. I use the term celebrity to encompass all facets of 'people' because as I have stated earlier…..we know about a lot of people. (I am excluding any influential people that died before I was born; despite how much I may hate that Elvis Presley died before I could see him in concert. Or witness another movie starring Bruce Lee.)
So here is Top Cat's Top 10 Most Influential Celebrity Deaths
10. Michael Jackson
(Died June 25th, 2009)
The undisputed King of Pop was a worldwide, pop cultural phenomenon. Sadly his contributions to music, dance, and fashion are sometimes overshadowed by the controversial and sometimes questioned lifestyle that he lived. But no one can deny the influence that Michael Jackson has left behind in the gigantic wake that his life left in the ocean of pop culture.
9. Philip Seymour Hoffman
(Died February 2nd, 2014)
I'm not sure that I could fully get the disturbing image of a sweaty, overweight Philip Seymour Hoffman open mouth kissing Mark Wahlberg in Boogie Nights until Hoffman's rendition of one of my favorite pop culture characters: Truman Capote. I read "In Cold Blood" while still in college and the year of my graduation comes The Capote movie. It was remarkable and Hoffman's Capote was just as remarkable as the man himself was. Philip Seymour Hoffman was one of those actors that made the movie that they were in and his death was a sad loss for the movie industry.
8. Tupac Shakur
(Died September 13th, 1996)
I was a freshman in high school when we saw that 2pac had been murdered. I had been a 2Pac fan since hearing his work with the Digital Underground (thanks to the 1991 Dan Aykroyd cult comedy classic "Nothing but Trouble" starring Chevy Chase and a then gorgeous Demi Moore) and then on to his solo work. 2pac's music as well as his poetry (since not only do I love it but I minored in poetry in college) will live on through the ages in our CD players and has definitely joined the pantheon of greatest American musicians.
7. Patrick Swayze
So, Patrick Swayze may have been a heart throb because of Ghost and Dirty Dancing but he was a bad-ass, womanizing, karate-kicking, night club cooler from one of my top 5 favorite movies of all time: Road House. Patrick Swayze fought pancreatic cancer for many years and his death was a blow to everyone…especially me.
6. David Bowie
(Died January 10th, 2016)
The make up drawn lightning bolt on the face of Ziggy Stardust will stay forever entrenched in my mind. Even as a small boy I remember placing the needle tipped arm down on to record after record of rock and soul music. I remember the beginning crackle of the record before the gift of music was placed into my ears. It wasn't music that drew me to David Bowie at first…it was the Labyrinth. Oh the times that I watched Jim Henson's classic movie. It was and still is one of my favorite movies. Ah…but the music. The music drew me to David Bowie and a world of songs started to be placed at my finger tips. From "Space Oddity" to "The Man Who Sold the World" (which would be remade and becoming one of my favorite songs of all time and houses one of the most beautiful guitar solos of all time), I loved his music. Much to the chagrin of my Motown-grooving father.
5. Dusty Rhodes
The man of the hour, the man with the power. The hit-maker, the record-breaker. He had style and grace with a pretty face. He could make your back crack, and make your liver quiver. He was tough enough to rip off your head and dance down your tonsils. The polka dot clad American Dream Dusty Rhodes was quite possibly the most charismatic personalities that the wrestling world has ever or will ever see. If ya will.
4. Robin Williams
(Died August 11th, 2014)
From Popeye to Dead Poets Society, Robin Williams and his multi-faceted acting ability has been one of my favorite actors to watch since I was old enough to be able to watch TV with understanding. His stand-up comedy routines, appearances on night time talk shows, TV/movies roles, and his humanitarian work (which includes his work performing for the troops overseas {thusly dubbing him the new Bob Hope} and Comic Relief: the non-profit charity organization which raised money for the homeless) will cement his place in the annals of pop culture and will keep his beautiful spirit alive for all time.
3. Brandon Lee
(Died March 31, 1993)
Bruce Lee's movies were some of my favorite growing up, so when I heard that his son was starring in a movie opposite the actor who played my favorite cartoon character of all time, He-Man; I knew that it was time to watch Showdown in Little Tokyo. In a time of Jean Claude Van Dam and Steven Seagal movies were the rage, this movie fit right in and thrilled my heart. About a year later, eastern North Carolina was thrown into a whirl when Brandon Lee was accidently killed while filming what would grow into one of my favorite movies of all time: The Crow. The violent nature of Brandon's death added to the hype of an already amazing movie.
2. Chris Farley
(Died December 18, 1997)
Chris Farley's loud, charismatic style immediately drew my attention when he was catapulted onto Saturday Night Live in 1990. I constantly accidently woke up my parents while watching the on screen collaborations of Farley, Adam Sandler, Chris Rock, Rob Schneider, and David Spade. Farley's SNL characters, as well as his movie roles, skyrocketed him to the top of my favorite's list. Growing up, I idolized Chris Farley because despite being a bigger guy; he made people laugh. Chris Farley truly inspired me in my life….despite the negative aspects of his life.
1. Kurt Cobain
(Died April 5th, 1994)
Kurt Cobain (from MTV's Unplugged Live from New York)
"Smells like Teen Spirit" metaphorically bursted my ear drums as it groundbreakingly pushed itself to the top of the music scene. Kurt Cobain rose to be an influential figure in the youth scene of the early 90s and I was right in the middle of it all. I had my Nirvana T-shirts. I listened to all the songs. I watched all of the videos. I drew x eyed smiley faces every day. For 4 years, Nirvana was on top and I was their biggest fan. I remember that April 5th, 1994 was a Friday. I came home from school, turned on MTV (as you did back then) to see live footage being shot of Kurt's Seattle home. I still remember the tears that fell when Kurt Loder (MTV news anchor) announced that Cobain was dead in what was an apparent suicide. I remember the disbelief that the captain of the flagship band of Generation X was gone. I still am one of those fans that believe that his wife Courtney Love had him killed but however it happened….a generation lost a leader and the world lost a pop culture phenomenon.
Honorable Mentions: Heath Ledger (Died 2008), Prince (Died April 21th, 2016), Notorious BIG aka Biggy Smalls aka Biggy aka Christopher George Latore Wallace (Died March 9th, 1997), Muhammad Ali (Died June 3rd, 2016), John Pinette (Died 2014), Ryan Dunn (Died 2011), Gene Wilder (2016), Roddy Piper (Died 2015), Leonard Nimoy (Died 2015), Jim Varney aka Ernest P Worrell (Died 2000), Lemmy Kilmster (Died December 2015), Paul Walker (Died 2013)
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'Blinded' Star Thomas Dolby Is Back Thomas Dolby, the 1980s British pop star best known for his hit "She Blinded Me with Science," is back and on tour. Our resident musician, David Was, recently caught his show. He thought it was all right, but admits his opinion might be colored by a negative personal experience he had with Dolby two decades ago.
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Thomas Dolby, the 1980s British pop star best known for his hit "She Blinded Me with Science," is back and on tour. Our resident musician, David Was, recently caught his show. He thought it was all right, but admits his opinion might be colored by a negative personal experience he had with Dolby two decades ago.
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And we end out program today with another tale from inside the world of pop music. Here's music veteran and DAY TO DAY contributor David Was.
DAVID WAS: Back in the long-derided 1980s, Was (Not Was), my wacky art funk band - at least that's what the New York Times called us - had caused a bit of a stir in far flung places like London and Paris, where they didn't seem to mind the mix of genres and races that went into our vision of the Temptations meet Frank Zappa.
(Soundbite of song "Walk the Dinosaur")
Mr. HARRY BOWENS (Was (Not Was): (Singing) It was a night like this 40 million years ago. Well, I lit a cigarette picked up a monkey start to go.
WAS: In London, guys like George Michael of Wham took notice, and one of our twisted ballads, Where Did Your Heart Go, wound up on that band's final collection and stopped a string of seven top ten singles they'd enjoyed in the States up until that point.
(Soundbite of song "Where Did Your Heart Go")
Mr. GEORGE MICHAEL (Wham): Where did your heart go?
WAS: I'm grateful to Mr. Michael for helping me purchase a roof and some groceries nearby but have nevertheless joked for years that I singlehandedly put the whammy on Wham, driving them out of the business. And you know where George wound up?
(Soundbite of song "Blinded Me with Science")
WAS: Another British subject was making a strange kind of noise on the dance floors back then - one Thomas Dolby, that bespectacled Blinded Me With Science guy whose signature use of the then-state-of-the-art Fairlight synthesizer made him a fresh voice as disco gave way to more experimental dance music.
Dolby is out on tour right now and wears goggles with little cameras attached, so you can see his antic expressions on plasma monitors while he does his digital version of the one-man band.
WAS: I caught his show in Detroit recently and found it mildly entertaining. But perhaps my response was colored by a two decade-old incident that I'm still smarting about.
In 1986, I got a call from Mr. Dolby, who expressed admiration for my work and wondered if I might want to join forces in a supergroup of sorts that he was forming. I was flattered indeed by his interest and invited him by my West Hollywood apartment for tea and a wee chat.
Little did I know that behind those innocuous round glasses beat the heart of a ruthless Fagan, one who would break the heart of my poor five-year-old son Nicholas, who was innocently watching a reel of Disney cartoons on the tube while Dolby and I sipped our Earl Gray.
I quite like the sounds on those Disney cartoons, he said offhandedly. Do you think I could borrow the tapes? I might sample them. I, blinded by visions of supergroupies chasing us through hotel corridors, agreed without hesitation. Me and Dolby, we was like this.
Off he went to his studio to sample Goofy's laugh for his next masterpiece.
(Soundbite of duck quacking)
WAS: And off I went with my son to the park for the next week, unable to fill his spare time with Donald Duck and Mickey Mouse gags. I phoned the meek and proper Mr. Dolby again and again in the ensuing weeks and months, never to hear back from him. My assumption is that he drove directly to the border at Tijuana, checked himself into a seedy motel and smoked bags of Mexican giggle smoke while watching my son's cartoons.
(Soundbite of cartoon)
DONALD DUCK: Oh, boy. Oh, boy. Oh, boy.
WAS: P.S. on that fabled day in my apartment, little Nicholas took one look at Dolby's inscrutable mug and asked, is Thomas a bad man? I hushed up the lad and asked him to apologize.
Now it's Dolby's turn. Either that or I'm sending Radiohead's Karma Police after him.
(Soundbite of song "Karma Police")
Mr. THOM YORKE (Radiohead): (Singing) This is what you get...
CHADWICK: The recollections of DAY TO DAY contributor and musician David Was.
Mr. YORKE: (Singing) This is what you get when you mess with us...
MADELEINE BRAND, host:
And Thomas Dolby, if you're listening, tell us you're not a bad man. We'd love to hear your side of the story.
Mr. YORKE: (Singing) Karma police, I've given all I can, it's not enough, I've given all I can, but were still on the payroll, this is what you get...


I have always been curious about the Disney outlets in Orlando. I have heard of people getting some really good deals on merchandise and have heard that sometimes you can even find left over race merchandise. I've never had the opportunity to check out these outlets because I normally depend on Disney's Magical Express as my main mode of transportation.
However, on our past trip to Disney for the Tower of Terror race weekend, we had our own transportation so we decided to check it out.
There are actually 2 Disney outlets in Orlando. One is at the Premium Outlets on Vineland Avenue and the other one was on international drive.
Since we were staying in the Boardwalk resort area, we chose to go to the ones on Vineland avenue because they were the closer ones. They were very easy to get to and it took us less than 15 minutes.
The actually name for the Disney outlet store is the Disney Character Outlet.
It was not as large as I was expecting it to be. It was probably just a little bigger than the Disney stores at the mall.
The did have a nice variety of merchandise.
They were selling a lot of those tote bags and throw blankets that you would normally see at World of Disney ( and other gift shops). You know, the ones that you can purchase for an additional $19.99 when you spend $50 or more.
I thought the prices were fabulous and most of the stuff was 50 % off what you would find at the onsite gift shops. I saw some of the picture frames that I purchase during previous Disney trips for sale here at half the price I paid.
I was looking to see what kind of race merchandise they had left and unfortunately the only thing they had was from a race I did not run.
Too bad, because I actually thought it was a cute shirt!
I don't know why I hoped to see other race merchandise here. It would make sense that Expedition Everest merchandise would be the only stuff here because after all, that was the most recent Disney World race at that point.
I was surprised to see that they even had a good selection of merchandise from Alunai.
I didn't really need any other souvenirs, but if I did, this would have been a great place to stock up on them. This would be a great place to bring kids to shop since the prices were so much less than the gift shops in the parks.
If you do happen to have your own transportation, I would recommend checking out the outlets. I did see that they had cab service running as well, so it looked like catching a cab wouldn't be a problem ( but I bet that would be costly).
I have only visited the Disney outlet in Wrenthen MA and that was on opening day. They had no race merchandise, but alot of cute things for children and they gave away mouse ears to the customers that day!
This was the first Disney "outlet" I had ever visited.
I've never been to the Disney Outlets. I didn't even know they existed. And here I've just been paying full price for all my Disney stuff over the years.
Yea, I couldn't believe how much of a mark up there is on that merchandise. Never mind, yes I can believe it. It's Disney!
Interesting. I didn't know about the outlets either. We don't usually have a car when down there but I'm thinking of renting a car on our next trip so this might be a good addition.
If you have a car then it is definitely worth making the trip.
I have yet to visit a Disney outlet, but have heard that they are hit or miss. We usually have our own transportation, but wind up trying to maximize our park time which hinders our ability to spend much time off property.
There are definitely deals to be had, it just depend if it is on the merchandise you are looking for!
What a good idea -- I didn't know an outlet existed. It reminds me of the last time I went to Disneyland and it was a lot colder than I expected so I bought a sweatshirt -- for over $60 haha woof.
Oh I hear ya. That happened to me once. It was January 2007 and it was freezing. I bought a sweater for about $60. It was pink and had a teeny tiny mickey mouse in the corner. I still have it but hardly ever wear it. I should dig it out this winter!
I went to one for the first time at Wine and Dine weekend. It was nice, but like you I didn't need anything so I just browsed.
I didn't even know they had an outlet but its a great idea if you can get there since souvenirs at most theme parks are SO expensive, especially if you are trying to buy for more than a few people so it's cool that they have this!!
It's been ages since I have been to Disney World, I really need to change that:) I went to Disneyland a few years ago, and I stayed at the Marriot next door to Alunai in Oahu before they opened it (the beaches are sort of shared with Marriot's) But it's still not the same thing as Disney World, I would love to go back sometime... hopefully!
Never been to an outlet, but the mall where I grew up had a Disney store and I LOVED it.
I didn't even know these existed! I'll have to check one out for race shirts if I'm ever near.
I'll have to check these out next time I'm there!
That's a really smart idea to bring kids there to pick out souvenirs. They don't know the difference!
I have been to the outlet at Concord Mills near Charlotte NC. I picked up a Pirates of the Caribbean hoodie with an $80 price tag on it for $15! So it will be going in my suite case this fall on our honeymoon which includes a stay at the Disney resort in Hilton Head.


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