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Chapter 1136: Uncle Qiu Already Passed Away Ten Days Ago
Soon, 3 months passed and Miss Qiao returned from her training overseas, so Tangning sent someone to the airport to greet her.
During this time, Tangning's new post-production team was formed and they were now learning to work together and adapt to their new working environment.
'The Ant Queen 2' was ready to go and Tangning successfully cast the other actors for her film. All that was left was to lock in their schedules and call them in for a rehearsal.
Soon, 'The Ant Queen 2' officially announced its main cast and crew. As with the first film, the team was led by Tangning as the producer. Under her, there was Qiao Man as the director, the addition of a martial arts superstar, Old Long, a new actress, Fei Er, the freshly popular Luo Sheng, and, of course, there was Mo Ting as the villain!
As soon as these names were announced, the public immediately had a huge response; there was so much to look forward to.
The addition of Old Long was already a pleasant surprise, but on top of that, Mo Ting was a part of the cast again - and he was playing the villain!
Meanwhile, the poster for the film clearly indicated that the film would be testing the strength of a teacher-student relationship.
Which meant, the main plot would be focused on a student and a teacher!
Fans immediately left comments online, telling Tangning to quickly start filming.
"One of the reasons why I like Tangning's productions is because she doesn't go down the typical path of a hero rescuing a damsel in distress. She doesn't focus on romantic love, instead, she explores other relationships. Her films are on a deeper level and they make me feel very comfortable watching them."
"Last time, it was the story of a father and daughter. This time, it's a teacher and a student. Just the thought of it sounds interesting. I wonder how the international superstar will hold up against a giant monster!"
"Am I the only one that thinks President Mo's role as a villain is going to be sensational? In the first film, his character was very calm and gentle. I can't wait to see his emotions explode in the sequel!"
"Can't wait +1..."
"Now that they've announced the cast and crew, when will they begin filming? This is torture!"
"I'm going to go dig up all of Tangning and Mo Ting's previous films and watch them all. That should last me a bit of time."
"Ever since Tangning entered the film and television industry, I feel like she's brought along a breath of fresh air. I think the entire industry should thank her!"
However, Tangning didn't care about hearing thanks. It didn't matter because her main focus was on doing what she wanted to do. She wanted to fulfill Qiao Sen's dream and stand at the pinnacle of the entertainment industry with Mo Ting. But, right now, had she achieved it yet?
Soon, people began investigating Qiao Man to find out who she was. That's when they realized that she was Qiao Sen's daughter and she was an extremely famous videographer.
To fulfill her father's wishes, she also decided to dedicate the rest of her life to sci-fi. Initially, she expected the public to be doubtful of her because she was new to the industry, but surprisingly, everyone was very accepting. This was because they knew she would put in a lot of effort if she had the intention to become like her father...
In the end, everyone was talking about 'The Ant Queen 2'. This made Nangong Quan feel that Tangning and Mo Ting were truly powerful opponents, worthy of respect.
"President, should we start the second round of promotions for 'Parasite'?"
Nangong Quan shook his head gesturing that the time wasn't right, "There's no need. Let's place our energy on producing 'Parasite'. When the final film gets released, that will be the best piece of promotional material."
"I understand. We are keeping up with the sci-fi trend. Even though I'm unwilling to admit, Tangning has indeed made a huge contribution to the industry," Nangong Quan's assistant said. "Otherwise, we probably wouldn't see a sci-fi film of this quality for another twenty years, let alone now."
"How's Bai Junye doing?"
"There's nothing to say. Bai Junye is indeed talented. We didn't find the wrong person."
"Great," Nangong Quan nodded. He had high hopes for 'Parasite'.
Even though they couldn't compare to Hai Rui's 'The Ant Queen 2', good films deserved recognition.
Afterwards, Nangong Quan grabbed his belongings and drove over to visit Qiu Jin. But, to his surprise, Qiu Jin's subordinate told him, "Uncle Qiu already passed away ten days ago..."
"Why didn't anyone tell me?" Nangong Quan roared. "How come no one told me about this huge matter?"
"Because Uncle Qiu left so suddenly. He hung himself to death, but I was sure he initially told me that he wanted to do some traveling overseas. So, no one expected it," Qiu Jin's subordinate replied. "I even saw that he already packed his luggage..."
"Why didn't you call the police, then?"
"The police came by and confirmed that he was strangled to death and he left behind a suicide note, so they did not look any further into it. But, I still feel like something's off."
Why would someone that was about to go overseas suddenly decide to die? And why did he leave such a simple suicide note?
Nangong Quan found it weird, but he couldn't really point out the problem.
Qiu Jin was gone just like that, yet no one notified him about it. He originally thought Qiu Jin was in a bad mood and needed some time to recover, so he didn't bother him. Who would have thought...
"Have you searched through Qiu Jin's room in detail? Was there anything suspicious?"
"No, I've already looked," the bald subordinate said before he pulled out a phone from a set of drawers. "This belongs to Uncle Qiu. I've already looked through the call records. On the night of his death, Uncle Qiu spoke for half an hour with an unfamiliar number."
"Who was it?"
"I tried calling the number. It was a car insurance salesman..."
Nangong Quan received the phone and did not say a word. But, he suddenly suspected there was another person hiding behind-the-scenes.
However, he didn't get the chance to investigate in detail because, at that moment, he received a phone call from Su Youran's mother, "Mr. Nangong, could you marry Youran as soon as possible?"
"Auntie, what happened?"
"Her father's business failed and he's trying to take advantage of her."
Nangong Quan's heart sank. However, it was not because of what Mother Su said, "Your voice sounds very weak..."
"I'm fine...I'm fine."
It did not sound like she was fine. After hanging up the phone, Nangong Quan left Qiu Jin's home and drove straight over to the place where Su Youran undertook her studies. He then dragged her straight out of her classroom.
"Hey mister, are you making a mistake? Did you grab the wrong person?"
"Your mother may be in danger. You should go home and check on her," Nangong Quan said as he showed the phone number on his phone to Su Youran.
After confirming it was her mother's phone number, Su Youran turned to leave. But, Nangong Quan quickly held her back, "I'll take you there. It will be faster."
Although Su Youran had a lot of questions, she didn't have a better option. So, she quickly boarded Nangong Quan's car.
It was strange. She had to find out through a stranger that her mother was in danger...


There were very few close results this year. Hugo voters delivered decisive verdicts on what they wanted and didn't want to win. Outside the Dramatic Presentation categories, not a single Puppy nominee beat No Award. No Award won five categories, all on the first count, and also got the most first preferences for Best Novelette. Also worth noting that the two fiction categories that were awarded went to translated works, the first time that translations have ever won Hugos for fiction as far as I know.
I have found only two contests (and pretty minor at that) where the margin was less than 50 votes - Bryan Thomas Schmidt beat Vox Day for fourth place in Best Editor (Short Form) by 12 votes, and Steve Stiles beat Brad Foster for fourth place in Best Fan Artist by 37. Most years there would be at least half a dozen.
Wesley Chu, Elizabeth Leggett, Laura J. Mixon, Journey Planet, Orphan Black, The Day The World Turned Upside Down and The Three-Body Problem all won their awards despite being the last finalist nominated.
Seanan McGuire's Each to Each missed Best Novelette by three votes, and Kai Ashante Wilson's The Devil in America missed it by seven.
Charles E. Gannon's Trial By Fire was 11 votes off the Best Novel ballot, and Andy Weir was likewise 11 behind Wesley Chu for the Campbell Award.
Edited to add: See also Brandon Kempner's analysis; he puts the total number of Rabid voters at a bit above 500, and the total Sads a bit less.
Best Novel: Three Body Problem leads at all stages, winning by precisely 200 votes over Goblin Emperor. Goblin Emperor second, Ancillary Sword third. No Award beats Skin Game for fourth place, Skin Game beats Dark Between the Stars for fifth. Near misses: Trial by Fire, by Charles E. Gannon, was 11 votes behind Three Body Problem; Torgersen's The Chaplain's War was three votes behind that. Non-puppies Lock In, by John Scalzi, and City of Stairs, by Robert Jackson Bennett, were further behind. Correia and Kloos declined nomination.
Best Novella: No Award gets 65.4% of first prefs. Second place goes to Flow, third to Big Boys Don't Cry. The three Wright stories come last, One Bright Star to Guide Them 4th, The Plural of Helen of Troy 5th, Pale Realms of Shade 6th. The five that missed nomination were The Slow Regard of Silent Things, by Patrick Rothfuss; The Regular, by Ken Liu; Nebula winner Yesterday's Kin, by Nancy Kress; Grand Jete (The Great Leap), by Rachel Swirsky and The Mothers of Voorhisville, by Mary Rickert.
Best Novelette: No Award gets most first preferences, 1730 to 1700 for The Day The World Turned Upside Down, but is overtaken by transfers, especially from The Triple Sun, and Olde Heuvelt wins by 2618 to 2078. No Award takes second place with over 60% of vote. The Triple Sun third, Ashes to Ashes fourth, The Journeyman: in the Stone House fifth, Championship B'Tok sixth. The four nearest misses were: Each to Each, by Seanan McGuire; The Devil In America, by Kai Ashante Wilson; The Litany of Earth, by Ruthana Emrys and The Magician and Laplace's Demon, by Tom Crosshill. One John C Wright story was disqualified.
Best Short Story: No Award gets 58.0% of first preferences. 2nd Totaled, 3rd A Single Samurai, 4th Turncoat, 5th On A Spiritual Plain, John C Wright last again with The Parliament of Beasts and Birds. Tuesdays with Molakesh the Destroyer, by Megan Grey, was ruled ineligible and Annie Bellet withdrew Goodnight Stars which topped the nominations list. The five stories that missed were Nebula winner Jackalope Wives, by Ursula Vernon; The Breath of War, by Aliette de Bodard; The Truth About Owls Amal El-Mohtar; When it Ends, He Catches Her, by Eugie Foster, published the week she died; and A Kiss With Teeth, by Max Gladstone. Well done puppies.
Best Related Work: No Award's best showing, with 66.5% of first prefs. 2nd The Hot Equations; 3rd Why Science is Never Settled; 4th Transhuman and Subhuman; 5th Letters from Gardner; 6th Wisdom from my Internet. The five that missed nomination: What Makes This Book so Great, by Jo Walton; Chicks Dig Gaming; Shadows Beneath: The Writing Excuses Anthology; Invisible: Personal Essays on Representation in SF, by Jim C. Hines and Tropes vs Women: Women as Background Decoration, by Anita Sarkeesian.
BDP Long Form: Guardians of the Galaxy well ahead at all stages. 2nd Captain America. 3rd Edge of Tomorrow (I think on anti-Puppy transfers as it was in fourth pace on previous counts). 4th Interstellar. 5th The Lego Movie (the only Puppy nominee that I gave any lower preference to). Nearest miss was Big Hero 6.
BDP Short Form: Orphan Black convincingly ahead at all stages. Doctor Who: Listen clearly ahead for second place. Game of Thrones beats No Award for third. The Flash beats No Award for fourth. Grimm beats No Award for fifth place, relatively narrowly (by 86 votes). Missed by nine votes: Agents of Shield: Turn, Turn, Turn. Missed by ten: Game of Thrones: The Lion and the Rose. Supernatural: Dog Dean Afternoon was ruled ineligible.
Best Editor Short Form: No Award gets 55.1% of first preferences. Mike Resnick a comfortable second, followed by 3rd Jennifer Brozek, 4th Bryan Thomas Schmidt (by 12 votes over Vox Day), 5th Vox Day over Edmund R. Schubert who had withdrawn. The five who missed nomination were John Joseph Adams, Neil Clarke, Ellen Datlow, Jonathan Strahan and Sheila Williams.
Best Editor Long Form: No Award gets 50.9% of first preferences. 2nd Toni Weisskopf, 3rd Sheila Gilbert, 4th Anne Sowards, 5th Jim Minz, 6th Vox Day. The five who missed nomination were Liz Gorinsky, Beth Meacham, Patrick Nielsen Hayden, Lee Harris and Anne Perry.
Best Professional Artist: Julie Dillon gets 63.2% of first preferences. For second place, No Award gets 57.6% of first preferences. 3rd Kirk DouPonce, 4th Alan Pollack, 5th Nick Greenwood, 6th Carter Reid. The four who missed were John Picacio, Galen Dara, Stephan Martiniere and Chris McGrath. Jon Eno was ruled ineligible.
Best Semiprozine: Lightspeed had a resounding lead at all stages. Strange Horizons a very clear second, Beneath Ceaseless Skies an even clearer third. No Award then comes resoundingly fourth, Abyss and Apex narrowly fifth, Andromeda Spaceways In-Flight Magazine sixth. The two that missed were The Book Smugglers and Interzone.
Best Fanzine: Journey Planet has it on the first count with just over 50% of first prefs. No Award even more clearly gets the second place. 3rd Black Gate, 4th Tangent Online, 5th Elitist Book Reviews, 6th The Revenge of Hump Day. The four that missed were The Drink Tank, Lady Business, File 770 and A Dribble of Ink.
Best Fancast: A narrow lead on first prefs for Galactic Suburbia converts to a decent win over Tea and Jeopardy, which gets a decisive second place. No Award gets an even more decisive third place. 4th The Sci Phi Show, 5th Adventures in SciFi Publishing, 6th Dungeon Crawlers Radio. The three that missed were The Coode Street Podcast, Verity! and The Skiffy and Fanty Show.
Best Fan Writer: Laura J. Mixon just under 50% of first preferences, tipped over by transfers from Amanda S. Green. No Award second on first preferences, takes 2nd place with 67.9%. 3rd Jeffro Johnson over Cedar Sanderson, 4th Dave Freer over Cedar Sanderson, 5th Amanda S. Green over Cedar Sanderson. Matthew David Surridge decined nomination, allowing Mixon onto the ballot. The other four near misses were Abigail Nussbaum, Liz Bourke, Natalie Luhrs and Mark Oshiro.
Best Fan Artist: Elizabeth Legget legs it in style, well ahead of the competition and winning on the third round with three others still in contention. Spring Schoenhuth takes second place ahead of Brad Foster. Ninni Aalto takes third place ahead of Brad Foster. Steve Stiles takes fourth place by 37 votes ahead of Brad Foster (which I think is, remarkably, the closest result of the evening). Brad Foster confortably ahead of No Award for fifth place. Maurine Starkey missed nomination by 3 votes.
John W Campbell Award: Wesley Chu gets 60.5% of first preferences. No Award gets 59.4% of first prefs for second place. 3rd Kary English, 4th Eric S. Raymond, 5th Jason Cordova, 6th Rolf Nelson. The four who missed were Andy Weir (would he have been eligible?), Alyssa Wong, Carmen Maria Marchado and Django Wexler.
Let's hope that this is more enjoyable next year.
Saga vol. 4 collects issues 19 to 24. Issue 24 was originally published in October 2014. So, yes, it was eligible.
Ah, so that's how eligibility of collections is determined? Good to know.
Yep. Eligibility is determined by the *content* of the collection, the important date being the first date the content appeared in complete form. This can lead to some oddities. On more than one occasion, a collection has been nominated that hasn't actually been published yet.
It also means the converse is also true - people can read a collection when it first comes out and then find out it's too late to nominate it for a Hugo. I had that happen with the first volume of Matt Kindt's MIND MGMT.
I'd much prefer that eligibility could be determined by date of publication of the collection, but, no. Unless it's wholly unambiguous, you have to check the small print on the front page to find what issues it contains, and then check something like http://comicbookdb.com to make sure the date of the last issue falls within the correct calendar year.
"Let's hope that this is more enjoyable next year."
I'm afraid not. Given that "Brandon Kempner's analysis; he puts the total number of Rabid voters at a bit above 500", we have at least one more year of RP shenanigans.
Well, that assumes that they can be bothered to play this game again. There is no real reward for them (and certainly No Award at the end of the process). If I were them I would find more effective ways of investing my time.
If I were them, I would not have taken part in a bloc-voting campaign at all, and yet here we are.
I *hope* they stop bothering to "play this game again" next year, but given the political nature of their campaign(s), I'll believe it when I see it.
I think the problem is the reward is actually there for them just in terms of enjoying seeing the effect they have on other people.
I'm guessing a ceiling of about 590, based on the number of actual votes Vox himself got and the general ceiling on first round actual votes.
As I said at the business meeting earlier, that's pretty much a guarantee of 500ish who'll nominate next year - it's enough to game every category.
Looking at the vote totals it looks like the Rabid/Sad Puppies contingent is around 10%. I am impressed that people appeared to be making real choices in the Award voting with their nominees having a range of votes.
There may well have been two volumes of Saga on the list if even one of the 26 voters who failed to specify a volume had gone for volume 4.
Quantifying the size of the puppy vote is tricky. There are about 550-600 who put the top RP pick as their first pref, but there are many more who put one of the SP/RP picks as their top vote: looking at Best Related Work, 1642 people put a first preference that wasn't No Award. The question is, how many of those were voting on a slate basis, and how many are voters who just thought one of those books was better than No Award? A better test might be how many people put Vox Day anywhere above No Award in the editor races - I'm not sure this can be figured out from the current statistics but it will definitely be possible when Sasquan release the anonymized ballot data.
Note that Sasquan will only do a limited release of the ballot data. One has to contact the Hugo administrators directly to get access to it. They were very reluctant to hand it over, understandably so.
Yeah, I'm not sure about how they plan to do this - do you have to prove you've got a good reason to need the data for them to hand it over? Are they going to constrain what people do with the data once they've got it? I suspect it would be easier to say they won't release it generally but they will run the E Pluribus Hugo system on it to say what would've happened, or to just release it all into the wild suitably anonymized. I will email the admins and ask, but I'm going to leave it a few days so they can recover a little bit.
In the case of the E Pluribus Hugo people, I think the admins had the data on a stick already (I imagine they knew which way the wind was blowing), ready to hand over after the business meeting. I imagine a few other people picked it up that way as well.
Yes, I imagine the information will leak out afterwards to a sufficiently determined party. On the other hand, I think the only some of the puppy leaders will have sufficient interest here, or how the admins will react if say, Theodore Beale, asks it to be handed over.
Agreed that the easiest option would have been for the admins to have asked for access to the EPH software, so they could run and test it themselves. But the aversion to any change seems to be strong among many Worldcon regulars.
Also rosefox's comment here clears up that Andy Weir would be eligible for the Campbell.
These sorts of analyses actually give me a lot of hope that, even under the current system, the ultimate influence of ideological nomination slates going forward will be limited.
Next year will be a horrendous year, when it comes to the nomination stage. Since the big trouble is few people doing nominations, doing nominations is hard for most people, and we have had a huge influx of possible new nominators from the puppy side, we can realistically but worst-case look at circa 500 people nominating in lockstep.
Just thank goodness that EPH passed this year, in spite of the best efforts of the current Hugo administrators and other change-averse SMOFs.
Next year's nomination shenanigans can't really be avoided, as you say--they can only be mitigated by the number of people actually motivated to do this all over again for a point that wasn't made--but at least the actual award voting this year demonstrated that even the current system is (to a certain extent) self-correcting.
John W Campbell Award: Wesley Chu gets 60.5% of first preferences. No Award gets 59.4% of first prefs for second place.
Where I went to school that equals 119.9% of first preferences, how is that possible?
Two different counts. After the winner has been determined, all the votes are counted again, with the winner excluded, to see who comes second; and similarly for the other places.
And, if you're wondering why it's done like that, it's so the people who voted for the winner have a say in who came second.
If Black Gate had been replaced, The Drink Tank would have been on the ballot. That really bums me out, because it would have been the last time TDT could have made the ballot.


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Breandán Breathnach, appelé également Brendan Walsh, né à Dublin le  et décédé en , est un collecteur de musique irlandaise et un joueur de uilleann pipes et de tin whistle.

Biographie
Son père, Pádraig, était un notable dublinois, l'un des derniers tisseur de soie de la ville.

Il acquiert de son oncle Joe Breathnach, un sonneur de uilleann pipes membre du Dublin Piper's Club, le goût pour la musique irlandaise. Il commence la musique par la cornemuse écossaise, mais ses lèvres le faisant souffrir, il opte pour le uilleann pipes et commence son apprentissage avec John Potts de Wexford et William Andrews, puis avec le célèbre Leo Rowsome.

Breathnach entre dans la fonction publique en 1930. Il se marie en 1943 avec Lena Donnellan. Le couple donne naissance à cinq filles.

En 1950, il conçoit de publier un premier recueil des airs qu'il a collectés. Il soumet alors une sélection d'airs à danser à An Gúm, l'organisme d'État chargé du patrimoine en langue irlandaise. Parmi les contributeurs à cette sélection, on reconnait des sonneurs de uilleann pipes comme son oncle Joe, John Potts, Tommy Reck, Matt Kiernan et Willie Clancy, des fiddlers comme John Kelly, Donncha Ó Cróinín, Tommy Potts et Tom Mulligan, des flûtistes et joueurs de tin whistle comme John Egan, John Brennan et Michael Tubridy, et surtout l'accordéoniste Sonny Brogan. La collection s'appellera Ceol Rince na hÉireann (« musique de danse d'Irlande »).

De 1961 à 1962, il publie avec Séamus Mac Mathúna les trois premiers numéros de la collection Tacar Port d'airs à danser, édités par le Clare County Board de Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Éireann, qu'il avait rejoint dans les années 1950.

Toujours dans les années 1960, il fonde une maison de disques avec son frère Ciarán. Cette brève aventure donna naissance à un enregistrement, Seancheol ar an Sean-Nós, avec le violoniste Aggie Whyte (comté de Galway) et le flûtiste Peadar O'Loughlin (comté de Clare).

La parution du premier volume de Ceol Rince en 1963 rencontre un grand succès tant commercial qu'artistique, et procure à Bhreathnach une notoriété nationale.

En 1965, il quitte son poste d'assistant à l'officier principal du département de l'agriculture pour, au sein de l'Éducation nationale, s'occuper du collectage musical et produire une somme exhaustive de la musique à danser irlandaise. Le second volume de Ceol Rince parait en 1976 et regroupe la participation de 81 musiciens dont James McEnery (comté de Limerick), John Doherty (comté de Donegal), Micho Russell (comté de Clare) et Denis Murphy (comté de Kerry).

En 1974, et pour trois ans, il devient directeur du service de musique irlandaise traditionnelle au sein du département de folklore irlandais de l'université de Dublin. Il prend sa retraite en 1977.

À l'époque de sa mort, il avait rassemblé plus de  airs, publiés à partir de 1963. Grâce à ses efforts, de nombreux airs ont été sauvegardés, et il est reconnu comme une figure majeure de la préservation et de la continuité de la musique irlandaise.

On retiendra ses Ceol Rince na hÉireann qu'il publia en trois volumes (1963, 1976 et 1985). Après sa mort, deux volumes supplémentaires furent édités en 1996 et 1999.

Sa fille  est un personnage politique du Parti travailliste irlandais, qui a été Ministre de l'éducation et des sciences.

Bibliographie
  Willie Clancy the man and his music, Ceol 2/3 (1965), pages 70 à 77 ;
  Ceol Rince na hÉireann, volume 1 (1963), volume 2 (1976), volume 3 (1985) ;
  Folk Music and Dances of Ireland (1971) ;
  Tribute to Séamus Ennis, Musical Traditions n° 1, 1983 ;
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  Irish Music Centre, Boston College.

Références

Voir aussi
 Liste de collecteurs de musique irlandaise

Musicologue irlandais
Musicien traditionnel
Joueur irlandais de uilleann pipes
Flûtiste irlandais
Naissance en avril 1912
Décès en novembre 1985
Décès à 73 ans

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So i know this girl. She and I were introduced to each other by an old acquaintance of mine. We seldom really talk to each other. We do occassionally meet on some holidays, when i don't have to go to work. She helps run a small shop with her family, so she only has time to go out during her lunch breaks. On those rare occassions, i would treat her out to eat and we get to talk a little bit more. During those times she would take pictures of the two of us on her celphone. She had also invited me to her home twice, so i've met her mother and brother there too. On our birthdays, we send each other happy birthday greetings thru text messages. There are some rare occassions that i would text her, but there are times i would not receive any reply.
Today on Valentine's day, I received a text message greeting from her. "Happy Valentine. How are you? Did you go to work today? Where is your date? "
I replied with "Happy Valentine's Day to you too. Yes i did go to work and i don't really have a date. How about you, where are you going today? I'm ok, how are you too?"
I didn't get any reply after that. So i'm not sure if i did/say anything wrong or maybe she's just busy or maybe it's just another one of those times that i wouldn't get any reply from her.
So do you guys think i'm doing anything wrong?
It doesn't seem like you did anything wrong at all. Your text was polite and pretty much the same as hers. Most likely she got busy, or she's just not that good at replying to texts.
Thanks for taking the time to share your thoughts and feedback Karen.
I guess she has her reasons for not texting back. Well, she has done it a couple of times before. It just makes me feel like she doesn't want to talk to me sometimes,or not interested, bored or maybe even angry sometimes? So i'm a bit confused and unsure as to how to respond/react to that. She does seem to talk a lot more when we got to talk on the phone, and during those times we met in person.
She also did ask me in two seperate instances before, that if i could take a leave from work so we could meet, or go out together. I just couldn't get myself (or didn't have the courage) to ask my boss for a leave with that reason in mind.
I would agree with Karen….and sometimes it can be nerve wreaking for the other person as well. Go with the flow i guess.
You did say that she texted you first, so surely that shows that she took some initiative to contact you. She must care enough for that. Best thing to do is to not worry about it or try your best not to whenever you can.
Thanks Zoe and Crashtastic for the replies.
Well, i think i could understand how nerve wracking it is just to initiate the first contact. Maybe that's why I feel that i may have been insensitive about it or failed to show my appreciation. I try not to worry about it. but in the end, i decided to text her again. Saying, "Hi, how are you doing? Would you like to meet up this coming Saturday?" I was really nervous about asking this, and the consequences this could entail. If she responded positively, i would have to take a leave of absence from work on Saturday.
Anyways, since i've already sent her the text message and have yet to receive a reply. I'll just have to wait it out, see what happens, and take it from there. I just hope that it wasn't a foolish/stupid decision on my part.
Just to update things. She did send a reply afterwards saying she was sorry that her reply came late because she was busy. She asked me if ate already, since she texted me just after lunch. In response to my invitation this coming Saturday, she said she will text me if she can come, since sometimes her brother would unexpectedly have other places to go to.
Well, we have been meeting a few more times. Eating out. She does most of the talking though. I just listen and answer back with a few words. There are times she would ask a favor from me, like buying her a watch from a shop far from her. ( she collects watches.) Which she would pay back later of course. She also had asked me to make calling cards for her shop. I did so once. And she's asking me to do more again.
Yesterday, she texted me if we could meet and that she wanted to give me something. So i met with her, and she gave me a gift which she said was for my birthday and christmas. I was surprised of course but accepted the gift. She also asked another favor. She asked if i could buy her a special shirt that was running out of stock in other stores. There was a store near my work, that she wanted me to go and buy it there. Having received a gift, and since i wasnt really busy, i said ok.
I'm not really sure. But i wanted to give her something in return for the gift. So while i was there at the mall, i decided to buy her a watch. I couldnt think of something better that she would appreciate.
Some of the people i know don't like that she asks favors. They think i should not have bought her a watch.
I'm not really certain myself on how i feel. I think she is a kind person. But i'm not sure if this is love or friendship.
I've been giving it some more thought. Right now, i don't think it's really love that i feel but i guess a part of me would want things to go well enough. I just have my apprehensions and fears that things would not work out right. Just doubts, that we might not be able to get along as i had hoped.
I'm just really poor at making decisions on my own and end up screwing up almost always.
I'm not sure if she still wants something more out of our relationship as friends though. It's just that right now, it's hard for me to see myself making anyone happy. I do a lot of things wrong and can be very indecisive often. I don't think anyone will be able to bear with it but myself.
It's probably best not to make her think there could be more. My sister said that i shouldn't encourage her anymore with the favors/gift.
Feeling kinda tired, sad, down. After not contacting me for a while, she texts me again. Asking for another favor.
I don't know how to respond to her. But at the moment, i don't feel like doing the favor.
I'm just so confused as to what do really.
I still see this girl during holidays and birthdays. She would give me gifts, and i think its only right i give her gifts as well. We still don't talk that often really and only meet on a few holidays and during birthdays. I don't really make any effort to court her. And think of her as a friend. Since she is the only one who is willing to talk to me and go out with me sometimes. Sometimes though, when we go out. I can't help feeling that we are dating. I'm not really sure how to differentiate between a friendly date or a "date" date kind of date.
Am i giving her false hope? or leading her on? I'm not really sure if i like her enough to be a girlfriend. Or if i'm seeing her because i like her as a friend or as a girlfriend. I know i don't have the guts to really court her publicly or in front of her family. But i did go to her house a few times just to visit. So her mother and brother knows me i guess.
There was a time that she texted me and mentioned that she would have liked to receive flowers from me on Valentines day. I was surprised of course. And i just didn't know how to respond. I'm still not sure if i really like her to do that. Is it really like that or am i just so afraid to try it?
We met again recently this holiday. We had lunch outside and exchanged Christmas gifts. I let her choose the place to eat and i ended up paying for the lunch. We around the mall, as she was also buying gifts for her nephew and brothers. She also went to look at some watch shops. She pointed to a few watches and mentioned she wanted this one watch in particular. They were pretty expensive watches. But she ended up pointing to this one watch that while still expensive , was the least expensive among the watches there.
I just didn't know what to do. Were we on a date? Were we already dating for a long time? Do i consider her my girlfriend that i'd even buy the expensive watch for her? Did i let her down when i didn't buy it?
I guess i just don't know what i'm doing. What i'm feeling. Or what i want our relationship to be. Was i interested but scared? Or was i just content on being friends. Maybe i need more time to reflect on this.
Edited to add: Oh, and there was also this shirt she pointed to that she liked. And i jokingly said i'd be willing to buy it for her next time. (Since it wasn't that expensive.) And she mentioned that i need to buy two of those so we'd have the same shirt. (then i thought, that would be like a couple's shirt? right? Did she really just suggest that?) I didn't know what to say and just smiled. Did i like the idea of that? I'm not so sure, but i think a part of me liked the idea. But at the same time felt some apprehension too.
Feel free if to share any thoughts or advice if you think of any.
I don't think it's good that you are buying stuff for her, I think you probably spend more on her than she spends on you, you also said how other people have expressed concern about her asking you for favour think of it like this if it were a male friend would you have spent as much money on them? It seems a little worrying to me how she points out this expensive jewellery kind of like she expects it, I mean that's a bit of an ask for a friend, does she spend the same amount of money on you?
I'm kind of new to all this so my advice isn't great but I get the impression you do like her so perhaps you should try something.
Hi Ura. Thanks for sharing your thoughts with me on this. I think i'm also new to this as i really have not been in any kind of close relationship with a girl before. Normally i don't buy gifts to anyone besides a few members of my family. I didn't really give her any gifts in the beginning. I think it started when she gave me gifts for my birthday and Christmas. Of course, i appreciated the gesture and thought it only fair and nice to give her something in return as well. Of course i was initially surprised, but i really have not much experience in having friends, let alone a friend who also happens to be a girl. So i just thought maybe that's how some normally treat each other right? I mean i see some do it in tv shows and such.
Hmm I think it started with a question. She asked me what was my Christmas gift to myself. I was a bit hesitant to say what it was since it was a bit expensive. (As i do tend to splurge on myself during Christmas. Since i got some bonus salary on hand as well some cash prizes from the Office Christmas Party.) So i didn't answer her question and instead asked her what her Christmas gift to herself was. That's when she started showing me and pointing to those expensive watches. But then she was hinting at me to buy one for her. I was speechless, i said i thought those were the items that she was of thinking of buying for herself. She may come from a well off family but i've seen her buy one or two expensive watches before. She likes collecting expensive watches. And some of her rich relatives do give her those types of gifts from time to time.
Apparently, she also recalled what i bought myself last Christmas. Which was an LED TV since my old one broke down. She said the watch she wanted me to buy wasn't that expensive and almost cost the same as that LED TV i bought for myself last Christmas.
From that, i gather that she may have been upset when i didn't go buy that watch she pointed to. After that i drove her near her home and parted ways. Normally she would thank me for the gift i gave her after we parted ways like that and she opened it. But this time she didn't. I guess she didn't like the gift i gave her this time. I had asked my brother's opinion on the gift i gave her. He said it looked nice and was pretty expensive for a blouse. But the price is something i could normally afford to gift a male friend too.
Sometimes she does seem nice but other times she does seem cold. That's why i am a bit torn and hesitant to go all out i guess. I'm not sure if we would really get along if we had a serious relationship. Physically i'm not that attracted to her, but she does look cute sometimes. What i appreciate about her is how she seems to tolerate me despite all my shortcomings. Maybe she's just keeping her temper in check and not showing it. She's still friendly with me when we meet. She seems patient with me and doesn't mind talking to me when we meet.
I do sometimes worry on how she can be cold to me sometimes. When she doesn't message me. And sometimes wonder if she only likes me for what i can buy her in the future?
First I want to preface my reply by saying that firstly I have a cynical or negative bias of viewing people's actions/behaviour. Also, that I can only make judgements based on what you write here so I may be completely wrong in my beliefs.
See again I am cheap so I only buy a few games for my male friends or maybe some alcohol for them as a gift but that's about it. It's nice you have a friend who you can exchange gifts with.
I'll be honest, it sounds like money is definitely on her mind and from the outside it doesn't paint a nice picture of her intentions. If you like buying her stuff and spending money on her, that's fine I guess but I feel like you're being manipulated into spending possibly more money than you normally would spend and perhaps (this is assuming the worst of her) she knows how inexperienced you are and that perhaps you might buy her things. If that is the case then I would consider what she is doing to be manipulative and I would perhaps try matching the amount she spends on you.
I think that line of reasoning that you enjoy her company because she tolerates your shortcomings is not an ideal way to think to be quite honest. I feel like friendships should be a reciprocal thing and that you shouldn't be thankful that she tolerates your behaviour, you should both enjoy each others company.
Reading the thread seems you've known her a long time now. From my perspective I've been so uncomfortable in the past whenever anyone's brought me anything so I can't imagine expecting it or putting pressure on someone to spend money on me when in fact I'd do the complete opposite. From what you've said it doesn't sound like you're dating and even if you were I'd say you'd have to be in a pretty serious relationship to get to the point of expensive gifts. Maybe you could try doing something together that doesn't involve spending money or going to the shops and see how it goes if she isn't interested it might be time to take a step back and only see each other if you have to or try meting her around other people and see if she acts differently. But I do understand not wanting to let things go when you feel you don't have anywhere else to go.
That's ok Ura. I appreciate that you've shared your thoughts and opinions on this. I think it helps to get to see it from other people's perspective too.
Well the blouse i gave her this Christmas cost just as much a video game here. Most items that i think would make a good gift cost around that much here. So i'd probably wager her gift to me would cost roughly around that range as well.
Yeah, sometimes i also get that feeling that money/watches are definitely on her mind. Making me doubt her intentions as well. Whenever we meet up, she'd usually bring up that topic of buying her a watch. Following it up that it was just a joke. I happen to mention this a long time ago to my little sister, and she had nicknamed her the "watch lady". Of course, she also didn't feel it was right.
As for enjoying her company, i don't know if i can say that i do. All we very much did was eat out. She was of course leading much of the conversation as i wasn't really that good at them. I always felt awkward though naturally.
Though there was this one time a couple years back when i accompanied her to watch a brief free concert of her favorite artist. I really wasn't a fan of the artist. So i guess i can't say that i really enjoyed the concert.
Maybe i'm leading her on, as i continue to see her once or twice every year. I dunno. We'd usually meet up in a mall near her place. But sometimes she'd hint at wanting to go somewhere else? Then i'd be ok with that and say we can try going there if you want? If it's a place that's a bit far from her home and requires her to take a bus, i don't think she's ever tried to meet me there. So i'd usually have to pick her up near her place just to go to those places where she can't really just walk to get there.
Silence. Thanks for your feedback on the matter. As for trying other stuff to do, i think i've tried to invite her to watch a movie once or twice in the past. But she runs a small shop with her family, so i guess she's busy with that to go. I think there was a time where she just ignored my invitation and didn't give me an answer. So yeah, doubts come to my mind naturally as to why.
Her silence and the way she responds to me sometimes just discourages me to try to talk to her or meet with her that often. I guess that's also probably why i'm ok with just meeting her once or twice a year.
But there's also an outside factor at work too. My mom knows the girl, and wants me to settle for the girl and get married?! (as i'm not getting any younger.) She visits the girl's shop a few times. And recently, i think my mom talked to the girl and hinted her desire for us to settle down?! My mom really wanted to talk to the girl's mom and set things up. And i told my mom not to do that as i am still not sure and i feel that we're really not that close enough to get to that point of a relationship.


A week ago a friend hosted a private shakuhachi concert by another friend, Zak Braverman. A shakuhachi is a bamboo flute that superficially looks a bit like a recorder, but its sound is very distinctively Japanese. Zak's main skill is in producing a pasta sauce to die for, but this day's event tapped into his minor talent of being one of the best shakuhachi players in the world.
Zak has appeared on my blog many times (such as here playing shakuhachi in an eclectic ensemble), but more often it's his kids Gen and Tamaki that appear.
After playing one piece in the living room, Zak decided to switch to the adjoining washitsu (traditional Japanese style room with tatami grass-mat flooring) for its better acoustics, which is what you see above. Shakuhachi come in a variety of sizes, and Zak used two during the concert; the picture above shows him playing very long one, more suited to some very old traditional pieces.
This next piece is a modern one with a melancholy sound, which I prefer to the piece above because I feel it's more expressive. This is likely because my rough un-artistic ways can't grasp the subtle nuances of art, but in any case, with these poor recordings, there aren't much in the way of nuances to grasp, so take them with a grain of salt.
As I said, Zak is one of the best shakuhachi players in the world, so if Zak and I ever make a proper studio recording that accurately reflects the sound, I'll update these files.
What you're hearing is the mix of the flute sound and the reflected room sound. Try putting the windshield on and recording closer to the flute.
The tunes are still haunting and beautifully played. I love the timbre of them.
What a great thing to hear live in person. I never got to when I lived there. Ahh, this is the sound that I hear in my head when I'm practicing martial arts, or in the shower where I do my best thinking haha. Thanks for the audio clips!


This statistic shows the time spent watching television or video* in the Netherlands 2015 by education level (in minutes per day). As of 2015, people with a high education level watched approximately two hours and 25 minutes (or roughly 155 minutes) of television or video a day in the Netherlands.
* Watching television or video activities include: linear tv, previewing or post watching a television show, streamed, on demand, downloaded or bought video material, other video's e.g. YouTube, pictures or slides.
The source does not provide information about the definition of 'low', 'mid' or 'high' education.


We've rounded up the best pottery centres and ceramic cafes in Coopersale Street in our quest to discover brilliant family attractions and places to visit near you. There are 46 Coopersale Street pottery centres and ceramic cafes to pick from. Alternatively, why not explore some other sports and activities days out nearby, including ice skating and rollerskating, paintballing or ten pin bowling alleys. Find the perfect places to go with your kids and get out on your next adventure!
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Our casita sits on the Bay of Chetemal in the northern part of Belize. It has all of the comforts of home yet the seclusion of remote beach/jungle retreat. You can paddle board in the Caribbean or relax at the infinity pool bar. Excursions down the New River to some Mayan Ruins is only minutes away. There is an on sight restaurant or you have a fully equipped kitchen at your fingertips. Kids are always welcome and we have a full DVD library as well as board games and pool toys.
We are a couple in our 30's/40's with 2 kids 9&10.
We are both entrepreneurs with businesses of our own.
We love adventure and discovering new places.


New details emerge on Block 75, the 9-story 145,000 sq. ft. mixed use building on the corner of NE Couch and MLK at Portland's Burnside Bridgehead. Combining street level retail with flex office space and apartments, the Eastside proposal looks to utilize the highly visible corner with a rather ambitious program. The building is set to contain 8,000 sq. ft. of retail, 60 apartments, and 30,000 sq. ft. of offices all on top of 58 parking spaces. The project only uses the Southern half of the block, with a quarter of the block housing the existing Union Arms Apartments and the last quarter slated for future development.
The exterior design is directly related to the site, according to Works Partnership: "…the program is neutralized and assembled into tubes of space that allows for a plastic response to the sweep of the arterial bridge access that cuts through the development." As discussed before, the area around East Burnside is quickly becoming the best collection of local designed buildings in Portland, and this project looks to add itself to that portfolio. The bundle-of-tubes design will certainly catch the eye down Couch Street, and I'm expecting some excellent cityscape reflections in the off-set glass facade. As the Skylab and Guerrilla Development projects fill in the remaining Bridgehead blocks, this once dead-zone area looks to become one of Portland's greatest places.


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http://crosscutgames.com/wordpress/?page_id=46 but I haven't received word back that they've received the message. I don't know if itch.io needs more than one report for something to happen or more direct contact from the game creators themselves to get that page removed but the longer that page is up the larger the chance more people are going to lose money over a game that is already free. So even though it's no longer a Shrapnel Games game maybe they can aid in getting that page removed faster? I'm also posting this message at the sourceforge RS Open Forum as well.
Ok fellow shrapnelites the offending page has been removed though the Ellis Studios account is still active. I'll check itch.io from time to time to make sure the game isn't re-uploaded. Perhaps Crosscut Games can upload the latest version of the game to that site as a free game just so it can have an official home there?


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Dhyanchand or Sachin Tendulkar - Bharat Ratna Debate
Yesterday, I was part of an interesting conversation on Whatsapp group chat - a group of four friends at different locations discussed the merits of Sachin Tendulkar being awarded the highest civilian award 'Bharat Ratna'.
Though no one disputed the man for being awarded, all of us did express our surprise of him being awarded on the day of his retirement. Personally, I am huge fan of his and I would have waited for at least five years or ten years before bestowing this honour on him.
Now that he has been awarded and thereby the first sportsperson to be recognised with the top civilian award - another topic came up. Why isn't Major Dhyanchand recognised for all this hockey achievements?
How many of us remember Major Dhyanchand? A lot of them do but not as much as Sachin Tendulkar and that's the modern day truth. I try to make sense to myself on why Dhyanchand's legacy is caught in a maze of illusion when compared with Tendulkar.
A friend of mine had illustrated about India in which the legend of Tendulkar took its birth. It was a time in India when people had few TV sets manufactured by handful of companies. There was no satellite television and national television had one channel for the whole of India - which then were customised depending on which region you belonged to. Cricket was edging field hockey slowly by the day and Tendulkar accelerated that process.
That was the India I was born and by the time I was barely six, Tendulkar had made his debut and before I was eight years of age, he had excelled in Pakistan, England, New Zealand and Australia.
Every country loves to have their own set of heroes in any field. The fundamental difference being the nature of fellow countrymen and their reactions. Cricket became the preferred sport and Tendulkar became the hero and much more.
TV sets were on the raise and soon there was cable television with multiple channels - people of India could witness a Indian taken on the best of the teams across the world and excel. Everyone could see Tendulkar bat, or bowl or even field and was well appreciated. There were famous Indian cricketers from the past but none reached out to the common man like the way Sachin did.
Ardent sports fan always found ways to keep in touch with best of sports stories. Which individual or team stories can one think of - purely from Indian sports context in the 90's? Vishwanathan Anand taking on Gary Kasparov for the world title; Leander Paes winning the bronze medal at the Atlanta Olympics comes to my immediate mind. Where was hockey, our national sport? Lost in the past glory and refusing to accept the present.
There were performances by other athletes here and there - none matched the consistency of Tendulkar. Mind you, he was still in his 20's at the turn of millennium and his aura had reached grandly proportions.
The commerce industry was on the increase in the 90's which resulted in the creation of 'Brand Tendulkar' which became a story in itself. One cannot fault a individual if he is getting a raise in his pay because of his performance. His personal life is set as an example for a lot of families in India.
Then came the darkest hour of cricket - the match fixing scandal. Bulk of the senior Indian cricketers were exposed and out of few guys who came out clean - Sachin Tendulkar was hailed as a saint. The year 2000 was very crucial for Indian cricket and to the world cricket in general with few of the cricket fans choosing the dark side of cynicism over a new hope.
There was dirt all around when the exposé took place and Indian cricket had to re-build its image. Cricket in general needed a fresh start. Sachin Tendulkar along with Sourav Ganguly, Rahul Dravid, Anil Kumble, Javagal Srinath, VVS Laxman took up the mantle and took Indian cricket to new heights. Their performance was one of the reasons cricket became and still is one of the heavily invested property in India. Unlike other sports federations in India, development was taken seriously and Indian cricket has never been healthier at the grassroots level.
When you talk about Sachin Tendulkar, he is beyond the statistical world. His personality is strong enough to overlook the petty fights of who's the best cricketer in the world. What does one achieve if he is the best? Will he escape death? Will he cease to become a human being? I am curious to know what does one benefit from being the best. Cricketing wise - he has been a complete player than most of the cricketers in the history of the game. On a personal front though, he is in a stage of infancy without cricket.
What are his next set of challenges?
To understand his two teens at home; help his wife in day-to-day matters; start a new career in development of sports; take up politics; become an entrepreneur or become the recluse he wished to be - the options are plenty.
The opinions will always be divided no matter what and when it comes to Tendulkar both sides of the argument attract tremendous attention. As a cricketer he had to cope with simple expectations multiplied by countless ocean of people from different backgrounds and cultures; he was expected to help Indian win matches and score runs every match. Now what are the new set of expectations?
He had a flawless professional life and personal life thus far - but he knows with each passing day the responsibilities will only increase. It will not be as a player and life outside of cricket field.
People would continue to have expectations more than any athlete in the history of sports. The 22-yards and the cricket field provided the perfect refuge from all the pressures - it was one place where he felt at ease irrespective of the opposition he faced.
As he prepares to lead a life of an ex-cricketer - he is now bestowed with Bharat Ratna and with it comes scrutiny of another level. Such is a life of this persona that he can never lead a simple life. His own talent, extraordinary abilities and discipline have made him to lead this uncommon life in a country of common men.
Give me a worthy guy to succeed and I shall find a cynic who thinks otherwise. And now the debate of Dhyanchand or Sachin Tendulkar is becoming a battle of egos.
Who would benefit from Dhyanchand winning the award? What has been done to Dhyanchand's legacy in the name of National Sports Day in India? What is happening to Indian hockey?
Yes, Indian hockey has won eight Olympic gold medals since the time they made their debut in Amsterdam in 1928. Six gold medals on a trot and the first three involved Dhyanchand - which included the famous victory at the 1936 Berlin Olympics in front of the Nazi regime and Hitler.
What is its relevance now? The last time India won a hockey gold medal was helped by the cold war which saw many of the countries boycotting USSR led Moscow Games. That was in 1980 and my parents didn't even know each other. It is part of history.
I love history but history to me is convoluted. It does not give me the right answers to my questions - it always leaves me with unexplained situations and on top of it all it narrates countless myths when it comes to specific people or events.
We like metaphors because it is soothing, appealing, poetic and dramatic as compared to simple reports or bland narrations. I, like many would get lost in these metaphors created by few writers. For Tendulkar there are plenty of written and visual evidence; on the other hand Major Dhyanchand, sadly very few saw or has been written about him.
The Union Government of India had instituted Dhyanchand lifetime achievement award in 2002. The National stadium which hosted the inaugural Asian Games in 1951 was later renamed as Major Dhyanchand Hockey stadium in New Delhi. The National Sports Day which falls on August 29th of each year also happens to be his birthday.
How many of us remember where he is from? The town he hails from is more popular by a woman patriot by the name of Laxmi Bai. Who can accurately prove which place he was born? Do people know he was an ex-service man who served for the Army in pre-independence and for a decade after independence?
Major Dhyanchand's statue in Jhansi
The famed four hands and four hockey sticks myth of this hockey wizard remains a mystery though it is very much part of Indian sports folklore. He played for pride because he mostly played in the pre-independence era. For independent India, it was all about helping Indian hockey unlike his playing days.
He was short of money towards the end of his life and was unrecognised by nation and at some of the tournaments he went. He died of liver cancer in 1979 in AIIMS in a general ward. Is that the way one treats an icon never mind a potential Bharat Ratna candidate?
Indian hockey and its decline over the years have not helped to elevate Dhyanchand's legacy. The best way to honour according to me would be - To make the national sport, a sport for the nation. Make it a governmental priority through Sports Ministry as BCCI does not need any help from the government funds. India has a lot of space for team sports outside cricket.
Any institution is governed by politics and this aspect is magnified when it concerns Government. Governmental awards over the years have always had political influence in some way or the other. People have different opinions of the same topic and awards are no different.
Why the reluctance to award Dhyanchand, the top honour of India all these days? Why blame Sachin Tendulkar if he is being awarded instead of Dhyanchand. Why should Tendulkar step in and say who deserves the award or not? How does their value legacy diminish by not honouring this award?
Dhyanchand's autobiography 'Goal' starts with the lines "Needless to say I am a common man." Looking at the legacy and upbringing of Tendulkar, he too is a common man. Their achievements in the sports field are uncommon. Their names are, have and will be exploited and used as means to spark debates of all kinds.
Will it silence the debate once in for all if both these sportsmen were awarded jointly? I guess not...
Labels: Bharat Ratna, Cricket, Dhyanchand, Field Hockey, Sachin Tendulkar, Sports Imitates Life
OFFLINE & ONLINE CRICKET
I left India for my Master studies in 2009. The course involved sports but when it came to cricket, it seemed as though it was an alien sport.
Except for few Indians in my batch there was absolutely zero interest on cricket and we were the most recognisable Indians, more than Sachin Tendulkar. This is where it hit me, and quite hard. I was in Switzerland and not in India.
It was on a Sunday morning that year on my way back to the room I got a message from my friend. That was the time when I had a normal mobile phone with no internet - no tabs or smart phones. I had to rely on Wi-Fi connection if I were to be connected online. There was cricket being played and it involved India, but no where I saw the buzz or could find enthusiastic people to discuss about it.
I checked the scores on Cricinfo only to find Tendulkar had hit 163 before he left the field retired hurt. How could I have missed it? I cursed myself and in a state of desperation, I found a remedy. A friend of mine, a cricket enthusiast himself gave me the link to a website where I could watch the highlights. I watched it once, twice and few more times.
When the Indians played New Zealand in the 1st Test at Hamilton, I stayed awake till about 4 am watching Tendulkar construct a brilliant innings of 160. It felt different as I had never watched an innings of his live on a laptop. And earlier in India, I had to wake up early to watch a live match from New Zealand and now I had to sleep late.
Over the course of the year, I watched him score a match winning hundred against Sri Lanka, a mammoth effort against Australia. His 175 at Hyderabad reminded of the desert storm innings when he plundered the Australian attack.
I started watching cricket through my laptop regularly; it reminded me the time when I used to watch and follow cricket with my family, friends or even strangers. Be it at someone's place, or at work or even on a street, cricket was followed religiously and that was the buzz I was missing. Cricket was such a wonderful ice breaker that I started missing the conversations on this sport. Where were the opinionated minds?
After a year of staying and studying in Switzerland, I was back in India on an assignment. I was working late on that evening when I got to know about Sachin's double hundred, the first in ODI's. I was sweating it out on a afternoon when I saw the scoreboard of him scoring a Test double hundred against Sri Lanka, I was busily running to different parts of Delhi when he made another double hundred against Australia and I was chatting with my friend on a cold evening with no TV cable connection when he had scored that 50th Test hundred against South Africa at Centurion. He went on to score one more at Cape Town and I missed that too. To sum it up, I had missed the best phase of Tendulkar's cricketing career in the 21st century. How could I? Why did I not watch all the matches just like the old times?
A couple of weeks before I was to get married, World Cup 2011 had started. I was in Bangalore and didn't want to miss the chance of watching a match live. After struggling for close to six hours, my cousin and I did manage to buy ourselves a ticket each. Tendulkar scored 120 off 115 deliveries and it was his 98th international hundred. It was to be my first World Cup match and as it stands, it was to be the last time I would watch Sachin score a hundred live on the ground.
I didn't watch him take that single at Nagpur which gave him his 99th hundred. Like many others, I too waited for him to score his 100th hundred. It wasn't to be in the World Cup, not when he toured England, not when West Indies toured India or when Indians toured Down Under.
I was in Jaipur working for IPL and a meeting was scheduled to discuss about the preparations for the upcoming tournament. As we went inside the meeting room, there were about 4-5 gentlemen representing Rajasthan cricket hooked on to TV. Sachin was batting and was close to the landmark.
My heart wanted to stay and watch him score that hundred, while my professional head wanted me to go ahead with the meeting. There was a visible reluctance among many to go ahead with the meeting and even my manager wanted to stay back as he didn't want to ruin the joy of watching Sachin getting to his 100th hundred. In fact, he too was keen to watch the proceedings on TV. He was an ex-cricketer himself and he knew his statistics quite well.
The next 15- 20 minutes went by and finally the moment had arrived. It was not one of his best hundreds and Tendulkar would agree to it. But the burden was lifted. A huge sigh of relief and what next was left for this cricketer? Since then he has announced his retirement in both ODI's and in the T20 format. Now, he is bowing out of the game in less than ten days time.
I was not in Kolkata and also was not to be in Mumbai for his 200th Test. Like it was four years ago, I caught all the action on the laptop and by this time I have made few friends with whom I can talk about cricket here in Switzerland.
Life as a cricket fan is a lot easier these days, thanks to the internet and smart phones. I can follow live scores, catch the highlights, watch live cricket or even archive videos.
As I prepare to watch his final few moments in international cricket I know for sure, irrespective of where I reside and what's going on in my life, a glimpse of a Tendulkar's innings will remind me of those random memories of mine associated with cricket.
I put my feet on the lake and the water gushes away. I am not the same person anymore as the water which gushed my feet is long gone replaced by a fresh stream. Cricket will not be the same to me.
Labels: Cricket, Indian Cricket, Sachin Tendulkar, Sports Imitates Life, Test Cricket
Lost Track: Circuits of the Yore XVII - Sebring International Raceway, United States Grand Prix
Jack Brabham pushing his Cooper Climax to the finish line enroute to claiming his first world championship
This year Austin will be hosting its second championship race since it made its debut last year. The Circuit of Americas thereby became the tenth venue in United States to host a F1 race; most by one country when you consider F1 is not really a commercial winner in this part of the world. Barring Glen Watkins, Long Beach or Indianapolis - the rest of the circuits came with a lot of promise which were to be short lived. How long will the current track survive?
In this edition of Lost Track, we go back a little over fifty years to the 50's when F1 in its world championship embodiment first raced in North America.
On 13th September 1959 - Stirling Moss scored an emphatic victory in his privately entered Cooper-Climax courtesy of R.R.C Walker racing team. This was his second straight win for the Rob Walker's team and crucially the victory put Stirling Moss along with Tony Brooks on a mathematical chance to win the championship - which at that point the resilient Jack Brabham was leading. Moss was geared up - but he had to wait for three months for the final round of the championship to begin.
Since its inception, the F1 World championships always had a round held in United States of America in the form of Indianapolis 500. Though the points counted towards the championships, rarely did any of non-US drivers took part. In fact there was none from outside the states who took part for the first nine years running.
The 1959 title contenders - Jack Brabham, Tony Brooks and Stirling Moss had three months to plan and prepare for this momentous occasion. Sebring Raceway, located in Florida was chosen to be the venue hosting the F1 drivers and teams from across the globe.
That year was significant for many other reasons too. The most relevant and important was the introduction of rear-engine chassis designed F1 cars. This idea was that of the visionary John Cooper; a innovation which made him an auto racing legend instantly which changed the way modern cars were built at the top level. Jack Brabham benefitted immensely from this revolutionary design; though it was not a dominating performance, it still gave him a lead of 5.5 points going in to the final round.
Sebring is well-known even today for its endurance races. Remember 12 hours of Sebring? The track included a part of former military base which was used to train the World War II US Army Air forces.
The track saw its racing avatar courtesy of Alec Ulmann, who brought his love for automobiles to United States when he emigrated from Russia. When the local racers were looking for a place to race he organized the airbase at Sebring, Florida to be the race track. The inaugural 12 Hours of Sebring was held in 1952 which became quite popular and was one of the considerations taken into account when Sebring was later chosen to host the first Formula One Grand Prix event in United States. The race was initially lined up a day after the endurance event in March - however with logistical issues, the F1 event was postponed to December to be the final round of the season.
Stirling Moss, the driver in form took the pole position ahead of Jack Brabham and Tony Brooks. Brooks was later pushed to 4th after it was discovered quite late that American Harry Schnell had the third fastest time. Despite caustic protests, mainly by Ferrari there was no change in the order and Brooks was to start from the second row in 4th place.
The race was also significant as for the first time, most of the European cars were to showcase in a F1 competition held in United States. This wasn't any ordinary car shows or exhibitions. F1 was the world's premier racing event and comparisons were made between the European machinery to the American style of racing.
A man with a mission Moss, having finished second in the past few years of the championship was hoping for a victory and Brabham to finish outside of second place. It was a daunting task considering both raced with similar configured Cooper-Climax cars, though for different teams. Moss was out of his blocks quickly at the start of the race and his dream of becoming a world champion came to an halt on lap 6 when he retired due to a transmission failure.
Unless Brooks was to win and Brabham to finish third or lower, the title was very much for Brabham's to lose. Brabham took over the lead from Moss after the latter's retirement and led the race till about 500 yards before the finish. His car halted and he got out of the car - started pushing his Cooper Climax which was permitted in those times, managed to cross the finish line in fourth.
His team-mate, the young Kiwi Bruce McLaren was the winner and became the youngest F1 race winner (if you exclude Tony Ruttman's Indy 500 victory which counted towards the championships).
First time winner Bruce McLaren greeted by one of the models
The 2nd place was taken by Moss's team mate Maurice Trintignant and Tony Brooks crucially came in third. He finished as the runner-up of the 1959 championships overtaking Moss in the overall standings.
His fourth place finish was enough to give Jack Brabham his first crown. Cooper-Climax also became the first non-manufacturer to win the Constructor's championship which was significant considering it gave rise to the 'Garagistes' mainly from Britain, who were to play a prominent role in the evolution of this sport.
The race was exciting - but it was a financial disaster for the organiser and promoter Alec Ulmann. Going by the audience who were to witness the endurance races held previously on the same track, the total count was appalling. In addition, there was a small problem few teams faced post race. The cheques issued to the winners bounced. To save the name and face of American racing, Charles Moran and Briggs Cunningham, two big names in America racing circles personally covered the expenses to the tune of $15,000 and make amends.
Sebring turned out to be a one-off event for F1. In 1960, the same promoter moved the race to Riverside Raceway in California.
In today's scenario, the costs of hosting an F1 event is high and unless Americans accept F1 alongside the other forms of motorsports - I am afraid Circuit of Americas will be abandoned just like its predecessors. United States need F1 or is it the other way around?
Track Photo Courtesy - allf1.info
Labels: 1959, Bruce McLaren, Circuit of Americas, Cooper Climax, F1, Formula One, Indianapolis, Jack Brabham, John Cooper, Rob Walker, Sebring, Sports Imitates Life, Stirling Moss, Tony Brooks, USA
Abu Dhabi: Where it all Began- The success story of Red Bull and Vettel
Image Courtesy - Telegraph.co.uk
After clinching his fourth consecutive driver's world championship, Sebastian Vettel is undoubtedly the king of F1, at least for the moment. There might be couple of drivers currently who are more talented than him; however they will have to wait or come up with something out of the extraordinary to beat him or even come closer to him.
Fernando Alonso came close last year and in 2010 with his Ferrari, reliable but lacked the final punch which was so badly needed to beat Vettel and his Red Bull or whatever the fancy names he calls his car. Mark Webber his team-mate had his best chance to win in 2010 and since then he never looked set to beat Vettel, while Raikkonen excelled in few opportunities where Lotus looked good.
The race now shifts to the Middle Eastern world, Abu Dhabi. A race amidst the twilight on the streets of this Emirate capital welcomes the new world champion albeit a familiar face who previously has won this race twice including the inaugural race in 2009. The last of his two victories is a significant one, the one which wrote the most defining chapter in the legacy of Vettel's racing career and gave him the momentum to move to another level.
It was the evening of 14th November 2010; four drivers came into this season finale having a chance, a mathematical one to win the driver's title. Fernando Alonso with 246 points, Mark Webber with 238 points, Vettel with 231 points and Hamilton with 222 points, which was a record in itself. Never has F1 seen a four-way battle for the top spot. Ferrari and Alonso were confident and so was Mark in Red Bull. It was Vettel's second year with the Red Bull and was not yet the senior driver of the team while Hamilton had nothing really to lose.
In one of the pre-race press conference, Vettel was asked – "You are leading the race, Webber is in second place, Alonso in third and the race would be finishing. What would be your behaviour Vettel?" The wonder kid from Germany smiled, paused and answered in a calm manner – "I was asked a similar question at the last race. It is just Thursday guys, if we ever get to that situation, we'll see"
All the title contenders were placed in top five after qualifying. Vettel and Hamilton occupied the front two positions while Alonso and Webber were to start from second and third row respectively.
The race started and by the end of lap one safety car was called to slow the pace while the track marshals removed the wreckage of Michael Schumacher's Mercedes and Liuzzi's Force India. The race resumed its normal and usual pace after lap five with the top five being Vettel, Hamilton, Button, Alonso and Webber in that order. Alonso was to win the championship if the race finished in that order. He looked set to do what 'Raikkonen' had done in 2007 by winning the championship with Ferrari in his first year.
Drama unfolded on lap 11 when Mark Webber was called on to pits. Why? He was getting stuck behind Alonso and this way he could make up some ground and challenge for the lead or was there some other reason?
Ferrari race strategists keeping a closer eye on Webber were planning to counter this with their own strategy. Alonso was the fastest driver on the circuit before he was called to pit on lap 15. Was the call to pit as a result to keep Webber in check or to replace the degradation of softer tyres on Alonso? Did they have a good look at other drivers on track and their strategies before calling him in? Surely, they would have factored all this considering it was going to be a one-pit stop strategy?
Alonso re-joined the track in 12th position and ahead of Webber and the pit strategy worked. More importantly, he was behind a long chain of cars that had already pitted and would not be required to pit another time. On lap 24 Vettel pitted and the pit-stop was pitch perfect, reminiscent of Ferrari's ruthless stop at Suzuka in 2000 which gave Michael the championship.
Vettel came ahead of Kobayashi and Kubica with clear track ahead of him. Hamilton overtook the Sauber and Renault in pursuit of victory while Alonso was stuck behind the other Renault of Petrov. With each lap down, one could see the disappointment in the faces of Ferrari fans, their crew and Andrea Stella in particular, the race engineer for Alonso who was heard constantly delivering motivational messages lap after lap on the radio. It was just one of those days where things could go all wrong and it did for the team from Marenello. Those despairing faces dressed in red appeared even more hopeless and all they could expect was for some retirements at the front.
On the other hand, the team of Red Bull were anxious, knowing Webber's chance had dwindled and Vettel's victory would mean nothing unless Alonso finished outside of top five. They waited with fingers crossed.
Vettel crossed the line and won the race by 10 seconds. He was not announced as the World Champion immediately and instead he was asked to hold till they could confirm the finishing order. It was looking good and so Vettel waited patiently while he heard out the messages from his race engineer on the radio. "Hamilton P2, Button P3, there's another two cars coming on turn 15 and 16, Rosberg P4, Kubica P5 and.......Der Meister"
Tears were all I could sense hearing Vettel react to being the World Champion. Yes, he became the World Champion and it was unbelievable. He led the championship for the first time that season and what a day to have done that.
As the German national anthem played, my mind could only think of that Sunday evening in Japan 10 years before this race. A German by the name of Michael Schumacher was in tears of joy winning his 3rd driver's championship and the first of his five with Ferrari. His junior had arrived on the big stage.
Vettel in his younger days with this hero Michael Schumacher
In 2008, it was Hamilton who had become the youngest World Champion and now the world was to see another youngster claim the throne. Since that day, he has gone on to win three more titles.
On 3rd November 2013, Vettel will race as a four-time World champion on the Yas Island track. He will be fully aware of the day on this track which gave him the momentum to surge ahead and stamp his authority on the track.
Next year with the rule changes, return of turbo engines and Ferrari having a powerful driver's line-up, it promises to be an exciting season. Will Vettel be crowned for the five time come Abu Dhabi next year? I don't know and honestly even Red Bull doesn't know. What they do know is that it is all theirs to lose. But for now, they will race in Abu Dhabi knowing this is where it all began, the legacy of Vettel and Red Bull in particular.
Labels: 2010, Abu Dhabi, Alonso, F1, Ferrari, Hamilton, Michael Schumacher, Raikkonen, Red Bull, Sports Imitates Life, Vettel, Webber, World Champion
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Division Chief, Endocrinology
Yale School of Medicine seeks applications and nominations for the next Chief of the Section of Endocrinology & Metabolism
Cody Futch
http://www.merritthawkins.com/candidates/job-search/job-details/new-haven-ct-academic-chief-internal-medicinemetabolism-endocrinology-diabetes-1542140/?id=-1759591071
Internal Medicine:Metabolism, Endocrinology & Diabetes
The Yale School of Medicine Department of Internal Medicine is seeking an academic leader eligible for appointment at the Professor level to serve as its next Chief of the Section of Endocrinology & Metabolism. Located in New Haven, Connecticut, Yale University is home to 12 professional schools in addition to the medical school. The School of Medicine was founded in 1810 and has grown into one of the world's leading centers for biomedical research, advanced clinical care, and medical education.
The incoming Chief of the Section of Endocrinology & Metabolism will lead a team of 44 nationally recognized ladder track and research scientist faculty in addition to a large team of support staff. In addition to providing clinical services at Yale School of Medicine and Yale New Haven Hospital, the section provides inpatient and outpatient clinical care at the VA Connecticut Healthcare System. Along with providing care for the full range of endocrine disorders, the Section's multidisciplinary clinics include the Clinical Diabetes Center, Bone Center, and the Multidisciplinary Neoplasia Clinic, which includes an active Thyroid Cancer Program.
The Section of Endocrinology and Metabolism has been continuously funded by the NIH for over 50 years and currently has over $13 million in annual funding. Areas of research focus include Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes and mineral and bone metabolism. Research covers the full spectrum of clinical, basic, and translational studies; and the faculty collaborates in interdisciplinary research efforts with Pediatric Endocrinology, Orthopedics, Diagnostic Radiology, Molecular and Cellular Physiology, the Yale Cancer Center and investigators from across the world. The Section includes four research centers including the NIH-funded Diabetes Research Center, the Yale Center for Musculoskeletal Disorders, the Yale Center for X-Linked Hypophosphatemia, and the Yale Mouse Metabolic Phenotyping Center. From an educational perspective, the section hosts 20 research postdoctoral fellows and six clinical fellows in one of the nation's oldest Endocrinology fellowship programs, which has been supported continuously by the NIH for the past 70 years.
Successful applicants for the Section Chief position will be leaders in research, education and patient care with a passion for mentoring junior faculty. Reporting to the Chair of Internal Medicine, the Section Chief will work to develop a strategic vision for research, education, and clinical care that will advance the tradition of excellence within each academic mission. The Chief will oversee the budget, clinical productivity, and all financial and quality metrics within the Section in addition to overseeing the recruitment of outstanding faculty and staff.
Review of applications will begin immediately and will continue until the position is filled. Interested candidates should contact Cody Futch for an initial confidential exploratory call. After deciding to apply formally, the application link is: http://apply.interfolio.com/69384
Yale University is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer and encourages applications from women, persons with disabilities, covered veterans, and members of underrepresented minority groups.
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Easter Sunday is a perfect long weekend to indulge in Brunch, Lunch and Loved ones. The Wonder List has scoured London to bring you the very best in fine dining, events and of course the most indulgent chocolate eggs that money can buy. We have also been talking to some of the most handsome, talented mixologists in town so you can get your cocktail kicks.
Celebrate Easter with the family with a special three course Champagne brunch at The Northall on Easter Sunday and Easter Monday, April 01 and 02, 2018. Classic favourites from the British kitchen will be served in a charming setting with live jazz music to set the mood. Dining children can also join a special Easter Egg Hunt at 2 pm.
For a truly special Easter Sunday, Nobu Shoreditch will be hosting an extra-indulgent bottomless brunch, available exclusively on Sunday. Alongside the regular weekend brunch menu of four courses served family-style and unlimited access to the Brunch Bar, offering a variety of classic Nobu dishes, guests will be treated to an exclusive Miso Lamb, created especially for the holiday.
For £75 Indulge in two hours off family-style dishes, unlimited access to Brunch and Dessert Bar, and unlimited Prosecco, Aperol Spritz or Lychee Elderflower Martini.
A lavish buffet, live music and limitless Champagne! The legendary brunch ranges from fresh pastries, continental charcuterie and salads to a selection of main dishes from traditional Sunday roasts to delicious seafood.
Up your Easter feasting game with London's first ever Hot Cross Bunidict. Available at sister restaurants Riding House Café in Fitzrovia, Rail House Café in Victoria and Village East on Bermondsey Street, the memorable special, priced £7.50, tops a toasted hot cross bun with a poached egg, Swiss chard and Hollandaise sauce. The ultimate balance of sweet and savoury, it's an eggceptional way to celebrate the Easter period.
Try it alongside the What's Up Doc carrot cocktail (£11), made with dark rum, carrot shrub, grapefruit and garnished with a physalis, to look like bunny ears. Riding House Café, Rail House Café and Village East have become synonymous with all-day dining and brunch.
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Change is already comin'
::cue up Sam Cooke in the background, "A Change Is Gonna Come"::
Remember Lilly Ledbetter's story?
A chastened 111th Congress might give President Obama a chance to make things right, very soon; the House of Representatives already approved the bill:
Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009 – Vote Passed (247-171, 15 Not Voting)
I apologize — I do not have a citation for this next chunk of material (I'm looking):
First Victory for Women and Working Families in the 111th Congress!
"It's a one-two punch for women, that could knock out many pay inequities," said NOW President Kim Gandy as the U.S. House of Representatives passed two bills today that would advance fair pay for women. In a vote of 247-171 the House passed the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act (HR 11) to address the setback delivered by the U.S. Supreme Court last year for women victims of pay discrimination, and in a 256-163 vote they passed the Paycheck Fairness Act (HR 12).Thanks to the leadership of Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), Rosa DeLauro (D-Conn.) and George Miller (D-Calif.), these bills were on the schedule for the opening days of the 111th Congress and serve as an encouraging sign for things to come. Women voted overwhelmingly to elect President-elect Barack Obama, who said during his presidential campaign that he would make pay equity a priority in his administration. Women voters also helped to elect a Congress that is more women-friendly than it has been in over a decade. We have worked for and have been waiting for this day in the House.
The Ledbetter legislation, which was blocked in the Republican-led Senate last year, will essentially reverse the Supreme Court decision that requires workers to file charges on a pay discrimination claim within the first six months of receiving their first discriminatory paycheck. The Court's decision in Ledbetter v. Goodyear gave employers the go-ahead to discriminate as long as they weren't caught in the first six months after the onset of their illegal actions.
The companion bill, the Paycheck Fairness Act, which did not even make it to the Senate floor last year, closes loopholes that allow employers to pay men and women discriminatorily and provides consequences.
"NOW has been working since our founding over 40 years ago to end wage discrimination against women. We celebrate this day and look forward to the Senate's upcoming vote on both bills," said Gandy. The bills will go as a package to the Senate and Majority Leader Harry Reid has promised that "pay equity" legislation is at the top of his to-do list.
http://www.now.org/press/01-09/01-09.html
Background on Lilly's case:
http://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/05-1074.ZS.html
Your votes for a new Congress and a new party in the White House appear to have had some effect "business as usual."
See an Obama campaign video on Ledbetter, below.
(See more, here.)
Tip of the old scrub brush to Kathryn and Judith.
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Go get the lesson plans on presidential inaugurations NOW!
One more time, I gotta say that the lesson plans from the Bill of Rights Institute on inauguration is top notch. I've shared it around our department, and several people are downloading it, planning to put the stuff to use. It's a good, solid lesson plan, it looks like something that will engage students nicely, and it's on a topic that could not possibly be more timely.
But the free download goes away tonight! Go get the thing NOW!
The Bill of Rights Institute includes these lesson plans as a no-cost download with Being an American: Exploring the Ideals that Unite Us, Second Edition. That book is cheap, too — just $19.95 — so you can pay a bit, and still get this great lesson plan, plus a whole bunch of other good stuff.
But I'm an even bigger cheapskate, and I want this stuff to be ready to use on January 21, when our kids start the next semester. The hours are ticking away.
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"I swear (or affirm)": Ready for the inauguration?
Here's a map that should be more viewed in America, but a map which has been much overlooked in the post-election euphoria, or post-election gloom. It's the map of electoral college results, still showing Republicans in a Soviet/Maoist red, and Democrats in blue:
Electoral College results from the 2008 presidential election - American Presidency Project
Note especially the blue dot in Nebraska, around Omaha. Nebraska splits its electoral college votes, giving each congressional district's vote to the elector for the candidate who actually won in that district. Obama won Omaha's district; Nebraska is officially a red and blue state. Maine also allows a split in electors, but this year did not see a split among the electorate.
America is not so red as some claim, even in the electoral college. More states are surrounded by blue states than surrounded by red states.
Perhaps it's time to find other ways to color these maps, so that we cannot so easily speak of a red state/blue state split that does not reflect politics, economics, or much of anything else in America.
Dallas students are out on inauguration day. We can hope our government and history students will glue themselves to the television to watch the ceremony, but we know better than to expect it.
Will you discuss the inauguration in your classes, whatever the subject? Here are some sources you could use:
Bill of Rights Institute lesson plans on the inauguration (free if you download 'em quick, by the end of January 14)
Inaugural addresses, from the American Presidency Project; Kennedy, FDR's first, George W. Bush's first, Lincoln's first, Reagan's first, Washington's first. This is a good site for student projects on history, or government.
The only oath of office prescribed in the Constitution is that for the president (see Article II)
Videos on 25 previous inaugurations (not all featuring the president speaking, of course), from HotChalk
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The M/V WIT Concrete II was built in 1943 by the National Ship Company in Oakland, California. She is a 350ft long bulk carrier that was used for towing in the pacific, primarily for gasoline. The vessel was initially sunk during hurricane Marilyn in 1995, and was again raised by the Army Corps of Engineers and sunk two miles south of Porpoise Rocks, South St Thomas. There is a rarely seen, but resident goliath grouper on this wreck.
The wreck today lies intact and upright, with easy access and swimthroughs in most compartments. Many of the internal fixtures and fittings such as cage-lights, switches and valves remain for viewing, frozen in time. Externally, on the main deck remains the auxiliary steering wheel, as pictured above. The wreck has attracted a great deal of marine life. It is common to encounter large schools of Horse-Eye jacks, Bar Jacks and others. At the bow of the ship there is a large winch type device that has become the home to a cornucopia of reef fish. Lobster have made their home in the crannies and crevices.
Southern Rays lie on the top deck while taking a rest. Nurse Sharks, Barracuda and Sea Turtles frequent this gorgeous site. As you ascend from the sand up to the bow you'll see the wreck has been encrusted in beautiful colored sponges and hard corals. Usually you find several pairs of large French Angelfish swimming among the Gorgonians. When you do your safety stop from the M/V WIT Concrete II, keep your eyes gazing along the sandy bottom for Nurse Sharks and Rays. A truly magnificent shipwreck!