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"It doesn't cost more to have ideas": Architect Mark Rios on launching a fashion line and the latest real estate design trends
"A lot of architects, their work is depressing and mean."
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Nov.November 17, 2017 10:06 AM
By Hannah Miet
Mark Rios (Credit: Rios Clementi Hale Studios)
Mark Rios thinks about fashion when he is driving, and when he's in the shower. The founding partner of the architecture firm Rios Clementi Hale Studios works on his vision while juggling several real estate projects he's designing — from The Row, a massive open-air retail and office project near the Arts District, to the transformation of a 12-acre airport in Santa Monica into a public park.
Rios' first fashion line, "Guillermo," is a stark departure from a stereotypical architect's wardrobe. No black jeans, no black sweaters, and strictly no turtlenecks. The tie-in to Rios' other work lies more in the architecture of the clothing itself — how its form can suit its function.
The Real Deal spoke to Rios about straddling the worlds of architecture and fashion design, and his decision to move the Rios Clementi studio from Larchmont to a football-field-sized bow truss building in Leimert Park, right near the Crenshaw Station stop on the Expo line.
Mark Rios' fashion line (Credit: Rios Clementi Hale Studios)
What's the story behind this line?
My dad [Guillermo Rios, a surgeon raised by rancheros] is from Mexico so he wore guayabera shirts, the polo shirt of Mexico. The shirt was for workers in the fields to carry fruit but they could continue to wear it later to go to weddings. Like architecture, it transforms in use. So I wanted to design a shirt like that but for contemporary needs.
How did the design come together?
The seamstress was making mockups and changing the pattern and we went through about 15 iterations of where the pockets lay. There are similarities in designing the garments and designing a building. I can't be set on my first idea — the idea evolves.
What's been the craziest part of the process?
Sometimes what we don't know can be good because you have this freedom to try — we are not entrenched in the fashion history of what you can and can't do and what sells and what doesn't sell. There are some really intense colors, orange and fuschia. The colors range from calm to joyous.
Your architectural projects also range from very minimalist to very colorful…
Yes. I want our work to be really affirmative and joyous. It is the opposite of condescending. A lot of architects, their work is depressing and mean. I want our public plazas and buildings to be positive and make people stop for a minute. We don't want to be too esoteric. You don't have to be an intellectual to get it.
What real estate trends are you seeing that some of our readers might not know about?
People are looking farther out. We just moved [Rios Clementi Hale Studios] to the Crenshaw area and the quality of the housing stock and cultural diversity is really fantastic. As L.A. becomes more dense, people are exploring more options near transit. If you look at the Expo line, Santa Monica is expensive and Culver City is [getting there]. Crenshaw is most rapidly changing because it is at the intersection of [the train to] LAX so it is a crossroads of the city. It has amazing architectural context and trees. The view from the Crenshaw hills is more beautiful — it's like being in Hong Kong. It is better to be outside of the city looking at the city.
How do you approach being new to an area that is changing?
We are trying to be observant and quiet and watch and get to know the neighborhood and learn its history.
What do you loathe most about L.A. architecture?
Buildings without ideas. I don't care if I like the idea, just that it has one — a voice, something to contribute. It is so depressing to drive down a street and see banal buildings. It doesn't cost more to have ideas.
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The Idea That the Fed Is 'Independent' Is Absurd
By Robert P. Murphy
President Donald Trump sparked controversy — as is his wont — when he recently told CNBC that he was "not thrilled" with the Federal Reserve's announced hikes in short-term interest rates, which he claimed would hinder the economic expansion for which his administration had worked so hard. "I'm letting them [the Fed] do what they feel is best," he added, but this assurance was not enough to prevent journalists and policy experts from pronouncing Trump's remarks as unprecedented interference with the central bank's independence.
It may be unusual for a president to openly voice such criticism, but it wouldn't be the first time one has pressured the Federal Reserve for short-term political gain. In 1965, President Lyndon Johnson considered firing then-Fed Chairman William McChesney Martin, but upon learning this would probably be illegal, he opted instead to dress down the recalcitrant central bank chief at his Texas ranch. By Martin's later account, a heated argument erupted that resulted in the president shoving him against a wall. According to financial journalist Sebastian Mallaby, as LBJ pushed Martin around the room, he yelled, "Boys are dying in Vietnam, and Bill Martin doesn't care."
Better known is President Richard Nixon's tape-recorded collaboration with Fed Chairman Arthur Burns, Martin's replacement, who maintained an easy-money policy to stimulate the economy before the 1972 election, which contributed to Tricky Dick's landslide victory and fueled price inflation for the rest of the decade. In terms of the resulting capital destruction and economic dislocations, this episode is one of modern U.S. history's greatest object lessons about the risks of executive power reaching beyond its constitutional authority.
For another example showing that Trump's behavior is nothing new, consider that President George H. W. Bush had a running public dispute with then-Fed Chair Alan Greenspan over monetary accommodation. Bush would later blame "The Maestro" for his 1992 reelection loss.
Far from being unthinkable, the idea of government officials manipulating monetary policy for political gain is so intuitive that economists have a name for it: the political business cycle. The classic model was published in 1975 by Yale University economics professor William Nordhaus. For most countries that he analyzed, Nordhaus found no smoking gun proving political interference with the central-bank policymaking, but he concluded that it appeared the United States had a very politicized business cycle.
Nordhaus looked at 10 "before and after" election periods covering five U.S. election cycles. For nine of those 10 periods, the unemployment rate matched his model's prediction: Joblessness fell before the election and rose afterward. This pattern is exactly what one would expect if elected officials exercised discretion over the timing of the economy's booms and busts. If the economic fluctuations were due to random chance, the probability that they would coincide with the observed pattern would be very small, only slightly above 1 percent.
Although intuitive, the simple predictions of a "political business cycle" model didn't perform as well in the two decades following Nordhaus' seminal work. One refinement was to assume politicians only lean on the central bank to loosen up before an election if it seemed they would otherwise be likely to lose; an incumbent who was confident of reelection wouldn't take the risk of goosing the economy for short-term gain but having to paying a political price for it during the next term. (For details, see Kenneth Schultz's 1995 article in the British Journal of Political Science.)
Fortunately, hyper-refined economic models aren't always necessary for showing that political factors influence central bank policy. Indeed, ordinary narrative history can reveal even scandals of the opposite kind: central banks aggressively asserting their political independence at great cost to the economy. Nicholas Biddle was chief of the Second Bank of the United States — the Fed's predecessor — who decided to fight moves by President Andrew Jackson to veto the renewal of the bank's charter and withdraw Treasury deposits from the bank. A champion of hard money, Jackson said the central bank was a political tool that served the monied elites at the expense of ordinary people. .... Read the rest of this article at The Fiscal Times
The Fed Has Created Stagnant Wages In An Age of Plenty
For the vast majority of people, wages have been stagnant since the 1970's. What happened in 1971? Well, that was the year that the U.S. dropped what was left of the gold standard. The major beneficiaries of that fateful decision have been the politically-connected and crony 1%.
The Torture Of Assange: A Blight On The US Justice System
Wikileaks founder and chief editor Julian Assange has been in solitary confinement in the Ecuadorian embassy for more than six years. Though the original charges have been dropped against him, he remains in the Embassy for fear of being extradited to the US for prosecution. His "crime"? Publishing things the government does not want us to know. It is past time for Assange to be freed.
"How To Win A Grassroots Media Rebellion" - Caitlin Johnstone At Ron Paul Institute Conference
The mainstream media and its partners in government want to silence any non-regime voices. Australian renegade blogger joins the Ron Paul Institute's August 18th Washington conference to tell us how we can fight back!
UN Sees War Crimes In Yemen...But Mattis Vows Continued War Support
While the UN has found what it believes may be war crimes in the three plus year Saudi-led attack on Yemen, the US government still maintains that its role in helping guide Saudi attacks actually saves lives rather than takes them. Isn't it time to stand up to the Saudis and their partners in crime?
South Korea Seeks Peace With North: Will US Sanction Seoul?
President Trump's resident neocons, chiefly Mike Pompeo at State and National Security Advisor John Bolton, are determined to scuttle any moves toward peace with North Korea. With this week's cancellation of a Pompeo trip to Pyongyang, will they succeed in derailing Trump's big peace initiative?
Turkey Now, America Later?
President Trump recently imposed sanctions on Turkey to protest the Turkish government's detention of an American pastor. Turkey has responded by increasing tariffs on US exports. The trade war is being blamed for the collapse of Turkey's currency, the lira. While the sanctions may have played a role, Turkey's currency crisis is rooted in the Turkish government's fiscal and (especially) monetary policies.
In the past seven years, Turkey's central bank has tripled the money supply and pushed interest rates down to 4.5 percent. While Turkey's government did not adopt Ben Bernanke's proposal to drop money from helicopters, Turkish politicians have taken advantage of easy money policies to increase subsidies for key voting blocs and special interests.
The results of the Turkish government's inflation-fueled spending binge are not surprising to anyone familiar with Austrian economics or economic history. Turkey is now plagued with huge deficits, a collapsing currency, and a looming economic crisis, making it the next candidate for a European Union or Federal Reserve bailout.
Turkey's combination of low interest rates, money creation, and massive government spending to "stimulate" the economy parallels the policies the US government has pursued for the past ten years. Without drastic changes in fiscal and monetary policies, economic trouble in America is around the corner.
The very large and growing federal debt will cause a major crisis as the government's debt burden will be unsustainable. Instead of cutting spending or raising taxes, politicians can be expected to pressure the Federal Reserve to do their dirty work for them via inflation. We may even see the Fed "experiment" with negative interest rates, which would punish Americans for saving. The monetization of the federal debt will erode the dollar's purchasing power and decimate middle-and-working-class Americans who are already seeing any gains in their incomes eaten away by inflation.
If we are lucky, the next Fed-caused downturn will cause only a resurgence of 1970s-style stagflation. The more likely scenario is the type of widespread economic chaos not seen in America since the Great Depression. The growth of cultural Marxism, the widespread entitlement mentality, and the willingness of partisans of various sides to use force against their political opponents suggests that this economic crisis will result in civil unrest that will be used to justify new crackdowns on individual liberty.
Those who understand the causes of, and cures for, our current predicament have two responsibilities. First, prepare a plan to protect your family when the crisis occurs. Second, do all you can to spread the truth in hopes the liberty movement reaches critical mass so it can force Congress to make the changes necessary to avert disaster.
Since the crisis will result in a rejection of the dollar's world reserve currency status, individuals should consider alternatives such as gold and other precious metals. Restoring a free-market monetary system should be a priority for the liberty movement. Other priorities include ending our interventionist foreign policy, cutting spending in all areas, rolling back the surveillance state, protecting all civil liberties, and auditing (and ending) the Federal Reserve. If we do our jobs, we can build a society of peace, prosperity, and liberty atop the ashes of the welfare-warfare state.
Another False Flag Gas Attack For Syria? Bolton Warns Of Massive US Response
As the Syrian military prepares to re-take Idlib province and end years of al-Qaeda control over the area, Trump's National Security Advisor John Bolton warns that the Syrian government may try another gas attack. The neocons are not ready to admit defeat in Syria quite yet. Will the late John McCain's jihadist allies in Syria stage an attack and wait for the US military to act as their air force?
'Battlefield America The War on the American People': John Whitehead at RPI Media & War Conference
Rutherford Institute President John Whitehead warns us about the greatest threat to our freedoms and our way of life: an increasingly militarized government at all levels in the United States. This speech is from the Ron Paul Institute's 2018 Media & War conference on August 18th in Washington, DC.
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A Scottish fishing leader will urge France and Britain that it is a time for calm, rational discussion and peaceful resolution, not conflict at sea next week.
Fishing industry officials from France and Britain will try to strike a new deal on dredging for scallops next week following violent skirmishes in the Channel.
Last Tuesday, French vessels rammed British trawlers off the coast of Normandy, hurling projectiles and insults in a dispute which erupted after a previous agreement broke down.
The industry representatives from France and the UK will meet in London on Wednesday and French government officials would also attend, said Dimitri Rogoff.
French and British fishing organisations negotiated an agreement each summer under which the UK fleets do not start scallop dredging in the Baie de Seine before the French, in exchange for part of the French fishermen's dredging permits. But small British vessels were excluded from that agreement.
The French say the British have undermined the spirit of the deal by sending more and more small vessels. In protest, the French have not signed any agreement this year.
British fisherman face losing access to EU waters after next year's Brexit unless a deal is made.


Intravenous EDTA chelation therapy has been shown to benefit the body in many different ways. Here are some examples: removal of calcium from arteries and veins, removal of heavy metals (lead, mercury, arsenic etc..), increase in cellular energy production, lowering of the blood pressure and improvement of many metabolic functions. This is an extremely safe and effective treatment when administered properly and with the necessary periodic examinations. There are a few measures that when followed, help minimize the risk of side effects, complications and general discomfort.
After every 5-10 chelation treatments, a blood sample from you will be drawn and sent to a lab for routine chemistry testing. This is done for your safety so that any possible negative effects of the infusions on your kidneys, liver, blood etc.. can be determined and appropriately dealt with.
After every 1-5 chelation treatments, a urine sample from you will be collected and tested. This is done to monitor general kidney function.
Prior to every infusion, an assistant will measure your weight, temperature, blood pressure and heart rate. If you are not feeling well that day for any reason, or your health has negatively changed since the last chelation treatment, or you experience some negative signs or symptoms during the treatment, please report any and all concerns to the available clinic staff.
After every 5th chelation infusion, two consecutive "Mineral Replacement" IV's will be administered in place of the routine chelation IV's. Since the chelating process does remove some "good nutrients" as well as "bad" ones, intravenous replacement prevents significant mineral deficiencies from occurring. Lowered mineral status symptoms can begin with leg cramps, fatigue, weakness, twitching and poor wound healing.
Further to point #4, it is mandatory that you orally supplement the appropriate vitamins and minerals. These nutrients are best purchased from our clinic pharmacy so that the potency, quantity and quality can be monitored. Please advise the staff when refills of the supplements are required and do so before you actually run out.
On the day of the chelation treatment do not take any minerals or multi-vitamins containing minerals in them. The chelation infusion will only "flush" many of them out. It is okay to resume oral mineral supplementation the next morning and this must be continued on non-chelation treatment days. Vitamins by themselves, without minerals, can be taken throughout the therapy at any time.
It is highly recommended that you bring a snack along with you to consume during the chelation treatment. Again, non-sweet, high protein foods are more advisable as they reduce hypoglycemic tendencies.
Sleeping during an infusion is not permitted. It would be difficult for the staff to differentiate between your eyes being closed because you have fallen asleep or because you have passed out.
If you need to use the bathroom, please ask one of the staff for assistance.
It is not uncommon to have vein irritation from the IV needle &/or solution. If you find your hand/arm becoming sore or achey during the treatment, mention that to one of the staff. A hot pack or repositioning of the needle may be all that is required to remedy the problem. Bruising at the needle site after needle removal is not unusual. This can be prevented by compressing the site firmly with a cotton ball for 4-6 minutes after needle removal. Patients on blood thinners, aspirin or steriods may bruise more then usual.
There is magnesium in the IV solution. Magnesium can cause a warm, flushing feeling, relaxation and tiredness. These symptoms are not related to magnesium toxicity. The tiredness can last for several hours post treatment. Generally it is advised that some one else drive you home.
Exercise enhances circulatory health and compliments the chelation treatments. Aerobic activities performed 3-5 times weekly significantly improve the heart, lung and muscles, not to mention the mood, energy and brain function. So do it.
Smoking is absolutely prohibited during chelation therapy. It counteracts much of the benefit this treatment is trying to accomplish. Ask for help and kick the addiction now.
If you are overweight, make a commitment, take charge and do what it takes to lose the extra weight. Eat healthy, exercise regularly and be consistent. We can help you with your metabolism if need be. Obesity is a major risk factor for almost everything and automatically determines the need for more chelation treatments then usual to get the same effect.
Do not stop taking any medication you have been prescribed by your MD unless okayed by Dr. Swetlikoff and/or the prescribing physician. Doing so may be counter productive and dangerous. On the other hand, please advise Dr. Swetlikoff when there are changes made to the current medical prescriptions you are taking.
A course of treatments usually consists of 30 IV infusions. Some patients will require more if their situation warrants it. Follow-up treatments are best maintained at one infusion every 4-5 weeks thereafter. This continues the therapeutic effects.
During the chelating process your condition may benefit from other examinations and therapies. What ever is helpful to your assessment, monitoring or therapeutic success will be suggested to you.
Chelation therapy is an investment in (time & money) into your own health. Your diet, lifestyle and behavior directly influence the success of this therapy. Only you have control over these factors. Focus, motivation, discipline and hard work are attributes to a good outcome.
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Travelling for work has long been accepted as something that fathers do, the expectation being his partner will pick up the slack at home in Dad's absence and the kids will be fine.
Whether he's away for work regularly overnight, or for weeks at a time, fathers are "allowed" to leave the home for work for an extended period.
But what happens when work requires a mother to travel? We meet three women living the fly-in, fly-out (fi-fo) lifestyle.
I used to work for McDonald's, and because head office was in Chicago and I was the director of innovation in Sydney, I had to travel to Chicago and Hong Kong quite a lot. That was all okay before the children. Then my husband Scott and I formed a rule – if I was going to be away for more than five nights, I would take our first-born, Alice, with me. She had a lot of stamps in her passport by the time she was three.
I was heavily pregnant with Lara, my second child, when I left McDonald's. When she was born, Scott took a year off. So I went back to work and moved into this new business quite quickly. When my third child, Stella, was two years old, she'd already made 65 flights!
Scott is an electrician with his own business. He reviews my diary and then figures out when and how he will work around it so that we complement each other. Travel might be required, but we're trying to keep things as normal as possible for the children.
The girls – who are now six, four and two – all have iPads and we FaceTime, which they think is pretty cool. They always want to know where Mum is. Usually it's "Hi Mum, where are you?" "Mummy is in Melbourne" or "Mummy is in New Zealand this week".
What I've learnt, as any good working parent would know, is that some times are really good times for us to talk, and some times, such as homework and reading time, are really inappropriate. Early mornings are usually good.
I miss out on some things but I make it a rule that I don't miss out on everything. Sometimes I can't work on a particular day – not that other people need to know – because I am prioritising something for my children. When I am not here, Scott is on. When Scott is working, then my job is to do that role. I have a whiteboard filled with this stuff. And I have an amazing cleaner.
I outsource chores wherever I can to support the lifestyle we live. And while I travel, there is also a benefit in that I'm often home as well.
I love working – I am really good at it, actually – and so I manage both. My children are happy and secure and they get to do lots of interesting things because of my work.
I'm sure it might look a bit weird from the outside but I'm okay with that. And, most importantly, my husband and I are both okay with that.
Socially, I'm not going to lie – sometimes it's just too much for some people to comprehend and of course I have had that. I cope with that by surrounding myself with like-minded people. But on a daily basis I think, "I've got this. This is great."
A lot of mums in this situation have to continue managing the logistics whether they're at home or away. I'm a single mum and I manage with the help of a number of different people – either my sister, the woman who helps nanny for my daughter, or her dad.
Kora is nine now and we have been living this crazy fly-in, fly-out lifestyle between Adelaide and Canberra since she was born on the campaign trail in 2007. I've never known politics without juggling her, and she doesn't know what life is like without me juggling politics.
I have lots of her photos and artwork here in my office in Canberra and it does send me a bit of a message that there is a real life going on. When she was very little, Kora used to fly with me everywhere. The flying back and forth from Canberra to Adelaide dropped off when she had to go to school, and so now she doesn't travel as much as she used to.
I try and keep her routine, even though my schedule is anything but regular. Sometimes I'm away for a couple of days a week, sometimes for a week and I get back on the weekends. Other times I am away for two weeks at a time.
Children can fly unaccompanied from the age of five and that was a huge relief. I can just get someone to put her on the plane and meet her at the airport.
I remember the first couple of solo flights. All the flight attendants were like, "Are you nervous, is this your first flight?" She just balled on in, took her own boarding pass. She knew exactly what seat she was in, she knew the drill!
We FaceTime as much as possible, and it's just such a good way of being able to check in. I was a little bit reluctant to give Kora her own iPad but it has been a saving grace. It's so nice – she can call me when she wants and we can see each other and I can pick up on things.
I think we mums are the worst at making ourselves feel guilty about things. I don't ever want anyone to think that it's easy or that I am some kind of supermum. There are days when it's crap, and days when I feel guilty, and days when I think, "I just want to be at home with her." And there are times when I actually haven't been able to get in touch with her, for whatever reason.
I think most mums do the best job they can, and that a happy kid is the best indication that things are okay.
I've been working in mines in central Queensland for about 11 years. I met my partner Tessa eight years ago. She started in the mines and I was her truck trainer. That's a bit naughty, isn't it?
We were together for about 18 months and then we talked about having a child and obviously we were both doing fi-fo – seven days on, seven off – and we finally decided to do IVF.
So we pulled my egg out, fertilised it, and popped it into her. She had a baby, took 12 months maternity leave, and during that time we broke up.
We talked to the company we both worked for and they agreed to allow us to work back-to-back so that we could share custody of Lucas. And because we work back-to-back, we are never home at the same time really, unless we take holidays.
Lucas has high-functioning autism. Going from one place to the next was a bit hard for him – we wanted to try and keep where he was living fairly routine and decided it was cheaper and easier to live in the same house.
We fly out of Brisbane airport to Moranbah, which takes an hour and 40 minutes. It's not like the WA mines, where most people fly for four hours and are doing two weeks on, one week off, or three weeks on, one week off. We're pretty fortunate with our work hours, and with the fact that we earn good money and are able to do it.
It is getting harder for Lucas to understand us going away. He doesn't like it when either of us goes, but we use FaceTime and spend a lot of time communicating with him.
Toward the end of a week of being home with an ASD hyperactive child, you're kind of hanging to get back to work. By about day two at work you're like, "I miss him, let's go home again." It gets really hard midweek – I really start to pine to see him.
So while you do get a break when you go back to work, when are out at the mine you work 12½ hours a day. There isn't any downtime. You get less than seven hours' sleep when you are used to having nine hours at home. So by the time you get home after seven days you're wrecked. If you've been working nights, you're even more wrecked because you have to readjust.
Everyone says, "You are in mining, you're set," but this work definitely has a downside. That downside is that you are away from everything, and even when you come back you don't blend in with normal nine-to-five people.
The good side is that you get seven days off. It's Tuesday and I'm lying in a hammock on the back verandah looking at the sun. Yesterday I went for a run, did a workout. It's a good lifestyle.


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Rebel Wilson says she was "kidnapped" at gunpoint while on holiday in Mozambique
"I feel like I was very good in the crisis"
By Ella Kemp
Rebel Wilson (Photo by Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images for La Fondation Prince Albert II de Monaco)
Cats star Rebel Wilson has said she was kidnapped while on holiday in Mozambique.
The actress, appearing on new Sky One show Straight Talking, detailed being held overnight in a "house in the middle of nowhere" by armed men in a rural part of the country, when asked about the most fearful situation she had ever been in.
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"There was one time in Africa where I got kidnapped," Wilson told the show's host Ant Middleton, explaining how she was travelling with a group of women when armed men told them to leave their vehicle. "It was in rural Mozambique."
"We were on this cattle truck and these men came on another truck with a lot of guns. [They pulled up] with the big guns and they were like, 'Yeah, you've got to get off your truck.'"
Wilson then explained she and the other women were taken "to a house in the middle of nowhere" and stayed there until the next morning.
She continued: "Luckily we weren't harmed and then, the next day, they came and said, 'Your truck is ready now. You can go.' We didn't ask any questions. We just got back on that truck and got out of there and crossed the South African border a few hours later."
Wilson called herself the "team leader" among the other women, and said the believed the men used the cattle truck "to smuggle illegal things". She added: "I feel like I was very good in the crisis."
Elsewhere, Rebel Wilson said last year she was paid "a lot of money to stay bigger" for Hollywood roles.
Ant Middleton & Rebel Wilson: Straight Talking will air on January 14 at 9PM, on Sky One and NOW TV.


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Open letter to Kanhaiya Kumar of JNU for his speech blaming it all on Modi
Mar 04, 2016 by iamshashankrai in Open Letters
Dear Kanhaiya,
I am a very simple common student who doesn't enjoy political support of any chief minister or big journalists. If I speak something, they will not show live on TV, which is why I am using this platform to tell you something.
You say that you want to attain aazaadi from bhukhmari, garibi, jaatiwad, and all. Very good, but how are you going to get it by abusing our Prime Minister in a crowd full of your own kind of people? If speeches and abuses gave us aazaadi from those evils, we'd have been a superpower by now!
Did you really want a way to get aazaadi from those things or just a chance or a platform to abuse the Prime Minister? You have to decide who is your biggest enemy? Above mentioned things or the PM of this country? By the way you have all the aazaadi to abuse the PM, now concentrate on other issues.
Let us come to your speech. Many people are poor in this country. My grandfather was a farmer. To get aazaadi from poverty, my father got admitted to a government school. He then chose to be with books in a closed room rather than being with slogan shouters on roads.
My father had to stay away from his parents and faced a lot of difficulties, but he chose to study anyhow, and to got a government job at satisfactory post. That's how he got aazaadi from bhukhmari and gareebi.
It is very easy to put your blame on others for your failure. Let me ask you if Baba Ambedkar would had thought and would had relied on government to end his poverty would he had got? If Dhirubhai Ambani had relied on govt to do something would he had been able to do? If many young entrepreneurs would had relied on government to build their start up would they had been succeeded today?
Dear Kanhaiya, you are purely busy in doing politics in your speech as the way you said "hum aise sarkar laenge aur badlao laenge" and all.
Dear Kanhaiya, stop playing politics and if you do want to speak about students, then do speak about reservations. If you want to speak, then do speak about educating people the various plans of government and to enlighten them of their benefits. If you do want to speak, do speak on giving no tickets to criminals contesting elections. Just abusing your own Prime Minister won't let you to go anywhere.
Speaking of our Prime Minister, do you know what phases has he seen in his life? What he had to suffer for the things he never did? If u are a son of poor farmer, then he too is son of a poor chaiwala.
Just for being jailed for 23 days, you have became so frustrated ask our Prime Minister who has suffered for 14 years and was being abused on every channel in India. In your case, you were lucky enough to get some media support but he got none at that time. He has patiently heard all that criticism and has proven himself clean at every stages of his life.
Anyway, at least I know people like you are so heavily nurtured that you'll never understand whatever I tell you. So before speaking to or commenting on someone, better get your way in right direction and have a correct opinion of that person and try to look at real face of that person not to what people are showing you.
Tagged with: JNU, Kanhaiya Kumar, narendra modi
Modi Government is digging out the buried truths which everyone should know for our country, religion and culture


On or before the thirtieth day after the effective date of this Consent Order, Sarah Grant Horvath shall pay six thousand dollars ($6,000.00) in satisfaction of an administrative penalty collected in consideration of Sarah Grant Horvath originating residential mortgage loans when she was not licensed as a mortgage loan originator in Massachusetts. Sarah Grant Horvath shall remit payment in full of the amount indicated above, payable to the "Commonwealth of Massachusetts," with the executed copy of the Consent Agreement, to the Office of the Commissioner of Banks, One South Station, 3rd Floor, Boston, Massachusetts 02110.
Sarah Grant Horvath shall comply with all laws and regulations applicable to her conducting the business of a mortgage loan originator, including, but not limited to, Massachusetts General Laws chapter 255F, and the Division's regulation 209 CMR 41.00. Such obligations shall include a duty to ensure strict compliance with Massachusetts General Laws chapter 255F, section 2, which states, in part: "No individual shall act as a mortgage loan originator with respect to any dwelling unless such person has first obtained a mortgage loan originator license from the commissioner…"


�Pepper and Honey� is a piece about migration, meaning of home, leaving and returning. The story is told through text and movement, and the on-stage live making and baking of traditional Croatian pepper biscuits. The piece is performed in both English and Croatian language. The set design and the sound will work to represent two geographical settings (UK and a Croatian island).
Notnow Collective are looking for a Sound Designer/Composer to join our creative team for the forthcoming period of research and development, culminating in a preview performance at Derby Theatre on 30th March 2019.
We are looking for an artist who is very familiar with the beats, sounds and music from South Eastern area of Europe. We particularly encourage European/migrant artists to apply, and those with caring responsibilities.
There is a fixed fee of �1000 attached to this phase of the project.
The project is supported by Arts Council, Derby Theatre and In Good Company.
Key dates will be between mid Feb and 29thMarch, rehearsing in Birmingham and Nottingham, with the performance on 30th March in Derby. Some in-rehearsal dates will be needed.
To apply please send in a CV and a letter of interest outlining your practice, interests and experience. It would also be useful to link us to some samples of your work (video or audio). E-mail: info@notnowcollective.com , please put �Pepper and Honey Sound Design� in the subject line.