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Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) Supremo Mayawati and Rashtriya Lok Samata Party (RLSP) Chief Upendra Singh Kushwaha wave at their supporters during a joint election campaign ahead of Bih...
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In this file photo, Madhya Pradesh Governor and BJP veteran Lalji Tandon celebrates 'Rakshabandhan' with the then Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati in Lucknow. Tandon, 85, died...
Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) chief Mayawati waves at her supporters at a public meeting ahead of Delhi Assembly Elections, at Talkatora Stadium in New Delhi.
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Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) supremo Mayawati releases a book, 'A travelogue of my struggle-ridden life and BSP movement,' during a press conference on the occasion of her 64th birthd...
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Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) supremo Mayawati waves as she is garlanded by the party workers after being re-elected as the party president during a meeting, at BSP headquarters in Lu...
Bahujan Samaj Party chief Mayawati pays floral tributes to the mortal remains of former external affairs minister Sushma Swaraj at her residence in New Delhi. Sushma Swaraj passed ...
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Nephew Akash Anand is all ears and admiration for Mayawati at a rally in Mainpuri
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Samajwadi Party President Akhilesh Yadav and Bahujan Samajwadi Party chief Mayawati at latter's residence, in Lucknow.
Samajwadi Party President Akhilesh Yadav and BSP chief Mayawati wave at their supporters during an election campaign rally for the seventh and last phase of Lok Sabha polls, in Mir...
Bahujan Samaj Party and Samajwadi Party alliance candidate from Varanasi Shalini Yadav presents a memento to RLD chief Ajit Singh, at an election rally for the last phase of the Lo...
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Samajwadi Party President Akhilesh Yadav and Bahujan Samaj Party chief Mayawati wave at their supporters during an election campaign rally for the last phase of Lok Sabha polls, in...
BSP President Mayawatiat an election campaign rally for the Lok Sabha polls, in New Delhi.
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BSP supremo Mayawati and Samajwadi Party President Akhilesh Yadav wave at the supporters during an election campaign rally for the Lok Sabha elections, in Bhadohi.
Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) chief Mayawati shows her finger marked with indelible ink after casting vote at a polling station during the fifth phase of the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, ...
BSP supremo Mayawati and Samajwadi Party President Akhilesh Yadav wave at the supporters during an election campaign rally for the Lok Sabha elections, in Barabanki.
BSP supremo Mayawati waves during an election campaign rally in support of SP-BSP-RLD alliance candidates, in Lucknow.
Samajwadi Party candidate from Kannauj Dimple Yadav seeks blessings of BSP chief Mayawati during an election campaign rally in Kannauj.
Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav, BSP supremo Mayawati and RLD chief Ch Ajit Singh during an election campaign rally in favour of SP candidate Dimple Yadav (R), ahead of the Lo...
BSP supremo Mayawati during an election campaign rally, ahead of the Lok Sabha polls, in Mysore
BSP President Mayawati during a campaign in support of Lok Sabha party candidate Satveer Nagar from Gautam Buddh Nagar, ahead of the Lok Sabha polls, in Greater Noida
We Are Sorry, It Was A Regrettable Oversight: Richa Chadha On Madam Chief Minister Poster
Actor Richa Chadha responds to criticism that the poster of her film 'Madam Chief Minister' stereotyped Dalits.
| Outlook Web Bureau
Farm Liquor Toddy Can Prevent Covid-19, Claims Mayawati's Party Leader
He also claimed that 'taadi' has immunity power and a drop of it is purer than the water of the Ganga river.
| PTI
Mayawati Urges UP Govt To Reconsider New Anti-Conversion Law
'The ordinance on love jihad brought by the UP government in a hurry is full of doubts and apprehensions', the BSP president said.
BJP Murdering India's Constitution And Democracy: BSP
BSP leader Bhim Rajbhar has claimed that the BSP will form the next government in Uttar Pradesh
Bihar Assembly Elections: Will Muslim Voters Turn The Table For Mahagathbandhan?
Both the ruling coalition of JDU and the BJP have a lot at stake in the final phase since almost all Muslim-dominated districts such as Kishanganj, Katihar, Araria and Purnia will vote on November 7.
| Giridhar Jha
All Eyes On MP As Campaigning For Byelections To 54 Assembly Seats End
The main contenders, BJP and Congress, traded barbs especially in Madhya Pradesh where the EC had to reprimand leaders of both the parties.
Mayawati Seeks Votes For BSP In UP, MP Assembly Polls
An appeal is to the voters to make the BSP candidates successful, so that the right political message goes to the rivals: BSP Supremo
Will Vote For BJP Or Any Party To Defeat Samajwadi Party: BSP Leader Mayawati
Mayawati suspends seven dissident MLAs, as Priyanka asks: Anything left to be said?
Mayawati Attacks Cong Over 'Rise' In Crime Against Dalits, Women In Rajasthan
BSP Leader Mayawati said that instead of looking into the issue, Congress leaders in Rajasthan have maintained silence over it.
Hathras Case: Mayawati Asks UP Government To Change Its 'Arrogant And Dictatorial,' Attitude
A 19-year-old Dalit woman was allegedly raped by four upper caste men in Hathras on September 14.
Mixed Notes From The Main Underground
In 1995, when Mayawati first became CM, the political epoch truly turned. Identity politics was now the norm. The BJP prospered by another version of it, but it was the caste-led parties that initiated the debate on the secular side. Here, one of India's most eminent political theorists examines the curious trajectory of Dalit-led parties like that of Mayawati.
| Gopal Guru
Op In No Position
It's advantage BJP in UP as rivals Congress, SP and BSP struggle to shrug off their inertia
| Puneet Nicholas Yadav
Article 370 - Opposition Parties Play Ball; Is It A Marriage Of Convenience Or Just Bullied Into It?
Observers find it ironic that parties like AAP, BSP, BJD and those from the Telugu-speaking states have unanimously supported the abrogation of Article 370
| Preetha Nair
Fast And Furious Mayawati In Damage Control Mode But Will Snapping Ties With Samajwadi Party Help?
Ahead of the 2022 Assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh, BSP chief Mayawati is making political moves that's evoking mixed responses. More importantly, she is becoming increasingly dynastic by putting her nephew and younger brother in key positions
In Caste-Strong Uttar Pradesh, Why SP-BSP-RLD Alliance Suffered A Jumbo Setback Vs BJP & Co.
The Mahagathbandhan among Samajwadi Party, BSP, RLD and Congress only focused on their core supporters, forgetting to mobile the entire electorate. BJP clearly rode the national security wave and gained from the Opposition's choice of a clear PM candidate
Kaun Banaega Sarkar? In Absence Of Majority, How Regional Leaders Will Play Kingmaker
With neither BJP-led NDA nor the Congress-led UPA sure of forming the government, a fractured verdict on May 23 will bring regional parties into focus. The possibilities are manifold with every party expected to extract their pound of flesh
| Bhavna Vij-Aurora
Dye Is Caste
The conflict between Congress-BSP in Uttar Pradesh.
| Salik Ahmad
Elections In India: From Ridicule To Sexual Innuendos, Why It's A Nightmare For Women Candidates
Indian politics remain a male dominated domain. So much so that women candidates aspiring to be an MP or MLA have to endure sexist comments and even fend off perverted men during their campaign trail
| Bhavna Vij-Aurora G.C. Shekhar
The Foot Soldiers: Meet The Party Workers Who Carry Their Leader's Message To Voters
A journey through the electoral battle at its most fascinating and vicious—where the foot soldiers fight it out
| Ruben Banerjee
Politicians And Their Look-Alikes
They look similar,their voice is perfectly modulated them and they even impersonate them. Meet lookalikes of our netas.
| Arshia Dhar
Rahul's Interaction With Migrants Led To Predictable Political Storm, But What Have His Critics Done?
It is true that Nirmala Sitharaman and Mayawati's attack against Rahul Gandhi is misdirected and neither of them or any other frontline political leader has made the effort to personally reach out to the lakhs of migrants who have hit India's national and state highways in their long.
Mayawati, Honourable Prime Minister. Why The Heartburn?
The basest of criticisms against her start and end with a direct attack on her caste. The saner ones cite the allegations of wide-scale corruption, an extravagant display of her birthday celebrations, and megalomania – "Who builds their own statues?"
The Great Cover Up
Rajiv Gandhi, Rajiv Gandhi, Rajiv Gandhi...
Journalist A. Surya Prakash petitioned the Chief Election Commissioner in March 2009 pointing out that Congress Party's obsession with three members of the Nehru-Gandhi family has meant that even the Father of the Nation, Mahatma Gandhi has been virtually forgotten:
Over the last 18 years, on a rough estimate about 450 Central and State Government programmes, projects and national and state level institutions involving public expenditure of hundreds of thousands of crores of rupees have been named after these three individuals-- Rajiv Gandhi, Indira Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru...
Among the big ticket programmes that have been cleverly named after members of this family by the Union Government to extract unjust electoral mileage is the Rajiv Gandhi Grameen Vidyutikaran Yojana (rural electrification programme)... The drinking water mission ... is also named after him and is called the Rajiv Gandhi Drinking Water Mission. Other schemes, touching millions of people, which bear his name are the Rajiv Gandhi National Creche Scheme for Children of Working Mothers; the Rajiv Gandhi Udyami Mitra Yojana ( to promote small enterprises); the Rajiv Gandhi Shramik Kalyan Yojana and the Rajiv Gandhi Shilpi Swasthya Bima Yojana ( both insurance schemes).
This trend is even more apparent in the states, which have vied with each other to name programmes and schemes after these three members of the Nehru-Gandhi Family whenever the Congress Party was in power. Here is a sample: Rajiv Gandhi Breakfast Scheme, Pondicherry; Rajiv Ratna Awas Yojana, Delhi; Rajiv Arogyasri Health Insurance scheme, Andhra Pradesh; Rajiv Gandhi Computer Literacy Mission, Assam; Rajiv Gandhi Bridges and Roads Infrastructure Development Programme, Haryana; Rajiv Gandhi Vidyarthi Suraksha Yojana, Maharastra; Rajiv Gandhi Tourism Development Mission, Rajasthan
...The most glaring example, which raises a question is regard to free and fair election is the blatant advertisement of the Congress Party on the ambulances that provide emergency medical help all over Andhra Pradesh. These ambulances, which reach every village in the state in quick time, provide efficient integrated emergency services that cover medical emergencies, police and fire. The capital expenditure on each ambulance is Rs 10 lakh to Rs 16 lakhs and the running cost per ambulance is Rs 1.25 lakh per month. All this expenditure is borne out of public funds drawn from the Union and State accounts. Yet, it is made out as if these ambulances are a gift from the Congress Party to the people of the State because every ambulance carries a portrait of Rajiv Gandhi on both sides of the vehicle with the legend "Rajiv Arogyasri".
HT: TJS George via churumuri
The Mayawati government in UP seems to have used this very complaint to counter the EC notice on statues of elephants and Mayawati.
Out Of The Gutter
There is simply no excuse for UPCC chief Rita Bahuguna Joshi's vicious words:
"The Dalit women [victims of rape] should throw the money [offered as financial aid by UP government] back at Mayawati's face and she should be told, 'May you be raped and I too would give you one crore rupees'"
The newsclips showing Ms Mayawati using similar language in the past, such as the above, are no justification or rationalisation. Nor do they mitigate Ms Joshi's totally unacceptable and indefensible choice of words, even though they show this whole fracas for what it is: a highly charged political drama. Ms Mayawati taking umbrage would have carried more credibility and not sounded so rich had she apologised for her words.
But, the violence of Ms Joshi's words wreaks indescribable damage to the very cause she avowedly claims to have been espousing. While the "vendetta violence" unleashed by Ms Mayawati's party is not to be condoned, and, far from being justified, needs to be condemned, the Congress party would carry more conviction if it unequivocally condemned the remarks, dismissed Ms Joshi from her party post and then talked abou the legalities or otherwise of her arrest.
Much has been made of AICC general secretary Janardan Dwivedi's statement:
"whatever has happened in UP is very unfortunate. The Congress president has expressed her deep pain and anguish over the events that have taken place in UP."
It is eerily reminiscent of the Varun Gandhi episode to be told,
"In any political organisation, decisions are taken only after considering all aspects of the problem, and not in a hurry. She is in jail right now. Any decision will be taken only hearing her version and explanation. The same thing could have been said without using those words."
Besides, Ms Joshi has already offered her version:
"My intention was to expose a chief minister who has no sympathy for women... to remind Mayawati that being a woman she should realise that a paltry monetary compensation cannot make up for what a woman loses on account of rape."
While that sentiment by itself is unexceptionable, and while one would agree with her that a dole of Rs 25,000 to every Dalit rape victim "was quite ironical as the state police chief was spending lakhs on the helicopter ride that he undertakes to hand over that paltry amount to the victim," she and her supporters would do well to realise, as Ms Mayawati pointed out, the act under which she was giving financial aid to the Dalit rape victims has been enacted by the Centre and it can be nobody's case that it is meant to be a "compensation" for rape.
The policy is adopted by almost all state governments, including those ruled by the Congress, particularly in case of victims from deprived sections who are in dire need of rehabilitation. Apart from their tragedy being used as yet another occasion for politicking, in this case, instead of being offered any practical help, the victims are being further brutalised with the stigma of receiving money, paltry as it is, from the state, and are being exhorted to return it.
Much can be said against Ms Mayawati and her ways, but for now Ms Joshi would serve her and her party's cause better by offering an unequivocal and unconditional apology and not the likes of the following:
"I regret what I said in a fit of anger. If it is being misconstrued, if it's being misinterpreted, it is being taken out of context, then I regret it... I am myself a woman and I should not have spoken these words ... I really apologise."
The top leaders of her party too need to rise above cynical political calculations. Perhaps they are waiting for Ms Joshi to help them find their inner-voice -- and the higher moral ground -- by resigning herself?
Ms Mayawati too needs to ensure that those behind the arson and attack on Ms Joshi's residence are brought to justice. While Ms Joshi's choice of words was particularly unfortunate and have no place in our public discourse, no words can be cited as "provocation" for unleashing anarchy and mayhem.
One would have thought it would be obvious to all, but given what we keep hearing when discussing the seminal dates in our violent history, perhaps it is worth repeating over and over and over again like a mantra that two wrongs do not make a right.
Ms Mayawati making similarly sick statements about Mr Mulayam Singh in 2007 does not justify Ms Joshi making such statements about Ms Mayawati in 2009.
Ms Joshi making such statements does not justify burning down her house.
Ms Joshi has been booked under Sections 153 A (promoting enmity between two groups on ground of religion or caste) and 509 (word or gesture aimed at outraging the modesty of a woman) of the IPC, the Scheduled Castes, Tribes (prevention of atrocities) Act, 1989 and Section 7 of the Criminal Law Amendment Act. While fighting this detention legally and politically, the Congress would do well to send out a message that it stands for decency in public discourse.
The Mad Woman Theory of Politics
Vir Sanghvi on his website:
When it comes to negotiations, a pose of lunacy can be an enormous bargaining advantage. It worked for Nixon and Kissinger. And now, it will work for Mamata, Jayalalithaa and Mayawati.
How Mayawati Could Be A Role Model For Maoists
In the Indian Express, Vinay Sitapati has some useful advice for Naxalite chief, CPI-Maoist General Secretary Ganapati, who "vows to capture state power by planting the red flag on the red fort":
Mayawati on the other hand, might well capture state power by sticking with the tricolour atop the red fort, but by standing below it on August 15th — and all without ever firing from the barrel of a gun. In her autobiography, My Life of Struggle and the Path of the Bahujan Movement, Mayawati praises the Constitution for empowering "weaker sections", and suggests its use as a tool to capture power. In between re-reading Chairman Mao's Little Red Book in the forests of Dandakaranya, Ganapati could perhaps find the time to read Behenji.
Mayawati: The Anti Obama
Jeremy Kahn in the Newsweek:
...unlike Obama, who promised a new politics that would transcend not only race but traditional ideology and corrupt Washington ways, Mayawati has built her power on demagogic class warfare. As her national ambitions have grown, she recently began reaching out to upper-caste voters—but by playing on their fears of the upwardly mobile middle castes, not by appealing to their better, caste-free angels. She has accumulated a suspiciously ostentatious fortune, and is dogged by corruption charges. She is admired by many Dalits, but often more for her power and jewels than for her limited accomplishments on their behalf. Her victory, if it comes, may be seen as a great leap forward for India's oppressed—but, ironically, will end up bolstering the caste system that has kept them in chains.Mayawati would likely be a highly divisive national leader—an anti-Obama—and not only domestically.
Who's Afraid Of Kumari Mayawati?
Mukul Kesavan in the Telegraph:
If someone were to say that Mayawati would be a dreadful prime minister because she's tyrannical in a paranoid, thin-skinned, temperamental way, I would assume (I think reasonably) that the comment was gendered. Think of contemporaries of Mayawati like Mamata Banerjee or Jayalalithaa or Uma Bharti — every woman in Indian politics who chooses to lead a political party without being beholden to a male patron is typecast as difficult, irrational and unpredictable.
This is not to say that they aren't all of these bad things: it is simply to point out that a) their male counterparts don't excite the same sort of criticism and comment, and b) to remind ourselves of how difficult it is to be a female political leader in a systematically male world
Read the full article: Virago in Diamonds
In the Indian Express, Kanchan Chandra on what a Mayawati prime-ministership would be like:
Those who have limited access to education are also those who are least likely to be competitive in this economy. The population with restricted access to education consists disproportionately of caste and religious minorities — exactly the constituency that the BSP aims to speak for.
Surely, a prime minister who is a champion of minority groups should be a prime minister who champions education. There is little in the BSP's history, and in the history of Mayawati's own initiatives, to suggest that she will be that prime minister.
Read the full article: If Maywati is PM
Would You Rather Take BJP & LK Advani Over Third Front?
Vir Sanghvi says he would. And explains why:
It is no secret that I harbour grave misgivings about the BJP and the next generation of its leadership. But I have to say that I would rather take L.K. Advani and five years of BJP rule over this motley collection of power-hungry regional leaders.
There are many things wrong with the Third Front but here's the one that worries me the most: these people have no unifying ideology, they have no vision of India, and in many cases, they don't even have a sense of India outside of their own states. How in God's name, are they going to steer the country out of this economic crisis? How will they give future generations the direction they deserve?
Haryana Govt Would Have Been Dismissed Had There Been Honesty In What PM Stated In Mann Ki Baat: Mayawati
Mixed Response Among Parties To Mayawati's Resignation From Rajya Sabha
Rajya Sabha Chairman Hamid Ansari Accepts Mayawati's Resignation
BSP chief Mayawati met Vice President Hamid Ansari, who is chairman of the Rajya Sabha, last evening to hand over her resignation.
House Wants Mayawati to Withdraw Resignation: Rajya Sabha Dy Chairman
Rajya Sabha Wants Mayawati To Withdraw Resignation: Deputy Chairman
Lalu Comes Out In Mayawati's Support, Offers Her Rajya Sabha Seat From Bihar
Graft, Dynastic Policies Left People Frustrated, I Inherited A Dismal Machinery: Yogi Adityanath
Adityanath's Lunch With Dalits A Political Drama: Mayawati
BJP Govts in MP, Other States Oppressing Farmers, Poor, Says Mayawati
Will Attend Lalu's Rally In Patna, So Will Mayawati, Says Akhilesh


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At the 1993 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships in Falun, Polvara finished fourth in the 50 km event. His best World Cup finish was third twice in 30 km events, both in 1991.

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Spies from Botswana Set To Topple Putin — and Trump! Leave a comment
GADGET GURU Barney Collier (Greg Morris) was a key member of the Mission: Impossible team.
By C. Michael Forsyth
The tiny African nation of Botswana has reportedly dispatched its own Mission: Impossible-type spy team to engineer the overthrow of Russian strongman Vladimir Putin. And even more shocking, their next target is American President Donald Trump!
"It's total role reversal," says a U.S. intelligence source who has compiled a dossier on the alleged scheme. "During the Cold War, it was the superpowers who sent spies to thwart the dictators of Third World countries. That scenario was played out again and again on the 1960s TV show Mission: Impossible, as the American spy ring concocted ingenious plots to bring about the downfall of the tin horn dictators of banana republics, played by actors like Ricardo Montalban and Fernando Lamas. Now it's a small Third World country that's deployed agents to rescue the two superpowers from authoritarian rule and make the world safe for democracy."
Screen legend Ricardo Montalban frequently played tin horn dictators in '60s spy shows.
The source likened the flip-flop to the movie The Mouse that Roared, in which the pint-sized European country of Grand Fenwick declares war on America and launches an invasion carried out by 20 men outfitted in medieval chainmail.
"The difference is that these are secret agents, not soldiers – and based on what we know of the efficiency of Botswana's spy agency, there is a very real possibility that they will actually pull off their mission."
President Putin is widely viewed as a vicious, cold-blooded tyrant. The former KGB boss has murdered a host of opponents, including journalists, activists, and political leaders – with radioactive materials his frequent weapon of choice — and he's jailed scores of others, such as the peaceful protest group Pussy Riot. The Russian leader has also ruthlessly bombed civilians and rebel groups in Syria, brutalized Georgia and Chechnya, invaded Ukraine and brazenly annexed Crimea, the first such land grab in Europe since 1945.
Russians who dare to oppose Putin, like the group Pussy Riot, tend to wind up in jail — or dead.
"Putin has has flooded the West with so many spies that there are more in England today than during the Cold War – including those licensed to kill who carry out his personal vendettas," the source revealed. "He's a venal and violent real-life supervillain who usurped power and uses his position to enrich himself and his cronies, amassing a private fortune close to $200 billion. In the past, the CIA might have been ordered to quietly overthrow someone that evil, but that won't happen, for obvious reasons. The government of Botswana's president Seretse Khama Ian Khama sees Putin as a threat to world stability and feels it has a moral obligation to step in."
Out of all the countries in Africa, it's not entirely surprising that Botswana stepped up to the plate. While it has a miniscule population of about 2 million, it has never been conquered or colonized and is one of Africa's most stable countries, boasting the continent's longest continuous multi-party democracy. According to a recently BBC profile, it is virtually free of corruption and has an excellent human rights record.
"Botswana is the world's largest producer of diamonds and the trade has transformed it into a middle income nation," the report states. Gay rights groups have recently been granted legal recognition – a far cry from Russia, where Putin has issued draconian laws against the LGBT community. "Botswana has a long tradition of lively and unimpeded public debate," according to the BBC, which notes that the government has allowed a "free and vigorous" press to flourish.
"In many ways it's like the fictional country of Wakanda that the comic book hero The Black Panther calls home," the intelligence source notes.
In contrast to the sober-minded leaders of Botswana, temperamental tycoon Trump has branded journalists "enemies of the people" – and that's one of the red flags that raised concern in the African nation.
"Botswana sees Trump as potentially even more dangerous to world peace than Putin," the source revealed. "A classified document we obtained describes him as an 'emotionally unstable narcissist and pathological liar, with authoritarian tendencies.' They fear that it's simply too risky to allow someone like that to have his finger hovering over the red nuclear button."
Could Trump really be overthrown like the buffoonish leader of some banana republic?
How the African secret agents intend to bring down the two leaders is as yet unknown. Experts say that the Botswana intelligence agency is highly sophisticated, modeled closely on the superpowers' own Cold War-era spy networks.
"We anticipate the use of intricate and cunning plots, high-tech gadgets hidden in objects such as watches, cigarette lighters and shoes, the use of glamorous lady spies and other staples of the intelligence field," the source says. "Their agents have been trained in methods such as gaining access to secure facilities by pretending to be carpet cleaners and crawling through narrow airshafts."
The fact that the agents are African and the Russian population is almost entirely white won't pose much of an obstacle, he adds. "There have been incredible advances in disguise technology since those masks of the Mission: Impossible era."
TV's Mission: Impossible team employed trickery, technology and clever disguises.
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In the few times I have given blood, I looked away, squeezed something with my other hand to distract my mind and force myself into my happy place. I pictured lying on a beach and totally disassociated with my body. "If I can't see it, it's not happening," I convince myself.
In high school, I gave blood during a blood drive. A guy-friend, who was also giving blood on the table next to mine, decided it would be funny to tell me — straight faced — that there must be something wrong with how they inserted the IV or with me because my blood was a weird color. He yelled, "Nurse!" When I looked to see what he meant, I just about hyperventilated seeing my blood filling a bag. If they hadn't given me a bag to breathe into, I probably would have fainted.
Before I was a coach, this fear was just something that I accepted. Something that made my friends and husband laugh when we watched movies. Something I dealt with through disassociation…with blocking it instead of experiencing it.
To be completely TAO (Transparent, Authentic and Open), I didn't catch my lizard brain when I tried acupuncture for the first time last week and I refused to open my eyes or let my mind visualize the needles. I tried to climb into my body to feel the sensations and my mind kept wandering to far off places. I now realize it's because I wasn't accepting and climbing into the whole experience. I was trying to block the needle part out, which inhibited me from a true mind-body connection.
As all things happen when we need to, and are ready to, experience them as part of our life path, this week I saw that I needed to "live it to give it." I needed to address and do the work directly on this fear.
I said to myself, "I'm having the thought that objects shouldn't puncture skin." I repeated this three times.
I added to it with, "I'm noticing that I'm having the thought that objects shouldn't puncture skin." Again, I repeated this three times.
Then I sang "this is my needle story" out loud to a tune I made up, then again to the tune of Happy Birthday. The painful thought loosened a little bit more.
So doctors can perform surgeries and procedures to save lives.
So that patients can get anesthesia to be unconscious during said procedures and surgeries.
So that people who like and want tattoos can use that form of self expression.
So acupuncture can help people heal parts that Western medicine and prescriptions may not be able to cure.
So that Tasha can live…so she can get the fluids she needs to flush out her kidneys.
When 2:30PM came, the time for Tasha's IV treatment, I walked to their house and breathed slowly and deeply. I grounded myself and quieted my mind with the presence of the trees and breeze along my walk. When I arrived, they began to set out the IV bag and Tasha's bed while I did some Nadi Shodhana Pranayama (alternate nostril) breathing.
I sat behind Tasha in the bathroom and became present and focused. Jerry handed me the needle and told me which direction to face it when injecting.
IV Needle prepared and ready to inject.
They had shown me how to grab the folds on the back of her neck and shake it in a way that would allow a space to inject the needle so that the fluid would fill underneath her skin. I was grateful that she was a pug with extra loose layers of skin. I inserted the needle through her skin. I was calm and my hand was steady.
I took out the needle…we rubbed the back of her neck, and I did it again. This time it worked and the IV fluids flowed in at a good pace.
Tasha started fidgeting half way through and I got a little nervous…but I wasn't scared. I was able to look at the needle and look at her and still breathe evenly. We stopped the camera to have Steve help me hold her still.
It took about four minutes total and then it was done. Tasha was given her treats, she shook herself and it was over. She wasn't mad at me. She wasn't in pain. It was like she'd already forgotten it.
I stayed for about fifteen minutes making small chat with Steven and Jerry, and Tasha was her normal, doggy self that I've seen and interacted with every other time I'd seen her. She wasn't fazed one bit. She looked like the hulk with her neck full of fluids, but she was otherwise unaffected.
It really was all in my head.


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It All Started With Juice: My Journey to Health and Peace
Reboot Profile, Success Story
By Success Stories
Editor's note: Jasmin Singer might be our first Reboot success that's now a published author. Her memoir, "Always Too Much and Never Enough," was recently published by Random House Berkeley. Jasmin's story will resonate with many who struggled through childhood as "the fat kid." Jasmin was bullied, and used junk food as her solace, even after becoming a vegan.
Jasmin lost almost 100 pounds after discovering "Fat, Sick & Nearly Dead" and juicing. What's more, she's kept it off. In her book, she covers universal topics of self-esteem, finding ourselves, and changing our relationship with food.
Jasmin kindly shared some of her story with us. "Always Too Much and Never Enough" is available in bookstores everywhere, and online.
Q: During the early days of your juice fast, you say "In order to be there 100 percent for animals, I need to be there 100 percent for myself." What do you mean by that?
By the time I became a full-time activist, and was working long hours, I somewhat unconsciously had made the decision that my health could come second to my meaningful career. So many people, activists or not, can relate to this mentality. I know a lot of parents, for example, who put their kids first to such an extent that their own health begins to suffer. That was me. I spent my days advocating for animals, but — in the wake of being told I was on my way to heart disease — I realized I was not advocating for myself along the way. The irony, of course, is that by giving all I had to my career and not saving anything for my own well-being, I was not only shortchanging my body, but my activism. It's the whole "put the oxygen mask on yourself first" thing; how could I save animals if I was not saving myself first?
Q: In the book, you've said that finding support during your periods of juice fasting was key. Who supported you, and why do you think that was so important?
I was lucky enough to do my juice fasts with my wife, Mariann. Having a companion beside me as I learned the ins and outs of juice-fasting was key, and I also tend to think that it would have been triggering to me, or at least uncomfortable, to have someone in my house eating solid food during those first few juice fasts. (That's not to say it would have been impossible, but it made it a lot easier having her in it with me.) Though, for me, juice-fasting was a lot easier than I thought it would be, there was still a period of adjusting and figuring out how to move through my day, and it made it a lot easier to have Mariann beside me, with the same questions, so that we could learn from each other. I also got a lot of support from the Reboot with Joe community. I found it so comforting to be plugged into a community of people who had already navigated through the same terrain I was learning. For juice-fasting, just as for veganism, finding and fostering community is extremely important.
Q: What resonated about Joe's story for you?
Like me, Joe had tried everything to lose weight and find health again, and — almost on a whim, almost as a last resort — he began to juice-fast, just to see what happened. And, like me, it was a lot easier than he thought it would be. His pounds melted off, and his health issues disappeared. I appreciated Joe's humility as he used his personal experience to jump start a movement, and to explore the systemic issues behind why our country is plagued by obesity and by a thoroughly avoidable passel of diseases. He approached eating, and juicing, as both a personal and political act, which resonated with me. I was also inspired (and remain inspired) by Joe's openness, his frankness about the struggles, and his eagerness to constantly evolve and to find solutions.
Q: Why do you think Rebooting worked for you where other diets didn't?
For me, the first time I began a juice-fast, it wasn't about "weight loss," but rather, it was about a holistic approach to health and healing, and for me, weight loss was a natural reaction to that. My body was in constant pain and I was always achy. I had adult onset acne and painful boils. I was lethargic and depressed. And even though I was only 30, I was told by my doctor that I was on my way to heart disease. Someone handed me "Fat, Sick & Nearly Dead," and after watching it and feeling inspired by Joe's successes, I thought I'd go the route of abundance rather than deprivation, and that was a new concept for me. Rather than focusing on what I wouldn't eat, I focused on flooding my body with nutrients. At the same time, I was, it turned out, taking a break from the unhealthy mentality I had regarding the food I ate, the way I ate it, and my relationship to my body. That break from having food in my life, which was going on at the same time as my body was basking in the healing powers of vegetables and fruits, was the perfect combination. And I found that I began to crave whole foods, so in between juice fasts, I wound up dropping the processed, junk foods. I also appreciated the importance of scheduling in the juice fasts, because if I had them on the calendar then I'd be sure to do them, so I started planning them out months in advance. I wound up juicing every month — 10 days one month, 3 days the following, then 10, then 3, and on and on — and in between, I would eat a whole foods plant-based diet with a limited amount of high quality fats, and little to no processed foods.
Q: What benefits, other than weight loss, did juicing have for you?
I actually consider weight loss to be a terrific side benefit, and I consider the clarity I gained about my relationship with food, eating, and my body to be the main advantage that juice-fasting brought me. I had a long-held, negative relationship with my body, and I dealt with life's woes through overeating. I was addicted to food, and to the cosmic high I received from stuffing my face until I could no longer feel. During that first juice-fast, I had the space in my life to really assess the systemic reasons behind why I always turned to food. I had a break to consider what it was I had been hiding. As I discovered the ways that Big Food had been betraying me, I realized that there were so many ways I was betraying myself, too. As I flooded my body with nutrients, I started to let go of these deeply-held beliefs that I needed junk food as my crutch, and that's when my pounds literally melted off. For me, my journey to health and peace was jump-started and then maintained by juice-fasting, but a holistic approach to self-care became the bigger picture. It all started with juice.
Q: What healthy habits have you maintained?
I regularly juice-fast in order to give myself that "reboot" that I need to take inventory of my life and my habits, and to rid myself of any bad habits — either related to junk food or to anything else toxic in my life — that has managed to seep in. I also drink a lot of smoothies as meals, especially for breakfast, which is, for me, a healthy and wholesome way of starting my day.
Q: Any advice for those thinking about doing a juice fast?
I tend to think that people should start with at least a seven-day juice fast. I don't think starting with a one or three day juice fast is optimal, since I found that the first and last day are always the toughest, and the bulk of the time is a lot easier than it sounds right now. I have found that, for me, it takes my body three days to just get into the fast in the first place, so why not start with something that will show real results, physically and emotionally? I also think that community is really important, so find others who will do it with you, or who will support you. Finally, reduce the amount of triggers in your life as much as possible, so if you are in the position in your household where you prepare the food, it's time to call in some extra help for that week, or to prepare things in advance, put them in the freezer, and teach your kids how to reheat. This process will be a lot easier if you're not constantly bombarded by food. Finally, I would strongly suggest planning juice fasts on your calendar way in advance, and not making any unnecessary plans during those times. Remember, this time is for you, and your healing, and so why not use it as a moment to take a breath?
Jasmin Singer is the cohost of the award-winning Our Hen House podcast and the Executive Director of OHH. She is the author of the memoir Always Too Much and Never Enough (Berkley, 2016), which documents her journey to find herself through juicing, veganism, and love, as she went from fat to thin and from feeding her emotions to feeding her soul. Jasmin has contributed to several anthologies (including Defiant Daughters, Running Eating Thinking, and Circles of Compassion), is a contributing writer for VegNews Magazine, and has been seen on The Dr. Oz Show, HuffPo Live, and Unchained with Jane Velez-Mitchell. A sought-after public speaker, Jasmin spends her downtime at home in New York City with her wife, animal law professor Mariann Sullivan, and their darling, twelve-year-old pit bull, Rose. Follow Jasmin on Twitter: @ourhenhouse @jasmin_singer, and visit jasminsinger.com for updates.


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Q: Angular home page is not showing I am facing issue with angular 4 ,the issue I just start the angular application by using the following command i.e ng serve .
Then I went to the browser and typed the following Url localhost:4200 but web page is showing connection has terminated or failed. Could you please help on this.
I'm facing this issue in windows10.

A: Try using
ng serve --o

OR
ng serve --open


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Non-judgmental Ethics Sunday: Should Parents Be Expected to Donate to a Public School?
November 27, 2016 by Joshua
in Ethicist, Nonjudgment, Relationships
Continuing my series of responses to the New York Times', The Ethicist, without imposing values, here is my take on today's post, "Should Parents Be Expected to Donate to a Public School?"
Our granddaughter is in kindergarten at a highly ranked elementary school: Test scores average in the top 1 percent of the schools in the state. Only 1.2 percent of the students are on a free or low-cost lunch. A sheet is passed out to parents of all students in the school from the parents' organization at the beginning of the school year. Last year they pressured parents to donate $600 per year per student enrolled. This year the amount has been raised to $1,000. The parents' organization keeps the books and clearly knows which parents have paid in full and which have not.
We believe this effort violates the principle of free public education. The quantity of fund-raising offends our sense of fairness. This school would be enormously advantaged even without the addition of the money raised by the parents' group for extra services and programs.
For a number of reasons — our involvement with the school, our uncertainty about the legality of this pressure for donations and our desire not to risk repercussions from the parents' organization — we do not want to confront the issue directly. Instead we are writing to you for advice.
Is this level of pressure for large contributions to the operation of a public school unethical? If so, how can something be done about it without bringing unwanted attention to a particular student? Name Withheld
My response: Here's the most important part of your message: "we do not want to confront the issue directly." By "the issue" I can only conclude you mean "other people."
The issue of people asking you for money is never going to go away. Anyone asking will always feel justified in asking and you won't always feel you should give, so the conflict you see will always come up, though the details of the conflict will differ from case to case.
I suggest that the issue is how to handle the situation, which is not about the details, but your ability to create as agreeable a resolution as possible. This is a question of skill, not ethics. I recommend improving your skills in negotiation, influence, leadership, and so on over talking about abstract concepts like ethics, which not everyone agrees on anyway.
Which do you prefer—reaching agreement on the issue or a newspaper columnist giving you permission to label their behavior?
The New York Times Response:
Public education is paid for out of taxes, not from direct contributions from parents. The government should treat children equally, whether rich or poor. That's not a duty for private people and organizations, though. They're allowed to raise funds and to choose a school for their special benefaction.
Fund-raising must not be coercive, of course, and you raise the issue of some sort of repercussions from the parents' organization. Yet you don't indicate that these pressures would go beyond the usual forces of disappointed social expectations, the duck-nibbles of unextended dinner invitations — nothing that approaches the level of coercion.
What about fairness? All children deserve a fair shot at a decent education, let's agree. Are inequalities among schools that aren't a result of unequal government provision a threat to this ideal? Only if inequalities between private and public schools are. So it would be wrong for parents' groups to bolster a public school by providing resources beyond what's available to all children in the system only if it were also wrong to send children to private schools.
You may disagree. You may think something like this: Because the school is public, it has a special duty not to compound the unequal distribution of educational advantage. (This school, with its affluent catchment area and tax base, is way ahead of the game already, you point out.) While the parents' group is private, it's acting in and through the public school. The result can look like philanthropy for the privileged.
I grant that there's reason for concern here. For one thing, parents who have enriched their local school through their donations may feel less of an incentive to advocate for public education at the state level. And these parental fund-raising efforts do increase inequality (if only modestly, in relation to the some $600 billion each year that K-12 public education costs).
Yet even affluent public schools have fewer resources than many private schools. Raising money from parents and other outside donors allows them to do a better job than they otherwise would, resulting in better educations for some children in the public system than for others. Such disparities can be mitigated; some parent-teacher associations have, commendably, adopted a sister school from a less-affluent neighborhood, for example. But inevitably, we confront a trade-off between increasing fairness and increasing the number of people who get a worthwhile good; in this case, a better education.
Which returns us to the point with which I started. Certain values vary with roles: We expect an umpire to be a neutral party on the playing field, while Mom and Dad take a rooting interest in their kid. Government officials ought to be concerned with fairness and impartiality; it's right, and inevitable, that parents, and parents' associations, want to do the best they can for their children.
My grandson is in the military. At this point, I would consider him career military. He is enlisted and over the last 10 years has risen up through the ranks and received many citations and awards. Over the last several years he has been stationed overseas.
Recently he married for the fourth time, three weeks after his divorce from his third wife was final. The first two marriages were to United States citizens. The third was to a noncitizen and lasted about five years. He is scheduled to return to the States by the end of 2016. His current wife is not a United States citizen. There are no children from any of the marriages, although his third wife had a son, and my grandson helped support the child.
I've met all three previous wives and was happy that the third marriage seemed to be working out. I believe that the trouble with all three marriages began when he received an overseas deployment away from the marital home. His third marriage broke up when he was deployed to Afghanistan.
After I heard of the last divorce, I talked with him about taking stock and making good, well-thought-out decisions that would serve him for a lifetime. A couple of weeks later I received a wedding picture with him and an unknown woman in a wedding dress. Obviously, he didn't heed my advice.
I'm troubled about his life choices and have cautioned him about being too impulsive. He is planning a trip to the States with his new wife and wants to visit. One part of me wants to say: I've met all the wives I want to meet for a while. I feel like a child of a single parent whose mother or father keeps bringing a new daddy or mommy home. Of course, on the other hand, I love my grandson, and I don't want him to feel abandoned. But don't people bear responsibility for how their actions cause others to feel? And, shouldn't they recognize that responsibility? He says he accepts the way I feel about the recent marriage and included a smiley face, for Pete's sake, in a recent email.
My concern is: What is it about my grandson that makes him a serial marriager? He doesn't seem to recognize that this pattern of behavior is a problem (is it?) and therefore isn't going to seek therapy.
My daughter (his mother) says that she isn't going to spend any energy worrying about this as she can do nothing to change it. She says he is an adult and old enough to make his own decisions.
My grandson's behavior is so far out of my pay grade (excuse the government term) that I'm having a very hard time knowing how to react.
Am I so old now that my value system is out of date? Name Withheld
My response: If you don't like his choices, you don't have to see him. You can do what you want. You don't need anyone's permission.
You know him better than we do, but in general, if you respond to behavior you dislike by rewarding him, your reward will motivate him to continue the behavior. If you stop rewarding him, all else being equal, you'll decrease that motivation.
As for what motivates him, he knows better than anyone else. If you want to find out, I expect talking to him will answer you better than any other tactic. Maybe you could talk to someone who works with people who behave like him in situations like him.
You may find empathy and listening bring you understanding and closeness more than suggesting he get therapy and worrying. If you feel bad, who has the problem?
The psychological toll on our servicemen and women of regular deployments abroad can be substantial. Still, many military marriages do just fine. Your grandson's being a "serial marriager" (I like that phrase!) is a reflection of his own character, then, not just of his career. To answer your final question first: Your thinking that three failed marriages is a problem is not a matter of an out-of-date value system; it's just a recognition of the point of marriage. Surely, he didn't start on any of the marriages with the intention that it should end in a few years. (I leave aside the question of whether the failure lay in the ending of these marriages or in the starting of them.) Dr. Johnson said that remarriage represents the "triumph of hope over experience." Neither seems to have helped your grandson much. It's only natural that someone who loves him would want him to do better.
You're essentially asking if you should stop worrying about him. You've noticed that worrying and expressing your worries hasn't had much impact on his behavior. You might think you were just wasting your time. But if you care about someone, you're bound to care if his life isn't going well; you don't have a choice about it. The only thing that would justify feeling differently would be being convinced that these multiple marriages aren't a problem. And I can't help you with that, because, like you, I think they are.
Marriage is a social institution; it isn't just a contract between two people. This means that its failure can and often does come with broader costs, of the kind you seem to be paying. Is this an ethical issue? Yes, in the classical sense. For Aristotle, notably, ethics wasn't confined to narrow moral quandaries; it had to do with what sort of person we should be, with what kind of life we should lead. In this respect, your grandson, too, is paying a cost. If your lifelong commitments regularly come with an expiration date, you're probably not leading the best life you could.
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