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Finders, Keepers by Chloe Holiday
Posted on September 7, 2020 by Arti
I received Finders, Keepers by Chloe Holiday as a review copy from the author and I am thankful to her for the same.
Convinced her boyfriend is cheating, free-spirited Farrah flees a holiday party and dodges into a bar where straitlaced Caleb indulges in one drink. Charmed, she goes home with him, but her boyfriend's later texts persuade her she was mistaken. Horrified by what she's done, she sneaks out in the night, leaving Caleb with a single mitten …
A fast, fun stand-alone novella of 34,000 words, Finders, Keepers is a sexy modern Cinderella story with a dash of humor, plenty of spice, and NO CLIFFHANGERS!
Farrah Day works as an assistant at Global Marketing Services and loves to make soaps and candles with scented geraniums. Maybe, one day, she can make a real go with that because she is not cut out for a cubicle.
One evening, she realizes that her boyfriend is cheating. So, she walks away from the party to a bar where she meets Caleb Hirsch, an architecture student. Caleb takes her to his house, and the next morning, her boyfriend's message persuades her to come back to him. And she forgets her mitten there.
Caleb is shocked to find her missing, but when he sees her mitten, he starts looking for her.
Having read the second book of the series, I really wanted to read Farrah's story. This book is not part one of the story as we get glimpses of the next book in this one as well.
The story is simple, well written, and a fast paced read. The characters are realistic, well developed, and interesting. The author has portrayed the feelings of both Farrah and Caleb.
Waiting to read the final book in the series.
DISCLAIMER: I received a free e-book from the author in exchange for an honest review. I have not received any monetary compensation for the same.
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Bong Mom's Cookbook by Sandeepa Mukherjee Datta
I was born in Bengal, so I feel a whole lot of me is Bengali. People often ask my husband, "Is your wife a Bengali?" He says, "She is not, but her soul is". Living in Delhi for 12 years now, I miss the traditional Bengali food. Married in a Punjabi home, the smell of fish is a no-no. Though when we cook fish, it is with the chimney, the exhaust on and all the bedroom doors closed, followed by lighting candles to ward of the remnant smell. When I go mishti shopping in Delhi, the ones I want are not available, but Annapurna in Chandni Chowk is where my mishti shopping starts and ends.
The other day, I wanted to make Aloor dom in Bengali style and as I googled the word, Bong Mom's Cookbook popped out on screen.
There were recipes and recipes. The most positive thing that I found on the blog was where she wrote that she is coming up with the cookbook next. I was browsing through flipkart and it was there that I saw the book on sale. I ordered it and very promptly, it was delivered to me the day after.
I was expecting a big cook book but what came was an easy to handle novel style book with stories and recipes intermingling with each other which you could read from anywhere. The front cover was simple and nice and Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni rightly mentions on the back cover, "Authentic and enjoyable, clear and personal, studded with anecdotes that warm the heart and stir up your own memories of your favourite family recipes, Bong Mom's Cookbook is a delight to read. The only problem; you'll have to interrupt your reading many times to try out these mouth-watering recipes!".
This is what I did, I started the book on Thursday night at 11.55pm, read for an hour and a half and then started it off again in the morning. Two nights later, I am done with the book, I have earmarked all the recipes and flagged them. What I did was, I skipped the recipes entirely and read through her experiences because I knew if I sat down to read the recipes, I would want to make them as well. To get a taste of the Bengali cuisine, I went to Oh! Calcutta for a buffet lunch and a stomachful of Bengali food.
Her childhood, the meatsafe in her house, the kerosene stove, the Tista river, Chholar dal narikel diye, spending vacations in grandmother's house, sumeet mixer, Bangladeshi soaps like Dallas and Different Strokes, rotating the antenna for a better reception, taking a big packet of eclairs or orange candy to school for birthdays, tomato chaatni, aam chaatni, forbidden but tempting Miils and Boon in school are reminiscent of my childhood.
Her weekday stories of getting kids ready for school, dunking marie biscuits in tea, what would I do in a spa reflects my current status.
Sandeepa Mukherjee Datta has really presented the book very well but I missed the recipe index and beautiful colourful photographs. It was quite a pleasant read.
Publisher: Collins, An Imprint of Harper Collins Publishers
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Oh! Calcutta Cookbook by Anjan Chaterjee
Oh! Calcutta Cookbook by Anjan Chatterjee, the man behind the specialty restaurants like Oh! Calcutta, Mainland China.
The book is new in many ways: the contents at the beginning of the book have only the names of the chapters but these are well detailed in the index. The index is not alphabetical but topic wise. Looking at the contents at the beginning of the book, we can actually not tell what recipes would comprise the book.
The black and white sketches are very beautiful especially, the ikka, the ambassador car and the tea set. The introduction is very impressive. The editor deserves credit for keeping the introduction as it would be typed by not justifying the alignment. It gives a very homely feel to the introduction. The ikka watermark/ footnote at the bottom of each page is very reminiscent of Calcutta. The cooking techniques have been very well illustrated at the beginning of the book.
What could have been done (my thoughts entirely):
1. The paper used for the printed instructions could have been non-glossy, it is easier to read a non-glossy paper, less strain to the eyes
2. All the recipes could have been accompanied by photographs on the corresponding sheets (glossy paper would have done well here) so that we could know what it would look like
3. Handy tips and notes could have been footnoted.
Publisher: Random House India
My love is blind by Hiba Khan
Posted on August 6, 2014 by Arti
My love is blind by Hiba Khan is the story of Brooke Mathews who goes halfway round the world in pursuit of her disappeared fiancé. I received the book as a review copy from Indireads. Thank you, Naheed, for the book.
Brooke has fallen blindly in love with Harris Amin, a mathematics professor and a budding photographer in New York City. She firmly believes he is the man of her dreams, and when he asks her to marry him, she's ecstatic.
When he suddenly leaves for Pakistan without an explanation, or a forwarding address, Brooke is devastated, but determined to find him.
Armed with nothing more than his family name, his brother's place of work and his city, Brooke sets off on the journey of a lifetime to find him. But when she comes face to face with him, can her love survive the truth?
Brooke Mathews, an American works as the group head of Human Resources in a technology solutions firm, Simons.
The story starts with Brooke coming back to New York from a business trip and finds that Harris Amin, her fiancé, a Pakistani, is missing, gone without a trace, his phone is switched off and his flat empty. All she gets from his landlord is an envelope with a letter which states that he is leaving for Pakistan and would not be back and that she should forget him. The landlord tells her he does not have the address in Pakistan and remembers that the name of the place resemble the word scratchy. She suddenly realizes that though, she was engaged to him, she knows next to nothing about him, other than the fact that his brother, Irfan, works in Standard Chartered Bank in Pakistan. She just does not know what to do and when she discusses with her friends, they tell her to move on but she decides to follow him.
Once she reaches Pakistan, she starts her search only to reach a dead end every time, but does not lose hope or her perseverance.
The story is a little different than the rest and the flow is good. The romance between the characters and the concern they have for each other has been beautifully portrayed. I liked Brooke's persistence and her determination to find Harris and also the way her friend and her mother keep an eye on her when she is in Pakistan.
Book Source: Review copy provided by the publisher
Publisher: Indireads
Heartbeats by Sandhya Sridhar
Posted on December 16, 2013 by Arti
Heartbeats is Sandhya Sridhar's third book for Pageturn Publishers. It is the story of Suhasini and Rajan. The book is divided into three parts – each part based at a different place- Hyderabad, San Jose and a village near Hyderabad.
Suhasini Reddy, 28, the manager for events and admin solutions for SmartSoft IT, is based at Hyderabad. She is a born organizer, efficient and quick. She had no friends in school and kept to herself and now also she spends her free time with her mother Radhika, school teacher. She gets a promotion and a substantial increase in salary and moves base to Singapore and her mother winds up everything and moves to her native village near Hyderabad to manage an educational trust.
Rajan, 36, is the project lead in the software department. He is tall and bespectacled and has led a flexible life; rigidity and flexibility bores him. Born to Gujarati doctor parents, he is brought up in Mumbai till he is fifteen and then his parents moved to San Jose. After being married to Jaishree for five years, he is now divorced. He wears nondescript stuff and takes a bus to office, has no attachment to what he earns. He loves music, theatre and arts and was a part of a local band that played at pub at weekends. He is serious and self-contained. No one knows his true identity. Who is the real Rajan?
I liked the book, especially, the way the author has divided it into three parts and kept the story connected and moving.
Publisher: Pageturn Publishers
Mishti by Yamini Prashanth
Mishti is the first book written by eleven year old Yamini Prashanth. The book is a breath of fresh air in this stressful life.
Mishti is a little girl who loves being a tomboy and hates it when somebody calls her a dainty, little girl. She loves to play with boys and is better at cricket than them. She talks about her school, her neighbourhood and her friends. Her description of a car coming into their neighbourhood is very nice. My favourite was her description of the cricket match.
The cover is beautiful, happy and I wanted to pick the book up and read it as soon as I saw the cover. I loved the story and could not keep the book down till I finished it. As a rule, I do not read in a moving car, but I did. The illustrations by Yamini herself are so beautiful.
An excellent job done, Yamini.
Publisher: Unicorn Books
The edge of power by Tuhin A Sinha
The Edge of Power by Tuhin A Sinha was a pleasant surprise that I received from Hachette India. I would like to thank Sohini Bhattacharya of Hachette India who sent me this book for review. It is the sequel to "The Edge of Desire". The protagonist of both the books is Shruti Ranjan.
The heinous gang-rape of Nirbhaya has jolted the Indian nation out of its apathy but rape and violence against women are only symptomatic of a deeper malaise that ails the nation – the total collapse of governance under the weak and vacillating prime minister, Devender Singh and his Indian Democratic Party. Ironically, aiding the ruling party to cling to power is a casual and largely indifferent Opposition led by the venal Ravi Nehra. So when activist Daivik Verma and Bollywood's leading lady Catherine Khan decide to challenge the existing system by floating a new political party, it is seen as a ray of hope. But lack of funds and cadre-support thwarts their efforts; their only recourse now is to approach the enigmatic and reclusive Shruti Ranjan, who had sworn off politics three years earlier.
Will Nirbhaya's gruesome rape and her subsequent death bring a disillusioned Shruti Ranjan back into the political fray? Will the land of great leaders like Chandragupta Maurya, Ashoka and Akbar, finally get a dynamic Prime Minister she so badly needs?
The main characters:
Devender Singh, India's aging Prime Minister, belongs to Indian Democratic Party (IDP).
Mukta Prajapati is IDP's Chairperson. She is married to Rajveer Thakur, who is supposedly in real estate development.
Ravi Nehra, leader of the Opposition Jan-Hit party, has unbearable chauvinism, is a typical market driven politician and has as many vices as virtues. He has some noble intentions as well, and the positives in him often manage to camouflage the evil. He started off as a young MP from Rohtak after higher education from London, uses foul language and smokes biris. He is good looking and can go to any extent to impress a woman. He is married to Rhea Malviya and they have a three year old son, Anway, whom he dotes on. OSD Pathak is his most trusted Officer.
Rhea Malviya, Ravi Nehra's estranged wife and the daughter of Sharad Malviya, a firm, decisive and dynamic national leader, referred to by the media as 'the best Prime Minister that India never had'. She writes a biography on her father and launches a political party, Nationalist League (Sharad) with Shruti Ranjan. She wants to divorce her husband.
Shruti Ranjan, wife of the Deputy Commissioner of Kishanganj, Bihar, who was brutally gang raped fifteen years ago. She did not get the trust of her husband, met Sharad Malviya and her life took a new turn. She became a politician and quit both politics and public life three years ago after a humiliating incident. She is located at an ashram in Madhya Pradesh by Daivik and Catherine, who want her to come back. She is fond of Rhea and dislikes Ravi Nehra. Everyone wants her to comeback after the Nirbhaya incident.
Daivik Verma, a journalist turned activist, represents the common man with his Azad Bharat Party. He comes from a politically aware family, his grandfather is Gandhaian. He has grown all over the country, finished his schooling in Ranchi and after studying history in St Stephen's College, Delhi and MA in Political Science from JNU. He wanted to become a documentary film maker but became a freelance journalist with a film magazine and also a political cartoonist.
Catherine Khan, has an Indian father, is a Bollywood actress, lives in Mumbai, is fighting for a divorce following a failed marriage to Armaan Kapoor and a three year old daughter, Nia. She was a British TV and Stage performer before being discovered by an Indian filmmaker. She shares a special bond with Daivik. She is the ABP spokesperson. She feels a strong connection with Subhash Chandra Bose.
The book starts with a prologue recounting the 16th December 2012 incident at Delhi and a similar incident fifteen years ago in a remote village in the Kishanganj district of Bihar. The story then moves along, keeping in mind the timeline of incidents that rocked India after 16th December 2013, till the next assembly elections.
The review:
The book has been written in a style which is fast paced making it easy to read and the flow is good. He has taken the current issues making it all the more relevant. He has given an insiders view into the world of politics, politicians and the country's political scenario. A lot many times, while reading the book, I would try to match the book's characters with real life politicians.
Overall, a very well researched and well written book.
Book source: Review copy from Hachette India
Publisher: Hachette India
Date of publication: December 2013
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You can't fight a royal attraction by Ruchi Vasudeva
You can't fight a royal attraction is the second book by Indian Mills and Boon Author Ruchi Vasudeva. It can be rightly called a sequel to her first book, 'Bollywood Fiance for a Day', which was published by the same publisher. The book starts four years after Vishakha and Zaheer's marriage (the main characters of the first book).
Saira Sehgal, Vishakha's sister who had married Vishakha's fiancé, is now 24 and divorced, after three years of playing the dutiful daughter-in-law and accommodating wife. Her parents don't want her to stay with them and she is staying with Vishakha in Mumbai and helping with their three year old son, Aragham.
Rihaan Khehra, Zaheer's friend, is a scriptwriter and has great respect for Zaheer and Vishakha (he calls her bhabhisa) and cares about them. He is a moody writer and an absent minded plotter. The only thing he can cook is jaggery rice. He does not talk about his childhood and his family: it is his closely guarded secret.
He suggests that Saira goes with him to his house for a weekend so that she does not trouble Vishakha and then takes her along when he goes to meet his parents.
The characters have been very well portrayed and relatable. Rihaan's secret made me want to finish the book in one sitting. I loved the concept of a sequel to a Mills and Boon. Usually, after a story ends, we o not know what happened to the couple, but, this isn't the case here. It was an enjoyable read and is highly recommended, becomes more interesting if you have read her first book. A good job done, Ruchi.
Publisher: Harlequin India
A new dawn by Meera Srikant
Posted on December 6, 2013 by Arti
A New Dawn by Meera Srikant is the story of Anuradha Thakur, set in New Delhi.
Anuradha works is a part of the editorial team of 'Industry Matters' magazine, a print magazine for thirty years run by Mr Arya, who sold a stake to a venture fund to expand it inot an online business. She had joined the magazine as a reporter four years ago. She lives with her hypochondriac mother who is dependent on her for everything and clings to her.
Mr Arya sacks her boss, Ganesh, whom she adores and many other people in the magazine and takes over, who is rude, treating her as his typist and secretary.
Also there is Chintan Arya, who has no interest in his father's business but is elping his father.
The book was nice, a light read, though I thought that the end could have been less complicated.
I don't know, how Anuradha became Anushka, a printing mistake or if Chintan changed her name?
Publisher: Pageturn
Baramulla Bomber by Clark Prasad
When I received an email from the readerscosmos saying that that they have the book "Baramulla Bomber" by Clark Prasad up for review and would I be interested, I went on and read the blurb, which excited me. Though I am not into Sci-fi books, but I thought, let me give it a shot, and I replied to them saying that yes, I would like to review the book. I would like to thank Nimi Vashi (of http://thereaderscosmos.blogspot.in/) for the book.
An Ancient Weapon from the Vedas & Bible
Once Hunted by the Nazis
Powered by the Sound of the Universe
Reborn with the Help of Quantum Physics
Going to be Unleashed onto the World
& Kashmir Holds it's Secret
Multiple intelligence agencies are tracking Mansur Haider, a god-fearing aspiring cricketer from Kashmir. His girlfriend, Aahana Yajurvedi, is trying to locate her missing mountaineering team, who vanished after a mysterious earthquake strikes Shaksgam Valley. Investigating Mansur and the Shaksgam Valley incident is Swedish intelligence officer, Adolf Silfverskiold, whose only relationship to god consists of escorting his girlfriend to Church.
To save the world
A dual China-Pakistan battlefront scenario facing the Indian Home Minister, Agastya Rathore, whose ancestors carry a prehistoric secret linked to the stars. He is faced with the challenge of finding a lasting solution to the Kashmir crisis.
Is to challenge one's faith
Which Biblical Weapon was Tested in Shaksgam Valley? Why is Mansur Haider Important? Is There a Solution to the Kashmir Crisis? Can Destiny be Controlled? Does a Cosmic Religion Exist?
Before the book begins, there is a warning followed by a request, followed by a quote from Albert Einstein.
'There are images and illustrations in this book. In order to avoid plot spoilers please do not flip through the pages or read mid sections.'
'Reviewers are requested not to give away the details of the plot in blogs, social media sites or other media channels which may act as plot-spoilers for others.
Keeping in mind the warning and the request, the review:
The main characters mentioned in the book are a group of royal descendants, Cho Skyong; Abhimanyu Kashyap, a survivor of the blast which involved Cho Skyong; Mansur Haider, a cricket lover from Kashmir; Samir Ansari's Mansur's childhood friend; Ahana Yajurvedi, his girlfriend; Adolf Silfverskiold, he Swedish intelligence officer; Agastya Harshvardhan Rathore. India's Home Minister to name a few.
The English is simple and easy to understand. The pace is slow initially; it takes a lot of time to get a feel of the characters. The plot is wonderful and the author has researched a lot to get to this plot and made it look realistic. Once I got involved with the book, I just could not keep it down. The book revolves around cricket, mythology, politics, religion, terrorism, technology and quantum physics as the cover says. A part of the Svastik Trilogy, it will be relished more by the Scifi thriller lovers.
Though, the author has mentioned the place at the beginning of the chapter, he has maintained the time as IST everywhere. The maps were very informative as to where what was going on. The plot is based in India and Sweden and the story is spread across India, Sweden, Pakistan, USA, China and Norway.
An excellent debut work by the author.
Book Source: The Readers Cosmos Book Review Program
Publisher: Niyogi Books
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The word "candidate" derives from the word "candid", and politicians running for office this year have learned that voters prefer frank talk, not a sales pitch. The same is true for homeowners shopping for a mortgage. As we prepare for springtime – which is historically the best time to buy a home – it is appropriate to talk about ways to weed out the hype about exotic residential mortgages in favor of old-fashioned fixed rate loans.
The most recent bull market in real estate was artificially inflated by high-risk loans that encouraged consumers to leverage themselves to the max. The old fashioned and reliable 30-year fixed rate mortgage – which helped to steadily grow this nation's housing market for many decades – was upstaged by sexier, trendier, more exotic residential mortgages. Too many borrowers got in over their heads and are now paying a painful price, and the current mortgage crisis has left consumers shell-shocked and wary.
Many bad loans were made to good people within the past few years, and millions of borrowers got stuck with ultra fancy mortgages that were inappropriate, expensive, and downright difficult to comprehend. To avoid that trap while getting the most from your mortgage dollars, it pays to learn as much as possible about various types of loans and refinancing programs. Choose those that help you grow equity in realistic, manageable ways.
Highly leveraged loans have their place in the market, but for most homebuyers, especially those who are not professional investors, such mortgages can be a financial nightmare. Especially in 2008, it is prudent to opt for a low-risk, no-frills mortgage with user-friendly terms and conditions that will not change with the weather but will help you safely withstand any economic climate or storm.
Here is the straight sauce on three of the most exotic – but more risky – home loans.
Suddenly hybrids came into fashion, playing upon the emotions of those who associate anything named "hybrid" with ecological responsibility and energy independence. And while these hybrid mortgages blended the best of several different types of loans into one convenient and user-controlled package, most were structured around a typical adjustable interest rate mortgage. In today's climate an adjustable rate is too volatile for most homeowners, and the other hybrid features are just more high-risk bells and whistles.


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This east Georgia medical center is seeking a board certified/board eligible Family Medicine physician to join an employed traditional practice with outpatient responsibilities. This salaried physician will receive a competitive salary based on MGMA guidelines, full employee benefits (including profit sharing, relocation expenses and educational loan assistance), as well as, office setup and support from the administrative management team.
Since 1999, the medical center has been named the Consumer Choice Award winner for overall quality and image. The Consumer Choice Award is based on an independent survey of consumers conducted by National Research Corporation to recognize the most preferred hospitals in metropolitan areas across the country. This places the medical center in an elite group of hospitals nationwide.


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The Indo-Pacific Space Race
Darjeeling Resident Hit with A Wooden Plank in South Delhi, Two Arrested
The traditional phrase 'space race' was associated with two countries USA and Russia but today as the global power axis shifts from Asia Pacific to Indo-Pacific, countries like India, China, Japan, Singapore, Vietnam etc are leading the regions innovation development strategy using space exploration as a strategic medium.
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Updated:January 11, 2017, 6:29 PM IST
Security personnel officer walks in front of the India's Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV-C25), carrying the Mars orbiter, before its launch at Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota, India launched its first rocket to Mars on November 5, 2013, aiming to put a satellite in orbit around the red planet at a lower cost than previous missions and potentially positioning the emerging Asian nation as a budget player in the global space race. (Photo: Reuters)
Asia in particular is looking at space exploration today as a medium of foreign policy and for developmental purposes.
"Space exploration is no more a domain controlled by the US or Russia, today more than 60 players are involved. There are several public and private players in Asia, Africa and Latin America who are coming forward to tap into the potential of space, be it for developmental purposes, socio-economic purposes, or for tele-education, tele-medecine or even for strategically for military purposes," said Rajeshwari Pillai Rajagopalan, Senior Fellow and Head, Nuclear and Space Policy for Observer Research Foundation.
However what is uncertain though is if one of these countries in Asia will turn up to win the ultimate space race, but leaders are steering their respective country's scientific technological strength with space exploration as an important catalyst. Of the ten countries that have independently successfully launched a satellite into orbit, six are Asian: China, India, Iran, Israel, Japan and North Korea.
Two years after launching the Mars orbiter mission in its first attempt, India's space agency, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), launched as many as 34 satellites into space in 2016; these included 22 foreign satellites and 12 Indian ones.
In February 2017, Indian Space Research Organisation will launch 103 satellites using its workhorse PSLV-C37, while Prime Minister Narendra Modi's pet project the SAARC satellite also known as the South Asian satellite will be also be launched soon by ISRO.
"Countries like Israel or Singapore prefer India to others as an ideal launch pad for their satellites as it is affordable. A launch from India costs around $100mn or $200mn as compared to a launch from France or USA, which is expensive today." says Prof. Srikanth Kondapalli, Professor of Chinese Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi.
In addition to its Mars mission, India has launched the Chandrayaan I in 2008-09, has a planned Chandrayaan II rover mission and plans are afloat for an eventual independent human spaceflight program. India has also created the Integrated Space Cell (ISC) which is aimed at handling operational control of selected observation and communication satellites to each of its military branches.
The Integrated Space Cell is currently operated jointly by the three service arms, the DRDO, and the ISRO, making it more of a central information network system.
India's ISC may be the stepping stone to a fully fledged Indian Military Space Command in the near future.
"In October 2014, the Government of India took a decision to instate the country's first defence space agency, an interim body. It is decisions like these that points to the fact that there are meaningful but small steps being taken on the ground to develop military characteristics in the field of space," opines Rajeshwari Pillai.
Prof. Srikanth Kondapalli feels that India has always seen space for civilian and developmental means but China's actions have prompted it to take counter measures especially to develop its own military architecture in the field of space.
"In 2009, China conducted its anti satellite test, that in a sense rattled the DRDO. At that time we had just one military satellite. If you take USA, out of their 100 satellites, they have 40 satellites looking over China. If the Chinese follow their age old theory of beating up "US and its allies", then India has to stand guard and build capabilities," he said.
True to this, China has been aggressive to ramp up space exploration. In the last 5 years, China has already signed 43 space co-operation agreements or memorandums of understanding with nearly 30 countries, space agencies and international organizations.
China has also recently released an official white paper on its space mission stating that it will launch a lunar probe in 2018 to achieve world's first soft landing on the far side of the moon and mission to Mars in the same year.
China conducted 22 launch missions in 2016 and 19 in 2015; it is set to launch a record 30 missions in 2017.
In years to come, China also plans to provide countries associated with the Belt and Road initiative with facilities of satellite communications, navigation and weather forecasting analysis.
Prof. Srikanth also feels that India and China also have a lot to collaborate in the field of space.
"India and China have a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) in the field of space. Chinese and Indian Space programmes are identitical, the structure and talent is the same. I have been witness to a lot of discussions between Chinese and Indian scientists, they are friendly and the bonhomie is evident. The focus of these interactions remain how best to use space to contribute and solve social issues," he added.
Ajay Lele, Senior Fellow, IDSA feels that China is using space as a tool of nationalism.
"China wants to use space as a tool of nationalism and seeks to be seen as a spearhead of technological leadership. One must understand that space is thoughtfully chosen by China, they are engaging with countries in Africa. Recently a Nigerian satellite sought help and was replaced by China. China is leaving no stone unturned to tap into these mineral rich African countries," he added.
Japan is not lagging behind either, the country is working on the go-getting Hayabusa 2 mission, which aims to put four landers on an asteroid by 2018 and then return soil samples to earth.
It is widely reported that Japanese officials see an intimate connection between their space accomplishments and the ability of its economy to export advanced technologies.
Japan has also come forward to support Australia, to whom it has provided $1 billion of support toward construction of a national space centre and the purchase of two Japanese Earth observation satellites, whose data may be shared by the two countries.
Australia also has Memorandum of Understanding with the Indian Space Research Organisation and the Indian Institute of Science in the field of space.
In October 2016, the Strait Times came out with an editorial affirming Singapore's interest in the field of space, 'Singapore well placed for satellite launching business', it further elaborated, "Space exploration has been identified as the next frontier. A corollary of this is the satellite-launching industry, which is worth billions of dollars. The spin-off is thousands of high-skill jobs. Skills are readily available and accessible, but not many countries have an ecosystem of world-class universities, top-notch researchers, high-tech industries and a First World economy such as ours. Herein lays our comparative advantage. Being near the equator also makes Singapore an ideal location for a space port," it noted.
While countries like India are looking at tapping into space for developmental purposes. Other South Asian countries are looking to expand their space potential looking at China's rise and a possible threat of force and the South China Sea dispute.
"What China says at international platforms and what it does on ground are diametrically opposite. That is precisely why you have countries like Vietnam, who have begun to lay emphasis on space and build their own architecture." said Rajeshwari Pillai Rajagopal.
With the narrative and the focus shifting to Indo-Pacific region, interesting proposals such as the South Asian satellite and a dedicated BRICS satellite are also in the offing. What will be interesting to observe though will be how the Asian powers will stay relevant in the Indo-Pacific Space Race and also how these powers will use the potential of space to enhance communication, remove poverty and a host of other social evils that plague the society today.
(The author is an alumnus of the Asian College of Journalism and is currently the Deputy Director at India Foundation – a New Delhi-based think tank. Views expressed by the author are strictly personal)
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Rosamund and God's Little Acre
Posted on July 25, 2020 by Royal Rosamond Press
Capturing Beauty
John Presco
After posting yesterday's blog on Charles Shield's webpage, I began to wonder if Harper Lee had been toppled from a perch of some kind. Was The South now without a Southern Masterpiece, a quintessential writer who wrote from the bosom of Beulieu Land? Then Erksine Caldwell popped in my mind. I had used his Tobacco Road to write a scathing review of Thomas Pynchon's movie 'Inherent Vice'. I almost didn't publish it figuring it spelled doom for my career as an author. But, I had been unfriended by Shields and Boris Kackha for being…..an out of control Hippie Wannabe – on acid?
Once again my powerful muse was on target, and Tom may have realized what a genius I am by figuring out Caldwell is his hero – and his books have inspired his writing! Wow! Why not? I highly suspect my grandfather was inspired by Caldwell. Tobacco Road is one of the longest running plays on Broadway. New York swells loved to look at misshapen clodhoppers who are as dumb as a box of hammers. Their struggles, became their struggle during the Depression. Consider the Dukes of Hazard, HeeHaw, the Real McCoys, Al Capp, the Beverly Hillbillies, and The Smother Brother's Show. Let's not leave out The Grand Old Opera and Rock and Roll Hippies!
Inherent Vice is about a bunch of Odd Balls who come onto the stage….one at a time! There are supposed to be laugh and gags here, but, only one scene got a chuckle, I did take note I am kin to Reese Witherspoon, who is in the Preston Breckenridge tree. My Rosamond ancestors are from South Carolina and may have fought alongside the Witherspoon in the War of Independence. I thought it was high time to google 'God's Little Acre'. So I did. And I – gasped! Before my eyes was my mother's maiden name, in one of its spellings.
Rosamond is the daughter of Ty Ty Walden. She is the wife of William Thompson. Royal Rosamond's father is..
WILLIAM THOMAS ROSAMOND
Then I struck gold in my long genealogical tale which half of this blog is. Caldwell's mother was born a Preston. We are kin. General William Preston is the cousin of Jessie Benton Fremont, whose mother – was the South – which has risen again with the help of the President of the United States!
For two years now, millions of facebook users are wondering where all these Dumb-ass HeeHaw Clodhopper Folks have come from, and what do they have t do with the Swank Republican Party cofounded by my kin. John Fremont. Black Radicals have threatened to close down 'Hamilton'. I got a replacement if they do. In may of 2013 I posted on the Manifest Destiny of John Astor and his attorney, Thomas Hart Benton. I will have to do a count of how many folks kin to the Preston's had their statues torn down.
What I see is a musical based upon my kin, Erskine Caldwell, who defends these statues in a revolutionary tribunal. His sidekick is Washington Irving who Astor hired to author a book on Manifest Destiny. I am in like Flint. I will now consider writing Caldwell's biography, the first an arrested for obscenity' and pornography in America. Did Lenny Bruce dig Erskine? I recall Rosemary bidding her kids to come watch God's Little Acre that was on T.V. thanks to Channel 2 in Oakland. I was thirteen and did not get why my mother was so excited. Now I do.
I now suspect I am the embodiment of Erskine Caldwell who is buried in Ashland Oregon. I will do my famous Mad Chicken Dance at his strange monument – and Caldwell will be reborn!
Consider Rena, my Country Muse. We got to call a truce. Mary Ann and I have got to make peace – too! This is it…………THE FINAL CURTAIN!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/God%27s_Little_Acre
https://rosamondpress.com/2013/05/31/benton-preston-family-go-west/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erskine_Caldwell
Caldwell was born on December 17, 1903, in the small town of White Oak, Coweta County, Georgia. He was the only child of Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church minister Ira Sylvester Caldwell and his wife Caroline Preston (née Bell) Caldwell, a schoolteacher. Rev. Caldwell's ministry required moving the family often, to places including Florida, Virginia, Tennessee, South Carolina and North Carolina. When he was 15 years old, his family settled in Wrens, Georgia.[4] His mother Caroline was from Virginia. Her ancestry included English nobility which held large land grants in eastern Virginia. Both her English ancestors and Scots-Irish ancestors fought in the American Revolution. Ira Caldwell's ancestors were Scots-Irish and had also been in America since before the revolution and had fought in it.[5]
Caldwell attended but did not graduate from Erskine College, a Presbyterian school in nearby South Carolina. His political sympathies were with the working classes, and he used his experiences with farmers and common workers to write stories portraying their lives and struggles. Later in life he presented public seminars on the typical conditions of tenant-sharecroppers in the South.[4]
Benton-Preston Family Go West
Posted on May 31, 2013by Royal Rosamond Press
Thursday, I took the train to Portland, the 'Rose City'. Heading to the art museum, I saw a building with a mural on the side of it. There were covered wagons, and I assumed this had something to do with John Fremont 'The Pathfinder'. Being kin to John, his wife, Jessie Benton, and the late muralist, Garth Benton, I wondered how much family history I could discover in Rose Town.
Lucky for me the research room was open, and taking a seat a small book was put before me by the Oregon History Librarian, titled 'A Year of American Travel' written by Jessie Benton who came West following her husband's footsteps. When I read the following paragraph, I saw the light;
"At the Astor House where we were staying, we found a party favorite relatives, my cousin, General William Preston, and his family assembled to welcome back from Europe a member who had been away for years."
Odd that this person is not named. Is there a reason? In studying the Fremont history I am struck by how sparse and scattered it is. There are gaping holes in their story that begs one to read between the lines. I have contended the history of John and Jessie has been disappeared, their true motive for their explorations, made vague and elusive. With the mention of the Astor House, I may have found the key to reading the Fremont Rosetta Stone.
John Jacob Astor was considered one of the richest men in the world. His fortune came from beaver pelts. When he sold the Oregon Territory to the British, he may have made the biggest bad business deal of his life – that he was determined to reverse. To this end, he may have employed his attorney, Thomas Hart Benton, the father of Jessie, and perhaps John's right-hand man. Senator Benton was a promoter of 'Manifest Destiny'.
What does this have to do with the price of rice in China?
This morning, I read a news article that the new Attorney General of the United States confronted the Chinese Army about their attack in our cyberspace. The Benton-Preston genealogy is Who's Who in American History. In the paper he authored, Senator Benton suggests Americans should rule the West and Asia that lie across the Pacific. In response to the accusation China is invading our space, a female major defended this attack from the Chinese Manifest Destiny;
"His comments triggered a wry response from Maj. Gen. Yao Yunzhu, director of the Center for China-America Defense Relations, at the People's Liberation Army's Academy of Military Science, who challenged him to better explain America's intentions in its building up of the military across the region."
"General Yao Yunzhu is suggesting 'The Pathfinder' has beat a path to China's door, and thus it is permitted for the Red Army to invade our cyberspace. One can conclude that 'The Manifest War of Cyberspace' is on. I know how the United States can win this war, because I saw it coming in my novel 'The Gideon Computer'. The cyberspace battle I depicted in 1986, was fought between the homeless hippie, Berkeley Bill Bolagard, and Thomas Gideon, the wealthiest man on earth. It is alleged the hippies invented cyberspace. If true, then only a real hippie can defend this space.
China became a capitalist nation in order to defeat its foes. John Astor would be worth 200 billion dollars by todays standards. When the librarian put a letter Jessie wrote, before me, I feasted on The Truth. In this historic document Jessie Benton defends the accusation folks are making that her father is pro-slavery. At the same time she suggests his manifest destiny is still alive, and the "temperate zones" are there for the taking. These zones appear to include Mexico and all of South America.
What this letter suggests, is that Jessie is assuring Britain slavery will not go West, and take root in the Oregon Territory. This letter, may have convinced the abolitionists in Britain it was moral to sell back the land – this space that once belonged to John Jacob Astor, back to American business men who were overcoming the Western hemisphere.
Outside the OHS, is a life-size equestrian statue of Theodore Roosevelt, a rose name. Stay tuned folks, for her come the 'Last Hippie on Earth' to save the day. With joy he is aching to tell the head of the Center for China-America Defense Relations, where to go……for he is all INCLUSIVE! On some days, he thinks he is God. In America this hippie is entitled to his opinion, and can vent his spleen on any given day. Not so in China! Indeed Gen. Yao Yunzhu's words have gone though committee. She can not just go online to give her opinions. Not too many Chinese leaders own such a privilege, and, not too many Chinese citizens. What I am saying is, there may be more Chinses people in the world, but, very few of them dwell in cyberspace. We the People of the Unite States – got them outnumbered!
Get out! Get out of our cyberspace – and stay out!
Jon Presco
Speaking Saturday at a security conference in Singapore that he helped to form more than a decade ago, Hagel said: "The United States has expressed our concerns about the growing threat of cyber intrusions, some of which appear to be tied to the Chinese government and military." While he is not the first U.S. official to publicly blame China for computer-based attacks that steal data from U.S. government and corporate networks, he delivered the rebuke in China's backyard, with members of Beijing's government in the audience.
http://www.suddenlink.net/pages/fpreston/sfwilliam.htm
http://www.suddenlink.net/pages/fpreston/sfletprmem.htm
In 1810, John Jacob Astor's Pacific Fur Company sent the Astor Expedition that founded Fort Astoria as its primary fur-trading post in the Northwest, and in fact the first permanent U.S. settlement on the Pacific coast. It was an extremely important post for American exploration of the continent and was influential in establishing American claims to the land. Fort Astoria was constructed in 1811.
Senator Thomas Hart Benton on Manifest Destiny (1846)
It would seem that the White race alone received the divine command, to subdue and replenish the earth: for it is the only race that has obeyed it-the only race that hunts out new and distant lands, and even a New World, to subdue and replenish . . . .
The Red race has disappeared from the Atlantic coast; the tribes that resisted civilization met extinction. This is a cause of lamentation with many. For my part, I cannot murmur at what seems to be the effect of divine law. I cannot repine that is this Capitol has replace the wigwam-this Christian people, replaced the savages-white matrons, the red squaws . . . . Civilization, or extinction, has been the fate of all people who have found themselves in the trace of the advancing Whites, and civilization, always the preference of the Whites, has been pressed as an object, while extinction has followed as a consequence of its resistance . . . .
The van of the Caucasian race now top the Rocky Mountains, and spread down on the shores of the Pacific. In a few years a great population will grow up there, luminous with the accumulated lights of the European and American civilization. There presence in such a position cannot be without it influence upon eastern Asia. . . .
The Mongolian, or Yellow race is there, four hundred millions in number spreading almost to Europe; a race once the foremost of the human family in the arts of civilization, but torpid and stationary for thousands of years. It is a race far above the Ethiopian, or Black-above the Malay, or Brown, (if we admit five races)-and above the American Indian or Red; it is a race far above all these, but still far below the White and like all the rest, must receive an impression from the superior race whenever they come in contact . . . .
The sun of civilization must shine across the sea; socially and commercially the van of the Caucasians, and the rear of the Mongolians, must intermix. They must talk together, and trade together, and marry together. . . . Moral and intellectual superiority will do the rest; the White race will take the ascendant, elevating what is susceptible of improvement-wearing out what is not. . . . And thus the youngest people, and the newest land, will become the reviver and the regenerator of the oldest . . . .
It is in this point of view, and as acting upon the social, political, and religious condition of Asia, and giving a new point of departure to her ancient civilization, that I look upon the settlement of the Columbia river by the van of the Caucasian race as the most momentous human event in the history of man since his dispersion over the face of the earth.
Congressional Globe, 29:1 (1846), 917-18.
John L. O'Sullivan on Manifest Destiny, 1839
Excerpted from "The Great Nation of Futurity," The United States Democratic Review, Volume 6, Issue 23, pp. 426-430. The complete article can be found in The Making of America Series at Cornell University
The American people having derived their origin from many other nations, and the Declaration of National Independence being entirely based on the great principle of human equality, these facts demonstrate at once our disconnected position as regards any other nation; that we have, in reality, but little connection with the past history of any of them, and still less with all antiquity, its glories, or its crimes. On the contrary, our national birth was the beginning of a new history, the formation and progress of an untried political system, which separates us from the past and connects us with the future only; and so far as regards the entire development of the natural rights of man, in moral, political, and national life, we may confidently assume that our country is destined to be the great nation of futurity.
It is so destined, because the principle upon which a nation is organized fixes its destiny, and that of equality is perfect, is universal. It presides in all the operations of the physical world, and it is also the conscious law of the soul — the self-evident dictates of morality, which accurately defines the duty of man to man, and consequently man's rights as man. Besides, the truthful annals of any nation furnish abundant evidence, that its happiness, its greatness, its duration, were always proportionate to the democratic equality in its system of government. . . .
What friend of human liberty, civilization, and refinement, can cast his view over the past history of the monarchies and aristocracies of antiquity, and not deplore that they ever existed? What philanthropist can contemplate the oppressions, the cruelties, and injustice inflicted by them on the masses of mankind, and not turn with moral horror from the retrospect?
America is destined for better deeds. It is our unparalleled glory that we have no reminiscences of battle fields, but in defence of humanity, of the oppressed of all nations, of the rights of conscience, the rights of personal enfranchisement. Our annals describe no scenes of horrid carnage, where men were led on by hundreds of thousands to slay one another, dupes and victims to emperors, kings, nobles, demons in the human form called heroes. We have had patriots to defend our homes, our liberties, but no aspirants to crowns or thrones; nor have the American people ever suffered themselves to be led on by wicked ambition to depopulate the land, to spread desolation far and wide, that a human being might be placed on a seat of supremacy.
We have no interest in the scenes of antiquity, only as lessons of avoidance of nearly all their examples. The expansive future is our arena, and for our history. We are entering on its untrodden space, with the truths of God in our minds, beneficent objects in our hearts, and with a clear conscience unsullied by the past. We are the nation of human progress, and who will, what can, set limits to our onward march? Providence is with us, and no earthly power can. We point to the everlasting truth on the first page of our national declaration, and we proclaim to the millions of other lands, that "the gates of hell" — the powers of aristocracy and monarchy — "shall not prevail against it."
The far-reaching, the boundless future will be the era of American greatness. In its magnificent domain of space and time, the nation of many nations is destined to manifest to mankind the excellence of divine principles; to establish on earth the noblest temple ever dedicated to the worship of the Most High — the Sacred and the True. Its floor shall be a hemisphere — its roof the firmament of the star-studded heavens, and its congregation an Union of many Republics, comprising hundreds of happy millions, calling, owning no man master, but governed by God's natural and moral law of equality, the law of brotherhood — of "peace and good will amongst men.". . .
Yes, we are the nation of progress, of individual freedom, of universal enfranchisement. Equality of rights is the cynosure of our union of States, the grand exemplar of the correlative equality of individuals; and while truth sheds its effulgence, we cannot retrograde, without dissolving the one and subverting the other. We must onward to the fulfilment of our mission — to the entire development of the principle of our organization — freedom of conscience, freedom of person, freedom of trade and business pursuits, universality of freedom and equality. This is our high destiny, and in nature's eternal, inevitable decree of cause and effect we must accomplish it. All this will be our future history, to establish on earth the moral dignity and salvation of man — the immutable truth and beneficence of God. For this blessed mission to the nations of the world, which are shut out from the life-giving light of truth, has America been chosen; and her high example shall smite unto death the tyranny of kings, hierarchs, and oligarchs, and carry the glad tidings of peace and good will where myriads now endure an existence scarcely more enviable than that of beasts of the field. Who, then, can doubt that our country is destined to be the great nation of futurity?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyberspace
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/hagel-delivers-warning-china-19301740
God's Little Acre is a 1933 novel by Erskine Caldwell about a dysfunctional farming family in Georgia obsessed with sex and wealth. The novel's sexual themes were so controversial that the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice asked a New York state court to censor it. Although controversial, the novel became an international best seller with over 10 million copies sold,[1] and was published as an Armed Services Edition during WWII. God's Little Acre is Caldwell's most popular novel, although his reputation is often tied to his 1932 novel Tobacco Road, which was listed in the Modern Library 100 Best Novels.[1] God's Little Acre was later adapted as a 1958 film starring Robert Ryan.
1Plot summary
2Themes
3Controversy
4Cultural references
5References
Plot summary[edit]
The novel, told from a third-person perspective, is set in the early 1930s. Ty Ty Walden is a widower who owns a small farm in Georgia, just across the border from South Carolina. His daughter, Rosamund, is married to Will Thompson, a worker in a cotton textile mill. Another daughter, whom everyone in the novel refers to as Darling Jill, is unmarried. His son, Buck Walden, is married to the beautiful Griselda. Buck and Griselda live on the farm with Ty Ty and Ty Ty's other (unmarried) son, Shaw. Pluto Swint, an obese and lazy local farmer, sexually desires and wants to marry Darling Jill, who constantly humiliates him.
Ty Ty is obsessed with finding gold on his land, and he, Buck, and Shaw spend most of their time digging holes on the farm. Ty Ty has promised to donate any profits generated by a 1-acre (4,000 m2) parcel of the farm to the church, but, terrified that gold will be found on "God's acre", he keeps moving the acre marker around. Only two African American hired hands, Uncle Felix and Black Sam, do any farming on the property, and the Waldens largely live off loans and what little income Felix and Sam generate. The local union of mill workers was locked out by management 18 months earlier after they protested against a wage cut. Extensive poverty now afflicts the towns of Scottsville and Clark's Mill, and the Horse Creek Valley (where the Waldens live). Will fantasizes about entering the mill and turning on the power again to bring employment back to the townspeople.
The novel opens with Pluto Swint arriving at the Walden farm to announce that he is running for county sheriff. Pluto mentions that an albino will be able to dowse for gold and tells Ty Ty that an albino was spotted in the southern part of the county. Ty Ty, Buck, and Shaw drive off to kidnap the albino.
Pluto and Darling Jill drive to the Thompson house in Scottsville, and spend the night there. The next morning, Will makes love to Darling Jill while Rosamund is out buying hairpins; when Rosamund returns she discovers the two naked in bed together and beats Darling Jill with a hair brush. She fires a gun twice at Will but misses, and he flees the house "naked as a jay-bird" though an open window. Rosamund and Darling Jill reconcile through tears, "as though suffering a common bereavement."
Later that day Will returns wearing just a pair of borrowed shorts. After he gets dressed Pluto drives Rosamund, Will and Darling Jill back to Ty Ty's house. On the way, they talk about Jim Leslie, another son of Ty Ty's, who started as a mill worker and married a rich man's daughter. Jim has become a wealthy cotton broker who now snubs mill workers as "lint-heads."
Ty Ty, Buck, and Shaw return with the albino, a boy in his late teens named Dave Dawson. Ty Ty speaks at length about Darling Jill's beauty. After supper, Dave takes Darling Jill into the woods and has intercourse with her. Ty Ty and Buck search for them, and then watch them make love, although Ty Ty declares that he only thought they were hugging each other, since he couldn't see a thing in the pale light. (There are undercurrents of incest throughout the novel.)
The second day, Will arrives at the Walden farm. Shaw and Buck (who suspects that Will is intending to seduce Griselda) engage in a fist-fight with him, but Ty Ty breaks it up. Will talks to Dave, who says he does not want to return to his poverty-stricken home in the southern swamps.
That night, the family drives into town so Ty Ty can ask his estranged son Jim Leslie for a loan. Ty Ty, Darling Jill, and Griselda meet with Jim, who reluctantly gives Ty Ty $300., warning him not to ask for any more money and advising him to farm the land instead of looking for gold. Before the family drives back home, Jim tells Griselda that he wants her even if he has to go to the farm and drag her back. He puts his arm around her and attempts to kiss her, but the car takes off and he only succeeds in tearing her dress.
Later that night at the Walden farm, Ty Ty is still worried that the albino Dave wants to run away, but his fears are allayed when he and Buck discover Dave and Uncle Felix sleeping peacefully in the barn. A short time later, Ty Ty watches his daughter-in-law Griselda undress, and catches a good glimpse of her bare skin as she slips on her nightgown.
The morning of the third day, Pluto drives Will, Rosamund, Darling Jill, and Griselda back to the Thompson house in South Carolina. Will goes out on mill business, and returns highly agitated and determined to open the mill the next morning. After a while he calmly looks at Griselda and tells her that the time has come, and nothing in God's world can stop him now, and in an insane burst of flying fingers and throbbing muscles he tears off her clothes like a madman as she watches unresistingly, until she stands before him, waiting and trembling. She does not try to escape from him, but backs away until he catches her and drags her to another part of the house. Through the open doors they are seen and heard by Rosamund and Darling Jill and Pluto. Never before had Darling Jill felt so completely aroused. No one but Pluto got much sleep that night, and the next morning Will's three paramours — his wife Rosamund, and his sisters-in-law Darling Jill and Griselda — hurriedly, easily and lovingly fix his breakfast.
During the fourth day, Will learns that the mill owners have brought in out-of-state security guards to keep the plant closed. He and some other men break into the plant and turn the machinery on. The guards shoot Will in the back, killing him, leaving the three women in shock and despair. That night, Darling Jill takes Pluto by the hand and leads him to the bed, where they fall asleep holding one another.
On the morning of the fifth day, Will is buried. That afternoon, Pluto drives Darling Jill, Rosamund, and Griselda to the Walden farm. Ty Ty, Buck, and Shaw learn of Will's death. Buck suspects that Griselda has been unfaithful with Will. The family argues ferociously during dinner, and Buck runs out of the house and does not return. Pluto also leaves that night.
On the morning of the sixth day, Jim Leslie arrives at the farm, telling his father "I know what I want, and I came after it." He storms in the house looking for Griselda, but Buck and Shaw follow right in after him. Buck grabs a shotgun off the wall and Jim Leslie runs out the front door with Buck close behind. Jim Leslie stops running and turns to face his brother, shaking his fist. Buck says "I reckon you'll leave her alone now" and shoots twice, killing Jim Leslie.
Ty Ty is in shock that he could not prevent blood being spilled on his land — the blood of one of his children. And although he was completely exhausted, and knew that he would soon be too old to dig anymore, he returned to the hole to dig some more. He also willed that God's little acre would now follow Buck, stopping where Buck stopped so that his son would be upon it no matter where he went. In the final paragraphs, it is implied that Buck commits suicide with the same shotgun he used to kill his brother.
Themes[edit]
Published by Viking Press in 1933, God's Little Acre was in part influenced by textile mill strikes in Gastonia, North Carolina.[1] The novel is "proletarian", focusing on the "plight of workers deprived of union protection."[1] Similarly, the novel deals with the misuse and abuse of land in the South.[1]
Controversy[edit]
God's Little Acre contained scenes considered sexually explicit, leading the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice to take Caldwell and Viking Press to court for disseminating pornography.[1] Over 60 literary figures supported the book, placing pressure on the New York State Magistrates' Court, which ruled in favor of Caldwell's rights to freedom of expression.[1][2] Caldwell counter-sued the literary society for false arrest and malicious prosecution.
In 1947, the city of Saint Paul, Minnesota, banned the novel for being pornographic.[citation needed]
In 1950, the book was banned in Boston upon the recommendation of the Watch and Ward Society, one of that society's final activities of censorship. (Boston continued censoring works into the 1960s.)[citation needed]
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Unions and bosses clash on domestic violence leave
By WorkplaceInfo writers on 21 Sep 2016 | 404 Views
Unions and employers remain at loggerheads on the issue of paid domestic violence leave, with the Australian Industry Group claiming a 'one-size-fits-all' approach won't work.
Ai Group has filed its submissions and evidence in opposition to the ACTU's claims for all awards to be varied to give employees 10 days' per year of paid domestic violence leave.
The claims are being dealt with by a Fair Work Commission (FWC) full bench in the family and domestic violence leave case.
'One-size-fits-all' approach not appropriate
Innes Willox, chief executive of the Australian Industry Group, said: "Employers have different capacities to provide support to employees experiencing domestic violence. The unions' "one-size-fits-all" approach is not appropriate."
He said there were many aspects of the unions' claim that were not yet widely understood, including:
The only country that is known to have paid domestic violence leave at a national level is the Philippines, but the entitlement is not well-known in the country or well-enforced. In its submissions, the ACTU refers to a number of US States that have granted domestic violence leave, but these entitlements are unpaid and typically only apply to larger businesses.
Under the unions' proposed clause:
a full time employee would receive the 10-day entitlement on their first day of employment.
a part-time employee who works two days per week would receive 10 days of leave, which would be the equivalent of five weeks of leave for the employee.
a casual employee who works irregularly and infrequently for an employer would be entitled to 10 days of paid leave from the employer.
In their evidence, the unions have not established why they have chosen a 10-day entitlement for their claim.
Only a minority of enterprise agreements include domestic violence provisions. These agreements contain a wide variety of different arrangements, leave and non-leave. Most of those that contain leave entitlements contain less than 10 days of leave, with many providing unpaid leave entitlements, or access to existing personal/carer's leave entitlements.
Under the Fair Work Act 2009, awards are intended to provide a safety net, with enterprise bargaining providing a mechanism to deal with entitlements above the safety net. Awards are only permitted to contain provisions which are "necessary" in order to meet the "modern awards objective" in section 134 of the Act. In two decisions in 2008 and 2009, a seven member full bench of the Australian Industrial Relations Commission (now the FWC), rejected union claims for award provisions dealing with "Pressing Domestic Need Leave" on the basis that the provisions were not appropriate for awards intended to be a safety net.
ACTU reject comments
However, ACTU president Ged Kearney said many of AiG's assertions were wrong.
She said many public and private sector employers had already chosen to support their employees by providing paid leave and other benefits for people experiencing domestic and family violence.
"The ACTU's claim for 10 days' paid domestic and family violence leave in modern awards will complement these existing employer schemes," she said.
"PWC, NAB, Telstra and other employers provide generous and wide-ranging support for employees experiencing domestic and family violence that goes well beyond the minimum entitlements sought by the ACTU, including additional discretionary paid leave, training for staff and a cash advance. All available evidence shows that the provision of 10 days' paid leave for award-dependent employees leads to positive outcomes for employers and employees."
Kearney said while many employees were now covered by enterprise agreements containing family and domestic violence leave, bargaining outcomes had not been consistent.
"This is exactly why the ACTU is seeking a variation to all modern awards, to ensure clarity and consistency for all."
"Domestic and family violence leave should be accessible by casual as well as ongoing employees. We
should not discriminate against people who are already in less secure work."
Kearney said The Australian Law Reform Commission, the Victorian Royal Commission into Family Violence, the Australian Human Rights Commission and the Victorian Government all support the consideration of appropriate variations to modern awards to better to support victims of family and domestic violence leave."
WorkplaceInfo writers


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While everyone in Fairyland is getting ready for the Fairy Olympics, Jack Frost's goblins steal the Sports Fairies' magic objects, and Rachel and Kristy must snag Alice's magic racket, the goblins are going to win --- game, set, and match!


An author of several books of non-fiction and two novels, Kumar's writing has appeared in Harper's magazine, The Guardian, The New Yorker, Vanity Fair and The New York Times. He teaches English at Vassar College, New York.
Amitava Kumar is the author of several works of non-fiction and two novels. His forthcoming book Immigrant, Montana: A Novel (Knopf, US, and Faber, UK) was recently published in India as The Lovers (Aleph). His essay 'Pyre', published in Granta, was selected for Best American Essays 2016. Kumar's writing has appeared in Harper's magazine, The Guardian, The New Yorker, Vanity Fair and The New York Times. He teaches English at Vassar College, New York.
I read Coetzee as a graduate student 30 years ago. Coetzee was writing when the brutal apartheid regime in South Africa hadn't yet come to an end but his novel reads more like a parable about another, unnamed place, or maybe, more accurately, a universal story that would hold true as much in Pretoria as in, say, Patna.
The iron in the soul is a way of seeing the world for what it is. I find it also in Morrison and Roy but these two writers have an additional quality I envy. Both show their skill in these novels at spinning out the vernacular or common speech while, on other pages, letting their language take flight into the furthest reaches of lyricism.
Written during the 1940s and 1950s, these essays on black life and black thought, life in Harlem, the protest novel as a tool of resistance, form the voice of African American assertion, of an artist, author and social commentator, in the American society on the brink of the civil rights movement.
This is a collection of six essays published in The New York Review of Books, between 1973 and 1977, on photography, the photographing eye and manufacturing a sense of reality, among others, that critically examines the art form.
I admire John Berger's G., a novel about a young man's sexual journey in early 20th-century Europe that won the Booker Prize, but what I really love is his 1975 non-fiction report on migration and migrant labourers.
I teach the fiction of Jennifer Egan, Tessa Hadley, or the truly great Alice Munro, but what makes me breathless is the non-fiction of journalist Svetlana Alexievich. This 1997 book is a compilation of hard-hitting, in-depth interviews with survivors of the nuclear reactor accident. She won the Nobel Prize in literature for her investigative, "polyphonic writings" in 2015. To read her is to know that the ordinary words of ordinary people can attain the stature of undying literature.
I want to end by talking of dreams. These are two works of Indian fiction writing. The former is a classic, and the latter more contemporary; both put the reader in touch with the deep corruption present in our souls. The stories are built around a flawed individual but what they reveal is the rot in the system. It is a thought that any Indian writer can contemplate, and I confess that I often do, the challenge of producing work that can be mentioned in the same breath as those novels.
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Zimbabwe classifies American nationals as "Category B" tourists. A resident of the United States needs a visa to enter Zimbabwe but does not need to apply for one ahead of time. Instead, you can pay for your visa when you enter the country and have the visa stamped inside your passport. In contrast, residents of "Category A" countries do not need visas at all, while residents of "Category C" countries must apply for and receive a visa before starting their trip.
Count the number of blank pages remaining in your passport. The U.S. Department of State recommends planning ahead to ensure you have at least one blank page remaining at the completion of your trip, so you will need to begin your trip with at least two blank pages if Zimbabwe is your only destination or more if you intend to travel to multiple countries. Request passport extension pages from the U.S. Department of State if necessary. This process requires mailing your passport; if your trip to Zimbabwe is within the next 14 days, you can receive extension pages in person at a regional passport office for an additional fee.
Apply for a visa ahead of time by downloading a visa application form from the Embassy of Zimbabwe's website. Complete the entire form, including your name, contact information and passport details. Mail the completed form, your passport, two passport photos, a printout of your tour itinerary, proof of return travel, a self-addressed stamped USPS Express Mail envelope and a money order (for $30 as of February 2011) to: Embassy of Zimbabwe 1608 New Hampshire Ave., NW Washington, DC 20009 The embassy will return your passport, with a visa stamped inside it, within seven to 10 business days.
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For my first post of the month, here's a site with beautiful papercrafts about a game called "Crazyracing Kartrider" from Korea. A game that is very similar to Mario Kart. Available on the site are characters, racing tracks, racing karts and more! To download files, just click the links with PDF or GIF.
I found a site that offers a couple of good looking spaceship papercrafts from STAR TREK. Models include 5 ships together with the ENTERPRISE. What are you waiting for? Get the models now!!!
Here's another robot model. This time from the GIANT ROBO anime.
To all the ship lovers out there, nyk is offerering five different ships. The site offers two cruise ships, a cargo, a tanker and another ship(don't know what it's called).
Here are five paper models of vintage appliances from Panasonic. You can make a small replica of a 1959' rice cooker, a 1931' radio, a 1952' TV Set, a refrigerator from 1954 and a washing machine.
Check out these robot models from the movie of the same title. Fox Japan released five good looking models.
Here's one of my favorite sites. You can get a lot of Disney themed downloads like the Sleeping Beauty Castle, The Tower of Terror, The Nautilus Submarine, Jack Sparrow's Compass, Wicked Wrench Ship and more!
Here's a site where you can download a couple of free sd gundam paper models.
I've been doing papercrafts for 3 months now and I can easily say that is has replaced collecting Gundams and action figures as my new hobby. I decided to create this blog to post only the best papercrafts in the web that I can find. I'd be posting mostly robots and anime models but also others that are worthy to be posted.


MTVTr3s is putting its own irreverent spin on Hispanic Heritage Month. The network opted for an unusual way to tie in its brand as the alternative channel for younger, bilingual and mostly U.S.-born Latinos with the annual celebration.
In a series of vignettes dubbed "Words," the animated sidekicks Pinchez and Cheli from MTVTr3s's upcoming show Soy Mono give a comic crash course in how to "Speak Tres," a humorous form of Spanglish.
In one segment, Pinchez, when asked to use the word "July" in a sentence, refers to the president of the U.S. as "Pinche" or "Damn" George W. Bush, and says, "July to us! Julyer" – as in, "You lie to us! You liar."
Other similar play-on-words vignettes include using the word "chair" in the sentence "If you are a good friend, you will chair that taco" and the word "water" in the phrase "I don't even know water problem is." The vignettes are being shown on the network, as well as on its MTVTr3s.com Web site.
According to Lily Neumeyer, the Argentina-born vice president of programming and production for MTVTr3s, the network wanted to do something different for Heritage month, which began Sept. 15 and ends Oct. 15.
"We are really all about being Latinos, and we do that sort of [Hispanic pride] stuff all year round," Neumeyer said. "So we thought: 'Why not do a spin on the traditional way of approaching Hispanic Heritage Month and take it with humor?"
Besides "Words," MTVTr3s this month premiered "Rants," a series of 30-second spots produced in conjunction with the Latino Comedy Project, an Austin, Texas-based comedy ensemble known for its irreverent approach to all things Latino.
In Rants, which is also running on MTV U and MTV 2, members of the troupe touch on Latino clichés, riffing and ranting about different aspects of Latino culture including family, work and body types ("Why are there so many people and companies trying to make us change ourselves? Do our curves threaten you that much? What's wrong? You can't handle real Latinas?").
"We don't divide our stuff between English and Spanish," said Neumeyer. "We are all about being bilingual, and being Latinos," she added, herself alternating between English and Spanish throughout the interview.


Takashi is another of the series in the army's experiment. He is actually BEFORE AKIRA, hence the 25 compared to Akira's 28. Takashi is not a cold child, but he is VERY timid, and when frightened, scared, or hurt, his powers usually go wild and he causes some sort of accident, like Tetsuo's crash. He likes to watch TV, especially shows with dogfighting, which the Colonel will not allow him to see because he doesn't want him to get excited (for a VERY good reason!).
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Nine New Year's Resolutions For A Healthy Baby
Top Tip: March of Dimes Urges Women to Plan for Pregnancy
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Planning for your pregnancy is one of the most important steps you can take to give your baby a healthy start in life, health experts say, and the New Year is a great time to start developing good health habits.
An easy resolution all women of childbearing age can follow in 2016, even before pregnancy, is to take a daily multivitamin containing 400 micrograms of folic acid, a B vitamin, every day to prevent serious birth defects of the brain and spine in their future babies. In addition, it's a good idea to eat a healthy diet that includes foods that contain folate, the natural form of folic acid, including lentils, green leafy vegetables, black beans, and orange juice, as well as enriched grain products such as bread, pasta, and cereals.
The March of Dimes also urges women to wait at least 18 months between the birth of a child and the next pregnancy to reduce the risk of premature birth and other health problems.
But there are more ways that women can take charge of their pregnancy.
"It's important to empower women to take charge of their own health before, during and after pregnancy," said Dr. Siobhan Dolan, a medical advisor to the March of Dimes and co-author of the non-profit's book Healthy Mom, Healthy Baby: The Ultimate Pregnancy Guide. "The New Year will be full of surprises. So even if you're not pregnant, but think you want children in the future, resolve to take steps to give them a healthy start in life," said Dr. Dolan.
Other New Year's resolutions for a healthy baby are:
• Get control of any chronic conditions such as diabetes or high blood pressure with help from your health care provider.
• Don't use alcohol or illegal drugs. They can cause lifelong health problems for the baby, including fetal alcohol syndrome.
• Don't smoke, and avoid second hand smoke, because it increases the risk of premature birth and oral clefts.
• Check with your doctor before taking any medication, especially herbal products, prescription pain medications, and statins. Some studies have found that women who took some prescriptions pain medications had a higher risk of having a baby with a heart defect, neural tube defect, or gastroschisis, a hole in the abdominal wall;
• Maintain a healthy weight. Being overweight or underweight can increase the risk of prematurity and birth defects;
• Avoid fish high in mercury or lead, and steer clear of raw or undercooked meat and unpasteurized juice and dairy products.
• Reduce caffeine to no more than one 12-ounce cup per day.
Birth defects affect 1 in every 33 babies born in the United States each year, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. January is Birth Defects Prevention Month, and January 10th through 16th is set aside for Folic Acid Awareness Week.
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It depends what kind of experiment it is, but you would probably need one of them.All this kind of glasses is used for liquidity. They have a scale and you can find them in different sizes. The difference between them will help you understand how they are used.
Test tubes- you probably are familiar with test tubes in most movies about labs and you should have the test tube rack for keeping them. The test tubes are where we do small reactions. And if we want to hold a test tube, we are going to use a very specific piece of equipment called test tube holder. When you squeeze it together, the jaws open and you can put your test tube inside and you can hold it securely without having to touch the glass in case there is something hot, or if we want to put it into a flame and heat it.
Something that people get confused with the test tube holder and the test tube rack is crucible tongs and they have a very unusual end to them. They are not used to pick up test tubes. They are used to pick up things that are very hot. Crucible tong was originally invented to hold crucible, and that is small porcelain cup and inside that cup, we can do some heating. And that crucible tong was designed to allow the crucible to get in that space.
Then, we can use Wire gauze with the circle in the center that allows us to heat evenly. Put the wire gauze on the top of the iron ring and you will get a very nice little cooktop and then put your beaker on them and you can heat it nicely.
Sparker – it creates a little spark and you can light the Bunsen burner again.