no link is needed to find this information.
but all i wonder how will any of this ever help anyone.
but all i wonder how will any of this ever help anyone.
Jul 7, 2005
dance- a form of art not sport.
Budding Dancers Compete, Seriously from nytimes.
"But as dance competitions have become big business, questions about the appropriateness of having young children compete, especially in midriff-baring outfits, and about the virtues of forcing an art into a competitive framework in the first place have also grown."
...
""I played sports all my life, and I've never seen anyone work as hard as they do," said Dennis Spitzer, a physical therapist from Fresno, Calif., who had come with his wife to watch their 10-year-old daughter, Lindsay, compete at the Waldorf with the Dance Studio of Fresno. "They are going out there to win. If they don't win, they feel as badly as we do when we lose. It's not dance. It's a sport."
Those words are anathema to many in the dance world. "Dance is not a sport, it's an art," said Elsa Posey, a past president of the National Dance Education Organization, who has run a studio in Northport, N.Y., since 1953. "In art, the competition is within oneself." "
...
"Such agonies of defeat - the exception, not the rule - come with the territory of competition, and they raise the issue of judging, which, in dance, is an inherently subjective process."
"But as dance competitions have become big business, questions about the appropriateness of having young children compete, especially in midriff-baring outfits, and about the virtues of forcing an art into a competitive framework in the first place have also grown."
...
""I played sports all my life, and I've never seen anyone work as hard as they do," said Dennis Spitzer, a physical therapist from Fresno, Calif., who had come with his wife to watch their 10-year-old daughter, Lindsay, compete at the Waldorf with the Dance Studio of Fresno. "They are going out there to win. If they don't win, they feel as badly as we do when we lose. It's not dance. It's a sport."
Those words are anathema to many in the dance world. "Dance is not a sport, it's an art," said Elsa Posey, a past president of the National Dance Education Organization, who has run a studio in Northport, N.Y., since 1953. "In art, the competition is within oneself." "
...
"Such agonies of defeat - the exception, not the rule - come with the territory of competition, and they raise the issue of judging, which, in dance, is an inherently subjective process."
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Be everything you are not!!!
Sometimes you can be happy for someone, even if they don't care.
Soemtimes you can be sad, because they don't care.
Sometimes you want not to care and move away.
Sometimes when you move away, you wish you had tried once more.
Sometimes when you think of all the times that you tried, you wonder why it didn't work.
Sometimes when it doesn't, it hurts and you try to reason why.
Sometimes when you try to reason why, you do not have all the answers.
Sometimes when you do not have answers, you want to ask questions.
Sometimes when you ask questions, you do not get the answers.
And then you realise...
...that you can decide to be happy,
but you cannot decide not to be sad.
...that you can't not care,
but not have the strength to try.
...that no matter how far away you go,
it will hurt no less.
...that no matter how you reason it,
you will not have the answers.
So let the tears flow, give up, stay put, and don't think...
that is, be everything you are not!!!!
--shob
Sometimes you can be happy for someone, even if they don't care.
Soemtimes you can be sad, because they don't care.
Sometimes you want not to care and move away.
Sometimes when you move away, you wish you had tried once more.
Sometimes when you think of all the times that you tried, you wonder why it didn't work.
Sometimes when it doesn't, it hurts and you try to reason why.
Sometimes when you try to reason why, you do not have all the answers.
Sometimes when you do not have answers, you want to ask questions.
Sometimes when you ask questions, you do not get the answers.
And then you realise...
...that you can decide to be happy,
but you cannot decide not to be sad.
...that you can't not care,
but not have the strength to try.
...that no matter how far away you go,
it will hurt no less.
...that no matter how you reason it,
you will not have the answers.
So let the tears flow, give up, stay put, and don't think...
that is, be everything you are not!!!!
--shob
Jul 6, 2005
:)
Words of Wisdom
Every program has at least one bug and can be shortened by at least one instruction - from which, by induction, one can deduce that every program can be reduced to one instruction which doesn't work.
Murphy's Law of Research:
Enough research will tend to support your theory.
Every program has at least one bug and can be shortened by at least one instruction - from which, by induction, one can deduce that every program can be reduced to one instruction which doesn't work.
Murphy's Law of Research:
Enough research will tend to support your theory.
bill gates picks his own hell
Bill Gates picks his own punishment
Satan greets him: "Welcome Mr. Gates, we've been waiting for you. This will be your home for all eternity. You've been selfish, greedy and a big liar all your life. Now, since you've got me in a good mood, I'll be generous and give you a choice of three places in which you'll be locked up forever.
Satan takes Bill to a huge lake of fire in which millions of poor souls are tormented and tortured. He then takes him to a massive coliseum where thousands of people are chased about and devoured by starving lions. Finally, he takes Bill to a tiny room in which there is a bottle of the finest wine sitting on a table. To Bill's delight, he sees a PC in the corner. Without hesitation, Bill says "I'll take this option."
"Fine," says Satan, allowing Bill to enter the room. Satan locks the room after Bill.
As he turns around, he bumps into Lucifer. "That was Bill Gates!" cried Lucifer. "Why did you give him the best place of all!"
"That's what everyone thinks" snickered Satan.
"The bottle has a hole in it!"
"What about the PC?"
"It's got Windows 95!" laughed Satan.
"And it's missing three keys,"
"Which three?"
"Control, Alt and Delete."
Satan greets him: "Welcome Mr. Gates, we've been waiting for you. This will be your home for all eternity. You've been selfish, greedy and a big liar all your life. Now, since you've got me in a good mood, I'll be generous and give you a choice of three places in which you'll be locked up forever.
Satan takes Bill to a huge lake of fire in which millions of poor souls are tormented and tortured. He then takes him to a massive coliseum where thousands of people are chased about and devoured by starving lions. Finally, he takes Bill to a tiny room in which there is a bottle of the finest wine sitting on a table. To Bill's delight, he sees a PC in the corner. Without hesitation, Bill says "I'll take this option."
"Fine," says Satan, allowing Bill to enter the room. Satan locks the room after Bill.
As he turns around, he bumps into Lucifer. "That was Bill Gates!" cried Lucifer. "Why did you give him the best place of all!"
"That's what everyone thinks" snickered Satan.
"The bottle has a hole in it!"
"What about the PC?"
"It's got Windows 95!" laughed Satan.
"And it's missing three keys,"
"Which three?"
"Control, Alt and Delete."
quote
actions speak louder than words.
The best proof of love is trust.
--Joyce Brothers
When we lose the right to be different, we lose the privilege to be free.
-- Charles Evans Hughes
Information is not knowledge, knowledge is not wisdom, wisdom is not truth, truth is not beauty, beauty is not love.
--Unknown
The best proof of love is trust.
--Joyce Brothers
When we lose the right to be different, we lose the privilege to be free.
-- Charles Evans Hughes
Information is not knowledge, knowledge is not wisdom, wisdom is not truth, truth is not beauty, beauty is not love.
--Unknown
Jul 5, 2005
please, not another round of mindless killings
Gunmen killed at Indian holy site from bbc and ofcourse it is there in every other news site that u go to.
i just hope that this does not start of another set of religious riots in the country.
i just hope that this does not start of another set of religious riots in the country.
Jul 2, 2005
quote
I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see.
--John Burroughs
--John Burroughs
what the hell???
Joint Commissioner of Police K Kumaraswamy is carried by a constable in Vadodara - Express photo by Bhupendra Rana
fatwa, two more articles
A reprehensible "verdict" from hindu
"The fatwa of the Islamic seminary, Darul Uloom Deoband, asking a Muslim woman, who was allegedly raped by her father-in-law, not to live with her husband calls into question the fundamental principles of human dignity and freedom enshrined in the Constitution. By invoking antiquated religious codes, the fatwa in effect punishes the victim, Imrana of Muzaffarnagar, and provides an escape route to the alleged offender, Ali Mohammed, who is currently in police custody. Quite astonishingly, the religious edict allowed rape, one of the most heinous crimes, to annul a legally valid 10-year-old marriage. Actually, the muftis of Deoband asked Imrana to live with her father-in-law, citing the Shariat in support of their decree. Imrana's husband, Noor Ilahi, wants to continue to live with her, but the muftis of the religious seminary have thrown the Shariat at them. The societal pressures on her are such that she has stated she would abide by the "religious laws" even if the fatwa has no force in law. Indeed, Imrana is now being prodded to withdraw the rape complaint and to dilute the charge to "molestation" so that she does not have to separate from her husband and their five children."
Imrana and fatwa: This cruelty must stop from indian express(this one is really well written)
"the All India Muslim Personal Law Board (AIMPLB) has stated that the woman’s life could be in danger if she continues to live with her husband in defiance of the fatwa. One wonders whether the Taliban has taken over our country.
Let us be clear that the real issue in Imrana’s case is not about the enactment of an Uniform Civil Code."
...
"Suppose a law were passed in our country on the lines of the fatwa — namely that a woman who is raped by her father-in-law cannot upon pain of sanction be permitted to live with her husband even though the couple are keen to continue the marriage. Such a law would be struck down within minutes as unconstitutional. Can it make any difference if this kind of law is characterised as the personal law of a religion?"
...
"Take the case of Sati. This pernicious practice of burning or burying alive the widow along with the body of her deceased husband was justified by some on the ground that it formed an important part of Hindu religious traditions and was an ancient practice hallowed by time. Nonetheless, Parliament passed the Commission of Sati (Prevention Act) 1987 which prohibits and criminalises the practice of Sati and its glorification. The constitutionality of the Act was challenged and was rejected by the Supreme Court."
...
"The fatwa should not provide a pretext for the defamation of Islam. Nor should criticism of the fatwa be mischievously construed as an attack on that enlightened religion, any more than condemnation of Sati could be regarded as an attack on Hinduism. Religion as such has nothing to do with the crucial issue in Imrana’s case which is the horrendous violation of her basic human rights."
"The fatwa of the Islamic seminary, Darul Uloom Deoband, asking a Muslim woman, who was allegedly raped by her father-in-law, not to live with her husband calls into question the fundamental principles of human dignity and freedom enshrined in the Constitution. By invoking antiquated religious codes, the fatwa in effect punishes the victim, Imrana of Muzaffarnagar, and provides an escape route to the alleged offender, Ali Mohammed, who is currently in police custody. Quite astonishingly, the religious edict allowed rape, one of the most heinous crimes, to annul a legally valid 10-year-old marriage. Actually, the muftis of Deoband asked Imrana to live with her father-in-law, citing the Shariat in support of their decree. Imrana's husband, Noor Ilahi, wants to continue to live with her, but the muftis of the religious seminary have thrown the Shariat at them. The societal pressures on her are such that she has stated she would abide by the "religious laws" even if the fatwa has no force in law. Indeed, Imrana is now being prodded to withdraw the rape complaint and to dilute the charge to "molestation" so that she does not have to separate from her husband and their five children."
Imrana and fatwa: This cruelty must stop from indian express(this one is really well written)
"the All India Muslim Personal Law Board (AIMPLB) has stated that the woman’s life could be in danger if she continues to live with her husband in defiance of the fatwa. One wonders whether the Taliban has taken over our country.
Let us be clear that the real issue in Imrana’s case is not about the enactment of an Uniform Civil Code."
...
"Suppose a law were passed in our country on the lines of the fatwa — namely that a woman who is raped by her father-in-law cannot upon pain of sanction be permitted to live with her husband even though the couple are keen to continue the marriage. Such a law would be struck down within minutes as unconstitutional. Can it make any difference if this kind of law is characterised as the personal law of a religion?"
...
"Take the case of Sati. This pernicious practice of burning or burying alive the widow along with the body of her deceased husband was justified by some on the ground that it formed an important part of Hindu religious traditions and was an ancient practice hallowed by time. Nonetheless, Parliament passed the Commission of Sati (Prevention Act) 1987 which prohibits and criminalises the practice of Sati and its glorification. The constitutionality of the Act was challenged and was rejected by the Supreme Court."
...
"The fatwa should not provide a pretext for the defamation of Islam. Nor should criticism of the fatwa be mischievously construed as an attack on that enlightened religion, any more than condemnation of Sati could be regarded as an attack on Hinduism. Religion as such has nothing to do with the crucial issue in Imrana’s case which is the horrendous violation of her basic human rights."
dictionary- hindi, urdu, marathi, bengali, tamil, telgu...
so far this is the best dictionary that i have come across for hindi to english or vise-versa. the best part is that it even gives urdu words while translation, which so rite since hindi n urdu r so intertwined.
use Platts for hindi eng urdu.
use Platts for hindi eng urdu.
quotes
is science overstepping its boundaries???!!!!
started writing on 6/17/05
i have been trying to write abt this for some time but it never seems to finish or does not sound rite or i happens that i am contradicting myself...
but here it is just as a stream of thoughts, sometimes jumping from one topic to other.
Boffins create zombie dogs via slashdot
""The results are stunning. I think in 10 years we will be able to prevent death in a certain segment of those using this technology," said one US battlefield doctor."
i don't know if the prime aim of human life to prolong it for as long as possible... without any worth in living it. what is the use of having a life that long?
also it says in the article somewhere... that they will put people people to 'sleep' for few hours!!!!!!!!
"However rather than sending people to sleep for years, then bringing them back to life to benefit from medical advances, the boffins would be happy to keep people in this state for just a few hours,
But even this should be enough to save lives such as battlefield casualties and victims of stabbings or gunshot wounds, who have suffered huge blood loss."
damn it. spend this much time, energy and money to stop the wars....
it will have its benefits, but somehow it does not sound rite, it seems to have more potential of being misused than being used, like nuclear energy. but does that mean that we should stop trying to understand life, and how it functions?
here are some more links that r in the same direction
http://www.island.net/~chrisbo/cyborg.htm
http://www.extropy.org/
http://www.alcor.org/index.html
it just makes the bottom of my stomach fall.
there are so many things that we r all bought up to believe... one of them is that death is inevitable. my reaction to these could be due to the acceptance of death as a part of life. and the others are just listening to the gene as that tries to prolong its survival. but then the initial assumption that the gene did try or is trying to prolong its existence is baseless. and even if it is true at the rate at which at which it is being mutilated does not make sense to save these mutilated being. (btw i do believe in evolution) and then if is trying to survive is human the best medium? doesn't seem so, cause we r going towards our own destruction. but then r we?
i think fiction is never very far away from reality. it is what the human mind can imagine and one day we will try to make it true. lets look at the current literature, sic-fi esp, the future does not look very pretty, does it?
actually there is something i have always wondered. y is it easier for people to heal physically, not spiritually. then the question arises does spirituality actually exist? is morality subjective? Something that has popped out of human brain? human brain... is it a preprogrammed hardware custom designed for each individual? do we actually need to know the ans? and if we do know it will be used or misused? r we smart enf to understand this 'creation'? if we r smart enf understand then r we smart enf to harness the good out of it? and then the giant question what is "good"?
there r many more in this series of questions, but i let me stop now.
i have been trying to write abt this for some time but it never seems to finish or does not sound rite or i happens that i am contradicting myself...
but here it is just as a stream of thoughts, sometimes jumping from one topic to other.
Boffins create zombie dogs via slashdot
""The results are stunning. I think in 10 years we will be able to prevent death in a certain segment of those using this technology," said one US battlefield doctor."
i don't know if the prime aim of human life to prolong it for as long as possible... without any worth in living it. what is the use of having a life that long?
also it says in the article somewhere... that they will put people people to 'sleep' for few hours!!!!!!!!
"However rather than sending people to sleep for years, then bringing them back to life to benefit from medical advances, the boffins would be happy to keep people in this state for just a few hours,
But even this should be enough to save lives such as battlefield casualties and victims of stabbings or gunshot wounds, who have suffered huge blood loss."
damn it. spend this much time, energy and money to stop the wars....
it will have its benefits, but somehow it does not sound rite, it seems to have more potential of being misused than being used, like nuclear energy. but does that mean that we should stop trying to understand life, and how it functions?
here are some more links that r in the same direction
http://www.island.net/~chrisbo/cyborg.htm
http://www.extropy.org/
http://www.alcor.org/index.html
it just makes the bottom of my stomach fall.
there are so many things that we r all bought up to believe... one of them is that death is inevitable. my reaction to these could be due to the acceptance of death as a part of life. and the others are just listening to the gene as that tries to prolong its survival. but then the initial assumption that the gene did try or is trying to prolong its existence is baseless. and even if it is true at the rate at which at which it is being mutilated does not make sense to save these mutilated being. (btw i do believe in evolution) and then if is trying to survive is human the best medium? doesn't seem so, cause we r going towards our own destruction. but then r we?
i think fiction is never very far away from reality. it is what the human mind can imagine and one day we will try to make it true. lets look at the current literature, sic-fi esp, the future does not look very pretty, does it?
actually there is something i have always wondered. y is it easier for people to heal physically, not spiritually. then the question arises does spirituality actually exist? is morality subjective? Something that has popped out of human brain? human brain... is it a preprogrammed hardware custom designed for each individual? do we actually need to know the ans? and if we do know it will be used or misused? r we smart enf to understand this 'creation'? if we r smart enf understand then r we smart enf to harness the good out of it? and then the giant question what is "good"?
there r many more in this series of questions, but i let me stop now.
Jul 1, 2005
better perspective...
If we could shrink the earth's population to a village of precisely 100 people, with all the existing human ratios remaining the same, it would look something like the following.
There would be:
57 Asians
21 Europeans
14 from the Western Hemisphere (both North and South)
8 Africans
52 would be female
48 would be male
70 would be nonwhite
30 would be white
70 would be non-Christian (not the same 70)
30 would be Christian (not the same 30)
89 would be heterosexual
11 would be homosexual
6 people would possess 59% of the entire world's wealth
All 6 would be from the United States
80 would live in substandard housing
70 would be unable to read
50 would suffer from malnutrition
1 would be near death; 1 would be near birth
1 (yes, only 1) would have a college education
1 would own a computer
When one considers the world from such a compressed perspective, the need for both acceptance, understanding and education becomes glaringly apparent.
The following are provided as additional thoughts to ponder....
If you woke this morning with more health than illness... you are more blessed than the million who will not survive this week.
If you have never experienced the danger of battle, the loneliness of imprisonment, the agony of torture, or the pangs of starvation... you are ahead of 500 million people in the world.
If you can attend a temple, church, or other religious meeting without fear of harassment, arrest, torture, or death... you are more blessed than three billion people in the world.
If you have food in the refrigerator, clothes on your back, a roof overhead and a place to sleep... you are richer than 75% of this world.
If you have money in the bank, in your wallet, and spare change in a dish someplace... you are among the top 8% of the world's wealthy.
If your parents are still alive and married... you are very rare, even in the United States and Canada.
If you hold up your head with a smile on your face and are truly thankful... you are blessed because the majority can, but most do not.
If you can hold someone's hand, hug them, or even touch them on the shoulder... you are blessed because you can offer healing touch.
If you can read this message, you just received a double blessing in that someone was thinking of you, and furthermore, you are more blessed than over two billion people in the world that cannot read at all.
- courtesy of Paul Dzing
There would be:
57 Asians
21 Europeans
14 from the Western Hemisphere (both North and South)
8 Africans
52 would be female
48 would be male
70 would be nonwhite
30 would be white
70 would be non-Christian (not the same 70)
30 would be Christian (not the same 30)
89 would be heterosexual
11 would be homosexual
6 people would possess 59% of the entire world's wealth
All 6 would be from the United States
80 would live in substandard housing
70 would be unable to read
50 would suffer from malnutrition
1 would be near death; 1 would be near birth
1 (yes, only 1) would have a college education
1 would own a computer
When one considers the world from such a compressed perspective, the need for both acceptance, understanding and education becomes glaringly apparent.
The following are provided as additional thoughts to ponder....
If you woke this morning with more health than illness... you are more blessed than the million who will not survive this week.
If you have never experienced the danger of battle, the loneliness of imprisonment, the agony of torture, or the pangs of starvation... you are ahead of 500 million people in the world.
If you can attend a temple, church, or other religious meeting without fear of harassment, arrest, torture, or death... you are more blessed than three billion people in the world.
If you have food in the refrigerator, clothes on your back, a roof overhead and a place to sleep... you are richer than 75% of this world.
If you have money in the bank, in your wallet, and spare change in a dish someplace... you are among the top 8% of the world's wealthy.
If your parents are still alive and married... you are very rare, even in the United States and Canada.
If you hold up your head with a smile on your face and are truly thankful... you are blessed because the majority can, but most do not.
If you can hold someone's hand, hug them, or even touch them on the shoulder... you are blessed because you can offer healing touch.
If you can read this message, you just received a double blessing in that someone was thinking of you, and furthermore, you are more blessed than over two billion people in the world that cannot read at all.
- courtesy of Paul Dzing