Nigella Lawson: Erotic?

Kannu

This is a story about a lady who cooks. We have her books, we watch her show and we discuss her. So you can read about her but I wanted to mention why I like her. 

She is what I would call as a zinda dil. A live heart. A person who lives life to the full. As you can read about her, she has had some pretty awful experiences but she comes across as somebody who has made peace with those sorrows and she enjoys life to the full. That's the crucial element son, totally enjoy fully whatever you do. And don't give a shit about what others say. You will constantly have people (including your parents) who will keep on telling you what to do but like nigella, be confident and just do it. She is beautifully plump during a time that women are desperate to be stick thin. She tells them to bog off. She does what she does with passion and verve and thoroughly enjoys being her own self and decadent. 

I try to be the same, unfortunately have seen far too much death and destruction, read too much about cruelty and pain and betrayal and and and. I was speaking to somebody yesterday who was a bit unlucky in their life and company and I said, I trust and have faith in mankind. 95% of the time, my openness, happiness, faith, love, passion, fun and games is returned. There are some who betrayed me or are depressing or what have you but keep loving and living life to the full son. 

Love

Baba. 

Nigella Lawson: Erotic? Ms Lawson furiously denies she dishes up food porn | Mail Online
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Nigella, Goddess of Pleasure: Erotic? How dare you says a caramel dripping Ms Lawson who furiously denies she dishes up food porn…

By Catherine Ostler

Last updated at 8:54 AM on 8th December 2011

What an exquisite riposte to those who criticised her for wearing that frumpy burkini on Bondi Beach: Nigella Lawson has posed for a magazine cover, heavily made up and looking ‘rapturous’ with salted caramel sauce dripping down her face.

That pale penguin-lookalike, photographed in a full cover-up against the late-summer Sydney sun, is ancient history.

Nigella, on the cover of the free magazine Stylist, has become a human toffee apple. They should release the image as an Athena poster for hungry men everywhere.

So how did the IAF perform during the Kargil War?

an excellent overview of the performance of the IAF during the Kargil War. Here is the summary:

High in the mountains of Indian-controlled Kashmir in 1999, India and Pakistan fought in an intense border clash for limited but important stakes. Overshadowed by NATO’s higher-profile air war for Kosovo, the Kargil War ensued for seventy-four days at a cost of more than a thousand casualties on each side. Yet it remains only dimly appreciated by most Western defense experts—and barely at all by students and practitioners of airpower. Nevertheless, it was a milestone event in Indian military history and one that represents a telling prototype of India’s most likely type of future combat challenge. !e Kargil conflict was emblematic of the kind of lower-intensity border skirmish between India and Pakistan, and perhaps also between India and China, that could recur in the next decade in light of the inhibiting effect of nuclear weapons on more protracted and higher-stakes tests of strength.

The experience offers an exemplary case study in the uses of airpower in joint warfare in high mountain conditions and is key to a full understanding of India’s emerging air posture. It is the one instance of recent Indian exposure to high-intensity warfare that provides insights into the Indian Air Force’s (IAF’s) capabilities, limitations, relations with its sister services, and interactions with India’s civilian leadership.In the Kargil War, the IAF rapidly adapted to the air campaign’s unique operational challenges, which included enemy positions at elevations of 14,000 to 18,000 feet, a stark backdrop of rocks and snow that made for uncommonly difficult visual target acquisition, and a restriction against crossing the Line of Control that forms the border with Pakistan. Without question, the effective asymmetric use of IAF airpower was pivotal in shaping the war’s
successful course and outcome for India. Yet the conflict also highlighted some of India’s military shortcomings. !e covert Pakistani intrusion into Indian-controlled Kashmir that was the casus belli laid bare a gaping hole in India’s nationwide real-time intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance capability that had allowed the incursion to go undetected for many days. It further brought to light the initial near-total lack of transparency and open communication between the Indian Army’s top leaders and the IAF with
respect to the gathering crisis.

All things considered, the conflict was a poor test of India’s air warfare capability. Despite the happy ending of the Kargil experience for India, the IAF’s fighter pilots were restricted in their operations due to myriad challenges specific to this campaign. They were thus consigned to do what they could rather than what they might have done if they had more room for manoeuvre. On a strategic level, the Kargil War vividly demonstrated that a stable bilateral nuclear deterrence relationship can markedly inhibit such regional conflicts in intensity and scale—if not preclude them altogether. In the absence of the nuclear stabilizing factor, those flash points could erupt into open-ended conventional showdowns for the highest stakes. But the Kargil War also demonstrated that nuclear deterrence is not a panacea. The possibility of future conventional wars of major consequence along India’s northern borders with Pakistan and China persists, and the Indian defense establishment must plan and prepare accordingly

The Subramanyam Committee was asked to review the war, here is its report. Typically, the implementation was crap but here’s a review based upon an interview of Mr. Subramanyam.

Mayhew Animal Home

So as you might know, we closed down IT4CH for a variety of reasons so had some little space in my diary to help another charity. This time I decided to see if I can help animals so went and interviewed for the Mayhew Animal Home Trustee position. It is a lovely place and for some very strange reason, they agreed to pick me! promises to be very fun.

Will say more when I get formally inducted next month..

Very chuffed, I love animals…

Imran Khan just cannot win

heh, Imran Khan is going off on a crusade (yes, i meant this word) to protest against the American drone attacks which are killing the Taliban.

On the other hand, the Taliban say that Imran Khan is an agent of Israel, USA and Europe.

The government is also upset with Imran Khan for obvious reasons.

heh, seriously funny..

Can you be a martyr if you die of heart disease?

heh.

Military Communiqué

Al Qassam Brigades mourns the death of the mujahed Eyad Barhoum

As Al Aqsa Intifada against the occupation assault on the Gaza Strip continues, Ezzeddeen Al-Qassam Brigades has its best men to be in the playground of death to defend their people from any attack by the enemy ... Today, Al-Qassam Brigades mourn the death of the Mujahed:

Eyad Juma'a Barhoum [39 years old]

Yibna neighborhood – Rafah City

The mujahid Eyad was martyred of heart disease in Egypt. He was martyred at dawn on Wednesday September 26^th, 2012. He was martyred after a long bright path of jihad, hard work, struggle and sacrifice.

Al Qassam Brigades mourn the death of the Mujahed, reaffirms the commitment and determination to continue the resistance against the belligerent occupation forces.

Finally, may Allah (swt) accept him and his blessed efforts for the path of Jihad and may Allah grant his family patience and solace for his lose.

"To God we belong and to him we shall return."

Ezzeddeen Al-Qassam Brigades

Information Office

September 26th, 2012

I thought you can only be a martyr if you die in action? like killing innocents? Or fellow Muslims? or in some remote cases, actually fighting? But no, if you pop off having a heart attack while shagging a bird, then you can also be a martyr..

how amusing

btw, what happens to the virgins in Heaven? Do they still get allocated to heart attack martyrs? Or is a lesser allocation given? How about if you are called as a martyr but die in a car accident? I am sure when the houris talk to each other after the bonkathon, they must be complaining about how any odd sod riff raff appear and want their services.

I am sure there must be a pecking order. Actual war, you get 72 of the birds, blow up some innocents, you get 32, blow yourself up while making a bomb, you get a safety manual, die of a heart attack or car accident, you share some unwanted sheep? or something?

My wife hates the other woman in the car

When I moved up to using the Wayz app on the Iphone to navigate, we had a long discussion on which name to call her. Her meaning the lady in the app who tells me where to do. I wanted to call her Wendy. Wendy Wayz, geddit? there was a big debate. I love the lady, she is good, tells me the route without complaining or moaning. When I make a mistake, it doesnt go tut tut tut and drag my ancestors into the argument, etc. etc.

But I didnt realise that women hate the other woman till I read this story. Quite a lot of similarities. Sangeeta doesnt drive, she is a writer, she likes english literature, and and and.

Multi Tasking win

Food for mind, food for body

What a cool machine

now if only we can do the same for bacon and brownies

Charlton Heston's Last Stand

A fascinating story about a big man in the movies son. And the love story that USA has with guns and a piece of advise which is so true. 

If you want to have a good relationship with women, the 3 key magic words are not ' I love you' (although that helps. Say it often and frequently) but 'I was wrong'. 

Love

Baba

Charlton Heston's Last Stand - Features - Los Angeles magazine
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Features

Charlton Heston’s Last Stand

In the Democrats, he’s found an enemy more formidable than a planet full of apes. He may well have swung the election toward Bush. How did the veteran actor become Hollywood’s most effective political activist?

By Ed Leibowitz

IN THE GILDED BALLROOM OF THE JOHN Marshall Hotel, they have gathered to bear him witness. Richmond, Virginia, is the last stop on the grueling October campaign swing that has hurled Charlton Heston through America’s heartland like a righteous plague upon the Democrats. On Tuesday, he mustered voters in Grand Rapids and Flint, Michigan; Wednesday, he marched across Pennsylvania. Just this morning, his bass resonated in Roanoke, stirred the Chesapeake Conference Center at noon. As darkness now settles on the capital of the Old Confederacy, it is about to make its final call.

Two thousand National Rifle Association members press their bodies toward a stage where two video screens project Heston’s colossal image. There he is, wielding the staff of Moses, holding the reins of Ben-Hur’s horses, staring piercingly into the distance with a shotgun broken open at his shoulder.

“Actor! Author! Civil Rights Champion! Patriot!” the film’s narrator cries above the trumpets’ blare. “He hasn’t just spoken the word of God, he’s also spent his life defending the freedoms God has given us. Today, with your rights under the fiercest attacks in history, Heston is there.”

A figure emerges from the wings, more than six feet tall but appearing shorter, his torso inclined forward. Speedo propylene beach slippers make the journey to the podium with hesitant steps. Hip-replacement surgery and old age have dampened the fabled dynamism: no more battles with broadswords; no more chariot races for him. But above the uncertain legs, the chest is still massive, the cheekbones still chiseled, the broken nose as resolute as the NRA eagle on all those baseball caps bobbing above the crowd. As Charlton Heston approaches the microphone, his lungs swell, the vocal cords making their splendid, vibrant music out of ordinary air. “I’m inclined to quit while I’m ahead,” he jokes. “But I won’t. No!”

The Gloucester Fish War

The problem with overfishing is an increasing one Son. This is a classic example of the 'tragedy of the commons'. When everybody owns something then nobody wants to take care of it. Same goes for govt property. You take care of your stuff but we aren't that careful with public property. The sea is open and thus overfishing happens. This is going to be a very big issue as a significant part of the world and most coastal countries rely on sea fish and food for protein. When fisheries collapse, it takes a very long time to recover if at all. Whole species can disappear. One of the few cases where government intervention is required if nothing else to protect what cannot protect itself. 

Love

Baba

The Gloucester Fish War - BusinessWeek
http://www.businessweek.com/printer/magazine/the-gloucester-fish-war-11222011.html

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How a small town in Massachusetts destroyed a decade of law enforcement

By Brendan Borrell

The bidding starts early at the seafood auction in Gloucester, Mass. Each day about 30 tons of fish—mostly cod, haddock, and flounder—come in by boat on Cape Ann, a fist jutting into the Atlantic Ocean. Fishermen motor up to the concrete docks behind the beige-and-white warehouse, then wait while workers in rubber boots hoist their catches and weigh them out on a stainless-steel digital scale. At 4 a.m. grocery store buyers, restaurant owners, and distributors file in to inspect and bid on the haul.

The traders and graders were wrapping up their business just after 9 a.m. on Dec. 7, 2006, when 16 federal agents in Crown Victorias and Ford Expeditions pulled into the parking lot. They entered the building in pairs. Although most of them worked for National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, they wore bulletproof vests and carried Glock pistols, according to interviews with participants and the NOAA investigative report.

They were looking for the auction’s founder and chief executive officer, a mustached man named Larry Ciulla. When they found him in an office off the auction floor, they officially informed him of their search warrant. They suspected he had illegally bought and sold cod, one of the world’s most valuable, most threatened, and closely watched stocks of fish. The agents were there to seize the auction’s last three years of records and had rented a U-Haul for the mountain of evidence they intended to truck away. In raiding the Gloucester Seafood Display Auction, the largest fish dealer on the Gulf of Maine, which extends from Cape Cod up to the southern tip of Nova Scotia, they hoped to send a message to the fishermen of Gloucester: Overfishing doesn’t pay.