[LST] SC rejects patent protection for Novartis cancer drug Glivec - The Hindu: Mobile Edition

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SC rejects patent protection for Novartis cancer drug Glivec
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Novartis had been fighting a prolonged legal case for the patent of Glivec, a cost effective drug. File Photo: P.V. Sivakumar
The Supreme Court on Monday dismissed Swiss pharmaceutical chain Novartis AG's petition seeking patent protection for its anti-cancer drug, Glivec (Imatinib mesylate).
The apex court bench of Justices Aftab Alam and Ranjana Prakash Desai dismissed with cost Novartis' plea challenging the Intellectual Property Appellate Board's decision declining the plea for patent of the drug that is used in the treatment of chronic myeloid leukaemia and malignant gastrointestinal stromal tumours.
The patent right for the drug was denied to Novartis in 2006 by the Chennai-based Intellectual Property Appellate Board.
The legal battle for the patent of the blood cancer drug is being closely watched by international pharmaceutical firms. Novartis had been fighting a prolonged legal case for the patent of Glivec, a cost effective drug.
Winning such a patent would have barred Indian firms from manufacturing generic drugs.

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[LST] Smokers Still Potentially Employable - Atlantic Mobile

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Smokers Still Potentially Employable
JAMES HAMBLINMAR 28 2013, 3:38 PM ET


U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt smokes a cigarette as he sits on the rocks at Herring Cove on Campobello Island, New Brunswick, Canada on July 30, 1936, where he had a summer home. [AP]
In 2008, the World Health Organization implemented a policy wherein they ask all applicants two questions:

Do you smoke or use tobacco products? 
If you currently smoke or use tobacco products, would you continue to do so if employed by WHO? 
If the person answers "yes" to both, they "will not be considered for selection."

The WHO justifies the policy:

Tobacco use is the major preventable cause of death in the world, killing nearly 5 million people annually. On current trends, by 2020, around 10 million people a year will die from tobacco-related diseases in developing countries alone, accounting for more deaths than from malaria, maternal conditions and injuries combined. ...  WHO is at the forefront of the global campaign to curb the tobacco epidemic. The Organization has a responsibility to ensure that this is reflected in all its work, including in its recruitment practices and in the image projected by the Organization and its staff members.
The Cleveland Clinic, Geisinger, and other large health systems also have policies against hiring smokers. It goes beyond the health industry, though. Union Pacific Railroad and Scotts Miracle-Gro are among companies of like mind.

In today's New England Journal of Medicine, Drs. Harald Schmidt, Kristin Voigt, and Ezekiel Emanuel (chief of the department of clinical bioethics at the National Institutes of Health) break down some of the rationale:

[A] more general argument is that employees must take personal responsibility for actions that impose financial or other burdens on employers or fellow employees. Accordingly, smokers should be responsible for the consequences of their smoking, such as higher costs for health insurance claims, higher rates of absenteeism, and lower productivity. These costs amount to an estimated additional $4,000 annually for each smoking employee.
Business is business, and $4,000 is $4,000. But as Emanuel et al. go on to say, those kinds of arguments are too simplistic, concluding, "Categorically refusing to hire smokers is unethical." Because smokers are more likely to be at a disadvantaged end of socioeconomic spectra, it puts undue burden on them, in addition to "preempt[ing] interventions that more effectively promote smoking cessation."

The discussion is nuanced and divisive. Drs. David Asch, Ralph Muller, and Kevin Volpp wrote an accompanying commentary in this same issue of the New England Journal that said these policies can be a rational part of imperfect efforts to save lives. They describe these hiring practices as part of a spectrum of Bloombergian deincentivization, the extreme end of which would be outlawing tobacco. In this case, if you don't quit, certain jobs will be unavailable to you. But, again, it's unfair from the perspective that nicotine is one of the most addictive known substances and you're effectively discriminating against people who have a harmful addiction, and are also happen more likely to be poor minorities. Sixty-five percent of Americans agree that this is unethical.

Both perspectives are thoughtful and available in full here and here.
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[LST] Like 500 years ago, geeks are becoming the last line of defense for free speech —

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Like 500 years ago, geeks are becoming the last line of defense for free speech

Rick Falkvinge is the founder of the first Pirate Party and campaigns for sensible information policy.
Get short URL Published time: March 31, 2013 22:53

Reuters / Kacper Pempel
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Europe, Hacking, Human rights, Information Technology, Internet, Social networks, USA
Businesses are attacking liberties that challenge their interests, and normally powerless people are defending freedom of speech. This is a world upside down, the direct opposite of how it should be - and yet, entirely predictable when we look at history.
In the past week, the spam protection service Spamhaus was subjected to a relentless attack that gives a glimpse of things to come. The attack initially rendered the service inoperable, effectively killing many crucial spam filters around the world for the duration of the attack.
However, geeks rose to the occasion, mounted countermeasures, and dissipated the attack, restoring the functionality of the world's spam filters in a matter of hours.
There is an escalating war on free speech happening right now. What Spamhaus does is easy to describe: it maintains a list of electronic junkmailers to the best of its ability, giving any and all e-mail services in the world the ability to sort out e-mail from known junkmailers. Publishing the list is obviously part of exercising free speech.
However, this free speech interfered with business interests of the junkmailers, who are making tons of money filling up your inbox with advertisements for Viagra (regardless of your gender or age – they don't know and they don't care). In an attempt to force people to listen to their advertising, they killed most mail systems' ability to sort out their junk mail in an outright attack. (Some people would claim that such unwanted advertising is a form of free speech in defending the businesses. That's confusing the right to speak freely with a perceived right to an audience. The former exists, the latter does not.)
While the attack was eventually repelled, it gave a glimpse into the resources and foul play businesses are prepared to use to quell free speech that goes against their interests. One number says that 75 gigabits of internet capacity was used in the attack against Spamhaus.
This is an immense volume: a typical small firm has about one-thousandth of that at its disposal. Just like regular armies are a numbers game, so are net attacks; if the defender has one-thousandth of the attacker's numbers, they lose, simple as that. (A key difference would be that the defender doesn't die, though, but comes back online when the attack stops.)
Normally, defending free speech would be the job of politicians and courts. Unfortunately, they have long had their own agenda, as their power is threatened by the net; where we used to see warrantless wiretapping and wanton censorship of the net (and cry foul over it), we are now seeing mass surveillance of everybody, all the time, with no better justification than "because it can be done". Anybody who challenges their power - such as the late Aaron Swartz - will find themselves in the crosshairs of a might-makes-right ideology.

Aaron Swartz. (Reuters / Noah Berger)
In this, we are seeing an almost verbatim repeat of how the union of the Church and Crown reacted to the threat of the printing press in the 1500s. In those times, freedom of speech was also defended by the many small people against the few powerful institutions - and yet, it led to 200 years of war across Europe, over the mere power of freedom of speech.
This time around, the conflicts are still escalating. Anywhere the corporations can use the power of the courts to kill an activist protest or a bad consumer review, corporations are trying to do so. Anywhere law enforcement can use the data of corporations to get the upper hand over activists that insist on exercising their rights, law enforcement will do so.
Thus, we have arrived at the weird situation where the geeks of the world are defending free speech rights for everybody against the desire and hard push of business interests, politicians, and governments. Politicians have abdicated from one of the most important parts of their job - safeguarding civil liberties - and are instead trying to dismantle them.
In the coming years, the battle will keep escalating. The Spamhaus attack, even though it was one of the largest attacks documented to date, was just a skirmish. Looking at the blueprint from when this happened with the printing press 500 years ago, free speech and activists will eventually win. Let's hope it doesn't take 200 years of war this time around.
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[LST] The Roots of America’s Financial Crisis- Jeffrey D. Sachs -

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The Roots of America's Financial Crisis

21 March 2008

CAMBRIDGE – The US Federal Reserve's desperate attempts to keep America's economy from sinking are remarkable for at least two reasons. First, until just a few months ago, the conventional wisdom was that the US would avoid recession. Now recession looks certain. Second, the Fed's actions do not seem to be effective. Although interest rates have been slashed and the Fed has lavished liquidity on cash-strapped banks, the crisis is deepening. 

To a large extent, the US crisis was actually made by the Fed, helped by the wishful thinking of the Bush administration. One main culprit was none other than Alan Greenspan, who left the current Fed Chairman, Ben Bernanke, with a terrible situation. But Bernanke was a Fed governor in the Greenspan years, and he, too, failed to diagnose correctly the growing problems with its policies. 

Today's financial crisis has its immediate roots in 2001, amid the end of the Internet boom and the shock of the September 11 terrorist attacks. It was at that point that the Fed turned on the monetary spigots to try to combat an economic slowdown. The Fed pumped money into the US economy and slashed its main interest rate – the Federal Funds rate – from 3.5% in August 2001 to a mere 1% by mid-2003. The Fed held this rate too low for too long.

Monetary expansion generally makes it easier to borrow, and lowers the costs of doing so, throughout the economy. It also tends to weaken the currency and increase inflation. All of this began to happen in the US.

What was distinctive this time was that the new borrowing was concentrated in housing. It is generally true that lower interest rates spur home buying, but this time, as is now well known, commercial and investment banks created new financial mechanisms to expand housing credit to borrowers with little creditworthiness. The Fed declined to regulate these dubious practices. Virtually anyone could borrow to buy a house, with little or even no down payment, and with interest charges pushed years into the future.

As the home-lending boom took hold, it became self-reinforcing. Greater home buying pushed up housing prices, which made banks feel that it was safe to lend money to non-creditworthy borrowers. After all, if they defaulted on their loans, the banks would repossess the house at a higher value. Or so the theory went. Of course, it works only as long as housing prices rise. Once they peak and begin to decline, lending conditions tighten, and banks find themselves repossessing houses whose value does not cover the value of the debt. 

What was stunning was how the Fed, under Greenspan's leadership, stood by as the credit boom gathered steam, barreling toward a subsequent crash. There were a few naysayers, but not many in the financial sector itself. Banks were too busy collecting fees on new loans, and paying their managers outlandish bonuses.

At a crucial moment in 2005, while he was a governor but not yet Fed Chairman, Bernanke described the housing boom as reflecting a prudent and well-regulated financial system, not a dangerous bubble. He argued that vast amounts of foreign capital flowed through US banks to the housing sector because international investors appreciated "the depth and sophistication of the country's financial markets (which among other things have allowed households easy access to housing wealth)."

In the course of 2006 and 2007, the financial bubble that is now bringing down once-mighty financial institutions peaked. Banks' balance sheets were by then filled with vast amounts of risky mortgages, packaged in complicated forms that made the risks hard to evaluate. Banks began to slow their new lending, and defaults on mortgages began to rise. Housing prices peaked as lending slowed, and prices then started to decline. The housing bubble was bursting by last fall, and banks with large mortgage holdings started reporting huge losses, sometimes big enough to destroy the bank itself, as in the case of Bear Stearns.

With the housing collapse lowering spending, the Fed, in an effort to ward off recession and help banks with fragile balance sheets, has been cutting interest rates since the fall of 2007. But this time, credit expansion is not flowing into housing construction, but rather into commodity speculation and foreign currency. 

The Fed's easy money policy is now stoking US inflation rather than a recovery. Oil, food, and gold prices have jumped to historic highs, and the dollar has depreciated to historic lows. A Euro now costs around $1.60, up from $0.90 in January 2002. Yet the Fed, in its desperation to avoid a US recession, keeps pouring more money into the system, intensifying the inflationary pressures.

Having stoked a boom, now the Fed can't prevent at least a short-term decline in the US economy, and maybe worse. If it pushes too hard on continued monetary expansion, it won't prevent a bust but instead could create stagflation – inflation and economic contraction. The Fed should take care to prevent any breakdown of liquidity while keeping inflation under control and avoiding an unjustified taxpayer-financed bailout of risky bank loans.   

Throughout the world, there may be some similar effects, to the extent that foreign banks also hold bad US mortgages on their balance sheets, or in the worst case, if a general financial crisis takes hold. There is still a good chance, however, that the US downturn will be limited mainly to America, where the housing boom and bust is concentrated. The damage to the rest of the world economy, I believe, can remain limited.
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حكمة القذافي

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إحالة لميس الحديدي وعمرو أديب ويوسف الحسيني إلى أمن الدولة

بالصور: فستان ميريام فارس في أكبر حفل زفاف في الإمارات

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RE: Nevada wind farm could face hefty fine over eagle death

This is the "Tree Hugger" side of Lew.If it would have been an oil spill he'd blame Obama.Shows that Lew is a non entity and a dundsil.
 

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Date: Sun, 31 Mar 2013 03:44:58 -0700
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Subject: Nevada wind farm could face hefty fine over eagle death

Nevada wind farm could face hefty fine over eagle death

Published March 31, 2013

Associated Press

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  May 21, 2012: Wind turbines operate at a wind farm near Milford, Utah. (Reuters)
  

ELY, Nev. – An eastern Nevada wind farm could face a fine of up to $200,000 over the death of a golden eagle.
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is investigating the bird's death at the Spring Valley Wind Farm near the Utah border, 350 miles east of Reno, spokesman Jeannie Stafford said.
San Francisco-based Pattern Energy, owner of the 152-megawatt wind energy project that sells power to Las Vegas-based NV Energy, turned over the dead eagle to federal authorities within 36 hours of its discovery in February.
Despite reporting the death, the wind farm could face a fine because it does not hold a federal "take" permit that would allow the incidental death of a golden or bald eagle, the Las Vegas Review-Journal reported.
Eagles receive special protection under federal law.
Scott Flaherty, spokesman for the Fish and Wildlife Service's southwestern regional office in Sacramento, Calif., said wind energy projects are not required to obtain take permits, but those that don't open themselves up to investigation and possible prosecution under federal law.
Applying for a permit and engaging with the service before any eagles are killed "provides the best possible outcomes for the companies and the wildlife," Flaherty said.
"We really prefer that wind developers work with the Service early on in the process" to identify the best site for a farm and its individual turbines to reduce bird strikes, he told the Review-Journal.
The $225 million facility went online in August as the first utility-scale wind farm in Nevada and the first to be built on federal land anywhere in the United States.
It features 66 turbines, each roughly 400 feet tall, scattered over 7,500 acres in White Pine County's Spring Valley near Great Basin National Park.
Pattern CEO Mike Garland called the bird's death "unfortunate" but noted that it is "the one eagle incident" since the start of operations on Aug. 8.
"We reported the incident to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and other local agencies and continue to work with these organizations on this matter," he said in a statement.
Stafford said Spring Valley is not a breeding ground for golden eagles, but they migrate through the area and forage for food there. Few bald eagles, if any, are known to pass through Spring Valley, she said.
Environmental groups sued to block construction of the wind farm over concerns about birds and bats dying in collisions with the turbines, among other issues.
Under a settlement, Pattern agreed to expand its program for tracking bird and bat deaths associated with the project. The company also agreed to pay $50,000 for a study of nearby Rose Cave, where more than 1 million Mexican free-tailed bats roost during their fall migration.
In 2010, developers of the wind farm said they expected fewer than 203 birds and 193 bats to die each year from turbine encounters, citing mitigation measures such as "modified" electrical lines and an advanced radar system to reduce risks to birds.
NV Energy has agreed to buy wind energy from the wind farm for the next 20 years.

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/03/31/nevada-wind-farm-could-face-hefty-fine-over-eagle-death/#ixzz2P742QsBz
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Nevada wind farm could face hefty fine over eagle death

Published March 31, 2013

Associated Press

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  May 21, 2012: Wind turbines operate at a wind farm near Milford, Utah. (Reuters)

ELY, Nev. – An eastern Nevada wind farm could face a fine of up to $200,000 over the death of a golden eagle.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is investigating the bird's death at the Spring Valley Wind Farm near the Utah border, 350 miles east of Reno, spokesman Jeannie Stafford said.

San Francisco-based Pattern Energy, owner of the 152-megawatt wind energy project that sells power to Las Vegas-based NV Energy, turned over the dead eagle to federal authorities within 36 hours of its discovery in February.

Despite reporting the death, the wind farm could face a fine because it does not hold a federal "take" permit that would allow the incidental death of a golden or bald eagle, the Las Vegas Review-Journal reported.

Eagles receive special protection under federal law.

Scott Flaherty, spokesman for the Fish and Wildlife Service's southwestern regional office in Sacramento, Calif., said wind energy projects are not required to obtain take permits, but those that don't open themselves up to investigation and possible prosecution under federal law.

Applying for a permit and engaging with the service before any eagles are killed "provides the best possible outcomes for the companies and the wildlife," Flaherty said.

"We really prefer that wind developers work with the Service early on in the process" to identify the best site for a farm and its individual turbines to reduce bird strikes, he told the Review-Journal.

The $225 million facility went online in August as the first utility-scale wind farm in Nevada and the first to be built on federal land anywhere in the United States.

It features 66 turbines, each roughly 400 feet tall, scattered over 7,500 acres in White Pine County's Spring Valley near Great Basin National Park.

Pattern CEO Mike Garland called the bird's death "unfortunate" but noted that it is "the one eagle incident" since the start of operations on Aug. 8.

"We reported the incident to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and other local agencies and continue to work with these organizations on this matter," he said in a statement.

Stafford said Spring Valley is not a breeding ground for golden eagles, but they migrate through the area and forage for food there. Few bald eagles, if any, are known to pass through Spring Valley, she said.

Environmental groups sued to block construction of the wind farm over concerns about birds and bats dying in collisions with the turbines, among other issues.

Under a settlement, Pattern agreed to expand its program for tracking bird and bat deaths associated with the project. The company also agreed to pay $50,000 for a study of nearby Rose Cave, where more than 1 million Mexican free-tailed bats roost during their fall migration.

In 2010, developers of the wind farm said they expected fewer than 203 birds and 193 bats to die each year from turbine encounters, citing mitigation measures such as "modified" electrical lines and an advanced radar system to reduce risks to birds.

NV Energy has agreed to buy wind energy from the wind farm for the next 20 years.

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/03/31/nevada-wind-farm-could-face-hefty-fine-over-eagle-death/#ixzz2P742QsBz

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[LST] The question of Italy’s criminal justice system

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The question of Italy's criminal justice system

Italy's Deputy Foreign Minister Staffan de Mistura (L) and Italian Ambassador to India Daniele Mancini address a press conference on the issue of Italian marines in New Delhi. PTI Photo
Over the past year or so, a little diplomatic drama has been playing itself out between Italy and India in connection with the arrest, incarceration and trial of two Italian marines accused of shooting to death two Indian fishermen off the coast of Kerala. It hasn't helped that the two accused men were riding shotgun on a ship that is accused of having illegally been in Indian waters.

Various spokespersons – official and otherwise – for the two Italian gunslingers have defended them vigorously. Three lines of argument have been prominent. First, the shooting was in self-defence or to protect the ship, which was threatened by various manoeuvres executed by the trawler carrying the two fishermen. Two, the Italian ship was never in Indian waters and the incident, such as it was, was enacted in international waters; and arising partially from the above, whatever the merits of the case, Indian courts have no jurisdictional authority to try the accused, meaning that they should forthwith be handed over to Italian authorities so that any trial that is deemed to be required must be carried out by them.

The waters, just to recapitulate, have been further muddied by Rome's entirely undiplomatic reluctance to send the undertrial marines back to India after they were granted parole to visit their homeland for various reasons and by their attempt to impose unreasonable preconditions on New Delhi in return for giving them over for trial. The fact that they have indeed been sent back has triggered outrage and unsavoury rhetoric in the media and political class, so much so that the Italian foreign minister has had to quit his job. It goes without saying that Italy's actions and rhetoric has not been in accordance with accepted (and acceptable) diplomatic protocols. We shall return to this argument in a bit, but to make the point a little more forcefully we need to make a small detour.

A few days ago, a top Italian court ordered a retrial into what has come to be known ironically as the Amanda Knox case. Briefly, a British exchange student, Meredith Kercher, was murdered in Perugia, Italy in 2007. A man from the Ivory Coast was eventually convicted for the murder on the basis of conclusive DNA evidence. But even before his arrest, Amanda Knox, an American exchange student who shared a house with Kercher and her one week-old Italian boyfriend, Rafaelle Sollecito, had been detained for the murder. Knox spent four years in an Italian jail, while prosecutors tried their best to establish that Knox had persuaded Rudy Hermann Guede, the Ivorian, to commit the murder. Knox and Sollecito were eventually cleared of any involvement in the murder in 2011.

The point of interest in this case is that Knox (and Sollecito) were relentlessly pursued for the murder despite the fact that there was very little evidence that they were conspirators, even after Guede had been found guilty and sentenced to 30 years in jail. Guede's jail term was reduced to 16 years on first appeal and much of the case against the two students rested on his accusations. Several points have become clear since Knox and Sollecito's acquittal.

First, the way the Italian – or Perugian – police treated the suspects Knox and Sollecito bordered on the barbaric. At any rate, they defied any civilized precept of police practice and constituted serious abuse of the human rights of the suspects. Second, the shambolic operation of the Italian criminal justice system meant that an innocent young person had to undergo around four years of incarceration because she was denied bail on the basis of the supposition that she was a flight risk. The Italian criminal justice system and law-enforcement agencies were lucky that they didn't have the stuffing sued out of them. Third, there is reasonable ground for the supposition that the prosecution struck a deal with Guede to bolster its maniacal pursuit of an innocent young woman. The only positive aspect to the entire business is the strong likelihood that the US will not extradite Knox, whatever rigged verdict the retrial throws up.

It is not clear what triggered this fanatical pursuit. Feminist readings have however, suggested that the deeply patriarchal and conservative attitudes historically ingrained in Perugian society made it natural that an attractive young woman, with her more relaxed sexuality would be considered a threat by the typical Perugian male and thereby constructed as predatory, dangerous, 'diabolical' and a natural target for witch hunting, historically a time-honoured occupation in Perugia. Knox was thus easily constructed as the villain of the piece, manipulating naïve men to do her bidding to consummate her inordinate sexual desires and allow her to triumph in her competition with Kircher for male sexual attention.

To return to our original story, this is the system that is now boiling over with outrage at the detention and trial of the two marines, who have as we have seen, admitted to killing the two fishermen. The only point that is in dispute is the circumstance of the murder – and surely it is not unreasonable for New Delhi to demand their trial so that a legally constituted court can reach a determination about it. We must also remember that in glaring contradistinction to the treatment meted out to Knox, also a non-citizen, and Sollecito, New Delhi's treatment of the two marines has been utterly humane, perhaps excessively so. They have been detained under house arrest rather than incarcerated in a prison and were allowed to travel to Italy to observe the Christmas festivities, a leniency that was grievously abused by the Italian authorities.

I do not wish to make nationalistic points because I am not particularly nationalistic by ideological persuasion. A point needs to be made, however. There does not seem to be any reason to treat the sensibilities of a third-rate power with a crumbling economy, stubbornly racist attitudes and a political establishment that is deeply imbued with extremely right-wing predilections that sometimes seem to hark back to the days of Mussolini with kid gloves. And this is a point about Italy, not India. No one is arguing that India is some kind of democratic idyll, entitled to take a moral high ground inscribed into the core of a civilizing project. The point is more about Italy and the need to expose its hypocritical double standards and its ultra-nationalistic pretensions. If the marines had been guilty of shooting dead fishermen in Bangladeshi or Pakistani waters, the point would have been no different.

Italian commentators have argued that the Italian criminal justice system should not be derided because Italy is one of the few countries in which a number of prominent political leaders have been successfully prosecuted and keeping in view the fact that one of the earliest initiatives to pursue mobsters and crack down on organized crime happened in Italy with the pursuit of mafia leaders. There is no reason to decry these very substantial achievements, but they cannot justify the delinquencies of the Italian structures of criminal justice and law enforcement
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[LST] Those vendors of snacks - The Hindu: Mobile Edition

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Those vendors of snacks
14 hours ago , By SIDDHARTHYA SWAPAN ROY, SWATI DAFTUAR, NEHA MUJUMDAR, ASHA SRIDHAR

No sugar or spice in their lives. Photo: Siddharthya Swapan Roy
Over two years, this writer befriended panipuri-wallahs in an attempt to tell their stories — even if, at first, they didn't want their stories to be told.
Unless I've sat through the night, 5.00 a.m. isn't an hour I'm used to seeing. But, unlike me, 23-year-old Ajay sees it every day. And if I have to watch him fry the puris, he told me, I'd have to join him at that hour.
"What keeps you from doing the frying a little later?" I ask. "I have to go to the [wholesale] market na, sir? Leaf plates, potatoes, coriander, tamarind and all the masala. By the time I come back it's 2.00 p.m. and I have to be at the stall by 4.00 p.m."
A smile flickers at the edge of his gutka-stained lips – one that laid bare my educated inability to comprehend the simple complexities of being a panipuri-wallah.
The panipuri, served by vendors from a setup that gives the word 'utilitarian' a run for its money, is not complicated. This ubiquitous fast food is, in every sense, a material manifestation of the elusive philosophy of "simple joy". What can possibly be complicated about panipuri? As for the vendors and their lives, what can even be noticeable about them?
But in 2011 they did get noticed — by prime time news no less. Maharashtra Navnirman Sena's activists thrashed panipuri vendors in Mumbai and Pune. Some even smiled for the camera while doing so. The cause for the eruption of this round of anger was said to be a video that showed a panipuri vendor taking a bladder break into the vessel used to mix the pani for the puris.
While jokes about filthy panipuriwallahs aren't new to urban Indian lore, this episode was different on many levels and left more questions than MNS's thrashing could answer. There had to be bigger stories that weren't being told; ones that have predated ephemeral political outfits and would live beyond petty electoral ambitions.
For the next two years, I befriended a few panipuriwallahs and tried piecing together a story. Over time the facts of the storyline started lining up. Facts such as:
1. Due to the low investment in setting up stalls, this is a very good way for migrant workers to start off.
2. Till some years ago, the number of Rajasthani migrants in this trade was quite high but they shifted to jobs like carpentry, masonry, small trade, grocery, etc. As of today, I couldn't find a single panipuri-wallah who isn't from the Hindi belt. I think it's, on the one hand, a case of survival of the fittest — the financial aspect of making a living off selling panipuris is far dirtier than the jokes; on the other hand, Rajasthani migrants have a better support network of family and friends where seniors adopt younger ones into their better paying, more settled trades.
3. Their work hours are impossibly long and strenuous. They have to stand for hours on end, often making a run for it when civic authorities come chasing, and anybody who survives past the age of 30 in this trade does so with very sore legs.
4. While peeing into a food vessel is as horrendous as it can get, the fact is that these people have absolutely no place to take a toilet break since they stand in public areas with no place to hide.
5. Their earnings are meagre and the rent they have to pay is high for the crime of being migrants, and now the added crime of being bhaiyyas.
7. Early business comes mostly from students and college-escaped lovers, who are the best customers. Then come office-goers and middle-aged women who haggle for discounts. As night grows, it's time for shoppers and drunkards. Last come policemen who not only eat for free but also lecture them about why they are being done a favour by being allowed to stand here.
8. They go home late in the night, perilously crossing the night streets with traffic signals switched off.
But facts don't complete a story; characters do. And I soon found out that this would be a tough story to pen down, since it dealt with characters who barely existed — little more than fleeting glimpses, never taken note of. Worse, the characters themselves weren't eager to be noted as existing.
5:30 p.m. Dadar Chowpatty Beach, Mumbai
The place is a mess in every sense — sight, sound and smell. Unlike what fine books tell us about healthy sea breezes, the air here is stale. And amid all this, ignoring the stinking and smeared walls behind them and hordes of onlookers all around, couples sit on the trademark starfish-like boulders of Mumbai beaches, being shamelessly intimate.
We select one stall randomly and the vendor's lackey wipes a discoloured plastic chair with a rag. The vendor looks partly disappointed and partly suspicious when I pay no heed to the menu and instead fish out a camera and a notebook.
"Thoda baat karna hai," I smile. He doesn't respond. "Press wallah hoon. Ek chhota sa interview karogey?" The young man smiles with a touch of shyness.
"My work begins at 4.00 a.m., sir. I work as a cook at a restaurant till 11, then go home for lunch and come to the stall at 2 and am here till 10 in the night." "Rs.2500 from each place sir." "Single sir. Matlab single in Mumbai but married in village." "Near Ranchi sir." "I worked as mechanic in Ranchi before coming to Mumbai. Work is hard here but at least there is money." "He [points to lackey] has come just three weeks back...my maasi's son…Rs.1200 per month now, for starting off…better than his previous job as painter in Ranchi. No, no we never face any trouble. Maalik's brother is the corporator na [elected to local body]."
5:00 p.m., Phule Mandai, Pune
"No, no, I'm Marathi," the middle-aged man declares. I catch the lilt in his vowels and know he isn't being entirely honest but I don't press him. Instead I order a plate of panipuri and, gulping the second one, I tell my friend, "This is nice, man…much better than what we got at that place…take a plate, I say." Trick works.
"Narsingh Jadhav, sir. I'm from Bidar actually…you know Bidar sir? Karnataka?" "I came when I was 5 years old… (laughs)… right sir, I'm Puneri now…I'm 40 now sir." "I came with my mama. We had just one acre of land, that too useless because there's no water and too many dependants on it. My mama was panipuri-wallah here. I learnt by working with him." "No sir, not my cart. How can I afford cart? Everything else I manage of course — buying the stuff, cooking, everything." "Bada maalik is corporator but day-to-day business is managed by chhota maalik." "That way no major problem, sir, just some financial trouble I'm facing currently." "Rs.200 a day. I'm requesting for Rs.250 for many months but chhota maalik doesn't agree." "Problem is earlier I used to live in maalik's shed, but wife didn't like it so had to move out a year back. Rent is Rs.2500 so no savings are happening. She's from good family na, that's why she doesn't adjust." "Yes sir, two sons but they live with my in-laws in Kalyan." "They are in English-medium school." "Which class? That I can't tell…I see them only once in a year so I never kept track. But I know I'm growing old. My legs hurt nowadays (shows a clotted swollen leg)." "Yes sir, I showed, but local doctor says I need to go to hospital for check-up. But I'm paid on daily basis na, so I can't manage."
"Sir one minute… (calls me back)… maalik won't know na? I mean kuch problem…you know like those bhaiyyas…"
9:00 p.m., Fergusson College Road, Pune
"Photo kyun liya saab?" I ignore him and take a few more. "Saab, don't take photos."
"Relax, I'm from the press," I tell him.
Another boy walks up: "Oy, you move…the picture should be mine. Sir, shop is mine. He's just a friend." He takes charge of his "shop", which is an hourglass-shaped wicker stand, a stove with simmering chana dal, a steel handi with tamarind-jaggery-masala water, a few more vessels, the large red plastic sheet and the trove of puris.
"My name is Palaash Seth…no, it is Anand…write only Anand sir…place? That I can't tell sir."
"It's OK. I'm a Bihari too," I lie.
"U.P., sir." "I'm 13." "I get Rs.2000 per month. No holidays." "No parents. Grandfather is in the village and he couldn't afford to keep me, so I came here with my uncle. Actually he's not my uncle but from my village. Earlier he used to manage this shop but he can't run like me and every two days police fellows chase us, so maalik decided to put me here instead."
Tilaknagar, Kirti Nagar, Mayur Vihar, Kilpauk, Nungambakkam High Road, Saras Baug, Exide Junction — it's the same characters who come again and again, changing only their names, faces and places of work.
I give up trying to tell their tales of woe and sit back and contemplate the irony of their lives. Lovely young women and their men laugh and emote with every tingling twirl of panipuri offered by these vendors. But when the day's business is done, the givers of joy go back home to tasteless boiled daal, rice and potatoes. Daal and potatoes are mostly the leftover panipuri filling. Their lives are a sheer contrast to the spice — hopeless, joyless and bland. But going to bed late and getting up early leaves them little time to mourn.
Back in Pune, I tell Ajay about the panipuri vendors of Chennai and ask him "What's this deal with Kolkata-style panipuri?"
"Kolkata panipuri walon ka university hai," he says in his quirky style. "That's the best city to start your career. Look at me. I'm from Bihar but I learnt under my elder brother there and that's why my stall is such a hit with the people. You know Dhamtalla sir?"
"Yes, I know Dharmatala." I chuckle at his condescension.
"My brother's stall's been there for nearly 30 years now. My two nephews and my niece are going to a good school. He was telling me last week he's even planning to buy a small house"
"Then why did you come here with your cousin and not stay back in Kolkata?"
"Arey sir, simple hai. Here I have freedom to eat and drink. There, with my bhaiyya-bhabhi, I have to follow rules. Everybody has to work hard; even I do. But we need to have fun too, hai na?"
Postscript: While every other day Mumbai's political parties cry themselves hoarse debating which movie, which race of migrants or which one of the myriad other frivolities offends the sanctity of Mumbai, the city continues to have just one public toilet for every 11,000 (counted) residents.
CR Park, South Delhi
Name: Ganesh
Age: Late 50s
Origin: Bhagalpur
Years in this line: 15+
Earnings: Rs.200 a day
Work hours: Around 10 hours a day
There's very little money. The number of customers has decreased because people are going to expensive restaurants to have panipuri. But what can I do? This is my trade. So I wait for customers every day, whether it is hot or cold or raining. I want to go back to my village and have enough money to get a house there and take my whole family with me.
India Gate, Delhi
Name: Sanju
Age: 38
Origin: Bulandshahar
Years in this line: 5
Earnings: Rs.200-250 a day
Work hours: 10.00 a.m. to 10.00 p.m.
I was working in a factory and had to leave when, in an accident, my hand was cut off. I wasn't compensated; neither did they give me a certificate. I couldn't find another job. I have no money to pay rent, so I usually sleep on the pavement. I save so little I can't send anything back. Every week we have to pay hafta to the committee. The police doesn't take anything but the committee takes at least Rs.300-400 per week."
Sampige Road, Malleswaram, Bangalore
Name: Dilip Kumar
Age: Unknown
Origin: Madhya Pradesh
Years in this line: Less than 1
Earnings: Rs.1200 a month
Work hours: 11:30 am to 9.00 p.m.
My stall is often taken away by police. I have to then pay Rs.200-300 to get it back. Owner controls our salary. I haven't sent anything back as yet, but I have saved some to carry home this Holi. I don't want to come back here. I don't like this work. There are so many troubles and my legs hurt from standing all day.
Kilpauk Garden Road, Kilpauk, Chennai
Name: Phoolchand Gupta
Age: 44
Origin: Uttar Pradesh
Years in this line: 31 years
Earnings: Non-committal
Working hours: 3.00 to 9.30 p.m.
My father and grandfather migrated to Kolkata to sell panipuri. When I was old enough, it was my turn to go. I came to Chennai from Kolkata 12 years back, and run this stall with my three brothers. Madras is an expensive city, more expensive than Kolkata. Whatever we are able to save after paying rent and settling other expenses, we send back home. My children are not uneducated like their father. They will not rough it out like me.
Nungambakkam High Road, Chennai
Name: Shambunath Gupta
Age: 35 years
Origin: Uttar Pradesh
Years in line: Around 20 years
Earnings: Non-committal
Working hours: 2.00 p.m. to 10.00 p.m.
When it rains, we move to a corner or hold an umbrella, but business never stops. Not until it gets very difficult. Back in Uttar Pradesh, I studied till higher secondary, but had to start earning after my father passed away. I came to the city two years back, after spending many years selling panipuri in Kolkata. Money is in the cities. Business is not as good there as it is here. We start making the chutneys at 4.00 a.m., open the shop at 3.00 in the afternoon work till 10.00 in the night. I have four children to educate.
Kilpauk Garden Road, Chennai
Name: Satrudhan Yadav
Age: 45 years
Origin: Patna, Bihar
Years in line: 30 years
Earnings: Rs.300-500
Working hours: 3.00 p.m. to 9.30 p.m.
My snack, chana jor garam, is very famous in Kolkata. I went there as a 15-year-old boy. It hardly finds takers here. I pay as much as Rs.2,000 just for rent here. One month I am here, and if there is a wedding or a festival I go to Kolkata, or Patna, or wherever my work takes me. We have no permanent place.
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[LST] The Beijing Imperium

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Mihir S Sharma | 29 03 2013
Last Update at 10 40 IST
The Beijing Imperium
The People's Republic of China, as we all know, makes everything. It also owns a great deal - scary ships and even scarier bits of paper with promises of money on them. It throws its weight around in international affairs, and bullies its neighbours. And yet, as its president, Xi Jinping, stressed repeatedly at the BRICS summit this week, it would like to be treated as a developing country.
China is not a developing country, and it should stop pretending to be one. And India should stop enabling this diplomatic deception.
Jinping is a fan of the BRICS summits, the travelling court of the Beijing Imperium, and all its associated anti-Western, third-world trumpeting. The BRICS serves the purpose of allowing China to hide behind genuine developing countries like India and South Africa in order to decry the unfairness of a world order in which, as it happens, it is doing pretty well - Security Council seat, remember? - if not as well as it imagines it deserves.
The BRICS leaders' brilliant idea that they need to replace the World Bank, that hideous relic of World War II-era Eurocentrism, with a developing country-run infrastructure finance bank, is a classic example of the dangerous nonsense resulting from India's blind refusal to challenge China's "developing country" status. The World Bank is supposed to lend to developing countries to build their infrastructure. China would like voting rights assigned proportional to each country's contribution to the bank's corpus; since nobody else has any many - being real developing countries, remember - that means China will get control, and disburse funds as it pleases in order to promote its own national interests in the resource-rich developing world, all the while hiding behind the supposed moral authority other four members of the BRICS. Imperial Beijing will build the infrastructure it needs; but it will be cleverer than Rome with its roads, or the Raj with its railways. That this proposal should have lasted two whole summits without being thrown out on its ear is something Manmohan Singh should be ashamed of. At the very least he's been forced to point out that New Delhi hasn't that much money to give, and so it's uncomfortable with proportional voting rights.
Meanwhile, Jinping, that eminent, idealistic Nehruvian, has a Panchsheel to offer us, apparently: five points that he suggests should guide India's relationship with China. Here they are. I annotate each with a translation from Advanced Party Doublespeak into plain language. One: "Maintain strategic communication and keep bilateral relations on the right track." Translation: Have lots of summits to attack the West, please, and don't make a noise about dams or our naval bases or our help to Pakistan. Two: "Harness each other's comparative strength and expand win-win cooperation in infrastructure, mutual investment and other areas." Translation: our comparative advantage is in making things. Yours is buying them. Get it? If not, Jairam Ramesh, who invented the word "Chindia" and shut all your manufacturing down for you, will explain. Three: "Strengthen cultural ties and increase mutual understanding and friendship between our peoples." Translation: Our rise is peaceful, so stop distrusting us, or else. Four: "Expand coordination and collaboration in multilateral affairs to jointly safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of developing countries and tackle global challenges." Translation: Try even harder to hate the West. They are imperialists, trying to dominate all us poor developing countries. Yankee Go Home. Five: "Accommodate each other's core concerns and properly handle problems and differences existing between the two countries." Translation: I thought I told you not to make a noise!
Not that we could make a real noise. It is important to remember that, while China is no longer a developing country, India very definitely is. It has as much chance of matching China economically and militarily as it does of beating it at the Olympic medal tally. So, naturally, confrontation is not the answer. Remember, India speaking loudly while China carries a big stick is what got us 1962.
But I would think, for our self-respect and in our national interest, we shouldn't roll over and play dead, either. The problem is that New Delhi's bureaucratic and intellectual circles are so invested in a post-colonial conception of the West as evil exploiters and everyone in Asia as our natural allies that they wind up making the oddly racist assumption that imperialism is something only white people try. Thus, mouthing pious anti-imperialist shibboleths, India is willing to serve the Beijing Imperium through the BRICS Bank. Or New Delhi - actually, Jairam Ramesh again - will invite China, since 2006 the world's biggest polluter, to pretend it's a put-upon developing country at climate-change negotiations and hide behind India's need to step up emissions.
Far more sensible than anyone in New Delhi's corridors of power, evidently, is the governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Lamido Sunusi, who wrote a widely-read op-ed in The Financial Times last week where he pointed out that Africa is willingly opening itself up to Chinese imperialism: "China is no longer a fellow under-developed economy - it is the world's second-biggest, capable of the same forms of exploitation as the West. It is a significant contributor to Africa's deindustrialisation and underdevelopment."
Wise words, those. India's manufacturing has shown no growth for quarter after quarter. Chinese goods fill our markets. We want to denude our forests to sell them iron ore. This is colonialism; the struggling West's feeble investment is not.
China is not a fellow developing country. But it is still a competitor, and one streets ahead. At the very least, India should stop giving it a helping hand.
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PoP: ASAP through 12/31/2013

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1. Bachelor Degree in Computer Science or equivalent certificate with 10 plus years of experience.

2. Must have 6 plus years of development experience in

a. Enterprise applications using Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE)

b. Using Eclipse or similar tools

1. Strong in core Java

2. Four plus years of experience in Hibernate and Spring.

3. Must have 3+ plus years of working experience in environments where the below/similar web-based applicationtechnologies are used

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b. Service Oriented Architecture (Web Services), SOA

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2. Ability to write SQL Queries involving complex constructs

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3. Should have understanding on Configuration Management tools e.g. IBM Rational tools

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·         DROOL business rule experience

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·         Experience with Websphere content management system(WCM)

·         Experience with workflow, Activity Tool, SSO, ESB Framework, Audit Framework is required

Work Assignments:

1.Work under direction from the technical lead to design, coding and unit testing.

If required, lead technical team

2.Participate in code peer reviews and ensure the code written complies with the company standards and policies

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SunIT Tech Inc.,

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Alpharetta, GA 30009

T:(678)-881-9020

F:(678)-853-2453

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www.linkedin.com/in/rajupn

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