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Running with the Kenyans

Adharanand Finn gets a break from the hard pace of Iten and meets some unlikely inner-city runners in Nairobi It’s a motley crew that assembles around the big, red 4×4 in the carpark of the Nest hotel in Ngong, just north of Nairobi. The majority of the 40 or so people are overweight. A few are drinking fizzy drinks. One lady, with a face like a snarling dog, is smoking a cigarette. Everyone is wearing running kit. “Today’s long route is 10km,” says the man in charge. “The short route is 8km. Enjoy.” Most of the people here look like they’d struggle to make it up the stairs to the bar. But with good natured smiles and jokes, we all file out of the carpark, on to the road, and start jogging. After two months training with elite Kenyan athletes up in the Rift Valley, I’ve come down into town, to Nairobi, where the running scene is more varied. Nearby, up in the Ngong Hills, there are still plenty of serious athletes to be found, but today I’m running with the infamous Hash House Harriers. With over 1,700 groups meeting in most major cities around the world, the HHH is an international phenomenon. More a social club than a typical running club – they like to describe themselves as “a drinking club with a running problem” – they nevertheless head out on regular long runs all across their respective cities. After all the hard running I’ve been doing in Iten, struggling along at the back of every group I join, this, I hope, should provide some light relief. Rather than run along a set route, the Hashers follow a trail marked out in advance with white chalk scattered on the ground. The pace is excruciatingly slow at the back of the group as runners heave themselves along the road, almost being knocked over by buses crammed full of commuters. At the head of the group, a few lean runners are getting away. I chase after them, but as soon as I catch them, they step behind a wall and stop. They’re all grinning. “What’s going on?” One of them, an elderly man with one of his front teeth missing, points at two white chalk lines on the ground. “That means it’s a false trail,” he says. But he doesn’t want the others to realise, at least not until they too have come all the way down the dusty side road as we have. This is not going to be a normal run, I realise. Once we get back on track, returning en masse to the main road and taking a different chalk-marked side road, the same few runners hurtle off at the front again, and I stick with them. We soon find ourselves running through the back yards of some collapsing wooden houses, ducking under washing lines, leaping over small children playing in the mud. But we seem to have lost the trail. As we stand around deliberating, a man in a doorway points down a narrow gap between two of the houses. Without thanking him, we rush down it, and sure enough, there are more chalk marks. “On, on,” the others shout at the top of their voices, as the slower runners begin to catch up. Children stand and watch us pass, too bemused even to make a comment. And so it goes on. Every time we get stuck at a turning, it gives the other runners a chance to catch up. When we find the right way, we yell “on, on” and the charge resumes. Despite having initial reservations, I’m finding it all quite exhilarating. We’re running like loonies through tumble-down back streets, looking for white chalk marks. I even find myself yelling out when I find one. “On, on,” I yell. Two women sit in a doorway watching me run by. Behind comes a long line of plodding Kenyans in tracksuits and fluorescent bibs. At about halfway we find a car parked with the boot open. Inside are cups of water, slices of melon and chunks of sugarcane to suck on. Sitting in the front of the car is the woman who was smoking at the start. I’m one of the first to arrive, but soon everyone has caught up. As we stand around eating and getting our breath back, someone says: “Let’s have a song.” Spontaneously, they all break into a hearty version of Singing in the Rain, except with compulsory actions like wiggling bums and sticking out tongues. The people living down this particular backstreet, with its dusty hair salons and mango stalls, stand around in groups, agog. Although there are a few other wazungu (white people) in the group, the Hash is mainly made up of Kenyans. They all drive big cars and are more than happy to hand over KSH150 (£1.10) just to run – more than many people here in Kenya earn in a day. Afterwards, they drink the night away, with beers at specially reduced prices and rooms booked at the hotel for those too drunk to get home. In a country full of super athletes driven by poverty, it is among the well-educated, overfed rich that I have finally managed to find some Kenyan runners slower than me. I enjoy the brief glory of being the first Hasher to finish the course. Next week I’ll be back in Iten, in my customary role, as the slowest runner in town. Running Fitness Adharanand Finn guardian.co.uk

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Lawrence O’Donnell: ‘Michele Bachmann Voters Are Ignorant – Her District Is 92% White’

Lawrence O'Donnell on Monday accused people that voted for Congresswoman Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) last November of being “shockingly ignorant,” and said one of the reasons was because her district is 92 percent white. This happened as “The Last Word” host went on an almost seven-minute rant about Bachmann's gaffe this weekend concerning Lexington and Concord being in New Hampshire rather than Massachusetts (video follows with transcript and commentary): LAWRENCE O’DONNELL: Time for tonight's “Rewrite.” Okay. This one does have the feel of shooting fish in a barrel, but so does anything involving fact checking Michele Bachmann. In fact, the phrase shooting fish in a barrel could be replaced with fact checking Michele Bachmann, or better put, mistake proving Michele Bachmann, because finding Michele Bachmann’s mistakes is as easy or perhaps easier than shooting fish in a barrel, especially for those of us that aren't exactly handy with guns. And mistakes is a kind word when it comes to Michele Bachmann. Many of the falsehoods she has spouted, such as healthcare death panels, must be lies because she must know, she must know that they are completely untrue. But many of the things she says are truly breathtaking demonstrations of ignorance levels previously unimaginable in a member of Congress or a graduate of an American elementary school. Like when she said recently in prepared text that the Founding Fathers ended slavery, obviously having absolutely no idea that the Founding Fathers deliberately did nothing to end slavery, and that it was, in fact, the 16th President of the United States who issued the Emancipation Proclamation and fought and won a civil war to end slavery. Actually, the ignorance on display here was O'Donnell's. Bachmann didn't say the Founding Fathers ended slavery. She said they – in particular, John Quincy Adams – worked tirelessly to end slavery. As NewsBusters reported on January 27, this is technically correct. Also, to say “the Founding Fathers deliberately did nothing to end slavery” is 100 percent false, for as NewsBusters also reported in January, there was originally an anti-slavery clause in the Declaration of Independence that southern delegates to the First Continental Congress, led by South Carolina's Edward Rutledge, forced the removal of.

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Hiromitsu Shinkawa

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Albert Einstein March 14 1879

Bhagavad Gita Chapter 8 Akshara ParaBrahma Yoga part 2 Bhagavad Gita Chapter 8 Akshara ParaBrahma Yoga part 1 Faith , Science and Money The Einstein Principle: Accomplish More By Doing Less Albert Einstein March 14, 1879 — April 18, 1955. According to the article in The Writer’s Almanac: After the conclusion of his tour of the United States, in an interview with a Dutch newspaper, Albert Einstein said: “The vast … Hero or Anti-Hero: Diane Arbus (March 14, 1923) Diane Arbus (March 14, 1923) · Albert Einstein (March 14, 1879 ) · Charles Krauthammer (March 13, 1950) · Adolph Simon Ochs (March 12, 1858) · International Day of Awesomeness · Bobby Fischer (March 9, 1943) · Antisemitism in High … Cats, Jax, and the Plastic Princess: Happy Pi Day! (Monday) Hopefully they’ll be fixing the pavement in a few spots that are really pathetic. “A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.” – Albert Einstein (March 14, 1879 -April 18, 1955). at 3/14/2011 05:34:00 AM … grazianoriga says: BORN TODAY: ALBERT EINSTEIN. March 14 (1879 ). Genius. http://24o.it/UMh1I Nova100/Sole24ore. (1 of 6 covers). http://twitpic.com/49g06f

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Michael Barone has an interesting column in Monday's Washington Examiner noting that the president has worked his habit of refusing to stake out a concrete position into the White House's approach to the two major issues of the day: the uprising in Libya, and the ongoing debate and legislative battle over the federal budget. Barone writes : One must concede that the issues involved here are difficult. The revolt against the Gadhafi regime in Libya poses difficult questions, and even those advocating certain responses, like Kerry and Wolfowitz, concede that there is no assurance that they will work as hoped. On the budget the two parties are far apart. The House Republican leadership, responding to their 87 freshmen and to the voters' verdict last November, clearly have the momentum in pushing for additional cuts in spending. Democrats who increased spending so sharply in the stimulus package and budget passed in 2009 have principled reasons for resisting and probably hope that a failure to agree followed by a government shutdown will help their party as they believe happened in the 1995-96 confrontation between Newt Gingrich and Bill Clinton. Voting “present” may be a responsible move for a legislator genuinely undecided about which way to go. But an executive voting “present” is choosing a course with consequences whether he likes it or not. “The buck stops here,” said the sign on the desk of the 33rd president, Harry Truman, who was quick to make decisions — sometimes too quick. The 44th president's tendency seems to be something like the opposite. Make sure you check out the full column for more specifics on the White House's approach to the two problems. But given recent events, do you agree with Barone's characterization here?

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Cokie Roberts Plays the ‘Both Sides Do It’ Game

Click here to view this media I get really tired of the kind of false equivalency game being played by Cokie Roberts here. It’s one we see constantly by our Villagers in the media who are always desperate to paint the liberal base of the Democratic party as being “extremists.” Republicans are pushing for horrible draconian cuts to the budget that are going to weaken our economy, which Roberts admits is overreaching and it’s going to potentially harm them politically, but then she just has to get the “both sides do it” line in there. Sorry Cokie but one side governing like Republican-lite and catering to big business but actually caring about governing is not equal to the other side which just wants to burn the house down. She pretty well makes that point herself since she doesn’t cite a single example of this supposed overreach by the Democrats. The only ones she gives are examples of what the Republicans have done. And I don’t know of anyone who cares whether politicians are “getting along” or not, if “getting along” means doing harm to the working class. It seems the only bipartisanship we’ve been getting out of Washington DC lately is the kind that helps the rich at the expense of the poor and what’s left of our middle class. Transcript via ABC News . TAPPER: And Jon makes a salient point in that amusing spot, which is that most of the budget is not being debated right now, George. WILL: It’s not being debated because they say we’re only going to debate discretionary spending. We should… ROBERTS: Domestic discretionary spending. WILL: We should ban that word. It’s all discretionary, other than interest on the national debt. Social Security is discretionary. We have the discretion to change the law. Same is true with Medicare and Medicaid. ROBERTS: But — but — the — you know, they don’t, because they’re scared to. And what it requires is everybody holding hands and jumping at once. And there’s not a lot of hand-holding and Kumbaya singing on Capitol Hill, so I don’t think that you’re going to see that happening. But this fight I do think is going to be very interesting to see how it works out for Republicans next year. TAPPER: You think there might be overreaching? ROBERTS: Absolutely. And it happens with both parties. They do it all the time. They come into power and they think the voters have told them something different from what the voters have actually told them. The voters say, “We want you just to do something, stop bickering, get along, and pay us — you know, run the country.” And instead, they do things like, say, “We’re going tell the EPA not to have any power over greenhouse gases.” You know, that’s overreaching. “We’re going to cut Head Start.” These people have never run on a record. They’re going to have to next year go out and run on a record. And they’re going to have trouble with that. KARL: You know, they did run on a promise to deal with this. And Paul Ryan is about to come out with a budget. Next month, he’s going to come out with a budget that is going to address Medicare. And a lot of the Republican leadership up on the Hill thinks this is a terrible mistake, that he is driving them off a cliff to do this before the White House goes first or at least goes with him. But Ryan is charging ahead. And it will be very interesting to see how this plays. But he is — you know, he has somebody who has consistently promised to do this. He did it on his own, before he was chairman of the Budget Committee, when he was in the minority, he had only 13 co-sponsors of his bill. Now he’s doing it on behalf of the Republican leadership.

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Lululemon

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Israel plans settlements after killing

500 more homes to be built in West Bank in response to the murder of five members of a Jewish settler family Israel is to build hundreds of homes in West Bank settlements in response to the murder of five members of a Jewish settler family, including two children and a baby, believed to be the work of Palestinian militants. The events of the weekend are likely to further push back the prospects of renewed peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians. The decision to approve 500 housing units was taken on Saturday night, less than 24 hours after the Fogel family were attacked with knives as they slept in their home in the isolated settlement of Itamar, deep in the West Bank. All five had their throats slit. Thousands of people attended their funeral in Jerusalem on Sunday. Three children in the family survived. The homes are to be built in the large settlement blocks which Israel expects to keep under any peace agreement with the Palestinians. It is the biggest tranche of construction announced since the end of the settlement freeze almost six months ago. Some members of the Israeli cabinet pushed for a more radical response to the family’s murder. Interior minister Eli Yishai, of the pro-settlement, rightwing Shas party, said Israel should build “at least a thousand new homes for each person murdered”. Housing minister Ariel Atias, also of Shas, said: “We must strengthen the settlement, and the time is now.” The move signals a stiffening of the Israeli government’s stance in the face of international pressure for a gesture to encourage peace talks to resume. The prime minister, Binyamin Netanyahu, had been expected to propose an interim Palestinian state on temporary borders, but analysts suggested that may now be shelved. The Palestinian Authority said the construction announcement was aimed at addressing Netanyahu’s domestic political problems within his fragile coalition. It would not “cause the Palestinians to forego their right to independence and freedom,” said a spokesman, Ahmad Assaf. Further details of Friday night’s attack emerged amid criticism that security procedures at the settlement had not been properly observed. The attacker or attackers scaled Itamar’s perimeter fence, triggering an alarm. Settlement security investigated but failed to notify the Israeli military. The intruders waited inside the settlement for some time after identifying their target, then entered the Fogels’ house through a window. Two children were killed first, then the father, who was asleep with his baby daughter, and then the mother, who, it was reported, attempted to shoot the attackers with the family’s gun. The attackers then escaped over the perimeter fence, triggering a second alarm. The bodies were discovered by the Fogels’ 12-year-old daughter, who had been attending a youth event in the settlement. Two other children in the house were physically unharmed. The surviving children were being cared for by their grandparents and social workers. Graphic photographs of the bloodsoaked bodies were yesterday emailed to journalists by the settlers’ Yesha council and a Jerusalem public relations firm. Government officials considered distributing the photographs, but decided against the move. The hunt for the attackers continued for a second daywith a heavy police and military presence in Palestinian towns and villages around Itamar. At least 20 men were arrested in the nearby village of Awarta. Security forces were also on alert against reprisal attacks by hardline settlers. The defence minister, Ehud Barak, said the “iron fist of the IDF [Israeli Defence Force] and the Shin Bet [intelligence service] will quickly land on the murderers”. They will be caught, brought to justice and made to pay, he added. The funeral of the five victims drew thousands of people to a cemetery on the edge of Jerusalem, causing gridlock as hundreds tried to get to the burial site up to an hour after the scheduled start of the service. Helicopters passed overhead as Chief rabbi Yona Metzger told the crowd that the attackers had only succeeded in uniting Israelis. Settlement expansion should accelerate in response to the murders, he added. “Another neighbourhood, that’s the answer. More building, that’s the answer,” he said. Reuven Rivlin, the Knesset speaker, said: “We will live, we will continue to build and to plant, we will continue to grip on to the land of Israel. More construction, more life, more hanging on to the land. This is our answer to the murderers.” The Palestinian news agency, Maan, reported a number of incidents in the West Bank on Saturday night after the end of the Jewish sabbath, in which settlers attacked or harassed people in villages and towns. Itamar, which is home to about 100 families, is a deeply nationalist and religious settlement near the Palestinian city of Nablus. The area has seen frequent clashes in the past. Israel Middle East Palestinian territories Harriet Sherwood guardian.co.uk

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Jessie J

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Sixth journalist in NoW scandal named

Hacker hired by senior News of the World executive to intercept emails, BBC documentary says The News of the World phone-hacking scandal is set to reach a new peak of embarrassment for the paper and for Scotland Yard with the naming of the sixth and most senior journalist yet to be implicated in illegal news-gathering. A BBC Panorama programme claims that Alex Marunchak, formerly the paper’s senior executive editor, commissioned a specialist snooper who illegally intercepted email messages from a target’s computer and faxed copies of them to Marunchak’s News of the World office. The embarrassment is heightened by the fact that the target was a former British army intelligence officer who had served in Northern Ireland and was in possession of secrets which were deemed so sensitive that they had been suppressed by a court order. Rupert Murdoch’s News International, which owns the News of the World, has claimed repeatedly that only one of its journalists – the former royal correspondent, Clive Goodman – was involved in illegal news-gathering. When Goodman was jailed in January 2007, Scotland Yard chose not to interview any other journalist or executive on the paper. And Panorama reports that the illegal interception of emails happened in July 2006, when the prime minister’s former media adviser Andy Coulson was editing the paper. Coulson has given evidence to a parliamentary select committee and on oath at a criminal trial, denying that he knew anything of any illegal activity during his seven years at the News of the World. Panorama obtained details of a fax sent to the office of Marunchak on 5 July 2006, apparently containing copies of emails which had been written by Ian Hurst, a former army intelligence officer. Marunchak was then based in the News of the World’s Dublin office, editing the Irish edition. Hurst was believed to be involved in writing a book titled Stakeknife, eventually published under the pseudonym Martin Ingram, which details the alleged involvement of British intelligence in assassinations in Northern Ireland. Hurst had been the subject of court orders obtained by the Ministry of Defence. Panorama traced Hurst and showed him the fax. He confirmed on camera that the emails had come from his computer. “The hairs on the back of my head are up,” he told them. Hurst then contacted a specialist hacker who he suspected was responsible, met him in a local hotel and confronted him, while the BBC secretly filmed the exchange. The hacker – whose name cannot be revealed for separate legal reasons – confessed his role and added: “It weren’t that hard. I sent you an email that you opened, and that’s it … I sent it from a bogus address … Now it’s gone. It shouldn’t even remain on the hard drive … I think I programmed it to stay on for three months.” Hurst then asked the hacker who had commissioned him to do this. The hacker replied: “The faxes would go to Dublin … He was the editor of the News of the World for Ireland. A Slovak-type name. I can’t remember his fucking name. Alex, his name is. Marunchak.” Marunchak declined to answer questions when the BBC confronted him. The BBC claim that Marunchak was introduced to the specialist hacker by Jonathan Rees, the private investigator whose involvement with corrupt police officers was detailed by the Guardian on Saturday. Internal News International records show that Marunchak regularly employed Rees from the late 1990s, and that during 2006, the News of the World paid Rees more than £4,000 for research relating to Stakeknife, the codename for the British intelligence mole inside the IRA whose activities were known to Ian Hurst. Marunchak is the sixth News of the World journalist to be implicated in the affair. Documents published by the Guardian in 2009 include an email containing the transcripts of 35 illegally intercepted voicemail messages, sent by a junior reporter, Ross Hindley, for the chief reporter, Neville Thurlbeck. Paperwork disclosed in court cases suggests that Clive Goodman, Ian Edmondson and Greg Miskiw commissioned phone-hacking. Goodman was jailed; Edmondson has been sacked but not charged with any offence; Miskiw is believed to have been interviewed by police in 2005 but never charged with any offence. Monday’s edition of Panorama includes an interview with Sean Hoare, the News of the World’s former showbusiness writer, who last year told the New York Times that Andy Coulson had actively encouraged him to hack voicemail. Hoare tells the programme that the news desk commissioned private investigators to access targets’ bank accounts, phone records, mortgage accounts and health records. The former deputy assistant commissioner of Scotland Yard, Brian Paddick, who believes his own voicemail may have been intercepted on behalf of the News of the World, told the programme “I think that the new investigation should be carried out by an external force and it should be independently supervised. Otherwise, certainly some of the victims of phone-hacking will not be satisfied that the thing has been investigated thoroughly.” In a separate development, the Director of Public Prosecutions, Keir Starmer QC, has taken the unusual step of publicly challenging a senior serving police officer, who has been closely involved in the hacking affair. In a letter published in the Guardian, Starmer accuses the assistant commissioner of the Metropolitan police John Yates of quoting him out of context in attempting to justify evidence which he has given to two parliamentary select committees. In the House of Commons last week, Chris Bryant MP said that Yates had misled the committees by claiming that it is illegal to hack voicemail messages only if they have not already been heard by the intended recipient. This was a key factor in justifying the Yard’s claim that there was only a small number of victims of the News of the World’s activities. Yates wrote to the Guardian defending his position and quoting a sentence from evidence submitted by the DPP’s office to one of the select committees. However, in his letter to the Guardian, Keir Starmer says it was “regrettable” that Yates used this sentence out of context; that the original prosecution did not use this interpretation of the law; and that this interpretation had no bearing on the charges brought or the legal proceedings generally. “The issue simply did not arise,” he writes. News of the World Phone hacking Andy Coulson News Corporation News International Rupert Murdoch Newspapers Nick Davies guardian.co.uk

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