Monday, February 15, 2010

“Atletico Madrid’s Tiago: Barcelona coach Guardiola would not last season in Italy (tribalfootball.com)” plus 2 more

“Atletico Madrid’s Tiago: Barcelona coach Guardiola would not last season in Italy (tribalfootball.com)” plus 2 more

Atletico Madrid’s Tiago: Barcelona coach Guardiola would not last season in Italy (tribalfootball.com)

Posted: 14 Feb 2010 10:14 PM PST

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Atletico Madrid midfielder Tiago says Barcelona coach Pep Guardiola would be eaten alive in Italy.

Tiago is on-loan at Atletico from Juventus and was asked about the prospect of Guardiola moving to Serie A.

"If Guardiola went to Italy, with the players who are there and with the philosophy that exists and is impossible to change, he would not last a season," said Tiago.

"He would succeed only if he could bring along all the players of Barcelona."

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Amid Telangana protests, governor stresses on peace (New Kerala)

Posted: 15 Feb 2010 12:39 AM PST

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Hyderabad, Feb 15 : Andhra Pradesh Governor E.S.L. Narasimhan Monday called for conducting struggles based on the Gandhian philosophy of non-violence even as Congress party legislator from Telangana tried to disrupt his address to the joint session of the state legislature.

The legislators who supported the demand for a separate Telangana state continued to shout "Jai Telangana" slogans throughout the governor's 45-minute speech and later walked out of the assembly.

The Congress is in power in Andhra Pradesh, but the demand for a separate Telangana state has created a rift among party legislators.

Legislators of main opposition Telugu Desam Party (TDP) from coastal Andhra and Rayalaseema region -- opposing bifurcation of the state -- countered them with slogans of "samakhiya Andhra" or unified Andhra.

The TDP legislators from Telangana stayed away from the session to protest the terms of reference of the Srikrishna panel looking into the statehood demand. They have rejected the terms of reference which they claim are unfavourable to the demand for separate Telangana.

In his address to the joint session of the state legislature on the first day of the budget session, Governor Narasimhan made a fervent appeal to all legislators to help maintain peace and tranquility in the state and work unitedly for its development.

"For the last four months, the state is going through difficult times, affecting public order, pace of development and image of the state," he said in an obvious reference to the movements for and against a separate Telangana state.

Narasimhan said the government had the responsibility to ensure peace and offer protection to people's lives and property.

"We have recently celebrated 60 years of our Republic when we fondly recalled the great sacrifices of men and women for freedom led by Mahatma Gandhi, who unflinchingly stood by the principle of non-violence. We must forever conduct struggles on this high principle of dignity and discipline," he said.

Quoting first prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru, he said development would not be possible without peace.

"We are meeting here at a very difficult juncture in the history of our state. Several crucial events have taken place in last 12 months," he said at the beginning of his speech, referring to the economic slowdown, death of former chief minister Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy in a helicopter crash, unprecedented floods in Krishna River, drought and agitation over the Telangana issue.

A couple of hours before the session began, speaker N. Kirankumar Reddy accepted the resignations of 12 out of 15 Telangana legislators who had submitted their resignations Sunday.

Resignations of all 10 legislators of TRS and one each of TDP and BJP have been accepted while no decision has been taken on resignations of two legislators of Congress and one of PRP.

Earlier, TDP legislators staged a sit-in at the main entrance of the assembly building to protest the police firing on Osmania University students Sunday night while Congress legislators staged a protest at Gunpark opposite the assembly building.

They also boycotted the customary breakfast hosted by the speaker.

The all-party Joint Action Committee (JAC) has asked all 119 legislators from the region and other elected representatives to quit by Monday evening.

--IANS

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On Monsters, By Stephen Asma (Independent)

Posted: 14 Feb 2010 04:27 PM PST

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In this elegantly produced, wide-ranging study, with a decidedly humane price-tag, Chicago professor of philosophy Stephen Asma observes that monstrous creatures "are symbols of the disgusting, with their decaying flesh, mottled limbs, and rotting, putrefying tissues and organs". That is, "monsters are thumbnail sketches of our own destiny. It is our human fate to slowly fall apart and to cause revulsion in younger, healthier witnesses".

In working towards his conclusion that our odium for such creatures is a tacit fear of our own death, Asma is steeped in sources as varied as the Bible, Plato, Hollywood, and Shakespeare, who would have had celluloid moguls hungry for his talents after writing in Othello of "men whose heads/ Do grow beneath their shoulders". Asma also meditates upon the horrors perpetrated in Cambodia, and by those "monsters" who forsook normality; such as the 1920s Chicago murderers, Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb.

Freud declined a newspaper's offer of $25,000 dollars to analyse them. Crass as that offer may have been, it recognised that the mind is, as Milton wrote, its own place. Asma is alert to notions such as that the Salem witch trials perhaps resulted from delusions fostered by spoiled rye grain. He has a ready eye for such biological formations as hermaphrodites; and is ready to admit that "when I read Pliny's description of a tree-climbing octopus, I laughed smugly for half an hour". But then "a nagging thought occurred... and after some research into cephalopod biology, I discovered to my embarrassment that octopi do indeed occasionally crawl on land".

While Asma delineates many fantastic creatures, his book is essentially a study of the mind as both a warped and pioneering force. Naturally, he refers to Stephen King, but overlooks the novelist's fine study of the subject, Danse Macabre. It notes of Richard Matheson's The Shrinking Man that "luckily for us, Matheson... is more interested in Scott Carey's heart and mind than in his incredible catabolism". Meanwhile, one could equally welcome, on land, in 3D: The Octopus Terror.

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