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Gary Smulyan presents "Inside-Outside: Understanding and using the Tritone Sub and other chord substitutions to create harmonic tension and release in your solos." Trombonist Sage Feldman plays, with Calvin Rey (bari) and Wydglif Dorlus (standing behind Gary) watching.
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This more lucrative part of the plan is kept away from the public by mutual understanding between the Tatas and the government in view of a recent experience. Last year the State government had struck a deal with Salim International for such high-end commercial use of 5100 acres of agricultural land in South 24 Parganas district, but had to beat a tactical retreat in the face of widespread opposition and ensuing elections. When, however, a proposal for a motorcycle factory at Salap in Howrah district was mooted, the opposition was relatively muted and the work is already afoot. Industrialists and State authorities But acquisition of land won't be easy.... History of different countries tells us that the peasantry abandon their land and move out to other places in two situations. One: thanks to an industrial revolution, there is an abundant supply of jobs at high wages in the urban areas and on hearing this, the peasants forsake their attachment to land and flock to the towns and cities. The second circumstance: there is a famine in villages and the poor peasants, facing starvation deaths, flee to the cities or to other countries. But neither of these two situations obtains in West Bengal ...."AM .
have thus learnt to put the best foot forward and move in measured steps. But the popular masses also are learning from experience, and if Singur is any indication, they are no more in a mood to buy the logic of eviction as the price of development. .
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More and more concessions to big business do not exhaust the ruling CPI(M)'s repertoire for development. Closely interlinked are three other components of a complete package: (a) diversification and commercialisation of agriculture; (b) huge borrowings from imperialist agencies like DFID, WB; (c) large-scale privatisation, with as many as 29 PSUs involving about 80,000 employees currently in the process of restructuring, including closure. The four components were not introduced at one go as a single policy package. They were adopted piecemeal since the mid-1990s in sync with the national programme of structural reform of the Indian economy and got a big boost after BB assumed office. .
Viewed as a whole, the package clearly constitutes a customised version of the restructuring process being implemented by the Congress-led central government under the auspices of the WTO-WB-IMF triumvirate. The difference between the customised and the standard or original Congress-BJP versions is comparable to that between the programmes and work styles of Margaret Thatcher and Tony Blair. What a hardcore bourgeois party seeks to achieve with knee-jerk action or "shock therapy", a "Labour Party" or a social democratic party strives to implement in slow but steady steps. In carefully calibrated but uninterrupted measures, in tolerable' doses. And always on the basis of manufacture of consent and manipulation of public opinion with the help of their strong party organisation and propaganda machinery. .
Look at the CPI(M) in Bengal . Liberalisation and globalisation gurus nowadays insist on adequate safety nets or social security arrangements during implementation of structural reform; on this score the LF government has already secured a good performance certificate, thanks to the panchayats and friendly NGOs, from the World Bank and the DFID. With this maturity has been added another expertise: they know best how to deal with the adverse popular reactions to pro-rich, pro-imperialist reform. In part, they allow it to be safely vented through rallies and other programmes against the centre and/or imperialism; in part they just try and get people to adjust with the inescapable reality of globalisation'. In addition to a degree of social security in the material sense (of course, there is steady erosion here and a lot of popular disgruntlement too) the CPI(M) thus builds up an ideological-political protective shell for liberal reform to go on. Here lies their special service to the ruling class. (The Congress also tries to provide a "human face" to its reform project and at times the party pretends to fight for the aam admi against the government on issues like hikes in administered prices; but such cheap dramatics seem to convince no one) It is for these reasons that the lords of capital in India and abroad, as well as their intellectual and political representatives, are so gleefully showcasing BB as a role model. From the harbinger of neo-liberal economics in India Dr Manmohan Singh to the US Ambassador in our country and the president of World Bank, everybody who is anybody is all praise about the CEO of West Bengal. As they have correctly realised, while a Chandrababu Naidu or a Digvijay Singh rises and falls like a meteor, the JB-BB .
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Charity is the highest, noblest, strongest kind of love. Christ taught charity by his touch and his teachings, “Turn the other cheek,” “Go the second mile,” “As ye have done it unto one of the least of these ye have done it unto me,” “Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them who despitefully use you and persecute you," "Feed my sheep," "Love one another as I have loved you.” Whatever the wording, the message is clear — charity is necessary for true followers of Christ.
Charity is the pure love Christ feels for us and asks us to feel for each other.
Kindness comes when we remember all are spirit children of God and treat each other as such, by a gentle word, a soft touch, a caring gesture in the home, on the playground, at the workplace.