Michael Palin's Himalayas, Episode 4, lou dobbs
I few hour ago I watched the episode 4 of Michael Palin's Himalayas. In this episode Palin travels to Tibet. I had already viewed the snippets at his website but watching the whole documentary was awesome. It was one of the most detailed till date I watched on Tibet. The pottala palace in Lhasa is 13 story high and what a spectacular view it commands, it used to be the tallest building before the advent of skyscrappers. I really loved this video.
Andy is back so now I am eagerly looking forward to my first sky diving experience. Other than that I watched some more forgetful flicks like chaltey chaltey, lakeer etc. Won't even recommend it to you. Meanwhile my class on engineering statistics is getting increasingly interesting. Thanks to Dr. Mugdadi, he is doing a fine job explaining the concepts, supplanting with lots of homework. The class on Geography is kool with Dr. Horsley.
I was reading the newest edition of Getis, Getis and Fellman and was pleasantly surprised to discover Population Implosion. Few days back I also mulled the same thought. In the Times of India newspaper I read about some one Piyali Dasgupta claiming that today's women just wants children and a loving husband inspite of thier new found freedom. Well this is debatable and the fertility statistics should convince her. The latest I found on the fertility rate might shock people who are not reading about this stuff. It was sweet to discover the fertility rate in India going down from 3.2 some years back to 2.79 now. Here is the link http://www.cia.gov/CIA/publications/factbook/rankorder/2127rank.html Some of the countries like Taiwan, Singapore and Hongkong figures with the lowest fertility rate and almost 100 countries have fertility rate less than 2.1. Also the newest edition of getis, getis and fellman talks about population implosion at page 195 and fancy global depopulation could commence before midcentury. Now thats a time to call Lou Dobbs attention. He has been getting paranoid these days about China. His red star rising has become a daily rant. First it was lenovo deal and now this deal of Unocal. He contradicts himself, he has amply made known that he is against Chinese growing business ties with USA and America's decision to join CAFTA. He derides latin american countries of being too small to do any worthwhile trade with US and at the same time he gets concerned when chinese develop more economic relations with latin american countries. He is always conjuring fears of other countries turning hostile towards US, its time for him to go outside and be realistic rather than having nightmares and making himself a laughing stock. He has to realize that the era of world domination is over and we are now moving towards an era of boundryless world, where everybody has equal rights and opportunities.
In between I have just got a copy of "Why I am not a Muslim" by Ibn Warraq. Hopefully it will be an interesting read since it was written before 9-11 so it shouldn't be that sentimental. However from the first few pages I have skimmed it seems it takes a hard look at Rushdie's fatwa for his "Satanic Verses".
Andy is back so now I am eagerly looking forward to my first sky diving experience. Other than that I watched some more forgetful flicks like chaltey chaltey, lakeer etc. Won't even recommend it to you. Meanwhile my class on engineering statistics is getting increasingly interesting. Thanks to Dr. Mugdadi, he is doing a fine job explaining the concepts, supplanting with lots of homework. The class on Geography is kool with Dr. Horsley.
I was reading the newest edition of Getis, Getis and Fellman and was pleasantly surprised to discover Population Implosion. Few days back I also mulled the same thought. In the Times of India newspaper I read about some one Piyali Dasgupta claiming that today's women just wants children and a loving husband inspite of thier new found freedom. Well this is debatable and the fertility statistics should convince her. The latest I found on the fertility rate might shock people who are not reading about this stuff. It was sweet to discover the fertility rate in India going down from 3.2 some years back to 2.79 now. Here is the link http://www.cia.gov/CIA/publications/factbook/rankorder/2127rank.html Some of the countries like Taiwan, Singapore and Hongkong figures with the lowest fertility rate and almost 100 countries have fertility rate less than 2.1. Also the newest edition of getis, getis and fellman talks about population implosion at page 195 and fancy global depopulation could commence before midcentury. Now thats a time to call Lou Dobbs attention. He has been getting paranoid these days about China. His red star rising has become a daily rant. First it was lenovo deal and now this deal of Unocal. He contradicts himself, he has amply made known that he is against Chinese growing business ties with USA and America's decision to join CAFTA. He derides latin american countries of being too small to do any worthwhile trade with US and at the same time he gets concerned when chinese develop more economic relations with latin american countries. He is always conjuring fears of other countries turning hostile towards US, its time for him to go outside and be realistic rather than having nightmares and making himself a laughing stock. He has to realize that the era of world domination is over and we are now moving towards an era of boundryless world, where everybody has equal rights and opportunities.
In between I have just got a copy of "Why I am not a Muslim" by Ibn Warraq. Hopefully it will be an interesting read since it was written before 9-11 so it shouldn't be that sentimental. However from the first few pages I have skimmed it seems it takes a hard look at Rushdie's fatwa for his "Satanic Verses".
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