Vishay jatil par rochak iatanaa, bilkul bhee naa oobey jee. Likhate rahie, dikhate rahie, sakriya rahie Dubey jee!   CMN     --- On Fri, 21/8/09, arvind dubey <drarvinddubey2004@...> wrote: From: arvind dubey <drarvinddubey2004@...> Subject: Re: [indiansciencefiction] Swine Flu [1 Attachment] To: indiansciencefiction@... Date: Friday, 21 August, 2009, 5:25 PM   Quite practical ways to reduce the chances of H1N1 contact. For practical, detailed and useful information one can refer to my article published in AAVISHKAR's June2009 issue. A PDF file is attached here arvind dubey --- On Fri, 8/21/09, CHANDRA MOHAN NAUTIYAL <cmnautiyal@yahoo. co.uk> wrote: From: CHANDRA MOHAN NAUTIYAL <cmnautiyal@yahoo. co.uk> Subject: [indianscienceficti on] Swine Flu To: indiansciencefictio n@yahoogroups. co.in Date: Friday, August 21, 2009, 10:41 AM   This is an advice from a doctor.  Looks sensible.  nevertheless, not an official advice, so take it with a pinch of salt! CMN Subject :  Important- Unpublicized preventative steps reg H1N1 - from a Doctor Friends Thanks to media hype about H1N1, several people who trust me have Either approached or called me to advise. The hype in media about the utility of face masks and N95 respirators as a tool for general protection against H1N1 can't be deplored enough. Yesterday, a friend who listened wanted me to write down briefly what I advised so that he could tell others in similar words. Hence this short email to friends whom I have advised recently (and others whom I haven't yet). Please realize that this is not an official advice, especially the one about face masks or N95. Most N95 respirators are designed to filter 95% particulates of 0.3µ, While the size of H1N1 virus is about 0.1µ. Hence, dependence on N95 to protect against H1N1 is like protecting against rain with an umbrella made of mosquito net. Tamiflu does not kill but prevents H1N1 from further proliferation Till the virus limits itself in about 1-2 weeks (its natural cycle). H1N1, like other Influenza A viruses, only infects the upper respiratory tract and proliferates (only) there. The only portals of entry are the nostrils and mouth/ throat. In a global epidemic of this nature, it's almost impossible not coming into contact with H1N1 in spite of all precautions. Contact with H1N1 is not so much of a problem as proliferation is While you are still healthy and not showing any symptoms of H1N1 infection, in order to prevent proliferation, aggravation of symptoms and development of secondary infections, some very simple steps – not fully highlighted in most official communications - can be practiced  instead of focusing on how to stock N95 or Tamiflu): 1.  Frequent hand-washing (well highlighted in all official communications) . 2.  "Hands-off-the- face" approach. Resist all temptations to touch any part of face (unless you want to eat, bathe or slap).3.  Gargle twice a day with warm salt water (use Listerine if you don't trust salt). H1N1 takes 2-3 days after initial infection in the throat/ nasal cavity to proliferate and show characteristic symptoms. Simple gargling prevents proliferation. In a way, gargling with salt water has the same effect on a healthy individual that Tamiflu has on an infected one. Don't underestimate this simple, inexpensive and powerful preventative method. 4.  Similar to 3 above, clean your nostrils at least once every day with warm salt water. Not everybody may be good at Jala Neti or Sutra Neti (very good Yoga asanas to clean nasal cavities), but blowing the nose hard once a day and swabbing both nostrils with cotton buds dipped in warm salt water is very effective in bringing down viral population.5.  Boost your natural immunity with foods that are rich in Vitamin C (Amla and other citrus fruits). If you have to supplement with Vitamin C tablets, make sure that it also has Zinc to boost absorption. 6.  Drink as much of warm liquids as you can. Drinking warm liquids has the same effect as gargling, but in the reverse direction. They wash off proliferating viruses from the throat into the stomach where they cannot survive, proliferate or do any harm. All these are simple ways to prevent, within means of most households,and certainly much less painful than to wait in long queues outside public hospitals. Happy breathing !

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Quite practical ways to reduce the chances of H1N1 contact. For practical, detailed and useful information one can refer to my article published in AAVISHKAR's June2009 issue. A PDF file is attached here arvind dubey --- On Fri, 8/21/09, CHANDRA MOHAN NAUTIYAL <cmnautiyal@...> wrote: From: CHANDRA MOHAN NAUTIYAL <cmnautiyal@...> Subject: [indiansciencefiction] Swine Flu To: indiansciencefiction@... Date: Friday, August 21, 2009, 10:41 AM   This is an advice from a doctor.  Looks sensible.  nevertheless, not an official advice, so take it with a pinch of salt! CMN Subject :  Important- Unpublicized preventative steps reg H1N1 - from a Doctor Friends Thanks to media hype about H1N1, several people who trust me have Either approached or called me to advise. The hype in media about the utility of face masks and N95 respirators as a tool for general protection against H1N1 can't be deplored enough. Yesterday, a friend who listened wanted me to write down briefly what I advised so that he could tell others in similar words. Hence this short email to friends whom I have advised recently (and others whom I haven't yet). Please realize that this is not an official advice, especially the one about face masks or N95. Most N95 respirators are designed to filter 95% particulates of 0.3µ, While the size of H1N1 virus is about 0.1µ. Hence, dependence on N95 to protect against H1N1 is like protecting against rain with an umbrella made of mosquito net. Tamiflu does not kill but prevents H1N1 from further proliferation Till the virus limits itself in about 1-2 weeks (its natural cycle). H1N1, like other Influenza A viruses, only infects the upper respiratory tract and proliferates (only) there. The only portals of entry are the nostrils and mouth/ throat. In a global epidemic of this nature, it's almost impossible not coming into contact with H1N1 in spite of all precautions. Contact with H1N1 is not so much of a problem as proliferation is While you are still healthy and not showing any symptoms of H1N1 infection, in order to prevent proliferation, aggravation of symptoms and development of secondary infections, some very simple steps – not fully highlighted in most official communications - can be practiced  instead of focusing on how to stock N95 or Tamiflu): 1.  Frequent hand-washing (well highlighted in all official communications) . 2.  "Hands-off-the- face" approach. Resist all temptations to touch any part of face (unless you want to eat, bathe or slap).3.  Gargle twice a day with warm salt water (use Listerine if you don't trust salt). H1N1 takes 2-3 days after initial infection in the throat/ nasal cavity to proliferate and show characteristic symptoms. Simple gargling prevents proliferation. In a way, gargling with salt water has the same effect on a healthy individual that Tamiflu has on an infected one. Don't underestimate this simple, inexpensive and powerful preventative method. 4.  Similar to 3 above, clean your nostrils at least once every day with warm salt water. Not everybody may be good at Jala Neti or Sutra Neti (very good Yoga asanas to clean nasal cavities), but blowing the nose hard once a day and swabbing both nostrils with cotton buds dipped in warm salt water is very effective in bringing down viral population.5.  Boost your natural immunity with foods that are rich in Vitamin C (Amla and other citrus fruits). If you have to supplement with Vitamin C tablets, make sure that it also has Zinc to boost absorption. 6.  Drink as much of warm liquids as you can. Drinking warm liquids has the same effect as gargling, but in the reverse direction. They wash off proliferating viruses from the throat into the stomach where they cannot survive, proliferate or do any harm. All these are simple ways to prevent, within means of most households,and certainly much less painful than to wait in long queues outside public hospitals. Happy breathing !   Yahoo! recommends that you upgrade to the new and safer Internet Explorer 8.

 

It may not be a bad idea if someone on behalf of the forum sends a condolence message by  mail (not e-mail) to his family.   CMN --- On Thu, 20/8/09, arvind mishra <drarvind3@...> wrote: From: arvind mishra <drarvind3@...> Subject: [indiansciencefiction] Fwd: Gene Van Troyer To: indiansciencefiction@... Date: Thursday, 20 August, 2009, 7:19 PM   ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: arvind mishra <drarvind3@gmail. com> Date: 2009/8/20 Subject: Re: Gene Van Troyer To: billu23 <newsgroup@cyrilgupt a.com> Gene's selected poems which are indicative of his great  imaginative power  are available here - Mythic delerium Poetic diversity Strange Horizons Enjoy reading ! arvind 2009/8/20 billu23 <newsgroup@cyrilgupt a.com> Hi Group, Just learnt about the tragic demise of Gene from Mr. Arvind, although I've never had the good fortune of interacting with him directly I have read his many interesting posts in the archives. He was indeed an insightful man who contributed a lot to SF. He will be survived in our memories. Regards Cyril

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This is an advice from a doctor.  Looks sensible.  nevertheless, not an official advice, so take it with a pinch of salt! CMN Subject :  Important- Unpublicized preventative steps reg H1N1 - from a Doctor Friends Thanks to media hype about H1N1, several people who trust me have Either approached or called me to advise. The hype in media about the utility of face masks and N95 respirators as a tool for general protection against H1N1 can't be deplored enough. Yesterday, a friend who listened wanted me to write down briefly what I advised so that he could tell others in similar words. Hence this short email to friends whom I have advised recently (and others whom I haven't yet). Please realize that this is not an official advice, especially the one about face masks or N95. Most N95 respirators are designed to filter 95% particulates of 0.3µ, While the size of H1N1 virus is about 0.1µ. Hence, dependence on N95 to protect against H1N1 is like protecting against rain with an umbrella made of mosquito net. Tamiflu does not kill but prevents H1N1 from further proliferation Till the virus limits itself in about 1-2 weeks (its natural cycle). H1N1, like other Influenza A viruses, only infects the upper respiratory tract and proliferates (only) there. The only portals of entry are the nostrils and mouth/ throat. In a global epidemic of this nature, it's almost impossible not coming into contact with H1N1 in spite of all precautions. Contact with H1N1 is not so much of a problem as proliferation is While you are still healthy and not showing any symptoms of H1N1 infection, in order to prevent proliferation, aggravation of symptoms and development of secondary infections, some very simple steps – not fully highlighted in most official communications - can be practiced  instead of focusing on how to stock N95 or Tamiflu): 1.  Frequent hand-washing (well highlighted in all official communications). 2.  "Hands-off-the-face" approach. Resist all temptations to touch any part of face (unless you want to eat, bathe or slap).3.  Gargle twice a day with warm salt water (use Listerine if you don't trust salt). H1N1 takes 2-3 days after initial infection in the throat/ nasal cavity to proliferate and show characteristic symptoms. Simple gargling prevents proliferation. In a way, gargling with salt water has the same effect on a healthy individual that Tamiflu has on an infected one. Don't underestimate this simple, inexpensive and powerful preventative method. 4.  Similar to 3 above, clean your nostrils at least once every day with warm salt water. Not everybody may be good at Jala Neti or Sutra Neti (very good Yoga asanas to clean nasal cavities), but blowing the nose hard once a day and swabbing both nostrils with cotton buds dipped in warm salt water is very effective in bringing down viral population.5.  Boost your natural immunity with foods that are rich in Vitamin C (Amla and other citrus fruits). If you have to supplement with Vitamin C tablets, make sure that it also has Zinc to boost absorption. 6.  Drink as much of warm liquids as you can. Drinking warm liquids has the same effect as gargling, but in the reverse direction. They wash off proliferating viruses from the throat into the stomach where they cannot survive, proliferate or do any harm. All these are simple ways to prevent, within means of most households,and certainly much less painful than to wait in long queues outside public hospitals. Happy breathing !

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RIP Gene Van Troyer

Oh its very shocking -Gene  has been very regular on this forum and was a friend, philosopher and friend kind of persona for us  -he expressed his  views on various aspects of Sf on the forum from time to time and often showed the light and right path to choose whenever there happened to be some impasse in discussions in between us on the forum !
I PERSONALLY feel very  much deprived and bereaved on the demise of this visionary sf writer and critic.

He was full of optimism but oh the cruel death does not spare any one this mortal land -perhaps he has gone to inhabit one of those planets of his sf stories which  as a rule abounds with immortal lives .

When I talked him last I  did not realize that his health was  deteriorated  to the extent that the end was too near  ...he accepted that writing in sitting posture was getting increasingly difficult for him but I felt that this man of great optimism and determination would come out of all this and shall have the last laugh ! ALAS ! as ill luck would have it it could not happen so ....

May all mighty give his family enough strength to withstand the great loss .

Arvind

Kurodahan Press, which published Speculative Japan, has his this  brief bio data -

Gene van Troyer was born and raised in Portland, Oregon. He has been writing poetry and science fiction since he was about 13 years old and began selling it professionally when he was around 20. He joined Science Fiction Writers of America as an active member in 1971, and has been a member continuously since. In 1973 Fred Pohl helped him connect with Shibano Takumi, and when he came to Japan in 1974 as an exchange student at Waseda University’s International Division, Shibano introduced him to the Nihon SF Honyaku BenkyĊ-Kai, after which he became a translation consultant to such translators and writers as Yano Tetsu, Shibano, Asakura Hisashi, ItĊ Norio, Imaoka Kiyoshi (Hayakawa SF Magazine editor at that time), Sako Mariko, ĊŒtani Jun, Fukami Dan, and many others. From 1975 through 1980 he had a regular critical review column of American science fiction in SF Magazine’s “SF Scanner” section, and continued to write reviews for SF Magazine through 1994. His own fiction and poetry has appeared in Eternity, Vertex, Last Wave, Amazing Stories SF, and Asimov’s SF. He is a past editor of Portland Review, a literary journal published by Portland State University, and Star*Line, the Journal of the Science Fiction Poetry Association. Most recently, he edited Collaborations: A Collection of Collaborative Poetry published by Ravenna Press in Seattle, Washington (2007). He presently lives in Urasoe City, Okinawa Prefecture, Japan.

2009/8/19 Swapnil Bhartiya <arnieswap@...>

 

This is sad :(

I can't believe this :(

Swapnil

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This is sad :(

I can't believe this :(

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Just came back from seeing the movie District 9, and really enjoyed it. It looks to be the best hit movie of this summer.

Of course it had the standard tropes and clichés you knew it would -- the sadistic white racist police commandos, the cackling black ghetto crime-bosses, etc, etc. Think of it as SlumDog-Meets-ReservoirDogs, as a 3rd world adaptation of the 80s sci-fi series Alien Nation. The story is set in South Africa, after a giant alien ship arrives over Johannesburg, and its insect-like alien passengers disembark as refugees (actually, they are referred to derogatorily as "Prawns", which is what they vaguely look like)

The movie spares no effort to really hit you over the head with the politics. What's surprising is how slickly they did it all for $30 million, with strong special fx and everything (compare this to the horrendous Transformers movies, which each cost $200 million to make). The aliens/Prawns have bodies which look similar to Covenant Elite warriors from the videogame Halo, which is unsurprising, given that director Neil Blomkamp did a lot of work on the Halo movie before the plug was pulled on that project.

I thought Sharlto Copley, who plays amicable goof Wikas, reminded me a lot of Peter Sellers. He did quite an amazing job, and I'll bet his career will take a jump up because of this movie. As a matter of fact, if they had to re-make The Pink Panther, I would have picked this guy Copley over Steve Martin any day. I think he could do a perfect Clouseau.

Wikas, the movie's main hero, is a hapless babu working as an administrator at Multi-National United, a huge MNC created to manage the unruly alien population, which has been isolated into a shantytown like Soweto, etc. Because he happens to be married to the boss's daughter, the goofy Wikas gets selected to head a relocation drive, which is trying to shift the alien population away from Johannesburg to a new shantytown farther away.

The story is told in an embedded news-crew style, following the hilariously buffoonish Wikas, as he tries to do his duty in moving the uncooperative alien shantytown-dwellers.

The aliens appear to be a caste-based society, with most of them being simple workers with little independent thought or initiative, but some among them being an intellectual caste, capable of wielding advanced technologies that the humans have no idea how to deal with, but are intensely interested in deciphering.

These slum-dwelling Brahmin aliens appear to be working on a plan to get themselves out of their predicament, when Wickus accidentally stumbles upon their clandestine lab. He accidentally gets exposed to some mysterious biochemical substance they'd been preparing, and is then badly injured in a brawl with the aliens immediately after, suffering a broken arm. His injury somehow causes the mysterious alien fluid to which he was exposed, to begin "repairing" his arm, but actually transforming it into an alien arm instead.

While the human authorities have been facing difficulty in deciphering the alien technology, they realize the alien tools, including weapons, are somehow operable only by the aliens, responding only to alien fingerprints, or DNA, etc.
Because Wickus now conveniently finds himself endowed with an alien arm, he suddenly is in a position to operate these hi-tech tools, including their devastating weaponry.

The rest of the movie follows the panicked Wikas, who becomes a fugitive from the authorities, as he flees from them and hooks up with a couple of the Brahmin-bugs, in the hopes they will restore him back to normal, in exchange for his help in abetting their plan to get themselves off the planet.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7Cy9u_-O54

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfem7wKeNaU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6PDlMggROA


Haha, if you call the phone number, you get the automated IVR message for a call centre of MNU.
Too funny.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IqsFqjsuTPc

The movie is of course actually quite dark, and the humour is more like black humour or gallows humour.

And of course the plot takes a desperate turn when Wickus finds his arm has mutated into an alien arm, at which point he is being hunted by everyone.

The coolest part of the movie is when he tries to help a Brahmin-bug and its small child, as they try to get back to their mothership. He manages to don some kind of exo-skeletal power-armour suit (a hi-tech alien weapon), and confronts the South African security forces. He keeps blasting them to bits, until they cripple his power armor with a shot from what appeared to be a Denel NTW-20 armor-piercing rifle (this is the one that India manufactures as Vidhwansak), But thanks to his heroic stand, the Brahmin-bugs get back to their mothership and blast off from the Earth.

While it looks like the aliens have escaped, the ending leaves open the possibility that they may return -- perhaps next time in force.

Good movie, with some mercilessly scathing political satire, as shown by the human attitudes towards the aliens.

 

Wrong ,only a comparative edge can enable a competitor to succeed -Spencer's this adage is a misnomer !
And mind it the editor of your this new endeavour is a wise aged  man made captive  of a matrix design! 

2009/8/15 Swapnil Bhartiya <arnieswap@...>

 

Survival is always of the fittest...old must make way for new...like a stepping stone and not a block...

Wishes...
Swapnil

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Thats fine ! congrats and all good wishes for its survival !

2009/8/15 Swapnil Bhartiya <arnieswap@...>

 

errrrrrrrr.........

its now....was a typo

swapnil

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The site is not open to all Hindi science fiction fans and writers ....
Why so ?

2009/8/15 Swapnil Bhartiya <arnieswap@...>

 

The world's first science fiction website in Hindi has been launched today from NOIDA, India and Garmisch Germany. The site is not open to all Hindi science fiction fans and writers to come and take Indian science fiction to new height.

This is in continuation of Kalkion's expansion plans. Soon Kalkion Group will be launching a Technonoy Site too...Please visit Hindi Kalkion and give us your feed back.

http://hindi.kalkion.com/

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Survival is always of the fittest...old must make way for new...like a stepping stone and not a block...

Wishes...
Swapnil

On Sat, Aug 15, 2009 at 3:44 PM, arvind mishra <drarvind3@...> wrote:

 

Thats fine ! congrats and all good wishes for its survival !

2009/8/15 Swapnil Bhartiya <arnieswap@...>

 

errrrrrrrr.........

its now....was a typo

swapnil

On Sat, Aug 15, 2009 at 3:37 PM, arvind mishra <drarvind3@...> wrote:

 

The site is not open to all Hindi science fiction fans and writers ....
Why so ?

2009/8/15 Swapnil Bhartiya <arnieswap@...>

 

The world's first science fiction website in Hindi has been launched today from NOIDA, India and Garmisch Germany. The site is not open to all Hindi science fiction fans and writers to come and take Indian science fiction to new height.

This is in continuation of Kalkion's expansion plans. Soon Kalkion Group will be launching a Technonoy Site too...Please visit Hindi Kalkion and give us your feed back.

http://hindi.kalkion.com/

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