9 Superb Sidewalk Drawings (Choose best)- Indian-American Sam Rao

Dec 29: 9 Incredible Sidewalk Drawings CHOOSE BEST

WOW!  BEst Sidewalk Drawings ever- Each is a flat drawing!

Taken from cross posting  FunZone. Artists are varied but Julian Beever is credited

(These have been around for a while but were incredible hence posted)

Most of them are made by Julian Beever, great artist.

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JAMES BROWN MP3 Free Concert- Indian-American.Org Sam Rao Dec 26

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Dec 26 Free MP3 JAMES BROWN Concert ~ Indian-American Org Sam Rao

The King of Soul aka The Godfather of Soul passed away during the Christmas holidays. The man with lightning feet who inspired millions ( yes millions) of would be performers ans well as accomplished performers like Mick Jagger and Michael Jackson and Prince as well as entire music genres had a WORLD WIDE Following.
James Brown had a career spanning the decades from the 1960’s till present, and still evoked a smile and uplifted spirits when his songs were heard or when his songs were “borrowed” by musicians ALL OVER THE WORLD- including many Indian composers- especially digital samples and riffs of his music
His energy was infectious and raw- and always uplifting, as James Brown gave a 100% in his concerts. Brown lost 2 pounds EVERY concert he performed with his trade mark moves and sweating because of the high energy performances.
For people who may not realize the legacy of JAMES BROWN-
James Brown career was on upswing in the 60’s and he was a vocal spokeperson and performer for Civil rights and the poor.
He stamped an entire class genre of music ie Funk which emerged from a R&B style ( Rythym & Blues) and percolated to Rock & Roll including the performances of Rolling stones, 80’s style popularized by Michael Jackson and Prince and liberally borrowed by others including Hip Hop and Rap!
Rap style of music also owes a lot to James Brown, whose vocal contribution to music often were primal screams and rythmic vocal cadences
James Brown also performed at the beginning of the epic Heavyweight fight i Zaire, Africa between Muhammed Ali and George Foreman, a scene which was repeated (fFor readers who are younger), in the boxing bout in the movie ROCKY ( (Slysvester Stallone) ‘Living in America’ . This was one his more recent hits which garnered him awards among many awards in his career.
James Brown was inducted in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame-US (1986); Received Lifetime Grammy award (1992); Lifetime Award R& B Music (2000) and prestigious Honor by the Kennedy Center ( 2003)- FYI This year conductor Zubin Mehta was awarded the honor.

List of his (trademark and good ) songs are exhaustive but a few are

Please Please Please (1956)
Pap’s got a Brand New Bag ( 1965)
I got you- I feel Good ( 1965)- Something many, many will recognize!)

LIVE CONCERT Recording in New York- Courtesy of NPR ( National Public Radio)- all rights reserved by NPR and available at www.npr.com
Live Recording Dec2005 in NYC ( abt 80 mins)
Long Live the king! Rest in Peace RIP

http://anon.npr-mp3.speedera.net/anon.npr-mp3/asc/live/20051228_asc_jbrownfull.mp3

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Sreesanths Underwear fine & Booty Dance Comment- Indian-American Org Sam Rao Dec 21

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Dec 21: Sreesanths Underwear fine Booty Dance
Perhaps befitting the role of authorities in sports, the ICC has fined Team India cricket player Sreesanth 30% of his match fee and warned him.
Not because of his booty dance on field but because of his underwear (20%) and His running towards a batsmen who he had just dismissed (10%)
Seems by rule, the players can only wear certain sponsors logo and t-shirts and even underwear!
So Sreesanth was found wearing the wrong Color and Wrong-Labeled shirt and asked to take it off.
Sreesanth complied and wore his shirt (black) UNDER his sporting shirt but the Underwear was Visible especially the Logo… so as the saying goes, ” He should have known better”-so its ends up with Sreesanth being fined 20% of his match fee

In MORE interesting developments, Sreesantha now FAMOUS BOOTY DANCE has received comments from all quarters- mostly bemused, supportive and some Toilet humor.

CommentatorsRavi Shashtri & Sunil Gavaskar’s comments in original video are priceless too
Vide 1) is the one I caught on YouTube. NOTE The author/director is Someone ELSE and Fair warning about the “adult” content ( Hope that makes you look :-0)

Watch video of “Sreesath’s Gand Me Danda dance set to Music
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_9rl_sKD-o

Watch ORIGINAL Video of “Sreesanth doing
the “Cowboy Break Dance- Malaylee Indian style!!
Click Here

Talking about Toilet Humor, comparisons to Pakistani cricket star Javed Mianded have been made to Sreesanth’s antics on filed. Even Kapil Dev and Najjot Sidhu (yes the convicetd one) hav e weighed in- advising Sreesantha NOT to End up Javed Miandad way.
Pakistan’s Javed Miandad was a master at Sledging and Gully cricket tactics, constantly needling opposing players but did back up his talk with his walk- for the most of his career

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My resume says “Awarded Time Magazine Person of the Year 2006- Sam Rao Indian-American Org

Dec 16: Sam Rao is the TIME MAGAZINE PERSON OF THE YEAR 2006
- ( at least one of them ) :-0
Well with great sincerety an d humility :-0 , I can announce and publish the fact
- I, Sam Rao, am THE PERSON OF THE YAR oof TIME MAGAZINE 2006!!!
After all ONLY about a million people like me who maintain content on Websites and Blogs and Podcasts
( I do all of the above) :-0 were Awarded the Honor and title by Time Magazine for 2006! :-0

Yes My resume / vita/ bio will now Proudly say ” I was Awarded the Time Man of the Year in the year 2006″ and i wont be lying!

PS: This comes close on the heels of a HIND RATTAN award I received last year – this for real!!

Way to go India Cricket! Sreesanth’s Jigs & antics Indian-American Org Sam Rao

Dec 18, 2006 Historic win for Indian Cricket Team in South Africa
SREESANTH’s Celebrates a Challenge by Andre Nel by htiing a Huge Six and then “Cowboy Break dancing”- Malayalee Indian Style!!

Watch Video of “SreeSanth doing the “Cowboy Break Dance- Malaylee Indian style!! Click Here Ravi Shashtri & Sunil Commentators Gavaskar’s comments are priceless too

After 14 years, the Indian Cricket team has won overseas on South African soil. This follows a historic win in West Indies a few months ago AND the drubbing in South Africa that India took in the One Day Cricket losing 4-0
   Perhaps the South Africans (Proteas) were over confident and it helped that the Indian team was more focussed- well they better be!
Anyway, the more purposeful Indian team was led by Sreesanth the 22 year old eccentric pace bowler who muuters to himself constantly and often other players take umbrage with this… resulting in a constant play of words!!
      Independently, South African  bowler Andre Nels is known all over the world for his Outspoken emarks and actions on the field- called ‘Sledging’.
       This time it worled in Sreeanth’s favor- as Sreesanth ran through the South African side and helped end their first innings for a mere 84 runs. In reply India scored over
   Captain Rahul Dravid and teammates-  Hope you can keep the momentum up and dtay focussed on and off the field.

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Great Day for Indian-Americans! SUNITA PANDYA WILLIAMS NASA Astronaut IndianAmericanOrg Blog Sam Rao

Dec 10, 2006
Great day for Indian-Americans as SUNITA PANDYA WILLIAMS- the 2nd Indian American is part of the NASA Shuttle Crew STS 116
After Conmmander KALPANA CHAWLA, SUNITA PANDYA WILIAMS represents The Indian American community proudly and the Whole World is proud of her achievement.
I met KALPANA CHAWLA in 1999 when I hosted her community reception in Santa Clara, CA.- after her maiden voyage on the space shuttle.
Surprisingly, she revealed that NO Indian American organization had hosted her – inspite of the dozens of Parades and functions held at a drop of a hat.

ASIAN WEEK STORY abt KALANA CHAWLA
http://www.asianweek.com/2003_02_07/news_firstindian.html

KALPANA CHAWLA was a heroine and so is SUNITA WILLIAMS. Hopefully, we alla ccord her a much better Welcome and salute her!!!

Sunita Pandya Williams

Indian American Flight Engineer SpecialistSUNITA WILLIAMS is scheduled to spend upto 6 months in Space abroad the Int’l Space Station

Sunita Pandya Williams was born in Euclid, Ohio to Deepak and bonnie Pandya and moved to Needham, MA which is her hometown. She is married to Michael J. William.
Sunita was born on September 19, 1965 s. and has a B.S. (Physcal Science)- U.S. Naval Academy 1987; M.S. Engg- Florida inst tech, 1995
She served in the US Navy during Desert Shield and Provide Comfort as well as relief ops in Hurricane Andrew (Florida). She was awarded teh Navy Commendation Medal (2), Navy and Marine Corps Achievement Medal, Humanitarian Service Medal and various other service awards.
She has logged over 2770 flight hours in more than 30 different aircraft. She also worked in Moscow with the Russian Space Agency on the Russian contribution to the International Space Station (ISS) and with the first Expedition Crew to the ISS
GREAT REPRESENTATIVE OF THE INDIAN AMERICAN COMMUNITY- LIKE KALPANA CHAWLA!
CONGRATULATE NASA SHUTTLE CREW STS 116 ON DISCOVERY SHUTTLE www.indian-american.org

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Anu Natarajan Swearing-In Ceremony as 1st Indian American City Official IndianAmerican Org Sam rao

 

DEC 5: INAUGRATION of ANU Natarajan- 1st indian-American Elected to City Fremont Council

Anu Natarajan represents the city of Fremont population 210,000 in Sf Bay area- with about 25,000 Indian-Americans or Indo-Americans or Asian Indians. Fremont is the home to also about 25,000 Afghani Americans. Taking into account Chinese, Filipino Americans etc the poulations is 45% Asian.  Along with Natarajan on the Council sits Steve Cho- a Chinese American- making Asian representation a neat 40%

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The Best part was that she managed to get ALL Factions of the Indian-American community to celebrate her historic victory TOGETHER    This is the FIRST Time that an Indian-American has been ELECTED to City Council of a major city in SF Bay area. And  a Strong Woman at that!!! Yay!!
www.indian-american.org

PODCAST 

EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW Podcast Nov 12
ANU NATARAJAN (MP3)

PRINT INTERVIEW (Pdf)   Nov 14

SEND CONGRATS TO ANU NATARAJAN- CLICK HER

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Dec 1 World AIDS Day- What are YOU doing about It? Indian American org Sam Rao

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DEC 1
World AIDS Day  DEC 1st- What are YOU doing About it??
The theme for World AIDS Day 2006 is Accountability. This is the 25th Anniversary after AIDS was “officially” named as an Epidemic disease

According to UNAIDS-  39.5 Million Adults and children are living with AIDS 4.3 Million became infected in 2006 and 2.9 Million died world wide Anti viral drugs can be accessed only by 20% infected population First officially certified in 1981- over 25 Million have died of AIDS

Scientific Facts on AIDS Status & Challenges ( Source UN AIDS 2006 UN AIDS Org

Q: What Are YOU Doing About AIDS??