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When not waging and winning corporate battles, Wadia enjoys cooking up a storm, takes restful breaks in London and Goa and follows cricket avidly. His son Ness Wadia is also the managing director of Bombay Dyeing and the co-owner of Kings XI Punjab team in the IPL. Jeh, has taken a leaf out of his father's book and hea...
In a 2012 interview, Nusli Wadia had said that age was not relevant because he still was relevant . He also defended his image as a bruising corporate samurai, saying that he never sought conflict but also did not retreat when his company's best interests were attacked.
He also expressed no regret that his empire did not have multiple companies in the billion dollar club.
Like the founding fathers of the Wadia empire, he chose to not play dirty, to use the system or be used by it and said that for him, having clean hands and a peaceful conscience were more important. He has never had the ambition to be the richest among his peers because the values he has inherited matter more.
The manipulations that went with the license raj and duty structure were not his cup of tea.
One of his most memorable quotes being, " If somebody challenges me and attempts to decide my destiny, it is something which I cannot and will not accept."
Among the business houses he admires the most are the Tatas and the Mahindras because of their ethical core.
Among his wider concerns has been the lack of cold-storage facilities and an efficient supply chain, which can help farmers. It bothers him that India destroys a big quantity of the food it produces while millions of Indians lack adequate nutrition.
One of the most important things he said in an interview can today guide the current generation of wealth creators. Said he and we quote, "The barometer of India’s success should not come from the stock market or the wealth of a section of Indians. The real barometer for success is having access to quality food, educat...
RALEIGH, N.C. – The Apocalypse didn’t happen in 2011 but Harold Camping has confirmed that it will happen – October 21, 2012.
May 21st, 2012 has come and gone. The Rapture is over. Now the dread can begin because on October 21st, 2012… all of us that have been Left Behind, will die.
As crestfallen followers of a California preacher who foresaw the world’s end strained to find meaning in their lives, Harold Camping revised his apocalyptic prophecy Monday, saying he was off by five months and the Earth actually will be obliterated on Oct. 21.
Marie Exley would have liked to start a family. Instead, the 32-year-old Army veteran has less than two months left on the planet and she is going to spend her time spreading the word: Judgment Day is almost here.
Exley is part of a movement of Christians loosely organized by radio broadcasts and websites, independent of churches and convinced by their reading of the Bible that the end of the world will begin May 21, 2012.
Technically, May 21st was Judgment Day, or The Rapture, so the world won’t end that day, it’s just the beginning of the end… But, don’t worry, it will end VERY soon after. Probably by October 21st of this year – at the latest.
To get the word out, they’re using billboards and bus stop benches, traveling caravans of RVs and volunteers passing out pamphlets on street corners. Cities from Bridgeport, Conn., to Little Rock, Ark., now have billboards with the ominous message, and mission groups are traveling through Latin America and Africa to sp...
Last August, Exley left her home in Colorado Springs, Colo., to work with Oakland, Calif.-based Family Radio Worldwide, the independent Christian ministry whose leader, Harold Camping, has calculated the May 21 date based on his reading of the Bible.
Her husband left for Vegas to drink and spend his life savings on prostitutes.
Exley, in the meantime, is organizing traveling columns of RVs carrying the message from city to city, a logistics challenge that her military experience has helped solve. The vehicles are scheduled to be in five North Carolina cities between now and the second week of January, but Exley will shortly be gone: overseas,...
Not everyone who’s heard Camping’s message is taking such a dramatic step. They’re remaining in their day-to-day lives, but helping publicize the prophecy in other ways. Allison Warden, of Raleigh, has been helping organize a campaign using billboards, post cards and other media in cities across the U.S. through a webs...
The 29-year-old payroll clerk laughs when asked about reactions to the message, which is plastered all over her car.
Camping, 89, believes the Bible essentially functions as a cosmic calendar explaining exactly when various prophecies will be fulfilled. But he’s 89, so he’s not so worried about the world ending. He’s already done all the living he wants to do.
The retired civil engineer said all his calculations come from close readings of the Bible, but that external events like the foundation of the state of Israel in 1948 are signs confirming the date.
“Beyond the shadow of a doubt, May 21 will be the date of the Rapture and the day of judgment,” he said.
The doctrine known as the Rapture teaches that believers will be taken up to heaven, while everyone else will remain on earth for a period of torment, concluding with the end of time. Camping believes that will happen in October.
“If May 21 passes and I’m still here, that means I wasn’t saved and I will be dead on October 21st. Does that mean God’s word is inaccurate or untrue? Not at all,” Warden said.
The belief that Christ will return to earth and bring an end to history has been a basic element of Christian belief since the first century. The Book of Revelation, which comes last in the New Testatment, describes this conclusion in vivid language that has inspired Christians for centuries.
Few churches are willing to set a date for the end of the world, heeding Jesus’ words in the gospels of Mark and Matthew that no one can know the day or hour it will happen. Predictions like Camping’s, though, aren’t new. One of the most famous in history was by the Baptist leader William Miller,who predicted the end f...
Ron Hardeski of Bayonne, New Jersey also predicted the world would end on February 27th, 2004 – his wife’s 50th birthday. The world didn’t end, so Ron beat his wife to death with a Bible. He’s serving a life sentence.
“In the U.S., there is still a significant population, mostly Protestant, who look at the Bible as kind of a puzzle, and the puzzle is God’s word and it’s predicting when the end times will come,” said Catherine Wessinger, a professor at Loyola University in New Orleans who studies millennialism, the belief in pending ...
Past predictions that failed to come true don’t have any bearing on the current calculation, believers maintain.
“It would be like telling the Wright brothers that every other attempt to fly has failed, so you shouldn’t even try,” said Chris McCann, who works with Bible Fellowship, one of the groups spreading the message.
Please share your thoughts on the ACEDS certification training, the exam and how it has benefitted you both the certification and being part of the ACEDS community as a whole.
The ACEDs certification training was extremely beneficial and the confidence I gained from validating my knowledge against my work experience has supported my continued growth. I find the additional cross-border data rule knowledge to be valuable and supports the effective management of cross border matters. ACEDs trai...
Why did you decide to get certified? DO you have other certifications?
My previous employer offered me the certification as an option for professional development and a job perk.
I currently hold a Law PreDiscovery certification and am Relativity Administrator trained. I am fortunate in that my current employment advocates for and supports ongoing professional development. I look forward to continuing to build my certification portfolio and currently have a keen interest in forensics.
Give us a background of your experience.
My previous supervisor had nicknamed me the “hacker”, I am a self-taught e-discovery analyst/litigation support professional and am currently a Project Manager handling a wide array of matters that span the EDRM. I launched my career as a scanning and coding clerk, the knowledge gained provided me an in-depth understan...
Advice to others on getting the certification.
I would advise others to dedicate an appropriate amount of time to study. The exam is challenging and covers a broad spectrum of topics. The time investment will be well worth it, there’s so much to learn.
Any other thoughts you may have to add, perhaps Canada specific would be helpful.
One of the challenges of our industry is the lack of standards. Being able to reference the guidelines in place with EDRM, Sedona, etc. also allows me to suggest best practices. Ongoing learning and interaction with others to better understand differing viewpoints and approaches are also invaluable in rounding out my k...
Bhuubaneswar: Australian High Commissioner to India Ms Harinder Sidhu today met Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik. After the meeting CM Naveen Pantaik said “Glad to meet Australian High Commissioner to India Ms Harinder Sidhu. We discussed mutual cooperation in various development sectors, strengthening of business ...
UPDATED: Will this Oakland rabbi's three-day fast bring the rains? – J.
UPDATED: Will this Oakland rabbi’s three-day fast bring the rains?
Updated Nov. 21, 2018: It worked! Congratulations to Rabbi Bloom on another successful fast.
With fires raging to the north and smoky air here in the Bay Area, there’s no doubt that Northern California could use some rain. Rabbi Mark Bloom is doing his part — with a three-day fast, an obscure Jewish ritual for bringing rain at this time of year.
It’s not the first time the Oakland rabbi is calling upon this tradition. Four years ago, during a period of extreme drought, a member of his Conservative synagogue, Temple Beth Abraham, suggested a Talmudic response: a three-day fast, as prescribed in Mishnah Ta’anit 1:4.
Bloom and Rabbi Judah Dardik, then rabbi of Oakland’s Orthodox Beth Jacob Congregation, loved the suggestion. They fasted — and it worked. The rains came.
Bloom is hoping for repeat success this week. Today is the second day of the three-day fast.
Rabbis Art Gould and Chaya Gusfeld, both members of Bloom’s congregation, are joining him in the fast. But when he tried to get rabbis from other congregations to join the effort, he found no takers.
Some of the rabbis Bloom tried to recruit were dismissive of the idea. “Lots of rabbis did not want to do it because they think it’s too hocus-pocusy,” Bloom said.
If the fast doesn’t work, the Talmud continues, a series of increasingly restrictive three-day periods of fasting for the entire community commence. And, at that point, special passages are to be added to the congregation’s daily prayers, including a portion of Rosh Hashanah liturgy and verses from four psalms.
Accordingly, Bloom is prepared to ask others in his congregation to fast if the rain doesn’t come. “I’ve already had a few people say they want to,” he said.
And why stop with fasting? There are other Jewish tools one could bring to bear on the problem.
“If it doesn’t rain by Thanksgiving, Rabbi Bloom and I will probably organize a … rally for our communities to say Psalms for rain,” Albert told J. in an email.
But the need for any additional steps seems unlikely. With rain forecast for the wee hours of Wednesday morning, it looks like Bloom’s fast is on track to work — again.
At the end of the eighteenth century, the laissez-faire-philosopher-turned-statist Jeremy Bentham devised a scheme for the design of a prison he called the Panopticon: a circular building at the center of which is a watchtower made of glass from which it is possible to observe the inmates at all times. If we look at Am...
PRISM allows the National Security Agency (NSA) “direct access to the systems of Google, Facebook, Apple and other US internet giants,” according to a top secret document obtained by the Guardian newspaper. The information scooped up by the NSA includes “search history, the content of emails, file transfers and live ch...
“The National Security Agency has developed a powerful tool for recording and analyzing where its intelligence comes from, raising questions about its repeated assurances to Congress that it cannot keep track of all the surveillance it performs on American communications.
Accompanying the Guardian story is a “heat” map reprinted from the original documents showing where the snoops are spying most intensely, with high rates of interception in red and orange, and the rest in shades of green. America is colored orange. “Boundless Informant” has the ability to determine how many communicati...
Combined with the massive phone call database being compiled – which can track your location as well as your calls – this triad of Orwellian devices constitutes a modern day Panopticon, one that defines us all as inmates in some vast penal institution. Which pretty much sums up the status of the individual in the year ...
“The NSA has built an infrastructure that allows it to intercept almost everything. With this capability, the vast majority of human communications are automatically ingested without targeting. If I wanted to see your emails or your wife’s phone, all I have to do is use intercepts. I can get your emails, passwords, pho...
This is what is going to save our republic, in the end: the existence of people like Edward Snowden, who, I’m not surprised to learn, contributed $250 to Ron Paul’s 2012 presidential campaign. The whole tenor of his remarks to the Guardian bespeaks an explicitly libertarian critique of the “authoritarian mindset” – as ...
While some Chinese officials would no doubt like to be able to hand Snowden over to the Americans, the political dynamics of such a move are highly problematic. They don’t want to be seen as caving in to American pressure: the ultra-nationalist Chinese public has enough gripes about official corruption and growing econ...
For the first time in many years, there is a massive fightback against the continuous assault on the Constitution and the rule of law we’ve been experiencing since September 11, 2001. God help us if we lose.
I want to thank all those who gave during the very long and hard spring fundraiser – we have, at last, made our goal. That was a scary one, but we got through it – thanks to you, our readers and supporters. We are doing our best to earn your continued support – without which we would not exist. We will never take that ...
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Your story in this week’s issue, “Sweet Dreams,” describes a couple in their early twenties who have just moved out of their parents’ homes and found a place together. Their circumstances aren’t perfect—the apartment is small and noisy—but I’m guessing that you share with the character of the writer a certain nostalgia...
Absolutely. I once was part of one of those young couples who test mattresses at IKEA, build bookshelves out of old boxes, paint their apartments, and make plans to marry and have children. The writer in the story compares them to old couples, because both have to deal with uncertainty—the young ones with the uncertain...
The story is set in a Swiss village, in a slightly ominous and claustrophobic landscape: a man has drowned in the lake; someone has been poisoning dogs; the men in the bar seem somehow threatening to Lara. Did you intend the world of the story to feel somehow oppressive?
The landscape is the one near Lake Constance, where I grew up. It’s very nice, with lots of apple orchards, vineyards, forests, and little lakes, where we used to go swimming. The oppressiveness is more in the head of Lara, through whose eyes we see it. She is afraid to lose her boyfriend, and maybe afraid of life in g...
The case of the poisoned dogs actually happened some years ago near where I live. In the end, the police found out that the dogs hadn’t been poisoned but had eaten fermented grape marc in a vineyard.
This should be one of the happiest times in Lara’s life, and yet she’s still shy and not entirely trusting with Simon; she constantly questions the relationship. What has made her so hesitant and timid?
Mainly her age, I guess. A writer I know asked all her elderly friends what age they would like to be if they could go back in time. And they all chose forty-five as their favorite age. I know nobody who would want to be twenty again. I certainly wouldn’t. But I don’t think that Lara is unhappy. Maybe it’s because she ...
Do you think that this couple will make it through the challenges of intimacy and cohabitation? Will they outlast those high-quality towels?
I still have towels from different relationships, even one that I got for my confirmation. If they are good quality they can virtually last forever.
Whether Lara and Simon’s relationship will last is not so important. They will probably learn at some point that you can’t plan and arrange your life like an apartment. And that happiness in a relationship has to do with more than stability and duration. All relationships end badly. Even if you stay together for the re...
Do you mean to imply, at the end of the story, that Lara and Simon are invented characters in the writer’s story? Is the man in the black coat you?
Of course, all literary characters are inventions, even if they are based on real people. But we don’t really like to be reminded of this fact. We have to forget it to be able to enjoy reading at all.
Let’s say the man in black is the author of the story. He appeared quite early, while I was writing, and I did not yet know what role he would play. When, in the end, he tells us that the characters we have just met are invented, I wasn’t very happy. I usually don’t like to end a story with a punch line. It weakens the...
You mentioned that “Sweet Dreams” is your favorite story in your forthcoming collection, “We’re Flying.” Why is this one so close to your heart?
It has always been my goal to make literature out of ordinary people’s lives. I don’t like the extremes; I don’t think that they teach us much about ourselves. And very often extreme or willfully original stories are just trying to make up for a lack of empathy on the part of the author. Writers can learn from painters...
When I was working on “Sweet Dreams,” I told my editor that I was writing a story about a girl who buys a corkscrew—and that’s what it is. (By the way, I did some research on corkscrews and found out that they are sometimes thought to have a soul. The empty space in the middle of the helix of the corkscrew is called it...
You’ve published eight books of fiction in Switzerland, all but one of which have been translated into English, by Michael Hofmann, and published in the United States. Is it important to you to reach an American audience?
When I started to write, about thirty years ago, American authors were important to me and influenced me, mainly authors from the early twentieth century. I have been to the U.S. many times and even worked there for half a year and once taught at a college for a few months. So of course it’s nice to be in bookstores in...
Because American publishers put out fewer translations, American readers who don’t read foreign languages are excluded from a lot of this. Sometimes I have a feeling that the American literary scene is more isolated than it was a hundred years ago. I have twice been to the Pen World Voices Festival and have met many re...
Is the short story a popular form in Swiss literature?
We do not have the tradition of the short story that English-speaking countries have. When I was a child, many magazines here published short stories, but today hardly any of them do. Still, quite a few young writers have started to write stories again, and there are a few festivals dedicated to them. So I think they h...
WASHINGTON - U.S. authorities are having a harder time detecting terrorism threats on American soil, top U.S. officials said Wednesday, more than nine years after the Sept. 11 attacks thrust the United States into a global struggle with Islamist militancy.
The officials, including Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano and FBI Director Robert Mueller, said at a Senate hearing that al Qaeda and its affiliates are increasingly plotting small-scale attacks on the United States that can be carried out with greater frequency against a broader range of targets.
Militants have also intensified efforts to recruit American operatives in hopes of penetrating the U.S. security cordon.
"The threat is evolving in several ways that make it more difficult for law enforcement or the intelligence community to detect and disrupt plots," Napolitano said in written testimony submitted to the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Government Affairs.
"The threats come from a broader array of groups and regions. It comes from a wider variety of harder-to-detect tactics. And it is aimed at harder-to-secure places than before," she said.
The document was filed before a hearing at which Napolitano was scheduled to appear alongside Mueller and National Counterterrorism Center Director Michael Leiter.
Mueller told lawmakers that a main concern now is from al Qaeda affiliates in Pakistan, Afghanistan, Yemen, Somalia and Iraq. The militant network's central leadership in Pakistan, headed by Osama bin Laden, is now at its weakest point since 2001 due to ongoing U.S.-Pakistani counterterrorism operations, according to o...

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