Harbhajan Singh on Tuesday came under a fresh attack by Australian cricketers with opener Matthew Hayden calling the off-spinner an ‘obnoxious little weed’, a remark which has the potential to create more bad blood between the two teams. The Indian spinner, who was at the centre of a racism row involving Andrew Symonds, has borne the brunt of the Australian sledging during the explosive tour which has been marked by a series of verbal exchanges between rival players. “Its been a bit of a long battle with Harbhajan, the first time I ever met him he was the same little obnoxious weed that he is now”, Hayden said on Brisbane radio. “His record speaks for itself in cricket. There is a certain line that you can kind of go to and then you know where you push it and he just pushes it all the time. “That’s why he has been charged more than anyone that’s ever played in the history of cricket,” Hayden said. Hayden’s fresh salvo came a day after the Indian team management lodged a written complaint with Match Referee Jeff Crowe regarding Australia players’ “provocative” behaviour. Hayden and Harbhajan were involved in an ugly tussle at the SCG on Sunday with the Indians claiming that the Australian opener had termed the Indian a “mad boy.” However, Hayden made light of the incident and claimed India was complaining because “they are losing every game they are playing.” “I called him a bad boy,” Hayden insisted. “He took offence to that, I thought that was quite funny. I said mate you should be flattered, it’s a clothing range,” Hayden said. Meanwhile, former Australian fast bowler Rodney Hogg also lashed out at the Indians. “Ive really had a gutful of their whinging, this is international sport, obviously people are going to say things to try to unsettle you,” Hogg said. “It’s not tiddlywinks. So long as it’s not racial they shouldn’t have a problem. “As far as I am concerned if the heat is too hot in the kitchen then that’s too bad. “I reckon they should appoint an Asian referee for Indian games because when it’s a non-Asian referee nothing against Jeff Crowe they never feel as if they are being listened to.” Hayden said he had told Ishant Sharma to settle down and yesterday quipped he would like to meet the stringbean paceman in a boxing ring. “He is just young. I have said to him many times, you are 19, take it easy, Hayden said. “At the end of the day you are 19, why dont you just worry about your bowling for a while,” he added. ------------- Galvin Intenet Marketing

Celia was gifted with perfect pitch, played several instruments. I am realistic enough to only deeply wonder. I'll think a while and feel a lot. And we will see. . . More, I am just curious. Some things I know, others . . .? India. I was taking physics. An Iranian, a Persian, Hamid Hekmat, in my physics class needed help in understanding a problem assigned to the class -- and it was the English he needed help with. He spoke Farsi, of course, and in a pidgin way I communicated the essence of the problem worked a few equations, and he instantly understood. We were in the "Student Union" where I had been shooting a few rounds of pool with other students. After sitting out a few racks while on the physics problem, I saw some fellows returning to the check out window a checkerboard and Chess set. Hamid was wondering after we finished the problem, if he could thank me for the help. He already had; but I asked if he played chess. He did not know what chess was. I got the chess set and board, and when he saw the pieces he said, "Ah. Sha-tranj! Oh, yes, I know sha-tranj." He said he hadn't played for a long time. I won the first game. I was trounced the second game. He and I got buried in Chess. Eventually when I had acquired a large 5 bedroom rental off campus a number of friends moved in with me and so did he. It took me months to beat him, then I could win about 40% then 45%. Then he would head back to New York, summer school at Columbia, and in the fall return. He had moved into quarters with some of the chess players around City Park, the Ohio State Champion, and then played against the best players on the street and the New Your Champ, who was slumming, a few times. He would come back to college and stomp my silly butt(ass)in chess until I could learn enough to win -- which took months! One of Hamid's friends who became my friend, was from India. Anup Dhindsa (sp? That is how he spelled it in the US but I had no idea if that would be the end spelling in India, I lost the address he had written, but "40 Golf Links" is hard to forget.) He and Hamid would get into hellacious arguments with each other and Hamid, older than both Anup and I would finally remind Anup that Persia Conquered India 7 or 9 times, piling heads one hundred feet high and loot the countries. Anup would just shut up! Mad, but I guess Hamid was right. I met one of the many women who Hamid dated -- on a trip from New York for a final visit to my school -- it was the woman he was to marry. It was such an honor to have him bring the woman he loved to meet me. I never thought it would be the last time I would see him, but it was. I still try to make the rice and chicken eggplant and tomato dish he spent hours on for special occasions. I have never gotten it right. But the taste is still with me. Before Anup also left he gave me his address, and I gave him mine. Years later while I was doing science at a remote place, I got a forwarded letter from him. He was married and had a son! I called him, late one night when half a world's circumference away it would be light, mid-day. This was, of course, before you were born. Anup and I spoke as though the years between were nothing. When was this? This was late May of 1974. I wondered where Hamid had gotten to -- Anup said he had seen him in New York but had lost track in the intervening years. We spoke of India's atomic weapon, the plutonium weapon test. Anup told me, "Now, the US won't try to push us around." I know Pakistan was not very happy, and further, they used American weapons against India which was not to happen under arms deal. Kashmir(Cashmir) again. When India went thermonuclear (fusion) in 1998, I tried to locate Anup again. His address, at 40 Golf Links, New Delhi, has now become an area of embassies. I hope Anup is still alive, have no idea where he might be. After Chess with Hamid, I only met one other person who was really a master level chess player and it took me a more than a few games to win. Now, I have not played in years. Earlier, as a youngster two Indian Exchange student's roomed with farming families in my community, and my father was a principal instrument in their living in Colorado for some time. (Karam Suri and Gopal Krischner) (One north, one south Gopal was a professor in Canada) I hope the massive population problems of Asia can be addressed. I hope also that a serious project for atmospheric CO2 removal can be accomplished before you are my age. And Taprial, if you read this -- I'd love the prospect for an ice age -- which will not likely now occur for perhaps 50,000 or more, years from now. Get the frog out of the well. Rawnak and Taprial. Thank you.

Thanks taprial. Heinrich Walter, early father of modern ecology, traveled much of the world and wrote "Vegetation of the Earth." (now in a wholly different reincarnation or extensional form as a fourth edition, much evolved from the originals and modifications thereof by Walter himself. I think it was the second or third edition my old friend (eventually by e-mail), Philip Morrison, who used to write such perceptive, in-depth book reviews for Scientific American pointed out in the review the rule of thumb 1:1,000 and 1:1,000,000 from Heinrich Walter's hard-won characterizations. The biomass on average measures 1:1,000th the mass of average annual rainfall -- from edge of the deepest wettest rain forest to the edge of the Tundra -- those places of the temperate realm -- extended to animal life makes the animate mass 1:1,000,000th the mass of the rainfall. Neither formulation is perfect-- just a rule of thumb. I do not know what makes the frog return to the well. But it always bothered me that the Muslim expansion, which was so fruitful for mankind evolved in the way it was evolving (apparently corrupted from what it has become) was halted and reversed by the meme swallowed by the mullahs -- the retreat being after the time of the Crusades, a kind of similar frog-back-in-the-well response -- but this time lasting into the present. I do not understand the meme that called or forced the Indian frog to return. Sanskrit, at least I am told, is as rich as flawed English, but maybe the concept of reincarnation which translates well to English in any form -- was not part of the retreat. What turns the human mind inward contemplating the navel or some philosophical problem or even Fermat's last theorem. The water will diminish in India for all life that needs it. I understand the walls must crumble -- and I think they will, but it may be too late when they do. But the surrendering return to the well bothers me. Heinrich Walter, in one of his early editions, remarked that trying to support 8 to 9 billion people on the Earth with the climate which pervaded the planet until the 1960's was the height of error. So it is population -- which we have known all along. The problem now is that the changes in climate can bring the death of billions -- but in Walter's view, these multitudes should never have been brought to life. And worse, without coming out of the well, perhaps we are all vanished to extinction as a result of the emissions of all of us -- but especially the failure, mostly because of American Business and profit motive to arrive at an overpopulation of our species. Sure we can feed 40 to 50 billion by consuming everything, like locusts. (Which we would also eat.) The immediate problem is cessation of CO2 emissions, and then for a thousand years the removal of the carbon from the air. With smart tech I think we can get it back and sequester it sooner than the big die offs we are fueling -- but it really means prosecution of those who have endangered the species -- so I am looking at the establishment of environment conspiracy laws to recover the monetary wherewithal to fund the removal of the CO2. So, without a return to the well again this time, can India engage the rest of the planetary species. China, too, must, and really, will at some point, but will have to change very much. Globalization must mean something other than globally overloading the atmosphere with CO2. What is the ideal population of bright monkeys -- within the capacity of this planet we think of as ours? Thanks taprial! You too, keep posting.

I hesitate; but those in India will know exactly hat I mean, though most in the US probably will not have been educated to know what it means. I need to post an article about the reach of Big Carbon into education, and recent textbooks kids are supposed to be learning from and using as guidance in their education. In India roughly 50% of the water used for human activities including city drinking water and irrigation is coming from the vanishing glaciation of the high Himalaya's. It seems with the interest in sports -- especially cricket -- there would also be interest in the nation's plight as anthropogenic global warming progresses. Lack of an ovation is some kind of signal. But what is it? What does it mean? I do not engage the sport of cricket. Really do not know much about it -- and would find it hard to so passionately get into it as soccer either. When Naismith invented basketball I think of it as an excellent American contribution to sporting interaction. American Football is perfect as group and team effort which possibly imitates our species coordination for hunting or for group tribal level warfare with job functions that carry out the overall goal reaching activities of a hunt or a small war party. In the U S both Football and Basketball are best played and executed as team sports. "Hoosiers", the movie with Gene Hackman as the coach of the fictional Hickory, Indiana basketball "Huskers." The real team was the Milan Indians! Movies manipulate the facts often -- but the movie was excellent-- but the real story is also a great fact of Indiana history. http://www.sportshollywood.com/hoosiers.html The point. The point I am trying to make is about team play. Wrestling is an individual sport. A wrestling team is no such thing. All competition is individual against individual. I am not going to engage in team attributes of cricket. Wilt Chamberlain scored 100 points in a pro game. But my favorite individual example performance for basketball, and I do not know who they were playing, is when Michael Jordan intentionally missed the second free throw, to recover the rebound and score a two-point dunk, for a three-point play from the foul shot line. I do not know if that has ever been done by anyone again! I do not know if others were as impressed as I was. But still even with such talents as Wilt, Akeem, and Michael -- the team sports still require a team effort and everyone contributes or assists. Do Indians play basketball or football? And I do not mean soccer? Football can seriously hurt the team members. Basketball used to be finesse. I must say I miss the finesse. What kind of finesse is there in cricket? Is it all finesse? Most students here have less knowledge of the Mason Dixon Line though we are getting past its legacy slowly.