ಬೆಲಿಂದ ಕ್ಲಾರ್ಕ್ - Belinda Clark -- The First 200 individual Run getter in ODI's

ಈಕೆ ನಿಮಗೆ ಗೊತ್ತೇ ? ಬೆಲಿಂದ ಕ್ಲಾರ್ಕ್ , ಬಹುಷಃ ತಿಳಿಯದೆ ಇರಬಹುದು.
ಆದರೇ ಸಚಿನ್ ತೆಂಡೂಲ್ಕರ್ ನಿಮಗೆ ಗೊತ್ತು. ಆಟ ೨೦೦ ರನ್ ಹೊಡೆದು ಪ್ರಸಿದ್ಧಿ ಮಾಡಿದ್ದು ನಿಮಗೆ ಗೊತ್ತು.
ಆದರೇ, ಈತನೇ ಮೊದಲು ಮಾಡಿದ್ದು ಎಂದು ನೀವೆಲ್ಲ ತಿಳಿದಿದ್ದು ತಪ್ಪು.
ಈತನಿಗೂ ಮುಂಚೆ ಬೆಲಿಂದ ಕ್ಲಾರ್ಕ್ ಎನ್ನುವ ಆಸ್ಟ್ರೇಲಿಯನ್ ಆಟಗಾರ್ತಿ ಡೆನ್ಮಾರ್ಕ್ ದೇಶದ ವಿರುದ್ದ ೨೨೯ ರನ್ ಗಳನ್ನೂ ೧೯೯೭ ರಲ್ಲೇ ಹೊಡೆದಿದ್ದಳು. ಈ ಧಾಖಲೆಯನ್ನು ಆಕೆ ಮುಂಬೈ ನಲ್ಲೆ ಮಾಡಿದ್ದಳು. ಆಕೆಯೂ ಆಗ ಆಸ್ಟ್ರೇಲಿಯನ್ ತಂಡದ ಕ್ಯಾಪ್ಟನ್ ಕೂಡ ಆಗಿದ್ದಳು.
ಆಕೆ ೧೯೯೭ ರಲ್ಲೇ ಮಾಡಿದ್ದೂ ಯಾರಿಗೂ ತಿಳಿದಿಲ್ಲ . ಆದರೇ, ಸಚಿನ್ ನಿನ್ನೆ ಮೊನ್ನೆ ಮಾಡಿದ್ದರ ಬಗ್ಗೆ ಎಲ್ಲರಿಗೂ ಗೊತ್ತು. ಈಕೆಯಿಂದ ಆಸ್ಟ್ರೇಲಿಯಾ ಕ್ಕೆ ೨ ವಿಶ್ವ ಕಪ್ ಕೂಡ ದೊರೆತಿದೆ.
ಇಷ್ಟಕ್ಕೂ ನಾನೇನೂ ಸಚಿನ್ ನ ಅಭಿಮಾನಿ ಅಂತಲ್ಲ. ನಾನು ಕೂಡ ಒಬ್ಬ ಭಾರತೀಯನೇ. ತಿಳಿದ ವಿಷಯವನ್ನು ನಿಮ್ಮ ಮುಂದೆ ಇಡುತ್ತಿದ್ದೇನೆ.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belinda_Clark

If records aren’t sexist, then it was Australian cricketer Belinda Clark and not Tendulkar who made the first double hundred in a one-day international..

Gentlemen dislike blondes. Or at least so it seems in the cricket world. How else could the pundits and fans rave about Sachin Tendulkar’s 200 on Wednesday when Australian cricketer Belinda Clark had beaten him to the double hundred record at least 13 years ago?

Incidentally, Clark’s feat was accomplished in Mumbai during the 1997 ICC Women’s World Cup ODI played between Australia and Denmark. She scored an unbeaten 229 in 155 balls at the breathtaking strike rate of 147.74 to take Australia to 412. Australia went on to win the match and that edition of the world cup.

A record is a record, and the fact that the pundits didn’t even bother to mention it only highlights, well, what else but their sexist bias.

Clark was voted Wisden Cricketer of the Year in 1998. Born in the ‘70s, she entered international cricket in 1990. She went on to become captain of the Australian team and led them to three world cup finals, with two wins. Clark played 15 Test matches and 118 ODIs. Wisden Australia proclaimed her Australia’s “finest batswoman to date” with “her free-flowing, classical style, technical brilliance and aggressive attitude to scoring runs”.

In 2000, Clark was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia “for service to cricket, particularly through the Australian Women’s Cricket Team, and to the promotion and development of the game for women and girls.” With that she became a role model for women cricketers across the world.

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ಬರಿದೆ ಪಂಜರವಾಯಿತಲ್ಲ ರಾಮ ರಾಮ
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ಗಿಳಿಯು ಪಂಜರದೊಳಿಲ್ಲ ರಾಮ ರಾಮ

ಅಕ್ಕ ಕೇಳೆ ಎನ್ನ ಮಾತು ಚಿಕ್ಕದೊಂದು ಗಿಳಿಯ ಸಾಕಿ
ಅಕ್ಕ ನಾನಿಲ್ಲದ ವೇಳೆ ಬೆಕ್ಕು ಕೊಂಡು ಹೋಯಿತಯ್ಯೋ ರಾಮ ರಾಮ ಗಿಳಿಯು ಪಂಜರದೊಳಿಲ್ಲ

ಓಂಬತ್ತು ಬಾಗಿಲ ಮನೆಯಲ್ಲಿ ತುಂಬಿದ ಸಂದಣಿಯಿರಲು
ಕಂಬ ಮುರಿದು ಡಿಂಬ ಬಿದ್ದು ಅಂಬರಕ್ಕೆ ಹಾರಿತಯ್ಯೋ ರಾಮ ರಾಮ ಗಿಳಿಯು ಪಂಜರದೊಳಿಲ್ಲ

Technology Versus Life

There was a time I could multiply 196 by 832, call my friends, family, lovers without referring to a phone book, remember the birthdays of those who mattered most to me, spell every word I knew without the slightest hesitation. I never owned a dictionary nor a phone book. Yes, I had a calculator on my desk but that was not to add, subtract, divide or multiply. It was for multiple calculations, finding square roots of impossibly large figures which I needed while solving mathematical puzzles, my favourite source of short term amusement.

Today I use my cell phone to add and subtract, recall phone numbers and faces, remind me about birthdays. My laptop tries to correct my spellings, language, grammar and often makes mistakes itself. I can still beat the computer at chess but it's so easy I have long given up playing. No, I don't need to remember anything at all. Google helps me find it in an instant.

What was the song Bade Ghulam Ali sang in Khudita Pashan, Tagore's unforgettable ghost story that Tapan Sinha directed, for which Ali Akbar Khan wrote the music? Who directed Edward Scissorhands? When will Rajiv's assassins walk out of jail? Who was India's first Education Minister? Was Jailhouse Rock the King's first big hit? Which was the first big scam that shook Independent India? What did Mountbatten say when he first caught Edwina in Jawaharlal's arms? How does one become a citizen of Melchizedek? Google has an answer for most things, from curing your cat's diarrhoea to which old bookshop in London may have the 1921 edition of Lorca's Libro de Poemas. When Google fails, there's twitter. Somebody, somewhere will always have an answer to the question bothering you. The answer need not always be right. None of us look for right answers in life. We look for answers that comfort us. It's a bit like finding God. If he doesn't exist, we'll have to manufacture him.

No, it is not Alzheimer's nor stress (nor the refusal to eat fish) that's slaying my memory cells. It's this continuous acceptance of technology that's being thrust into my face, demanding it be used. I may not be as quick as a calculator but I'm certainly better than a dictionary or thesaurus. I may not be able to do Rubik's cube in under two minutes, as Aamir Khan apparently does, but I'm ready to take a Mensa test with anyone. The problem is not in my faculties. It lies in the dependencies being forced onto me by technology I have no need for. I am ashamed I have to remember my father's death anniversary by an alarm on my cellphone. Or that a website has to remind me two days ahead to send flowers to my wife on our wedding anniversary. I fear I'm becoming a technology victim.

I'm not alone. That's pretty obvious. I get flowers at least four times a year from friends and acquaintances. That's because different sites have published different birth dates for me and they stay in Google memory. I get anniversary cakes on wrong days. Google informs that these dates do not even match the date of my earlier marriage leave alone my current one. Many of my more famous friends now celebrate multiple birthdays and marriage anniversaries simply because they enjoy partying. I don't. What's worse, I get confused and have now reached a stage where I don't even remember my own birthday till Maria reminds me the evening before with a discreet sms.

Where not Technology is , Today ?
Do we need so much technology in our lives?
Do we really need taps that go off on their own or lights that come on when we walk into a room? Don't we want to do these things ourselves?
Do we really need 11 digit phone numbers that no one can recall without assistance?
What about simple, easy to remember word/number combinations like Maggie69Wow?
Must we perfunctorily celebrate all birthdays?
Why not stick to 20 people who really matter to you and call them instead of sending fancy bouquets to hundreds of people with notes from florists?
Why send a V-Day e-card when a simple kiss can do?
Why do I need 8GB of music on my iPod when running in the gym?
Why can't I let my imagination chase that gorgeous babe two treadmills away?
Why must technology isolate us instead of bonding us with a real world of real people, real passions?
How can internet sex be a substitute for The Real Thing? Yet porn is the biggest business on the net.
How can a Tamagotchi (or any e-pet) replace the love of a real pug? Yet the Japanese are hooked on it.
How can any cell phone chat (with a zillion call drops) be a substitute for talking face to face with someone you love? Yet 700 million cell phone users here cootchie coo on it.

Finally, Is it possible to live in today's world without technology ?

The Technical Products of the Decade

It was the time when technology came out of geekdom and entered straight into our living rooms. Gadgets were no longer just Geek toys. Here are the dozen products that dazzled not only geeks but also laymen.
Apple iPhone
Using a touchscreen on a phone? Without a stylus, too? Apple's iconic iPhone lets you do just that, and when it threw App Store for downloading applications to the phone in 2008, it had firmly established itself as the phone to beat. It did not have the greatest specs, but its innovative interface and ease of use more than compensated. Nokia and Blackberry were sweating.
Apple iPod
Carrying gigabytes of music in your pocket in a classy looking device with cool headphones? It sounded ridiculous when Steve Jobs fished out the small music box, which he called the iPod, in October 2001. Today, iPod is virtually synonymous with the portable media player.
OpenOffice.org
July 2000 saw the arrival of an office suite that was almost as powerful as the all-dominating MS Office, and is free to boot. Why it has not displaced MS Office as the popular Office suite is one of the mysteries of the decade.
Nintendo Wii
Want to play tennis on your console? Just swing your hands as if you are holding a racquet! Well, that was what Nintendo Wii brought to gaming in 2006 -- simplicity, greater involvement and an absence of conventional game pads. Gamers loved it, helping it outsell more powerful consoles like PS3 and the Xbox 360.
Microsoft Windows XP
The greatest Windows of them all. Windows's XP's success has been a bit of an albatross for Microsoft. While its sucess was widespread, it also resulted in people being less than willing to move to new versions of Windows. It continues to go strong to this day!
Asus EeePC
Ultra-portable light notebooks were supposed to be niche, expensive products. Asus turned that on its head by introducing the EeePC in 2007. It weighed about a kilo, was compact, ran blazing fast and cost less than a high-end phone. The era of Netbook had arrived.
Sony Play Station2
Sales of 138 million units, a library of almost 2,000 games..., Sony's PS2 might be considered a relic by hardcore gamers, but there has never been a more successful console in video games history. The PS2 yanked gaming out of PC territory with its (then) brilliant graphics and great gaming library. Consoles would never play second fiddle to the computer again.
Opera Mini
Browsing the internet on your cellphone generally meant having to put up with low-feature WAP sites. Opera Mini changed all that with its ability to render desktop versions of websites on a handset. And it did so at a blazing clip. And it worked on just about any cellphone. And it was free. It was and remains a must-download for any cellphone owner.
GMail
Before Google threw in its version of email, one had to cough up cash to be able to access mail from an email client and had to keep deleting mails to ensure that one did not go over one's storage limit. Gmail brough in gigabytes of storage, free POP and iMap access and integrated chatting... mail would never be the same again.
Amazon Kindle
Bookworms hated reading on computer screens and found those of mobile phones too cramped. Amazon came up with the perfect solution -- a light weight e-book reader that lets you browse and download books over the air and look snazzy too. Sure it does not support colour, but fourteen days of battery life more than compensates.
World of Warcraft
Millions of gamers all over the world log in to play this amazing online game, coughing up a monthly fee to boot. People may talk about social networking, but the World of Warcraft gaming community is perhaps one of the most committed in the world, making this arguably the most successful game of all time.
Moto Razr V3
A cellphone was supposed to be a functional device rather than a style statement -- until Motorola unleashed this slim flip phone in 2004. Pundits carped at its tech specs and users lined up to buy it, making it one of the most successful phones of all time.

ಹೀಗೊಂದು ಚಿತ್ರ ಸಂತೆ ಬೆಂಗಳೂರಿನಲ್ಲಿ

ಎಲ್ಲರಿಗೂ ತಿಳಿದಿರುವ ಹಾಗೆ ಬೆಂಗಳೂರಿನಲ್ಲಿ ಪ್ರತಿ ವರ್ಷವೂ ಚಿತ್ರ ಸಂತೆ ನಡೆಯುತ್ತದೆ. ನಾನು ಬೆಂಗಳೂರಿಗೆ ಬಂದಾಗಲಿಂದ ಅಲ್ಲಿಗೆ ಹೋಗೋಣ ಅಂತಿದ್ದೆ. ಆದರೇ ಕೂಡಿ ಬಂದಿದ್ದು ಈ ವರುಷ.
ನನಗೆ ತಿಳಿದ ಹಾಗೆ ಪ್ರತಿ ವರ್ಷದ ಕೊನೆಯಲ್ಲಿ ಚಿತ್ರ ಸಂತೆ ನಡೆಯುತ್ತಿತ್ತು. ಆದರೇ ಕಳೆದೆರಡು ವರುಷಗಳಿಂದ ವರ್ಷದ ಆರಂಭದಲ್ಲಿ ನಡೆಯುತ್ತಿದೆ. ಹಿಂದಿನ ಬಾರಿ ಚಿತ್ರ ಸಂತೆ ೨೫-೦೧-೨೦೦೯ ರಂದು ನಡೆದಿತ್ತು. ಈ ಬಾರಿ ೩೧-೧-೨೦೧೦ ರಿಂದ ೪-೨-೨೦೧೦ ರ ವರೆಗೆ ನಡೆಯುತ್ತಿದೆ. ಕಾರ್ಯಕ್ರಮದ ಉದ್ಘಾಟನೆಯನ್ನು ಮಾನ್ಯ ಮುಖ್ಯ ಮಂತ್ರಿಗಳಾದ ಯಡಿಯೂರಪ್ಪ ನವರು ಮಾಡಿದರು. ಅದು ಸಂಜೆ ೬ ಗಂಟೆಗೆ ನಡೆಯಿತು. ನಾನು ಆ ಸಮಯಕ್ಕೆ ಮನೆ ಬಿಟ್ಟಿದ್ದೆ. ಆದ್ದರಿಂದ ಉದ್ಗಾಟನೆ ಸಮಯಕ್ಕೆ ಸೇರಲು ಆಗಲಿಲ್ಲ. ಆದರು ನಾನು ಅಲ್ಲಿಗೆ ಸೇರುವ ಹೊತ್ತಿಗೆ ೭ ಗಂಟೆಯಾಗಿತ್ತು. ಶಿವಾನಂದ ವೃತ್ತದಲ್ಲೇ ನನ್ನ ಎರಡು ಚಕ್ರದ ವಾಹನವನ್ನು ನಿಲ್ಲಿಸಿ ಅಲ್ಲಿಂದಲ ನಡೆದು ಚಿತ್ರಕಲಾ ಪರಿಷತ್ ಕಡೆ ಹೊರಟೆನು. ವೃತ್ತದಿಂದಲೇ ಕಲೆಯಪ್ರದರ್ಶನ ವಾಗ ತೊಡಗಿತು. ಬಹಳಷ್ಟು ವರ್ಣಚಿತ್ರ ಗಳು ನನ್ನ ಕಣ್ಮನ ಸೆಳೆದವು. ಹೀಗೆ ಮುಂದುವರೆದು ಚಿತ್ರ ಕಲಾಪರಿಷತ್ಒಳಗೆ ನಡೆದೆನು. ಅಲ್ಲೂ ಕೂಡ ಬಹಳಷ್ಟು ವರ್ಣಚಿತ್ರ ಗಳು ನನ್ನ ಕಣ್ಮನ ಸೆಳೆದವು. ಇವುಗಳಲ್ಲಿ ಕೆಲವು ಚಿತ್ರಗಳು ಮಾರಾಟಕ್ಕೂ ಇತ್ತು. ಕ್ಯಾಮ್ಲಿನ್ ಅವರ ಒಂದು ಪುಟ್ಟ ಅಂಗಡಿ ಕೂಡ ಇಲ್ಲಿಗೆ ಬಂದಿತ್ತು ಹಾಗು ಅವರು ಬಣ್ಣ ಹಚ್ಚುವ ಬೇಕಾದಷ್ಟು ಬಣ್ಣಗಳನ್ನು ಇಲ್ಲಿ ಮಾರಾಟ ಮಾಡುತ್ತಿದ್ದರು. ಇಲ್ಲಿಗೆ ಕಬ್ಬು ಅವರ ಕಬ್ಬಿಣ ರಸದ ಅಂಗಡಿ, ಹಳ್ಳಿ ಮನೆ ಅವರ ಸಣ್ಣ ಉಪಹಾರ ಮಂದಿರವು ಇತ್ತು. ಕ್ವಾಲಿಟೀಸ್ ರವರ ಮಂಜು ಕೆನೆ ಅಂಗಡಿ (Ice Cream) ಕೂಡ ಇತ್ತು. ಕೆಲವರು ಅದನ್ನು ತಿನ್ನುವದರಲ್ಲಿ ನಿರತರಾಗಿದ್ದರು. ಇಲ್ಲಿರುವ ವರ್ಣ ಚಿತ್ರಗಳನ್ನು ಅವರು ಛಾಯಾ ಚಿತ್ರ ಗಳನ್ನುತೆಗೆದು ಕೊಳ್ಳಲು ಬಿಡಲಿಲ್ಲ. ಕಲೆಯನ್ನು ನೋಡಿ ಆನಂದಿಸಬೇಕೆ ಹೊರತು ಛಾಯಾ ಚಿತ್ರ ತೆಗೆದು ಕೊಲ್ಲಬಾರದು ಎಂದು ಹೇಳುತ್ತಿದ್ದರು. ಕೆಲವು ವರ್ಣ ಚಿತ್ರ ಗಳನ್ನು ನಿಮಗೆ ಬೇಕಾದಲ್ಲಿ ಕೊಂಡುಕೊಳ್ಳ ಬಹುದಾಗಿತ್ತು . ಇವುಗಳ ಬೆಲೆ ಕೆಲವು ಸ್ತಿರ (Fixed) ಆಗಿತ್ತು. ಇವುಗಳಲ್ಲಿ ಹೆಚ್ಚಿನ ಬೆಲೆಯ ರೂ ೮೦,೦೦೦ ದ ರವಿ ವರ್ಮನ ಚಿತ್ರವೂ ಅಡಗಿತ್ತು. ಇನ್ನು ಕೆಲ ಚಿತ್ರಗಳಿಗೆ ನಾವೇ ಎಷ್ಟು ಬೇಕಾದರೂ ಹಣ ಕೊಟ್ಟು ಪಡೆಯಬಹುದಾಗಿತ್ತು. ಇಲ್ಲಿಂದ ಹೊರಗೆ ಬಂದು, ನನ್ನ Portrait(ಪ್ರತಿಕೃತಿ ) ಚಿತ್ರವನ್ನು ರೂ ೧೦೦ ಕೊಟ್ಟು ಬರೆಸಿಕೊಂಡೇ. ಇನ್ನೊಂದು ತೆಂಗಿನ ಕಾಯಿಯಲ್ಲಿ ಕೆತ್ತಿದ ಗಣೇಶನನ್ನು ಕೊಂಡುಕೊಂಡೆ . ಇಲ್ಲಿಗೆ ನನ್ನ ಚಿತ್ರ ಸಂತೆಯ ಯಾತ್ರೆ ಮುಕ್ತಾಯವಾಯಿತು. ಜೈ ಕರ್ನಾಟಕ ಮಾತೆ.