It is the first week of a new NBA season. I have watched a handful of games. I found something that made me sit up and take notice. Referees blow the whistle and players just keep walking away. No Protests, no hands in the air or no giving the referees a look. Then I realized that the NBA had introduced the No Tolerance Rule this year. Good job Mr. Stern, I say to myself.

By Sumit Sharma and Anil Penna for Bloomberg.com

By Sumit Sharma and Anil Penna

Oct. 3 (Bloomberg) -- Standard Chartered Plc may sell its asset management company in India, which oversees more than $3 billion, as it recasts operations in its biggest market after Hong Kong and South Korea.

The London-based lender, which makes two-thirds of its profit in Asia, is evaluating offers from potential buyers, said Neeraj Swaroop, the head of Standard Chartered's business in India.

A Cap Times editorial, Oct. 2, 2006
President Bush, who rarely stands accused by serious observers of "getting it" when the subject of fighting terrorism arises, appears to think that he helped his cause by allowing the release of four pages of the latest National Intelligence Estimate that details concerns about mounting terror threats.

Today, Oct 2nd is the birthday of Mahatma Gandhi, the man who preached Non-Violence. In today' world, I wish we had not one but many Gandhis to help fight violence in this world. The article below was written by Nathan C. Funk.

CONCEPTIONS OF PEACE span religions and culture, incorporating such values as security and harmony as well as justice and human dignity. Every major system of faith and belief, whether religious or secular in character, has in some way or other promised peace as an outcome of the implementation of its precepts.

Wine can contain over 1000 different chemical constituents, making it a very complex solution, generally consisting of 85-90% water, 10-14% alcohol and 1-5% phenolics. Over the Centuries wine became know as a medicine. (1). It was a more hygienic drink that the water of the day. It was not until modern time that full scale studies were done to answer the question of why people living in France, Portugal and Italy did not have the same mortality rate as the USA, Canada,and the Scandinavian Countries . Many researchers concluded that is was due to the wine consumption of France Portugal, and Italy were Vascular disease is comparatively rare.