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Scandal has erupted over a proposed library being built in the Capilano area.
Construction of a new 1,000-square-metre Capilano library is set to start this year near 67th Street and 99th Avenue, backing on the Fulton ravine.
But Joanne Groot worries the facility will bring noise, traffic and troublemakers into what she says is a peaceful community.
“For environmental purposes, I don’t want anything over there,” Groot says. “It should be kept as a ravine … The green space in this city is dwindling. Why do you put it in front of our houses?”
One-way 67th Street might become a two-way road, which could increase shortcutting from 98th Avenue, she says.
First off, the concerns about "shortcuts" is, as always, practically insane. Whenever residents get so concerned about "shortcuts" they should ask why the City of Edmonton is always making roads that aren't shortcuts to begin with.
Secondly, bad planning by the city left this quagmire in place to begin with. As you can see from the Google Maps screenshot above, there was formerly a really big piece of land (red circle) that could easily hold an 11,000 square foot library and maybe even some parking. Another piece of empty land (blue circle) sits above the black "X" that designates where the library is planning to be built, presumably at the loss of some trees. The area in the blue circle could easily handle...say...a skate park, without moving a single tree.
Why did I say skate park? Because recently the City of Edmonton built a skate park right smack dab in the middle of that red circle. Here's a street view level showing the skate park, which wasn't there at the time the aerial shot was taken. This is, in other words, a new thing that has gone in there. You would also think they could probably fit a library in that space instead, but I digress. The key point to take away is that the skate park is new. So what do you make, then, of this?
The proposal has been in the works for years.
A larger building was originally slated to go around the corner on 101st Avenue on the site of a demolished fire station.
But architects felt there wasn’t enough room for parking close to the entrance and it would be overshadowed by a nearby apartment, Land says.
“We have been looking for a location. It wasn’t easy to find a site where a library could be built.”
They’re still doing a traffic assessment and transportation surveys, including whether to make the entire street two-way or just as far south as the library, she says.
The ravine location should let patrons enjoy nature all year, and might allow the treed area to be extended, Land says.
“We want the library to celebrate the ravine and the green space,” she says. “We’re looking at having the east wall … made out of windows so people can look into the ravine.”
Wait, the proposal has been in the works for years? So as you have this proposal coming along, you decide to put a skate park in the big area that you could put a library with access from Terrace Road? Why would you do that? I understand you were hopeful for the firehall idea, which I assume from the description and proposed to be the area in the blue circle, but until you were certain couldn't you have waited on that oh-so-critical skateboard park?
Come to think of it, why is the city so gung ho to build a new community bonding facility library along that ravine in the first place? I get that the second floor of Capilano Mall poses problems for the old people who live in the Capilano area, what with the stairs and their bad hips and whats nots. The elevator, they note, breaks down sometimes and makes it hard for those with walkers to get to the library. The space isn't as big as they would like it to be. But, and here's the crazy thing: couldn't the city just lease space on the main floor of the mall? Had they acted on this earlier, maybe they could have avoided Capilano Mall tearing out huge sections of their unused floor space they couldn't lease out because Capilano Mall is slowly dying.
Which is to say, if the City of Edmonton is long-term that interested in having a library in the Capilano area close to where the mall is today, it makes far more sense to remain a tenant of the mall until -- and this day probably isn't that far away -- that another major space opens up in powercentre which Capilano Mall has become. Walmart isn't making a Supercentre there, for example, which is usually a sign they won't stick around for long. In other words, despite the city's concern that is "isn't easy to find a site" to build the library, there will soon be a glut of available space in the area, that meets all the criteria the city is looking for building a new building, and still keeps the residents happy.
Not that we've let them off the hook yet, mind you. The NIMBY-ism in the objections to the library are actually pretty funny, even the ones that have a serious objection behind them.
Libraries are quiet! They have those "shhhhhh!" signs and everything.
More importantly, how much traffic do they really think the Capilano Library is going to get? I'd rather object to this based on my tax dollars being thrown into this expensive LEEDS-qualifying library that at the end of the day not many people are going to be using. Who looks at their local branch library and thinks "holy shit this place is generating a lot of traffic". Let's go down the road to Bonnie Doon Mall, where the library is a standalone building. Let's look at a Google Maps view of the parking lot around the library. Cars close to the bottom are actually probably mall parking, possibly even Sears employee parking.
Looks packed, doesn't it?
Jim Richardson, who complains that he won't be able to see deer in the ravine anymore, is worried that the library doesn't have any transit access -- which is odd but not really, EPL says that their LEEDS certification will depend on transit access and in this fight I give residents a slight edge over the city in the credibility of possibly dumb statements. So let's say more parking will occur because of lacklustre transit. Bonnie Doon shows us that's not a problem.
Joanna Groot isn't finished complaining, though. Along with traffic and noise, she says troublemakers will come along. By troublemakers, I assume she means homeless people, and while there has been a very public problem with homeless people nesting at the Stanley Milner Library downtown, that just isn't a problem at the smaller libraries out in the little neighbourhoods. If she doesn't mean homeless people, troublemakers generally aren't found in libraries. Besides, Fargos is already there, as are the low income rental apartments littering the area. If trouble hasn't found Capilano by now, it probably never will.
Groot also complains about the "dwindling green space" in the city, which sounds fair enough except that the Capilano area already has a boatload of green space. It also has not-green space, otherwise known as development, which is also known as where non-homeless people park their keisters at night. The section of Fulton Ravine being impacted here is actually very small, it's already a little pocket between Terrace Road and 101 Avenue. There's another small pocket south of Terrace Road, but then north of 101 Avenue the Fulton Ravine extends all the way to Gretzky Drive, is broken up by 106 Avenue, but then resumes all the way to the river valley. That's a fair bit of green space. On the east side of 50th street past the A&W lies another big patch of green that eventually connects to Tiger Goldstick Park, a massive greenspace between the upgraders and the Gold Bar neighbourhood all the way up to Gold Bar Park and the pedestrian bridge to Rundle. So I don't think a loss of local green space is going to be a problem in the area.
I know that Groot was talking green space in the city overall, not just in the Terrace Heights area. Still, when you're being NIMBY about things, you can't be worried about the green space in the back yards of others.
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Reputation Management: Lessons from the St. Louis Cardinals on Collapse and Comeback
by Wesley Mallette 10-31-2011 12:35 AM Public Relations | Crisis Management | Image Branding
The sixth game of the 2011 World Series between the St. Louis Cardinals and the Texas Rangers will go down in history as perhaps the single greatest World Series game ever played. By now, we are all aware of the Rangers' late (and extra inning) collapse and the Cardinals' unbelievable and incredible comeback. Twice the Cardinals were one strike away from elimination and the end of what was a miraculous run to and through the playoffs. Twice the Rangers were one strike away from greatness and their place in baseball history with their first World Series title. And one man named David Freese, a local St. Louis area guy, found himself on center stage and in a place where he would either be remembered as the final out or the one who enabled his team to fight another day.
We all know the outcome. Freese delivered and thrust himself into the history books with a game tying triple in the bottom of the 9th inning and then hitting the game winning homerun in the bottom of the 11th inning. His role in the Cardinals' comeback was pivotal in what would result in the Rangers' collapse and it was all in lockstep with his team's never give up, never quit attitude. Despite the obstacles in front of them or the adversity they faced, they never gave up.
It's a lesson for all of us, that no matter what happens to you, you cannot quit. No matter how dire the circumstances, you cannot give up. Even if you lose or come up short, it is not the end. You have to fight on.
Especially when it comes to building, managing, rebuilding or repairing one's reputation.
Athletes and public figures (everyone for that matter) should take a similar approach when it comes to managing their reputations. Too often, the carelessness of self-inflicted wounds caused by careless comments or stupid actions, quickly lead to the demise or sullying of one's reputation. The results can be devastating as millions in endorsements, sponsorships and contract renewals are at risk for loss, as well as one's future in their chosen sport or high profile profession. Sadly, many of these career-changing moments occur or are influenced by an athlete's actions off the field—actions that are easily controlled.
So when it hits the fan, what do you do? How do you get through reputation damaging situations? The road to reputation redemption is not easy, but getting through the recovery process can be done if managed properly and a well thought out strategy is in place. For starters, you should:
1. Always Be Prepared. Understand the importance of your reputation and protect it by having a good team of strategic advisors in place (i.e., PR, agent, lawyer, etc.) to help build your brand strategy well in advance and stay aligned with that strategy as you move through your career.
2. Build your "bank of goodwill" from the outset. This will help you as you build your name both on and off the field.
3. Understand the importance of your words and actions. Be consistent in how you govern yourself in all situations. Always think before you speak and act, and understand that your actions and words are subject to interpretation (especially in a digital universe) and may not be received the way they were intended. In other words, don't say things to "get them off your chest" in the media and don't allow Twitter to be a 140-character shotgun blast to the head of your reputation.
4. If you do mess up, realize that it's not the end of the world (although depending on the circumstances, the damage may be significant). Understand that the process of reputation recovery and getting on the road to reputation redemption will take time.
5. Recognize that should you fall from grace, you will have opportunities to rebuild your name, reputation and image—in time. You may not experience a return to prominence or have everyone believe in you once again, but you can regain some of what you had or at worst, start over.
6. Look at your initial strategy and revise accordingly, and if you didn’t have a plan in place from the outset, it’s time to develop one.
7. Don't give up. Again, at some point you will have the opportunity to rebuild and redeem yourself. What is most important is how you respond to adversity and the plan you put in place to work through reputation recovery and redemption.
Can you comeback from reputation collapse? Yes.
Is it easy? No.
Josh Hamilton of the Texas Rangers hit rock bottom years ago and a man who was once baseball's top prospect found himself outside the sport and on the fringe of society. He has bounced all the way back to the top from battling the demons of drug addiction and the pain of tragic loss in his life. He has been a standout player for the Rangers. In that same incredible World Series Game 6, he hit a home run to put his team ahead in the 10th inning and get them one step closer to winning before ultimately being outdone by Freese's walk-off homerun. Hamilton turned his collapse into comeback.
The Philadelphia Eagles' Michael Vick has seen the highs and lows and suffered the consequences of his off-the-field actions. He went to federal prison for his offenses. But he has since stayed on the difficult, slow and steady path of rebuilding. Although not everyone is going to forgive him, he has been fortunate enough to have a team take a chance on him and he maximized the opportunity—both on and off the field. He is rebuilding. He is turning his collapse into comeback.
NFL wide receiver Terrell Owens has proven that being a polarizing figure on and off the field can and will damage your career opportunities. Owens should be sitting in a Michael Jordan-esque position of having fans across the country excited to see him play and get a chance to see one of the game's best perform his craft. He should be in the twilight of what should otherwise be a surefire Hall of Fame career.
Instead, the 37-year-old wide receiver now finds himself without a job or team to play for, and holding an open audition for teams to see what he can do—all on a high school field in Southern California with no teams showing up for the show. I guess they weren't interested in getting their popcorn ready for the latest installment of the T.O. saga. Collapse into comeback? The jury is still out. Not impossible though.
Like Game 6, you are going to experience highs and lows in your career. Make sure you are prepared. If it should take a turn for the worse, believe you can recover. And like the 2011 Cardinals, don't give up.
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Orlando Summer League: Day Two
Note on coverage: With so many players to cover and little time between games to do so, well be focusing on the main prospects here and recap the rest at the end of the Summer League in a separate article.
Note on the Summer League: Major props go out to the Orlando Magic for putting together a wonderfully organized event. Every minute detail has been taken care of to the fullest extent and the result is a superb facility with high-level basketball and a consistent game flow from the minute things started to the very end.
Game Three Final: Charlotte 88- Chicago 87
Adam Morrison
After having watched 8 of the top 9 picks in this years draft and almost all of the first rounders, we can say with the utmost confidence that Adam Morrison put in the most impressive performance in a half of any of the rookies weve seen thus far this summer.
Morrison came out as aggressive as weve seen him in the years weve scouted him. He utilized screens perfectly in isolation situations to take advantage of his terrific ball-handling skills and either get to the basket or pull-up off the dribble for one of his trademark high-arcing shots. If guarded too closely, Morrison would just take his man off the dribble and get into the paint, slashing aggressively and finishing with a beautiful one-handed floater or hook shot that both fell for him repeatedly. Since the entire frontcourt would rotate and try to stop him, Morrison was intelligent enough to create and absorb contact to get to the free throw line if his shot wouldnt fall. After seeing the way he started off the game (8/11 from the field), the Bulls decided to trap, double and sometimes even triple team him to keep the ball out of his hands. It really didnt help them since he was so hot at the time, coming off screens and knocking down NBA 3-pointers and 20 footers (college 3s) both on the catch and shoot as well as off a single dribble. His off the ball movement at this point was absolutely exquisite, and he actually put in a very solid effort both defensively. He capped off the half with a deep jumper at the buzzer, finishing with 25 points in 16 minutes on 8/11 shooting.
In the 2nd half, Morrison started off much slower. He didnt play as many minutes (only 13) and was much less aggressive looking for his own shot when he was in, as Charlottes offense seemed geared more to getting other players looks. Once he did decide to get going, he was being defended by a phenomenal defender in Thabo Sefolosha who did a great job getting in his face and denying him the type of shots he is used to getting. Speaking to Morrison after the game, he had nothing but high praise for his efforts, calling him an incredible defender, and just a great all-around player.
Morrison got the last laugh at the end of the game, though, coming off a screen with a few seconds left on the clock and his team down by a point. He slashed towards the hoop and went to his trademark 14 foot one-handed floater, which went in and out and looked like it was about to fall right back into the net before it was touched by one of Chicagos big men. The refs rightfully counted the basket and Morrison continued his tradition of clutch play by winning the game for his team.
Tyrus Thomas
Tyrus Thomas gave the Bulls a little hint of what he can bring to them with the way he played today. He contributed in many different facets of the game, showing showed plenty of potential as a mismatch threat, always playing incredibly hard and dropping some extremely intriguing sparks of the player he will develop into.
The first half brought us a glimpse of his mid-range jumper and all-around effort and activity level on both ends of the floor. His athleticism rarely goes unused, whether its soaring to the clouds for an emphatic offensive or defensive rebound, utilizing a lightning quick spin-move and then exploding off the ground instantaneously for a dunk attempt (which he unfortunately missed), or climbing the ladder to send back a shot-attempt. Its hard to pin-point any one part of his game that is polished enough to work consistently in the NBA, but his defense might be the closest. Thomas absolutely shut down Sean May when he was defending him, getting in his face and challenging him, intimidating with his length and moving his feet incredibly quickly to stay in front of him when he tried to put the ball on the floor. His intensity throughout the entire game might have been the most impressive thing we saw today.
As the game progressed, Thomas confidence in his mid-range jumper increased with every shot that fell for him. He hit a short 14 footer and then stepped outside a bit more and knocked down a very effortless looking 20 footer from a difficult angle and with a man in his face. He hit a few jumpers that werent just in static fashion, also pulling up off the dribble and using the glass on two separate occasions.
All in all, this was an exciting way to take in Thomas potential
Aaron Miles
Miles has shown plenty of improvement over the past year, particularly in his offensive game. Always an imposing defender and consummate floor general, Miles has been incredibly aggressive in taking the ball to the basket and getting to the free throw line. Miles now utilizes a wider arsenal of ball-handling and hesitation moves, being more motivated to get into the paint and find his own shot. It appears that he realizes that this is what it will take to make the NBA, and even if he gets his shot blocked on occasion, hes helping himself a lot by doing so.
Thabo Sefolosha
Sefolosha had an impressive outing today, and even would have came away credited with the game-winning had his teammate not touched the offensive rebound that came off the rim but was still in the cylinder after an Adam Morrison floater.
He was extremely active throughout the game, doing plenty of ball-handling for the Bulls, even running the point, and looking pretty smooth doing so. He was constantly creating shots for others and might have even been a little too unselfish looking for his teammates, passing up shots that weve seen him hit today and especially in the past. Sefolosha made a living in the paint today, utilizing his outstanding athleticism and ball-handling skills to break his man down and penetrate and then either finish the play himself with a layup or kick the ball out to teammates that couldnt knock down their shots. Defensively he was extremely aggressive, particularly in the 2nd half when he was assigned to defend Adam Morrison. Morrison scored 25 points in the first half, mostly with Eddie Basden on him, but only 4 in the 2nd. Sefolosha harassed him with his freakish wingspan and discouraged him from trying to get around him and create his own shot.
Game Two Final: Orlando 80- Indiana 79
Danny Granger
Danny Granger was all over the floor today, contributing to the Pacers in every facet of the game. Offensively, he scored most of his points on jumpers from mid-range and through posting up and using his size and length to score over his opponents. He uses his smarts more than anything, moving off the ball intelligently and finding ways to make his impact felt. Granger isnt much of a shot-creator in isolation situations, but when given an opportunity to surprise his opponent and take the ball to the basket, he does very well. Despite his status as the biggest star on the floor and the focal point of Indianas offense, Granger didnt force the issue and was more than willing to give the ball up and find the open. Defensively, he was very active and did a great job anticipating what his man will do next. He came up with a number of blocks and steals and defended guards as well as big men like Killingsworth. He would hit the glass very hard and then ignite the break all by himself. Grangers biggest weakness besides the fact that he isnt a freakish athlete is his ball-handling skills and overall shot-creating ability. If he can shore up this part of his game and also become a more consistent 3-point shooter, he could become more than the consummate and fantastic role-player that he is right now.
James White had a nice outing in limited minutes, showing flashes of potential in different parts of his game and giving the Pacers plenty to get excited about in regards to his potential as an NBA player. White looked good shooting the ball both from mid-range and the NBA 3-point line, although he did not attempt that many shots. Offensively he was asked to play the point guard position, and even though he struggled to really organize the half-court offense, he showed nice ball-handling skills and made a couple of nice passes.
Travis Diener
Far and away the best player on the court today, Diener is the type of player you live to see in a summer league setting. Even though he didnt shoot the ball all that well in the first half, he dominated the game the way only a true floor general can. Diener got to the basket time after time despite his below average first step, using an array of fakes and hesitation moves to throw off his defender and keep him on his heels the entire game. Most of the time he would find the open man at the rim, whether its a big man who presented himself for a layup or a shooter spotting up on the wing. After his confidence in his shot returned in the 2nd half, he also showed a nice pull-up game off the dribble, because wasnt a surprise since its obvious that great shooters like him cant be kept down an entire game. Diener ran Orlandos offense extremely well, particularly the pick and roll plays that the Magic love to run. Defensively Diener struggled staying in front of Indianas quicker guards, but all in all it was hard not to come away extremely impressed by the way he played today.
James Augustine
When given an opportunity to play, Augustine looked impressive, particularly in the way he hit the glass. He came up with 9 rebounds in 16 minutes in the first half, 5 of them on the offensive glass. He was incredibly active when he was on the floor and showed great toughness and plenty of length and mobility to get his hands on plenty of loose balls. Offensively, he stepped outside and knocked down one mid-range jumper, got an easy layup at the hoop that Diener created and had another 2 on a putback dunk.
Gorat did a great job being in the right spot at the right time today, presenting himself to Diener on a few occasions around the basket, going after rebounds on both ends really strong and generally doing a good job playing his role minimizing mistakes. He is very athletic, but fairly raw, and still lacks some strength to play the center position in the NBA that he looks best suited for.
Game One Final: Miami 91 New Jersey 85
Earl Barron
Barron was hands down the best player on the floor today for either team. Hes improved his body since we last saw him before training camp in October. He was extremely aggressive today and did a nice job showing off his new-found (but very basic) post moves and jump-hook. Barron was active in hitting the glass and scored quite a few points off his work there. He scored points both off the pick and pop thanks to his very effective (but not very pretty) 18 foot jumper as well as by putting the ball on the floor and going to the basket. When getting the ball in the post, Barron showed simple, but effective footwork and a nice hook shot that hes apparently picked up over the past year. Barron was a nice find for the Heat, but its hard to see him ever becoming more than a marginal role-playing center in the NBA due to his very average athleticism. He can score big numbers in settings like these, but its tough to see most of these things translating that well to the NBA.
Dorell Wright
This was a solid performance from Wright, a player with a lot of talent but still a lot of things he needs to work on as well. He scored most of his points from pull-up jumpers and from using his athleticism to blow by his defender on the perimeter. His chemistry with Earl Barron seems to be very good and the two connected regularly between them off pick and roll plays the Heat ran. Wright is clearly an excellent athlete, but he still doesnt quite know how to take advantage of it. His shot-creating skills arent very advanced in terms of using ball-fakes and hesitation moves on the perimeter, as he is able to get by his man just by blowing by him with his first step, but not by outsmarting him. Once he gets in the paint, he lacks some body control and strength to finish amongst traffic. Wright is talented and definitely seems to be making progress in the right direction, but after going into his 3rd year in the NBA still isnt ready to be an important rotation player.
Boone had a very solid showing doing many of the things hell be asked to next year off the bench for the Nets. He was very effective finishing down low off the shots that were created for him by Marcus Williams and others, and did a good job taking the ball strong at the basket and getting to the free throw line. Boone did the dirty work for his team, hitting the offensive glass and cleaning up the garbage points that were left for him around the rim. He scored 15 points in the first half, but slowed down a bit in the 2nd. His chemistry with Marcus Williams is always evident, and he is profiting from it immensely in the form of plenty of easy points. Once stepping outside of the paint he was quite a bit less effective, missing free throws and even airballing the only mid-range jumper he took. Defensively Boone was aggressive and used his body to try and slow down Earl Barron, with little success. He did a nice job working the boards on both ends of the floor.
Marcus Williams
Today was mostly a mixed bag for Marcus Williams, showing some flashes of brilliance that few players his age are capable of executing, and also making some bone-headed moves that showed his inexperience and lack of chemistry with his teammates. Running the offense, Williams was at times spectacular. He did a masterful job running the pick and roll and regularly threaded brilliant bounce passes into cutters slashing into the paint. His vision off the dribble is second to none at a setting like this, but the confidence he received from some of his early passes in the 2nd quarter may have led him to force a little too much in terms of the flashiness he was trying to show. On a few occasions he just was not on the same page as his teammates and threw cunning passes into spots that werent even close to where his teammates where at. He is certainly a step or two ahead of most of the players here, and with how many people are coming in and out its tough for them to keep up. His mid-range shot was off and on, but he showed solid ability to pull up off the dribble and knock down a lefty jump-shot, as well as a nice little floater in the lane. Defensively, Williams has a ways to go.
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Tyrus Thomas PF
Sean May PF
Eddie Basden SG/SF
Danny Granger SF
James White SG/SF
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Silver Bullet: Are Solar Pumps a Panacea for Irrigation, Farmer Distress and Discom Losses?
Solar-powered irrigation is being aggressively promoted by the government as an affordable and sustainable solution for agriculture as well as the rising burden of electricity subsidy. But will solar pumps become a win-win situation for all stakeholders?
Source: Centre for Science and Environment (CSE)
Solar Pumps, Irrigation, Agriculture, India, CSE, Groundwater Irrigation, Farmers
Mapping policy for solar irrigation across the water-energy-food (WEF) nexus in India
This paper seeks to assist policy-makers and researchers in India who are working to promote the uptake of off-grid, solar-powered pumps for groundwater irrigation. It begins by setting out key WEF linkages of importance for off-grid solar pumps.
Author(s): Christopher Beaton, Purva Jain, Mini Govindan, & et al
Source: International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD)
Solar Pumps, Off-Grid, Groundwater Irrigation, India, Bihar, Rajasthan
Question raised in Lok Sabha on Subsidy for Solar System for Irrigation, 09/07/2019
Question raised in Lok Sabha on Subsidy for Solar System for Irrigation, 09/07/2019. Ministry of New & Renewable Energy (MNRE), has launched a scheme for assisting farmers for installation of solar pumps and grid connected solar and other renewable power plants in the country on 08.03.2019.
Source: Lok Sabha
Solar Pumps, Irrigation, Subsidies, India, Parliament
Solarisation of agriculture
Greenpeace India’s Solarisation of Agriculture report, examines five models of solar irrigation pumps in the states of Bihar, Gujarat, Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra, and Odisha, looking at state policies and cost/revenue and benefit sharing associated with each case study.
Source: Greenpeace India
Solar Pumps, Irrigation, Agriculture, Bihar, Gujarat, Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra, Orissa (Odisha)
Draft guidelines for implementation of the scheme for farmers for installation of solar pumps and grid-connected solar power plants
The Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE) has issued a notice inviting suggestions and comments from stakeholders on the draft guidelines for implementation of the scheme for farmers for installation of solar pumps and grid-connected solar power plants.
Source: Ministry of New and Renewable Energy
Solar Pumps, Solar Energy, Farmers, Agriculture, India
'We need 1 lakh professionals to set up 17.5 lakh solar photovoltaic pumps'
Government stresses on creation of green jobs, but we need a growth plan strategy, say academicians and industry experts
Source: Times Of India (New Delhi)
Solar Energy, Solar Pumps, Energy Technology, Renewable Energy, Budget, Energy
The benefits and risks of solar-powered irrigation: a global overview
This report takes stock of the experiences with solar powered irrigation systems (SPIS) around the world. What are the real costs and benefits of SPIS compared with other technologies? What rules, regulations and policies are needed to manage the risks and realize the potential of such systems? What are viable business models?
Source: FAO
Solar Pumps, Irrigation, Water Resources, Solar Energy, India, Global
Farm electricity dues have soared to Rs 32,000 cr, state plans to shift farm consumers to solar power
Out of the total project cost of Rs 240 crore, the Centre and the state will bear Rs 50 crore and Rs 12 crore, respectively, said Bawankule.
Source: Indian Express (New Delhi)
Electricity, Maharashtra, Solar Energy, Solar Pumps, Farmers, Energy
Rajasthan farmers benefited from solar water pumps: study
ICSSR-funded BITS, Pilani project also found a significant decline in the consumption of fuel in the agriculture sector
Author(s): Mohammed Iqbal
Source: Hindu (New Delhi)
Rajasthan, Solar Energy, Farmers, Solar Pumps, Renewable Energy, Energy
Funding cloud on Modi govt's solar plan for farmers after FinMin red flag
The Finance Ministry has reportedly asked the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy rework funding plans
Source: Business Standard (New Delhi)
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David Vann: Genesis
David Vann, author of the critically acclaimed Legend of a Suicide talks about the glacial walk that inspired his latest novel Caribou Island, which is in stores now.
An Interview with Paula McLain, Author of THE PARIS WIFE --- Part I
Author Paula McLain blends fact with fiction in her ambitious novel The Paris Wife as she recreates Jazz-era Paris and the little-known courtship, marriage and unraveling of Ernest Hemingway and his first wife, Hadley Richardson. The second part of this interview will run Thursday, March 3rd. The Paris Wife is in stores now.
An Interview with Karen Russell, Author of SWAMPLANDIA!
Karen Russell captured the book world's attention with her story collection, St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves, when it was published while still in her early 20s. Now she returns with her long-awaited novel, Swamplandia! (in stores now).
Lincoln Child: GIDEON'S SWORD
Lincoln Child (orange shirt) and Douglas Preston have teamed up to write 10 bestselling novels featuring FBI agent Aloysius Pendergast.
Michael David Lukas: THE ORACLE OF STAMBOUL
Author Michael David Lukas talks about the internationally renown authors and their works that inspired his recently-released debut novel The Oracle of Stamboul. Also, a heavy influence on the novel's development was Lukas' deployment to the Middle East during an unstable time.
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Announces American Series Editors
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt announced earlier this week its editori lineup for its annual Best American Series, which celebrates the best writing across eight categories. The series will be released October 4th in paperback format. Below are the guest editors for 2011 and their bios.
Allison Pearson: I THINK I LOVE YOU
Still recuperating from another Valentine's Day? Or seeking another romance diversion? Bestselling author Allison Pearson (I Don't Know How She Does It) has you covered with a her favorite crush songs, as inspired by her latest bestseller I Think I Love You, a novel that celebrates love and music.
Cavanaugh Lee on Valentine's Day in "Generation Text"
Cavanaugh Lee is the author of Save as Draft, in stores now, a love story told entirely through e-mails, texts, Twitter, Facebook and the online dating world. When not writing and searching for love herself, she is a prosecutor in Savannah, Georgia. Visit www.CavanaughLee.com for more.
An Interview with Eleanor Brown, Author of THE WEIRD SISTERS
Eleanor Brown is stunning audiences with her debut novel, The Weird Sisters, a quirky coming-of-age tale about three incredibly bookish sisters (who don’t happen to like each other very much) who return home to lick wounds and bury secrets, only to find that each of the others is already there --- and might have more to offer than any of t
Heather Gudenkauf on Sisters
Heather Gudenkauf's These Things Hidden, the follow-up to her excellent The Weight of Silence, explores the sometimes complicated relationships of sisters. In this special essay she discusses how her own sisterly bonds influenced her writing. As a bonus, she also shares her favorite sister-themed novels.
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EVO announcements, winners, and rivalries. People Make Games investigates the truth of Civilization's Nuclear Gandhi bug, new gameplay for Mount and Blade 2 and The Outer Worlds, phone numbers and addresses of journalists and Youtubers leaked by E3 organizers, Radek Koncewicz looks at 10 JRPGs from the fifth console generation to analyse the generation's effects on pacing and structure, Moira Hicks examines how the magical realism of Metal Gear is used to better communicate the horrors of war and American imperialism while Reid McCarter explores how A Plague Tale does the same with the Hundred Years’ War, Noah Caldwell-Gervais gives his thoughts on the gameplay and worlds of Horizon Zero Dawn vs Days Gone and shares his critique and retrospective of the Alice series by discussing how it subverts the work it was based on, Archipel speaks with Koji Igarashi about development and alternative funding, and more.
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Here's an hour of side-quests from The Outer Worlds—including a murder investigation
We completed missions involving a missing person, a murdered gambler, a local drug dealer, and more.
You can kill every character in The Outer Worlds
There are back-up systems in place to make sure you can still complete quests.
The Outer Worlds Is Just As Screwed Up As Real Life
Before one of the designers of The Outer Worlds talked to me about the game he worked on, he commented on the Buffy The Vampire Slayer patch on the back of my denim vest.
How I wasted my hour with The Outer Worlds
Ask anyone reviewing an RPG on a tight deadline how they're doing, chances are, you'll receive either stony silence or a murderous glare. These are typically vast things, where the main storylines alone can last upwards of 40 hours: and with such a huge variety of quests, narratives and locations, it's necessary to put the time in to get a feel for the title. There's also plenty of world-building going on, meaning some quests are lore-heavy, and some storylines will inevitably be less interesting than others. Which is fine, because you can simply move onto a better one with ease.
But what happens when you pick the wrong one, and you've only got an hour?
'The Outer Worlds' and Having Politics vs. Just Referencing Politics
Given the length of most games, it can sometimes be hard to parse their politics or meaning even from a few hours of play. Endgame twists can paint the entire narrative of a game in a different light, strengthening core themes at best, and undermining them at worst. So it's natural to wonder where a narrative might go even if it's opening hours seem to hammer home a specific point of view. On this episode of Waypoint Radio, we discuss how this feels in The Outer Worlds, as well as making new friends in Fire Emblem: Three Houses, and just what is up with...the Clancyverse??. You can listen to the full episode and read an excerpt below.
You can kill everyone in The Outer Worlds. It’s a development nightmare.
Senior designer Brian Heins explains how tricky it is to pull off infinite murder
The Outer Worlds Brings the Stupidity of Capitalism to Space
When Leonard Boyarsky, creative director at Obsidian, told VGC the company didn’t want to “lecture” its players about politics, I took a mental note I carried with me into my closed door demo with The Outer Worlds in mid-July. How could a game about corporate greed on a galactic scale be apolitical? How could it not lecture? While it might have been expedient for the team behind The Outer Worlds to distance itself from a clear political agenda, the attitude of this game is clear: the horrors of capitalism will follow us into the cold depths of space if we let them.
We Talk About World Building in Obsidian's New Game The Outer Worlds
Kahlief hangs out with the folks from Obsidian Entertainment to check out their new game The Outer Worlds. We catch up with Senior Narrative Designer Carrie Patel to hear all about world-building. The new companion system and dig a little into what players might find while exploring the world.
Watch 20 minutes of Mount & Blade 2: Bannerlord beta footage
It's starting to seem like Mount & Blade 2: Bannerlord might actually launch one of these days, what with some lucky players getting to test the skirmish mode in beta and the game's impending appearance at Gamescom later this month. If you didn't get into the beta and need a fix, you can watch some raw footage above.
The upcoming RPG Warsaw taught me an important piece of Polish history
Today is an important anniversary. At 1700 hours (4pm UK time), Warsaw will fall silent. Sirens will sound and the Polish capital will grind to a halt, as it has on this day, at this hour, for the past 74 years. Today, people will remember the hundreds of thousands of men, women and children who died as a result of the Warsaw Uprising. But 75 years ago, it had just begun.
Ooblets is an Epic exclusive, and its creators say it's 'nothing to get worked up about'
Designer and writer Ben Wasser said the decision to go exclusive was made because Epic offered a minimum guarantee on sales. "That takes a huge burden of uncertainty off of us because now we know that no matter what, the game won’t fail and we won’t be forced to move back in with our parents (but we do love and appreciate you, parents!)," he wrote. "Now we can just focus on making the game without worrying about keeping the lights on. The upfront money they’re providing means we’ll be able to afford more help and resources to start ramping up production and doing some cooler things."
Epic condemns “misinformation and abuse” after harassment of Ooblets devs
In a statement, Epic says this has “highlighted a disturbing trend which is growing and undermining healthy public discourse, and that’s the coordinated and deliberate creation and promotion of false information, including fake screenshots, videos, and technical analysis, accompanied by harassment of partners, promotion of hateful themes, and intimidation of those with opposing views.”
Regarding what’s been happening
Content warning for the included screenshots involving graphic language including racist/ethnic/homophobic slurs, threats, violence, rape, suicide, self-harm, and other stuff.
Hey, this is Ben. My wife Rebecca and I have been the target of a pretty big internet storm for the last five days following our Epic Games Store timed-exclusive announcement for Ooblets. We’ve been trying to make ourselves as available as possible to maintain an open discourse with newcomers — some friendly, some extremely aggressive — and unfortunately quite a number of them have decided to cross multiple lines into the realm of harassment. We wanted to take the time to put together an official statement in regard to all that.
Epic Store Rage Has Gotten Out Of Hand
So far, it seems like the company has been true to its word. “A lot of companies would’ve left us to deal with all of this on our own, but Epic has been by our side as our world has gone sideways,” said Wasser. “The fact that they care so much about a team and game as small as us proves to us that we made the right call in working with them, and we couldn’t be more thankful.”
That’s a step in the right direction, and hopefully one that other companies will follow. But the gaming industry has allowed this problem to grow and grow and grow over the course of many years, and it’s hard to see a future in which blowups like this don’t remain a regular occurrence. In his post, Wasser faced this sad reality.
A new Borderlands 3 trailer introduces Moze and her best friend Iron Bear
Earlier this week, Gearbox introduced us to the character Zane, a semi-retired corporate hitman turned vault hunter in Borderlands 3 who relies on guile, technology, precision applications of violence, and boozy Irish charm to get the job done. Today it's time to meet Moze, a former soldier who decided to try more solo-focused pursuits after the rest of her squad ran into a spot of trouble on what was supposed to be her final mission.
Borderlands 3 - Official Amara Character Trailer
Meet Amara, a powerful brawler, renowned champion of the people, and bonafide Siren badass. Borderlands 3 will be released on September 13, 2019 for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC.
Zachtronics’ next game is a visual novel
Zachtronics is known for its particular brand of puzzle game. It’s a developer behind games like Infinifactory, Magnum Opus, and Shenzen I/O, all games about learning and adapting automatic processes to produce particular results. So it’s a bit of a surprise the studio’s next game is a visual novel.
Making family matter in Children of Morta
A few years ago, developer Dead Mage made waves with the Kickstarter for Children of Morta, a pixel art action RPG that gives players control of a monster-hunting family who fight through randomly generated dungeons.
Dark Envoy is a Divinity-like CRPG in which you save or doom the world and get an airship
The last few years have been an uncommonly good time to be a CPRG fan, with the likes of Larian, Obsidian, and others giving us some of the best entries this classic genre has seen in years. One you may have missed was last year’s well-received (87% positive on Steam) Tower of Time, and developer Event Horizon has just announced its sophomore effort.
The Oriental Exorcist ChinaJoy 2019 off-screen gameplay
Gamer.com.tw has posted nine minutes of camera-recorded footage of the newly announced 2D side-scrolling action RPG The Oriental Exorcist from ChinaJoy 2019.
New Guilty Gear title announced
Arc System Works announced a new Guilty Gear title at EVO 2019. It is due out in 2020. An official title and platforms were not announced.
Granblue Fantasy: Versus EVO 2019 Percival gameplay
XSEED Games debuted first gameplay footage of newly announced Granblue Fantasy: Versus character Percival during its Granblue Fantasy: Versus Cygames Beast Exhibition at EVO 2019 side event series AnimEVO.
The King of Fighters XV announced
The King of Fighters XV is now in development, developer SNK announced at EVO 2019.
The First 15 Minutes of Rebel Galaxy Outlaw Gameplay (1080p 60fps)
Juno Markev has a killer to tail, a debt to pay, and more trouble headed her way. In the Dodge Sector it's hard to get by - and even harder to get even.
New Gameplay Today – Trails Of Cold Steel III
Kim joins Cork and Leo to share impressions from her five hours of early gameplay as a teacher with a poor sense of boundaries.
The Good Life, Swery's life sim RPG, is delayed until 2020
If you like cats, dogs, life and strange videogames, The Good Life is probably on your radar. The work of Deadly Premonition creator Swery, it was successfully Kickstarter-funded last year, promising "a Daily Life Simulator x SWERISM". Initially scheduled for a Q4 2019 release, Swery has taken to Kickstarter to announce that it will be delayed until spring 2020 (or autumn in Australia).
New Details On Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare's Multiplayer
Game Informer's Ben Hanson, Dan Tack, and Brian Shea share new impressions for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare's multiplayer modes based on our cover story trip to visit Infinity Ward.
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare multiplayer feels fantastic - but there's cause for concern
At a recent Activision-hosted event in Los Angeles, I got the chance to go hands-on with Call of Duty: Modern Warfare's competitive multiplayer portion and came away impressed - despite a few niggles and one lingering concern.
How Call of Duty: Modern Warfare will offer the “ultimate multiplayer playground”
How do you recreate a classic? It’s a challenge that plenty of developers are taking on these days. Understanding the context of the original is key in finding the answer, as it usually illuminates the game’s achievement. Doom brought gore and gunfights to players who had been hanging out with Mario. Square Enix has created magical worlds through Final Fantasy many times, with new stories and better graphics each time, but the essence of the series is in far more than this.
Cook, Serve, Delicious 3 Takes The Intense Restaurant Sim On The Road
The first two Cook, Serve, Delicious games cast players as the head chef and principle operator of small restaurants, cooking and managing their way to foodie fame. Announced today for Xbox One, PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch, and PC, Cook, Serve, Delicious 3 sends players on a journey across war-torn America in a food truck with a trusty robot crew. Gotta love a sequel that switches things up.
Azur Lane: Crosswave ‘Story Mode’ gameplay
Compile Heart has released a 20-minute gameplay video of the Story Mode in Azur Lane: Crosswave.
Soulcalibur VI DLC character Cassandra launches August 5; Season Pass 2 featuring Haohmaru from Samurai Shodown announced
Bandai Namco also announced Soulcalibur VI Season Pass 2 featuring four additional characters, the first of which will be Haohmaru from the Samurai Shodown series.
There Wasn’t Originally A Plan For A Season Pass 2 For SoulCalibur VI
We’ve only seen a little bit of what the Season Pass 2 for SoulCalibur VI has to offer, including guest character Haohmaru from Samurai Shodown, but it seems that things weren’t always going to be this way.
Valve apologise for leaking Street Fighter V DLC characters
Whoops, say Valve. Yes, we did accidentally put a Street Fighter V trailer up early on Steam this week. Yes, it did leak three new characters who’ll be joining the roster. Sorry. We’ll try not to let it happen again.
Warhammer: Vermintide 2 – Winds of Magic sends in the cow men on August 13
Winds of Magic introduces a new enemy type known as the Beastmen, a faction of cloven-hooved bipedal jerks who, according to Warhammer lore, are intent on destroying civilization and being all around bovine-faced hooligans. After a meteor crashes in the Reikland, the Beastmen rush to its epicenter to claim their sacred Herdstone shrine. The result is a bloody mess of dark cow action, a first-person slash-and-prod in a deep fantasy woodland that is explorable by your collective of heroes. Watch the gameplay trailer after the jump.
Total War: Three Kingdoms is getting a free horde mode
Fight an endless army with just a trio of heroes.
Rocket League won’t have loot boxes later this year
A change is coming to the Rocket League store later this year, one foreshadowed by fellow Epic Games Store title Fortnite. Epic Games recently removed loot boxes from its Save the World mode. Now that change is coming to Rocket League—which Epic now owns—as well. All paid, randomized loot boxes, known as Crates, will be removed from the Rocket League storefront.
Ducktales Remastered Will Be Delisted From Digital Stores On August 8
Wayforward and Capcom’s Ducktales Remastered, which originally released in 2013, is getting delisted from digital stores beginning August 8, 2019.
E3 Expo Leaks The Personal Information Of Over 2,000 Journalists
A spreadsheet containing the contact information and personal addresses of over 2,000 games journalists, editors, and other content creators was recently found to have been published and publicly accessible on the website of the E3 Expo.
The List of 2,000 Journalists the Video Game Lobby Doxed Is the Last Thing It Had to Offer
With E3's relevance increasingly in doubt, the ESA managed to destroy its reputation and its fitness to host a media event in one fell swoop.
Betrayal, Disappointment & Anger - The Story of the ESA
This week we talk about the negligence of the ESA leaking personal information of the press. Why eSports is keeping Black players out of their competitions. We round up our favorite moments from EVO 2019 and much more!
Amidst Controversy, Twitch Confirms That Breastfeeding On Stream Is Allowed
Last week, Twitch partner Heather “HeatheredEffect” Kent breastfed her baby while talking to a friend and streaming on Twitch. She didn’t try to draw attention to the act; she did it then and there simply because babies gotta eat, too. However, Twitch ended up deleting a clip of the moment, and the incident sparked a debate about whether or not breastfeeding should be considered sexual content. Now Twitch has weighed in, saying that breastfeeding does not violate its terms of service.
Mixer's clothing guidelines are very concerned about cleavage
Yesterday, Ninja announced that he was leaving Twitch to stream exclusively on Mixer, putting a lot of new eyes on Microsoft's platform. Not all of that attention has been positive: Twitch partner Emily Bello checked up on Mixer's clothing guidelines for streamers and found a set of rules that's giving me flashbacks to my days in a Catholic high school.
Rockstar hires testers full-time after criticism – “things have been better since last year”
As criticism of the game industry’s often abusive labour practices took hold, reported crunch at Rockstar proved to be one of the biggest points of discussion. Things at the QA department, primarily based in Rockstar’s Lincoln studio, seemed especially bad – in addition to mandatory overtime, testers were often employed on temporary contracts with no guarantee of renewal. Now, it seems that things are changing.
Nearly 60% of Take-Two’s revenue in the first quarter came from microtransactions and DLC
Take-Two, the parent company for Rockstar and 2K Games, has revealed some big earnings in the first quarter of FY2020. The quarter, ended June 30, generated net revenue of $540.5 million, a 39% growth compared to the same period last year.
US president Donald Trump blames videogames for fueling violent culture
Speaking in the wake of mass murders in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio, that left 30 people dead and more than 50 wounded, the president of the United States has called for a change in the nation's culture, specifically singling out the influence of violent videogames on youth.
Tencent aiding with localization, online services for the Switch's move into China
Nintendo is working on bringing its flagship game console, the Nintendo Switch, to China in the future, and has started to explain how the Chinese company Tencent will help make that launch possible.
Best XCOM 2: War Of The Chosen mods
Welcome back, Commanders. I’ve returned to an expanded and finalised XCOM 2 this week. Since the launch of 2017’s War Of The Chosen expansion and last year’s Tactical Legacy Pack, things have been quiet on the XCOM front. The game is finally stabilised, giving modders a nice static test-bed to add new weapons, aliens and features to the squad tactics sandbox. Here’s a deep dive on the boldly named “A Better Everything” – a modular overhaul mod package – plus a few fun extras to freshen up your next scuffle with Advent.
GO1 Breaks Down In Tears After Defeating SonicFox, Winning Dragon Ball FighterZ At Evo 2019
Dragon Ball FighterZ is in a very different place than it was in 2018, especially when it comes to the Evolution Championship Series. The shine has worn off the game a bit due to various factors, and attendance dropped considerably compared to 2018, relegating the once-beloved game to a Saturday finals placement rather than a spot in the arena on Sunday. But all of that outside noise fell away as soon as the Evo 2019 finalists took their place on stage.
Dragon Ball FighterZ Evo 2019 Grand Finals
Watch the grand final game for Dragon Ball FighterZ held at Evo 2019. Thank you to Evo for letting us host the video. SonicFox vs GOO1
Samurai Shodown Evo 2019 Grand Finals
Watch the grand final game for Samurai Shodown held at Evo 2019. Thank you to Evo for letting us host the video.
Mortal Kombat 11 Evo 2019 Grand Finals (Sonicfox VS Dragon)
Watch the grand final game for Mortal Kombaty 11 held at Evo 2019. Thank you to Evo for letting us host the vod.
EVO 2019's best story was the unstoppable rise of Pakistani Tekken player Arslan Ash
The best Tekken player in the world had to overcome visa and travel challenges to win the year's biggest tournaments.
Smash Bros. Takes Center Stage At The Biggest Fighting Game Event Of The Year
For the first time since it was released in 2016, Street Fighter V won’t be the final headlining event that concludes the Evolution Championship Series this weekend. Instead, that honor goes to Super Smash Bros. Ultimate. This is the first time in the history of the series that it’s ever received top-billing at the event.
Under Night’s Community Found Validation and Explosive Growth at Evo
Under cobalt lights arranged into three diamonds, people crowded into the Mandalay Bay Convention Center in Las Vegas, Nevada this weekend. Many more spilled out onto the concrete floor. They were there not for a musical artist or a high-profile comedian, but to watch the top eight competitors of anime fighting game Under Night In-Birth Exe:Late[st] (UNIST) compete for a coveted Evolution Championship Series trophy.
Who Won at EVO 2019? Here are the Results and How They Did It
EVO 2019 is officially over, and unsurprisingly, it’s been a weekend full of knock-down drag-out fights between competitors at one of the world’s most prolific fighting game tournaments. We’ve had upsets, comebacks, and literal tears from some of the greatest fighting game players out there. We’ve rounded up each grand champion by game, plus the runner-ups, and we’ve got video of each final match to show you just how heated things can get in Vegas when EVO is in town.
The voice of Solid Snake says EVO “failed to consult me or Konami” on that Tekken 7 gag
At EVO 2019, Tekken 7 action was briefly interrupted by a message from Metal Gear’s Solid Snake, who remarked in a teaser on “some good-ass Tekken.” Fans took it as indication that Snake was coming to Tekken 7, but EVO organizers say it was just “our idea of a little joke.” It doesn’t seem like the voice of Snake is laughing, however.
Crowdfunding News (not sharing everything I find, just ones that look interesting, have known talent behind them, and a chance to succeed)
Psychonauts 2 investors are getting guaranteed profits before the game even launches
Psychonauts 2 is getting made because enough people believed in it. Some of those people supported it like a normal crowdfunded game -- chip in at a tier and then earn some rewards. But, because it was funded by Fig, others made actual investments. They believed Psychonauts 2 would be a success and that they'd earn money by the game selling well.
Content I found interesting this week (interviews, recommendations, think pieces, history, music, culture, design, art, documentaries, criticism, etc)
What it's like to get laid off in the games industry
It’s easy to see game layoffs as a tragic but disconnected event. 150 people lost their jobs, but that’s easy to reduce to simple numbers. What does it mean? For many developers, it can be anything from the confusing loss of a dream job, to the sudden absence of treasured friends and colleagues. According to one person who requested anonymity—I’ll call him Jason—it meant a $25 Amazon gift card.
Player Two: An Interview with Ben Babbitt
With the premiere of the final act of Kentucky Route Zero increasingly close at hand, I revisited old conversations with composer Ben Babbitt that we shared back in 2017, just weeks before the official release of the short interlude Un Pueblo de Nada between the acts of the main game. One third of developer trio Cardboard Computer—alongside Jake Elliott and Tamas Kemenczy—Ben Babbitt caught up with me at the PlayStation Experience showcase and followed up afterward for a long conversation about Kentucky Route Zero and his work. Structured around five acts with short, standalone interludes that divide each release, Kentucky Route Zero continues to beguile audiences with its decelerated approach to gameplay and its quietly surreal and folkloric narrative of a crumbling, magical realist South. The game has enjoyed no shortage of critical praise (including my own) since the first act was released in January 2013, and anticipation for the long-awaited conclusion for a game almost a decade in the making is palpable among those players who have plunged deeply into the game’s mythic vision of rural Kentucky after dark.
The moral panic over Fortnite and the “purpose” of play
The recent Fortnite World Cup stirred up a lot of interesting reactions. It was great to see an increased awareness of esports and the hard work and dedication it takes to play games professionally, but amid the attention a particular narrative developed, that somehow knowing there is a potential career in the game makes it more acceptable to play. The idea that play in and of itself isn’t enough, that there needs to be some tangible benefit, either through the development of transferable skills or by going pro, is common, but it can undermine the play itself.
Thousands of people have come together for the most moving game of the year
Kind Words is not like any game I’ve ever played. And while Kind Words relies heavily on the input from other players, it’s definitely not like any other multiplayer titles I’ve come across.
THE JRPG STARTUP COST, PART II
In the previous entry, I analyzed ten notable turn-based JRPGs from the 16-bit era. Each title was measured on how long it took to reach 12 different milestones common to the genre. My goal was to help quantify the amount of time required to “get into” these games by obtaining a certain level of comfort with their mechanics.
An additional goal was to measure how these metrics changed over time, which we can now observe with the 5th generation of consoles.
Making penises in games: it's hard
Modders and developers tell us the good, bad, and ugly of adding dongs to games.
How Metal Gear Eschewed Realism to Convey the Horror of Imperial Violence
The Department of Homeland Security was established November 25th, 2002. Immigration and Custom Enforcement was established March 1st, 2003. The War on Terror is harder to formally establish a starting time on — do you start at September 11th, 2001, as many people do, or do you fold the conflict into the Gulf War (August 2nd, 1990)? Either way, the Metal Gear series is older than all of them. It’s also the only piece of art I know that makes the scale and sensation of the escalating American imperialism and violence they represent comprehensible.
A Plague Tale: Innocence Is the Anti–Assassin’s Creed
Asobo Studio takes a more grounded—and human—approach to historical fiction than you find in most games.
'Hotline Miami' Showed the Futility of Ultra-Violence as Critique
After a decade of games asking what kind of person commits video game violence, returning to Hotline shows that we need new questions.
The Dark Side of the Video Game Industry | Patriot Act with Hasan Minhaj | Netflix
Minhaj provides a deep dive into the subject, summarizing the general culture of crunch and layoffs, and specifically discussing the death of Telltale Games and the misconduct at Riot. (He talks to Kotaku reporter Cecilia D’Anastasio about the latter, and she does a great job of helping break down that situation with facts and humor.) He also brings up Game Workers Unite, an organization devoted to helping game developers unionize, and ties it into a larger trend of increasing union activity over the last few years. It’s not a short segment—the entire episode was devoted to this one topic—but it’s worth watching, especially if you’re interested in learning how the games you play are made. Check it out below, and watch the full episode on Netflix.
How the Simulation of a Hitman Level Works
How does IO Interactive create the simulation of each level in Hitman? We talk to the team about creating the sandbox, positioning targets, and the delicate task of guiding the player.
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Revealing the Tricks Behind Hitman's Level Design
How were the Hitman levels of Miami, Mumbai & New York designed? We sit down with the designers at IO Interactive to talk about track teams, creating explorable spaces and creating satisfying targets.
History Respawned: Astrologaster
Bob talks with Dr. Lauren Kassell about Astrologaster. Topics include Elizabethan London, Medical Astrology, Forman and Napier's Casebooks, and consulting on historical games.
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Rage 2 and Game Feel
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Why Does Celeste Feel So Good to Play? | Game Maker's Toolkit
Celeste is one of the most satisfying platformers released in recent memory. And a big part of that is due to the tight and responsive controls of the game’s main character: Madeline. In this video, let’s look at how designers Matt Thorson and Noel Berry made the hero of Celeste feel so good to play.
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Did Nuclear Gandhi ever really happen in Civilization?
We investigate* one of gaming's most infamous bugs, Civilization's Nuclear Gandhi.
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Monster Mash-- Horzon: Zero Dawn vs. Days Gone
This is a comparative video critique of Guerilla Game's Horizon Zero Dawn and its Frozen Wilds expansion with Sony of Bend's Days Gone. They're both PS4 exclusive open world titles that are, on a surface level, extremely similar but on closer examination show themselves to be diagonally opposite games. What elements allow them to achieve such difference in such similar formats? SPOILERS THROUGHOUT.
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Manic Pixie Dream Worlds: A Critique of American McGee's Alice Games
This is a video critique and retrospective of American McGee's platformer adaptations of Alice in Wonderland. It looks at how they deliberately diverged from the Quake aesthetic while still using the Quake engine, and how Alice's perspective shapes the game world. It goes in-depth trying to examine how this off pairing of artist and subject brought out some of the best of both of them and how the sequel fared in living up to it.
Good Game Design - Super Mario Maker 2: Building Better Creators
Mario Maker 2 has been incredibly addicting since its release. I've been hooked on creating my own stages and learning new ways to utilize the plethora of tools at our disposal. Let's talk about how this sequel upped the ante in terms of teaching and encouraged better game design in its creators.
Iga's Lair - an alternative path to game creation
Iga's Lair - an alternative path to game creation We met with game industry veteran Koji 'IGA' Igarashi, who recently released "Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night", after a successful Kickstarter campaign held in 2015. As he reflects back on the story behind his title, he was joined later that night by Yohei Kataoka, the creator behind "Tokyo Jungle", another game resulting from alternative funding.
BringBackKI 2019 Killer Instinct: Lead Designer Developer Interview
What Makes Metroid Music Sound Like Metroid Music?
Nintendo is the best in the biz when it comes to great video game music, producing decades-long-musical-legacy after decades-long-musical-legacy. One such legacy that has somehow avoided analysis on this channel up until this point is the Metroid series, which has a consistent and unique musical identity that goes toe-to-toe with the Marios and the Zeldas of the video game world. At the same time the approach music in Metroid games is very different from all other big Nintendo properties, prioritizing ambience and a dark, creepy tone over the kinds of memorable melodies that you'd find among its peers. So what makes Metroid music sound like Metroid music? Let's find out.
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The History of Sleeping Dogs
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Making open world games is far from easy. The number of assets necessary to fill them is colossal. The amount of testing required to polish them is unthinkable. And unless your name is Sam or Dan Houser, whatever you make is almost always going to live in the shadow of Grand Theft Auto’s scope and brand power – unless you find a unique way to counter its supremacy.
Death and Religion in Final Fantasy X
In this episode of Dissecting Final Fantasy X, we examine the history and prevalence of Yevon throughout Spira.
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Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magick Obscura Retrospective | A History of Isometric CRPGs (Episode 7)
Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magick Obscura has obtained cult-classic status over the years due to some excellent worldbuilding and implementation of steampunk technology alongside traditional fantasy elements like elves and dwarves. I've been looking forward to playing this one for a while but didn't enjoy it as much as I'd hoped.
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What to do when Bolivia hates you
Lewis Manalo used his life experiences to write on Ghost Recon: Wildlands, and was met with the wrath of both the critics and the entire country of Bolivia
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Kantha: The Embroidered Quilts of Bengal from the Jill and Sheldon Bonovitz and the Stella Kramrisch Collections
Kantha (Embroidered Quilt), Second half of 19th century
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Stitching kanthas was an art practiced by women across Bengal, a region today comprising the nation of Bangladesh and the state of West Bengal, India. Lovingly created from the remnants of worn garments, kanthas are embroidered with motifs and tales drawn from a rich local repertoire and used especially in the celebration of births, weddings, and other family occasions.
This exhibition presents some forty superb examples created during the nineteenth century and first half of the twentieth century, when this vibrant domestic art flourished and encompasses works by women of diverse backgrounds—rural and urban, Hindu and Muslim. While all share a collective Bengali culture, the amazing variety of motifs, patterns, color combinations, and designs of the kanthas in this exhibition demonstrates the imagination and creativity of their makers.
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The first exhibition devoted solely to this unique textile tradition ever presented outside of South Asia, Kantha: The Embroidered Quilts of Bengal from the Jill and Sheldon Bonovitz and the Stella Kramrisch Collections focuses on two premier collections, one assembled during the 1920s and 1930s by the legendary historian of Indian art, Dr. Stella Kramrisch (the Museum’s Curator of Indian Art from 1954 until her death in 1993), the other recently assembled by Jill and Sheldon Bonovitz, leading proponents of American self-taught art. The accompanying catalogue, published by the Museum and Yale University Press, presents the two collections in their entireties for the first time. The majority of the Bonovitz kanthas on view are gifts and promised gifts to the Museum, while the Kramrisch kanthas are part of the Museum’s permanent collection.
Join Darielle Mason, The Stella Kramrisch Curator of Indian and Himalayan Art, for an in-depth look at this exhibition. Learn about the intricate domestic art of the kantha, and see how the distinguished, yet different kantha collections of Jill and Sheldon Bonovitz and Stella Kramrisch bring this unique art form to life for audiences.
The exhibition and its accompanying catalogue were made possible by Jill and Sheldon Bonovitz, with additional generous support from The Coby Foundation, Ltd., and the E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Foundation.
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It’s US Embassy that had ulterior motive: Sajeeb Wazed
Prime Minister’s ICT Affairs Adviser Sajeeb Wazed. Photo: Collected
Dhaka, July 21 : Prime Minister’s ICT Affairs Adviser Sajeeb Wazed on Sunday said the US Embassy here is the one that had an “ulterior motive” mentioning that they picked Priya Saha because they knew she would make this outrageous statement.
He said Priya Saha was a member of a delegation selected by the US Embassy in Dhaka and the Embassy stated they do not restrict participants.
“Which is fine, but why would they not refute an obviously false and outrageous statement made by one of their selected participants to their own Head of State? This tells me the US Embassy is the one that had an ulterior motive here,” Sajeeb said in a message shared on his verified Facebook page.
He said they picked Priya Saha because they knew she would make this outrageous statement. “The only logical outcome of making such a claim to the US President is to build demand for a military intervention in the region on humanitarian grounds.”
“After these last elections I had taken a bit of a break and did not post much on this page. Recent events, however, warrant an observation,” Sajeeb said.
Priya Saha made “ridiculous claim” to United States President Donald Trump and she claimed that 3 crore 70 lakh minorities, or almost 4 crore, have disappeared.
“That is more than ten times the number of our martyrs in our Liberation War, or almost as many people as were killed in World War 2. Yet this happened without anyone even knowing about it? Did 37 million people just vanish without a trace?” Sajeeb questioned.
He said it ties in with another US Congressman’s recent statement that Bangladesh should take over Rakhine state.
“It is no secret that the US Embassy is decidedly anti-Awami League. They have always hosted Jamaat and war criminals at all their events. With their support of Priya Saha’s statement they now appear to be plotting a direct takeover of our country,” Sajeeb said.
“Fortunately for us, President Trump and his administration have a very different policy of non-intervention in foreign affairs. They are also not so stupid to believe such a ridiculous claim,” he said.
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Verstappen, Ricciardo told to apologise to Red Bull staff after crash
Meanwhile, Hamilton acknowledged he had been fortuitous to win his first race of 2018. It was just for me, if my normal level is eagle, birdie, today was par, on an average, and then a couple of bogeys. The pair were slammed by their furious Red Bull bosses after crashing out of Sunday's Azerbaijan race. Horner sat motionless, aghast at what he had just witnessed. (more...)
Sergio Ramos: 'Real Madrid do not fear Liverpool star Mohamed Salah'
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That Yankees-Red Sox London showdown is on
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Caglar Soyuncu set to join Arsenal, claims Altinordu president
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Denzil Ware to pursue grad transfer
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Braves' Teheran has no-hit bid through 6 innings vs Mets
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Ben Roethlisberger says he plans to play 'three to five more years'
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Marseille Seal Europa League Final Spot With Controversial Goal
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Fizdale went 50-51 with the Grizzlies before he was sacked early this season after an apparent dispute with star center Marc Gasol . As a Knicks fan I am thrilled to have David Fizdale as the new coach. The 43-year-old Fizdale began his National Basketball Association coaching career in 2003 as an assistant with the Golden State Warriors. Prior to coaching the Grizzlies, Fizdale had lengthy stints as an assistant coach for the Miami Heat and Atlanta Hawks . (more...)
Peter King leaving SI for NBC Sports
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NBA warns Drake over 'bad language' after Kendrick Perkins incident
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Jose Mourinho wants Daley Blind, Matteo Darmian at Manchester United
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Jose Mourinho Reveals The Strange Reason Why He's Not Playing Eric Bailly
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Jose Mourinho explains freaky Eric Bailly absence from Man Utd team
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Paul Lambert: 'We have to beat Crystal Palace'
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Calico Review: Chatting With Allah-Las Guitarist, Pedrum Siadatian
Taylor Wojick September 8, 2016
People slowly trickled into the Urban Lounge venue Tuesday night, faces in full anticipation of what would be a memorable night for the Salt Lake City music lovers. It’s no secret that the lead guitarist, Pedrum Siadatian, spent a majority of his childhood in Utah’s capital city; more or less a reason that the SLC venue was particularly crowded, fans shoulder to shoulder, waiting for the psychedelic, Los Angeles-based band to take the stage. The energy in the air was at an all-time high; you could overhear murmurs of what songs people hoped would be played.
The Allah-Las took the stage, looked around at one another and fell right into rhythm. It was after their opening song, “No Werewolf” that the foursome slyly shifted into crowd favorite “Tell Me What’s On Your Mind”, encouraging their fans to not shy away from singing along. With their new album, Calico Review, due out tomorrow, the Allah-Las speckled their set with the new album’s songs, showcasing a slightly more polished sound, pushing beyond their well-known grungy garage vibes.
We had a chance to talk with Pedrum prior to the show, where he filled us in on pieces of life that have influenced the band’s music, what it’s like living and working in Los Angeles, and finding a balance between playing old and new songs to an ever-ready fan base.
You’re in the midst of touring; how does the group handle life on the road? What’s it like to be on tour and come back to your hometown to play a show?
At this point I think we’re pretty good at handling ourselves on tour; we pack less and can sleep better in the van. It’s really cool for me whenever we play SLC because I get to see a side of the town that I didn’t really get to know that well when I was growing up here, since I left when I was 15. I still feel really nostalgic when I come here, even though a lot has changed.
It’s clear that you draw musical influence from a range of genres. Is genre, and where you guys fit within different genres something the band focuses on? Or do you guys just create based on the music that is most interesting you at the time?
I think we focus less on genre and more on giving each song what it needs. Each song is communicating a unique point of view and idea. We definitely love 60s and 70s fringe music though, there’s no hiding that.
Calico Review is coming out a couple days. Each of the band’s albums has encompassed a variety of sounds and each one sounds completely unique. What is the creative progression like for you and the other band members, both independently and as a group?
The first record was collaborative musically, with Miles doing most of the vocals. With Worship the Sun and our new one, the songwriting has become more individual, where someone will write a song and bring it to practice for it to be learned and embellished. There are different vocals and songwriting styles composing our records now.
The band has been together, in Los Angeles, since 2008. To me, you could really feel the creative community of LA coming together and creating an identity. What was it like becoming a band during that time versus the major artistic surge we have seen within the last few years?
It definitely seems like there are more backwards-leaning bands now than when we started, and in general it seems there’s more bands in LA than I remember when we started. There are a lot of groups that have transplanted to LA cause there’s so many good venues here and rent is more reasonable than SF or NYC.
Tell us about what it is like to debut your new songs to an audience? Do you enjoy watching their reactions more when playing a new song or when you play a song that the audience knows all of the words to?
Hmm it depends on the crowd. Sometimes an audience just wants to hear the songs they’re familiar with and some fans are more excited to hear new songs. It’s very cool to see people singing along, but for me, it’s more fulfilling to see people get into new songs, that way I know we don’t have to play the same shit forever.
For more from the Allah-Las head to www.allah-las.com. They’re new album Calico Review come out tomorrow, Sept 9.
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New expedition rules in force in Nepal
Three 8000ers at a glance: Mount Everest, Lhotse, Makalu (from l. to r.)
The much-discussed new rules for expeditions in Nepal are in effect. According to Dinesh Bhattarai, General Director of the Ministry of Tourism, the amendment of the mountaineering rules was published today in the government gazette. “The Department of Tourism can now issue certificates to the Sherpa summiters,” Bhattarai told the newspaper “The Himalayan Times”, referring to the only new rule that in advance had been met with approval by all sides.
500 Sherpas can request certificates
After the spring season 2016, the coveted certificates were for the first time denied to local climbers. The reason given at that time: Within the meaning of the law Climbing Sherpas who fix ropes on the route or support clients up to the summit were no expedition members and therefore did not receive any certificates. It was a slap in the face of the Sherpas, without whose support most climbers of commercial expeditions would never have a chance to scale an eight-thousander. About 500 Sherpas can now request their summit certificates, which mean more to them than just a piece of paper. The certificates are considered as proof of performance, as a kind of self-promotion.
Solos forbidden
From now on, also the controversial regulations are obviously in force: Neither blind climbers nor double amputees will receive permits for all mountains higher than 6,600 meters – these fall under the responsibility of the government . Solo ascents will be forbidden. Every mountaineer is obliged to climb with a guide.
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Mount Everest took their husbands. And the fathers of their children. Nevertheless, Nima Doma Sherpa and Furdiki Sherpa want to climb the highest mountain on earth this spring. “We are doing our expedition for the respect of our late husbands because they were mountaineers too,” Nima Doma replies to my question about the purpose of their project.
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OPINION: Top 6 Innovations on the HUAWEI P30 Pro Decoded
Huawei Chief Technology Officer (CTO) for Consumer Business Group, Akhram Mohamed
JOHANNESBURG, (CAJ News) – HUAWEI’S recently unveiled its latest flagship smartphone, the HUAWEI P30 Pro. Dubbed the Supercamera Phone, it is packed full with the company’s latest and greatest innovations. Here’s what’s new on the super powered flagship.
1. Optimized Snapchat Experience
Huawei announced that it has worked to optimize the Huawei P30 series camera for Snapchat, bringing more camera innovations to users, aiming for Snapchatters to soon be able to enjoy more experiences using the Huawei P30 camera.
2. Leica Quad Camera Setup
The HUAWEI P30 Pro packs a revolutionary Leica Quad Camera setup. This includes a 40MP main camera with the HUAWEI SuperSpectrum Sensor which brings in more light so taking pictures or shooting videos in the dark is not a challenge, a 20MP Ultra-Wide angle lens for both horizontal and vertical shooting, an 8MP telephoto SuperZoom lens and a 32MP front camera for shooting selfies with unparalleled quality.
The camera setup also includes the HUAWEI Time of Flight (ToF) camera that is designed to measure depth of field for beautiful portrait shots with blurred backgrounds and sharp foregrounds.
3. SuperZoom
Huawei’s engineering marvels have come up with a way to embed a massive zoom lens into the ever-so thin body of the HUAWEI P30 Pro. This SuperZoom lens lets users enjoy a 5x optical zoom, 10x hybrid zoom and an unprecedented 50x digital zoom that can bring even the farthest objects up close.
4. Dual-View Video
Sometimes a single recording is just not enough and you might even miss some details. With the HUAWEI P30 Pro, this is not a problem anymore, thanks to HUAWEI Dual-View Video1 technology, which splits the screen in two and allows users to record a wide-angle shot and a close-up shot at the same time.
While this allows for better viewing angles while recording, it also gives users a more creative way of recording videos. For example, this feature can come in use when watching a football game, where users can have a wide-angle recording of the match, with a close-up of their favorite player.
5. Definitive Performance thanks to powerful hardware
Powering the HUAWEI P30 Pro is the Kirin 980 chipset, Huawei’s most powerful smartphone chipset yet. One of the world’s first commercial 7nm chipsets, the Kirin 980 packs 6.9 billion transistors, cutting-edge process technology, a revolutionary architecture and a Dual-NPU, all which contribute together to a more efficient performance. The Kirin 980 7nm process technology compared with the 10nm process, improves performance by 20%, power efficiency by 40%.
The Kirin 980 can quickly adapt to AI scenes such as face recognition, object recognition, object detection, image segmentation and intelligent translation. So whether it’s dancing to a fast song or quickly running in front of the camera, the Kirin 980 can focus on the joints and lines of the human body in real time.
The HUAWEI P30 Pro also houses a new and improved In-Screen Fingerprint sensor. Fingerprint recognition is improved by taking advantage of the ultra-wide 3p lens and a large aperture, which works in tandem to the pixel photosensitivity enhancing the Microlens.
The new sensor also supports auto ring-tuning focus, further improving the autofocus accuracy by 35 percent ensuring every senor on the device lands the most precise focus. Unlock speed is also improved by 30 percent thanks to the industry-leading multithreaded dual-matching algorithm, which also uses a fluid unlock animation and hover sensing to improve user experience.
Keeping in mind users who require their phone at any point of the day, Huawei has worked towards developing the battery on the HUAWEI P30 Pro for extended use. The 4,200 mAh battery can give users up to an entire day of intensive use and is complemented by the 40W Huawei SuperCharge which will give users approximately 70 percent in just 30 minutes.
The phone also supports 15W Wireless Charging, and a unique Wireless Reverse Charge feature, allowing users to place their friend’s phones or other devices including earphones and wearables on the HUAWEI P30 Pro to instantly start charging it, provided it supports the Qi wireless charging standard.
6. Night Shot
Night photography on smartphones has always been a challenge due to hardware and software limitations, often resulting in blurry or shaky shots. This will no longer be a challenge on the HUAWEI P30 Pro thanks to the Night Mode, which stabilizes pictures with the help of AI Image Stabilization and Optical Image Stabilization. The HUAWEI P30 Pro also takes advantage of the SuperSpectrum sensor which brings in more light and supports ISO levels up to 409,600. This makes it easier to take pictures and shoot videos even in dark conditions without having to compromise on details and clarity.
These are just some of the few innovations that can be found on the HUAWEI P30 Pro, with much more hiding under the hood.
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Are Your Characters Contradicting Themselves?
Back in June, I caught that nasty flu that was going around and spent a few miserable weeks napping and watching a lot of TV. One of my distractions of choice was the show, Bones. It had been a long time since I’d seen the first few seasons, and while it was fun to re-watch them, one thing did annoy me.
The character Temperance “Bones” Brennan is a world-class forensic anthropologist who is very literal-minded and repeatedly says she doesn’t like psychology and doesn’t do motive.
She’s a bestselling author who writes mysteries.
Writing is all about characters and why they do what they do. Motive is what’s driving every character to act—especially in a mystery.
Someone who doesn’t understand why people act and how emotional minds work would never be able to write great mysteries.
It’s a TV show, I get it, they wanted to make her famous and awesome on multiple fronts. And for all I know, her books are more procedural and less character, but that’s not how they’re described or referred to in the show itself.
One major aspect of the character, Bones, contradicted the core of who she is—and that bugged me every time they brought it up.
Don’t get me wrong—contradictions in characters are wonderful things, as they show the various layers of a person and turn them into real people. But when creating a character, be wary of where those contradictions lie. You can’t have a world-class swimmer who can’t swim. If two skills or traits of a character absolutely rely on opposite personality traits or skill sets, it’s going to feel wrong.
When creating a character, consider:
Do any traits go completely against the core of that character?
People believe one thing and act in contrary ways all the time. That whole “do as I say, not as I do” cliché. This is a solid character contradiction and a writer can create an interesting backstory to go with such a character. But when the core of who they are prevents the skill or trait they’re exhibiting, it stretches plausibility.
(Here's more on fleshing out flat characters)
Is the character lacking the necessary skills to possess a particular talent or trait?
This is a common problem in Chosen One stories or Mary Sue/Gary Stu characters. A character exhibits a trait or talent, yet there’s no groundwork laid to show how they got it or why they can do it. It’s even worse when the character is introduced as someone who had no access to or way to learn any of said skills. They need a skill, so boom—they have it.
(Here’s more on Mary Sue/Gary Stu characters)
Are the contradictions of that character believable?
If a character is socially awkward and has trouble understanding personal relationships, think twice before making them the celebrity host of a popular TV talk show that interviews people about their lives and relationships. Aim for contradictions that fit the personality and history of that character. A good example here is how many actors are painfully shy, and they got into acting as a way to combat that. They might be in the limelight all the time, but only if they’re playing a role and being “someone else.” Off-screen, they stay away from the public eye.
(Here's more on maintaining believability in our stories)
Good characters will have contradictions, so choose them wisely. Make sure they come from real places within that character, based on their experiences and personality. Creating a well-rounded character takes work, but it helps to look at the entire character as a whole and not just a bunch of pieces stuck together. Make sure what they do and how they think fits who they are at their core.
Have you seen any character contradictions that bugged you? What about your own characters? Are their contradictions believable or could they use some tweaking?
Find out more about characters and point of view in my book, Fixing Your Character & Point-of-View Problems.
Go step-by-step through revising character and character-related issues, such as two-dimensional characters, inconsistent points of view, too-much backstory, stale dialogue, didactic internalization, and lack of voice. Learn how to analyze your draft, spot any problems or weak areas, and fix those problems.
With clear and easy-to-understand examples, Fixing Your Character & Point-of-View Problems offers five self-guided workshops that target the common issues that make readers stop reading. It will help you:
Flesh out weak characters and build strong character arcs
Find the right amount of backstory to enhance, not bog down, your story
Determine the best point(s) of view and how to use them to your advantage
Eliminate empty dialogue and rambling internalization
Develop character voices and craft unique, individual characters
Fixing Your Character & Point-of-View Problems starts every workshop with an analysis to pinpoint problem areas and offers multiple revision options in each area. You choose the options that best fit your writing process. It's an easy-to-follow guide to crafting compelling characters, solid points of view, and strong character voices readers will love.
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Marilynn Byerly 9/7/16, 3:27 PM
In a later episode, Bones realizes that Angela, who is her expert on all things emotional, has essentially become a co-writer.
That would help explain it, but they should have done that from the start :)
Brian 9/7/16, 4:23 PM
I am so glad that I'm not the only one who noticed this. Also, the whole idea that she is an FBI special agent's partner is a real stretch.
The "I'm a literal minded scientist type" works better in Rizzoli and Isles where their personalities play off each other and their is no conflict in Mara Isles job(s).
I'll accept a lot on a TV show--they need to bend the rules to create entertainment--but sometimes it goes too far.
I love Rizolli & Isles. They did do a great job with Maura.
Please forgive the spelling in the above comment.
No worries, I speak fluent typo :)
Contradictions seem to happen so often on TV - very annoying. Maybe we notice it more as writers.
Maybe. I think there's also more binge watching now, so it's easier to see large chunks of the series on one sitting. Things we don't notice on a weekly basis jump out when you watch it back to back.
A. R. Braun 2/12/17, 12:35 AM
This may not be a character contradiction, but when Vince Masuka on Dexter said, "Nobody reads anymore," they lost me. The show idea comes from a novel.
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All data must be read in conjunction with the survey limitations.
Sixty percent (60%) of survey respondents reported that they were taking other medication prior to starting benzodiazepines.
A variety of other medications were being taken. Twenty percent said they were taking a combination of medications. The most common single medication being taken was antidepressants. Eighteen percent (18%) reported they were taking this class of medication.
A comparison of the group that was taking other medication at the time they started benzodiazepines with the group that wasn't taking other medication shows very little difference on their average functionality rating at the worst point in withdrawal, the difficulty they had withdrawing rating, or the number of months that it took them to recover.
Those who didn't take additional drugs prior to taking benzodiazepines reported that they were able to 2.2 of the nine functionality tasks with ease compared to 2 that was reported by the group who did take other medications.
Both groups rated the difficulty of withdrawal as 12.5. (The ratings were 10 = Easy, 11 = Wasn't easy but not too difficult, 12 = Difficult, 13 = Extremely Difficult).
The group who didn't take additional drugs got better on average 11.7 months after ceasing benzos while those taking drugs averaged 12.4 months.
AVERAGE FUNCTIONALITY RATING
Additional Drugs Prior to taking Benzos No Additional Drugs Prior to taking Benzos
Mean 2.0 2.2
WITHDRAWAL DIFFICULTY RATING
Mean 12.5 12.5
AVERAGE RECOVERY TIME - MONTHS
Around 40% of respondents said that they added in medication during withdrawal.
The most common action for those who added in drugs during withdrawal, was to add either a combination of drugs (13%) or added in antidepressants (9%).
Of those that added in medication during withdrawal, around 50% thought that it helped them, 25% thought that it didn't make any difference and 25% though that it was detrimental to their withdraw.
The table below compares 4 groups. The groups were, those that added in medication during withdrawal who thought it helped them, those that added in medication during withdrawal who thought it neither helped them nor hurt them, those that added in medication during withdrawal who thought it hurt them, and those who did not add medication in during withdrawal.
They were compared on their
- average functionality rating at the worst point in their withdrawal
- the rating they gave to their withdrawal experience (10 = Easy and 13 = extremely difficult)
- the average number of months it took to recover.
Those who did not add medication in mostly rated themselves better on the three measures than the other groups. For instance they felt at the worse point in withdrawal that they were able to do 2.5 of the 9 activity tasks with ease. The group who added in medication and felt it helped were able to do 1.9 tasks and those who added in medication and felt it hurt them only rated themselves as being able to do .5 of a task. The group who did not add medication in said they recovered on average 11.4 months after ceasing benzodiazepines compared with 15.8 months for those who added in medication and felt that it helped them.
Note the figures below cannot be used to establish that adding medication is causing the difference. The table only shows that there was some difference between the various groups. The difference may be random occurrences or the group that didn't add medication in may not have been as sick to start with. It is a concern that those who added in medication and felt it hurt them are scoring worse on the various comparison statistics.
Extra Meds Added Not Added
Helped Neither Helped or Hurt Hurt
Mean 1.9 1.3 0.5 2.5
Mean 12.4 12.9 12.9 12.4
AVERAGE MONTHS TO RECOVER
Mean 15.8 8.1 18.7 11.4
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The Dallas Stars are not moving to Austin. There is a new AHL team that going to start in Austin for the 09-10 season and will be a top affiliate of the NHL Dallas Stars. Each NHL team typically has a “farm” team in the AHL that they develop new talent in… the Texas Stars in Austin will be that new team.
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The Texas Stars are an announced American Hockey League team. They will begin play in Cedar Park, Texas in the 2009-10 AHL season.
The team will be the top affiliate of the NHL Dallas Stars. In April 2008, the Iowa Stars announced that they would no longer affiliate with the Dallas Stars. For the 2008-09 season, Dallas made agreements to send their AHL prospects to four different teams. AHL teams which the Dallas Stars sent prospects to include the Hamilton Bulldogs, Iowa Chops, Manitoba Moose, Peoria Rivermen, and Grand Rapids Griffins.
The Iowa Chops used to be the Dallas Stars affilliate AHL team named the Iowa Stars until the Dallas Stars announced that they would be associating with the new AHL Texas Stars. The Iowa Chops have now signed with the Anaheim Ducks.
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Aadhar Project Of India Is Unconstitutional Says Praveen Dalal
Aadhar project of India or unique identification project of India (UID project of India) is a project that is a classic example of lack of management and planning. Aadhar project has been launched despite numerous shortcomings and deficiencies and as a futile project. Techno legal experts of India have been warning against the continuance of Aadhar project and have suggested that it should be scrapped.
The futility of Aadhar project and UIDAI was very apparent from the very beginning but Indian government and unique identification authority of India (UIDAI) kept on wasting crores of public money without any benefit. Finally, Aadhar project of India may be scrapped.
According to experts like Praveen Dalal, managing partner of techno legal ICT law firm Perry4Law and a Supreme Court lawyer, there is no second opinion about the fact that Aadhar Project and UIDAI are “Unconstitutional” in the absence of a “Constitutionally Sound Law” in this regard. This is more so when there are no dedicated Privacy Laws in India and Data Protection Laws in India, opines Praveen Dalal.
Even after the National Identification Authority of India Bill 2010 (NIDAI Bill 2010) would have become an applicable law, both Aadhar and UIDAI would have remained “Unconstitutional”. This is so because the “Constitutional Safeguards” that are required to make Aadhar/UIDAI Constitutional were still missing from the proposed Bill.
In fact, a parliamentary committee has rejected the NIDAI Bill 2010, inflicting a severe blow to UIDAI chairman Nandan Nilekani and raising doubts about Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's pet project. This decision of parliamentary committee seems to be an acceptance of suggestions of experts like Praveen Dalal.
The parliamentary committee has recommended that the government should review or reconsider the project by a bringing in a fresh Bill. The committee has said that the Bill and the project are not acceptable in the present form.
Privacy laws in India and privacy rights in India have always been ignored. We have no national privacy policy in India as well. Data protection laws in India are missing and so are data privacy laws in India. Privacy, data protection and India seem to be separable and unrelated concepts.
Indian government launched projects like Aadhar, National Intelligence Grid (Natgrid), Crime and Criminal Tracking Network and Systems (CCTNS), National Counter Terrorism Centre (NCTC), Central Monitoring System (CMS), Centre for Communication Security Research and Monitoring (CCSRM), etc. None of them are governed by any Legal Framework and none of them are under parliamentary scrutiny. It must be appreciated that intelligence gathering is not above privacy rights in India.
In reality, Aadhar project and UIDAI are booty sharing mechanisms meant for few companies. Praveen Dalal has been constantly suggesting that Aadhar project must be supported by a Techno Legal Framework that must be supplemented by robust Cyber Security, Privacy Protection and Data Protection.
Indian government, Aadhar project and UIDAI are hiding truth from Indian citizens and are fooling them. However, sooner or later the truth was bound to be revealed. Besides experts in India now even the home ministry of India has been opposing the Aadhar project and UIDAI.
Aadhar project is the most evil project of India that aims at strengthening illegal and unconstitutional privacy violation and e-surveillance in India. Internet censorship in India has already increased multifold. Censorship of Internet in India is a hint towards the growing hunger for e-surveillance by Indian government.
The truth of Aadhar project and UIDAI is too frightening to elaborate. Aadhar project and UIDAI have evil intentions that are executed under the façade of welfare and social good. Both Indian government and UIDAI are fooling Indians by using the façade of benefits and welfare. Aadhar project and UIDAI are big troubles. Still the PMO is supporting the unconstitutional Aadhar project and UIDAI.
Aadhar project and UIDAI are big brother project. Nandan Nilekani is wrong regarding Aadhar project. It is high time that Aadhar project of India and UIDAI must be scrapped. There is no sense in wasting any more time and money on a project like Aadhar that has no legal and constitutional basis to continue.
Posted by Pritesh at 11:06 PM
Labels: AADHAR PROJECT OF INDIA, PERRY4LAW, PRAVEEN DALAL, PRIVACY RIGHTS IN INDIA, UID PROJECT OF INDIA, UIDAI, UNIQUE IDENTIFICATION AUTHORITY OF INDIA, UNIQUE IDENTIFICATION PROJECT OF INDIA
Aadhar Project Of India May Be Scrapped
Aadhar project of India or unique identification project of India (UID project of India) is one of the projects that have been imposed upon India and Indian citizens by Indian government. From the very beginning the futility of Aadhar project of India and UIDAI was apparent. However, Indian government kept on wasting crores of hard earned public money for the sake of commercial benefits of few Indian and foreign companies. In reality, Aadhar project and UIDAI are booty sharing mechanisms meant for few companies.
Techno legal expert and Supreme Court lawyer Praveen Dalal who is managing partner of techno legal ICT law firm Perry4Law has been constantly suggesting that Aadhar Project must be supported by a Techno Legal Framework that must be supplemented by robust Cyber Security, Privacy Protection and Data Protection.
In the absence of these Procedural and Constitutional Safeguards, both Aadhar Project and UIDAI are Unconstitutional, says Praveen Dalal. So much so that even after the passing of the National Identification Authority of India Bill 2010 (NIDAI Bill 2010), both Aadhar Project and UIDAI would “Remain Unconstitutional”, opines Praveen Dalal. We need an altogether different law than NIDAI Bill 2010 suggests Praveen Dalal.
Aadhar project and UIDAI are big brother project. Nandan Nilekani is wrong regarding Aadhar project. It is high time that Aadhar project of India and UIDAI must be scrapped. Sensing the gravity of the situation a parliamentary committee is set to reject the NIDAI Bill 2010, inflicting a severe blow to UIDAI chairman Nandan Nilekani and raising doubts about Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's pet project. This decision of parliamentary committee seems to be an agreement with the suggestions of experts like Praveen Dalal.
Parliament's standing committee on finance, headed by Yashwant Sinha of the BJP, held deliberations on the controversial NIDAI Bill 2010 for a year. It considered the suggestions and recommendations of various experts in this regard. The committee's draft report giving the thumbs down to the NIDAI Bill 2010 is ready.
Sources in the panel indicated that the decision to recommend that the government should withdraw the present NIDAI Bill 2010 and bring a new one was taken "unanimously". Even Congress members found the project "directionless". It is learnt that the draft report has recommended that the government should review or reconsider the project by a bringing in a fresh Bill. The committee has said that the Bill and the project are not acceptable in the present form. The PMO must seriously think about continuation of Aadhar project now.
Posted by Pritesh at 9:19 PM
Google Outcry Lack of Proper Internet Intermediary Law In India
Internet intermediaries in India have started showing their dissatisfaction towards the draconian policies and rules of Indian government pertaining to Internet and its use. E-surveillance in India and surveillance of Internet traffic in India have increased to a considerable limit that now requires judicial scrutiny. Censorship of Internet in India should be challenged as soon as possible in the larger interests of Indian Internet users.
Intermediaries liability for cyber law due diligence in India has been extended to such levels that Internet intermediaries are now finding it difficult to comply. Internet censorship in India has become a big nuisance for these Internet intermediaries. Naturally these Internet intermediaries cannot remain silent anymore.
In fact, Yahoo has filed a petition raising the questions regarding the right to privacy of a company that stores sensitive data of its customers and users and to what extent authorities can coerce it to part with the information considered necessary to either track terror perpetrators or thwart future attacks.
Now Internet intermediaries in India have been asked to pre screen contents before they are posted on their websites. India wants companies like Google and Facebook to censor users’ contents before they are posted. Naturally this is an unreasonable and impractical demand that Internet intermediaries cannot fulfill.
Google has reacted to this dictate by responding that they follow the law regarding removal of illegal contents. It has also clarified it stand that when content is legal but controversial it do not remove it because people's differing views should be respected, so long as they are legal. Further, even where content is legal but breaks Google’s own terms and conditions, it is removed once Google is notified about the same.
Internet intermediaries are now complaining that India has no clear guidelines about what constitutes offensive and hateful contents. Sources from Indian government claims that the officials had got instructions to draw up the guidelines in this regard soon. Indian government is working upon the guidelines that may take three/four months to formulate. Let us hope that Indian government would formulate suitable and sensible guidelines in this regard.
Labels: Cyber Law Due Diligence In India, E-SURVEILLANCE IN INDIA, INTERNET CENSORSHIP IN INDIA, Internet Intermediaries In India, Right To Privacy In India, Surveillance Of Internet Traffic In India
Censorship Of Internet In India
Internet censorship in India has crossed all the limits. Firstly, we have a bizarre cyber law of India that provides for Internet censorship without any procedural safeguards. Secondly, India has formulated rules that have prescribed stringent Internet intermediary liability in India. Thirdly, there are no dedicated data protection and privacy rights in India.
All these loopholes are allowing Indian government and its agencies to ask for data, information and records from Internet intermediaries of India. Surprisingly, no court order is required to ask for such sensitive and personal information from Internet intermediaries in dominant majority of cases.
Intermediaries liability for cyber law due diligence in India has become very stringent after the information technology amendment act 2008 has been notified. Information technology act 2000 (IT Act 2000) now carries many e-surveillance, websites blocking and Internet censorship provisions.
Surveillance of Internet traffic in India has become a nuisance for internet intermediaries of India. In fact, Internet intermediaries like Yahoo has already dragged Indian government to court to resist illegal and unconstitutional e-surveillance demands of Indian government.
In its petition, Yahoo has raised questions on the right to privacy of a company that stores such sensitive data and to what extent authorities can coerce it to part with the information considered necessary to either track terror perpetrators or thwart future attacks.
It is high time for constitutional courts of India to take notice of these unconstitutional developments and stop the initiatives of Indian government and its agencies before it is too late.
Is SCADA The New Cyber Attack Battlefield For India?
The supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) has been in limelight these days. This is because malware are specifically designed these days to target SCADA systems. It is not the case that malware were not used in the recent past to target SCADA systems but their sophistication and intensity has increased tremendously these days.
SCADA generally refers to industrial control systems (ICS) like computer systems that monitor and control industrial, infrastructure, or facility-based processes. The SCADA systems may involve a human machine interface (HMI), a supervisory system managing the processes, remote terminal units (RTUs) interacting with the supervisory systems, programmable logic controller (PLCs) usable as field devices, etc.
An attack upon SCADA is essentially an attack upon the critical infrastructure of a nation. Recently, cyber criminals used SCADA to burn out a public utility water pump in United States. Malware like Stuxnet and Duqu have further created nuisance for US and other nations. These incidences have also forced the defense advanced projects research agency (DARPA) of US to further strengthen its offensive and defensive cyber capabilities.
In the Indian context, the critical infrastructure protection of India is not in good shape. There is neither an implementable cyber security policy of India nor there is any critical ICT infrastructure protection policy of India. Even the Indian nuclear facilities may not fully cyber secure.
As more and more ICT would be used for critical infrastructures like SCADA, the risks of cyber attacks sabotaging the same are great. India has already received enough hints about the possible cyber warfare, cyber espionage and attacks upon its critical infrastructure. It is high time for India to protect its critical infrastructure from local and foreign cyber threats.
Posted by V.K.Singh at 12:41 AM
Labels: Critical ICT Infrastructure Protection In India, Critical Infrastructure Protection Policy Of India, Cyber Warfare, Duqu, Stuxnet, Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition (SCADA)
Indian Higher Legal Education Needs Reforms
Higher education in India is suffering from many deficiencies and irregularities. These include lack of practical training, academic nature of education, absence of skills development, corruption, lack of research capabilities, etc.
Universities and colleges are engaging in all sorts of undesirable behaviours and practices and this is affecting the higher education and research oriented courses like PhDs. Indian government is also not very much enthusiastic in curing these deficiencies and eliminating the irregularities.
This guest column is analysing all these irregularities and illegalities happening in the higher education field in India. Law minister Salman Khurshid and HRD Minister Kapil Sibal must urgently intervene to save higher education in India in general and higher legal education in India in particular.
There is no second opinion about the fact that legal education in India needs urgent reforms. This is more so regarding higher legal education in India that is in really bad shape. Despite many suggested measures, higher legal education in India is still in a very poor state.
This is also the reason why continuing professional legal education in India has failed miserably. Further, this is also the reason why PhDs in India are almost extinct as far as legal education is concerned.
Naturally, higher legal education in India is in doldrums. Vast spread corruption has destabilised the higher education in India. These are serious issues that must be resolved by both the education minister and law minister of India.
Higher legal educational reforms in India must comprise of many essential elements. Transparency to support for higher legal research and education in India are essential components of the same.
These days news of international cooperation in the field of education between India and other nations is in abundance. However, that is just stressing upon the outer shell without curing the diseased inner core of decaying educational system of India.
India needs to urgently take care of the fallacies and deficiencies of its educational system that is not serving any purpose except brain drain. The sooner we do this the better Indian education system would be.
Is Corruption Undermining The Higher Education In India?
India is projecting itself as a global education hub. This claim seems to be exaggerated and far from realities. Before claiming India as a global educational hub we must have a reality check. Do we have qualitative education in India? Do we encourage research and novelty in India? Do we discourage corruption and arbitrariness in India so that education can be qualitative?
The answers to these questions seem to be in negative. Neither have we qualitative education in India nor our educational system is free from arbitrariness and corruption. Our educational system is academic in nature that is far from developing skills and practical acumen in our educated masses.
The truth is that PhDs in India are dying despite our boastful claims. Higher education in India needs to be rescued from arbitrariness, lack of transparency, corruption and other vices.
Take the example of higher legal education in India. The truth is that higher legal education in India is in jeopardy. The same is so tardy, troublesome and difficult to be successfully achieved that a majority of researchers do not wish to engage in the same. Even if some dare to go for higher education in India, the flawed educational system of India does not allow successful completion of the same.
While India is making lots of efforts to make Indian educational system qualitative in nature yet till corruption and arbitrariness is eradicated all such efforts would be futile.
Time has come to question and punish those who have made Indian educational system a menace and breeding ground for corruption. Unless this is done, all educational development initiatives of India would fail.
Higher Legal Education In India Is Dying
In this guest column, Praveen Dalal, managing partner of India’s exclusive techno legal ICT and IP law firm Perry4Law, has shared his recent communication with Kapil Sibal and Salman Khurshid. This communication has drawn the attention of these two ministers towards the decaying standards of higher legal education in India.
Kapil Sibal and Salman Khurshid are two of the most Important and Learned Politicians of India. If we have to take care of the “Deteriorating Conditions” of Higher Legal Research and Education in India, their “active participation and continuous attention” is a must.
While Kapil Sibal has been working hard in the field of Higher Education Cooperation with United States and other Countries, yet in our own Nation Higher Education Standards are not upto the mark and are prone to various “Corrupt Practices” and “Arbitrary Decision Making”.
Recently, I sent E-Mails to both Kapil Sibal and Salman Khurshid and brought to their notice the deteriorating conditions of Higher Legal Education in India. This is the excerpts/relevant portion of the same.
“I hope this E-Mail would find you in the best your Health and Strength.
Although I can wish a Good Health for You but I am afraid I cannot expect the same from our Dying Educational System, especially our Legal Educational System. I am personally acquainted of this decaying of our Legal Education in India.
Higher Legal Education is a must for Country like India. Being a Pioneer in Legal Fraternity and then as a Productive and Useful Member of Parliament, You are Yourself aware of the importance of Legal Education in India. However, Higher Legal Education in India is in “Doldrums”.
Corruption and Lack of Transparency has eaten up the Good Legal Standards and quality that was once a “Benchmark” of our Legal Education. Whether it is the “Funds” for PhD Candidates or other Financial and Non Financial Facilities, Legal Researchers are finding it really difficult to do PhD except by “Compromising” with Moral and Ethical Standards.
A person like Me, who believes in Transparency and Lack of Corruption, is seldom satisfied with the Legal Education of India. While I would prefer a Foreign University to do my PhD due to these “Irregularities” yet I hope You would not allow this “Negative Precedent” to repeat in the future. I hope You can do a “Great Service” to this Nation by eliminating the “Factors” that are responsible for the deaths of PhD in India”.
If PhD is a “Breeding Ground” for Corrupt Practices and Irregularities, there is no scope for Higher Legal Education in India. I hope the two Learned Ministers would take an immediate and urgent note of this “Precarious Situation”.
Posted by Cjnews India at 3:45 AM
Civil Liberties And National Security Must Be Reconciled
Nations across the world are ignoring civil liberties for the false claims of national security. This is a disturbing trend especially when the United Nations is silent on the protection of human rights in cyberspace. This applies to India as well that has draconian laws like information technology act 2000 to violate civil liberties in cyberspace.
Unfortunately, UN has not been able to formulate a universally acceptable legal framework of cyber law and human rights protection in cyberspace. The obvious result is that different jurisdictions have different cyber laws. The only thing common in these cyber laws is that virtually none of them is protecting human rights in cyberspace.
According to Praveen Dalal, managing partner of New Delhi based ICT and IP law firm Perry4Law and leading techno legal expert of India, there is need to have “Reconciliation” between National Security needs of India on the one hand and Protection of Fundamental Rights on the other. I have also sent a communication in this regard to Government of India in the past, informs Dalal.
It seems some segments of Indian government agree with this “reconciliation theory” suggested by techno legal experts of India. For instance, the Union Minister of Communications and Information Technology, Shri Kapil Sibal has said that adequate balance needs to be maintained between needs of ‘privacy of individual’ and ‘genuine security concerns of state’ while dealing with challenges of cyber security.
Another area that deserves the attention of Indian government in general and UN in particular pertains to Human Rights Protection in Cyberspace. According to techno legal experts like Praveen Dalal, presently UN and Human Rights in Cyberspace are two separate issues although they need to be one. Similarly, we have no International Cyber Law Treaty, International Cyber Security Treaty, International Cooperation in Techno Legal fields, etc, informs Dalal.
Interestingly, Kapil Sibal appealed to the global community to collaborate and evolve global protocols in security of information and network. Sibal assured that India stands committed to contribute and cooperate with international community on this issue. It seems at least Kapil Sibal is aware of the details of techno legal issues and that is good news for India.
Posted by Pritesh at 4:54 AM
Ravi Shankaran’s Extradition To India Is Now Doubtful
Today information and communication technology (ICT) is involved in almost all crimes. Today’s era belongs to cyber crimes and the corresponding cyber forensics capabilities and cyber forensics skills development to solve the same.
Law enforcement agencies, security agencies and intelligence agencies of India need to have good techno legal cyber forensics trainings. However, we have very few cyber forensics research, education and training institutions in India. As a result our law enforcement agencies, security agencies and intelligence agencies are not well equipped to deal with cyber crimes and cyber forensics cases.
Even lawyers and judges are not well versed with techno legal issues and this at times results in acquittal of the accused. While lawyers in India can affords to take techno legal issues lightly yet this casual approach may prove fatal if a well versed and technologically sound lawyer is pitted against them.
This is exactly what happened in the Naval war-room leak case’s investigation. The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) is now facing a setback in the extradition of Naval war-room leak case accused Ravi Shankaran.
The secret evidence provided by CBI has been declared to be shaky by the experts appointed by London court. This has demolished the case of CBI to a great extent. The case appears to be falling apart as the UK court-appointed cyber forensic expert has raised doubts over the secret evidence provided by Government of India.
The prosecutors of India had earlier presented secret evidence about an e-mail with an attachment of Sir Creek sent by Commander Virender Rana to a person called Vic Branson of Inmaty company in Belgium, which they claimed was owned by Shankaran.
These attachments they alleged had material which compromised the integrity of India. The Judge noted that the alleged e-mail by Vic Branson to Rana, produced by the prosecution as the main evidence against Shankaran, had no date and time and an independent court approved expert has confirmed that it is not possible to create an email, type 11 words, attach 8 documents and then save it all in 2 seconds only.
Cyber forensic expert Jason Coyne has, according to the judge, stated that such an e-mail could not have been sent based on the evidence produced by Government of India.
Earlier James Lewis, representing Shankaran, pointed out that Coyne's conclusion on the e-mail in question "has completely destroyed the Indian Government's case" against Shankaran. The Judge at the City of Westminster Magistrates' Court put off the hearing after a plea from the Crown Prosecution Service John Hardy, who sought time to consult Government of India. The hearing about admissibility of the extradition case against Shankaran, will be held for two days from October 10, District Judge Nicholas Evans said.
In the past as well, the CBI has failed to act in a timely manner while investigating the case of defacement of its website.
We just came across some media reports after our posting. Hence the editorial comments. If possible, we would also come up with techno legal expert’s testimony in this regard very soon.
Dismissing reports of a setback in the extradition case involving Ravi Shankaran, main accused in the Naval War Room leak case, the CBI today claimed that a UK-based cyber expert has "wrongly considered" the creation time of email, presented as evidence by it in a London court. The agency said there was "no setback" to it in the case and it will present its views before the Westminster Court on October 10.
CBI will present its argument that the expert has wrongly considered creation time of the 'Temporary' internet file, related to email in question; which is actually an automatic process in the computer system to cache open files, which can be recovered in case of any crash" a senior CBI official said.
Will Indian Courts Accept Technology Ever?
Technology is most often used in civil cases especially matrimonial cases. Even in criminal cases, video conferencing is frequently used by courts for various purposes. This is the beginning of a larger effort known as e-courts.
We have no e-courts in India till September 2011. This means there is something grossly wrong with our management and expertise in this regard. For instance, we have a single techno legal e-courts research, training and consultancy centre in India.
It is managed by Perry4Law Techno Legal Base (PTLB), the premier techno legal segment of Perry4Law, the exclusive techno legal ICT and IP law firm of India and world wide. We need more such techno legal e-courts centers in India.
Further, there is also reluctance on the part of Indian courts to use technology for legal and judicial purposes. This is also the reason why e-courts could not be established in India till now.
Police, lawyers and judges are finding it difficult to deal with cyber crimes. More sophisticated fields like cyber forensics have yet to be introduced in Indian legal and judicial system. Here is an urgent need to develop cyber skills of police, lawyers and judges in India.
Take the example of a very recent case in this regard. A man who filed his divorce petition through a video conference from Canada has been directed to make a personal appearance in the court on December 15. Second additional family court judge G Manjula passed the order. Personal appearance is a concept that strikes at the very concept of e-courts and video conferencing.
This means courts and judges in India are still not comfortable with the use of technology. However, technological issues would be required to be taken care of by courts and judges in future.
Police, lawyers and judges must stress upon cyber skills development in India. E-learning for lawyers in India must be strengthened. Similarly, techno legal training and courses like cyber forensics trainings in India must also be undertaken by our police force, legal fraternity and judicial community.
Posted by Catherine Fernandes at 10:20 PM
The Futility Of Aadhar Project Of India And UIDAI
The Aadhar project of India and unique identification authority of India (UIDAI) have never been considered to be legal and constitutional. This is because both Aadhar project and UIDAI have been imposed upon India that also without any parliamentary oversight.
In fact Aadhar project and UIDAI are both undemocratic and unconstitutional as they are openly violating various fundamental rights of Indian citizens that also without following the constitutional procedure. Form time to time, experts have been suggesting that Aadhar project and UIDAI must be scrapped.
Neither Aadhar project nor UIDIA have been able to provide the mandatory legal framework under which they can operate. Further, both Aadhar project and UIDAI are openly violating various civil liberties like right to privacy in India.
Realising that Aadhar/UIDAI may be challenged in the Indian Courts; a façade was created in the form of National Identification Authority of India Bill 2010 (Bill). The Bill is still to become an applicable law as it has not been approved by the Parliament of India.
However, according to experts like Praveen Dalal, a Supreme Court lawyer and leading techno legal expert of India, even after the Bill becomes and applicable law, both Aadhar and UIDAI would remain “Unconstitutional”. This is so because the “Constitutional Safeguards” that are required to make Aadhar/UIDAI Constitutional are still missing from the proposed Bill.
The Home Ministry has now further identified flaws in the enrolment process followed by the UIDAI, citing cases where people have got UID numbers on the basis of false affidavits. None can doubts that fake UID cards has made Aadhar project further vulnerable to misuse. What is surprising that our Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh has failed to take notice of these unconstitutional and illegal irregularities in the functioning of Aadhar project and UIDAI.
In a note written to the Cabinet Committee on UIDAI headed by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, the home ministry has questioned the security of the biometric data captured by the UIDAI and pointed out uncertainties in its revenue model.
The UIDAI has sought an additional 15,000 crore to do biometric scanning of all residents of the country through its own registrars, a proposal that is being opposed by the home ministry and the planning commission, as the government has already tasked the census office with the primary responsibility of collecting biometric data of all Indian residents for a National Population register card.
The data collected by the census office is supposed to be shared with the UIDAI and every NPR card will carry the UID number of the card holder. The census office is part of the home ministry and so far has collected biometric data for 30 lakh individuals. The home ministry has urged the Cabinet to restrict the authority's multi-registrar model of biometric enrolment to the already decided level of 20 crore by March 2012.
"The home ministry, the Planning Commission and others have given their comments," Home Minister P Chidambaram said about the UIDAI proposal for more funding recently. He also said that the Cabinet Committee on UIDAI (CCUIDAI) would take a call on the overlap between the NPR and the UIDAI. Why CCUIDAI is allowing futile Aadhar project and UIDAI to continue is still a big mystery?
Labels: AADHAR PROJECT OF INDIA, Cabinet Committee on UIDAI, National Identification Authority of India Bill 2010, PRAVEEN DALAL, UIDAI, UNIQUE IDENTIFICATION AUTHORITY OF INDIA
Parliamentary Scrutiny For Intelligence Agencies Of India
Intelligence agencies of India are not governed by any legal framework and parliamentary oversight. Legal experts in India have been stressing upon existence of such parliamentary scrutiny for intelligence agencies and law enforcement agencies of India for long. In fact, intelligence infrastructure of India is in big mess.
However, for one reason or other, Indian government has ignored this much required constitutional mandate. Now the problem has taken a serious dimension, so our Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh found the situation alarming. He has commissioned a new law to be drafted that would make India’s intelligence agencies accountable to the parliament.
According to Praveen Dalal, the leading techno legal expert of India and a Supreme Court lawyer, till now we have no laws that govern the functioning of Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), Intelligence Agencies of India, etc. The draft Central Bureau of Investigation Act 2010 has proposed a law for CBI and the draft Intelligence Services (Powers and Regulations) Bill, 2011 has been suggested for Intelligence Agencies of India.
Since the PM has commissioned a new law to be drafted for intelligence agencies, it seems the proposed law would be independent of the recent proposed Bill 2011. It would be appropriate if techno legal issues are covered by the proposed law as suggested by our PM.
Software Patent Trolls In India
Patent trolls are people or organisation that acquires a patent with the primary objective of non use of the same. Their main objective is to get maximum commercial benefit through licensing mechanism. They also intend to sue others for patent infringement and derive monetary benefits through compensation for the alleged patent infringement.
Software developers in US are frequently targeted by such patent trolls through cease and desist orders by alleging patent infringement. So bad has become the situation that software developers in US have threatened to leave US unless they are duly protected from such trolls.
So what is the position regarding the same in India. Patent Trolls and their Regulations in India is well founded says Praveen Dalal, managing partner of New Delhi based IP and ICT law firm Perry4Law. Indian Patents Act 1970 “Prohibits” Unfair Trade Practices of Hoarding a Patent by not using the same and hindering its availability to general public, informs Dalal
If a cease and desist order is issued in respect of such a “Hoarded Patent”, the very grant of Patent can be challenged. This is sufficient “Deterrent” for Patent Trolls operating in India, opines Dalal.
It seems Indian patent law is well founded to protect software developers as software is not a patentable product or process in India. If something cannot be patented in India, there are practically no chances of its violation in India hence there cannot be any litigation as well.
So the chances of software patent trolls to flourish in India are not much provided people are aware of the intellectual property rights (IPRs) laws of India, especially the patent law of India.
United Nation’s Regional Economic Commissions And India
While discussing the regional initiatives of United Nations regarding economic development, i asked myself about the true nature of such regional initiatives. Are these regional initiatives truly regional in nature or can they cooperate and collaborate among themselves or with other individuals and organisations residing beyond their regions?
In other words, does the charter of such institutions or commissions allow them to engage at international level directly or indirectly? If these regional initiatives are strictly regional in nature, this may hamper their effectiveness.
For instance, recently I came across the activities of United Nation’s Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) regarding intellectual property rights (IPRs). I found this initiative really impressive. However, can India be a part of UNECE directly or indirectly?
According to Geeta Dalal, partner at New Delhi based ICT and IP law firm Perry4Law, UN-ECE is one of five regional commissions of United Nations, working for economic integration and growth in Europe primarily. For Asian countries/ India, UN regional commission is Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UN-ESCAP).
Does this mean professionals and organisations working as members or otherwise of UNECE and UNESCAP have to essentially confine their initiatives and efforts to their regional initiatives alone?
This may not necessarily be the case. For instance, the International PPP Center for Excellence by UN-ECE, to my understanding, is global initiative having much wider objectives useful for all countries although it is primarily designed as a regional initiative, suggests Geeta Dalal.
Considering the ever increasing scope of engaging PPP model in growth map of Asian countries like India particularly in infrastructure projects such as road, transport, telecom, ICT etc, initiatives like UN-ESCAP and UN-ECE could play a possible pivotal role. In any case, it should engage experts from all over the world as there is nothing that restricts this exercise, suggests Geeta.
.It seems, although many UN initiatives have been launched as regional, their public private partnership (PPP) model may help in expanding their expertise and scope. At the end of the day, any regional initiative that helps in achieving a global objective is always welcome irrespective of its mandate.
EU India FTA, Data Exclusivity And Foreign Direct Investment
European Union (EU) is actively working in the direction of strengthening the regional and international intellectual property rights (IPRs) protection for its member States. Working in this direction, the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) has recently held a two day meeting to increase IPRs awareness throughout the Europe.
Similarly, EU and India would also sign a letter of understanding which will ensure that EU countries would not seize Indian medicines passing through Europe on the ground of violation of IPRs.
These are positive developments despite some initial hiccups like EU decision to withdraw the generalised system of preferences (GSP) scheme where India was on the receiving end, says Geeta Dalal, partner at Perry4Law a New Delhi based IP and ICT law firm. Now Indian government has made it clear that the “data exclusivity” provision would not form part of the proposed EU India foreign trade agreement (FTA), informs Geeta Dalal.
Asia is a very important market for EU companies and by adopting a very strict attitude this market could have been jeopardised. Similarly, India is also a very important market for pharmaceutical companies of Europe. The proposed EU India FTA may open new markets for these pharmaceutical markets.
By adopting a flexible approach, both EU and India can be benefited. Indian would get good foreign direct investment in the pharmaceutical and allied fields and European companies may get access to Indian pharmaceutical market, informs Geeta Dalal.
The proposed FTA would be concluded within this year and many trade related issues would be discussed there. Let us wait for the final version of the EU India FTA.
Renewal Of An Expired Trademark
Trademark registration in India is well founded and properly regulated. The trademarks act 1999 of India regulates the registration and management of trademarks in India. It protects trademarks, well known marks and brands.
Once registered, a trademark is granted for a period of 10 years and can be subsequently renewed for another 10 years period. During the registration period the trademark holder can enjoy the benefits of registration that prevents others from using the registered mark.
At times a trademark is not renewed and this makes the mark in question susceptible to registration by others. Thus, it is very important that trademarks are renewed at appropriate time. The questions is can we re-register a trademark whose duration has expired?
Even if the mark has been expired, one can apply for its re-registration. And in case, someone else applies for registration of expired trademark as per the prescribed procedure, owner of expired trademark can file objections at the registry, tribunal or appropriate forum, says Geeta Dalal, partner at New Delhi based IP and ICT law firm Perry4Law.
It is a good strategy to keep a close watch at the registered trademarks as renewal of a trademark is definitely less cumbersome as compared to opposition and re-registration efforts, suggests Geeta Dalal.
So even if your trademark registration period has expired do not loose heart and approach a good lawyer or law firm to get it renewed or registered as soon as possible.
Labels: Geeta Dalal, Indian Trademark Act 1999, Indian Trademark Registration, PERRY4LAW, Re Registration Of An Expire Trademark In India, Renewal Of a Trademark In India, Trademark Registration In India
Indian Government Would Clarify New Data Protection Rules Soon
Indian government is planning to clarify the nature and scope of the newly proposed data protection rules very soon. These rules have raised lots of concerns in India and abroad, especially among the outsourcing industry.
There has been some confusion over the interpretation of Sec 43 A of the information technology act 2000 (IT Act 2000), the sole cyber law of India.
.IT Act 2000 has been in controversies ever since the information technology amendment act 2008 (IT Act 2008) was notified in India. The IT Act 2008 incorporated many provisions that are not in conformity with the spirit of Indian constitution. In fact, experts like Praveen Dalal have suggested the repeal of the IT Act 2000 so that a better and constitutional law can be formulated.
The new data protections rules have raised many concerns for foreign companies and outsourcing players. They believe that under section 43A, an Indian outsourcing provider would be required to obtain written consent from each individual of an organisation whose outsourced work it would manage. They fear that such a consent requirement will potentially put a huge additional financial burden on these companies and thus affect their profitability.
The new Rules for Data Protection need to be “analysed in detail” and these issues must be sorted out so that outsourcing industry can work in an effective manner, suggests Dalal. This is exactly what the Indian government is planning to do.
On the one hand India needs to ensure privacy and data protection laws whereas on the other hand concerns of outsourcing industry have also to be accommodated. Let us see how things would come up finally as the matter is of utmost importance.
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Labour Market Realities: February 2017
Dan Durcan, Dr Faiza Shaheen
Government employment figures announced today show that unemployment is at a near record low, and that more people than ever are in work. These headline statistics feed claims that the Conservative economic strategy is working - that the Conservatives are steering the economy out of recession, and are navigating the choppy waters of Brexit. However, these figures are meaningless for millions of workers, with the Joseph Rowntree Foundation also announcing today that almost a third of the population of Britain have been living on an inadequate income in recent years. Beyond the headline figures, the picture is not quite so rosy.
The government finds it easy to make bold claims about employment figures because on the surface, they are positive. The current employment rate is 74.6%, the highest ever recorded, and the unemployment rate is 4.8%, the lowest since 2005. Employment levels since the financial crash have been so strong that even experts have been surprised.
The problem, however, is the quality rather than the quantity of work. The number of people in insecure work has rapidly increased by more than 660,000 (27%) over the past five years. The TUC estimates that over three million workers are now in insecure work, amounting to one in ten workers. Equally as concerning is bogus self-employment, which is thought to apply to as many as 460,000 workers. These workers lose an average of over £1,200 a year in holiday pay alone, as well as having almost no job security, sick leave, or employer contributions to pensions.
Wage growth is another indicator of problems behind the headline figures. After inflation, wages are still 7% below their pre-recession peak. No wonder then that so many people have yet to feel the impact of economic growth. The picture is even bleaker for public sector workers, who have suffered a long and difficult pay freeze.
The strong headline employment figures have hidden the true nature of the state pf the labour market. The combination of insecure work and poor wage growth has meant that more than seven million people from working families are now in poverty (55% of all people from working families).
There are a number of often interrelated factors behind these labour market changes:
Low productivity growth – measured by the amount each worker produces - has meant wages haven’t grown as employers choose low skilled employment models over investing in their workforce;
Declining wage share of workers with growing profit share for shareholders and executives;
Declining influence of trade unions and reduced collective bargaining coverage meaning workers no longer have power to negotiate for good pay and contracts;
Globalisation and de-industrialisation destroying many well paid manufacturing jobs.
The growth in poor quality employment is contributing to underlying weakness in the economy. In other words, insecure work is bad news for everybody, and not just carers and Uber drivers. We would all benefit from strong, sustained and equitable economic growth, just as we all lose out from a low wage economy.
Since the end of the recession, headline economic figures, particularly employment figures, have been relatively positive. When you look beneath these figures, you find these changes are almost all cosmetic, as the quality of the employment growth has not been strong enough to lift people out of poverty. Instead the nature of poverty has shifted as in work poverty has become more prevalent.
With the most recent employment, inflation and GDP figures, there is mounting evidence that the low economic and wage growth of the past two years is now stagnating. Given that this period of growth brought insecurity and poverty, we should be very concerned about a more subdued economy. There is a huge disconnect between the rosy picture the government is painting of the state of the economy and the often grim reality of the lives of millions of working people across the UK, and nowhere has this disconnect been made more clear than in the result of the Brexit vote. CLASS hopes to bridge this gap with our Labour Market Realities series.
Work areas: Economy and Industry, Inequality.
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I, Los Angeleno
From the Mexican border to Los Angeles County, 80-90 percent of the original shoreline wetlands have been dug up, wiped out, built on.
The amount of suburban and exurban and neo-tripleX- unurban development that's happened in Southern California -and that's an idiotic phrase because it didn't "happen", it was made, bought, built and sold- since the Second World War, is truly mind blowing.
Housing - the phenomenon of unchecked unending single home sprawl along the California coast- is one of the great unwonders of the world.
I never get used to it. It's like watching a fire. Or like watching something you hope will catch fire and never stop burning till the scrub fields, and the salt marsh, and the pine gatherings return.
But it's a hopeless hope. California's great undying myth is homeownership. Like capitalism, like cancer it HAS to grow. My door, my garage(s), my yard. Ad infinitum.
And the other undying aspect of Cali life is the story of what was. Or more accurately what wasn't. You get it first, you notice it, or seek it out, from the old guard, the third and fourth and that rarest of the rare, the fifth generation Californian - Cheryl Camp you red headed genius where are you now - they look up slightly from their Vans and their Dickies shorts, over the top of their rebuilt Broncos and the sun glazed eyes focus somewhere toward when they were 15 or 16 and they start to tell you about the open fields that were the Marina, hunting for foxes with rifles over their shoulders where the condos spread now, the old Irvine ranch lands above Orange County which into the early 60s stretched for 20 thousand acres. Santa Clarita when it was an empty desert camp. The back lot of Fox spreading across Olympic and Pico to lean up against Beverly Hills like a fantastic theme park for the celluloid visionaries in their Canyon manses.
The story of California is always what's been lost. The virgin territory of Old California. But what's actually been lost is the urge not to do something. Not to build or sell or develop. It's almost unimaginable to them. But somewhere in the depths of their psyche the Californian feels the urge- Don't Rent It- they just can't bring themselves to say the words.
For a place constantly trumpeting its growth and richness and adaptability, the deeper narrative of the local is a false lost innocence, his or her lost lebensraum, how the promised land broke its promise to them, its Covenant. (Why are my taxes so high!!) Californians are hard but dreamy Protestants -Catholic, Jew, Muslim, Hindu no matter, the dream's the same- who can't figure out how they get even less now that they all decided to stop paying taxes for what they had. Saint Ronald, in the long run, let them down. And what's left to represent their American Dream? Nothingness. What's left simmering in their minds behind the wheel as they resent waiting for you to cross the street? The lust for open space, unused territory. Because it's the clearest expression of wealth; Land you didn't sell.
They say once you've made it thru six years in "The City" you can call yourself a New Yorker . I think you become a New Yorker like you fall in love or you can throw a spiral - it just happens for some people and not for others.
You can call yourself a Los Angeleno I think when you love a part of the town that no longer exists. You suddenly feel a ghost landscape in your heart. And you don't have to do anything about it.
It's happened to me finally.
To get to Venice Beach from the airport you have to drive north on Lincoln Blvd. It's a simple and an easy drive, a god send if you travel a lot. I could get home or back to LAX in 15 minutes.
Lincoln drops down from Westchester Heights and into the giant Santa Monica basin. 7 miles of flatland, the great plain of Los Angeles, held in by the Mts to the north. When I first moved here to work in 1996 that descent out of the crowded and condo'd and mini malled Heights used to take you down into a long dark field. The Balloona wetlands. The delta of the northern flood plain of the LA river, which had never been built on. From the docks of Marina Del Rey it held out for two miles inland. A salt sea, scrub desert. Heavy succulents and dark bushes with spritzings of wildflower. Glimpses of calm water. Acres of what LA once was. The thing the Spanish said they saw when they landed in a bay with no harbor. Swampland and fields of seagrass as high as the saddle, one Captain wrote, his legs soaked to the skin by dew long before he reached the Mission 11 miles inland.
And here it still was, minutes after leaving the hectic airport. Primordial California. A beautiful nothingness in the epicenter of west LA wealth, no houses, no shops, no light. The drive home like passing thru the blacks at the edge of a stage - an intake of breath, a place to clear the mind before I dove back into the narrative of the city and my place in it.
And of course the point is it's no longer there.
Well half of it is.
The County sold it to Spielberg and Katzenberg and David Geffen, men with the power of Conquistadors, a power of Chinatown scariness, Stanford, Huntingdon, Chandler type strength. They were going to build their Dreamworks studio and leave half the wetlands alone. Which is half of what happened. The titans fought, the studio went elsewhere, half the wetlands closer to the water can still be seen and the other half East of Lincoln blvd is now the ultimate expression of that dreaded big box reality, Live/Work.
Is there a better moniker for the New America? LiveWork. The two now fused. You MUST work. It will follow you home. It IS you. Work IS home. Here are the keys.
So my lost LA is a hemmed-in triangle of weeds just south of Marina del Rey. Fitzgerald talked about My Lost City. I suppose this is My Lost County. (Los Angelenos being a little more expansive in their dreams). Strange the difference. NYers live in a compressed landscape of particulars but dream of the grand city. Los Angelenos live in a colossal city state but dream of a deli they used to go to when they were kids.
Posted by David Conrad at 2:52 PM
Marsiglia baby August 13, 2016 at 7:16 PM
thank you decried a new continuous david
KAT August 13, 2016 at 9:35 PM
Your descriptive writing transports the reader to where you are writing about. Thanks for making life a little more interesting, for those of us stuck in relatively boring lives. A welcome distraction from classes (my new direction in life). The most interesting time for me this past week was cleaning up 3 rescue horses heading to their new homes. No matter which direction I choose to go in, I will always be 'tied' to nature.
Thanks for continuing your writing.
Wife2Mom August 14, 2016 at 1:45 AM
You have a rare talent of transporting the reader to another place. I enjoy the diversion.
Doreen S. August 14, 2016 at 3:17 AM
Thank you for this vivid piece of writing.
Just wondering, did you move back to LA?
Jennifer Lawrence August 14, 2016 at 1:11 PM
Jennifer Lawrence August 15, 2016 at 2:10 AM
I love reading your posts, you make everything come alive with your descriptive words
Marsiglia baby August 15, 2016 at 2:17 AM
Jennifer Wolff August 15, 2016 at 5:04 PM
Glad to see ur still writing, love reading ur blogs
Genevieve Powell August 16, 2016 at 9:01 AM
Glad youre back! I use to live in Santa Clarita, cant imagine it being like you described!. cant handle the concrete jungles of NY, or Los Angeles. I take the open country anyday, free to breath and listen to the birds. very good reading David!!
Happy birthay david conrad 🎂🍾🎼💖
Susanna Casanova August 23, 2016 at 12:13 PM
The way things used to be, the good ol' days, a simpler time, I hate all those phrases. I say this even after watching "Stranger Things" and LOVING it, it's my age I was 12 at that time and I remember what it was like but I won't say any of it was easy. It bothers me when people fantasize history as if it was all so easy once. Urban sprawl is somehow always portrayed as somehow just happening or newly agitating. I grew up a true Tex-Mex. I can trace my ancestry in Texas back to Mexico before Pancho Villa, something has always been changing. Someone is always taking over, something is always lost. If no one fights to preserve things then all we're doing is watching it all go.
Cast 39, Agência de Talentos August 27, 2016 at 2:54 PM
Hello David,hope you see this message.my name is karina i'm from portugal and live in lisbon (the capital) and i'm 32 years old.i know that you had done lots of things in your like but what i love more is ghost whisperer.not because of the stories only but the love that you have with melinda.i know that is fiction,not real but i'm romantic so..lol...i work in a agency with actors too. If one day you come in lisbon can you remember me? My boss is an actor too. You can write to karinavalente@sapo.pt. please say something.i know that you have lots of fans but..i dont know...never knows one day we could be friends.
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MAI Carbon Cluster Management GmbH, a partner of BMW & Audi, says production costs of carbon fiber could soon be lowered by 90 percent. Their $102 million research project is backed by Germany’s federal government and more than 70 business and research institutions hoping to reduce carbon fiber production costs.
Currently, production using carbon fiber costs 20 times higher than using the same amount of steel. However, more and more OEMs are looking to alternative materials for lighter cars to meet stringent fuel standards. Less expensive carbon fiber allows manufacturers to drop their costs significantly while decreasing the fuel consumption of their cars and therefore cutting down on CO2 emissions.
Head of the project Klaus Drechsler says they have reached the halfway point and “we’ll see a lot more carbon fiber use in the next generation of cars.” BMW’s head of development Herbert Diess announced that besides the i3 and i8, the next generation 7-Series could also employ carbon fiber. This could shave off as much as 200 kg (440 lbs). The research will continue until at least 2017.
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NYC Mayor de Blasio ending his campaign for Democratic presidential nomination
Friday, September 20, 2019 8:00 AM EDT
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio announced Friday on MSNBC's 'Morning Joe' that he has ended his bid for president.
Mayor de Blasio launched his bid for the race in May.
He said on 'Morning Joe,' "I feel like I have contributed all I can to this primary election. It's clearly not my time, so I'm going to end my presidential campaign."
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The House passed the measure, 224-194, with just three Republicans voting in support. Eight Democrats opposed the measure.
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